Serenity Renewal for Families Provides:
- hope and support to individuals and families
- counselling services (for children, youth, adults and families)
- virtual educational workshops, Continuing Care (for people who have completed
in-patient treatment) and Parents Forever (a support group for adult parents)
Information about Our Counselling Services
Available for individuals, couples and families affected directly or indirectly by addictions and other emotional well-being issues.
For more information about counselling,
Please call our office at 613-523-5143
(Monday to Friday, 9:30am to 2:00pm)
Information about Our Virtual Workshops
Designed to promote emotional and spiritual well-being in a safe environment.
There is no requirement to see a counsellor before taking a workshop. However, a counsellor may recommend a series of workshops based on an assessment of your individual personal situation.
Fee for Workshops
The standard fee for each virtual workshop is $140
Our services are accessible to everyone equally
If your individual situation does not enable you to pay the standard fee, a sliding fee scale and
100% subsidies are available.
If you are interested in any of our winter virtual workshops, please
email workshops@serenityrenewal.ca or
call our office at 613-523-5143
(Monday to Friday, 9:30am to 2:00pm)
Winter 2021 Virtual Workshops Schedule
January – March
Couples Communication
Saturday, January 16 and Sunday, January 17: 9:30 am to 12:30 pm
Facilitator: Wally Clare
This workshop is not group therapy or counselling. In this workshop, you will learn communication skills that can be practiced, improving your relationship.
Family of Origin
Monday, January 25 to Thursday, January 28: 1:30 pm to 3:00 pm
Facilitator: Wally Clare
Growing up in an alcoholic or dysfunctional family can be difficult. We may have been exposed to patterns of abuse, abandonment, and neglect. These experiences may still influence our choices in relationships, careers and self-care. Understanding our family of origin experiences may provide us with insight into our personal journey with addictions, codependency, recovery and healing.
Mindfulness and Eating
Saturday, January 30: 9:30 am to 3:30 pm (with a one-hour break for lunch)
Facilitator: Sofie Charron
Learn how mindfulness can renew and rebuild your relationship with food. Discover strategies to help you overcome eating-related shame, guilt and stress toward more enjoyment and satisfaction.
Sexuality: Unhealthy Patterns, Healthy Choices
Monday, February 8 to Thursday, February 11: 1:30 pm to 3:00 pm
Facilitator: Gerard Vardy
Healthy relationships offer us balance and attachment in our lives. It is through physical connectedness, emotional excitement and a sense of personal comfort and belonging that we are able to maintain healthy relationships. We all desire that emotional closeness and connectedness and attachment. Making healthy relationships choices, including healthy sexual choices are essential for personal growth. Sometimes our needs and wounds can lead us into unhealthy choices and these desires can leave us feeling incomplete, inadequate and alone.
*** Office Closed — Family Day — Monday, February 15 ***
Grief: Coping With Loss
Tuesday, February 16 to Friday, February 19: 1:30 pm to 3:00 pm
Facilitator: Wally Clare
Loss in any form can cause a host of feelings, including anxiety, hopelessness, anger, sadness and despair. Learn how to process grief and to find hope. Grief issues are an important consideration for everyone wanting to follow a journey of healing and recovery.
Codependency: Reclaim Your Identify
Saturday, February 27 and Sunday, February:28: 9:30 am to 12:00 pm
Facilitator: Marian Meade
Codependent behaviour is a learned coping style that includes hyper focusing on others while being unable to express one’s own needs. Learn to reclaim your identity and create authentic relationships.
Control and Perfectionism
Monday, March 1 to Thursday, March 4: 1:30 pm to 3:00 pm
Facilitator: Wally Clare
Controlling behaviours often cause stress. They often lead us to feel insecure in our relationships. Many of us are perfectionists. Even minor flaws and errors can crash our fragile self-esteem.
Boundaries and Relationships
Monday, March 15 to Thursday, March 18: 1:30 pm to 3:00 pm
Facilitator: Wally Clare
What is a boundary? How are they formed, shaped, damaged, or broken? How can we recognize healthy and unhealthy boundaries in ourselves and others? What do our relationship patterns and choices tell us about the health of our own personal boundaries? How does the setting of new boundaries help in the healing of our broken or empty relationship patterns?
Body Image and My Sense of Self
Saturday, March 20: 9:30 am to 3:30 pm (with a one-hour break for lunch)
Facilitator: Deborah Brooks
Deeply held beliefs about how I look and how I feel about how I look, can affect my relationship with self and others. Looking with compassion at our bodies, and exploring where the negative beliefs came from will help us move towards peace and joy.
Mindfulness for Mood
Saturday, March 27: 9:30 am to 3:30 pm (with a one-hour break for lunch)
Facilitator: Sofie Charron
Find out how mindfulness skills can help improve the way you respond to difficult thoughts and emotions in everyday situations and in times of crisis. Learn about the many different ways to practice mindfulness through walking, breathing, eating and more.
Resentment: Letting Go of the Past
Monday, March 29 to Thursday, April 1: 1:30 pm to 3:00 pm
Facilitator: Wally Clare
Resentment is simply defined as “bitter indignation at having been treated unfairly”. Our addiction and codependency literature identifies resentment as the single most dangerous defect in our journey of healing and recovery. This workshop will provide the opportunity to explore the roots of our resentments and the path we need to follow to let them go.
