Deepening Democracy
Diversity
Equity & Inclusion
Decolonization
& Indigenization
Restorative
Indigenous &
Transformative Justice
And more.
Are you part of a social impact group who wants to be woven into a restorative community of care?
Come. You are welcome here.
We are Better Together
April 15-18
Rivendell on Bowen Island
A Retreat to Co-Create a Basket of Care for Ourselves, Each Other and Our Work
Join us for a four day, three night, deeply reflective retreat designed for people who work in collaborative spaces of social impact, justice, diversity, equity and inclusion, community building, relational leadership, arts for change, deepening democracy, reimagining the future... and more.
Four days of bringing our collective causes, experiences, passions and focus together in one room to reimagine what is possible when we weave together.
What if we can bring our strengths and differences together for a braid of deeper resilience and unified impact?
This is an invitation of generative co-creation.
A Braided Experience to Weave our Community Basket
Widening the Circle
We will make space for each by widening our circle. From transactional to transformative, our strength depends on our ability to braid with each other.
Finding Our Place
We are each an individual thread within our woven narrative. During our time together we will find our place within ourselves, then within each other and then within our community. It start with us. From lens to mirror we can build a new awareness for ourselves and each other.
Cultivating Safety
Having a Voice
Weaving Together
Safety can emerge from a collective basket of care that is created to hold each other's stories, values, needs and vulnerabilities with welcoming and compassionate hands. We can leverage our shared humanity to create a basket of belonging.
When we share our stories we are weaving. As we make room for our individual voices, we can hear a collective story. It's about vision and listening in a different way. We've been identifying problems for a long time. It's time to move from problem fixing to possibility creating by empowering and amplifying each other.
As we interlace our stories, re-imaginings and dreams with each other, we can become a fabric of integrated hope and possibility grounded in resilience and interconnectedness.
Presented in partnership with
The Coalition for Regenerative
Work, a non-profit organization committed to the betterment of society through the power of a positive workplace culture.
SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
ENGAGING THE WORLD
The Centre for Restorative Justice (“CRJ”) is a resource and research centre dedicated to promoting the values and principles of restorative justice through education, research, and dialogue with academics, practitioners and community.
CENTRE FOR RESTORATIVE JUSTICE AT SFU
Your Co-Hosts & Facilitation Team
A Weaver, a Storyteller and a Community Builder
Brenda Morrison
I am passionate about interdisciplinary work that develops critical and reflective praxis that frames problems of harm, justice, public safety and health in ways that re-imagine and transform individuals, communities and governance.
As the Director of the Research and Engagement Centre for Restorative Justice, and an Associate Professor in the School of Criminology, my work in the field of restorative justice focuses on praxis within and between three institutional systems: justice; education and health.
I am a theoretical social psychologist with field experience in outdoor education, government administration and restorative justice. My teaching and research interests include transformative and restorative justice, responsive regulation, conflict and cooperation, shame-management and social identity, the self and self-interest, art-based and Indigenous praxis.
Tina Overbury
I believe we are entering the age of the artist. Where words escape us, there is art. Where our frameworks are wobbling, there is art. Where there are divides, there is art. Where there is the unthinkable, the unspeakable, the depths where sense making feels so far reaching and so lonely… there is art.
I am an Expressive Arts Therapist (in training), Story Coach and Core Communications consultant who works with narrative and story structure as a form of human connection. For the last decade I have walked beside individuals and organizations as they bring themselves and their teams out onto the skinny branches of communicating from a heart centred place. I offer 'What if your story has been entrusted to you?'
As an artist, I am a writer and visceral storyteller who works in creative harmscapes to open up space for deep listening, witnessing and healing to happen.
For the last five years I have been hosting and facilitating listening circles with PowHERhouse, The Coalition for Regenerative Work and travelling across the province offering story circles and therapeutic Expressive Arts programming and workshops.
The practice of being an artist is being able to walk into what appears to be an empty space - and see something. This is what possibility is all about.
Kaile Shilling
I’ve worked for decades at the intersection of creativity, storytelling, healing, education, and justice reform, and am deeply committed to the idea that there’s no better tool than the practice of arts to create community, understanding, and transformation.
As the Founding Executive Director of the Arts for Healing and Justice Network (formerly Arts for Incarcerated Youth Network) in Los Angeles County, we co-created curriculum and practices that centered the transformative, restorative, and healing power of arts with the Departments of Arts and Culture, Mental Health, Public Health, Probation, Child Protective Services, and the schools. Since relocating to Vancouver, I’ve been teaching creative writing at the Burnaby Youth facility, and directly with Medium and Minimum security facilities at Mission Institution. In other words, putting arts, creativity, and healing into practice.
I hold a Bachelor of Science in Social Anthropology from Harvard University, where I focused on arts and social values, and a Masters of Theological Studies from Loyola Marymount University. I’m also a certified Healing-Centered Engagement Worker and Center for Council Circle Facilitator, emphasizing a healing-centered (rather than trauma-informed) approach to arts engagement and circle practice.
What to Expect
Your Widening the Circle Retreat Looks Like
1
3 Days of Invitational Sessions
2
Art Making & Creativity
3
Time in Nature
4
Rest & Reflection Time
5
Community Meals
6
Story Circles
7
Being Woven by The Story of Us
Details
Accommodations
Rivendell is a non-profit society, hosted by a volunteer Christian community who welcomes small groups and individuals on any spiritual path seeking renewal, respite and growth, and makes it's retreat centre accessible to people with limited resources and special needs.
Your 3 nights accommodation are included in your registration fee. Rooms are private, bathrooms are shared, and there is a generous amount of space to enjoy solitude and community.
Invitational Sessions
This is an opportunity for you to rest, restore, regroup and reconnect with yourself and others.
The agenda for our three days together invites re-generative time to rest and reflect. Every session offered during the retreat is invitational.
Our morning sessions will begin at 10am, and our days will be done by 4pm.
All sessions are experiential, and opportunities to play, craft and create together will be offered at the beginning and end of each day.
Check in / Check Out
You will be welcomed in at 3pm on Monday the 15th, and we will be co-creating a community meal together.
Our opening circle will happen after dinner at 7pm.
We will close on Thursday after breakfast with a closing circle.
Our time together closes at noon.
Questions?
Please send an email to TinaO@Regenwork.com