Thursday, March 14, 2024 — 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM EDT
This is a one-day workshop for members of the 2SLGBTQ+ communities to come together to do some work together on self-compassion. This will be a small group (max 10) people with individual and group activities. Come as you are. Self-compassion has many components to help us be and grow into ourselves.
Mary Oliver’s famous Wild Geese poem says it better than anything else:
“You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert repenting
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting -
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.”
Facilitators
Washington Silk (they/them), I am a transgender and queer therapist and social worker. I have had the pleasure of working and learning from and with the queer and trans community for over the past decade. I am a white settler from Alberta. I also have lived experience of ADHD, learning disabilities. My life experiences inform my approaches and motivation for supporting students during this unique time of growth in many students lives. Outside of work I love dogs, science fiction, cheese, miniature things and good conversations.
Who can join?
This a closed in person workshop open to any 2SLGBTQIA+ Students at the University of Waterloo.
When and how do we meet?
This group will meet in person on March 14 from 2:00 - 4:00 p.m.
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