Offering practical profound exercises to bring home and incorporate in our daily life to enhance well-being, inner peace, and connection. Join us for days of joyous fun, with a great mix of activities to do and learn to cultivate the qualities of beauty, joy, peace, kindness, and compassion in ourselves. Participant Comment: "Everything! Being with like-minded, positive people who are all moving forward for positive intention, song, dance, mindfulness. I loved it all! I enjoyed the meditation breathing. Yoga was fun, drumming lots of fun. I liked that that was spontaneous and joyous. Great mix of things to do and learn."

Feeling that no one cares was a causal factor identified by hundreds of children, youth and adults who expressed suicidal ideation. Even though they may logically know people cared, if they could not feel the caring they may succumb to feelings of hopelessness, despair, and suicidality would increase. Using play, imagination, and creativity we can glimpse into events and experiences that hurt people’s hearts in a way that taps into our emotions in a meaningful way. Then through reflection on what helps us feel better or worse when we are in pain, we can identify strategies to create kind and caring families, communities, organizations, or schools, etc. If we wish to reduce suicidality, we need to increase our ability to care in ways that others can feel while also using wisdom and discernment.

Trauma is part of everyone’s life, yet is a wound that cannot always be seen. By understanding how trauma can affect a person and their reactions, we can better adapt our behaviour to maintain healthy communication and relationships. When we inadvertently cause a reaction, we can use the awareness to soothe or calm the situation. Being Trauma Informed helps each organization create safe and healthy settings for employees, clients, customers and community.

Despite being researched and documented in 1998, many people remain unaware of how adversity in childhood can have a lifelong impact on our wellbeing. Looking at our own experiences we can identify our own ACEs and explore how having a kind, caring caregiver or support person can protect us from the negative effects of adversity in childhood. Learn about ACEs and how they can affect our mental, physical, and emotional health as adults. Learn how we can support ourselves and others, to reduce the risks and increase our feelings of wellness. At least, we can realize that what we are going through is not because we are ‘broken’ but because our nervous system was disrupted and got stuck in low-level, chronic (toxic) anxiety/stress. At best, through awareness of ACEs we can heal and transform our experience ACEs, reduce our toxic stress, and increase our health and wellness.

Watching superhero movies has become very popular in recent years, with people looking to the big screen to find solutions for the challenges of modern life. However, while superheroes do not truly exist, there are many real life heroes that we hear about every day. And, in truth, each of us is a real-life hero. By exploring your gifts and talents, you can discover your what makes you a hero and how embracing our weaknesses makes us human. It is important to remember superheroes also have weaknesses, which makes them tolerable, so by recognizing how kryptonite and Lois Lane make Superman more ‘human’, it becomes easier for us to embrace our shame and weaknesses. A fun, creative workshop recognizing how we are all “Real Life Heroes.”