Openness as a Way of Being, with Maha Bali

Maha Bali exudes openness as a way of being on episode 493 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. [divwrap class=”one-half first”] Quotes from the episode I don’t really know everything I have to say, but I’m willing to share my unfinished thoughts with you and I am willing to be criticized for it. -Maha Bali If people don’t have the vocabulary to express how they feel, they’ll just say they are fine. -Maha Bali This is a space where everyone in the room has to be collectively inclusive, and that’s kind of part of what equity and inclusion in facilitation and in classrooms needs to be. -Maha Bali My mentoring is not out of responsibility as something that I have to, I do it with joy because I’m building relationships with people. -Maha Bali [/divwrap][divwrap class=”one-half”] Resources Winners of the 2023 Open Education Awards for Excellence adrienne maree brown Emotion Grid Nurturing Learner Empowerment with Intentional Equity, Care and Compassion, presented by Maha Bali for eCampus Ontario Maha’s Slide Deck from Her Presentation My Role Model for Open, Caring and Generous Mentoring Jon Nixon, by Maha Bali Interpretive Pedagogies for Higher Education: Arendt, Berger, Said, Nussbaum and Their Legacies, by Jon Nixon [/divwrap]