This course takes a deeper dive into the kind of leadership authentic reconciliation work truly demands, broadening concepts of responsibility, relationships, and the real, ongoing work of structural systems change for those working in non-Indigenous led arts and culture organizations. Designed for emerging and experienced leaders who have already begun their journey with Truth and Reconciliation, this program offers the next step: moving from awareness into action.

Participants will explore how to embed reconciliation into the very architecture of their institutions, governance models, policies, and organizational culture using two-eyed seeing. Grounded in "Seven Wise Practices and Right Relations", and guided by Indigenous knowledge holders, this immersive experience offers a space to reflect, reimagine, and rebuild. 

Description

Participants will be offered practical tools to support long-term transformation rooted in humility, accountability, and institutional courage. This is a space for brave questions, honest conversations, and collective learning. Sessions will be held in community, on the land, and in dialogue with those who have been leading this work for generations.

Program highlights 

• Deepen Leadership Capacity for Reconciliation
• Apply Two-Eyed Seeing in Institutional Change
• Embed Reconciliation into Structural Systems
• Engage in land-based and community learning
• Strategies for long term transformation
• Foster brave conversations and collective learning
• Insights from the field: Meet CEOs.

Financial aid is available.

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What does it mean to lead well in today's arts and culture sector? How do you know you're making the right decision for yourself, your organization, and your community? What does it look like to be strategic and thoughtful while managing risk in a rapidly evolving sector?

Leadership in the arts and culture sector is complex, dynamic, and deeply connected to community. This program invites emerging and experienced leaders to explore leadership through the lens of Indigenous wise practices, right relations, deep listening, self-inquiry, and leadership as a means, not a destination.

Over six days, participants will reflect on their leadership values and experiences while learning alongside a peer cohort of cultural leaders. Participants will be given an opportunity to bring cultural challenges into the room and work through them using wise practice principles.

Together, we will delve into areas such as governance, strategic thinking, organizational development, cultural policy and protocols, and community engagement — not as isolated skills, but as interconnected elements of resilient, values-based leadership.

Program highlights

• Wise Practices Leadership Competencies
• Leadership as Practice
• Designing for Action: Social Network Mapping
• Strategic Thinking in a Changing Sector
• Self-inquiry, Reflection, Land-based Deep Listening
• Collaborative Decision Making
• Insights from the Inside: Converse with CEOs
   

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This three-week residency encourages the exploration of new ideas in literary journalism (creative non-fiction) and experimentation in writing. Designed to challenge and stimulate, the program aims to inspire creative pieces of non-fiction and to assist the writers in their completion. 

A preeminent space for long-form journalism, this residency emphasizes the strengths of thorough and articulate reporting, distinctive storytelling, and literary devices. 

Work created in this program has been published in many outlets including The Globe and Mail, The Walrus, and The Atlantic, and pieces have gone on to win National Magazine and National Newspaper Awards.

Description

Writers will have time to:

• work on their manuscripts in their individual studios.
• consult with faculty members Manjula Matin, Dr. Cheryl Thompson, Shawn Micallef, and professional guest Dan Wells (Biblioasis).
• participate in group discussions. 

Faculty will provide mentorship and one-on-one workshops to discuss:

• story ideas.
• craft concepts such as voice and structure.
• challenges writers may be encountering with their literary journalism.

The faculty will offer mentorship for the first two weeks, with the last week for participants to focus on digging deep into their writing.

Learn more about Literary Journalism here.

A retreat-style residency in the Quonset Hut Headquarters in Bakerton, WV.

At its most basic, a residency is a place for someone to live and work. What to work ON is determined by the resident.  

The self-guided residency does not require any involvement with the community, any sort of exhibition or output, or even frequent interaction with your hosts.  It is self-catered, and no administrative help is included other than guiding potential residents towards possible funding sources (if needed) and connecting the resident to local resources.

Any specialized equipment needs, administrative help, exhibition or workshop assistance can be arranged for a fee.

Material needs must be provided by resident

Potential for collaboration with local community, exhibition in the Wayside Wondercabinet exhibition space, or other site-specific venues depending upon the project.

Our focus is on identifying and addressing the themes of rural transition—through participatory research with creatives and communities in the exurban environment of the Shenandoah Valley (Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland.) Our approach is simultaneously artist-initiated and community-driven.

Residents can be given production help and space, administrative assistance, networking opportunities, as well as guidance on local customs and issues relating to contemporary rural life. 

Open to all artists, movers, scientists, farmers, historians, musicians, writers, journalists, filmmakers, and others.

AMENITIES

*Convertible bed/sofa, re

Way Beyond – Thematic residency program in Finland 2026
Transdisciplinary residency program for artists, creatives, scientists & researchers

Periods: 1 month (29 day periods) 
When: April / May / June 2026
Where: Arteles Creative Center, Hämeenkyrö, Finland

Application Deadline: 27th of November 2025

Expanding beyond mind, matter and meaning

Curious about the cosmos, consciousness, the nature of the mind, and the unknown? Drawn to exploring deeper dimensions — whether metaphysical, psychological, mystical, or quantum molecular?

Way Beyond is a transdisciplinary program that brings together open-minded, curiosity-driven individuals interested in expanding our understanding of reality, perception, and how we experience it. 

The program offers the support and space to contemplate, process, and develop your ideas and perspectives. It’s an opportunity to imagine new possibilities, envision future horizons, and explore better ways of being, purpose, and understanding. Share your perspectives and be inspired by fellow deep thinkers and explorers of the unknown, all eager to transcend the boundaries of mind, matter, and the mundane.

Read more & apply: https://www.arteles.org