Workshops & Events
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Resiliency Workshop - Authenticity
Facilitator Brittany Flood combines techniques from Eastern Buddhist practices and western psychology to provide you with tools to increase your resiliency and live a deeper and more fulfilling life. Designed to help strengthen each individual's capacity to handle daily stresses and bounce back from adversity.
This fourth session of the resiliency workshop series takes you through a journey of finding resiliency by deepening your authenticity. This fun and interactive workshop uses different practices to get you out of your head and into an embodied sense of play and freedom. Learn to live with more contentment by working with and not against yourself. This approach uses the lens of radical self-acceptance and is informed by the concept of paradoxical intention brought forth by Viktor Frankl.
Open to anyone 18 and above.
Price: $30/ session or $100 for 4
Sliding scale available upon request!
Location: The Birch Centre, 120 Lemarchant Road
Resiliency Workshop - Meaning-MakinG
Facilitator Brittany Flood combines techniques from Eastern Buddhist practices and western psychology to provide you with tools to increase your resiliency and live a deeper and more fulfilling life. Designed to help strengthen each individual's capacity to handle daily stresses and bounce back from adversity
This third session of the resiliency workshop series takes us through the process of meaning-making and finding purpose. Gain a clearer understanding of your personal values and learn to build resiliency through living with integrity. Explore your own personal meaning-making, your ideas of the nature of life, spirituality, and discover or strengthen your sense of purpose in the world. Based on Buddhist traditions and the philosophies of Viktor Frankl.
Open to anyone 18 and above.
Price: $30/ session or $100 for 4
Sliding scale available upon request!
Location: The Birch Centre. 120 Lemarchant Road
Resiliency Workshop - Conscious Awareness
Facilitator Brittany Flood combines techniques from Eastern Buddhist practices and Western psychology to provide you with tools to increase your resiliency and live a deeper and more fulfilling life. Designed to help strengthen each individual's capacity to handle daily stresses and bounce back from adversity
In the second session of this resiliency workshop series, you will learn foundational principles of conscious awareness. Informed by Buddhist teachings, you will gain a deeper understanding of how conscious awareness builds resiliency. You will also learn practices and techniques that can be integrated into everyday living. Learn to meditate or deepen your practice.
Open to anyone 18 and above.
Price: $30/ session or $100 for 4
Sliding scale available upon request!
Location: The Birch Centre. 120 Lemarchant Road
Resiliency Workshop - Self-Compassion
Facilitator Brittany Flood combines techniques from Eastern Buddhist practices and Western psychology to provide you with tools to increase your resiliency and live a deeper and more fulfilling life. Designed to help strengthen each individual's capacity to handle daily stresses and bounce back from adversity
This is the first session of a series of workshops for building resiliency. Learn about self-compassion and why it builds resiliency, and gain practical self-compassion exercises that can be applied in everyday living. Informed largely by the work done by Dr. Kristin Neff.
Open to anyone 18 and above.
Price: $30/ session or $100 for 4
Sliding scale available upon request!
Location: The Birch Centre. 120 Lemarchant Road
WINTER SOLSTICE Ecstatic Dance
Ecstatic Dance is a practice of finding freedom in movement. It is a way to express elements of life that cannot be put into words. Join us this Winter Solstice as we use movement to celebrate the return of the Sun and express the fire within us.
Location: The Birch Centre. 120 Lemarchant Road
Tickets are $15. You can send an e-transfer to meagcole@gmail.com with your full name in the memo to be placed on the guest list.
Wellness Weekend
This is a fundraising activity for 4 Pillars Farm Coop. Fifty percent of the proceeds will go to support natural and organic growing in our community.
We are offering individual private sessions including massage, energy healing, coaching, and more plus group sessions & classes in a variety of holistic wellness activities.
Location: The Birch Centre. 120 Lemarchant Road.
A complete list of choices follows. Sign up here for one, or a few, or the whole weekend!
I will be doing individual counselling sessions on Saturday 1-1:45pm, 3-3:45pm, 4-4:45pm and Sunday 1-1:45pm, 3-3:45pm, 4-4:45pm
I will be doing a group session on self-compassion on Saturday 11-11:45am
Please email merandasquires@thelotuscentre.ca with your choice of time and practitioner plus one alternative choice in case the sessions are filled.
Group Classes: $15/class
Individual Sessions: $50/45 minute session