DREAMLIGHT COLLECTIVE IS A COMMUNITY OF COACHES, PRACTITIONERS, AND ORGANIZATIONS HELPING PEOPLE ACTUALIZE THEIR LIGHT.
Using sport and art as a language for liberation in communities across the country.
WHY A COLLECTIVE
Many young people will never sit across from a therapist, but they spend hours every week with a coach, a mentor, a teacher, or a youth program. Those adults are already part of a young person's mental health, whether anyone calls it that or not. Sport and art are where that happens: on a court, a field, or in a studio, young people practice who they are becoming, with people around them who can see it.
OUR SHARED VALUE
To actualize the light within, we have to build the conditions for thriving where people already live, play, and create. Mental health services on their own leave a gap: too few clinicians, long waits, and care that ends when the session does. Dreamlight Collective brings the power to thrive back to the community, through the coaches, practitioners, and organizations who are already there.
COACHES
PRACTITIONERS
ORGANIZATIONS
See young people at practice and in games, week after week. They turn pressure, mistakes, and teamwork into moments where a young person learns who they are.
Counsellors, social workers, psychologists, and mental performance consultants. They bring clinical care into the places young people play, and help members carry the approach with skill.
Youth centers, clubs, and programs that young people already come back to. They give the work a home that lasts beyond one season or one person.
HOW JOINING WORKS
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TELL US ABOUT YOUR WORK
LEARN THE SHARED APPROACH
GO ON THE MAP
Write to us about what you do and the young people you work with. We set up a conversation.
We bring you and your team into the approach and language members use with young people.
Your light goes on this page with a link to your work, and you join the members around you.