Megan Castelino
I'm Megan, a Master's student in the Applied Gerontology program at Brock University. As I explore the newer field of gerontology, I am excited about the prospect of applying my knowledge and skills to contribute meaningfully to the well-being of older adults. My goal is to continue exploring innovative ways to enhance mental health services for this demographic by building a society that values and supports our aging population.
Bridging Generations in Nature
Bridging Generations in Nature is an intergenerational storytelling workshop that brings together BIWOC youth and elders in Montreal to explore stories of land, migration, and environmental care. Through circle dialogue, collaborative art, and creative reflection, participants honour ancestral knowledge while imagining a greener future. Rooted in trauma-informed, bilingual facilitation, this workshop centres cultural memory, community wisdom, and non-extractive knowledge sharing. Doing so creates a space of healing, beauty, and intergenerational resilience.
About this Project
Communities Served
My project will involve and/or impact the following communities:
United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
When it comes to community impact projects, the UN has created 17 Sustainable Development Goals. These are the Sustainable Development Goals associated with my project.
How the project works
Bridging Generations in Nature takes place over a half-day session, beginning with story circles, followed by a collaborative environmental art activity, and closing with a reflective dialogue. Participants engage in bilingual storytelling, creative expression, and shared reflection to explore intergenerational relationships to land, migration, and environmental care.
Project Impact
Dismantles financial, geographic, and systemic barriers that limit BIWOC youth’s access to enriching intercultural and environmental learning, by offering safe and joyful spaces that foster belonging, creativity, and leadership.
Project Mission
To empower BIWOC youth through inclusive, place-based learning that celebrates culture, fosters bilingualism (EN/FR), intergenerational wisdom, and develops environmental leadership in underserved communities.
Project Team
Working with three other co-leads to facilitate outreach, sponsorships, bilingual leadership and education.
Donate to Sprout to support fellows
Support young social innovators by donating to the Sprout Ideas Fund, providing capacity-building and resources needed to launch projects that create positive social change.
Donate Now