Weaving Connections
Weaving Connections offers a diversity of workshops and processes for personal, collective and organizational learning, reflection, healing and transformation.
We live in profoundly dynamic, shifting times - many of us feel the ways our current structure and systems no longer serve us. The time is ripe for radically loving possibilities.
I work alongside individuals and groups to support learning and growth processes that invite the fullness of our mind, heart, body and spirit wisdom to guide us - embodying new and ancient ways of being that uplift and honour all of life seen and unseen. In inviting vulnerability, honesty, courage, curiosity and creativity, together we can co-create a lived experience that is rooted in relational well-being from the inside-out.
I am in service to a bless life for all.
Organizational Changemaking
I love connecting and collaboration with teams of all kinds. It offers me the opportunity to keep learning and understanding what justice and transformation mean within a particular ecosystem. When an organization is clear in itself and grounded in its foundational values, principles of practice and healthy relationships, it can function and grow with greater integrity and ease.
I work alongside you - harnessing your wisdom and intelligence - in order to co-create processes that feel aligned, empowering and enlivening to your team. Whether it is working through relational conflict, nurturing cultures of peace and inclusion or working toward a common goal, I am here to walk alongside you with presence, creativity and affirmation.
More recently, I have been called to longer, slower accompaniments where I act as an anchor and support to your team as you build collective capacity and confidence in nurturing the working culture you seek to take root.
Working with folx 1:1 is a sacred privilege and gift into the unique cosmos that is YOU. I work alongside you supporting your own inherent body-wisdom to offer insight, nurturance, healing and guidance.
These offerings come in more active and receptive forms. The more active Somatic Accompaniment sessions draw on embodied and play-based modalities to explore questions, challenges or desires. Through our exploration I am a guide and witness, supporting your own inner intelligence to illuminate your journey onward.
Reiki+ Healing Sessions are an opportunity to simply receive an energetic attunement. Using a blend of Usui Reiki, Ancient Egyptian Bio-Touch and Galactic Healing, these sessions support mental, emotional, physical, spiritual and ancestral healing through the channeling of the life force energy of LOVE.
One:One Offerings
On-going Learning
On-going learning is a beautiful journey of continuing to expand our ways of understanding, moving through and being in the world. There is a richness in leaning into our curiosities and continuing to expand the canvas of our knowing.
I support the on-going learning and capacity-building of groups in various modalities and forms. These includes Theatre of the Oppressed (radical participatory social justice theatre!), Facilitation Approaches for Community Space Holding and Reiki Attunement & Training (Level 1 & up).
Regardless of the nature of the learning, I thrive on co-creating a learning environment that is affirming, expansive and fun!
Play Revolution!
Want to play with me?!
InterPlay invites us to play with our birth right - yes birthright - of word, sound, movement, dance, storytelling and stillness. It is an opportunity to welcome the whole of ourselves and attune to our body-wisdom in pursuit of greater ease, joy, grace, spaciousness and rest in our lives. Its forms and tools are “sneaky deep”, fun and life-activating.
InterPlay is highly adaptable and is equally potent in supporting new groups in connecting as it is in enabling well seasoned teams to nurturing greater connectivity and belonging.
How to Contact Weaving Connections
Weaving Connections
natalie abdou ~ natty
416-457-1060
natalie.abdou@gmail.com
“Natty carries such spirit, groundedness, and authenticity into any space that she enters, inspiring those within it to open up to be their best true selves. She is a creative soul who is keenly skilled at shining light into spaces and bringing people together making anything seem possible. ”
— Dina Cindric, Kosa Folk Camp participant