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Techniques Workshop on Pacing with Grief

Name: Techniques Workshop on Pacing with Grief
Start: 2025-11-06T13:30:00-05:00
End: 2025-11-06T17:00:00-05:00
Location: Young Centre, Evergreen Brickworks

November 6, 2025 @ 1:30 pm – 5:00 pm

This pilot Techniques Workshops is open only by private invitation, to maintain richness in a small group discussion. We are privileged to include Gary S. Metcalf, visiting from Kentucky, to lend knowledge and expertise to the session.

Subsequent Technique Workshops may be scheduled on other topics.

To be considered for an invitation, contact: David Ing, Zaid Khan, Samah Kamalmaz, Ziyan Hossain, Calla Lee, or Fran Rawlings.

The Space for Grief installation has be recognized as a success, based on two Major Research Projects at OCAD U. After acknowledging grief, what methods or techniques might be developed next? The Pacing Changes approach based on the Systems Changes philosophy and theory might be applicable. An additional body of work based on Disclosing New Worlds phenomenology may provide some direction.

This 3.5 hour session should spark some initial thoughts. Follow-up, and a potential research proposal might emerge.

Here are a few references as background:

Rawlings, Frances Quintero. 2020. “Designing More Inclusive Death and Grief Cultural Practices and Rituals.” MRP, OCAD University. https://openresearch.ocadu.ca/id/eprint/2875/.
Hossain, Ziyan. 2025. “Designing with Grief: The PACER Framework for Systemic Practice Towards Post-Biological Systems of Care, Memory, and Connection.” MRP, OCAD University. https://openresearch.ocadu.ca/id/eprint/4814/.
Ing, David. 2022. “Systems Thinking through Changes: An Action Learning Guide.” Web video. Code for Canada, March 4. https://coevolving.com/blogs/index.php/archive/systems-thinking-through-changes/.
Ing, David. 2022. “Systems Changes Learning: Recasting and Reifying Rhythmic Shifts for Doing, alongside Thinking and Making.” Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics 20 (7): 11–73. https://doi.org/10.54808/JSCI.20.07.11. Cached at https://coevolving.com/commons/2023-02-recasting-and-reifying-rhythmic-shifts .
Spinosa, Charles, Fernando Flores, and Hubert L. Dreyfus. 1999. Disclosing New Worlds: Entrepreneurship, Democratic Action, and the Cultivation of Solidarity. MIT Press.