There is one thing missing in many of our lives, our teams, and in our communities...and that is simply joy!
Dr. Billy Strean has spent a lifetime seeking solutions and developing practices to help others find their joy, re-connect with their natural sense of awe, and create more aha moments!
His practice of joy has been developed over decades as a university professor and multi-disciplinary practitioner.
To Billy, joy is both a destination and a journey.
The destination is what he refers to as a “Joy State of Being.”
The journey is the daily practice of joy.
And like any practice, the more we practice, the better we become at creating habits. Those habits can open us to more joy, awe and aha moments.
Is This Your Guy?
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Former NCAA
Athlete and Coach
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Ph.D.
in Sport and Exercise Psychology
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Professor
at the University of Alberta
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Rutherford Award for Excellence
in Undergraduate Teaching (University of Alberta, 2008)
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3M National Teaching Fellowship
(Canada’s highest teaching honour, 2011)
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Master
Somatic Coach
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Registered
Yoga Teacher (RYT-500)
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Certified
Laughter Yoga Teacher and Professional Co-active Coach.
It is precisely this eclectic range of disciplines and fields of study — as well as 30 years of teaching experience — that put Dr. Strean in a class of his own as a coach, a keynote speaker, workshop facilitator and retreat leader.
Here are some of the clients Billy has worked with:
Yale University School of Management – New Haven, CT
Enbridge
Wellspring – Edmonton, AB
Human Services, Government of Alberta
Forestry Division – Alberta Sustainable Development
Heart & Stroke New Brunswick
Northern Ontario School of Medicine
Institute for Physical Education, Thailand
National Judges Institute
Forzani Group
City of St. Albert
Vancouver Inner City Schools
Alberta Infrastructure & Transportation
Stantec
Alberta Children & Youth Services
Cross Cancer Institute
Alberta Advanced Education and Technology
Public Works and Government Services Canada – Enoch, AB
Alberta Entrepreneurs’ Association
Afton School – Edmonton, AB
Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa
Washington Coalition for Campus Children’s Centers
ATB Financial
Vital Grandin School – St. Albert, AB
Canadian Natural Resources, Ft. McMurray, AB
Alberta Health Services
Alberta Office of the Child and Youth Advocate
Synchronicity Magazine
Fall Focus for Farm Women – Camrose, AB
Capital Health Patient Relations – Edmonton
Washington State Association for Health Care Recruitment – Seattle, WA
Faculty of Education, University of Alberta – Edmonton
Cardiac Athletic Society of Edmonton
Bantrel
Alberta Employment, Immigration, and Industry
Alberta Justice
Orthodontics Graduate Program, University of Alberta
Valued Lives Conference, Wenatchee, WA
Northern Alberta Renal Program – Edmonton
Parkland Head Injury Association – Stony Plain, AB
Stollery Children’s Hospital Staff – Edmonton
Information Technology, City of Edmonton
Alberta Medical Association
Association of Information and Records – Red Deer, AB.
Canadian Parish Nursing
First Nations and Inuit Health Branch, Health Canada – Canmore, AB Edmonton Lifelong Learners Association
Interior Health – Kelowna, BC
NorQuest College
Dalhousie University – Halifax, NS
Associated Engineering – Edmonton
Fibromyalgia and Chronic Pain Society
Bellevue Community College – Bellevue, WA
Selected Articles
Strean, W. B. (2016). Do yogis have “learning styles”? International Journal of Yoga Research.10(1), 37-39.
Strean, W. B. (2016). Communities of Practice: A mindful opportunity. Transformative Dialogues: Teaching & Learning Journal, 9(1), 1-4.
Cassidy, A., Wright, A., Strean, W. B., Watson, G. (2015). The interplay of space, place and identity Transforming our learning experiences in an outdoor setting. Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching.
Strean, W. B. (2013). Using movement, music, and humor as creative approaches to enhance student engagement. In E.G. Carayannis (ed.), Encyclopedia of Creativity, Invention, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship, DOI 10.1007/978.
Strean, W. B. (2012). Exhilarated learning and the scholarship of engagement: From here (the university) to the horizon (the community). Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 5, 179-183.
Strean, W. B. (2012). The human connection dimension. Interdivisional Review, 2(1).
Strean, W. B. (2011). Creating student engagement? HMM: Teaching and learning with Humor, Music, and Movement. Creative Education, 2, (3), 189-192.
Strean, W. B. (2010). Moving (literally) to engage students: Putting the (physically) active in active learning. Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 3, 33-37.
Strean, W. B. (2009). Remembering instructors: Play, pain, and pedagogy. Qualitative Research in Sport and Exercise, , 1, 210-220.
Strean, W. B. (2009). The Laughter Prescription. Canadian Family Physician, 55, 965-967.
Strean W. B. & Strozzi-Heckler, R. (2009). (The) Body (of) Knowledge: Somatic contributions to sport psychology. Journal of Applied Sport Psychology. 21(1), 91 – 98.
Strean, W. B. (2008). Evolving toward laughter in learning. Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 1, 165-171.
Strean, W. B. & Henderson, B. (2007). Mining our experiences: Reflecting on the subtle interpersonal dimension of teaching and learning. MountainRise, 4(1), 1-11.