In British Columbia there is an abundance of fruit bearing trees. European settlers were planting fruit trees as early as 1826. Though many people have fruit trees within their reach, they often go unattended and their harvest ends up rotting on someone's lawn. While bugs devour the local fruit, the same general kind is still bought at grocery stores - but for its durability and good looks rather than its local significance, flavour or tradition.

Fruit tree projects try to take these trees that are producing good usable, tasty food and harvest them to their full potential.

Lifecycles produced this handbook about how to put on several different workshops for schools and communities. The workshops use drama to talk about the importance of food security and sustainability in an accessible and fun way. Participants become involved in skits and theatre that communicate real issues in food justice. The workshops range from an hour to two hours in length. Each workshop contains:

A supply list

Detailed outline

Suggested age groups

Specific focus

Optional modifications

This two hour sex positive workshop covers how to make safer sex a little more fun (and therefore more likely to happen). Make sure that there's lots of safer sex barriers to show off before people get too excited. This workshop includes:

Sex positive definitions

What is consent

Creating safe space

Condom banana ice breaker

A full agenda

Sexy role play scripts for participants

This workshop is a great way to start to build an understanding of HIV in a community. It's a basic myth-busting workshop guide from AIDS Community Care Montreal. The guide outlines:

What is HIV

How it's transmitted

How to treat it

How to get tested

Minimizing risk

Union organizers don't have an easy task ahead of them. Workplace politics, stress and anti-union sentiments can take their toll. It's important for organizers to recognize how fear and power can be used to undermine their cause. This hour long workshop outlines how to empower workers and create a safe place where they can conqueor their fears. 

The workshop from Organizing for Power details:

Exercises so workers can recognize how workplace hierarchies can create fear

Identify and confront their fears through discussion