community engagement
Create change in your community, create change in our world.
workshops & office hours
Our workshops are designed to invite you to get involved in your community, be a part of change, and be a part of re-worlding!
Community Engagement 101
Learn how to identify unmet needs in your community, give back, and even start your own initiative! All ages welcome!
Delivering Community Impact
Learn how to determine ways to measure and deliver impact in your community! We use these methods in our application and voting process, so if you're looking for funds for your community initiative, then this workshop is a must! All ages welcome!
Funding Application Support
Looking for funds from our sangha to launch your community initiative? This workshop/info session will help you craft your application for optimal success!
Office Hours
Looking for support for your specific Community Initiative or Project? Schedule a meeting with us and speakt to someone on our team! We can also support you with identifying a community problem/unmet needs, offer personalized support for delivering impact in your community, and finding alignment with our Community Engagement & Re-Worlding Model (see below)!
get started!
There is no better moment than the present moment to being your community engagement journey! Get started in your community by exploring our engagement model, assessing your own hobbies and interests, and reading inspiring stories by individuals who are involved in community!
getting
started
in your
community
Ready to engage in community, but not sure where to start? We offer the below invitations to get you on your way!
groups related to your hobbies, interests, and callings
spiritual groups or centres
religious groups or centres
local food drives
local conservation or climate efforts
local non-profits and causes
start your own initiatives!
our community
engagement
model
To us, being engaged in community looks like listening to our fellow community members and coming together to co-create change in our own communities. It means empowering community members to create their own change in their community.
We invite all members of our sangha to engage in community in ways that align with our Community Engagement Model.
Engaging in community can take on many forms including:
volunteering your time
starting, organizing, or delivering grassroots initiatives
starting, organizing, delivering, or facilitating community programs
making monetary or item donations
starting and/or organizing activism/movements
contributing to social justice and policy through community research, projects, petitions, etc.
our
re-worlding
model
We also invite you to engage in your communtiy in ways that align with our Re-Worlding Model. Re-worlding is deeply connected to community engagement; if we engage with community with the intention to lead, grow, change, and move, we can be a part of re-worlding. When communities come together, we re-world in ways that align with community needs.
We have identified five Re-Worlding themes that we invite you to explore within your own community engagements. These themes are overlapping at the root of change, so when we re-world in one of these themes, we re-world in others.
How to use this model:
Explore the themes that resonate with you
Engage with the members of communities in these themes to identify unmeet needs, obstacles, other participants trying to help, and other factors contributing to current standards or state of affairs
Serve the communities and/or the members of community in these themes
Notice the overlaps between multiple themes and see if there are projects you can launch that can serve the overlap and cause the system to re-organize!
Explore our themes and model in more detail below!
The Planet and The Land
Honouring and supporting sustainable life for all, including animal rights, climate change, and displacement.
Indigenous Reconciliation
Honouring and supporting Indigenous relationships and knowledge, including landback motions and displacement.
Equal Opportunity
Honouring and supporting anyone with limited abilities, physically, and/or mentally, including disabilities awareness and accessibility rights.
Freedom To Be
Honouring and supporting gender diversity and gender equity, including LGBTQ++, gender-based violence and equitable access to health.
New Beginnings
Honouring and supporting displaced people and families, people on the move, and returning citizens with a history of incarceration.
community
stories
Be inspired by these stories of individuals who engage in community, why they do it, where it led, and how it all came to be...
C O M I N G S O O N!
we talk the talk, and walk the walk!