From the desk of Cosette:
Dear Colleagues,
Thank you to those of you who attended the EDNA Fall Meeting this past Friday. I wish to recognize Annemarieke Hoekstra from the EDNA Steering Committee for her leadership in facilitating our meeting. Change and transition were the common themes across our institutions which, to me, underscores the need to share ideas, experiences, and strategies across our Ed Developer network. Let’s help each other!
Thank you to Christopher for working with me on the Setting Boundaries as an Educational Developer: Your Well-Being Matters workshop following the EDNA Fall Meeting. I hope you enjoyed the opportunity to mingle with our Council of Ontario Educational Developers (COED) and reflect on your own needs as Educational Developers.
I am grateful for your kind messages and feedback on the Setting Boundaries session. As a parting thought after reading the feedback, I’ve learned to set boundaries by inches. While some may find that big sweeping changes or declarations feel right, I’ve practiced tiny moments of boundary setting (for example, one politely declined request per day or choosing to negotiate a deadline) and found that these tiny boundary experiments are improving my health and wellbeing.
I wish you well in your own experiments. Christopher and I are rooting for you!
Hope to see you at Lunch with EDNA and the EDNA Spring Meeting at SAIT in Calgary (more news to follow).
Cosette, EDNA Chair
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