Name: Reconnecting
Start: 2024-06-03T10:00:00-07:00
End: 2024-06-03T11:00:00-07:00
Location: Hadden Park

Join us for a meaningful, fun and nourishing morning on the beach for caregivers and children in a small group setting. We invite you to reconnect through mindfulness, supportive climate conversation, nature play, and music.
Please register in advance: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/905776390567?aff=oddtdtcreator
Led by Moms Liane Lowe and Barb Shaw
What to expect:
- orientation and land acknowledgement
- opt in breath and mindfulness exercise
- music and movement
- snack and story-time
- nature art and play activities for children and adults
- facilitated supportive conversations on our thoughts and feelings about living in today’s changing climate
- brainstorming simple actions we can take together in our own communities
- closing circle
About Liane and Barb
Liane Lowe (she/her)
Liane is a full-time raise at home mother of almost-three year old Morgan. While she always felt a draw to nature, and a concern for the climate, it wasn’t until Morgan was born that she really found herself facing her own climate grief and anxiety. Over the past three years, she has been on her own journey to understand how to “be a better human, while still being a human”. She completed the Good Grief Network’s 10 Steps to Personal Resilience and Empowerment in a Changing Climate in 2022, and found this to be an immensely healing and empowering process in navigating parenting in a changing climate. Liane is passionate about creating climate action through connecting to the land, forming strong communities, and helping others discover their own way to make a difference.
Outside of climate action and parenting, Liane is also a health and fitness coach, helping others move and feel better in their daily lives. She loves making delicious home cooked meals, ocean dips, games nights with friends and curling up on the couch with her partner to watch a good show.
Barb Shaw (she/her)
Barb has two children and has been working with kids her whole life. She is a lifelong musician, songwriter, teacher and therapist now retired and happily making sand angels (occasionally with Morgan and Liane) and lying in the sun with the waves and wind, drumming and playing her guitar. She has been singing songs about love, peace and unity and calling out the forces that be, ever since the anti-war, anti-nuclear and human rights revolutions of the 60’s and 70’s.
Barb has been involved in non-violent protest of many sorts, large and small, over the years, creating custom songs for the issues of the day. Now she volunteers with local climate action groups, including Decolonial Solidarity Vancouver. Barb loves all kinds of weather and the great outdoors and can often be seen riding her e-bike around town, sometimes meeting Liane and Morgan at the beach for a midday visit.
Here’s a playlist of originals that Barb wrote about the animals and nature of Stanley Park and Lost Lagoon:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCTXME_tvLBPu9S5Pytz017hAupUPa3rc&si=F8ql-UXwfDRttI-k

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https://www.youtube.com/@randomoldlady_