Co-Creating A Better World
Community Intergenerational Wellness, Empowerment, & Sustainability
At Boho & Knots, our vision and mission extend beyond
products, services, sales and workshops.
We are dedicated to creating positive social impacts by
fostering vibrant, intentional, and resilient
communities and collaborations that centre
wellness and creative expansion.
It's our goal to develop, promote, and support opportunities
that empower us all to continue the good work of building a
sustainable future to enjoy for generations to come.
Core Essence of Our Offerings
We create / co-create culturally rooted, trauma informed opportunities, that integrate sensory wellness using macrame and nature, and frameworks that support:
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Individuals, communities, and families
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People impacted by forced migration or displacement
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Those navigating intergenerational trauma and are exploring or curious about intergenerational repair, healing, and realignment
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Those looking for sensory and culturally aligned early-mid interventions for wholistic wellness plans (including discharge planning)
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Communities impacted by systemic and intra-group (lateral violence); especially racialized and BIPOC communities, women spaces, and those from neurodiverse groups who have adaptable strengths
Tools we use primarily are macrame, textile-based learning, and related STEM:
In addition to the above, we also integrate elements of nature into our work and other tactile and textured arts. As such we collaborate with pottery, horticulture, wood working spaces to:
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Offer opportunities for repetitive, soothing, rhythmic patterns for creating
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Support sensory-friendly, neurodivergent-inclusive
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Allow for meditative, grounding, calming, and embodies practices
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Respect culturally meaningful and ancestral structures
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Ensure accessibility to people who respond best to therapeutic and wellness approaches that allow for more hands-on - mind-body-connection integration
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Flexibility allows for the integration of accessible science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) components
Ancestral and land-based wisdom and teachings:
While we appreciate the advancement of technology in capacities that support sustainable wellness, we recognize that traditional, ancient, and ancestral ways of being also have a place in supporting our wellbeing.
As such, our work includes focus on:
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Regeneration (land, body, and spirit)
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Eco-therapy practices
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Reconnection with lineage, one's core sense of identity, and cultural resilience
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Repairing fractures, alienation, and estrangement when possible as we recognize these are outcomes of systemic traumas and disruption
Creative Textured & Tactile Art to Cultivate Sustainable Wellness
We recognize the reciprocal relationship between creativity and wellbeing. Both are needed to foster and sustain a life rooted in purpose and intention.
As a result, our work includes:
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Intentional community building
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Tactile, visual, oral and other forms of [re]storytelling
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Self-reclamation
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Affirmations
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Confidence building
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Collective healing circles
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Culturally safe spaces for racialized and BIPOC women, families, youth, and seniors - this includes those of mixed ancestry, ethnicities, and those who have land-based heritage rooted in more than one nation or race
Goals of Our Intentional Community Building and Related Offerings Include:
Supporting those looking for sensory response spaces and wellness modalities, groups, and activities
Uplifting people recovering, healing, and rehabilitating from trauma, injuries, and complex health matters - visible or invisible
Integrating ancestral wisdom and teachings
Supporting people as they restore
balance and equilibrium
Creating and Co-Creating opportunities to work on new relationship and family dynamics and patterns that are safe, restorative, and sensory aligned
Sustainability
Collaborating for a Better Tomorrow
We believe social impact intertwines with commitments to sustainability. At Boho & Knots, we promote responsible consumption, advocate for eco-friendly practices, and educate on the importance of environmental stewardship for the well-being of current and future generations.
In our macrame workshops, we prioritize using organic and biodegradable such as cotton, hemp, jute. At times, we repurposed materials or textiles on a 2nd life (that have been donated or locally traded) such as leather or paracord.
Additionally, for our art-based workshops that include STEM,
we also use tools and equipment that are responsibly
sourced and are environmentally safe.
We also make an intention to collaborate with local artists,
businesses, and organizations (here in Canada and abroad) to
integrate creative ideas for greater impact.
We are also working on extending the reach of our macrame
workshop by incorporating a mobile. This will not just allow us to help ensure we can cultivate wellness, using the art-of-knots
"on the go", but we can also extend other offerings
by going on the road with collaborators and make
improvements to wellbeing more accessible!
More on this development to come!
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