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Want to know how to feel happier, more confident, and worry less right now? Would you like to learn new ways of dealing with what life throws at you? Living Life to the Full is a fun and interactive course that will help you understand your feelings, thoughts, and behaviors, and what to do about them!

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Living Life to the Full is a mental health promotion course designed to help people deal with everyday life challenges and learn self-management skills using Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) principles. Course content and materials are practical and easily applied to everyday life situations. The course is suitable for people of all ages – from youth to seniors.

What you learn:
✔ Self-confidence
✔ Problem-solving
✔ Stress management
✔ Motivation
✔ Dealing with unhelpful thoughts
✔ Anger management
 

Get active, explore nature and reconnect. Registration is now open! Join us from June 2nd - July 21st for "Mood Walks", and eight week walking program which promotes both physical and mental wellness. Join us this summer. Registration: https://cmha-easy.on.ca.php/en/events. 

The parking lot of the WFCU Centre will be roaring with activity Saturday June 11th for the 10th annual in-person Meet-A-Machine event.  This free event is designed to promote literacy with children from the Windsor-Essex community in a fun and interactive way.

Upwards of 100 machines will be on hand with their operators to allow children to climb on, discover and explore.  Some of the vehicles include large construction equipment, trucks, race cars, buses and emergency vehicles.  Meet-A-Machine is brought to you by The City of Windsor, Children’s Services department.

Come and enjoy this innovative event!

What:             Free Community Literacy Event – “Meet-A-Machine”
When:            Saturday, June 11, 2022  10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Sensory Hour (Registration Required) 9:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m.
Rain or shine.

Where:          Windsor Family Credit Union (WFCU) Centre Parking Lot
8787 McHugh Street
Windsor

In commemoration of National Indigenous History Month, Belleville Public Library is honoured to partner with FNTI and welcome Jamie Maracle for a special presentation about Wampum belts. 

Wampum belts are traditional teaching tools that record Rotinonshon:ni history and knowledge. Traditions state that They have been used for over 2,000 years.  Each of the dozens of belts have Their Own teachings and stories.

Come hear about the origins of the belts, how the belts are made, and the teachings that They offer. In doing so, this discussion with touch on the history of the Rotinononshon:ni as well.

Jamie Maracle has been making wampum belts for at least 25 years and has been presenting about Them for almost as long. He is from Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory and has traveled to Six Nations of the Grand River, Akwesasne, Kanewake, Onondaga and more to learn the traditions of the Wampum belts, and other Rotinonshon:ni traditions. 

Saturday, June 11, 11:00am-1:00pm in the 3rd floor Meeting Room. 

To register, call (613) 968-6731 x2037 or email infoserv@bellevillelibrary.ca. 

60th Anniversary of the Welland Rose Festival