Workshops that build common ground.

Our interactive workshops support people to build meaningful, safe and trusting relationships across diverse experiences. Current offerings explore themes of substance use, community health, and gender & sexual diversity.

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Our Approach

Connected

We approach all conversations with authenticity, humility and curiosity to promote a sense of connection between participants.

Dynamic

Applying an approach grounded in critical pedagogy and adult learning, participants learn alongside the instructor in dialogue.

Participatory & Engaged

Our approach to education meets learners in what they already know to build on existing strengths and ensure relevance to their work and experiences.

Safe

Applying principles of trauma-informed practice, cultural safety and taking a strengths-based approach, we create safe space for vulnerability and creativity.

Current Workshops

Safer Together: Building Healthy Community Boundaries Around Substance Use

Substance use touches all of our lives in complicated ways. Over the past several years, unprecedented rates of overdose deaths across North America has necessitated important conversations about substance use, addiction, stigma, community health, harm reduction and decriminalization. Concerns over things like public safety and public consumption have captured the public debate and led to polarization that makes it harder to reach solutions and keep our people safe. At the same time, we know that isolation can lead to increased dependance on substances and greater harms.

This session explores the question of how we can set the boundaries we need around people’s substance use while staying connected. It offers learners practical tools to navigate the complexity of substance use as community members, professionals and leaders, to support healthy connection and safety for everyone. With healthy boundaries around our substance use, we can be safer together.

    • What do healthy boundaries look like?

    • The impact of prohibition & drug policy have on our boundaries around substance use and community health.

    • How should we consider equity in relation to our boundaries on substance use?

    • Connecting to concepts of harm reduction

    • What can we do to promote community health?

  • This session is available in a 1-hour or 3-hour session and can be delivered online or in-person. Both cover the same learning outcomes, but the 3-hour session reaches a greater depth and provides more opportunities to engage and develop skills. The 3-hour session is recommended for learners who have less familiarity with the topics.

    The session can be adapted based on group size. Under 25 participants is optimal for more engaged, participatory learning, but larger groups can be accommodated, particularly for online learning.

  • All sessions include:

    • Free consult to tailor training to your learners' needs (30min)

    • A dynamic and interactive learning environment

    • In-person or online delivery options

    1-hour session - $1000

    3-hour session - $1500

    *clients are responsible for travel costs outside of Metro Vancouver

Illicit Drugs & Community Health

Unregulated drug poisonings are currently the leading cause of death for people age 10-59 in the province of British Colombia. Despite the dedication of hard working community members & professionals, illicit (unregulated) drugs continue to devastate our communities. This has left many community members, professionals and leaders wondering, why do we have illicit drugs in our communities? What makes them so dangerous? And what can we do to keep our loved ones safe?

This session supports a common understanding of why we have illicit drugs in our communities, the impact it has on community health and offers practical tools on what we can do to promote healthier, more connected communities for everyone.

    • What are regulated and unregulated drugs? Why do we have them in our communities?

    • The relationship between drug policy and the illicit drug market.

    • The impact of the illicit drug market on community health.

    • Practical tools to move towards community in relation to illicit drugs.

  • This session is available in a 1-hour or 3-hour session and can be delivered online or in-person. Both cover the same learning outcomes, but the 3-hour session reaches a greater depth and provides more opportunities to engage and develop skills. The 3-hour session is recommended for learners who have less familiarity with the topics.

    The session can be adapted based on group size.

  • All sessions include:

    • Free consult to tailor training to your learners' needs (30min)

    • A dynamic and interactive learning environment

    • In-person or online delivery options

    1-hour session - $1000

    3-hour session - $1500

    *clients are responsible for travel costs outside of Metro Vancouver

Reimagining Gender & Sexual Diversity

Coming soon.

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