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 . We look forward to reconnecting and joining together in solidarity this spring, Oct 18-20, 2024 at the Tatamagouche Center in Nova Scotia!

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.

The Mi’kmaq have lived in Mi’kma’ki, Atlantic Canada, for thousands of years and traditionally relied on Mother Earth for nourishment and health. Plant, tree, and animal-based remedies were made by medicine makers for everyday ailments. The main objective of the project is to promote the social and educational interaction and the transfer of knowledge between the Mi’kmaq and non-Mi’kmaq youth and Mi’kmaw elders through sharing circles, educational food sovereignty workshops, gardening, medicinal walks, and foraging at Tatamagouche Centre.

We invite you to join us for a weekend of InterPlay - a chance to connect more deeply to our personal, collective and ancestral body wisdom as a resource for these deeply transformative, turbulent times. Share in the simple magic of embodied connection through story, sound, movement and stillness. Bring your sorrow, your silly, your sage - the fullness of you - and together we will uncover the power of play as a source for building inner and community resilience.

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.