Mindfulness for Families Kids in Grades 5/6/7 and their adults can explore mindfulness together! Time: 4:00 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.Repeats: Mondays, November 16 through December 7   I've thought about sneaking my kid into this course, because I'm such a fan of Susan Reifer's meditation teaching - but we're a few years away from the target audience … Continue reading New free course: Mindfulness for Families, starts November

This Op Ed ran in the Vancouver Sun on October 21, and is worthy food for thought, for anyone who has felt the words "privilege" or "white fragility" has been leveled at them in the way that makes them shrink, feel guilty, fall back. I don't think we can afford to shrink. I think we … Continue reading Cara Ng and Khelsilem: ‘Check your privilege’ is corrosive to our politics

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuSBPAeMBxMngWfLa1201NULn0vWdkxOe I make the time to watch Wanosts’a7 Dr. Lorna Williams' keynote presentations, which she gives all around the world as a venerated wisdom-holder and expert, which thanks to technology are now often video'd and uploaded. She is a teacher in the truest sense. I transcribe her words because I want to marinate in them. … Continue reading Nuk’want’uwal’wi – let us help each other, says Wanosts’a7 Dr. Lorna Williams at HELISET TŦE SḰÁL

It was lovely to see 27 faces pop up on the screen, on Monday night, October 26, zooming in to take part in our first Sharing Circle, offered in partnership with the Pemberton and District Library. Led by Lil’wat7ul educator and cultural consultant, Tanina Williams, we were walked through the process of setting up a … Continue reading Exploring Sharing Circles and Indigenous Ways of Knowing

One of my favourite mental health professionals is the owner of local yoga studio, Village Yoga, Raelene Hodgson. She recently shared this important reminder that crisis calls are increasing, every day, and that teams of counsellors are doing life-saving work, every day. Call volume has increased by an average of 25 per cent over the past … Continue reading Shout Out to mental health professionals, the often invisible emergency health care worker

Something to celebrate, from Stewardship Pemberton, as they put a Feasting for Change season to bed for the winter: 2020 has been yet another incredibly successful year for our Feasting for Change (FFC) Programs. Below are some of the notable 2020 FFC achievements to date;  22 Pemberton Fruit Tree Project harvesting events3,364 lbs of bear attractants (fruit) … Continue reading Feasting for Change reports a thriving season

Please spread the word, that T'sek Hotsprings are closed. As Dr Henry has said recently: no workarounds. “To get through our COVID-19 storm, it requires all of us to do our part. No exceptions, no workarounds, no trying to get around the very few important rules we have in place." Staff at the Hot Springs … Continue reading T’sek Hotsprings (Skookumchuk) are Closed. Please respect the closure.

As if Halloween candy isn't enough of a disruption to sleep, at 2am, Sunday morning, the clocks will turn back an hour. Unless they're old-school and require your input. Don't forget to make the switch!

As my son falls asleep on my arm I am reminded of a feeling I have come to recognize: the feeling of fierce-tender rising, and holding steady. If I put it in words, the words are a kind of pact: I will do everything in my power to keep you safe. And then I realise: … Continue reading Fierce tender rising

What I appreciate about good leadership is the way it can invite us to work together, to find a common path, to braid all our individual interpretations, needs, feelings, curiosities, into a stronger way. I appreciate the leadership of Dr Bonnie Henry and every time I say to my partner, "I'm confused about COVID and … Continue reading Halloween Guidelines for October 31 2020, and the power of working together