Weaving Wellness Centre

12/21/2025

At the Weaving Wellness Centre, we honour Solstice as a time when the land invites us into stillness, balance, and gentle renewal. As the sun pauses, we’re reminded of the teachings that guide our work: that healing is cyclical, relationships matter, and slowing down is medicine.

For many Indigenous peoples, Solstice marks a moment to reflect on what we’ve carried this year — the joys, the grief, the growth, and the parts of our spirit that need tending. Mental health is shaped by connection: to culture, to community, to land, and to our own rhythms. This season reminds us that light returns slowly, and that rest is a necessary part of wellness.

We also hold space for those navigating heavier feelings at this time. Whether you are finding comfort in ceremony, in community, or in quiet moments alone, your story and your wellness matter. You deserve support that honours your whole self — mind, body, spirit, and heart.
As the light begins its return, we offer warmth, gratitude, and care to all our relatives. May this Solstice bring grounding, gentleness, and a renewed sense of balance.

In community,
The Weaving Wellness Centre

12/16/2025

The Weaving Wellness Centre will be closed for the holidays from December 22–26, 2025. We will also be closed on January 1, 2026.

We know this season can bring many different emotions — joy, connection, grief, overwhelm, or a mix of all of these. For some, this time of year can be especially hard. Please take gentle care of yourselves in whatever ways feel accessible: reaching out to trusted supports, connecting with culture, spending time on the land, or simply giving yourself permission to rest.
From all of us at WWC, we wish you warmth, safety, and moments of ease over the holidays. May your celebrations, big or small, bring connection and comfort.

With warmth,
The Weaving Wellness Centre

10/10/2025

Today, on World Mental Health Day, we honour the unique strengths and challenges within Indigenous mental health.

For many Indigenous peoples, mental health cannot be separated from culture, community, land, and spirit. The impacts of colonial violence — residential schools, the Sixties and Millennial Scoops, systemic racism, and ongoing oppression — continue to shape how mental health is experienced across generations.

We also lift up and honour our Two-Spirit relatives, who hold sacred roles in our communities yet face disproportionate rates of violence, discrimination, and barriers to care. Supporting Two-Spirit mental health means creating spaces that are safe, affirming, and grounded in culture and kinship.

Indigenous healing practices remind us that wellness is holistic — mind, body, heart, and spirit. On this day, and every day, we commit to carrying this understanding forward in how we care for one another.

10/09/2025

Starting soon, spots still available!

🌟 CBT for ADHD Skills Group – 5 Weeks
Feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or scattered?

Our 5-week CBT for ADHD Skills Group is designed to help you build tools for focus, time management, emotional regulation, and self-compassion — in a supportive small group setting.

🧠 What you’ll learn:
✔ How ADHD impacts thoughts, feelings & actions
✔ Tools to tackle procrastination & time blindness
✔ Mindfulness & emotion regulation skills
✔ Strategies for planning, organization, and impulse control
✔ Building self-compassion and long-term coping

📅 Dates: Oct 22, 29, Nov 5, 12, 19
🕕 Time: 6–7 pm (60 minutes)
💻 Format: Virtual – open to anyone in Ontario, 18+
👩‍⚕️ Facilitated by: Jordyn Garner (she/her), RSW & Sam Seon (they/them), RSSW
💲 Cost: $80 per session for private paying clients. NIHB clients are also eligible.

✨ Learn, connect, and grow alongside others who understand.

Email our intake: intake@weavingwellness.ca to inquire about registering!

Centre

09/17/2025

Community Teaching Circle 🐢

📅 Date: Friday, September 26, 2025
🕕 Time: 12–1 pm EST (60 minutes)
💻 Format: Virtual – open to Indigenous community members and allies
💲 Cost: Free!

Carolynne Crawley, will share about the teachings that have guided her since a young child to connect and support her relationship with all beings. She will share ways that guide people to build responsible and reciprocal relations with Mother Earth, along with ways to deepen this relationship.

Indigenous peoples around the Earth deeply understand the interwoven relationships between all beings. Indigenous Elders speak of the individual and collective responsibility we all have to be in a healthy and reciprocal relationship with Mother Earth. This is more important now than any time in history. As we witness and experience the impacts of a climate crisis/extreme weather, wars/conflicts and injustices, often governments and corporations move slowly to make any change. We need to be the change as it starts with each and every one of us. "Indigenous people only make up about 5% of the world's population, yet protect 80% of the world's biodiversity."
Carolynne Crawley

Carolynne Crawley, founder of Msit No’kmaq, is Mi'kmaw, Black and Irish. She is from Mi’kma’ki territory also known today as Nova Scotia. But Tkaronto has been her home for the past fifty years. She is the founder of Msit No’kmaq, an initiative dedicated to reconnecting people with the land, waters, and all beings through land-based teachings. Carolynne is also the founder of Turtle Protectors, a community-led initiative developed in collaboration with Indigenous Elders and community members to protect and advocate for turtle relatives. A passionate advocate for social and environmental justice, she leads workshops, forest therapy walks, and community projects grounded in Indigenous knowledge. She is a certified Forest Therapy Guide, Blanket Exercise Facilitator, and a member of the Indigenous Land Stewardship Circle.
To learn more please visit: https://www.msitnokmaq.com/

Email our intake to inquire about registering: events@weavingwellness.ca

09/16/2025

🌟 CBT for ADHD Skills Group – 5 Weeks
Feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or scattered?

Our 5-week CBT for ADHD Skills Group is designed to help you build tools for focus, time management, emotional regulation, and self-compassion — in a supportive small group setting.

