Help us Launch The Coalition for Regenerative Work

Happy New Year from one of Canada's newest non-profits!

We are welcoming 2024 with our minds and hearts full of conviction to contribute to a significant change in workplace culture. We are the Coalition for Regenerative Work, and we exist to make workplaces safer, healthier, happier, and more regenerative.

We are asking you to help us do what we do best.

We are researchers, educators, facilitators and advocates here to connect heads, hearts and souls in our collective understanding of what it means to 'work' together.

Every workplace deserves to be healthy, inviting, warm...more human. We have seen the impact of positive workplaces on the mental health of individuals, and we believe that a positive workplace can be created by supporting the collective skills, mindsets and capabilities of individuals and teams.

Rooted in research, behavioural science, land based learning and lived experience, we're here to create a movement, an evolution revolution for regenerative work through positive workplace culture.

The Vision: A Workplace R-Evolution

Imagine waking up every day feeling peaceful, secure, and energized to go to work. You feel this way because you are doing what you have been entrusted to do in an environment that welcomes all of who you are, and is nimble to respond to your needs as a whole person and not just as an employee.

Imagine leading a team of individuals in a regenerative way with room for vulnerabilities to make way for genius. Where the burden of productivity is no longer carried on the heels of exhaustion because your team is nourished enough to be generous with their time and energy. Where responsibility is shared through trust instead of measurement, and where the end of the day feels like a collective accomplishment instead of admonishment.

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Imagine your workplace with

*more joy

*more ease

*more collaboration

*higher morale

*greater resilience

IMAGINE

We recognize that what we're up to is lofty, especially in this time of deep cultural shifts and systemic blindspots...

And that's why we're here.

Our collaborative team of researchers, facilitators and educators consistently gather, deliver and share the best in workplace wellness assessments, plans, workshops and intermodal trainings for businesses and organizations committed to cultivating, and sustaining a workplace environment that is nourishing, generative and joy-filled.

Please meet our board of directors (in alphabetical order):

Reverdi is a registered nurse with 30 years of community, acute care, clinical, management, and executive leadership expertise. She’s a certified health executive and has dedicated her career to helping others and gaining skills and knowledge in healthcare regulations, governance and clinical operations.

She understands that the institutional systems and organizational hierarchy in health can create an unhealthy environment that significantly impacts workplace culture, and unconsciously can influence and affect individual behaviours. She sees an opportunity to make real progress, in prioritizing and supporting people-centred, relationship-focused approaches within organizations.

​Currently, she sits on the board of MAPS Canada, and is the president and CEO of CENA Life, Inc., which she founded in 2022. Through her company, she is actively contributing to the growth and recognition of the transformative field of psychedelic therapy, shaping a future where mental health treatment and care is comprehensive, compassionate, and rooted in cultural understanding. She believes that full and intersectional healing of individuals mental health and wellness only happens through a consciously connected community.

Zakeana has an Honours Bachelor of Arts degree from Queens University and holds the Chartered Professional in Human Resources (CPHR) designation. Zakeana brings over twenty years of work experience in equity and diversity.

Zakeana regularly contributes to CCDI Consulting blog posts and articles in HR Professional magazine and has participated as a speaker at DisruptHR YYC.

With her background in Human Resources, Learning, and Employment Equity, Zakeana has been able to address various barriers to employment and advancement for multiple organizations, creating integrated and sustainable solutions to promote diversity and increase inclusion.

Margie is the founder of Thought Architects. She is a visionary who grew up in health care and has worked at all levels of the health system. Along the way she picked up expertise in clinical and process improvement, facilitation, leadership & team development, human-centred design, and coaching.

She is a sought-after speaker in the areas of coaching and healthcare practice and is always willing to have a conversation and learn from others. Besides being a boymom to three, she also holds a couple of other roles as the Education Program Officer at the University of Alberta in the Faculty of Medicine and the Program Coordinator for the Coalition for Physician Learning and Practice Improvement. She works hard but enjoys her free time - either on her bike or on skis (and will happily have a meeting on the mountain with you). She is the host of Thought Architect's Campfire Chat and has been recently published.

Rhonda St.Croix is a reformed “change-the-world” advocate whose core belief is that transforming ourselves and growing our own capacity makes the greatest positive contribution to the spaces we work and play in together. She is an insight junkie passionate about the future of life/work.

Through a career spanning more than 30 years in non-profit, government and for-profit sectors she has co-created and implemented people-centered change strategies and solutions to deliver meaningful results and value for individuals and organizations. Her passion is to grow capacity in people and teams to create vitality, wellbeing, and positive change. She has experience in change leadership, learning and development, growing teams and leaders, partnership, and coaching.

She has been fascinated by workplace conditions who bring out the best in people. She is aware that workplaces can be challenging having experienced directly how workplaces can diminish people’s wellbeing. She's been on a lifelong quest to find a workplace that sets the conditions for people to grow and thrive. Her intention is to create a Radically Human Revolution for healthy and effective workplaces that are hospitable and inhabitable for our human spirits.

And on the Coalition Team:

Tina Overbury is a Storyteller, Core-Communications Specialist and Expressive Arts Therapy Student who works with individuals and organizations who feel called. She is a professional listener who works with narrative and story structure as a vehicle for human connection. As an artist, she offers visceral storytelling for reconciliation experiences rooted in the principles of deep listening.

She was a Co-Host of Gather for Her, a series of emergent conversations with Changemakers for eleven season, and is currently co-hosting Harleys and Hairspray, a podcast about artists who have surrendered their heart to art.

How are we going to use the funds?

This is start up capital. We have three goals this year:

1) Hire a staff person to design and initiate our fundraising/giving campaign so we fulfill our strategic plan of research, advocacy, education and community building.

2) Launch our quarterly Research Journal featuring papers written by leaders in the field of human, relational and resilient workplaces.

3) Launch our R-Evolution Community, a bi-weekly online gathering circle for professionals who need nourishment, support and care as we collectively shift workplace culture.

and of course... marketing marketing marketing. We can't do much if people don't know about us. ;)

Our ask is $25 or more as you can.

Every $25 gift to us, gives you a one year membership to the Coalition where you will receive:

Every $300 gift gives you all of the above

-PLUS a FULL YEAR subscription to our bi-weekly R-Evolution Gathering Circle which you can keep for yourself, or gift to someone in your network.

Every $1000 gift to us, gives you all of the above

-PLUS a Workplace Wellbeing Audit & Discovery Session with one of our Coalition Facilitators.

Be sure to include your name in your giving so we can follow-up with the above, or reach out to us directly for more information about how you can get involved.

Thank you for all you do.

Thank you for all you are.

Thank you for being part of our movement to make workplaces more human.

We all love what we do.

Now let's love going to 'work' - the place where we get to do what we love.

From all of us at The Coalition for Regenerative Work