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On February 27, 2025, CCWESTT hosted an in-person forum in Calgary, Alberta, facilitated by Sylvia Cheuy from the Tamarack Institute. This free event was open to the science, engineering, trades and technology (SETT) advocacy community and allies. Attendees included SETT workers, provincial not-for-profits, and academic representatives.
With a facilitated introduction to systems change and collaborative roundtables, participants identified new ways to collaborate, barriers to collaboration, leading practices, and developed ideas on engaging their communities. Participants reported feeling “empowered” and noted systems change “requires persistence and intentional action across multiple system levels.”
Learning to Lead: The Power of Systems Change was the first in a community-centred systems change learning series. The second is coming up in October 2025 in Montreal, Quebec.
CCWESTT learns from participants in forums like these and brings that knowledge into their project work. The learnings from this forum will help shape CCWESTT’s current systemic change project to create a National Gender Equality Report Card coming in Fall 2025.
This event was offered in part through funding from Women and Gender Equality Canada, and sponsorship by sanoLiving, and MB Group. Explore MB Group’s comprehensive benefits, mental wellness programs and solutions here, along with sanoLiving’s innovative, personalized health care for women here. Thank you for your generous support!
