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Navigating Life Challenges Through Play
In today’s ever-changing world, adaptability is a key skill that is required to successfully navigate life’s challenges. Through play individuals can build their innovation and adaptability skills. Additionally, through play we are able to collaborate with others and this builds connection amongst groups. And lastly, through practices such as gratitude we can increase our resilience…
Empowering the community
As the eldest child of immigrant parents and a first-generation Canadian, Jas Hundal remembers helping her elders navigate the healthcare system by being their translator at medical appointments and completing forms for family friends and relatives. This passion for helping others developed when her father was ill and admitted to a local hospital. The social…
Successful goal-setting for the year ahead!
Every year many of us will set new goals for ourselves and have good intentions to improve our personal or professional life. It feels great to start off a new year and think about how we can enhance our lives and make meaningful change. It's relatively easy to come up with a list of things…
Resilience, what is it and how do we build it?
In our ever-evolving world, characterized by burnout, disconnection, disruptive changes and rapid innovations developing resilience is a skill set that often gets overlooked. We often want to solve our problems with a quick fix and then move on to the next task. By slowing down and building resilience we can actually create adaptive strategies that…
The brain benefits of nature
Nature refreshes us, inspires and even heals us. We know that for a long time humans have benefited from being around nature, enjoying the fresh air, and majestic scenery of lush forests and bountiful rivers. Over the last decade many of us have followed the global trend towards urban living and this means working from…
Exploring counselling through a South Asian lens
Welcome to my page and thank you for dedicating your time to learn about counselling through a non-western perspective. My aim is to explore some of the themes that may be barriers for members of the South Asian community in accessing professional supports. I have had many people ask me, “Why do you think South…
