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Community Works Manitoba Inc. is a not-for-profit community development and training organization based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. 

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Over the past 30 years we have worked with program administrators, front line staff and community volunteers in First Nation communities and urban social service agencies to develop and deliver a wide range of economic and healing and wellness initiatives.  

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Whether the focus is on economic or social challenges, we always begin by inviting participants to share stories from their own lives and from the lives of their ancestors. We believe that it is our own stories that hold the wisdom we need to create safer, more just, and healthier futures. 

VISION

Community Works envisions a society in which individuals, families, and communities apply their stories, wisdom, and strengths to address critical challenges and to help build safer, more just, and healthier futures.

MISSION

We create spaces for addressing challenges and celebrating accomplishments through sharing stories and diverse perspectives. Our workshops provide individuals and groups with tools to imagine new possibilities and engage in individual and collective change.

UPCOMING EVENTS

CIRCLES OF CARE:
Supporting Substance-involved Mothers
A workshop for women

Facilitated by Frances Ravinsky

M.A. (Clinical Psychology)

 

August 29 – 30, 2024

9:00am – 4:00pm

 

Winnipeg, MB

Mediation Services

1200 Portage Ave, Rm.302

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CALL FOR PARTNERSHIPS
Who are the Storytellers in your communityy?

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Community Works would love to partner with your organization on a multi-media storytelling project. NEW HORIZONS FOR SENIORS PROGRAM fund is inviting applications for a Community Grant with a deadline of Sept. 12, 2024. Because it takes time to work together to develop a project proposal, we'd love to hear from you as soon as possible. The proposed theme for the story project is Our Connection to the Earth. The project can involve senior/elder storytellers, or can be developed as an inter-generational story exchange between elders and youth. Community Works would be pleased to visit your organization and deliver a presentation on our transformative approach to story work. And we’d love to have a conversation with you about how our own stories help us create a sweeter and more just world. Visit our website to learn more about our story work https://www.community-works.ca/heart-of-the-matter and see samples of stories from our workshops. https://www.community-works.ca/digital-stories. We’d love to hear from the storytellers in your community.

STORY EXCHANGE PROJECT

Watch for a 10-year retrospective of Community Works' digital storytelling projects. Participants from past digital story workshops will join us for a public screening of their video stories.

A big shout out and thanks to Assiniboine Credit Union for their generous financial support for this project. 

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RECENT EVENTS

EARTHSONG: SINGING FOR CONNECTION

From July 29th to August 2nd Frances Ravinsky from Community Works participated in Earthsong, a week-long singing camp for adults, held at United Church in Meadowood in Winnipeg. At this time of great anxiety about the destruction of the earth and all its inhabitants, participants were invited to explore their connection to the earth and to each other, and to express their fears and hopes for the future through song, art, storytelling, and music. Frances had the privilege of facilitating a daily storytelling circle where participants explored personal stories through oral storytelling, writing, and visual art. Much thanks to Caryn, Karen, Jeremy, and Evan from the organizing committee for this rich opportunity. Special thanks to Lynda Trono, organizer, climate activist and special friend for inviting me.

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"We are story. All of us. What comes to matter then is the creation of the best possible story we can while we’re here; you, me, us, together. When we can do that and we take the time to share those stories with each other, we get bigger inside, we see each other, we recognize our kinship – we change the world, one story at a time…”

- Richard Wagamese

Featured Digital Story

A story about claiming one's space with the help of a mother's gift of stories.

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