Mission, Values & EDI

Mission

Tatamagouche Centre is a not-for-profit retreat, conference, and education centre which invites people from diverse backgrounds to personal wholeness, right relationships, respect for creation, and justice in the world.

Tatamagouche Centre offers beautiful accommodations, land, and food for its visitors through learning programs, gatherings, meetings, and retreats. It is a place deepen our practices, redress and renew.

Values

We weave contemplation, silence, ceremony, ritual and reflection in our work, for the purpose of healing and transformation.

Tatamagouche Centre is multi-faith in its values and community, including those who do not actively follow a particular faith. Our common value is an aspiration to personal and collective wholeness. We believe in learning rooted in experience, reflection, and wisdom to transform ourselves and our communities in just and loving ways.

We acknowledge the interconnectedness of all beings, and understand that we are mutually dependent on one another. Many of our programs focus on learning skills to build trust, consent, and accountability, reduce harm, and resolve conflicts peacefully.

We embrace ecological responsibility with a deep respect for land and life, both present and future. We commit to reducing our environmental footprint and doing all we can to face the current climate crisis. We source as much food and services as we can locally, and are in a large-scale Green Retrofit of our facilities to reduce our carbon footprint.

Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion

Through the full welcome and inclusion of all people, Tatamagouche Centre offers its hospitality to everyone, works for the justice of all people, and joyfully affirms human diversity in race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, ability, neurodiversity, religion, age, and all other aspects of identity, regardless of economic situation.

We are intentional about our hiring, programming, spaces, culture, symbols, and language. We listen to feedback and reflect on how to allow a wider diversity of bodies and identities to shape what we do and how we do it. We seek to understand and address systemic barriers and norms that prevent people from leading, participating, claiming their voice, dignity, rights and freedom to belong.

For more information, please read our Sexual Harassment Policy and our Anti-Racism and Oppression Mandate.