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Hello and welcome to
Common Digs!
We are a socially conscious, heart-led company made up of believers, thinkers and do-ers dedicated to cultivating ecological consciousness through hands-on (and sometimes whole-body) experiences.
We do this work because we believe deeply in the critical necessity of human's non-hierarchical relationship with the natural world and of the restorative power that this holds for our collective well being.
We believe that when we personally connect with the natural world we can begin to develop a deepened sense of place and connectedness - that leads to a stronger community of people that care about each other and our earth.
forest school programming
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work:shop for young adults with developmental disabilities
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commitment to reconciliation
Our lives are storied in the fields, forests and river banks of Mohkínstsis, now known as the City of Calgary, on municipal and privately-owned lands in Treaty 7 region. The story, like others across North America, begins with the first peoples and caretakers of the land.
We take our first steps toward a shared story by honouring the traditional custom of welcome and by giving acknowledgement to the traditional territories of the peoples of the Treaty 7 region in Southern Alberta, which includes the Blackfoot First Nation tribes of Siksika, the Piikuni, the Kainai, the Stoney Nakoda First Nations tribes of Chiniki, Bearspaw, and Wesley and the Tsuut’ina First Nation. Calgary is also homeland to the historic Northwest Métis and to Métis Nation of Alberta, Region.
We are beginning to learn and better understand our Canadian history from an Indigenous perspective. Through this, we acknowledge the significant harms that have been done and also the deep wisdom Indigenous customs and ways of knowing hold and the current rightful place they have to contribute to a more beautiful, generous of spirit, equal place for all our relations.
We listen and study to further provoke our thinking and action relating to our work and reconciliation in Canada, working to re-cognize and deconstruct our colonial ways of working that may perpetuate harm and impede us in our ethics of behaviour. We are finding our way, working to understand what heart-felt reconciliation looks like and how we can take action and make change in ourselves, our organization and our work.
Early in our journey, we are currently focussed on Truth and Reconciliation Calls to Actions:
92ii and 92iii - Business and Reconciliation
63iii and 63 iv - Education for Reconciliation
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