Gender Diverse Wellness Retreat 2025
Start Date
Friday April 25, 2025End Date
Sunday April 27, 2025Time
8:00 am - 7:00 pmLocation
Elbow LakeThis event is hosted by the Yellow House & Student Wellness Services.
Yellow House Student Centre for Equity and Inclusion and Student Wellness Services invites trans, nonbinary, and gender diverse students (undergraduate and graduate) to apply to join us for an overnight wellness retreat to Elbow Lake on April 25th-27th.
Connect, reflect, and celebrate gender diversity on this wellness retreat at Elbow Lake. Connect with gender diverse students, and role models in the community to engage in activities that affirm and empower. Reflect through workshops and spaces that focus on wellbeing and engage in intention setting. Celebrate with community and share your stories through voice and art.
Activities may include: a guided nature hike to learn about the land, a gender diverse song circle, meditation and mindfulness spaces, poetry/lit conversations, show and tell, art making, cooking meals together, canoeing, and more community building activities.
What to Expect:
The spaces, activities, and facilitators engaged for this retreat have been thoughtfully planned by gender diverse staff, students, and wellbeing practitioners for gender diverse students.
We will provide:-meals and snacks, transportation (bus) and accommodations (cabins)
-indoor and outdoor programming
-on the water activities (canoeing)
-optional cooking meals together
-opportunities for rest and solitude, movement and socialization, or creating your own activities – there's lots of flexibility
-an itinerary of all activities, and full menu of all meals will be provided closer to retreat date