🧠 What you’ll learn:
✔ How ADHD impacts thoughts, feelings & actions
✔ Tools to tackle procrastination & time blindness
✔ Mindfulness & emotion regulation skills
✔ Strategies for planning, organization, and impulse control
✔ Building self-compassion and long-term coping

📅 Dates: Oct 22, 29, Nov 5, 12, 19
🕕 Time: 6–7 pm (60 minutes)
💻 Format: Virtual – open to anyone in Ontario, 18+
👩‍⚕️ Facilitated by: Jordyn Garner (she/her), RSW & Sam Seon (they/them), RSSW
💲 Cost: $80 per session for private paying clients. NIHB clients are also eligible.

✨ Learn, connect, and grow alongside others who understand.

Email our intake: intake@weavingwellness.ca to inquire about registering!

Centre

08/06/2025

Tanishii kiya!

The Weaving Wellness Centre with the Métis Nation of Ontario are hosting sharing circles throughout Ontario to gather community perspectives and understandings around su***de.

Our next circle will be on August 9th in Ottawa! If you know anyone that may be interested, please encourage them to click the link below to learn more and register.

Information about honoraria ($200), food (lunch and refreshments provided), and eligibility details (e.g., those 18+) as well as the next upcoming circles can be found here:

https://www.metisnation.org/news/mno-to-host-province-wide-sharing-circles-to-address-su***de-prevention-through-cultural-lens/

The Métis Nation of Ontario (MNO) is hosting in-person sharing circles across the province to gather Métis citizens' cultural perspectives on su***de and explore effective ways to support those contemplating ending their life.

The sharing circle for citizens in Region 6 will be on August 9 from 9:30am to 3:30pm in Ottawa. These circles are open to all Métis citizens who are 18+ years old.

A $200 honorarium and lunch will be provided to all participants who attend the circles as a form of gratitude and appreciation for their participation. These engagement sessions are expected to take up to 5 hours, inclusive of lunch and short, hourly breaks.

Please note, these circles are not intended for individuals to share personal or family mental health experiences but to invite conversations exploring Métis perspectives on how to support community members who are struggling.

Share your voice and help shape a culturally informed approach to supporting Métis community members.

For more information and registration details, please visit: https://ow.ly/FIlo50WwQuC

07/25/2025

🌿 Support for ADHD through ACT 🌿

Sam specializes in working with individuals with ADHD through the lens of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). With a compassionate, strengths-based approach, Sam helps clients navigate challenges like impulsivity, emotional regulation, and executive functioning—while staying grounded in what truly matters to them.

As someone with lived experience of ADHD, Sam brings deep empathy and understanding to the therapeutic process. Their work focuses on consistency, collaboration, and creating a supportive space where neurodivergent folks feel seen, validated, and empowered.

Whether it’s supporting clients between sessions, guiding them through therapeutic tools, or helping them reconnect with their goals and values, Sam’s approach is rooted in mindfulness, self-compassion, and meaningful action.

✨ Sam is currently accepting new clients. If this sounds like support you might benefit from, reach out to: intake@weavingwellness.ca

06/21/2025

had an amazing time celebrating National Indigenous Peoples Day at the annual Powwow ❣️

06/21/2025

🌈✨ June 21 | National Indigenous Peoples Day x Pride Month ✨🌈

Today, and every day, we honour the strength, beauty, and brilliance of Indigenous Peoples from coast to coast to coast. June 21 is a time to gather in celebration of our diverse Nations, cultures, languages, and teachings — and to uplift the voices and visions of Indigenous communities in all our fullness.
🌞 This day also marks the Summer Solstice, a sacred time in many Indigenous cultures — a moment to honour the sun, the land, and the cycles of renewal, growth, and balance.
At the Weaving Wellness Centre, we recognize that Indigenous wellness is not one-size-fits-all — it is expansive, dynamic, and rooted in culture, community, and connection. We also hold deep respect and love for 2SLGBTQIA+ community members, and affirm that q***rness and Indigeneity have always existed together in rich, powerful, and sacred ways.
🏳️‍🌈 As we continue to celebrate Pride Month, we recommit to fostering safer, inclusive, and affirming spaces for Two-Spirit, q***r, and trans Indigenous folks across all of our programming — clinical, cultural, and community-based.
We see you. We honour you. We celebrate you. 🌿

05/16/2025

May is Mental Health Awareness Month 🧠🌿

At the Weaving Wellness Centre, we recognize that mental health for Indigenous peoples is not only about the absence of mental health issues—it’s about presence: of culture, of community, of land, of spirit.

This month, we honour the strength and complexity of Indigenous mental health. For many of the people we support, wellness is deeply connected to intergenerational stories, ceremony, identity, and kinship. It’s also shaped by the ongoing impacts of colonial systems—racism in health care, the child welfare system, housing insecurity, and the loss of land and language.

We believe that healing happens when people are seen in the fullness of who they are. That’s why our work is rooted in trauma-informed, culturally grounded care that values Indigenous ways of knowing, being, and healing.

This May—and every month—we affirm that:
🌿 Culture is medicine
🤝 Community care is essential
🔥 Healing is possible
🏹 Indigenous sovereignty is mental wellness

Whether you’re accessing therapy through our Low-Fee Clinic, joining one of our community circles, or finding support as a front-line worker—we see you, and we’re holding space for your story.

05/13/2025

Some of our team got the amazing opportunity to gather in High Park & learn about the land, medicines & plant relatives 🌱🌿🌞 We are so honoured to have shared this space with !! Check out the amazing work they do.