we are an art studio and gathering space. our goal: building trust within community through artistic endeavour and peer support.
building confidence through interaction
we’re experiencing an increasing load between limited resources and a growing population of chronically stressed, displaced, and health-challenged individuals in our communities. flame ascending offers programming that focuses on: 1:1 skill building, peer support, and wider community integration.
our programs affect: individuals in need, peer group formation, & the community at large.
struggling individuals in need of care are not the only focus of proper healing—the society which allows undue struggles to proliferate must heal too. we all experience being an outsider, and we are all capable of being participant in community when properly attuned.
as a struggling individual is helped, learns trust, and moves out of fear response, their surrounding community is also given opportunity to better understand their struggles. storytelling (including social interaction), has always been humanity’s classroom. whether sharing hardships others haven’t faced, perspectives reflecting a different walk, or knowledge borne from lesser known experiences, it is together, armed with broader understanding, that we build empathy and serve one another more usefully within society.
“in step” is how we make the town square safer and more peaceful for all.
together we create the place worth living in. whether helping or in need, the cycle of life offers us a seat on both sides eventually…