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How to Stop Burnout

How to Stop Burnout

It takes a lot of mental and physical energy when you or someone you know has had a recent trauma or harmful event has happened to you. Burnout, or extreme exhaustion, can lead to changes in appetite and sleep, stomachaches, headaches, irritability, and frequent illness. The following are some types to help you prevent and…

What is Pod Mapping?

What is Pod Mapping?

A pod is a concept developed by disability activist Mia Mingus as a part of creating a self-care community. A pod is a group of people who you can go to if violence, harm, or abuse has happened to you, if you caused harm, or if you have witnessed harm. A person can have multiple…

Somatic Healing

Somatic Healing

When a trauma occurs in a person’s life, it is often held in the body, as Dr. Bessel Van Der Kolk writes in his book, The Body Keeps the Score. Trauma actually rewires the brain that can causes constant states of stress or numbness, which lead to a host of different physical problems, such as…

Transformative Justice

Transformative Justice

What is Transformative Justice? Transformative justice is an approach where individuals, groups, and organizations can work through responses to conflicts, abuses, harms, and violence without using traditional systems, like the police or the court system. The thought around transformative justice is that when a harm or crime has been done, this has caused a violation…

Make Your Own Media!

Make Your Own Media!

Do you ever feel like there is no character in movies, TV shows, comics, or books who you can relate to? That the media’s or arts’ representation of the spectrum of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, (dis)ability, class, and income does not do justice to the complications of life, or may be too much of a…

What does it mean to be a guest? | Reflections from a workshop about Coast Salish laws and governance

What does it mean to be a guest? | Reflections from a workshop about Coast Salish laws and governance

What does it mean to be a guest? If we went to someone’s house, how would we behave?  Last month, our colleagues and friends Chaw-win-is and Lacey Jones offered a workshop to the VSAC team about Coast Salish laws and settler relationships to local Indigenous nations. The majority of Project Respect’s work takes place on…

Spring Youth Social Action Camp 2019

Spring Youth Social Action Camp 2019

This past month, Project Respect held its fourth Youth Social Action Camp at Camp Thunderbird on T’Souke territories. Fifteen youth from across communities, identities, and experiences came together to explore the root causes of gender-based violence, and approaches to social action. Through workshops, art, and conversation, youth and staff explored the power imbalances experienced by…

Facilitation 101: A Workshop for Youth!
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Facilitation 101: A Workshop for Youth!

Project Respect is offering an exciting, free workshop Saturday March 9th, 2019, to provide an opportunity for youth 12-19 to develop facilitation skills, and learn how to create space for learning and growth about social justice. Facilitated by Tahia Ahmed, the workshop will provide youth from across communities and experience to learn and grow as…