Vancouver District PAC (DPAC) General Meeting

Finding Our Way in COVID Times: Self-Compassionate Heart Tools for Healing and Wellbeing

Thursday, February 25 at 7pm

This February DPAC General Meeting offers a refreshing and inspiring invitation to all parents, grandparents, and guardians, toward beginning a more self-compassionate inner journey. In reframing our perception of the current situation, the potential to affect how the world seems to us is able to shift. Simply nudging yourself off the couch or out of bed and getting your body moving and breathing can change how you feel and sense the world. Seeing our interaction through a mindful and playful spirit we can find more joy and less reason to be reactive because we possess tools to defuse our own charged energy. This in turn affects the dynamics between ourselves and others, including our children, partners, relatives, friends, and truly all our relations.

We will participate in some body-mind work during the evening to gain some practical experience and sense how to apply certain techniques. By finding compassion for ourselves within ourselves we gain capacity to offer it to others in our lives and even to those outside our circles. As we find techniques to stabilize our minds and ground our energy by physically connecting to nature, we are able to recognize the messengers which trigger us advance, causing our nervous system to go into overdrive. By giving that pause to breath we can begin to reinterpret the messages we receive with our senses and give ourselves permission to take the time to integrate the energy, intentionally deciding how we wish to transmit it constructively to those around us.

Please join us Thursday, February 25 at 7 pm for an educational and illuminating evening with experienced facilitators in the field of psychology: Jessica Wollen from Shift-Education, Brian Deans Williams, Galen Hutcheson, with special guest Indigenous Relations Consultant Pulxaneeks from the Haisla First Nation.

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