Pure Joy
What have my past two weeks been like? Pure joy. Let’s see…in the first week I learnt how to do yoga and meditate while at a beautiful retreat just out of Montreal, at the Art of Living Foundation. I shared a cabin with four sistas; Valerie, Kirsten, Komal and Gillian, and I was lucky enough […]
Stepping off into the Pacific with Love! :)
So everyone. I just wanted to let you all know how difficult it was to leave all of you. As the plane was taking off, I was lucky enough to catch a glimpse of Dunton Tower and thought of you guys. I’m in the Chicago airport right now, waiting for my connecting flight to San […]
Sad, yet happy
Do you know how often you start the sentence “Yes, but…”? I do it a lot! I wish I could say I used to do it a lot, and that my experience with Recrear, especially our first week in Ashram, has erased all “could’ve”, “should’ve” and “I’ll try” from my head. Nevertheless, it didn’t, or […]
Meet Our Week Two Speakers!
From August 8th-13th RecrearMagnify hosted a speaker series including over 20 speakers from 16 different organizations from Ottawa. Here’s a glimpse of some of those sessions! [slideshow]
Let’s put it all together- ready for Week 3!
My Recrear head is a Pandora box, and all the inputs that we received during the last two weeks have been feeding into it. The conference so far has provided me with the space to think about myself and the work I do at Recrear, to feel engrossed by the energy of my colleague, and […]
Recrear Participacion Photo Essay
Recrear Participación is an interactive workshop providing young people with the tools to develop their ideas and passion into sustainable community projects. Recrear Participación was piloted between July 10th and July 25th, 2011 in two, separate, week-long workshops in the Dominican Republic in Esperanza and Santiago. Recrear Participación encourages participants to engage more pro-actively with their community and to […]
Living high and mightily with Recrear
As week two is coming to a close, I must say magnify just might be the perfect word to describe the change that I have seen within myself, my fellow conference delegates, and Recrear as a whole. I believe this magnification will continue to happen so fluidly and progressively that by the end of next […]
Vote on your favorite session
Week 2 has come to a close. Please give some feedback on the speaker series while it is still fresh in your mind. You can choose your top 3 sessions. You cannot vote twice. The poll will expire in one week. Writers, log out of the Recrear account before submitting your answers. -Kevin [polldaddy poll=5410609]
On the road to knowledge.
Sometimes there are not words to describe the value of an experience. You don’t have to reinvent the wheel to create a non-profit. You may have to re-invent your funding methods every so often due to constantly changing financial realm. CIDA cut-backs on program funding and a transition to biding for project support will change […]
With $20,000 I would . . .
Kate Green from USC asks the Recrear Youth Ambassadors what types of projects they would produce with $20,000. Listen to everyone’s reply. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvnDuhgcPJU?hl=en&fs=1&w=425&h=349]
