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• CESBC Webinar: How can evaluators contribute to planetary health?

  • When
    24 Sep 2025
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    12:00 - 13:00
  • Location
    Zoom

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  CESBC Webinar: How can evaluators contribute to planetary health? presented by Astrid Brousselle.
  

  Planetary health “considers the interdependence between the elements (air, soil and water) and living beings (plants, animals including humans), emphasizing the importance of cultivating a positive ecosystem to support the flourishing of all forms of life” (Brousselle, Bemner, et al., 2024; Brousselle, Curren, et al., 2024, p. 269).

  Most current evaluation approaches take the broader social and environmental context for granted when this context is the most important determinant for human survival and well-being. As we need to collectively respond to many embedded crises (environmental, social, health) we also need to reconsider the way we design and practice evaluation.

  During this presentation, we will show how evaluators can design their evaluations for positively contributing to planetary health. In particular, we will see how to build logic models for planetary health. We will also explore a theory-based approach and rapid assessment tools to assess interventions using planetary health lenses. We will discuss how to integrate planetary health dimensions in all types of evaluation.

  Presenter

  Astrid Brousselle specializes in evaluation approaches and methods, planetary health, health system analysis and the socio-ecological transition. Between 2015 and 2019, she was the French editor of The Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation/Revue canadienne d'évaluation de programme and, for many years, she was a member of the editorial board of Evaluation and Program Planning. In September, she will be the incoming editor of The Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation/Revue canadienne d'évaluation de programme. Astrid Brousselle earned a B.Sc. in economics, an M.Sc. in health administration, and a Ph.D. in public health from the University of Montreal. She began her academic career as an Assistant Professor at the University of Montreal and later held a Canada Research Chair in Evaluation and Health System Improvement at the Université de Sherbrooke from 2011 to 2016. She joined the University of Victoria as the Director of the School of Public Administration in 2017, for a 5-year term. At the University of Victoria, she also led, between 2018 and 2023, the group UVic in the Anthropocene.

  Date: September 24, 2025

  Time: 12:00 - 11:00 pm PT

  Location: Zoom meeting - link will be provided on registration

  Cost: $10 for CES members, $15 for non-members

  
  Member at Large - Professsional Development:
  Reanna Clark CESBC.PD@gmail.com

  
  

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• CESBC Interactive Webinar: Krazy Glue Messaging ~ Making Your Evaluation and Research Findings Stick

  • When
    28 Oct 2025
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    10:00 - 12:00
  • Location
    Zoom

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  CESBC Interactive Webinar: Krazy Glue Messaging ~ Making Your Evaluation and Research Findings Stick presented by Kylie Hutchison.
  

  As evaluators, people need our evidence more than ever nowadays. But with so much going on, they have even less bandwidth to absorb the results we give them. The solution? Sticky messaging!

  The evaluation profession has wholeheartedly embraced smaller and more innovative forms of reporting over the years such as infographics and two-page briefs. However, these shorter forms of communication require us to condense our extensive findings into much less content. We also need to identify and make our key messages “sticky” in order to ensure that busy decision-makers are able to understand, recall, and act on our key findings when the time comes.

  Join us for a fun and interactive webinar looking at what makes a key message “sticky” and leave feeling inspired to try something new!

  Learning Outcomes

  At the end of this session, you will be able to:

  • explain the benefits of using sticky messaging
  • describe the steps to isolate key messages from your results
  • list ways to make these key messages stickier for intended users.

  Presenter

  Kylie Hutchinson is a credentialed evaluator and consultant to non-profits with Community Solutions Planning & Evaluation. She has over 30 years’ experience specializing in the areas of evaluation, strategic planning, and board governance, and is known for her fun and engaging webinars. In 2020, she received the CES Contribution to Evaluation in Canada award. Kylie is the author of three books on program planning and evaluation: Survive and Thrive: Three Steps to Securing Your Program’s Sustainability, A Short Primer on Innovative Evaluation Reporting, and the edited collection, Evaluation Failures: Evaluators Share 22 Tales of Mistakes Made and Lessons Learned.

  Date: October 28, 2025

  Time: 10:00 - 12:00 am PT

  Location: Zoom meeting - link will be provided on registration

  Cost: $10 for CES members, $15 for non-members

  
  Member at Large - Professsional Development:
  Reanna Clark CESBC.PD@gmail.com

  
  

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• SAVE THE DATE: CESBC 2025 Pre-Conference Workshop | Stories as Pathways: Arts-Based Reflection to Unfold Evaluation Journeys

  • When
    20 Nov 2025
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    10:00 - 16:00
  • Location
    SFU Harbour Centre 515 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC V6B 5K3
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  CESBC 2025 Pre-Conference Workshop

  Stories as Pathways: Arts-Based Reflection to Unfold Evaluation Journeys
  faciliated by Dr. Gladys Rowe, Indigenous Insights 

  
  When: Thursday, November 20, 2024 | 10:00am - 4:00pm

  Where: SFU Harbour Centre 515 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC V6B 5K3

  Workshop Details

  This full-day workshop invites evaluators to pause, reflect, and reimagine their evaluation journeys through arts-based and storytelling practices. Drawing on Indigenous methodologies and relational accountability, participants will explore their own paths as evaluators, share stories of practice, and experiment with creative approaches to sensemaking and evaluation.

