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Unpacking Polarities, Diversity Meets Reality: Grappling with the Hard Edges of Inclusive Clinical Teaching
This REDI Deep Dive Facilitation Guide is an adaptable lesson plan for health sciences and professions educators leading EDI learning sessions with colleagues. Through reflection, dialogue, and case-based discussion, participants examine tensions in inclusive medical education, and identify practical strategies and systems changes that support diverse learners and more inclusive learning environments.
4 Steps to Help Deepen Awareness of Bias
This guide outlines four practical, reflective steps to help deepen awareness of bias in everyday interactions and decision-making. Adapted from Deep Diversity by Shakil Choudhury, these steps are intended as an ongoing practice to support more equitable, reflective, and inclusive approaches in education, research, and clinical environments.
Research Voices from the Field with Danièle Behn Smith, Jessica Chenery, Naomi Dove & Kate Jongbloed
In this edition, Danièle Behn Smith, Jessica Chenery, Naomi Dove & Kate Jongbloed reflect on their article book “Using a metaphor of baskets and copper pots to identify “what work, whose work” in truth, rights, responsibilities, and reconciliation in public health” and its relevance to any settler seeking to take up their role and responsibility in reconciliation.
Digest Guides: Indigenous Speakers Series conversation with Joanne Mills
Read the REDI Digest Guide drawing on an Indigenous Speakers Series conversation with Joanne Mills, Vice President of Quality Services & Indigenous Relations at Community Living British Columbia, a proud Cree woman from Ochekwi-Sipi Fisher River Cree Nation, and a force of change and purpose for Indigenous peoples who have been marginalized and labeled as living with developmental disabilities.
On His Lonely Way Back Home: A Tribute to Dr. Shane Pointe
Derek K Thompson – Čaabať Bookwilla | Suhiltun offers a heartfelt reflection honouring the life, legacy, and teachings of Dr. Shane Pointe.
Research Voices from the Field with Maï Yasué
In this edition, Maï Yasué, incoming Assistant Dean of Equity and Social Accountability at Simon Fraser’s new School of Medicine, reflects on why she co-authored “Embedding equity and inclusion in universities through motivational theory and community-based conservation approaches,” an article that brings an interdisciplinary, evidence-informed lens to advancing meaningful and sustained JEDII change in academic medicine.
Farewell Maï Yasué, Associate Director of the REDI Office
Join us in wishing Maï Yasué well as she moves on from her role as Associate Director of the Respectful Environments, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (REDI) Office. Maï will be starting a new role as Assistant Dean of Equity and Social Accountability at the new School of Medicine at Simon Fraser University in April 2026.
REDI Digest Guide: Indigenous Speakers Series conversation with Natan Obed
Read the REDI Digest Guide drawing on an Indigenous Speakers Series conversation with Natan Obed, president of Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, the national representational organization protecting and advancing the rights and interests of Inuit in Canada. Learn about the implications of truth, reconciliation and redress amongst the Inuit.
REDI Digest Guide: Engaging Values, Shifting Culture
In this edition, the guide draws on the It Starts With Us training Engaging Values, Shifting Culture: Evidence-Based Approaches to Frame Messages that Inspire Enduring Change (January 2026), facilitated by Mark Chenery of Common Cause Australia. It introduces values-based messaging strategies that help supports educators, leaders, and practitioners in communicating in ways that reduce defensiveness and inspire lasting cultural shifts.