SUPPORT GROUPS & COMMUNITY OUTREACH
COLLECTIVE PAUSE RETREAT
KITCHENER WATERLOO SESSIONS
Next Session: Friday, April 26, 2024
Time: 7PM-8PM
Where: The Branches (9 Samuel Street, Kitchener)
Cost: $10 ($0 for low to no income)
Group processing may be an area deserving of more time in communities, organically through conversations, breathwork and movement, which is how TEAO has begun to address trauma care and trauma health in communities.
Upcoming dates:
EMBODIMENT FOR TRAUMA RECOVERY
Next Session: March 24 - May 5
When: Sundays from 11:30am - 12:30pm
Where: The Branches Yoga (9 Samuel Street, Kitchener)
Cost: $145 +HST (Community Supporter Rate)
$120 +HST (Standard Rate)
$95 +HST (Subsidized rate)
This unique class is for anyone who is on a path to recovering from physical or emotional trauma. The class aims to give participants tools to understand how trauma affects the body, to move through embodied trauma (trauma stored in the body) through very gentle movements, simple postures from hatha yoga, and breath awareness. The classes are aimed at building a trauma survivor’s sense of empowerment and cultivating a more positive relationship to one's body. The class focuses on internal sensing and reclaiming choice in your body, and is less about form or technique. Absolutely everything in the class is optional, and the practice is beginner-friendly.
This course includes 6 interactive, weekly sessions offered in a hybrid (virtual and in-person) format
VIRTUAL SUPPORT GROUPS
FOR ANXIETY, DEPRESSION, PTSD/CPTSD
Upcoming Sessions: Mondays starting from April 29 2024*
Time: 7:30pm - 9:00pm EST
Cost: $25 + HST per session
TEAO Canada is holding space for a virtual peer support group led by Nicole Brown Faulknor — as both an embodiment coach and psychotherapist Nicole will explore somatic practices as well, as a way to support rebuilding a relationship with our bodies through these symptoms and a place to be heard and loved. We look forward to take the opportunity to gather collectively as peers to support one another this upcoming year.
Next Sessions:
Mondays starting from June 24, 2024
* Sessions will rollover every 6 weeks
VIRTUAL YOGA FOR TRAUMA:
EMBODIMENT & RECOVERY
When: Saturday, April 13
Time: 3:30pm - 5:30pm EST
Cost: $35+HST Community Supporter, $25+HST Standard Rate, $15+HST Subsidized Rate
Trauma has a profound effect on how we experience our bodies, and certain methodologies of Yoga can help trauma survivors regain a sense of agency and empowerment. Learn about how trauma is stored in the body, and how we might start to move through that trauma with the work of embodiment. Learn simple trauma-aware teaching techniques that can be incorporated into any movement modality.
TRAUMA IN THE COMMUNITY:
EMBODYING SAFER THERAPY SPACES
Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Training with Nicole Brown Faulknor
May 1, 2024
This trauma care training will offer support around showing up in your body to do trauma-informed work.
Participants will experientially explore “Embodied Feelings + Stories” in terms of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion. Using our own bodies as mirrors we will reflect upon how to support members of racialized or historically ignored communities. For psychotherapists, supervisors, workshop facilitators, or teachers, frontline workers, administrators, and those interested in becoming a better ally.
This training is done through an educational lens with compassionate
self-inquiry through various sensory exercises.
WE ARE LOOKING FOR PASSIONATE VOLUNTEERS FOR AN EVENT & MENTAL HEALTH LAUNCH
@wounds2wings & @teao_canada are searching for event volunteers to assist with their booth at the @kwmulticultural 57th Annual Multicultural Festival on both June 22 & 23 in Kitchener, Victoria Park — this is a community care launch!
This may be a very fun opportunity to get out and help our community support mental health and trauma care by building awareness and integrating communities together by having fun, through various resources, movement practices, education & PLAY!
Volunteer roles include:
Marshals, Set-up & Tear-down, Advocacy, Event Planning, Technology Support. Booth Guest Services, to list a few
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