By bringing mindfulness meditation, leadership training & mentoring, nature awareness skills and food sovereignty, this training will support you to develop resilience and inner supports by building skills and practices that are needed in order to meet the challenges we are all are currently facing in the world. It will give you skills to calm your minds and to explore your relationships with mind and body, as well as the heart by learning how to skillfully handle emotions and difficult thoughts. Through daily practices you learn to direct and sustain attention, cultivate compassion, and ways to listen deeply and communicate authentically to one another. You will explore nature-awareness practices both in living with nature, but also by encountering the natural world on its terms, by learning the skills of observation, identification, and by overcoming your fears and discomfort. You will learn about our shared relationship with food and the role of food sovereignty as well as spending time in the vegetable garden, weeding, planting, building soil, harvesting food, etc, and participating in the creative process of meal preparation. An important element of food sovereignty is giving our youth resources in meeting the challenges of climate change and addressing our relationship with globalization of food, by exploring where does our food comes from? An integral element of the program is building community, fostering mentorship, especially intergenerationally, and embracing cross-cultural ceremonies and the expressive arts.