PATIENT PARTNER SPRING RESILIENCE SERIES Beyond Resilience: Let's Talk About Flourishing

About the Facilitator:

Dr. Harroop (Roop) Sharda, RN, PhD, is a nurse educator, researcher, and postdoctoral fellow at the University of British Columbia. With over two decades of experience across clinical practice, education, and applied research, her work focuses on equity-oriented approaches to learning, well-being, and flourishing in health professions education.

About the Session: 

In health and education systems, resilience has long been positioned as the benchmark for coping and success. But what lies beyond resilience?

This interactive session invites participants to critically examine the concept of flourishing, tracing its origins from classical philosophical roots through its evolution within positive psychology, and into contemporary, practice-informed understandings. Drawing on her research and scholarship in nursing education, Roop will explore how flourishing can be understood not as an individual trait or outcome, but as a dynamic, relational, and context-sensitive process shaped by social, institutional, and structural conditions.

Participants will be invited into a co-constructive dialogue to reflect on their own experiences and perspectives, particularly as Patient Partners and collaborators in health education and care systems.

Together, we will consider:

• How dominant narratives of resilience may obscure systemic challenges?
• What does it mean to flourish within complex, and often constrained, environments?
• How can patient and community voices can reshape how flourishing is defined, supported, and sustained?

This session is designed to foster meaningful dialogue, challenge assumptions, and open space for re-imagining well-being and success in more inclusive and context-responsive ways.

Date: Thurs, June 11th, 2026
Time: 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM
Delivery Format: Online (via MS Teams)

Registration Details:

• Registration must be completed through the event registration link.
• Please indicate whether you are a Patient Partner or Faculty/Staff member when registering.
• A registration confirmation email will be sent approx. 2 weeks before the session.
• There is no cost to register
• If you do not receive confirmation or have any registration issues, please email:  leanna_wong@bcit.ca