CSSSW Board Leadership
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Buetta Warkentin - MSW, RSW, MTS
Buetta Warkentin MSW, RSW, MTS - is Associate Professor of Social Work and Field Education Coordinator with Canadian Mennonite University. She has spent almost 2 decades in social work education, teaching widely, building relationships with community agencies, and supporting students in field placements. Buetta has taught courses on spirituality and social work and through research has explored the impact of social workers’ own spirituality on their practice, and the role of spirituality with newcomer parents.
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John Coates - PhDJohn Coates, PhD is Professor Emeritus in Social Work, St. Thomas University, Fredericton, NB, Canada.
He taught at St. Thomas for almost 30 years and served as Director of the School of Social Work for several years. He is a founding member of the CSSSW and served as its Chair where he helped organize conferences and encourage scholarship in the area of spirituality and social work. As a scholar, he has co-edited four collections of essays which have been described as landmark contributions to social work discourse and practice. His book, Ecology and Social Work: Toward a New Paradigm (2003) was the first in Canada to examine the intersection of environmental and social work concerns. In addition, he has authoured or co-authoured well over 40 book chapters and articles in peer-reviewed journals, as well as co-edited ten journal volumes. Since retirement he has become an avid woodturner and gardener while he continues community service in the not-for-profit sector. |
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Monica Chi Eaton |
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Bolaji Akinylel-Akanbi |
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Cassandra Hanrahan - PhD, RSW
Cassandra Hanrahan is an Associate Professor, researcher, and Undergraduate Program Coordinator at Dalhousie University School of Social Work in Nova Scotia, Canada. Cassandra’s research on human animal interactions and animal informed social work urges us to reconceptualize the purpose and practice of social work today, broadening the circle of compassion and incorporating sustainability as a core value. By raising awareness of anthropocentrism and the prescient critique of humanism in social work, Cassandra advocates new ontologies of being and becoming. Over the past decade, she has taught several undergraduate and graduate independent studies on spirituality and social work. Cassandra is President of the Canadian Association for Spirituality and Social Work.
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Board of Directors
Canadian Spirituality and Social Work is governed by a Board of Directors. These professionals bring skills, knowledge and passion for the work of CSSSW.
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Dr. Heather M Boynton - PhD, MSW, RSW, HBPEDr. Heather M Boynton is an Assistant Professor of Social Work at the University of Calgary, an adjunct professor in Kinesiology at Lakehead University, and a member of the Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute. She also holds an Honours Bachelor of Physical and Health Education. She has been involved in the Canadian Society for Spirituality and Social Work since 2005. Her research interests are in spirituality, trauma, grief, and loss for with children, adolescents, and families, mental health and wellness, holistic practices, as well as interprofessional education and collaboration. She co-edited the book Trauma, Spirituality and Posttraumatic Growth in Clinical Social Work Practice, and she is a certified Reiki and Feng Shui Practitioner.
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Susan Cadell - PhD, RSWSusan Cadell, PhD, RSW (she/her) is a social work researcher and Professor in the School of Social Work at Renison University College at the University of Waterloo. Susan's research concerns death, dying and bereavement, particularly positive outcomes of caregiving and grief. She has been a member of CSSSW since attending the first meeting in 2001. Susan’s most recent projects concern grief in COVID, after Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD), and healing tattoos.
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Ursula Ferreira
Ursula Ferreira was born and raised in Brazil and has been calling Canada home since 2014. Ursula is a Registered Social Worker and Advanced-level student of Somatic Experiencing. She works as a trauma therapist at a non-profit agency and runs a private practice part-time. Ursula works from transpersonal and somatic frameworks, and finds that her personal interest in spiritual philosophy is inseparable from her professional life.
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Michelle Jonathan |
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Jaspreet Kaur
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Veena Khatri
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Indrani Margolin - PhD, MSW, RSWDr. Indrani Margolin is a Professor in the School of Social Work and part of the graduate faculty in Women’s & Gender Studies and Health Sciences at the University of Northern British Columbia. She holds a PhD in Curriculum, Teaching, and Learning with a specialization in Holistic & Aesthetic Education from the Ontario Institute for Studies of Education at the University of Toronto. Her research and teaching interests include spirituality; ancient meditations and visualizations; posttraumatic growth, girls’ and women’s wellbeing, mentorship, and arts-based research & practice methods. She is part of the Northern FIRE (Feminist Institute for Research & Evaluation) leadership at UNBC and also serves on the Canadian Society for Spirituality & Social Work board. She is an initiate in Mahavakyam Meditation from a long lineage of Himalayan masters and trained in the Tulshi Sen Consulting Train the Trainer system.
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Lucille Villaseñor-Caron - MSW, RSW, E-RYT, AYTLucille Villaseñor-Caron is a Registered Social Worker Psychotherapist, Certified Yoga Teacher and Ayurvedic Wellness Practitioner who offers psychotherapy, counselling and Ayurvedic Yoga therapy to individuals, groups, couples and families seeking support to overcome structural, interpersonal, mental, emotional, physical and/or spiritual challenges. Furthermore, she facilitates mental health related workshops, group therapy programs, and specialized employee-wellness and workplace-health services in private practice, and with both government and non-governmental agencies. It is her passion to be of service to others by creating a comfortable and relaxing atmosphere that supports happiness, wellbeing and healing. As the founder of Happiness & Wellness Therapy, she offers her services in three languages: English, French and Spanish through a wholistic and tailored approach to therapy that acknowledges practical tools, modern psychological theories and ancient wisdom from different cultures to support happiness, wellbeing and healing in a cross-cultural manner.
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Jeanette Waegemakers Schiff
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The Canadian Society for Spirituality and Social Work is committed to being inclusive.
CSSSW acknowledges there are numerous and diverse ways of knowing, being and practicing spirituality, which range from expressions of spirituality independent of specific belief systems, to those intertwined with religious beliefs and/or cultures. Some of these activities/traditions may overlap, and others are independent of each other. The aim in CSSSW is to provide opportunities for diverse, respectful, and safer expressions of spirituality.
