Royal Roads masters of 🎨 arts professional communications graduate certification discussion.

Thanks to Dr. Chasten Remillard for coining the phrase prac-academic. So much of my education is practical and in the doing of real life. From parenting to politics. It's quite a stretch, to even for my elastic imagination, to visualize me writing a thesis project. I struggle to balance basic cheque book and schedule my calendar. When i submitted my recommendation from the TAAC to council i felt as thought my report writing was holding back the achievements of the group. When i presented my talk "creative leadership" at the decoda literacy conference i viewed reading the reviews provided by the people who attended very humbling. Even way back, when i taught children at Zanzibar International Film Festival i asked myself, is what i provided to the students somewhat close to what i advertised it as. As I was attending this event(and recording it for today's episode), I missed out the community cupboard delivery. So glad they had enough volunteers to huff the st Vincent du Paul food, from the loaves and fishes truck in the rec centre parking lot, uphill to the church basement. I was able to connect with a mom i know from town about how she's going back to school. I've been inspired by my spouse pursuing higher education, from the comfort of home, recently, and even have reconnected with a old friend from my university days who's decided now's the time to try again. I did to catch the end of the warming centre wrap up and was with Jack Taylor to return the cots to the emergency seacans. I mention these other things because I have confided once, when doing cupboard delivery with William Davidson, that as much as I enjoy the engagement of being the chairperson, the age friendly accessiblity comittee and secretary treasurer of Unity 4 Community. Policy making, budget adjustments and strategic planning are great and all yet i get a lot more from physically being there with people, listening to the boots on the ground and doing the dirty work instead of having endless meetings about a given issue. That beeing said i got pretty excited about some of the classes offered by this school in this program. About being pragmatic in the collectong and disseminating of data and the analysis of conflict. From intro to communications theory to (policy politics and the law) or leadership of intercultural competence and global coaching. The names of these course are turning a page for me, personally and exploring new layers of distinction in myself. From risk measures to academic integrity, to data analytics & critical thinking. Its correspondance, family, office hours, work, home, school, breaking boudaries, flexibility, opening my mind to limitless, leisure, interdisciplinary study. It's life. Changing.