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We are excited to announce the CCDI Community of Practice events will be taking place in person and virtually throughout the fall months of October and November, 2025.

Topic

Sparking the collective: Transdisciplinary approaches to DEIA

As we continue to face complex and multifaceted challenges in the DEIA space, there is an urgent need to innovate beyond the traditional boundaries of our disciplines and practices. CCDI's fall 2025 Community of Practice invites practitioners, changemakers and organizational leaders from both public and private sectors to come together and explore how transdisciplinary approaches can drive innovation, ethical action, and collective sustainability in today's evolving DEIA landscape.

This session, Sparking the collective, calls us to action through deep collaboration. Grounded in the belief that everyone has a vital role to play in transforming systems, participants will be able to engage in knowledge sharing, dialogue and critical reflection that transcends singular expertise.

Transdisciplinary approaches to DEIA create bridges between various practices, knowledge and living experiences to solve complex problems or generate new knowledge.Unique perspectives and diverse ways of knowing sustain DEIA initiatives, learning how to apply transdisciplinary approaches will strengthen our ability to challenge the rise of polarization, misinformation and the threats to DEIA.

Together, we will explore how transdisciplinary approaches in DEIA are not only possible, but very much essential to building equitable futures where complexity is welcomed, multiple truths are held, and transformation is co-created and co-lead.  

Learning and participation objectives

Connect with other DEIA practitioners, leaders and changemakers to move beyond traditional compartmentalized learning to spark something more powerful, a collective.
Empower participants to connect diverse ways of knowing, including lived and living experiences, across roles, sectors and communities.
Develop new insights and knowledge to apply transdisciplinary approaches to DEIA initiatives and strategies
Further develop fluency in critical thinking through intersectionality and reflexivity as key tools to challenge misinformation, binaries and bias.
Model the power of co-creating new practices and approaches through shared inquiry, innovation and relational responsibility

Delivery and format 

CCDI Community of Practice events are delivered virtually and in-person utilizing the same content and delivery methods for all sessions. The event experience will vary based on attendees' participation levels in each session. Due to the experiential nature of these sessions, much of the time will be dedicated to engagement, practice, and activities.