Student Social - Aqua[TEA]c Momentum

Pour yourself a cup of tea, coffee or water and take this moment to pause, think, and exchange ideas with your peers! The objective of this event is to discuss the challenges we have faced, insight we have gained, and lessons we have learned over this past year. We hope these discussions could provide support to build an effective and adapted plan of action that will bring up meaningful changes in our scientific societies.

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When: 18 February 2021, 15:30-17:00 (3:30 - 5:00 PM)

Where: Link will be provided

What:

  1. Work with a team of 4 with 1 facilitator (create your own team, or we can assign you one).
  2. The facilitator will guide you through a list of questions for 1hr
  3. Gather up ideas : you will have 15 minutes to sum up the discussion
  4. The last 15 minutes will be open for the facilitator to propose a quick activity to relax and reflect on yourself or as a group
    (e.g. through 15min of meditation, yoga or stretching …)
  5. A summary of all the discussion and proposed solutions to each topics will be put together after the conference and
    published in the SCL newsletter/website etc…

How:

  1. Register at https://aquateacmomentum.eventbrite.ca
  2. Indicate if you would like to be a facilitator on the registration page
  3. Indicate if you are part of a team, or would like to be placed in one by providing the name of the team that you and the colleagues you want in your team choose (please try to be as specific and/or as creative as possible to avoid redundancy in team names)
  4. You will receive a link before the event to join your group
  5. Have fun!

What is the role of the facilitator?

  1. Anyone can be a facilitator, you just have to feel comfortable to guide the participants through a discussion on the various
    topics (see examples of questions below).     If you would like to be a facilitator, select yes to the question [Would you
    like to be a facilitator? ] on the registration page.
  2. Can participate in the discussion but should let the others express themselves as much as possible
  3. As a facilitator you will be provided with a list of questions on which you will have to guide the discussion

Examples of questions to guide the discussion:

  1. How to make the CCFFR-SCL conference a more inclusive space?
  2. How to solve the problem of childcare at scientific conferences?
  3. How has COVID affected my year/ my research?
  4. And much more …