Decolonization in Action: Using the 3P’s Framework to Enhance Indigenous Inclusion

“Catcher of Dreams” by BCA student Jordan Besito

Decolonization in Action: Using the 3P’s Framework to Enhance Indigenous Inclusion

Date: Friday, March 22nd, 2024

Time: 2:00 to 3:30 p.m. (AT) / 1:00 to 2:30 p.m. (ET) / 10:00 to 11:30 a.m. (PT)

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Session Description:

Join us the final Friday of each month for our Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Speaker Series at Yorkville University and Toronto Film School!

For March 2024, we are inviting Dr. Johanne McCarthy, Dean of Academic Programs at Six Nations Polytechnic, into our virtual spaces in a good way to share their work and research with “Decolonization in Action: Using the 3P’s Framework to Enhance Indigenous Inclusion.”

Reconciliation requires effort to repair unequal and unfair relationships. It is a “settling up” for injustices leading to and perpetuating the oppression of Indigenous peoples, our languages, cultures, and ways of being upon our home territories. For non-Indigenous peoples now connected to this land, this requires reflective mindfulness and recognition of hard truths about aggressive colonization and the impacts influencing the direction and scope of learning. Moving forward, the first step to healing is bringing that mindfulness in to the relationships we establish within the classroom to empower Indigenous perspectives and belonging. This presentation introduces the 3P’s framework to enhance Indigenous inclusion and serves as a catalyst for constructive awareness and change so that participants can imagine their own roles and responsibilities for shaping an inclusive landscape.

Learner-participants will:

1. Demonstrate knowledge of the diverse cultural, historical, and social contexts that shape relationships on Turtle Island.
2. Utilize reflective learning for fostering deeper connections and understanding of relationships with Indigenous communities.
3. Explore the 3P’s framework as a guide for motivating inclusive behavioural change systemically.
4. Discuss the utility and applicability of this framework for individualized academic purposes and change across the organization.

SoTL Speaker Bio:

Dr. Johanne McCarthy is Onondaga Nation, Beaver Clan from the Six Nations of the Grand River Territory. She is a mother of two, an activist for community health and wellbeing, a Naturopathic Doctor, and the Dean of Academic Programs at Six Nations Polytechnic, overseeing post-secondary, College, University and Trades programming, as well as lifelong learning and advancement pathways to education.

Dr. McCarthy cares deeply about healing relationships through education and professes a value for a wholistic approach to reconciliation.

She holds a Masters in Organizational Leadership with an ancestral purpose and mission to transform and decolonize systems and institutions for anti-oppressive and inclusive opportunities and futures. With over 23 years of experience as a front-line health care provider, and 14 years of experience in post-secondary education, she has become an expert at connecting with people to motivate change for healthier, happier, and more sustainable futures…together!