Becoming Neighbours Workshops
Becoming Neighbours Workshops explore time-tested values that lead to belonging and safety in a world increasingly marked by forced displacement.
The five Becoming Neighbours Workshops are now closed.
Read the Becoming Neighbours Workshops 2023 Report.
If you are
- interested in or actively welcoming refugee claimants
- a person who has lived the refugee journey, reflecting on your welcome story
- part of a refugee sponsorship group or refugee welcoming community
- curious to dive deeper into conversation about what creates a world of welcome
then join the Becoming Neighbours Workshops.
- Explore what motivates your welcome of people who are forcibly displaced.
- Articulate what guides your actions and decisions to walk alongside those seeking refuge.
- Discuss what sustains your welcoming vision amid the chaos of displacement.
Participate (in-person or virtually) in the free, interactive Becoming Neighbours Workshops to strengthen and share your capacities for creating a world of welcome amid forced displacement.
Workshop reports:
- Welcome completed 25 Mar 2023 – see the report and resources.
- Mutual Transformation completed 22 April 2023 – see the report and resources.
- Celebration completed 17 June 2023 – see the report and resources.
- Trust – completed 14 Oct 2023 – see report and resources.
- Prayer – completed 02 Dec 2023 – see report and resources
These five core values have guided the Kinbrace community for 25 years. We don’t assume they are the only values that create safety and belonging with and for people forcibly displaced. We’re just curious to engage a bigger conversation on a values-based approach to creating a world of welcome. Do these values resonate with your experience? Do you have others to add?
Becoming Neighbours Workshops are in partnership with Worn Words Media and co-sponsored by Vancity, Vancouver Foundation, UBC Office of Community Engagement, and UBC Centre for Migration Studies.
