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Silvia Di BlasioWork That Reconnects Network

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I am a Certified Life and Career Coach, eLearning specialist and community resilience facilitator.
I have worked with immigrants and refugees as well as vulnerable populations in Canada and Latin America for over 20 years in roles that include teacher and coordinator, coach, community organizer, trainer, disaster response and planning facilitator, food sovereignty and permaculture design mentor and consultant.
I offer both full spiral and partial WTR workshops as part of the EDE (ecovillage design education programs from Gaia Education) and in my daily work with vulnerable populations.
I also work as a coordinator for the Work That Reconnects Network and eLearning consultant for the FDP (Facilitator Development Program) and Gaia Education.

Why I am called to facilitate the Work

We are living truly difficult times and people are confused, detached and scared. We have mass displacements and entire systems rapidly breaking down. I see the Work That Reconnects as a sacred call to support others to re-connect with themselves, each other and the wider community of ecosystems and more than human beings. I deeply believe that is only when we reconnect with what we are that radical hope, healing and transformation emerge.

How I see the Work serving the Great Turning

I see the Great Turning as the only sane option for healing and transformation. However, I also believe that the Great Turning won’t be possible without the Great Unraveling: the complex forces in place are already creating this everywhere. If we do nothing, the entire system will eventually crash, as it has started doing, and the outcome can be really ugly for many, both humans and more than humans. What is then our role in such complexity? That is where I see the Work: is it through the reconnection to who we are that we can find the strength to go through this together and support each other in spite of the despair, pain, frustration and fears that naturally emerge from the Great Unraveling. The Great Turning is just the other face: it is made by the conscious and caring choices we make, from small to big, from individual to collective. These choices are not possible nor sustainable unless we have learned to navigate the Spiral and discover that this is, in fact, a natural process.

Audiences I work with

I work with many groups, but most of my experience focus on vulnerable minorities which include immigrants and refugees and people with barriers such addictions, mental health and disabilities.
Lately, my experience has also incorporated young people in permaculture and ecovillage design programs.

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Background & Training

Background & training in the Work That Reconnects

  • Active Hope book study group (2013, 13 days)
    Location: South Surrey, BC
    Facilitated by: Transition Initiative Village Surrey
    This was a study group by Village Surrey where we met once a week to discuss the different chapters and practices
  • Work That Reconnects (2017, 2 days)
    Location: Vancouver
    Facilitated by: Maggie Ziegler
    Full spiral workshop
  • Work That Reconnects Retreat (2018, 4 days)
    Location: Bowen Island
    Facilitated by: Maggie Ziegler & Jackie Larkin
  • Facilitators Development Program 2017-2018 (2017, 365 days)
    Location: Online
    Facilitated by: Molly Brown, Constance Washburn and Mutima Imani

Other relevant training

  • Ecopsychology Intensive (2017, 115 days)
    Location: online
    Facilitated by: Lori Pye
  • Coming Home (2017, 7 days)
    Location: Salt Spring Island
    Facilitated by: Bill Plotkin and Geneen Marie Haugen
  • Certificate of Ecotherapy (2018, 90 days)
    Location: Earthbody Institute
    Facilitated by: Ariana Candell

Other relevant skills & experiences

I am a certified career and life coach, a trained educational psychologist, trained adult educator and permaculturist. I have also trained in eco-psychology, systems theory, cultural emergence, art of mentoring, emergency preparedness and response, trauma informed counselling and eco-therapy, all which nurture my approach and expand my worldview, providing extra tools for my Work that Reconnects practices.

Experience facilitating WTR events & workshops

Work That Reconnects workshops I have facilitated

  • Work That Reconnects (2018, 2 days)
    Location: Shawnigan Lake, BC
    Facilitated by: Gracelynn Lau
    This workshop was offered as part of the EDE (Ecovillage Design Education)
  • Work That Reconnects (2019, 2 days)
    Location: Shawnigan Lake, BC
    Facilitated by: Gracelynn Lau
    This workshop was offered as part of the EDE (Ecovillage Design Education)

Experience facilitating other events & workshops

I have more than 20 years’ experience in facilitation and instruction. I have planned, created and implemented courses both in person and online for schools, institutions and groups from both the private and public sectors in Venezuela, Canada and an international setting. I regularly facilitate workshops for immigrants and refugees in various topics and a monthly support group as well as community kitchens to discuss diverse issues. I incorporate some of the practices from the Work That Reconnects into the meetings, support groups and workshops.

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WTR Facilitator since 2018
Languages served: English, Spanish
Location: Work That Reconnects Network, Surrey, British Columbia V3S 4P2, Canada
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