Strengthening our ties to Earth, community, and purpose while we face the state of the world.
Upcoming Workshops
Express Grief and Gratitude Nurture Connection Be Inspired By New Perspectives
Bring self-awareness of our own social location to help us take acts of liberation.
Thursday, April 24th 2025
6:30 to 8:30 PM
at Lake Trail Community School
Grief and Gratitude for Earth Day: Embodied Journalling
If you are interested in getting contacted about upcoming workshops, please contact us via the contact form or email finding.our.footing@shaw.ca
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Earth Day in 2025 can bring up intense and mixed feelings as we process all the losses while appreciating all that still is.
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In this 2 hour workshop, we will use embodiment practices, journaling, sharing, and song to make space for us to carry grief in one hand and gratitude in another this Earth Day. Making space to process our emotions in healthy ways helps us connect to what is important, and strengthens our capacity.
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​​Francis Weller ~~“The work of the mature person is to carry grief in one hand and gratitude in the other and to be stretched large by them”.
Facilitated by Celia Laval.
Fees:
Solidarity Rate: $5 This rate is for folks who live in fiscal discomfort or uncertainty, or otherwise lack access to financial resources.
Full Rate: $20 This rate reflects what it costs to run our program.
Redistribution Rate: $40 This rate is for community members who have access to structural wealth such as a stable job, investment income, or inherited wealth, and are able to pay a higher rate to support the participation of folks who pay at the solidarity rate.
Full scholarships available email finding.our.footing@shaw.ca
Saturday, May 3rd 2025
1:00 to 5:00 PM
at Nomina, Courtenay
Facilitated by Kazimea Sokil and Celia Laval.
Introductory Course- Finding our Footing: Transformative Steps in Perilous Times
As of May 1, this workshop is CANCELLED.
This 4 hour workshop will take us through the decolonized spiral of the Work that Reconnects. The 7 steps of the process include: gratitude, personal awareness, social awareness, honouring our pain, seeing with new eyes, finding liberation and taking action.
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We will use a mixture of discussion, personal writing, visual image-making, embodiment practices, ritual, and song to help us find empowerment as we face the state of the world.
Fees:
Solidarity Rate: $20 This rate is for folks who live in fiscal discomfort or uncertainty, or otherwise lack access to financial resources.
Full Rate: $40 This rate reflects what it costs to run our program.
Redistribution Rate: $60 This rate is for community members who have access to structural wealth such as a stable job, investment income, or inherited wealth, and are able to pay a higher rate to support the participation of folks who pay at the solidarity rate.
Full scholarships available email finding.our.footing@shaw.ca
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REGISTRATION DEADLINE: Weds. April 30, 5pm - cancelled
Thursday, May 29th 2025
6:30 to 8:30 PM
at Lake Trail Community School
Facilitated by Kazimea Sokil.
The Work That Reconnects and the 5 Vows (Prayer Beads craft)
Learn more about the historical development of the Work that Reconnects - Joanna Macy's merging of group process, general systems theory, and eco-spirituality. Hear how experiences, learning, and global connections came together as this venerated activist leader and Buddhist teacher developed her ground-breaking, inspiring process. Discover the Five Vows of this practice and how they encompass the attitudes and behaviors needed to sustain the Great Turning. You
can learn about these vows, take the vows publicly if you would like, and create a prayer bead strand to help integrate them into your daily life.
The Five Vows are:
- To commit myself daily to the healing of our world and the welfare of all beings
- To live on Earth more lightly and non-violently in the food, products, and energy I consume
- To draw courage and guidance from the living Earth, the ancestors, the future beings, and the more-than-humans
- To support others in their work for the world and to ask for help when I need it
- To pursue a daily spiritual practice that clarifies the mind, strengthens the heart, and supports me in observing these vows
If possible, please bring 5 special beads to represent:
- healing
- the Earth
- ancestors, future beings, members of other species
- connection, spiral or circle
- spiritual strength and clarity
Donations of beads is also welcomed. We will have some options for those unable to bring their own.
Fees:
Solidarity Rate: $5 This rate is for folks who live in fiscal discomfort or uncertainty, or otherwise lack access to financial resources.
Full Rate: $20 This rate reflects what it costs to run our program.
Redistribution Rate: $40 This rate is for community members who have access to structural wealth such as a stable job, investment income, or inherited wealth, and are able to pay a higher rate to support the participation of folks who pay at the solidarity rate.
Full scholarships available email finding.our.footing@shaw.ca
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REGISTRATION DEADLINE: Sun. May 25
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