The cost of this event for those at NetVUE member institutions is $50 or $100 per person, depending on whether lodging is required. (The non-member rate is $400 with lodging included). Complete information for this gathering can be found on the host institution’s website.
Please register no later than January 28, 2027
Celebrating NetVUE’s new resource, Encuentra: Conversation Cards on Calling, Career, and a Life Well-Lived, this regional gathering explores the role of culture in human experience and understanding of the world and one’s calling. Participant experience of the food, music, dance, art, and language of the diverse Hispanic, Latine, Latin American, and U.S. Latine cultures in Fresno and the surrounding communities frames sessions exploring the origin and unique contribution of these conversation cards, and how culturally responsive and sustaining pedagogy can help foster vocational exploration and discernment. Breakout sessions led by experienced practitioners provide ample opportunity for hands-on practice, reflection, and discussion centered on the conversation cards.
As bilingual Spanish-English conversation cards, the Encuentra deck concretizes the fact that language and our broader cultural roots profoundly shape us and our experience of the world. The cards foster Encuentra (Encounter) with one’s own cultural background and cross-cultural encounter with others. The questions posed – the cards themselves – are for everyone! Yet it’s also true that students from marginalized communities come from contexts that are not seen as culturally normative (including in higher education), communities where vocational exploration and discernment may seem like a luxury born of privilege. This gathering’s exploration of the Encuentra deck will provide participants with a powerful tool for faculty members, staff, and administrators for fostering inclusive student exploration of their vocation as part of their educational formation in college/university. Participants will leave with experiences and tools that help them do just that—through encountering Fresno’s diverse cultural context, a heightened awareness of culture as a shaping force for everyone, and practicing Encuentra: asking, answering, and reflecting on questions exploring the role of culture and community in shaping vocational understanding, exploration, and discernment.
Other Upcoming Regional Gatherings
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Vocation And Experiential Learning: The Call to Mentorship
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Telling Honest Stories as Calling in Higher Education
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2026 NetVUE Gathering at the AAR/SBL Annual Meeting
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Vocation and Whole Person Education in a Transactional Age
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Vocation, Higher Education, and the Future: Imagining Possibilities, Cultivating Practices
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Roots, Branches, Leaves: Institutionalizing Vocational Discernment
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