Welcome to the City
Fall 2023 Cohort
Find Your Way
The Fall 2023 activities of the Welcome to the City (WTTC) varied from going on a mural walking tour, attending workshops facilitated by health professionals, and an interactive cooking workshop. The program offered opportunities to engage with other students from the regions, a handbook detailing life skills resources and offered campus walkthroughs to familiarise young people with the various Montréal CÉGEP campuses.
Take a look at the photos capturing our various activities!
Programming Schedule for Fall 2023 Cohort
September 21st
Orientation Session
with guest speakers:
Fimo Mitchell,
Annick Maugile Flavian
David Robinson
Time: 6:00 - 7:30 pm
September 28th
Cooking on a Small Budget Workshop
Facilitated by: Chef TLight
Location: Studio 414
Time: 6:30 - 8:00 pm
October 4th
Mental health Workshop
Facilitated by: Parneet Chohan
Time: 6:00 - 7:30 pm
Location: Y4Y’s office
October 10th
Mural Walking Tour of The Plateau
Facilitated by: Spade & Palacio
Time: 4:00 - 6:00 pm
October 12th
Healthcare Workshop
Facilitated by: Annik Maugile Flavian
Time: 6:00 - 7:30 pm
Location: Y4Y’s office
Meet the Facilitators
Parneet Chohan
(She/He/They)
Mental Health Workshop
Parneet Chohan, MACP, CCC, SEP is a counsellor, somatic experiencing® practitioner and naturotherapist in private practice. They utilise mindfulness & dharmic principles, along with authentic relating and social justice values to create a hybrid space for liberation, wholeness, and embodiment to manifest. Parneet’s work is rooted in anti-capitalist, queer, feminist and Buddhist wisdom. Parneet works with marginalised individuals & communities as a private practitioner, authentic relating facilitator, mindfulness coach, and events coordinator. Parneet works to alchemise politicised knowledge into spiritual, interpersonal, and intrapersonal heart and body wisdom. When deemed important, Parneet identifies as queer, non-binary, female, racialised, second generation Canadian, immigrant, and is building the courage to acknowledge their neurodivergence.
Chef & Coach T. Light
(She/Her)
Cooking on a Small Budget Workshop
She is a life coach, spiritual counsellor, and chef. Mom of 2 precious ones, she dedicated the past decade to the well-being of her loved ones and clients. In 2018, she opened the first Black-owned holistic centre in Montréal which offers holistic healing and health alternatives with a focus on womb healing & mental health and specialising in Yoni/lingam steam. The more clients she helped, the more she noticed that food adds a huge impact on their mood, their mind, and how the body responds, which in turn affects their soul. In 2019, she will launch Lakou Kaii, an Afro-vegan cuisine that offers various experiences such as private chef services, catering, meal prep, supper clubs, detox, courses, and coaching. You can find her at various pop-ups, festivals, and markets all year around or simply book her for an Afro-vegan experience.
“The reeducation of how we connect with source is primordial; by connecting with the ingredients is what creates a symbiosis within the Body Mind & Soul that's how we start healing.”
- Chef T.Light
David Robinson
(He/Him)
Orientation Session
David Robinson (he/him) is a crisis intervention worker, workshop facilitator, and member of a mutual support group. He has facilitated workshops on loneliness and togetherness, active listening, and creating and maintaining mutual support groups. He has also hosted numerous conversations on death and dying using the Death Cafe model. He works at Tracom Crisis Center.
514-483-3033
Fimo Mitchell
(He/Him)
Orientation Session
Fimo is a meditation teacher, a writer and a podcast host. In 2020 he founded When The Village Meditates, a nonprofit committed to creating meditation, yoga, and discussion spaces, along with wellness retreats that centre racialised and marginalised people. Last year, Fimo released his third book titled Pastel Remembrances. Every Tuesday, he hosts the When The Village Meditates podcast featuring ten minutes of meditation and five minutes of insightful speech.
Annick Maugile Flavien
(She/Her)
Healthcare Workshop
Annick Maugile Flavien is the founder of Utero,
a kinesiologist/health educator, a PhD student in Community Health, a Black community advocate, a creative maker, a caregiver, and a mother. Her work at Utero fosters body awareness, health literacy, and personal agency for menstrual, sexual, and reproductive health, while Her PhD research explores Black community health in Montréal with a qualitative focus on the pivotal role of family/kin caregiving within Black homes as a determinant of overall Black community health. A local perspective is central to her overall work as she's Montréal-born and raised and deeply believes in nurturing neighbourhood connections on and offline.