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TEAO - Trauma and Embodiment Association of Ontario

A nonprofit organization aiming to
"Transform Mental Health Care in Canada, One Community at a Time"

06/12/2026

Today was a reminder with that belonging isn’t something we find — it’s something we create together.

Through the Waterloo District School Board, Waterloo Oxford DSS we gathered, connected, laughed, reflected, and celebrated the beautiful diversity of experiences that make up our community. In a world that often encourages comparison and division, these young people showed us the power of curiosity, courage, and care.

One message we hope they carry with them:

✨ “Love is not just a feeling. Love is how we listen. Love is how we include. Love is how we speak to ourselves and one another.”

The world doesn’t change because a few people do extraordinary things. It changes when ordinary people choose to care for one another in extraordinary ways.

To every student, educator, organizer, and community member who shared your energy today: thank you.

You belong.
You are not alone.
Your story matters.

Your presence changes every room you enter. ❤️

DiversityAndInclusion Connection YouthVoice TEAOCanada

06/08/2026

🎉 GIVEAWAY WINNER ANNOUNCEMENT! 🎉

A huge congratulations to Candace Brown, the winner of our Celebration of Hearts & Spirit Gala Giveaway! 🖤✨

We are so excited to celebrate with you on June 20th as we gather for an evening of connection, community, laughter, entertainment, and collective care.

Thank you to everyone who entered, shared, and supported this giveaway. Your support helps us continue advancing trauma-responsive education, community healing initiatives, and the future vision of TEAO Canada.

Didn’t win? We’d still love to celebrate with you! Tickets are available now, and every ticket helps support meaningful change in our communities. 💛

HealingTogether MentalHealthMatters DoBetter CommunityHealing Gala2026

06/07/2026

📣 VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES WITH TEAO CANADA 📣

As our community continues to grow, we’re looking for two passionate volunteers to help us expand our impact and keep our community connected:

🎨 Content Creator & Campaign Coordinator

Support our DO BETTER Campaign (June–August) through social media graphics, reels, videos, and digital storytelling that inspires conversations around mental health, accountability, healing, and collective care.
⏰ 3–4 hours/month

Check our our TEAO store here https://www.teaocanada.com/store or “Do Better” store in 🔗 in bio.

✍🏾 Community Newsletter Journalist & Engagement Coordinator

Help create our monthly newsletter by sharing stories, educational resources, volunteer highlights, community updates, surveys, YouTube content, upcoming trainings, and opportunities that keep our readers engaged and informed.
⏰ 1–2 hours/month
Both roles offer:
✨ Flexible remote volunteering
✨ Resume and portfolio-building experience
✨ Professional references
✨ The opportunity to contribute to meaningful community impact

If you’re creative, community-minded, and looking to use your skills to support a growing trauma-responsive organization, we’d love to connect with you.

📧 Apply by emailing [email protected] or sending us a direct message.

Together, we’re building safer, more connected communities—one story, one conversation, and one act of care at a time.

06/02/2026

2 DAYS LEFT 📣📣📣

to Enter for a Chance to Win
2 Tickets
To Our Celebration of Hearts & Spirit Gala

TO ENTER:
1. Follow
2. Like this post
3. Share to your story & tag us

4. BONUS ENTRY: Tag someone you’d bring with you below. ✨

Winner announced: Monday June 8th, 2026
 Gala Date: June 20, 2026 📍 | Cambridge, ON

Whether you’ve been walking alongside TEAO for years or are just finding us now — thank you for helping us build spaces that bridge the gaps in mental health care through trauma-responsive, embodied, and community-rooted care.

05/31/2026

What if trauma education didn’t feel like a classroom… but felt like a living room?

A space where people can exhale.
A space where conversations become connection.
A space where embodiment becomes action through body movements.

Our Collective Care Series: Special Offering is not just about learning trauma-informed language — it’s about experiencing what care feels like in the body, in relationship, and in community.

Through guided conversation, embodied education, reflection, and gentle movement, we explore how healing is not only personal — it is systemic.

Because movements are not created through information alone.

They are created when people feel safe enough to connect, reflect, and imagine something different together.

At TEAO Canada, we are committed to creating embedded support within existing systems — supporting people before crisis, not only after it. We work within the gaps of the mental health care system to increase accessibility for those who continue to face barriers to care, belonging, and support.

