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Creating a global movement of change agents. #ChangeTheNow is experiential learning opportunity, under the direction of Social Innovation at Georgian College, and as part of the Research, Innovation and Entrepreneurship. #ChangeTheNow workshops, event and engagements support participants as they work in innovation teams to collaborate on tackling place-based approaches to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The SDGs are a collection of 17 interlinked global goals designed to be a "blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all.T﻿o learn more about the impact of #ChangeTheNow check out"Why #ChangeTheNow"

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A live conversation with Ashoka Fellow Fabrice Vil on transforming sport coaches into life coaches to support youth.

Join in as our GCSA Student Leaders have a compelling conversation with Fabrice Vil of <a href="https://pour3points.ca/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Pour 3 Points</a> - for an opportunity to discuss leadership, civic engagement, education, human rights and equality.Fabrice is an Ashoka Fellow and his work is systematically transforming sport coaches into life coaches to support youth and help them overcome adversity and become leaders in society.

Growing up in a historically low-income Montreal neighbourhood with high numbers of vulnerable minority groups, Fabrice Vil credits two of his sport coaches with changing the trajectory in his life and giving him confidence to stand up for himself on and off the court. He wanted to provide this type of positive influence for other vulnerable youth, so he left his career as a corporate lawyer and began coaching. But Fabrice soon recognized that the lack of proper training for youth coaches was a major issue for many of these programs and schools. So, in 2010, he founded Pour 3 Points and became a coach for coaches.Fabrice has created a new profession in the public sports and education spaces by elevating the skills and impact of sports coaches to that of life coaches through his organization’s training program. His program empowers coaches to focus on what’s important: not just winning the game, but developing resilient young people through sport. Coaches from vulnerable Montreal neighbourhoods undergo an intensive one-year training program that includes hands-on coaching experience and continuous learning through monthly mentorship sessions and peer-to-peer learning.A session not to be missed!---------------------Ashoka Fellows are driven by a vision to create a more equitable society — and they have the rigour, passion and strategic determination to realize that vision. Ashoka Canada's network of more than 50 Fellows nationally is part of a global community who are harnessing the radical power of innovative ideas to solve our most urgent problems. As Canada's first and only college in Canada designated a changemaker college by Ashoka U, we super excited to bring this opportunity to our Georgian College community. This keynote at Changemaker In Residency Week is only one of the ways we are striving to lead and inspire our students, faculty, staff and partners to envision the positive change they would like to see.

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