Gardener or Harvester?
Community Workshop
"16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence"
Workshop exploring how women resist abuse in relationship, community accountability and becoming more than a bystander to domestic violence.
Community Workshop
"16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence"
Workshop exploring how women resist abuse in relationship, community accountability and becoming more than a bystander to domestic violence.
Community Film Screening & Panel Discussion
"Red Light Green Light" - Sex Trade & Human Trafficking Documentary
Raising awareness on human trafficking in the Cowichan Valley and Canada''s prostitution laws.
Community Film Screening & Panel Discssion
"Red Light Green Light" - Sex Trade and Human Trafficking Documentary
Raising awareness on human trafficking in the Cowichan Valley and Canada''s prostitution laws.
Family Wellness Conference Ts'ewulhtun Health Centre
"Strong Families"
Strength-based workshop celebrating parenting/caregiver successes, sharing our dreams for our youth.
Gathering Our Voices Aboriginal Youth Conference
"Healthy Me, Healthy Relationship, Healthy Nation"
Strength-based workshop about healthy dating providing youth with tools to assess healthy/unhealthy relationships and safely navigate potential dating abuse or violence.
Gathering Our Voices Aboriginal Youth Conference
"Healthy Me, Healthy Relationship, Healthy Nation"
Strength-based workshop about healthy dating providing youth with tools to assess healthy/unhealthy relationships and safely navigate potential dating abuse or violence.
Community Engagement
"Art activity for the Tree of Hope"
Hand crafted art cards of positive messages for survivors of sexualized violence encouraging hope, resilience, self-worth and inclusion.
Caring On Empty
"Creative Tools for Compassion Fatigue Resilience"
An interactive wellness workshop for social responders and front line workers exposed to the 'cost of caring'.
Lake Cowichan Secondary School
"Youth Mental Health Forum"
Youth Action Day collaborating with various community partners to reduce the stigma of youth mental health.
Women Who Bully
"Navigating Female Harassment in the Workplace Through a Feminist Lens"
Workshop exploring gender differences, workplace paradigms patriarchal vs. matriarchal, why women bully and why women don't talk about other women's bullying.
Women Who Bully
"Navigating Female Harassment in the Workplace Through a Feminist Lens"
Workshop exploring gender differences, workplace paradigms patriarchal vs. matriarchal, why women bully, and why women don't talk about other women's bullying.
WENLIDO Women's Self-Defense Training
"Honouring Resistance ~ Transformation Through Movement
Body-centered trauma recovery and feminist-informed violence prevention for self-identified women.
WENLIDO Women's Self-Defense Training
"Honouring Resistance ~ Transformation Through Movement
Body-centered trauma recovery and feminist-informed violence prevention for self-identified women.
WENLIDO Women's Self-Defense Training
"Honouring Resistance ~ Transformation Through Movement"
Body-centered trauma recovery and feminist-informed violence prevention for self-identified women.
WENLIDO Women's Self-Defense Training
"Honouring Resistance ~ Transformation Through Movement
Body-centered trauma recovery and feminist-informed violence prevention for self-identified women.
Defining Toxic Masculinity & Sexualized Violence Against Women
"Violence against women is not a women’s issue – it’s a men’s issue."
A community discussion challenging toxic masculinity to begin erasing its destructive effect on men and boys, and women and girls.
Defining Toxic Masculinity & Sexualized Violence Against Women
"Violence against women is not a women’s issue – it’s a men’s issue."
A community discussion challenging toxic masculinity to begin erasing its destructive effect on men and boys, and women and girls.
a horticultural analogy to valuing women in intimate partner relationships
an interactive discussion of oppression in 2SLGBTQAI+ and gender diverse communities
Privilege For Sale
a fun and interactive game show style discussion of affirmative consent in youth dating relationships
Consent is Not a Game
becoming more than a bystander to intimate partner and
sexualized violence in the Cowichan Valley
The Evolution of Community
survivor's responses to sexualized violence as masterful adaptations to intolerable circumstances
Trauma Informed Care
building skills for service providers to receive disclosures of
intimate partner or sexualized violence
Safe Disclosure
building a continuum of healthy-unhealthy-abusive behaviours in youth dating relationships
navigating female workplace harassment through a feminist lens
Women Who Bully
Healthy Me, Healthy Relationship
Women Who Bully
Warmland Women's
Support Services Society
Sexual Assault Advocacy Centre
Workshops & Groups
We develop curriculum and facilitate workshops for local community members under the umbrella of grassroots social action events.
We facilitate in-service trainings to social responders providing service to women and young girls who may be experiencing or are at risk of relationship abuse and/or violence, sexualized assault or exploitation.
We provide co-facilitation of psycho-educational support groups for agencies seeking a feminist analysis of gender-based violence with a focus on strengths.
We invite you to join us for a community-based response to gender violence in the Cowichan Valley!
250-710-8177
Workshops
"Seeing Myself - Tools for Self-Directed Trauma Recovery"
A 4 hour workshop for women survivors of sexualized abuse and/or violence. Learn mindfulness practices, expressive arts and creative writing as tools to navigate the internal landscape of emotion. Trauma-informed self-discovery transforms the impact of gender-based violence into resilience, hope and celebration. We call ourselves home to the sanctuary of our own sacred Heart.
