La pleine conscience au service de l’autisme : : expériences collaboratives des praticiens

Within Canada, there remains a continuing need for neurodiversity-affirming and community-informed programs and interventions for autistic adults. Over the past year, we—a late-diagnosed autistic adult practicing mindfulness and a mindfulness teacher interested in autism with extensive involvement in the autism community—have co-delivered mindfulness sessions to autistic adults, including self-diagnosed and formally diagnosed persons, using a synchronous virtual format. The manualized intervention outlined in this paper was initially designed and implemented by Lunsky and colleagues (2022). In this experiential commentary, we reflect on our experiences delivering this program and why collaborative partnerships like this are important for those intending to work with autistic individuals in clinical and therapeutic settings. Specifically, we highlight the tools and strategies we implemented within our formal and informal mindfulness practices to ensure that participants had their social and sensory needs met throughout the duration of our six-week program. Additionally, we discuss what we learned while co-facilitating autism-informed mindfulness and our recommendations for fellow practitioners moving forward.Au Canada, il existe un besoin constant de programmes et d’interventions pour les adultes autistes qui tiennent compte de la neurodiversité et de la communauté. Au cours de l’année écoulée, nous — un adulte autiste diagnostiqué tardivement qui pratique la pleine conscience et une enseignante de la pleine conscience qui s’intéresse à l’autisme et qui est très impliqué dans la communauté des autistes — avons co-dirigé des séances de pleine conscience à des adultes autistes, y compris des personnes auto-diagnostiquées et des personnes ayant reçu un diagnostic formel, en utilisant un format virtuel synchrone. L’intervention guidée décrite dans cet article a été initialement conçue et mise en œuvre par Lunsky et ses collègues (2022). Dans ce commentaire expérimental, nous réfléchissons à notre expérience de la mise en œuvre de ce programme et aux raisons pour lesquelles des partenariats de collaboration comme celui-ci sont importants pour ceux qui ont l’intention de travailler avec des personnes autistes dans des contextes cliniques et thérapeutiques. Plus précisément, nous soulignons les outils et les stratégies que nous avons mis en œuvre dans le cadre de nos pratiques formelles et informelles de pleine conscience pour veiller à ce que les besoins sociaux et sensoriels des participant·es soient satisfaits pendant toute la durée de notre programme de six semaines. En outre, nous discutons de ce que nous avons appris en coanimant la pleine conscience adaptée à l’autisme et de nos recommandations à l’intention des autres praticien·nes pour l’avenir

Examining the Foreign direct investment, Renewable energy consumption, and economic growth nexus in MENA countries: A bootstrap ARDL evidence

This study examines the relationship among foreign direct investment, renewable energy consumption, and economic growth for seven Middle East and North Africa countries over the period 1980–2017 using the bootstrap autoregressive distributed lag test. The long run analysis reveals evidence of cointegraion among FDI inflows, renewable energy consumption, and economic growth in all countries except Iran and Turkey, where real GDP is used as the dependent variable. A similar result is observed in economies, with the exception of Mauritania when FDI inflow is treated as a dependent variable. Whereas, when RE is taken as a dependent variable, cointegration does occur in Algeria, Mauritania, Morocco, and Tunisia. In regards to the direction of causality, the analysis provides varied results among diverse variable for various countries. In this context, this study recommends increasing public awareness and attention in the advantages of renewable energy and clean technologies

Edward Gieskes. Generic Innovation in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2023.

This review considers Edward Gieskes\u27s Generic Innovation in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries

How Social Reproduction Shapes Women’s Union Militancy

Feminist scholarship has long examined how capitalism forces working women to shoulder the bulk of social reproduction. This remains a widely discussed topic in academic and political debates today, encouraged by the effects of the crisis of neoliberal capitalism that particularly hits working-class women, an observation Nancy Fraser (2016) deepens with the notion of a “crisis of social reproduction”. The effects of this dynamic on the union and political militancy of women have also been discussed at length. Still, this topic remains relevant and pressing, especially when examining its impact on union organisations. If the intention is to broaden the participation of women workers in union activities, we must dispense with attitudes that remain hostile to their militancy

