Remembering Monica Blais
We are sad to share that Monica has passed away, but the legacy of her amazing work carries on and continues to make an impact on Project Respect.
Project updates – what we’ve been up to!
What Does a Healthy Relationship Look Like?
An individual will have a lot of different relationships in their lives, from friends, family, partner to work colleagues. All your relationships will look very differently. While there is no such thing as a perfect relationship, there are healthy relationships. But even healthy relationships do not look the same for everyone since every person has…
What Happens If I Have Harmed Someone?
If you have hurt someone in your life, you know that it can be a difficult to admit that you have caused injury to another person. Often individuals will instead get angry or defensive as you try to rationalize your own behaviour or are confused about the situation, but this can cause even more harm….
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?
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
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
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!
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? 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…
Join us at camp this March!
Who: You! (anyone ages 14-18 or grades 9-12) When: March 18th-20th, 2020 (during spring break) Cost: Free! We are excited to announce that Project Respect will be offering our fifth Youth Social Action Camp this March at Camp Barnard, on T’Sou-ke territories. We are inviting youth from all identities, backgrounds, and experiences to explore how…
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!
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…