Community Wellness Groups

Community Wellness Groups provide many of the professional insights available in psychotherapy while also offering the benefit of social connection.  They do not, however, provide private and individualized support. 

If you are interested in our community wellness groups, for yourself or for a patient, please complete the appropriate form below, or email admin@mentalrefuge.ca.

Wellness Group for myself
Wellness Group for a patient

About GRoups

How groups work: you meet with your group facilitator and other group registrants to listen to a short lesson, complete activities and discuss on that session’s topic.

Schedule: 1.5 hour sessions, every week for 8-10 weeks, as specified during the registration process.

Community Wellness Groups at Mental Refuge

We offer the following groups:

Self-Care for the Self-Sustaining: discussing concepts and strategies related to ‘self-care’ – that is, practices that nourish our physical, psychological, social/communal, creative, spiritual and intellectual selves – for those who are under-resourced in terms of time, space, money and energy.

LGBTQ+ and Racialized: discussing the politics and practicalities of inhabiting multiple and intersecting categories of marginalization, and strategies for wellness in the context of systemic disadvantage.

Loving our Children while Loving Ourselves: discussing concepts related to modern parenting, and strategies for wellness in the context of new routines, constraints and demands. 

While in Waiting: discussing concepts and strategies for wellness in the context of a refugee claim or another period of transitional uncertainty.

Rates

Group rates vary from $0 to $200