Teaching for Transformation: Conference (TforT: C) is a three-day immersion in the education paradigms and practices needed for today’s health care work. TforT:C involves paired dialogic keynote sessions, workshops, short talks (submitted abstracts), dialogic roundtables, and space for open dialogue.

In health professions education, trust is more than a principle. It’s a practice that must be embodied across teaching, science, and care. At our 2025 offering of the Teaching for Transformation Conference, we explore how trustworthiness in our roles requires not just evidence and ethics, but connection: to one another, to our patients, and to the diverse communities we come from. Ironically, the journey into professional identity can sometimes create distance from those very communities. Transformative education invites us to bridge that gap, to bring our full selves into the learning space, and to privilege the wisdom, identity, and lived experiences that shaped our calling. By grounding education in trust, transparency, and relational accountability, we don’t just teach for transformation, we become it.

Conference
TforT:C is more than a conference. Registration is limited to foster a dialogic learning environment. Additionally, registrants will gain access to a private website of resources and activities for their ongoing use and an online community for continued resource sharing and mutual support.

This conference is relevant to health and social care providers, educators, researchers, health/education policy and decision makers, patients/family partners, caregivers, students, and all individuals who share an interest in advancing the theories and practices of humanistic and transformative education and critical pedagogies and practices.

 Registration
The 2026 Teaching for Transformation: Conference will be offered as a hybrid conference. Please note that you can select only ONE conference delivery option. For example, if you choose to attend in-person, you cannot attend online and vice-versa.

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