Possibility Seeds is a Canadian systems-change organization dedicated to ending sexual harassment and sexual assault in schools and workplaces. We believe a safer, collaborative and more equitable world is possible.
Positive change is often on the other side of difficult, complex conversations. Talking about sexual violence, harm and inequality can feel daunting, heavy and hard. Let us guide you. We embrace a strategic and practical approach focused on compassion, care and joy. We help you understand how words and actions can be like seeds, planted, grown and nurtured into new possibilities.
We believe Canadian university and college campuses can be free from sexual and gender-based violence. We lead Courage to Act, a national multi-year initiative funded by the Government of Canada, to make post-secondary institutions safer. To date, we have engaged a network of 4,800+ GBV experts and advocates, and created 70+ resources.
In April 2024, the University of Alberta commissioned Possibility Seeds to provide key recommendations to help guide its Sexual Assault Centre’s (UASAC) programs and activities, building on three decades of
The institutional responsibility to provide a safe learning and working environment for all post-secondary students, staff, and faculty is inextricable from the responsibility to address and prevent campus gender-based violence.
Responding to non-academic misconduct at post-secondary institutions can be complex, especially in the context of addressing sexual and gender-based violence. Administering complaints processes by conducting investigations and adjudicating cases of
Possibility Seeds lives, works and learns on and across the traditional territories of many Indigenous
nations. In our work, we centre the truth that gender-based violence is one form of violence caused by
colonialism. It continues to be used to this day to marginalize and dispossess Indigenous peoples from
their culture, lands and waters. We are committed to taking an anti-colonial and inclusive approach to
the work we engage with. We honour this responsibility by actively incorporating into our work the Truth
and Reconciliation Commission of Canada: Calls to Action as well as the Calls for Justice within
Reclaiming Power and Place: The Final Report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered
Indigenous Women and Girls.