Menno Simons College Student Association

We are honoured to present our third Common Unity guest, Jonathan Meikle, and we are so happy to have his thoughts and reflections on this year's topics!

"Where I am today in my healing, is a product of my community being there for me when I needed help. I do not regret my past. It is my past that has helped me remove the blindfold and has allowed me to recognize the greater mechanisms at play. An example of such mechanisms is colonialism."

Make sure you check the link to see Jonathan's Common Unity piece on Resilience and Connection.

https://www.mscollege.ca/students/studentassoc/common-unity

Check out this amazing student opportunity with the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba! Link at the bottom for information. Feel free to email us at [email protected] for application forms and documents.

English:
https://www.gov.mb.ca/legislature/resources/employment/internship.html


French:
https://www.gov.mb.ca/legislature/resources/employment/internship.fr.html

We are honoured to present our second Common Unity guest, Angela Lavallee, and we couldn't be more thrilled to have her voice as part of this project.

"Angela Lavallee is an Indigenous woman, mother, grandmother, post-secondary graduate, and active community member currently residing in Winnipeg. She is a certified focus therapist and provides focus sessions to women and men who are in need of healing support. She is also the founder of Soles on Fire: a run to bring awareness, prevention, and intervention on violence against women and girls and most importantly to celebrate and honour life."

Make sure you check the link to see Angela's Common Unity piece on Resilience and Connection:
https://www.mscollege.ca/students/studentassoc/common-unity

📸 Credit: Alexandria Kazmerik

The MSCSA presents our Connections Through Compassion campaign! We are so thankful to get to work within the community, even during an ongoing pandemic.

La sala de los sueños inc -Ricky's Room is doing great things and we are thrilled to have partnered with them and James Turowski Ceramics and Textiles to bring resources to the community.

We will have an update post in the near future to show how it went!

We're kicking off Common Unity with MSCSA Community Liaison, Keziah Toews! Keziah is championing this new role within the MSCSA that is focused on building connections between the MSCSA, the broader Winnipeg community, and beyond.

Below is an excerpt from Keziah's submission to Common Unity, where she reflects on this year's themes of "Resilience and Connections"

"Being a resilient person does not mean that problems in life disappear.

It means that there is an understanding of how things work in life and that understanding helps the individual process their problems.

Resiliency does not 'water down' emotions.

Being resilient does not mean that a person does not feel the same levels of grief, hurt and pain. Instead, they develop the tools to better work through those feelings.

Everyone can be resilient.

Although there are biological factors that contribute to our own levels of resilience, resiliency can be achieved through one's life experiences. It does not have to take a traumatic event to do this.

Resilience does not always look like survival.

The quality of resilience is expressed in many different ways, depending on the person. For some, it may mean focusing one's energy on other things after a crisis... "

*Read the full submission by clicking the link below

https://www.mscollege.ca/students/studentassoc/common-unity

https://www.mscollege.ca/students/studentassoc/common-unity

Common Unity 2020–21: a project of the MSCSA | Menno Simons College Student Association (MSCSA) | MSC Every year the MSC Student Association holds an annual community event. This year, however, the pandemic does not permit such activities. Instead, the MSCSA is launching a community series where active members of the community and their work will be highlighted. Every month, individuals will submit...

Every year the MSC Student Association holds an annual community event called Common Unity. This event seeks to highlight community voices from all walks of life on an annual theme, in efforts to build connections and facilitate community growth through exploring the perspectives and lived experiences of others.

This year, the pandemic has forced us to get creative as we cannot host the event as we normally would. Instead, the MSCSA is launching a community web-series, where active members of the community and their work will be highlighted. Every month, individuals will submit a write up or a video with a reflection encompassing the themes of resilience and connection. These will be hosted on the website for everyone to view at their leisure.

Link below for direct access to the Common Unity webpage. We hope you will find something to take away from each highlighted participant to help build and evolve your own understanding of what it means to be resilient and share connections.

https://www.mscollege.ca/students/studentassoc/common-unity

Congratulations to the lucky winner, Chelsea Ledrew ! We were so excited to throw this together for students, and we hope you enjoy the goodies in your treat basket!

Thank you to all who participated. Keep an eye out for future initiatives by the MSCSA. We have a few things coming up soon that we are excited to launch over the coming weeks and months!

UWSA Elections « The UWSA The By-Election is where students can run for vacant positions that were not filled during the General Election. To run, you will need to fill out a nomination form and submit it to the Chief Elections Commissioner before the end of the nomination period.

Voting for By-Election begins is Monday, October 26 at 9 AM!



students, share your voice with a vote from October 28-30. Check your Webmail on Monday morning for your unique voter ID, password, and voting link to vote online.



Please visit http://theuwsa.ca/elections to get to know your candidates and download the Voter Guide.

Welcome back students! We hope everyone had a restorative and productive reading week.

To kick of the second term of the semester the MSCSA is holding the "No Tricks, Just Treats" social media giveaway where you can win a gift basket full of goodies to help you get through the final stretch of the Fall semester.

The contest runs from today, October 19th to Friday October 30th with the winner being selected via random draw the same night.

All students registered in at least one (1) Conflict Resolution Studies or International Development Studies course for the 2020-2021 academic year are elligible to participate.

To enter: Please COMMENT what CRS or IDS course(s) you're taking this year, and TAG two (2) other UW students who you'd love to have a Halloween party with (In theory, of course). That's it! 1 entry per person.

A winner will be contacted via the social media platform they entered on and arrangements for delivery will be made depending on the individual's situation and needs.