Community Programs
Community schools are natural centres for activity in neighbourhoods and can play a key role in improving outcomes for communities.
LTCES offers regular community drop-in programming, workshops, and events, providing safe and accessible points of connection for community members.
We are continually building community partner relationships and providing joint programs such as the Repair Café, Earth Day Free Store, and Community Connections Day.
We are working to build connections to place and land through use of the Roy Stewart Morrison Forest and our Community School Garden and Outdoor Hub.
Spring 2025 Programs
Tuesday, April 22, 2025
May 8-10, 2025
Grief and Gratitude for Earth Day: Embodied Journaling
Thursday, April 24, 6:30 – 8:30pm
At Lake Trail Community School
Francis Weller says, “The work of the mature person is to carry grief in one hand and gratitude in the other and to be stretched large by them”. This quote describes how many of us may feel about the Earth and celebrating Earth Day in 2025.
In this 2 hour workshop, we will use embodiment practices, journalling, sharing, and song to make space for us to carry grief in one hand and gratitude in another this Earth Day.
Facilitated by Celia Laval at Lake Trail Community School.
The Work that Reconnects and The Five Vows
Thursday, May 29 6:30-8:30
At Lake Trail Community School
Learn more about the historical development of the Work that Reconnects – Joanna Macy’s merging of group process, general systems theory, and eco-spirituality. Hear how experiences, learning, and global connections came together as this venerated activist leader and Buddhist teacher developed her ground-breaking, inspiring process. Discover the Five Vows of this practice and how they encompass the attitudes and behaviors needed to sustain the Great Turning.
You can learn about these vows, take the vows publicly if you would like, and create a prayer bead strand to help integrate them into your daily life.
Facilitated by Kazimea Sokil