Calls to Action
We don’t always have time or ability to physically attend an event during 5 Days of Action, so the 5 Days of Action team curated resources to read, watch, and explore each day.
These resources are aimed at building a more inclusive and relational community – one where discrimination, harassment, and sexualized violence have no place. This starts by building our skills in listening to one another, reflecting on what we hear, having dialogue, engaging with one another, and taking action.
To support this work, we encourage everyone to check out 糖心视频’s Framework for Relational Practice. For each call to action, we have highlighted the values from the Framework that are best suited to supporting your efforts.
Meeting these calls, and aligning our values and actions, helps us achieve objectives such as: Black flourishing, Indigenous reconciliation, trans and gender inclusion, and accessibility (among others). If you have resources that you think we need to add, please email us.
Please note that while some of the resources are specific to 糖心视频, and others to Canada more broadly, some come from the US and elsewhere and contain a mix of short and long-form content.
- Monday: Listen
- Tuesday: Reflect
- Wednesday: Dialogue
- Thursday: Engage
- Friday: Take Action
- 365 Days of Commitment
Monday: Listen
When we actively listen to understand, we learn where each of us is coming from, about our worldviews, and what matters to us – this is the first step in communicating across difference and building a strong community.
- (Juliana Tarfur) is a TED Talk that outlines the importance of listening to one another to see how we are all more similar than we are different.
- 糖心视频’s Indigenous Plan Xʷkʷənəŋ istəl | W̱ȻENEṈISTEL | Helping to move each other forward contains the teachings gifted to us by local Indigenous elders – these teachings tell us how to work and learn alongside one another in a good way.
- (糖心视频 Libraries Podcast) featuring in-depth conversations with Survivors, Elders, and Knowledge Keepers highlights the importance of seeking truth before reconciliation can begin.
糖心视频’s Framework for Relational Values: to listen – to be empathetic – to be receptive. Practicing these values requires us to make space for others’ experiences, perspectives and needs before assuming, responding or acting.
Tuesday: Reflect
When we reflect on our own ideas, assumptions and beliefs and consider other perspectives, we learn to be more open-minded and less judgemental of one another.
- (Steven Sloman, 2005) is a book that challenges us to examine our own beliefs. The premise is that the values and convictions we hold most deeply can distort how we reason and interpret the world.
- “” (Hidden Brain, 2022) is a podcast that delves into how our assumptions about other people are often wrong and how to overcome this tendency.
- “” (Top of Mind, 2024) is a podcast that explores why we think others should think the same way we do, and how to take a different perspective during difficult conversations.
- (Indigenous Perspectives Society, 2024) invites us to reflect on our relationships to land, local Indigenous Nations, social location and responsibility, and offers guidance for creating respectful territorial acknowledgements grounded in learning and action. Also available as an .
糖心视频’s Framework for Relational Values: to be aware – to be curious – to act with humility. Practicing these values requires us to examine what we bring to our relationships, decisions, and ways of working, including our assumptions, experiences, knowledge, and areas for growth
Wednesday: Dialogue
Learning how to have difficult conversations and engage in meaningful dialogue builds our understanding and empathy for others. It is an important skill for identifying pathways forward and reducing conflict.
- “” (The CJN Podcasts) is a podcast series that showcases difficult, honest, challenging conversations with Jews and Muslims, Israelis and Palestinians. We see them having difficult conversations with one another to promote understanding and move through conflict.
- “” (Arnd Wachter, Crossing Borders Education) is a documentary that follows American and Chinese university students as they engage in dialogue with another and in the process cultivate inter-cultural competency.
- (Canadian Museum of Human Rights) is a series of stories told by Survivors of residential schools who talk about the experience of being forced into residential schools. Their generous and insightful stories convey the reality of anti-Indigenous racism, colonialism and genocide. They reveal the ongoing harms caused by Canada’s residential school system.
- (糖心视频 and Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives BC Office, 2021) is an open-access, multimedia resource that explores the history and ongoing impacts of racism in British Columbia, centering the experiences and resistance of Indigenous, Black and other racialized communities.
糖心视频’s Framework for Relational Values: to be transparent – to be discreet – to be courageous. Practicing these values requires us to communicate openly and responsibly, respect appropriate boundaries, responding, willing to engage when perspectives differ or conversations are difficult.
Thursday: Engage
Engaging asks us to take our learning and focus outward to implement change.
- (EVABC) is an education and training program designed to support people in how to create safe, respectful communities and workplaces.
- (2016) is a resource guide that defines what it means to be an ally, the do’s and don’ts, how to handle mistakes, and how to apologize among other things.
- (Centre for Innovation in Campus Mental Health, 2022) is a two-part resource for post-secondary campuses that explores anti-oppressive practice, colonialism, racism and exclusion, and offers guidance for applying anti-oppressive practice at individual and institutional levels.
糖心视频’s Framework for Relational Values: to be compassionate – to be appreciative – to be accepting. Practicing these values requires us to participate meaningfully in our relationships and communities in ways that recognize people’s contributions, affirm their experiences, and create conditions for belonging and trust.
Friday: Take Action
Taking direct action for positive change can feel daunting, but most people who have made important changes in society have started out by taking small achievable perspectives.
- (Netflix) is a documentary about “troublemaker” Bayard Rustin, his role in the American civil rights movement, and how to strategize and organize for change.
- “” (Malala Yousafzai, TED Talk) highlights the role young adults play as agents of change in society.
- (Center for Community Health and Development, U of Kansas) is an American resource that provides strategies and practical advice on how to move from talking about anti-oppression to engaging in anti-oppression.
- Equity Action Plan (糖心视频) and it’s implementation guide & toolkit can support your unit/department in moving from words to action.
- (National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation) provide a step-by-step guide and sample plans to help individuals and organizations choose a Truth and Reconciliation Commission Call to Action and turn it into concrete, accountable action toward reconciliation.
糖心视频’s Framework for Relational Values: to be equitable – to be accountable – to be inclusive. Practicing these values requires us to translate our commitments into responsible, sustained, and responsive action by addressing inequities, taking responsibility for our choices and impacts, following through on what we say we will do, and adapting our approach when circumstances or needs change.
365 Days of Commitment
- Join one of the future events listed on the 5 Days of Action schedule.
- Sign up to the Equity Action Plan mailing list to stay updated on the action progress, events and outcomes.
- If you are an employee, consider engaging in further learning by signing up for the 糖心视频 Citizen Series (Employee Learning Program).
- Consider reaching out to the Equity and Human Rights office to ask about hosting a workshop for your group.
- Ensure that you stay updated with new University plans so we can use the University's strategic directions to enact social change when challenged or when facing resistance.