This is what embodied care can look like:
💭 Community instead of isolation
💭 Prevention instead of crisis-only intervention
💭 Relationship instead of transaction
💭 Accessibility instead of exclusion

Join us as we create a space that feels less like a program and more like coming home to yourself and others.

📍 The Branches , Kitchener
🗓️ Friday, June 12, 2026
🕠 5:45 PM – 7:00 PM
🫶🏾 $10 Community Contribution

Register Here: 🔗link in bio

05/30/2026

🏆 5 DAYS LEFT — GIVEAWAY TIME 🏆 ends June 6th.

Check out our post on this page for your chance to enter! 🫶🏾

This isn’t just a gala. It’s an evening of connection, storytelling, music, laughter, embodiment, community, and collective care.

A space where people can exhale together.

TO ENTER:
1. Follow
2. Like the post
3. Share to your story & tag us

4. BONUS ENTRY: Tag someone you’d bring with you below. ✨

Winner announced: Monday June 8th, 2026
 Gala Date: June 20, 2026 📍 | Cambridge, ON

Whether you’ve been walking alongside TEAO for years or are just finding us now — thank you for helping us build spaces that bridge the gaps in mental health care through trauma-responsive, embodied, and community-rooted care.

05/29/2026

Education INCOMING:

Repost from

Boys should know a real yes.

Just because someone says yes doesn’t mean it’s a real one.

If you had to convince them, pressure them, or keep asking… it was already a no.

A real yes is clear. No hesitation. No pressure. No confusion.

Anything else? Leave it alone.

05/25/2026

🏆GIVEAWAY TIME 🏆 ends June 6th.

We’re counting down the final 10 days until the TEAO Canada Celebration of Hearts & Spirit Gala — and we want to gift 2 tickets to someone in our community. 🤍

This isn’t just a gala. It’s an evening of connection, storytelling, music, laughter, embodiment, community, and collective care.

A space where people can exhale together.

TO ENTER:
1. Follow
2. Like this post
3. Share to your story & tag us

4. BONUS ENTRY: Tag someone you’d bring with you below. ✨

Winner announced: Monday June 8th, 2026
 Gala Date: June 20, 2026 📍 408 | Cambridge, ON

Whether you’ve been walking alongside TEAO for years or are just finding us now — thank you for helping us build spaces that bridge the gaps in mental health care through trauma-responsive, embodied, and community-rooted care.

05/23/2026

Tomorrow at 1pm: Our Monthly Collective Care Series isn’t just an event - it’s a rhythm. A monthly return to selt, to community, and to the kind of care we’re not always taught to practice.

In these spaces, we slow down. We listen. We remember that healing doesn’t happen in isolation - it happens in relationship, in witnessing, in being held and holding others.

We created this series because too many of us are carrying silently. Because burnout is normalized. Because community care is not a luxury - it’s a necessity.

So every month, we open the circle.
For release. For reflection. For real connection.
If you’ve been needing a space like this... this is your invitation.

Collective Care Series
Sunday, May 24
1:00 PM
The Branches , Kitchener

Register here:
🔗 in bio under Free Community Events ‘Kitchener Collective Care Series’

PeerSupport

05/21/2026

Why does TEAO create non-clinical spaces?

Because not every need for care begins in a crisis room, therapy office, or formal service pathway.

Sometimes people need a space where they can breathe before they explain.
A space where they can be witnessed without being assessed.
A space where support does not begin with a diagnosis, a file, or a clinical label.

At TEAO Canada, our non-clinical spaces exist to support connection, grounding, reflection, and community care.

They are not a replacement for therapy, crisis support, or medical care.

They are part of the wider ecosystem of care that many people need, especially those who have experienced barriers, harm, or disconnection within traditional systems.

Non-clinical care can look like:

being in community
learning to notice the body
practicing grounding
sharing only what feels safe
listening without pressure
building trust over time
remembering that healing is relational

We create these spaces because care should not only be available when people are already overwhelmed.

Care can also be preventative.
It can be embodied.
It can be community-rooted.
It can happen in the quiet moments where people begin to feel held again.

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Kitchener, ON

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https://www.teaocanada.com/

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