​What if failure isn't something to avoid, but something to learn from?

​Join YSpace and Shift Canada for an interactive 2.5 hour workshop designed to help students rethink how they approach failure, setbacks, uncertainty, and taking risks.

​Rather than treating failure as something to overcome or hide, this experiential session explores failure as a normal and valuable part of the entrepreneurial, professional, and personal journey.

​Through hands-on activities, reflection, and conversations with other York students, you’ll:

• ​Explore your own relationship with failure and setbacks

• ​Learn how to reframe challenges as opportunities for learning and redirection

• ​Develop practical tools for reflection, risk assessment, and forward planning

• ​Build greater comfort with uncertainty, iteration, and taking smarter risks

• ​Learn how to separate your sense of self from the success or failure of a single idea, project, or decision

​The workshop will be followed by a 30-minute Q&A with AJ Tibando, CEO of Shift Canada, giving you the opportunity to hear directly from an experienced leader who has built organizations across entrepreneurship, education, technology, and policy.

​About Shift Canada

​Shift Canada is a national registered charity working to build a culture of entrepreneurial courage across Canada. Through education, research, and public engagement, Shift equips the next generation of Canadians with the mindset and resilience to think boldly, take risks, and learn from failure.

​Its flagship Shift Failure program currently reaches more than 330,000 students annually across every province and territory.

​About AJ Tibando

​AJ Tibando is the CEO of Shift Canada and an experienced cross-sector leader focused on building innovative, high-growth organizations. She previously co-founded Palette Skills, a national upskilling organization, and SoJo, an education platform for teaching entrepreneurship to post-secondary students. AJ has also worked as a political advisor in the Ontario government and brings experience across policy, technology, education, and entrepreneurship.

​Who Should Apply?

​This workshop is intended for York University students who are interested in entrepreneurship, innovation, leadership, careers, or personal growth.

​You don't need to have started a business or experienced a major failure to participate. Curiosity and a willingness to reflect are enough.

​Registration

​This is a free event with limited spots.

​Date: Tuesday, November 3, 2026
Time: 4:00 - 7:00 PM
Location: Room 125, Bergeron Centre for Engineering Excellence, 11 Arboretum Ln, North York, ON M3N 3A7
Cost: Free
Spots: Limited