Events & Projects
2025
HLF 3rd Golf Tournament
Date: Tuesday, August 19, 2025
Location: Glendale Golf & Country Club
Please contact us at information.hlf@gmail.com to sign up.
Manitoba Mural Festival, a community-building art project set to transform Winnipeg’s urban landscape in September 2025. The festival celebrates public art by showcasing local and national artists who will create new mural arts at key areas like Osborne Village, St. Vital, and Downtown. Through inspiring artworks, we aim to reflect Winnipeg’s cultural diversity, foster the community, and instill pride among residents.
Manitoba Mural Festival
HLF created the F.R.E.E. Program - First Responder Resilience, Empathy & Empowerment in response to the urgent need for first responders’ mental health support, which aims to educate, engage, and empower first responders with mental fitness education, therapy services, and a wellness retreat. The pilot test is set to launch in September 2025. Please contact us at information.hlf@gmail.com to sign up.
F.R.E.E. Program Pilot Project
2024
HLF 2nd Golf Tournament
On August 27, 2024, HLF held our second annual golf tournament where friends and partners celebrated another year of positive impact on our community.
The Fundamentals of Mental Fitness course was funded by Manitoba Accessibility to develop eight units from the guidebook into eight videos in a digital video series that is highly accessible to schools and organizations. The series includes a teacher delivering the lessons alongside ASL interpretation.
Mental Fitness Video Series
The Mental Fitness Workshop is a part of the HLF Programming. It provides the foundations of mental fitness and gives practical tools for daily application. We partnered with CanU to provide the workshops to youth. A more detailed version of the workshop is also delivered to Mental Fitness Scholarship recipients.
CanU Mental Fitness Workshops
2023
HLF has successfully piloted The Fundamentals of Mental Fitness course in collaboration with the Met Schools in Winnipeg, MB, with positive feedback from both students and teachers.
Mental Fitness Pilot Test
15 Rounds is a fun and intense boxing workout instructed by Rhyland Qually to support HLF’s mission of providing mental fitness education and funding students entering postsecondary education.
15 Rounds - Mental Health Fight Night
HLF Annual Golf Tournament brings people together while making a positive impact on our community. All proceeds raised will be directed towards HLF and the Red River College’s Raj Kulathungam Welder Scholarship.
HLF 1st Golf Tournament
N’Dinawemak Mural Ceremony
N’Dinawemak Mural Project is a community art initiative that aims to heal and connect the community by bringing visual arts to N’Dinawemak – Our Relatives’ Place, an Indigenous-led community resource offering a 24/7 warming space in Winnipeg.
2022
HLF partnered with the University of Winnipeg and Wesmen Athletics to honour two Indigenous student-athletes and community leaders with a mural installation. HLF celebrated the unveiling with a community smudge, a free lunch, and a painting night event to connect.
Wesmen Athletics Mural Ceremony
2021
West Hill Collegiate’s Social Emotional Flourishing Program
HLF launched the first iteration of the Mental Fitness course in Toronto, Ontario to support students who had been disengaged from school to re-engage by providing mental well-being education using the Mental Fitness Matrix © and connecting them with HLF's Social Worker who is experienced in working with a diverse demographic of people of all ages in various settings ranging from clinical, educational, and remote location.
2020
We developed an Art Mentorship Program - a series of projects where a local artist empowered and mentored students to create school murals.
Art Mentorship Program
Mental Fitness Workshops
HLF introduced the first edition of the workshop to high schools in Winnipeg, which featured a yoga session and a gratitude practice using the Gratitude Tree. In 2022, the workshop has been expanded to offer participants the option of learning the Mental Fitness Matrix © and a yoga practice, either individually or in combination.
2019
We joined forces with Paint The Peg and local artists to create art projects that make Winnipeg streets more welcoming.
Paint The Peg
Boys and Girls Club’s Power Up! Program
We joined the Power Up! Program to bring healthy snacks, teach mindfulness techniques, and have an Indigenous medicine man educating students on sacred teachings at the Niji Mahkwe, Sister Macnamara, and William Whyte sites.
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