Empowering Women in Academia | Embodying Dignity: Growing stories of hope in the soil/soul of our dis-ease

Join us for a thought provoking Empowering Women in Academia session featuring Danielle Denichaud, Lecturer, School of Performance, that invites us to re-think dis-eases such as auto-immune conditions, degenerative dis-ease and mental illness as more than individual struggles, disproportionately impacting women, marginalized communities and those who identify as LGBTQ2SI+.

Drawing on her lived experience, alongside 10+ years supporting hundreds of individuals as a holistic health consultant, Danielle offers a powerful re-framing of dis-ease as relational, community-rooted, and shaped by the broader systems we live within, offering a pathway to connect with the seeds of living hope, peace and regeneration lying dormant within the soil/ soul of our individual dis-ease.

Join us to reflect, connect, and explore how whole-being approaches such as compassionate dialogue, conscious embodiment, and awareness practices are needed for regenerative action toward healing our bodies, communities, and ecosystems.

To reserve your spot for this session please register in advance by Friday, February 6, 2026.

About our Speaker
Danielle Denichaud weaves between the fields of somatics, wellbeing and education in her roles as university lecturer, holistic health consultant and inter-arts curator. Through movement, philosophy, poetry and science, Danielle stewards embodied languages that activate wonderment and compassion in relationship with suffering, and in service to peace. For twenty years she has studied traditional and contemporary holistic health sciences, supporting her personal recovery from chronic illness and injury, and informing her fifteen years of clinical work with newborns to elders.

Her current research looks at the synergy between compassionate approaches to health promotion and praxes of community care in educational settings. She has spoken internationally on the fecundity of embodied education for living practices of hope, shares her distinct approach to pedagogical salutogenesis as a lecturer at the University of Toronto Mississauga and Toronto Metropolitan University, and in her inter-arts research with Dreamwalker Dance Company and Eilers Dance Theatre.