Welcome to Episode Two of the Knowledge Exchange podcast. This podcast series is a product generously supported by the Canadian Council on Learning – Canada’s leading organization committed to improving learning across Canada and across all walks of life.
I again want to thank the Associate Director of Knowledge Exchange, Mr. Daryl Rock and his great staff all CCL for their efforts with this project to advance our understanding of effective knowledge exchange to improve the learning of Canadians.
You can download this episode, as well as episode one or the eighteen future episodes in the series from my website at www.knowledgemobilization.net, or from iTunes directly, just search for KM podcast. Alternatively go to knowledgeexchange.podomatic.com.
Transcripts and French language translations of these transcripts will be available shortly.
The conversation that you're about to hear, took place in downtown Vancouver on Wednesday, March 14th, 2007 at the Hampton Inn with Sean Muir, Executive Director of the Healthy Aboriginal Network based in Vancouver. As you can tell from the background noise there was a lot going on in the quiet corner that we found. Although I tried to clean up some of this during the editing process, trucks and buses are just part of our urban landscapes.
The first time that I met Sean, I was impressed with his passion and considered perspective in dealing with difficult issues. I was very impressed with the results he was obtaining with a simple product, a comic book on suicide prevention. This knowledge exchange tool is an example of how innovation doesn't always come with all the bells and whistles but sometimes in using a tool that we know well in a different way.
In this podcast you will hear Sean talk about youth engagement, using storytelling, that the content can be serious even if the format doesn't look serious. Sean will talk about the challenges of evaluating innovation and new uses for things that we think we know well. Sean shares his challenges of working across silos, of making sure that aboriginal voices are included in everything that they do, and through all of this I can hear his hopefulness that others will begin to look at the old problems in new ways and that we will come to solutions together.
It was a privilege to talk to Sean and I hope you enjoy listening as much as I did.
If you have comments or questions please do not hesitate to contact me.
