8:25 - 8:55 am
Registration, Networking, Breakfast
9:00 - 10:30 am
Gathering Opening
Stay tuned for updates about the 2025 Gathering Opening!
10:45 am - 12:00 pm
Workshop ONE
Workshops will be participatory, featuring smaller group discussion, direct learning, and participation.
No need to sign up in advance!
Workshop descriptions on the Workshops page.
Workshop ONE
- Ads don’t work: Designing programs for REAL behaviour change with Teresa Propopanko
- Community in a Changing Climate with Christey Allen from the Prairie Climate Centre
- Designing Our Shared Future Through Storytelling with Patlee Creary from The StoryBridge Network
- Empowering newcomers to shape Manitoba’s future with Healthy Muslim Families
- From Evidence to Action: Evaluating Your Programs and Turning Findings into Advocacy with the Centre for Social Science Research and Policy (CSSRP)
- Imagining The Politics of Unity with Marianne Cerilli
- Is Your Organization An Unknowingly Poor Indigenous Ally? with Kyle Mason
- Making Care Possible: A Social Enterprise Story with Michael Coutts from Manitoba Possible
- People Power Change! Storytelling, leadership and action with Cate Friensen from The Story Source
- Redefining the Role of Business in Society with Brendan Reimer from Assiniboine Credit Union
- Tools for Transformation: Social Enterprise & Procurement in Action with Niamh O’Sullivan from Buy Social Canada
- The Transformative Power of Adult Basic Education with Jim Silver
- We Exist: The Case for a Black Heritage Museum in Manitoba with the Black Canadian Heritage Experience Centre
12:00 - 1:15 pm
Lunch & Connecting Time
Lunch featuring catering from local social enterprises and cooperatives.
Stay tuned for announcements about art activations & opportunities to connect with other community builders!
1:30 - 2:45 pm
Workshop TWO
Workshops will be participatory, featuring smaller group discussion, direct learning, and participation.
No need to sign up in advance!
Workshop descriptions on the Workshops page.
Workshop TWO
- Augmented Futures: Using AR Storytelling to Imagine & Build Transformative Community Economies with Rubab Fatima from Focus Hub Inc.
- Canvas of Change: Visioning Anti-racist Community Economic Development with Monique Burke from WSD and Jordan Bighorn from CEDA
- Challenging Resistance to EDIA Initiatives with Robin Attas
- Co-ops 101 with Manitoba Cooperative Association & Community Futures Westman
- Co-Creating Strategies with Matthew Rempel from Strategy Made Simple
- Healing Loudly Together: Dropping a Love Bomb on Mental Illness with Ralph Bryant from Love Notes Campaign
- Imagining Accessible and Inclusive Community Spaces and Workplaces with MLPD
- Navigating Change: Building a Culture of Planning and Evaluation with Cassandra Montanino from Leading 4 Impact
- Persuasion 101: How to Use Effective Messaging to Propel Your Cause Forward with Kathryn LeBlanc from LeBlanc & Co.
- Shared Ground: Leveraging Social Purpose Infrastructure for Affordable Housing with Shannon Wiebe from 5468796 Architecture
- Social Finance with SEED Winnipeg & The Jubilee Fund
- Strangers No More: Stories of Culture and Identity with Frances Ravinsky from Community Works Manitoba
3:00 - 4:15 pm
Workshop THREE
Workshops will be participatory, featuring smaller group discussion, direct learning, and participation.
No need to sign up in advance!
Workshop descriptions on the Workshops page.
Workshop THREE
- Advocacy in Action with Mary Burton from Zoongizi Ode
- AOP Community of Practice with Heartwood Healing Centre
- Clan Mothers Healing Village & Social Enterprise with Clan Mothers Healing Village
- Community Land Trusts with West Broadway Community Organization
- Creative Recovery: How Art Can Drive Social and Economic Change with Uyen Pham from Artbeat Studios
- Demystifying Social Finance with Tristan Smyth from Propel Impact, Naomi Gichungu from Northpine Foundation, and Matthew Rempel from Strategy Made Simple
- Imagining Utopian Socio-Environmental Futures with Alejandra Diabb-Sanchez
- Reimagining Care: How Tech is Helping Strengthen Communities with Shannon Steeves from CareImpact
- Building a Community-Wide Campaign for Social Housing with Kirsten Bernas from the Right to Housing Coalition
- Solidarity Souvenirs with John Samson Fellows from the John Howard Society
- Using Metaphors and Images to Inspire Creative Thinking and Collaboration with Carissa Caruk-Ganczar from Flourish Leadership Development
