Creating Space for Healing, Honest Conversations, and Safer Communities

Trauma-informed workshops and facilitated conversations for organizations and communities across the North.

This work supports people in understanding relationships, navigating emotions, and addressing the roots of gender-based, intimate partner, and family violence.

It is grounded in lived experience, shaped by community, and carried out with care.

Based in Yellowknife, we work across the Northwest Territories and travel throughout Northern Canada.

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This Work Matters

These conversations are not always easy.

They involve:

  • Trauma

  • Disconnection

  • The lasting impacts of colonial history

  • Patterns that affect families, relationships, and communities over time

But they are necessary.

Our work creates space for people to reflect, learn, and engage in ways that support healing, strengthen relationships, and help prevent harm before it continues.

Because safer communities are built through how we relate to one another—every day.


Who We Work With

We partner with communities and organizations where trust, culture, and lived experience matter.

  • Indigenous band offices and communities

  • Non-profits and NGOs

  • Schools and youth programs

  • Community organizations

  • Government and social service agencies

Often, we are invited into spaces where:

  • Conversations are sensitive

  • Relationships are central

  • And there is a need to engage people—especially men—in meaningful, respectful ways


What We Offer

Workshops & Speaking Engagements

Our work is not about delivering information—it’s about creating the conditions where real conversations can happen.

We offer workshops and facilitated sessions on:

  • Emotional Regulation & Communication

  • Healthy Relationships & Consent

  • Men & Boys Emotional Education

  • Gender-Based Violence Awareness & Prevention

  • Community Healing, Connection & Reconciliation

Each session is adapted to the unique needs of the community or organization, recognizing that every space carries its own history, strengths, and realities.


Our Approach

There is no one-size-fits-all approach to this work.

We enter each space with the understanding that:

  • History matters

  • Culture matters

  • Relationships matter

Our approach is:

  • Trauma-informed

  • Culturally respectful

  • Relationship-centered

  • Grounded in lived experience

We listen before we lead.

We work alongside communities—not over them.

And we recognize that meaningful change takes time, trust, and honesty.


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Dr. Lovingson Mtongwiza

Lovingson is a speaker, facilitator, and men’s health advocate whose work focuses on emotional awareness, healthy masculinity, and the prevention of gender-based violence.

He has spent nearly two decades living and working in Northern communities, supporting men and communities in understanding emotions, strengthening relationships, and moving away from harmful patterns.

His work is deeply personal.

After losing his elder sister to intimate partner violence, Lovingson brings a level of care, honesty, and presence that allows him to sit in difficult conversations without turning away from them.

He holds a Doctorate in Theology, with research focused on forgiveness, trauma, reconciliation, and restorative justice—bringing together both academic insight and Indigenous-informed perspectives on healing.

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Saphire Mtongwiza

Saphire’s work focuses on supporting women in recognizing, avoiding, and healing from abusive relationships.

She brings a strong commitment to helping individuals break cycles of harm and build healthy, respectful connections rooted in self-awareness and dignity.

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Working Together

As an interracial couple raising two daughters in the North, Lovingson and Saphire bring both lived experience and professional insight into the realities of relationships, culture, identity, and connection.

Their work reflects this balance—creating spaces where people can engage honestly, learn from one another, and begin to build healthier ways of relating.


Why This Work Is Different

This is not traditional consulting.

We do not come in with answers to deliver.

We come to:

  • Create space for honest dialogue

  • Support reflection and accountability

  • Engage people in ways that feel respectful and real

  • Help communities build their own pathways forward

Sometimes that means holding difficult truths.

Sometimes that means sitting in silence.

And sometimes, it means creating space for laughter, connection, and understanding in places where it’s needed most.


Speaking & Community Engagement

Lovingson is also available for:

  • Conferences and keynote presentations

  • Community gatherings and healing spaces

  • Men’s engagement initiatives

  • Organizational sessions and facilitated dialogue

His speaking combines storytelling, humor, and lived experience to create environments where people feel safe enough to engage—and supported enough to reflect.

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Bring This Work Into Your Community

If your organization or community is looking to:

  • Support healthier relationships

  • Engage men in meaningful ways

  • Address gender-based and family violence

  • Create space for healing, reflection, and connection

We are here to walk alongside you.


Request a Workshop

Call or Text: 867-686-7171
Email:info@truebluecoaching.ca
Location: Based in Yellowknife | Available across Northern Canada

 

Request A Workshop

Call or Text
867-686-7171

Location
Based in Yellowknife
Available in person throughout Northern Canada