Bianca Briciu
Assistant Professor | Faculty staff
Profile
Bianca Briciu PhD is associate professor in School of Leadership, Ecology and Equity. She is interested in the cultivation of human potential in all areas of intelligence: cognitive, embodied, emotional, intercultural, spiritual. She is currently engaged in research on transformative approaches to develop mindfulness, empathy, compassion, and diverse intelligences in leadership. Bianca is committed to the holistic development of leaders that contribute to the flourishing of communities and organizations.
- Conflict Resolution
- Colonization processes and cultural changes
- Feeling and Ethics
- Emotions and the body
- Human Rights
- Multiculturalism
- Positive psychology
- Non-violent Social change
- Feminisms
- Human Development
- Transformative Leadership
- Art and Politics
- Creativity
PhD Cultural Mediations, Carleton University, Canada, 2013
MA Film Studies, Carleton University, Canada, 2008
MA Gender Studies, Kobe University, Japan, 2005
- The Revolutionary Art of Love
This is a project that explores the multidimensionality of love, building a case for more awareness of our emotional landscape for optimal experiences of love. - The Transformative Capacity of Imagination: Experiencing our Shared Humanity
This paper analyzes the intersubjective dimensions of imagination, focusing on strategies that help us experience at an embodied level a sense of shared humanity. - Empathy and Social Responsibility in Documentary
This research analyzes the representation of the refugee experience in documentaries, arguing that these films rely on powerful strategies of eliciting empathy for spectators, engaging them at a deep emotional level and making the case for social responsibility. The first part focuses on theories of empathy and identification and the second considers the articulation of an embodied refugee experience in films like Exodus: Our Journey to Europe and Human Flow. - Education for Human Flourishing
This is a collaborative research initiative restoring connection, resilience, and well-being in post-secondary education, led by Bianca Briciu, Micha毛l S茅guin, Marquis Bureau and Gabrielle Dupuis. The research develops and tests integrative, transformative approaches in the academia that foster well-being and flourishing. It creates communities of practice for students, professors, and leaders at 91麻豆官方 that cultivate emotional, relational, and spiritual capacities. In a time of widespread stress, disconnection, and alienation in academic spaces, we鈥檙e co-creating a new model of education鈥攐ne that centers well-being, resonance, and the integration of mind, body, and spirit. - Transformative Leadership for Resilience, Well-Being and Inclusion
This is ongoing research exploring leadership competencies and practices that foster positive transformation.
Books authored
Briciu, B. (2021). The Revolutionary Art of Love: From Romantic Love to Global Compassion, Academica Press.
Briciu, B. (2026). Leadership Transformatif: Changement syst茅mique bas茅 sur la conscience holistique, uOttawa University Press (accepted).
Martinez de Pison, R.; Briciu, B. (2026). Le Pouvoir de la Gu茅rison (in progress).
Refereed Chapters in Books
Briciu, B. (2025). Mindfulness, meaning, fulfilment and purpose at work. In Dhiman, S. (Ed.), Palgrave Encyclopedia of Leadership and Organizational Change. Springer Nature Switzerland.
Briciu, B. (2025). Spiritual, social and emotional intelligence. In Dhiman, S. (Ed.), Palgrave Encyclopedia of Leadership and Organizational Change. Springer Nature Switzerland.
Briciu, B., & MacDonald, A. (2024). Making the Darkness Conscious: Collective Shadow Work for the Spiritual Development of Leaders. In M. Raei, S. Guenther, & L. J. Berkeley (Eds.), Leadership at the Spiritual Edge: Emerging and Non-Western Concepts of Leadership and Spirituality, Routledge, 243鈥263.
S茅guin, M., Briciu, B., & Okunlola, M. (2024). Toward a Systemic, Transformative and Trauma-Informed Diversity Training Model: A Theoretical Proposal. IntechOpen.
Papers in Refereed Journals
Briciu, B., Ste-Marie, L., & Mo茂se R茅veil, S. (2025). 鈥淒oes the system even want us?鈥 鈥 Fostering the resilience of internationally educated health professionals facing threat to their professional identity. Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 0(0), 1鈥21.
Briciu, B., S茅guin, M., Arbone, I.-S., Bureau, M., Dupuis, G., & Jean-V茅zina, P. (2025). Education for flourishing: A case study of inner and interpersonal development through integral transformative learning. Journal of Transformative Education (under review).
Briciu, B., Arbone, I.-S., Bureau, M., Dupuis, G., & Jean-V茅zina, P. (2025). Spaces of resonance: Cultivating the Being and Relating dimensions of the Inner Development Goals through communities of practice in higher education. Casebook of IDG Implementation into Higher Education, GILE Journal of Skills Development (under review).
Briciu, B. (2024). Theory U as case study of integral transformative learning for spiritual development in higher education. Journal for the Study of Spirituality, 1鈥16.
Briciu, B. (2024). Emotions and meaning in transformative learning: Theory U as a liminal experience. Journal of Transformative Learning.
Briciu, B., Michel, S., & Chavez, R. (2024). Safe Space for Dialogue 鈥 A Practice for Connected Consciousness and Compassion. Challenges, 15(3), 36.
Briciu, B. (2024). The inner leader in transformative leadership: Personal transformation through trauma integration and spiritual development. GILE Journal of Skills Development, 4(3), 20鈥33.
Briciu, B. (2024). Absencing as attentional violence and its impact on well-being: Loss of resonance in advanced capitalism. Journal of Awareness Based Systems Change, 4(2), 67鈥86.
Briciu, B., Sainte-Marie, L., & Langlois, M. (2024). Recovering a Sense of Agency through Transformative Learning for Internationally Educated Medical Professionals (IEHPs) in Canada. Journal of Transformative Education, 0(0).
- Conquering Countries, Possessing Bodies 鈥 Policies of Imperialism
- 鈥淛apanese Devil鈥 or Universal Humanist? 鈥 Refashioning the Japanese Male Subject in The Human Condition (1959 鈥 1961)
- Bitter Memories or Peace Education? The Visceral and the Moral in the 1950s Japanese Film.
- Documenting Japan鈥檚 Transnational Embodied History: Imamura Shohei鈥檚 Documentaries.
- Empathy and Social Responsibility in Documentary Film
- The Transformative Capacity of Imagination: Experiencing our Shared Humanity
Teacher of the Year
2015
I have an interdisciplinary formation and an insatiable curiosity about the world which helps me stay engaged at all times. I lived and studied in Japan and Thailand and I am interested in contemplative thought and practices as well as the more recent presence of these practices in the field of psychology. I love working with people and expanding their horizons about the world and themselves.