Growth and Gratitude
The Grassroots Gratitude community hub.
Got something to say? Here is a place for you to share your musings, celebrate gratitude, and expand your community connections.
A Space to Share Inspiration
The Grassroots Gratitude blog is both an open space for readers to introduce us to their ideas, ah-ha’s, love letters to the community, and also a place where Lorraine Widmer-Carson will share her honest insights. Here you can find inspiration to think differently, keep an open mind and expand your awareness of community leaders who take action, with gratitude. Through a grateful lens, community leaders understand that every decision can have a ripple effect. By reflecting and writing with gratitude, each of us can contribute to an upward spiral of positivity, connectivity, resilience, and change.
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Morning Rituals – what is yours?
I love mornings. I also love my morning ritual with a kind of fierce passion. For thirty years, regardless of the season, regardless of surgery dates or where I am […]
Every Day Leadership. Every day.
Grassroots Gratitude has recently revised its mission: Fostering gratitude as the secret strength of everyday leadership. Every day. Gratitude Ignition Guide: Inspiring thoughtful writing my second publication, expands on the […]
Closure for the Abundant Heart
Following the conclusion of the Winter 2023 Gratitude Trifecta series, community members met for a March Morning Mixer at Cascade Ponds. We gathered around a campfire on a wintry morning […]
Learn by Heart
In her own words, this month’s Guest Columnist Alyssa Nebel introduces readers to her Reflection Essay: Learn by Heart enviro_educ4374_learn-by-heart_alyssa-nebel Preamble… In the final semester of my Education degree, I took […]
Weighting the bar – Grief and Gratitude
Weightlifters know that before lifting a heavy bar, it is essential to get the weights balanced and establish your centre of balance – feet, hips, shoulder, hands, head. Chin tucked […]
March Morning Mixer… metrics and meaning-making
On a beautiful morning in late March, a group of 20 local leaders living in the Banff, Canmore, Calgary corridor gathered around a fire for a mix’n’mingle. The invitation was […]
Happy Ground Hog Day, 2023
Groundhog Day? Shadows? Happiness? On February 2, 2023, so the story goes, Wiarton Willie who lives on the Bruce Peninsula in Ontario, did not see his shadow at exactly 8:07 […]
Guest Column: Spotlight on Shawayne Dunstan
NEW for 2023! Grassroots Gratitude invites submissions for in this space. Got something you want to share? If you would like to post your original work as a Grateful Update, […]
The vision behind the story…
Just over a year ago, my book, An Ecology of Gratitude: Writing your way to what matters entered the world. Thanks to many of you, I have surpassed my First […]
Thankful Thursday – after Giving Tuesday 2022
Giving Tuesday identifies itself as being the world’s largest generosity movement. For this hyper-local event in Banff National Park, it was an occasion for hearts and hands to be warmed […]