Since 2016, Refugia has been providing workshops, retreats, and eco-spiritual direction to people experiencing climate-related mental health impacts such as ecological grief, climate grief, and eco-anxiety. Informed by the Work that Reconnects methodology, Refugia programs integrate holistic education, nature-based inquiry, and reflective practices to explore the emotional, spiritual, and political dimensions of living well amid planetary crises. Refugia envisions a world where every person has access to rest, community connection, and a relationship with the more-than-human world. Join us as we explore the intersections of personal, community, and systems change to work towards a more ecologically and socially just world.
Refugia acknowledges that we are uninvited guests in Mohkinstsis on the traditional Treaty 7 Territory and acknowledges the oral practices of the Nitsatapi confederacy: Siksika, Kainai, Piikani, as well as the Îyâxe Nakoda and Tsuut’ina nations and Metis Nation Region 3. As uninvited guests to this territory, we recognize our responsibility to de-centre our own voices while honouring the voices of the Indigenous communities that have lived here since time immemorial, as well as voices of the more than human world, by coming into respectful relationships with the plants, animals, humans and other life forms that call this region home.