CALENDAR OF EVENTS

Past Events

By The Fireside

Enhance your well-being, slow-down and turn inward.  To care for others, we need places to care for ourselves. By the Fireside is a daylong retreat for professional or family caregivers.  

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Receive a day of self-care in a soul-nourishing retreat environment.  Become grounded in yourself through self-exploration, body-centred movement and focused dialogue with other caregivers.  By working with reflective tools, connect and nurture sources of healing and wisdom within.  Clarify what supports and prevents you in integrating self-care into daily life.    Designed for renewal and the cultivation of self-compassion.

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At the end of the day, this retreat date can include an evening thermal spa experience

at  Amerispa-Cantley.

Fri, Apr 20th, 2018

9:00am - 4:30pm

Private group

safeTALK Training

suicide alertness for everyone

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Subsidized by the Mill Road Community Space, Chelsea, Que.

We don't always recognize in our own community that there are people from youth to seniors who may be struggling with thoughts of suicide.  It is more common than we'd like to think.  Statistics tell us for every 20 people in your community, there is one person who is having thoughts of suicide.

Help your community become a suicide safer community. Most people with thoughts of suicide don’t truly want to die, but are struggling with the pain in their lives. Through their words and actions, they invite help to stay alive. 

Sun, Feb 25th, 2018

1:30pm - 6:00pm

Mill Road Community Space

8 Mill Road, Chelsea, Quebec  J9B 1K8

Prices include tax

safeTALK Training

suicide alertness for everyone

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We don't always recognize in our own community that there are people from youth to seniors who may be struggling with thoughts of suicide.  It is more common than we'd like to think.  Statistics tell us for every 20 people in your community, there is one person who is having thoughts of suicide.

Help your community become a suicide safer community. Most people with thoughts of suicide don’t truly want to die, but are struggling with the pain in their lives. Through their words and actions, they invite help to stay alive. 

Fri, Feb 2nd, 2018

9:00am - 1:00pm

Vista Brain Injury Services

Ron Colbus Center, Ottawa  

Private Group 

Despair Unveiled

It’s common in grief to experience a loss of purpose and feelings of despair.  This can lead to thoughts of suicide.  A day to explore concepts and fears related to despair and suicide within a supportive structure and the role of the dark emotions in generating new life.  Discover ways to access support within yourself to inspire and sustain you through challenging periods. 

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This retreat date can include an evening thermal spa experience at Le Nordik Spa-Nature

Tue, Dec 5th, 2017

9:00am - 4:30pm

Le Nordik-Alpina Lodge

16 Chemin Nordik

Alpina Lodge, Chelsea
Quebec J9B 2P7

Prices include tax

Hidden Sorrow Sacred Ground

Some losses are kept in the shadows, either because they are unseen or perceived as unacceptable, shameful, or unworthy of grief.  Some expressions of mourning are judged and shut down.  A gathering to honour hidden sorrows and your right to mourn.

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At the end of the day, this retreat date can include an evening thermal spa experience

at  Amerispa-Cantley.

Sat, Dec 2nd, 2017

9:00am - 4:30pm

La Grange de la Gatineau

80 chemin Summer, Cantley,

Quebec  J8V 3J3

Prices include tax

By The Fireside

Enhance your well-being, slow-down and turn inward.  To care for others, we need places to care for ourselves. By the Fireside is a daylong retreat for professional or family caregivers.  

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Receive a day of self-care in a soul-nourishing retreat environment.  Become grounded in yourself through self-exploration, body-centred movement and focused dialogue with other caregivers.  By working with reflective tools, connect and nurture sources of healing and wisdom within.  Clarify what supports and prevents you in integrating self-care into daily life.    Designed for renewal and the cultivation of self-compassion.

Fri, Nov 24th, 2017

9:00am - 4:30pm

Yoga Garden Retreat 

209 Chemin Usher, La Peche,

Quebec J0X 1A0 

Prices include tax

#MeToo - The Truth Mandala

A Ceremony for Healing

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Co-hosted by the Mill Road Community Space, Chelsea, Que.

This is an invitation for anyone who identifies with the #metoo hashtag; that is, anyone who has ever been sexually harassed or assaulted. 

This Truth Mandala is a ceremony for honouring and transforming the pain that results from sexual violations for the purposes of personal and community healing and action.  It’s based on the ‘Work that Reconnects’ by Joanna Macy. 

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Limited space - Registration required

Sun, Nov 19th, 2017

1:00pm - 5:00pm

Mill Road Community Space

8 Mill Road, Chelsea, Quebec  J9B 1K8

Suggested donation $10

or pay what you can

The Terrain of

Grief and Mourning

The faces of grief are many: death, relationship loss, loss of home or homeland, health and job losses, severence from ancestral stories and rituals, sorrow for the degradation of the earth and more.

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Pause, connect, learn about the natural, necessary process of grief and mourning.  Receive tools to attend to the large and small losses that touch each of our lives and a supportive process to honour the needs of grief.   Experience the new vitality that happens when the pain of loss is welcomed rather than avoided or resisted.

Sat, Oct 28th, 2017

9:00am - 4:30pm

Yoga Garden Retreat 

209 Chemin Usher, La Peche,

Quebec  J0X 1A0

Prices include tax

The Yoga of Healing:

Uniting mind, body & spirit

Join Swami Satyananda for a workshop that supports the grieving process.
 

Hosted by Heart Land

The journey of yoga is a healing journey. What needs to be healed? What makes your life worth living?

Take time to go inward and nurture yourself mentally, physically, emotionally and spiritually, in a compassionate space. This 2 hr evening workshop will focus on experiencing tools for tending to the mind and heart in grief.

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www.yasodharayoga.org/Ottawa

Thurs, Oct 26th, 2017

7:00pm - 9:00pm

Nectar Center

255 MacKay Street, Ottawa, Ontario  K1M 2B6

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