Shelby Fraser

Shelby Fraser is a Registered Social Worker and community care practitioner rooted in the belief that healing is a collective act. Most of her work has been at homeless shelters, supporting people through harm reduction, crisis intervention, and compassionate presence. These hands-on interactions have reinforced her core ideology that sharing and hearing our stories with one another, without fear of judgment or shame, is our quickest path to inner healing. Her approach weaves together evidence-based practice with deep empathy, guided by the understanding that care (real, sustained, and mutual) is a form of resistance. Shelby’s work is shaped by years of walking alongside those at the margins, learning again and again how strength grows in connection, and how tending to one another can change the world from the inside out.

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Community Care, Harm Reduction, & Naloxone Training

Are you craving a way to be more loving to those around you, at the festival and beyond? What does it mean to care for one another in a world that often forgets how? This workshop invites participants to explore community care and harm reduction as living practices of social change. Together, we’ll reflect on how compassion, relationship, and shared social responsibility can become antidotes to isolation and stigma. The session will blend conversation with hands-on learning: participants will gain practical knowledge about recreational substance use and overdose response, including how to recognize and respond to an opioid poisoning using Naloxone. Through story, dialogue, and demonstration, we’ll consider how tending to safety and dignity - in ourselves and in our communities - creates ripples of resilience and hope. All are welcome; no prior experience required, only a willingness to learn and to care.