Empowerment
By design

I support change and innovation in individuals and their organisations by facilitating better meetings and supporting more effective conversations.
I design and host:

Small to medium cafés, gatherings, conferences, management awaydays, team building retreats and workshops.

Nelson at its Best
sponsored projects - 2019

COMMUNITY CAFES with PARENTS Living on low income
COMMUNITY SERVICES NAVIGATOR
  • This is a Columbia Basin Trust funded pilot project ending May 2019.
  • Navigator Poster here: https://nelson.bc.libraries.coop/files/2018/10/System-Navigator-Poster.pdf
  • Article here:  https://www.nelsonstar.com/home/check-this-out-the-anti-quagmire-solution/
You can call me on
250-352-3806 or email me.

CARINA COSTOM
Facilitator
in Arts-based group process
  • drawing
  • writing
  • improv
  • voice
  • body rhythms and more.
No previous experience in expressive or art making is needed at all.
When leading groups
do you struggle with:
  • Imaginative design     
  • Fun and Engagement    
  • Personality Conflict
  • Creative Risk 
  • Boredom, Exhaustion, Resistance  
  • Diverse Learning Styles
Do you tackle complex topics
such as:
  • Blocked creativity
  • Limited perception of ourselves and what young people are capable of
  • Poverty, racism, otherness, exclusion,
    isolation, housing
  • Low-income and parenting
  • Financial literacy and employability​ for youth
  • Career search and orientation for job seekers
  • The new "canadian" experience of recent immigrants to the West Kootenay.
Art. Works!
Consider arts-based facilitation in the workplace, classroom,
retreat setting or youth camp
to foster new possibilities for equitable change

When I facilitate, I bring a range of tried and tested arts-based approaches to group engagement while fostering safety and a clear direction as to the structure of the day for youth or adult participants. I have lived experience of several of the complex topics I address in groups and I balance these with questions, humour, cultural competencies, flexibility and creative risks as we re-imagine our lives, our homes, organizations and communities together. I enjoy the magic of presence and spontaneity, adapting to what is happening moment-by-moment, the work unfolding before me.

Think differently
Protest usefully
Appreciate what is right in this precious world
Improvise, a lot!

Mission

To provide creative facilitation services in Nelson and area extending throughout the Columbia Basin. To unleash the positive potential of youth,  adults and community organizations through arts-centered intergenerational and multicultural learning programs that value self-awareness, leadership, community empowerment and social change towards equity, diversity and inclusion.
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Vision

To live in a creative community where justice and peace reign and where we are all supported to take creative risks we never thought possible. To live in empathy, take delight in our differences and as a result be propelled to accomplish our biggest dreams knowing that my liberation is bound up with yours.


I BELIEVE

We make a living by what we receive,
but we make a Life by what we give.

Young people (and adults) have the capacity to change -
and to lead change.

To learn more, book a workshop or an individual session,
please connect below .
Header and footer image description
(Images courtesy of Mr. Jordan Bastow). Nelson Baha'i Community's Annual Interfaith Gathering - Winter 2016/2017  and winter 2019. Leaders from almost each faith alive in the Kootenays were present as we all engaged in a song of unity. Facilitator: Carina ( Center). The song "Hine Ma Tov"  means "Behold, how good it is for people to dwell together in unity! Co-Facilitator on Hebrew wisdom around Love and Compassion:  Eliad. The following year the song was Love is Love by Joanie Leeds and the Nightlights.