Facilitating learning of the peer-review process through a student-led undergraduate journal

Conventionally, undergraduate science students engage in learning through didactic methods. This can present science as an indisputable collection of knowledge, rather than an ongoing process of discovery. By increasing students’ exposure to scientific processes, undergraduate science programs can enable students to understand the complexities of navigating scientific knowledge with a critical mindset. To facilitate this process, we implemented a student-led undergraduate peer-reviewed journal, The Child Health Interdisciplinary Literature & Discovery Journal, in the Child Health Specialization of McMaster University’s Honours Health Sciences (BHSc) Program. This case study discusses the development and implementation of this student-led journal within an inquiry-based learning curriculum. We aim to promote an understanding of curricular co-creation as a mechanism for enhancing student learning of scientific processes and the development of critical thinking, information literacy, and collaboration skills. We seek to inspire innovative teaching and learning strategies in higher education wherein students are active partners in the learning process

A partnership between an undergraduate student and a university faculty member: Experiences and takeaways of a student course coordinator

In this reflective essay, we discuss a partnership between a 4th-year undergraduate student and a faculty member in developing and teaching a 3rd-year inquiry-based learning (IBL) course. This partnership, characterized by shared decision-making, introduced a newly defined role: the student course coordinator (SCC). Through this collaboration, a student’s voice was integrated into every stage of the process, from course development and delivery to end-of-course reflection and evaluation.. In many ways, this partnership was akin to an education practicum in which a student gains valuable experience in coordinating and co-teaching a course while developing skills essential for an effective mentor and educator. In this essay, we highlight the context, practicalities, benefits, and challenges of such a partnership and provide our reflections on the experience. We hope the reflections and experiences shared here will provide an account of the value of student voices and partnership in education

Santé Québec: Reflections on Québec’s 2025 Health System Reform

Québec retains a unique set of social and health policies which distinguishes it from other Canadian provinces. Québec’s welfare state, distinct within Canada and North America more generally, is the product of the province’s history of secularization and detachment from traditional institutions, all tenets of the Quiet Revolution of the 1960s (D. Béland and Lecours 2008; Rocher 2002). Examples of unique policy initiatives include generous family policies (parental leave including paternity leave, universal daycare programs), as well as the democratization of education through generous government subsidies for higher education. Québec’s health care system, like those of other provinces, guarantees publicly funded physician services and hospital care. But the province has also used its jurisdictional autonomy to pioneer innovative health and social programs that expand beyond universal coverage, addressing broader determinants of health and embedding equity considerations across all sectors of policy-making. Examples include the Local Community Service Centres (Centres locaux de services communautaires; CLSC), a cornerstone of primary care in Québec; embedding the responsabilité populationnelle (accountability for population health) into health and social programs; a publicly subsidized drug insurance plan introduced in the late 1990s; and the integration of health and social care under the same governing authority, the Ministry of Health and Social Services (Ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux; MSSS) — with the latter two innovations unique in Canada. This orientation was further institutionalized with the adoption of Article 54 of the Public Health Act, which facilitated the adoption of the Health in All Policies framework by requiring ministries to assess the health impacts of their proposed legislation. (continued in full text PDF / HTML

Does the ‘Infoproletariat’ Include Systems Analysts? Organising IT Workers in the Brazilian Banking Sector: Challenges and Opportunities

As labour struggles around the impact of technology on working conditions heat up across various countries and sectors, myriad studies argue that the technologically based restructuring of workplaces has contributed to increasing precariousness in the new world of work. However, technology workers themselves have often been assessed as resistant to collective organising. This article explores the work experiences of IT workers in Brazil’s banking industry, many of whom are the most sought-after workers in the country — but who, from their own testimonies, confront a range of conditions that could form a basis for strong collective action. We analyse how technology work is organised within the largest private banks operating in the country and reflect on workers’ actual experiences, based on dozens of in-depth interviews, survey responses, and secondary literature. Our primary research objective is to better understand the scope of obstacles confronted by financial sector technology workers in Brazil, wherein may lie the potential for future collective action