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Join us for this two-hour workshop where we will discuss Gender, Sexuality, and Allyship. We will discuss topics that support us in defining what identity means as an LGBTQIA2S+ person. Gender, coming out, vulnerability, and positive trends in the community will be discussed as well as how to be supports for one another.  We will explore, engage, and empower ourselves as we dive into this topic.

This course is for adults seeking a better understanding of ADHD, including its types, symptoms, and common myths. We explore how ADHD impacts daily life, emotions, and relationships while sharing practical tools to work with your brain—not against it. Whether newly diagnosed or experienced, you’ll learn how to tap into your creativity and energy and reframe ADHD as a strength.

Get a bite size version of our popular getting grounded course! Getting grounded is about finding ways to firmly anchor yourself in the present. Learning what grounds you is helpful in many situations where you may find yourself becoming overwhelmed or distracted by thoughts and/or feelings. In this course, we will explore what grounding techniques and exercises work best for you. Different strategies work for different people, and there is no "wrong" way to ground yourself. The main aim is to keep your mind and body connected and working together.

Healthy Relationships  involves learning how to set boundaries, talking to others about your boundaries, and showing others you respect their boundaries. This online course will introduce you to what boundaries are, the various types of boundaries, why they are important and practice setting boundaries in specific  scenarios to help you improve your overall wellness.

A bite sized version of our popular Self Compassion course. The purpose of this course is to focus on recognizing your self-worth, developing unconditional love for self and increasing self-compassion. Self-confidence, self-esteem, pride in self, all come from a strong sense of self-worth and love. This course is about you. Encouraging you to be intentionally compassionate toward yourself. It will challenge how you think about yourself; your positive and negative self-talk; how you see yourself; who you truly are becoming; love for self and others; your motivations and fears. By the end of the course students will be able to: identify personal growth in self-love through reflection exercises; identify personal fears and barriers to successful self-love; determine ways to increase self-compassion; set goals and action for the future; explain personal motivation factors.

A bite size version of our popular Confront the Discomfort course. Over two weeks you will learn the physical, mental and emotional signs of anxiety: Learn to value and notice the important warning signs our bodies send to us. With opportunities to identify personal causes and symptoms of anxiety, you will explore how to take small steps to break the cycle of anxiety-producing thoughts, beliefs and behaviours.

This course focuses on the importance of building personal resilience to better manage stress, adapt to challenges, and recover from life’s setbacks. Participants will explore what resilience is, why it matters for mental health and overall well-being, and learn practical strategies to build their own resiliency by identifying personal strengths, supports, and resources.

Coping with the emotional impact of a disaster can be challenging. As we prepare for another wildfire season in our region, it’s important to talk about strategies that can help. Whether you’ve experienced past wildfire seasons, are feeling the stress of the current one, or are supporting someone else through it, we invite you to join us for a conversation on building emotional regulation skills to better manage anxiety during difficult times.  

Language and our use of words has a major affect on our ability to remain compassionate. In this course we will explore different approaches to communicating - both speaking and listening. Compassionate communication will strengthen our skills to remain human, even under challenging conditions. This course will help us replace old patterns of unhealthy communication with new intentional communication skills - freeing ourselves of judgement and criticism.

Whether mild or server, experiencing anxiety can limit the potential for enjoyment in our own lives. In this course, you will learn the physical, mental and emotional signs of anxiety: Learn to value and notice the important warning signs our bodies send to us. With opportunities to identify personal causes and symptoms of anxiety, you will explore how to take small steps to break the cycle of anxiety-producing thoughts, beliefs and behaviours.

You know that voice in your head that tells you you’re not good enough, smart enough or talented enough? The part of you that questions your ability to learn new things and adapt to change? That’s your inner critic. Being imperfect, experiencing difficulty and failure is part of being human.  Join us for this session to learn strategies to silence that inner negativity and begin to develop a caring and nurturing approach to being perfectly imperfect.

Caregivers are not just family members, they are individuals who are actively involved with the care of a child, youth, adult or senior. Perhaps you are a caregiver who sometimes feels confused, frustrated, scared or even guilty? Maybe you are in need of community supports or coping skills? This course is designed for those needing useful tools and strategies for supporting yourself in your role. Most importantly, it has been designed to help individuals develop action plans to help maintain relationships within the family and implementing self-care strategies.

The effects of unresolved trauma can be devastating. It can affect our habits and outlook on life, leading to addictions, poor decision-making and self-destructive behaviours. Trauma can take a toll on our family life and our relationships. It can trigger physical pain, symptoms, and disease, but trauma doesn't have to be a life sentence. In this course we will look at using physical and mental exercises that will help cleanse the body and mind of the debilitating effects of trauma. This course is a total of 5 sessions.

Getting grounded is about finding ways to firmly anchor yourself in the present. Learning what grounds you is helpful in many situations where you may find yourself becoming overwhelmed or distracted by thoughts and/or feelings. In this course, we will explore what grounding techniques and exercises work best for you. Different strategies work for different people, and there is no "wrong" way to ground yourself. The main aim is to keep your mind and body connected and working together.

Every person will experience grief and loss – a profound sense of final separation from something or someone important. Grief is a normal and appropriate reaction to the death of a loved one, the experience of separation/divorce, intergenerational loss, or the loss of opportunity. While there are similarities in how individuals work through loss, grief is a complicated and unique experience that requires us to understand our own grieving process. This course is designed to increase our awareness of the dynamics of grief, and to provide tools and strategies to best support someone who is grieving and ourselves.

This course is offered as part of our Knowledge is Power Series for our community caregivers. This course is designed to offer education and awareness regarding addiction, various coping strategies and techniques and ways in which we can support our loved ones who are suffering from addiction.

This course is offered as part of our Knowledge is Power Series for our community caregivers. This course is designed to offer education and awareness regarding eating disorders, various coping strategies and techniques and ways in which we can support our loved ones who are suffering from an eating disorder.

This course is offered as part of our Knowledge is Power Series for our community caregivers. This course is designed to offer education and awareness regarding self-harm, various coping strategies and techniques and ways in which we can support our loved ones who are self-harming.

This course is offered as part of our Knowledge is Power Series for our community caregivers. This course is designed to offer education and awareness regarding Borderline Personality Disorder, to increase awareness and understanding in order to better support our loved ones.

Emotions are a comlpetely normal, usually healthy part of being human. But when it gets out of control and turns destructive, it can lead to problems - problems at work, in your personal relationships, and in the overall quality of life. This course is meant to help you understand and control your emotions before they control you. We will explore relaxation techniques, cognitive restructuring, problem solving, and better forms of communication.

The purpose of this course is to focus on recognizing your self-worth, developing unconditional love for self and increasing self-compassion. Self-confidence, self-esteem, pride in self, all come from a strong sense of self-worth and love. This course is about you. Encouraging you to be intentionally compassionate toward yourself. It will challenge how you think about yourself; your positive and negative self-talk; how you see yourself; who you truly are becoming; love for self and others; your motivations and fears. By the end of the course students will be able to: identify personal growth in self-love through reflection exercises; identify personal fears and barriers to successful self-love; determine ways to increase self-compassion; set goals and action for the future; explain personal motivation factors.

An in-person support group for parents, caregivers, family members and partners of transgender and gender diverse children and adults. A space to share their experiences and stories as they work to understand and support their loved ones. This is a partnership group with Pride YMM. Please note registration is appreciated but not required. Drop ins are accepted, please email us for further details.  

This course is offered as part of our Knowledge is Power Series for our community caregivers. This course is designed to offer education and awareness regarding trauma informed care, various strategies and techniques and ways in which we can support our loved ones who are suffering with trauma.