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Want to flourish and be in your flow state often?
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The Ubuntu Village Program

  • Individual & group services
  • A safe and courageous space to network and have difficult conversations on ongoing barriers and how to overcome them.
  • Barriers such as those in health, education, workplace, or family life or interactions with the law.
  • Groups on various skills building topics including anxiety, depression, parenting, adulting, case prep (whether participatory defence and/or self-representation).

Coaching

  • 1:1 Coaching to get you where you want to be at work, relational effectiveness or as a parent.  Regular access to address specific social and interactions with the law questions.

Counselling

  • Career counselling: Considering a career change but don’t know where to start or trying to survive a hostile work environment.  We can help.
  • Mental health counselling: 1:1 or group counselling session to facilitate skills building & self-efficacies to address distress tolerance, interpersonal effectiveness etc through the provision of targeted psychoeducation and psychotherapy.
  • Limited to one 90-minute session a year, with an opportunity for additional sessions at a discounted rate.

Workplace Solutions

  • Advice and coach on contentious Employer/Employee Relations matters arising from collective agreement interpretation, performance and behaviour or conduct.
  • leads or support your fact-finding process issues.
  • Support and provide advice on grievance proceedings and arbitration preparation.
  • Support clients through complex, emotionally charged, unique or legalistic matters.

Courses

  • Webinar courses on a range of topics for successful life course transitions … courses are recorded to develop a vault of recorded content for on demand access.

Discrimination Negotiations

  • 1:1 support for employees trying to navigate workplace discrimination
  • 1:1 support for professionals or managers/ supervisors keen on addressing discrimination issues but unsure where to begin or what to do.
The Application

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Glossary

  • Mental health: A state of well-being where individuals realize their own unique abilities, cope with everyday stress, establish constructive relationships, work productively, & contribute to the community (WHO, 2022)
  • Mental illness: Any condition that includes cognitive & emotional disturbances, abnormal behaviours, and/or impaired functioning (APA, 2022)
  • Well-being or optimal mental health or flourishing: feeling & doing good; experiencing positive emotions regulating, excel in daily life – living life well, consistent with one’s values.  We can achieve optimal mental health whether we have been diagnosed with mental condition or not.
  • Languishing: poor mental health or general feeling of “blah” – lack a sense of purpose, struggle to be positive about life (Keyes, 2005).  At risk for developing mental illness.
  • Stress: A non-specific response of the body to the demands made upon it (Hans Selye (1952)

Suicide Prevention

  • www.988.ca: 1-833-456-4566 (or text 45645 from 4pm to midnight ET)
  • www.kidshelpphone.ca 1-800-668-6868 or text CONNECT to 686868
  • www.hopeforwellness.ca – Hope for Wellness Helpline for Indigenous peoples: 1-855-242-3310
  • Trans Lifeline: 1-877-330-6366
  • www.wellnesstogether.ca – Wellness Together Canada

Tools to Strive for Happiness & Flourishing

  • Documentary on happiness
  • Watch Inside Out (2015) for the adventures of Riley & her core memories interacting with the five motions of Joy, Fear, Anger, Sadness & Discuss: Inside Out
  • www.wellnesstogether.ca – Wellness Together Canada

 

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    Collaborations

    We collaborate with experts, communities, parents and service providers such as school districts, schools, and different levels of government to drive research, guide practice and inform policy.  Some of our current collaborators are:

    • Government of Canada, Capital Funding
    • The Church of Jesus Christ and Latter Day Saints, Yellowknife Branch, NT
    • Faculty of Social Work, University of Calgary
    • African Canadian Civic Engagement Council, Edmonton, AB

    Did you know?

    You and/or your child can help each other to regulate your emotions when you are struggling.  Remember! Your brain and your relationships are power sources to:

    • Calm your fear.  Use logic (upstairs brain).
    • Control Impulses: Use your upstairs brain to put a space between your impulse and actions
    • Name it to tame it – Name whatever is causing distress. It has a calming effect (Siegel).
    • Connect & Redirect: Tune into another’s experience (compassion) and mental state (empathy), then redirect.
    • For more hands on tips, get in touch today! reezcommunity.at.gmail.com
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