The pandemic provided us with an unexpected opportunity to learn to let go of what we thought that we were offering, and to expand our offerings to the community in a whole new way. Before COVID hit, our team operated out of East Vancouver. We mindfully created our space with a very intentional decision to furnish every part of The Grounding Stone in accordance with our environmental ethics. All of the furniture in our space was reclaimed and adopted from the community and many of the pieces have come to us with lovely stories, energy, and connections. When we closed our doors and transitioned to virtual offerings, we donated most of our furniture back to the community.
All of the art and photography in the space was created by local artists from British Columbia and Alberta with whom we share values of impacting change, sustainability, relationship, and community. When we closed our physical space and transitioned to a virtual clinic, we donated our art to Insite, the first sanctioned supervised drug injection site in North America in the downtown eastside.
The Grounding Stone Community is brushed with turquoise, a fresh color energy of growth, life, discovery and balance. We chose this background for our sessions with the intention of relieving stress, restoring calm and helping us all to bring our focus back to center. When we are able to ground in our selves, we are increasingly able to accept our creative capacities and to contribute to the collective.
We operate within the unceded traditional territory of the Skwxwú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish), Xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Səl̓ilwətaɁɬ təməxʷ (Tsleil-Waututh), Lheidli T'enneh, and the K'ómoks Peoples.
While TheGS was birthed in East Vancouver, we now provide services to communities all across British Columbia and are able to support clients from all over the province including but not limited to: Vancouver, North Vancouver, New Westminster, Burnaby, Richmond, the Fraser Valley, Hope, Princeton, Sea to Sky, Pemberton, Whistler, Squamish, the Gulf Islands, the Sunshine Coast, Vancouver Island, the Okanagan, the Kootenays, the Cariboo Chilcotin Coast, Yellowhead, up the Alaska Highway, the Stewart-Cassiar, and Haida Gwaii.