Join us Tuesday September 19, 2023 to hear from David Lewis-Peart<\/p>\n\n\n\n
David has worked as an adjunct college professor, consultant, community-based researcher, group facilitator, corporate trainer, and contributing writer. He completed graduate studies at York University in Toronto, where his area of research was the use of community-level interventions. He holds a diploma in Human Services Counselling and certificate in Life Skills Coaching, completed a postgraduate study in Mediation and Alternative Dispute Resolution, and trained in Family Group Conferencing and Restorative Justice Conferencing in Canada and the United Kingdom. David has regularly contributed to publications such as CBC Arts, Huffington Post Canada, Global News, and ByBlacks.com on topics of race, identity, masculinity, wellbeing and restorative practice. He is among the inaugural cohort of the Heterodox Academy (HxA) Writers Group and has presented on his framework, the GRACE Principle as part of the Counterweight Conference on Liberal Approaches to Diversity and Inclusion. David is currently completing his Master of Social Work in Indigenous Trauma and Resiliency at the University of Toronto, and interns as a student-clinician with the Talk It Out Counselling (TIOC) Clinic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
David will be speaking to us about “The Grace Principle”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The GRACE Principle is a simple framework for engaging with ideas and individuals across divides. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The framework was developed during David’s time as an educator and corporate trainer engaged in Diversity, Equity, Inclusion (DEI) and aims to better support the kinds of conversations and relations required in a highly charged and graceless time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n