Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti

Dean at University of Victoria, Author, Co-founder of Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures Collective

Highlights from this session:

Laura Calderón de la Barca explores the path forward in solidarity and care, addressing the deep wounds of colonialism, racism, and slavery. She talks about the personal and societal impacts of trauma, shame, and violence, emphasizing the need for a culture of radical care and emotional maturity. Laura shares her intimate passion, as a woman of mixed descent, for building bridges between the polarizing parts of our stories, and finding one's place in the world. She expands on her journey from overcoming traumatic experiences and toxic shame to becoming a psychotherapist dedicated to collective healing, illuminating the importance of creating safe spaces for healing, particularly in intercultural contexts scarred by colonialism. She underscores the necessity of nurturing feminine energy, reconnecting with the earth, and fostering creativity as vital components of the global healing movement.

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Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti

Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti is the Dean of the Faculty of Education at the University of Victoria. A former Canada Research Chair in Race, Inequalities and Global Change and a former David Lam Chair in Critical Multicultural Education, Vanessa has more than 100 published articles and has worked extensively across sectors internationally in areas of education related to global justice, global citizenship, critical literacies, Indigenous knowledge systems and the climate and nature emergency. Vanessa is the author of Hospicing Modernity: Facing humanity's wrongs and the implications for social activism, one of the founders of the Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures Arts/Research Collective. Her latest work, Burnout From Humans: A Little Book About AI That is Not Really About AI, co-authored with Aiden Cinnamon Tea (an emergent intelligence), explores AI as a mirror and metaphor for human systems and invites readers to rethink relationality amidst planetary crises.

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