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The spiritual facilitator of RESPIR, Mathieu Côté-Desjardins.
RESPIR, the spiritual healing organization in Rimouski, offers a new support service for 18 to 35 year olds. It is intended for young people who have spiritual issues and who wish to talk about them.
Meetings can be done individually or in small groups. The spiritual facilitator, Mathieu Côté-Desjardins is behind this initiative.
“Young people will experiment and see things, but they may want to go a little further than the narrative. It is enough to be in contact with young people to realize that they have questions that go further than what we generally hear. It’s a service that I wish I had when I was younger and that I didn’t have,” he says.
Being also a part-time teacher, Mathieu Côté-Desjardins notices that spirituality is set aside in schools.
“It’s always the subject that is treated when you have nothing to do. However, to question beyond what we can see and feel things that we never approach in a group or even with our family, I find that it is really important. The young people will not name it as spirituality, but they have questions that go beyond what the teachers will bring up as a subject”, he mentions.
Mathieu Côté-Desjardins wants to listen to young people and offer them an authentic and interested contact to take them further.
“I want young people to realize that they have resources and directions in which to go. He may realize that he is interested in spirituality even though everyone around him says it is not important. He can continue to go in this direction to do good for himself or to be a better person and see more, ”he expresses.
The service is offered free of charge. Young people who are interested will be able to discuss the topics they want. The spiritual facilitator wishes to feed them on their own reflections. He can also direct them to other services offered by RESPIR such as meditation or different types of meetings.
“These will be meetings during which I will take the time to listen to the person. It is she who comes to us and it is according to her subjects. Maybe she has experienced or seen some things that made her wonder and she just wants to talk about it to see if it’s crazy to think like that. It’s to offer a stable pole of rationality and reason,” explains Mathieu Côté-Desjardins.
It is possible to obtain more information on the Facebook page “BREATHING – Spiritual Resourcing of Rimouski.