Living a good life in service of others | Parneet Buttar & Mitch Bourbonniere | TEDxMaplesMetSchool

Parneet and men tor Mitch speak about what it means to live the good life through serving others. Their work together in the community has not only improved the lives of other folks, but has also served as a model for how we can derive meaning from life. Parneet is a Grade 12 student at the Maples MET School. Her passions include, Sociology, Social work and political news. Her idea of the good life, after many years of pondering, is the relationships you create and maintain as you go about living. She enjoys crocheting, tending to her plants and overthinking about the world in her free time.

Mitch is a pipe carrier and a 25 year Sundancer.

Mitch has formed a therapeutic community by which he and a group colleagues offer a cultural program for Aboriginal youth through Métis, Dakota Ojibway, West Region, Sagkeeng, Awassis, Animikii, and Kinosao Sipi Minisowin Child and Family Services. The group participates in monthly sweat lodges, the summer sundance season, and many other ceremonies. The group also actively participates in various community events that involve such issues as Missing and Murdered Women, the impacts of Residential Schools and any issue that impacts the Aboriginal community.

Mitch is a Social Worker in the Louis Riel School Division. He also consults and contracts for Manitoba Blue Cross, Urban Circle Training, Rossbrook House, Ma Mawi Wi Chi Itata Centre, Wahbung Abinoonjiiag, Native Addiction Council of Manitoba, N.E.R.C, C.E.D.A, Thunderbird House, and the Youth Correction Spotlight Probation Gang Unit. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx