Virtual/Remote WORKSHOP "Facting: The Act of Bringing Passion to Science Communication"

Time: Feb 18, 2022 01:30 PM

Vancouver Join Zoom Meeting https://ubc.zoom.us/j/66453875174?pwd=a09hSHhQdWMzdnpYaGVyT3VKZmNvUT09

Meeting ID: 664 5387 5174

Passcode: 945550

This workshop on Facting: the act of bringing passion to science communication will o er a scalable approach, leading from full warms-ups that can be done when the time and resources are available, to reduced warm-ups that can be completed in the audience of a conference center while waiting for a presention timeslot. Participants will come away from this workshop with a sensible set of warm-ups and practices that will prepare them to communicate knowledge in a way that will invite their audiences to listen.

Cathy Madden is Teaching Professor for the University of Washington’s Professional Actor Training Program, and Director of the Integrative Alexander Technique Studio of Seattle. Her books include: Teaching the Alexander Technique: Active Pathways to Integrative Practice (Jessica Kingsley, 2018) and Integrative Alexander Technique Practice for Performing Artists: Onstage Synergy (Intellect, 2014). She teaches internationally and is Associate Director for BodyChance in Tokyo and Osaka. A founding member and former chair of Alexander Technique International, she currently serves as chair of the Vision/Mission Committee and as a Formal Consensus Process Facilitator. She has been a featured presenter/keynote speaker at International Congresses of the Alexander Technique, Alexander Technique International Annual General Meetings and or the Freedom to Act Conference. In 2012, she was the Keynote Speaker for the Inaugural Alexander Technique and Performing Arts Conference in Melbourne.

Alyssa Gehman is a BRC member, research scientist at the Hakai Institute and an adjunct professor in the Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries at the University of British Columbia. She is a marine disease ecologist, has 19 peer-reviewed publications, and her research has been featured on Comedy Central and CBC’s The Nature of Things. Dr. Gehman received her PhD from the Odum School of Ecology at the University of Georgia in 2016, her M.S. from Western Washington University in 2008 and her B.A. in biology from Colorado College in 2005.