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The usual advice can miss what people are carrying, what they already know, and what is possible around them. These workshops make space to look again.
Miyo Pimatisiwin means living a good life. I use it as a question about roles, relationships, purpose, and the resources we can actually draw on. Each workshop can be shaped with an organizer for the people in the room.
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What happens when a person knows the self-care advice but their workload, responsibilities, or resources make it hard to use?
Explore stress, burnout, vicarious trauma, and the shared conditions of sustainable practice.
Explore this workshop →When adversity is real and much of it is outside our control, where can choice, connection, and support still live?
Explore purpose and agency without placing the burden for difficult conditions on the people living through them.
Explore this workshop →If familiar health measures tell only part of the story, what else might we notice, value, and make possible?
For early adopters who want to learn, and people who can create more room for others to live well.
Explore this workshop →What happens in a workshop
We begin by naming the wellness messages people have heard. We ask what those messages leave out, then make time for reflection, conversation, and a small practice or question people can take back to daily life.
People look at mental, emotional, physical, spiritual, and social life together. They consider what matters to them, what support is available, and what could change in the conditions around them.
The aim is to leave with more than another set of “shoulds”: a strength-based view of wellbeing, clearer choices where choices exist, and compassion for the parts of life that cannot simply be fixed by trying harder.
Ask about a workshopA useful related perspective: McKinsey Health Institute on looking beyond the healthcare matrix. My workshops also draw on nursing, Métis perspectives, lived experience, and the question of Miyo Pimatisiwin.