New Direction

New Direction https://www.newdirectionconsulting.ca

-Indigenous Owned and Operated-
Prevention • Healing • Wellness • Development

Christopher Merasty is a leadership and wellness consultant who works with youth, communities, and organizations to strengthen confidence, healing, and direction. Through lived experience, cultural understanding, and motivational speaking, he supports people with practical tools for growth and positive change.

09/07/2026

S4 | E7: Leadership Isn’t About Winning Alone 🔥

Leadership should create more leaders, not more dependence on one person.

Habit 4, Think Win-Win, asks us to think beyond individual success.

Share knowledge. Create opportunities. Listen when somebody has a better idea. Recognize people when they earn it. Give young people opportunities to develop their abilities instead of expecting them to remain on the sidelines.

The strongest measure of leadership is not simply what you accomplish while you hold a position. It is what becomes stronger around you because of how you used that responsibility.

09/05/2026

Until next time, Cross Lake! ❤️

Thank you Cross Lake First Nation for an amazing day!

From our Community Healing Session to ending the evening with families, kids, food, glow sticks and our Glow-in-the-Dark Movie Night featuring Toy Story 5, we hope everyone enjoyed the day and took something positive home with them.

Thank you to everyone who showed up and spent the day with us. We truly appreciate the welcome.

Until next time, Cross Lake!

Until next time, Cross Lake! ❤️What an amazing day in Cross Lake First Nation.A sincere thank you to everyone who came o...
09/05/2026

Until next time, Cross Lake! ❤️

What an amazing day in Cross Lake First Nation.

A sincere thank you to everyone who came out, participated, shared, listened, laughed, and spent time with us today. We hope everyone enjoyed what New Direction Consulting, Purposeful Movements and Always moving forward had to offer and walked away with something meaningful from the day.

We started with our Community Healing Session, creating space for conversations around healing, wellness, choices, accountability, family, youth, and moving forward in a good way.

Then we finished the evening together with our Glow-in-the-Dark Movie Night featuring Toy Story 5. Glow sticks, food, families, children, laughter, and a chance to simply enjoy being together as a community.

Thank you to Cross Lake First Nation for welcoming us into your community and thank you to every community member who came through the doors today.

We appreciate the opportunity to spend this day with you.

Until next time, Cross Lake. Thank you for having us.

New Direction Consulting
purposefulmovements

🌟 Glow-in-the-Dark Movie Night 🎬A great way to finish the evening here in Cross Lake First Nation!Glow sticks are on, pi...
09/05/2026

🌟 Glow-in-the-Dark Movie Night 🎬

A great way to finish the evening here in Cross Lake First Nation!

Glow sticks are on, pizza is out, the movie is playing, and families, children, youth, and community members are spending some good time together.

Community wellness is not always about workshops and presentations. Sometimes it is about creating a safe, positive space where people can laugh, eat, relax, and enjoy being together.

Thank you Cross Lake First Nation for welcoming us and allowing New Direction Consulting to be part of the community today.

Good food. Good movie. Good company. Great way to end the night.

🎬 Movie Night in Cross Lake!We’re wrapping up a full day in Cross Lake First Nation with a community movie night featuri...
09/05/2026

🎬 Movie Night in Cross Lake!

We’re wrapping up a full day in Cross Lake First Nation with a community movie night featuring Toy Story 5! 🍿🎥

After a day focused on community, choices, leadership, wellness, and creating positive opportunities for our young people and families, tonight is about simply coming together, relaxing, and enjoying some time as a community.

Thank you to Cross Lake First Nation for welcoming New Direction Consulting into the community and to everyone who participated throughout the day.

Now it’s time to dim the lights, grab some popcorn, and enjoy the movie!

Cross Lake First Nation × New Direction Consulting

🚨 IMPORTANT CROSS LAKE UPDATE: NEW START TIME 10:00 AMWe have made a slight adjustment to tomorrow's Building Trust for ...
09/04/2026

🚨 IMPORTANT CROSS LAKE UPDATE: NEW START TIME 10:00 AM

We have made a slight adjustment to tomorrow's Building Trust for Community Healing gathering.

Please help us get the updated schedule out to the community.

📍 Cadet Building, Cross Lake, Manitoba
📅 Friday, September 4, 2026

UPDATED SCHEDULE
⏰ 10:00 AM | Registration & Coffee
🙏 10:30 AM | Opening Prayer & Welcome
🍽️ 12:00 PM | Lunch & Connection
💻 1:00 PM | Purposeful Movements Virtual Session with Cody Gonsalves and team
🗣️ 2:00 to 5:00 PM | Presentations, wellness conversations & community insight
🙏 5:00 PM | Closing Remarks & Prayer

Then bring the family back for:
🎬 FAMILY MOVIE NIGHT | 7:30 PM

We will also have door prizes throughout the day.

This gathering is about creating space for honest conversations around men's and young men's wellness, accountability, leadership, community safety, healing, connection and finding a way forward together.

Please share this post, especially if you saw our earlier advertising with the previous start time.

Presented in partnership by Cross Lake Health Services and New Direction Consulting.

CROSS LAKE, MANITOBA | TOMORROW, SEPTEMBER 4Tomorrow we come together for the Building Trust for Community Healing Commu...
09/03/2026

CROSS LAKE, MANITOBA | TOMORROW, SEPTEMBER 4

Tomorrow we come together for the Building Trust for Community Healing Community Wellness Gathering at the Cadet Building in Cross Lake.

This will be a full day of connection, learning and honest conversation focused on:

* Men’s and young men’s wellness
* Healing and trauma awareness
* Accountability and leadership
* Violence, gangs and drug prevention
* Community safety
* Healthy choices and practical supports
* Su***de awareness, connection and hope
* Moving forward together

Friday, September 4, 2026
Cadet Building, Cross Lake, Manitoba

8:30 AM: Registration & Coffee
9:00 AM: Opening Prayer & Welcome
4:30 PM: Day Program Concludes

And at 7:30 PM, bring the family back for Family Movie Night.

For more information:

Cross Lake Health Services: 204-676-2218
Cross Lake Nursing Station: 204-676-2011

Please SHARE this post today and tag someone in Cross Lake who should know about this gathering.

Together we build stronger families and safer communities.

09/02/2026

Over three days, men and young men came together to connect, reflect, learn, participate, and speak openly about why wellness gatherings and workshops are important.

Through these interviews, participants shared in their own words why spaces like this matter and why men and young men need more opportunities to gather, build relationships, strengthen their wellness, and gain practical tools they can take home with them.

Thank you to Cold Lake First Nations Integrated Services for the opportunity to help deliver this gathering, to purposefulmovements for the collaboration and partnership, and to every man and young man who attended, participated, and contributed over the three days.

Our hope is that participants leave with more than a good experience. We want them leaving with tools, information, connections, and a stronger sense of responsibility that can help them begin leading and walking in a new direction.

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Onion Lake, SK

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