Join Tara Reynolds & Brian Braganza. Courage to Lead is a rare opportunity to slow down and deepen connections with kindred spirits and committed peers. This event will support courageous change makers in understanding how their unique gifts can meet the needs of their communities while exploring questions of importance in their life and leadership.

"For me, the crux of music is to find your own voice. You put yourself and your spirit into it. If you do, we'll feel you" --Linda Carvery. Join Linda Carvery, award-winning blues and gospel singer for a joyful healing singing workshop to chase the winter blues. Linda will offer exercises to help you find your voice, and bring yourself to the songs. We're thrilled to have Linda share a part of her one-act play "Watch over Me," a tender story of resilience told through humour and song. Linda will be supported by facilitator and poet, Nanci Lee on facilitation design and delivery for the workshop.

A supportive, peer-led weekend for playing, play-testing, and leading role-playing games - beginners are more than welcome! Some of the themes we explore together: how to make the move from player to game leader; how to build inclusion and community; and how to support diversity, disability, and mental health through Roleplaying Games.

Learn about creating safe space for co-facilitators and participants during workshops, gatherings, board meetings, community events, etc. Developing confidence in holding uncomfortable conversations as they arise in a caring and respectful way in any setting.

We are extending a loving invitation to Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) to come to Tatamagouche Centre for a weekend of rest and share. It is our way of supporting and honoring your work in the world for social Justice.

The goals of the Licensed Lay Worship Leaders Gathering are: To provide LLWLs throughout the Maritimes with an opportunity to develop a sense of shared community . To provide LLWLs with additional training . To provide LLWLs with an opportunity to explore topics and to increase leadership skills specifically identified by program participants . To review LLWL Policies, making note of any changes/updates.

Dialogue for Peaceful Change (DPC) is an international program that has brought together the best methodologies from around the world in community-based conflict mediation, providing effective tools and strategies for analyzing and addressing conflicts. This is a program applicable to conflicts and disputes in communities, families and organizations moving beyond traditional mediative methods, focusing on conflict content, culture, and spirituality.

This project is focused on righting and healing our relations with land, food and one another across varied lived experience with “land or homeland,” dispossession, food justice and sovereignty while demonstrating a nourishing, loving connected community of communities around land and the local food system.

The Maritimes-Guatemala Breaking the Silence Network invites you to attend our Annual Gathering, a time of community and learning. We will reflect on Solidarity in A Time of Crisis, with Jesus Tecu Osoria, our Guatemalan guest. We look forward to reconnecting and joining together in solidarity this spring, May 26–28, 2023 at the Tatamagouche Center in Nova Scotia!

Designing Games That Matter is a four-day intensive with game designer Avery Alder, exploring how to design tabletop roleplaying games that are meaningful, dynamic, and transformative. We’ll approach design in ways that are intentional, hands-on, playful, and experimental. Participants will hone their critical awareness of the medium, and discover how to tell new stories that invite new people to the table.

Spring is a glorious season for retreat, with Earth inviting you into rebirth and awakening. We welcome all those who seek quiet, both those who may be curious about contemplation and those who are more seasoned practitioners.

Reflecting on our relationship with life and death. Learning about difficult conversations and feeling the sacredness of death itself. We see opportunities to claim final moments of intimacy in sacred space during times that are often difficult and to recognize the healing power of ceremony, and the practice of rituals for the different stages, before and after death.

Join us to feed the spirit of winter and honor the indigenous teachings. The theme is sharing histories, ceremonies of grief and loss typical of winter. The indigenous, settler, mixed-background participants will explore their histories, identities and ceremonies or processes for winter/ grief/loss.

A supportive, peer-led weekend to try playing and leading games for the first time. Some of the themes we explore together: how to make the move from player to game leader; how to build inclusion and community; and how to support diversity, disability, and mental health through Roleplaying Games.

At Leading Innovative and Engaging Youth Programs we share best practices, applied theory, techniques, and experiential activities you can use to engage youth, meet their real needs, deepen their experiences, enhance and build on their strengths and gifts, and identify ways to more deeply connect young people to community action.

Join Ishbel & Steve Law. This advanced training program is for certified DPC facilitators who have completed the Dialogue for Peaceful Change mediation program and wish to deepen their skills and practices.