Ethnographic Research & Practice Lab/ MRU
ERPL connectionThis event is not presented as an ERPL-organized program. ERPL co-lead Professor Gloria Pérez-Rivera is among the workshop organizers and participants.
Interactive workshop / October 19, 2026

¿Cuál estu paz?What is your peace?

Stories as a way to connect, heal in community, and practice reciprocal forms of learning across Indigenous and Colombian experiences.

DateMonday, October 19, 2026
Time10:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m.
PlaceRoom B341 · Mount Royal University
Poster for ¿Cuál es tu paz? / What Is Your Peace?, an interactive workshop at Mount Royal University on October 19, 2026.
STORYTELLING / HEALING JUSTICE / RECIPROCITY / INDIGENOUS + COLOMBIAN EXPERIENCES / FOOD / COMMUNITY / OCTOBER 19 / 2026 /
01 / The gathering

Stories in relation

What is your peace?

Connect. Listen. Heal.

The workshop begins from a simple proposition: stories can be a way of entering relation—across experience, history, and difference—without reducing those differences to sameness.

An interactive workshop connecting Indigenous and Colombian experiences through storytelling, healing justice, and reciprocal relationship-building.

Participants are invited to share stories, reflect on how communities hold difficult histories, and explore practices that can strengthen reciprocal relations. The workshop also asks how relational learning might move beyond the event itself: into classrooms, communities, and everyday life.

As the event invitation puts it, the afternoon will make room for food, stories, and healing—treating conversation not as an abstract exercise, but as a practice of being with others.

01 / Story
Experience becomes shareable

Storytelling creates a space for situated knowledge, memory, and lived experience to enter the room on their own terms.

02 / Relation
Reciprocity over extraction

The workshop emphasizes reciprocal relationships rather than one-way learning or the consumption of other peoples’ experiences.

03 / Practice
Carry it outward

Participants are invited to think about how relational learning can reshape classrooms, communities, and ordinary forms of encounter.

02 / Join the workshop

Make room for the conversation.

The workshop takes place Monday, October 19, from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. in Room B341 at Mount Royal University. Registration is requested through the event form linked from the official poster.

Date
Monday, October 19, 2026
Time
10:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m.
Location
Room B341, Mount Royal University
Format
Interactive workshop