Community Wellness Consulting
Elevate your community healing with
Jacqueline Spies Consulting.
About Jacqueline Spies Consulting
My Mission
My mission is to strengthen community wellness by providing culturally-informed, trauma-aware, and nature-based consulting services. I collaborate with communities, organizations, and leaders to support healing, connection, resilience, and sustainable wellness initiatives. Through education, capacity-building, and holistic practices, I help create safe, inclusive spaces where individuals and communities can thrive.
“I believe every community deserves safety, connection, culture, and wellness. My mission is to walk alongside organizations and leaders as they build healing spaces, strengthen resilience, and support wellbeing for all.”
Vision Statement
A future where every community has the capacity, knowledge, and confidence to build wellness from within.
A future where healing is culturally safe, trauma-aware, rooted in land and identity, and accessible to all ages.
A future where individuals, families, and communities thrive in connection with each other, the land, and themselves.
Core Values
Cultural Safety — We honor identity, knowledge, diversity, and lived experience.
Collaboration — Healing is strongest when communities lead, and we walk together.
Trauma-Informed Practice — We approach every space with compassion, dignity, and respect.
Land & Nature-Based Healing — The land is a source of wellness, learning, and grounding.
Strength-Based Approach — We focus on resilience, capacity, and community wisdom.
Inclusion & Accessibility — Every person and community deserves safe, welcoming wellness.
Integrity — We lead with honesty, transparency, and respect.
Bio
Jacqueline Spies is a Community Wellness Consultant dedicated to strengthening mental, emotional, cultural, and land-based wellness across diverse communities. With training in trauma-informed practice, mental health, and nature-based healing, Jacqueline supports organizations, schools, Nations, and service providers in developing programs that promote resilience, connection, and long-term community wellbeing.
Her approach blends evidence-informed strategies with holistic and culturally grounded practices. Jacqueline believes healing is strongest when it is community-led, culturally safe, and inclusive. She works alongside leaders, educators, frontline workers, Elders, youth, and families to build programs that feel meaningful, compassionate, and relevant.
Healing happens when we feel seen, supported, and connected — to community, culture, land, and self.
iEcotherapy Current Pilot Project (2) Healing Earth Hours
iEcotherapy
Marek Julian Zaleski is renowned Canadian Artist in Photographer and is the founder of Vancouver Island Museum of Nature Society. Out of this, iEcotherapy was created. His works attempt to recreate an intimate link between humanity and nature to empower , inspire and heal the human spirit. iEcotherapy captures nature's emotions from unspoiled environments to be shared with individuals and groups who cannot readily access nature, and who would benefit from interaction with nature. iEcotherapy video transform the indoors spaces by providing a calming and restorative ambience to support reflection, creativity, and heightened sensory awareness. As such, iEcotherapy offers a multitude of applications including workplace, schools, institutions, health care, shelters, prisons and more.
Healing Earth Hours - Dedicated to those with Trauma
Healing Earth Hours is a exceptional audio-visual guided therapy to support recovery treatment from trauma and addictions in real time! We are dedicated is the following way:
1. Healing Earth Hours series is intended to guide and support individuals along the way no matter what you have experienced and survived.
2. It does not matter where you are or where you are starting from. This series considers individual needs and their personal path towards healing.
3. Although the series is beneficial for everyone, it is dedicated to individuals who are living in their unresolved trauma.
4. This series takes into account your need to feel safe in your external world so you can feel safe to move into and stay in your body and explore your internal world.
The Holistic Approach
Earth Healing Hours is a holistic approach that utilizes nature as the healing source. The visual stimuli of selectively chosen locations, colors, pacing, and natural sounds automatically taps into the nervous system to start regulating the body and reaching homeostasis where self identification and healing can begin.
My Affiliation with Vancouver Island Museum of Nature
I worked closely with Marek the Founder of Vancouver Island Museum of Nature in 2013/2014 - together we created a series for Palliative and Hospice Care. Seeing the results personally from individuals and family that took advantage of the series. Marek and I have decided to connect once again to help individuals and First Nations to be able to explore healing in this realm when https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacqueline-spies-349703310/unable to access nature due to access and limitations.
More Information / Contact Me
If what you have read has sparked some curiosity, please contact me. I will be more than happy to discuss this in further detail. This Pilot Project 2 - is a direct result of Pilot Project 1 being so very successful. Be a part of the healing journey!
