Want to flourish and be in your flow state often?
Join our Village
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.
Resources
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