Theresa Southam has lived in Nelson, BC since 1980 where she raised and home educated her three children. She ran a successful environmental education business for two decades. She considers her life’s work as conserving thousands of hectares of wetlands and raising awareness of salmon and watersheds. She has worked for Selkirk College for 25 years, working in Indigenous communities and initiating educational change. Today she is the department head of the Teaching and Learning Centre. A 2020 PhD in Human and Organizational Development, Dr. Southam is both an alumni of Royal Roads (Masters in Intercultural Communication – 2010) and an Associate Faculty Member teaching and supervising students.
A Journey of Integrity – Building a Community Mindset by Leading through Compassion, Empathy, Collaboration and Networks
Join Dr. Theresa Southam and Michelle Perren (MAL) as they guide you through Nancer Ballard’s (2019) Journey of Integrity. Change leaders are invited to participate in self-exploration of their values using experiential, trauma-informed, arts-based and storytelling approaches. We will explore a reflective and relational approach to problem-solving to take a closer look at their underlying desires and motivations and move towards insight through self-awareness and community dialogue. We will use liberating structures to explore and share our creative change frames through journal writing, collaging, and other arts-based approaches. We will support each other in acting or speaking out, regardless of the consequences, because of our commitments to land, spirit, and our intergenerational responsibilities—letting the chips fall where they may. Participants leave with a record their journey and the possibility of communities of practice to explore other journey models.