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

This pop-up event offers free clothing and accessories to students during the school day and opens to the public in the afternoon—all in support of reducing textile waste and promoting sustainable fashion practices.
 
This is a free community program; donations are appreciated.
 
This event is in partnership with Comox Strathcona Waste Management Educators and the Lake Trail Leadership Program.
 
 

May 8-10, 2025

Join us for our 4th annual Community Connection Day from Thursday to Saturday. Many community partners will be tabling resources and sharing information for a more resilient community. 
 
 
This is a free community program.
 
 

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.

REGISTER HERE

more info here 

Facilitated by Kazimea Sokil