Knowing & Sensing

Knowing and Sensing is fundamentally about where we place our awareness and attention, how we come to know what we know, and the processes through which we un/learn. This stream centers thoughtful questions, collective curiosity, and co-learning that disrupts taken-for-granted assumptions, stale models of transformation and modes of thinking, and patterns of relating. Through this work, participants begin to recognize the hidden assumptions, inequities, and forms of domination embedded within schooling while actively un/learning and imagining otherwise. 

Guiding Question: How do we decenter dominant conceptions of knowing and re-center multiple, often silenced forms of knowing, being and sensing in our pursuit of liberatory education?

The Knowing & Sensing Stream decenters a hyper-focus on logical, rational, and Eurocentric knowledge systems, inviting multiple, and often silenced forms of knowing. Drawing on local, communal, and global Indigenous knowledge systems, conceptions of knowing and sensing also center embodiment, aesthetics, and spirituality. The stream creates space for deep reflection, storying, dialogue, and inquiry that honour lived experience as legitimate knowledge. It asks participants not only to know systems intellectually, but also to sense how those systems are carried in bodies, relationships, and everyday practices.