Thirty-four exceptional participants from across Atlantic Canada graduated from the first ACTivate Program in partnership with the Gros Morne Institute for Sustainable Tourism (GMIST).

The program brings an asset-based and community-driven approach to tourism – building on existing knowledge, skills, and strengths within communities to enhance community wellbeing.  

“The program builds on the belief that a good place to live is also a good place to visit.”

Participants from New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland and Labrador, and Ontario completed the five-month program which featured a series of online sessions, as well as four days of intensive in-person learning in Gros Morne, NL, before returning to their home communities to put their learnings into action.

Please join us in welcoming the ACTivate participants to the Coady Graduate Network!

St. Francis Xavier University and Coady Institute stand on the lands of Mi’kma’ki, the ancestral and unceded home of the Mi’kmaw. We express our deep gratitude and appreciation to the generations of Mi’kmaw who, since time immemorial, have loved and stewarded these lands and the beings who call them home. Colonization is not just history; it exists in the present tense. While we strive to decolonize ourselves and our University, we know there is still much for us to learn.

We are committed to doing the hard work of self-reflection and to repairing relationships with the Mi’kmaw on whose lands we reside, including embracing the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada Calls to Action and embodying their spirit in our plans to move forward with our University.

Ms~t wiaqpulti’kl ankukamkewe’l
We are all treaty people.

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