  Together we will:

  • Map our evaluation journeys and reflect on key moments of learning and unlearning.
  • Explore storytelling and 4Rs (Respect, Responsibility, Reciprocity, Relationality) as guiding principles.
  • Engage in hands-on creative activities (like collage, poetry, playdoh, zine-making) to imagine new possibilities for evaluation.
  • Build connections and collective insights to carry forward into our work.

  No arts experience is required — just openness to curiosity, creativity, and community. This workshop will provide space to slow down, connect, and cultivate new practices for relationally accountable evaluation.

  Facilitator Bio

  

  Dr. Gladys Rowe is Swampy Cree from Fox Lake Cree Nation in Northern Manitoba and also holds relations with ancestors from Ireland, England, Norway, and Ukraine. Gladys’ aims to support Indigenous resurgence at individual, organizational, community, and systems levels. She is a Scholar, Filmmaker, Poet, Author, Facilitator, Researcher, and Evaluator. She takes an interdisciplinary approach to her work and loves to think inside the circle when it comes to transforming the futures we are living into. Gladys supports critical reflection, expression, insights, and knowledge mobilization within research and evaluation through storytelling and arts-based approaches including using poetry, photography, photo elicitation, film, collage, painting, and clay. She is the host of Indigenous Insights: An Evaluation Podcast – where she sits in conversation with Indigenous leaders across Turtle Island and beyond. .

  Registration Details

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  IMPORTANT:

  • Members of CES and CESBC only (If you are not a current member in our BC Chapter system, or a member of a different Chapter, please send CES membership confirmation to cesbc.louise.mason@gmail.com).
  • Students: Proof of current Student Status will be required at the registration desk.
  • Please note, if you do need a registration code, please contact us at CESBC.Conference@gmail.com.
  • Cancellation Policy: 50% refund one month before the event date. After that, only substitute names for your registration will be provided.
    

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  For all enquiries please email: CESBC.Conference@gmail.com

  
  

  
  

  
  

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• SAVE THE DATE: CESBC 2025 Evaluation Conference

  • When
    21 Nov 2025
  •  
    07:45 - 16:00
  • Location
    SFU Harbour Centre, 515 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC V6B 5K3

   

  SAVE THE DATE

  
  CESBC 2025 Evaluation Conference

  Unfolding the Evaluation Journey
  

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  Where: SFU Harbour Centre, 515 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC V6B 5K3

  When: Friday, November 21, 2025

  Time: Registration open: 7:45am, Conference: 8:45am to 4:00pm, Reception and Networking: 4pm-4:45pm, AGM: 4:45pm-5:45pm [TBD]

  Breakfast and Lunch: Provided (dietary restrictions accommodated). 

  Overview

  CESBC is excited to announce the 2025 annual one-day conference, dedicated to continuing our mission of bringing meaningful learning and deeper growth to the BC evaluation community. Through engaging and interactive presentations, workshops, and networking activities, we aim to foster an environment for collaborative knowledge exchange.

  This year's conference invites participants to approach evaluation as a path filled with opportunities to learn, adapt, and deepen our understanding of the practice and its impact. This conference is an opportunity to share those experiences — to highlight successes, explore emerging questions, and uncover new possibilities together. We will also reflect on how our evaluation practices and skills evolve over time, how we make meaning amid complexity, and how diverse perspectives shape and guide our evaluation journey

  The 2025 conference theme will be explored across three streams, representing different stages of an evaluation. We also strongly encourage thoughtful integration and discussion of justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion in sessions across all streams.

  1. Planning to Implementation

  2. Approaches, Methods, and Analyses

  3. Knowledge Translation

  The conference is an opportunity to share experiences from our work, bring forward ideas, and present questions and challenges for discussion with the BC evaluation community.

  We look forward to your participation! 

  The Conference Organizers

  The conference is brought to you by the members and volunteers of the BC chapter of the Canadian Evaluation Society. CESBC is a chapter of the Canadian Evaluation Society (CES), the professional organization for evaluation professionals, students, academics and users of evaluation (such as managers, program staff and planners). CESBC is a member funded voluntary organization. We work to provide the evaluation community in British Columbia with learning opportunities, networking and resources. We are happy to take advice and organize events that the community suggests.

  Interested in volunteering?

  The conference would not be possible every year without the support of our wonderful volunteers! If you are interested in volunteering with this year’s conference, please contact CESBC.Conference@gmail.com. There will be opportunities over the next several months, and on the day of the event.

  For all enquiries please email: CESBC.Conference@gmail.com

  

  
  

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