group offerings

embracing elderhood

An eight-week support group to help you navigate later-life with grace and grit.

Discover purpose, meaning, motivation and inspiration in

the ‘third act’ of your life.

Join me for an engaging and enlightening eight-week, in-person small-group journey to explore what elderhood can mean for you.

In good company, and drawing upon carefully selected research, literature, poetry and music, we’ll engage with juicy questions facing seasoned people like yourself, including:

What holds meaning for me in this era of my life?
How can I live with loss, limitation and/or illness?
What does it mean to be an ‘elder’ in our society?
Is there unfinished business for me to address?
What is the nature of my relationship with death?

Bring your gnarliest challenges, your wildest wonderings and your deepest yearnings along with your willingness to listen, your openness to discover and your vulnerability to share with fellow humans encountering the provocations of maturation in today’s turbulent world.

When: Wednesday evenings - 6:00 - 8:00pm

Dates: 24 Sept - 19 Nov, 2025 (No group 22 Oct).

Where: Libby's lovely home office in Canora, West End.

Cost: $480 CAD.

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the sanctuary

An eight-week bereavement support group for helping professionals.

Are you struggling to grieve a difficult personal loss while supporting others in your professional role?

If so, then this group is for you.

Leave your helper 'hat' at the door, and enter the sanctuary;

a place where release, respite, grief and loss are felt, shared and held; in good company and in comfortable, cosy surroundings.

Guided by experienced, skilled and compassionate counsellor and group facilitator, Libby Kostromin, this eight-week support group is designed to meet the particular needs of helping professionals navigating personal grief and loss. It provides:

a focus on personal and professional self-care practices to nourish and sustain you as you journey with grief
a intentional grief space in which to share — openly and in strict confidence — about the nature of your loss and its impact on your work
creative activities to help you attune with, and express loss-related thoughts, feelings, sensations and memories
a coherent series of lightly guided weekly sessions that each include time for contemplation and meditation
opportunities to explore and discuss helpful research, literature and other resources about grief and loss.

The Sanctuary is an intimate, in-person, support group for people who help others, when we need help.

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why join a support group?

Group work is a great way to deepen your understanding of yourself in relation to others while exploring common challenges.
Participating in a well-facilitated support group can help you to reduce stress, find emotional support and validation, develop new social connections, gain new insights or ideas, elevate your self-care, explore life's deeper questions, build self-confidence, open to new perspectives, combat loneliness and become more authentic and empowered.

For me, groups are magical spaces of connection, exploration, empathy and discovery, where true community can express itself. The giving and receiving of stories, support and ideas enriches everyone involved.

In these turbulent times we need each other more than ever, and we need distraction-free spaces in which to quieten and connect. Human beings are social creatures after all; even us introverts. ;-) When we come together to share, cry, laugh, listen, enquire, wonder or learn, we are never the same when we leave.

Jonny Gios