Transform 2022: Connection & Collaboration in Kelowna, B.C., from May 17-19, 2022
After almost three years apart, we were excited to provide an opportunity to reconnect with each other in a beautiful place, so that we may decompress, enjoy each other’s company, connect the dots between different opportunities in front of us, and forge new pathways for the way forward.
A year earlier, we were one year into the pandemic and adjusting to how the ground had shifted beneath our feet. The pandemic heightened our sensitivity to the fragility of our social, economic, and environmental systems, and increased our willingness to break our ‘sectoral bubbles’ while still confined to our social ones. We explored all of this and more during our 2021 Virtual Conference, Transform 2021: Bubble-breaking and Sense-making.
In 2022, with a deepened understanding of the interconnectedness between other change movements and ours, and an ever-increasing urgency to respond to the intensifying climate and biodiversity crises, many of us were actively and collectively working toward environmental change grounded in:
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- Justice, equity, and Indigenous rights
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- Trust-based philanthropy and deep relationships
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- Grassroots, community-led innovation
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- Responsible asset investment
Our 2022 conference aimed to enhance our connection to each other and to nature, nurture and facilitate opportunities for collaboration that will allow for new systems and solutions to emerge, and orient ourselves to key sectoral gaps that require our attention in order to spur the transformation we seek.
