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Trina WoodsAlderlea Counselling and Facilitation

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Trina is a writer, counsellor and facilitator with a background in social work, environmental studies, farming and yoga; and a deep desire to support people on their journey towards wellness and adaptation. She came to the Work that Reconnects and Joanna Macy's teaching in 2010 when she became overwhelmed with despair while earning her Environmental Studies degree. Her passion for WtR led to her to intensives with Joanna and to facilitating the work for her various communities, including activists, youth and everyday earth lovers. In 2019 she spearheaded the organization of the Salish Sea Bio-Regional Work that Reconnects Gathering. She is now working to build upon and expand her Work that Reconnects facilitation and counselling offerings on Southern Vancouver Island.

Why I am called to facilitate the Work

In this work I have found medicine for my own despairing heart and I continue to believe that it can, as it most certainly has, bring people together to form what Joanna calls "rough weather networks" as together we uncover the wild love that keeps us showing up in the world.

How I see the Work serving the Great Turning

I believe the Work that Reconnects brings us together, through remembrance of our inter-being with life, to act on behalf of what is beautiful and sacred (all of life is sacred), and to serve the great turning and the future ones despite uncertainty of outcome.

Audiences I work with

Youth, adults, families, service providers.

Background & Training

Background & training in the Work That Reconnects

  • Work that Reconnects Intensive with Generation Waking Up (2011, 5 days)
    Location: Esalen Institute
    Facilitated by: Joanna Macy
  • Theory and Practice of the Work that Reconnects (2012, 10 days)
    Location: Pearson College, Victoria
    Facilitated by: Joanna Macy
  • Reconnecting to Life (2014, 3 days)
    Location: Royal Roads
    Facilitated by: Maggie Ziegler, Jackie Larkin, Olive Dempsey
  • Reconnecting to Life (2016, 2 days)
    Location: Saltspring Island
    Facilitated by: Maggie Ziegler, Jackie Larkin
  • Salish Sea Bioregional Work that Reconnects Gathering (2019, 3 days)
    Location: Shawnigan Lake
    Facilitated by: Maggie Ziegler, Jackie Larkin, Olive Dempsey, etc

Other relevant training

  • Master of Social Work (2019, 0)
    Location: Wilfrid Laurier University
  • Bachelor of Social Work with Minor in Environmental Studies (2011, 0)
    Location: University of Victoria
  • Creative Facilitation 1 and 2 (2009, 5 days)
    Location: Victoria BC
    Facilitated by: Power of Hope Society
  • Nature Based Therapy Training (2020, 5 days)
    Location: HIghlands, BC
    Facilitated by: Human Nature Counselling

Other relevant skills & experiences

I am a trained counsellor experienced in working from an anti-oppressive and trauma-informed lens, as well as meditator and yogi with a passion for earth-based practices, including growing food, herbal medicine and mindfulness. I have a background in facilitation with youth and adults and a passion for sharing the philosophies and experiential practices underpinning the Work that Reconnects.

Experience facilitating WTR events & workshops

Work That Reconnects workshops I have facilitated

  • The Work that Reconnects Action Group (2012, 0)
    Location: Victoria, BC
    Facilitated by: various
    Ongoing group that was bi-weekly for about a year and occasionally after that
  • The Work that Reconnects for Activist Meditators (2015, 1 days)
    Location: Shambhala Centre
    Facilitated by: Alysha Tlynn Jones
  • Salish Sea Bioregional Gathering of the WTR (2019, 3 days)
    Location: Shawnigan Lake, BC
    Facilitated by: Jackie Larkin, Maggie Ziegler, Olive Dempsey, etc

Experience facilitating other events & workshops

From 2017 until 2019 I worked full time as a youth facilitator for the Leadership and Resiliency Program run by Cowichan Valley Youth Services. I became a facilitator for the Power of Hope in 2007 and for 3 years led anti-homophobia workshops in local high schools. I also led youth facilitation trainings for service providers through the Power of Hope. I facilitated grief and loss groups for youth through the Learning through Loss Society, and I have taught yoga and meditation to both youth and adults.