Online Street Wisdom Walkshop Club - Drop in from wherever you are! Wednesday 4th June 2025, 2.30pm Vancouver time (1 hour)
Join Street Wisdom's Lauren Deborah for a free 1 hour online Street Wisdom Walkshop meeting on Zoom. It's a great way to keep up your Street Wisdom practice or experience it for the first time. This special online format is for regular Street Wisdom practitioners and people new to Street Wisdom alike. Join with Zoom on your phone from outdoors wherever you are, or using Zoom on a laptop indoors, and we'll have a go at the Street Wisdom technique and share our stories. It's especially great to join us if you're interested to lead your own in-person Street Wisdom Walkshop this year, or if you're building your own long-term Street Wisdom practice.
What is Street Wisdom?
Street Wisdom is an everyday creative practice you use as you walk. A smart fusion of mindfulness, neuroscience, imagination and wellness, it unlocks minds and unblocks creativity with every step. The perfect complement to static meditation, Street Wisdom takes you on a physical journey that not only calms and clears the mind, but opens up the subconscious to new ideas. Not to mention the potential health benefits of walking outdoors. All without having to travel to exotic climes or retreats. Suddenly, every street is full of inspiration. And whatever your questions, we are finding answers everywhere.
What can I expect from an in-person Walkshop?
You'll meet the volunteer host at the announced time. The host will introduce everyone to the Walkshop and to the ideas behind Street Wisdom before setting you off. The Walkshop is in three parts. First, there's the Tune Up, where you will go on three micro-walks by yourself using the host's guidance. Then there's the Quest, which is the heart of the experience, a longer walk by yourself, and an opportunity to ask the streets a question and get some fresh answers. After you've done that, you'll come back as a group and Share what you learn with each other. It's such a simple, wonderful, potentially transformative experience!
Hang on, this is free?
Yes! Street Wisdom is a non-profit on a mission to bring inspiration to every street on planet earth. We were founded by the arts and business innovator, David Pearl, after he noticed his work with clients always got to newer, deeper places when he walked outdoors with them. David's mission has always been to make and keep Street Wisdom free for everyone. If you are drawn to support our work, please do make a donation. Thank you.
Sign up, show up
We're free, and in return we ask that if you sign up, you will show up. Our volunteer hosts commit a lot of time and energy to organising these in-person sessions, making it possible for people to practise Street Wisdom all around the world. We understand that sometimes life gets in the way, meaning under rare circumstances you can't attend at the last minute, but as a rule if you sign up, you're saying you will show up. Thank you for honouring that.
Stay streetwise
The Street Wisdom Walkshop has a risk disclaimer (see below) which you agree to by making a booking. This is to remind you that the wonderful big outdoor world - as well as potentially containing fresh new insights, ideas and intention - contains all sorts of things including risks, and so it's important to be vigilant. We think Street Wisdom is about heightening your awareness, the kind that means you're becoming more alert, rather than zoning out. So importantly: have fun, find your Street Wisdom, but also be streetwise.
More about your Walkshop host
Lauren Deborah (they/she) is a writer, comedian, podcaster and artist. Their vocation is connecting in community as a Joy Facilitator, and they are very excited to bring these skills and passions to Street Wisdom Walkshops. They are best known for their digital journal of a chronic oversharer, hi, lauren deborah! and their writing has been published in Vancouver Pride Magazine. Her podcast about coming out, My Dad Stole My Limelight lives on Vancouver’s 604 Podcast Network and has been seen live at Vancouver Pride, in iHeart Podcast spotlight features and Elizabeth Bank’s WHOHAHA’s featured podcasts. Lauren spends her time split between travelling the world (housesitting — perfect for the on-a-budget, animal-loving traveller) and sitting in their grandparents’ kitchen while working on her first novel. So you never know where Lauren will be Zooming in from!
Any more questions?
Find out more on our FAQ page or watch this video below.
Risk disclaimer
All Street Wisdom events are run by volunteers and participants take part at their own risk. Whilst any personal injury or loss is unlikely, we encourage participants to remain vigilant when out on the streets and we are not liable for any injury or loss caused when taking part in a Street Wisdom activity.