Ways to Wellness Project

“Ways to Wellness Project (WTWP) will support North Bay and surrounding areas’ alternative high school students at the Laurentian Learning Centre, through Ontario’s severely underutilized course code PPZ3C – an alternative physical education/health & mental wellness class, which addresses all well-being aspects: physical, cognitive, emotional, spiritual & social. The youth-centered arts and wellness duo Soul & Seed Collective will develop, facilitate, and run WTWP with self-directed initiatives and integral collaborations with community organizations, Elders, Indigenous and wellness facilitators. WTWP will support learning and improvement of wellness, health practices and understanding of behaviours that contribute to individual, generational, communal, and cultural wellness. Currently lacking Indigenous cultural components along with media, visual, and musical arts will be integrated into the curriculum, and core school offerings.