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C1

Concurrent Session C1

Interactive Workshop

Session Details

飦� Date: Day 2 - Tuesday, May 12, 2026

飥桾ime: 2鈥�3 p.m.

飦� Location: TBD

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As per the work of Live Actor Simulation (LAS), this interactive workshop will showcase the simulation entitled Sacred Stories Narrative of a Young Muslim woman. Anwar Knight, (RA) and Karen Arthurton (PI) will share how the development of an EDIA framework grounded in the Love Ethic (hooks as cited in Godden, 2017) leads to the development of trauma informed practice.

Amongst the disciplines of social work, child and youth work, psychology, etc. this framework encourages student engagement, honours narratives, and centers lived/living expertise. Via simulation the actor will demonstrate how Sacred Stories infuses an EDIA framework in real time. Conference attendees will participate in observing simulation, and will be awarded an opportunity to participate in simulation while appreciating client centered practice and the benefit of simulation as a tool of engagement. 

Students attest to the impact of the Love Ethic in practice as it amplifies the importance of, for example, love for clients, love for colleagues and love for community Godden, 2017). Our overall aim is to reduce harm particularly for Black, Indigenous, Persons of Color, Queer and Trans (BIPOCQT) community members. As such, the classroom serves as a site of community development assuring the care and compassion of students and clients alike.  This prepares students for upcoming placement. 

Learning outcomes: 

1) An awareness of the Love Ethic and EDIA application 

2) The research development process and design 

3) A greater understanding of Live Actor Simulation and the benefit of experiential learning.

In line with the conference theme, Opening door and closing gaps,  Sacred Stories, provides opportunities for opening doors of community engagement and closing gaps of inequity. 

Presenters

Karen Arthurton, RSW, MSW, Contract Lecturer School of Social Work, 91福利

Karen Arthurton (she/her) has worked as a Full-and Part-Time Contract Lecturer with the School of Social Work since 2011. Prior to teaching, Karen worked with youth and youth serving professionals for over twenty-five years. Her teaching strategies include participatory teaching, music, storytelling, and spoken word. The classroom is a space where learning is a shared experience and the lived expertise of both Instructor and Learner are vital. Intersectionality as connected to race, gender/gender identity, sexuality, class and mental health are integral to Karen's engagement thus creating a safer environment for EDIA principles to be realized.

In partnership with Anwar Knight, Researcher, we co-created the EDIA framework grounded in the Love Ethic (Godden (2017). and hooks (2000)). In partnership with subject experts and LAS a new simulation- Sacred Stories was created.

Anwar Knight is a Master of Social Work scholar engaged at the nexus of critical gerontechnology and the Black radical tradition. (Myers, 2023) As the Project and Research Lead for the Learning and Teaching grant, Anwar Knight collaborated with Principal Investigator Karen Arthurton to develop an evidence-based, novel simulation framework aimed at training human and health services professionals. This framework addresses and seeks to remediate the under-recognized experiences of structural violence embedded within service provision.

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