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Keep ethics and spirituality alive
in your workplace...
Join Workplace Centre today!
Workplace Centre for
Spiritual & Ethical Development
Suite 204
2065 West 4th Ave.
Vancouver, B.C.
V6J 1N3
phone: 604.685.6560
email: info@workplacecentre.org
Workplace Centre Values:
spiritual wholeness
cultural diversity
ethical business practices
wisdom of all
communities
of faith
individual dignity
environmental sensitivity
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Welcome to Workplace Centre, where ethics and spirituality are alive and well.
Join us for monthly breakfast and lunch meetings, conveniently located in downtown Vancouver...
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Workplace Centre convenes conversations that deepen Spirit and Ethics in the workplace, and promotes their practical application in business and everyday life.
We hold two meetings each month: Ethics for Breakfast, on the second Wednesday, and the Spirit at Work Luncheon, on the third Thursday of the month.
All meetings are open to the public. They are about 75 minutes long, presentation-and-discussion format, with speakers/topics that will help you keep ethics and spirituality alive in your work.
Please see our events below. Join us at an upcoming meeting. Or contact us at info@workplacecentre.org -or- 604-685-6560 for more information.
Thanks for your interest!
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Our February Events:
Ethics for Breakfast
Wed, Feb 8: Health Care for Immigrants and Refugees:
What ethical challenges do doctors face?
with Dr. Gurdeep Parhar, Associate Dean,
Equity and Professionalism, Faculty of Medicine,
University of British Columbia
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Spirit at Work Lunch
Thurs, Feb 16: Spirit and Money:
We can make every dollar our legacy
with Joel Solomon, Chairman,
Renewal2 Investment Fund & President, Renewal Partners
To RSVP, click here (and indicate which event)
More information below...
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NOTE about Credit Card Payments:
As of January 1st, we will only be accepting Credit Card payments through PayPal. These must be made in Advance of events, and will be non-refundable. Please use our Payment Button below.
Thanks for your understanding!
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February 2012
Ethics for Breakfast presents
 Wednesday, Feb 8, 2011
7:15 - 8:30 am
Health Care for
Immigrants &
Refugees:
What ethical challenges
do doctors face?
with Dr. Gurdeep Parhar,
Associate Dean, Equity and Professionalism, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia
How culturally sensitive is British Columbia's medical system?
Doctor shortages. Growing waiting lists for vital surgeries. Longer delays in the emergency room. B.C.'s health care system faces constant challenges to serve a growing and aging population with limited resources.
Yet there's another issue that seldom gets raised: How well is it serving new immigrants and refugees who come here? Although they bring unique medical & cultural considerations, are they falling through the cracks in our health care system? Does a double standard prevail? Is there a more ethical... [read more]
click here to RSVP or call: 604-685-6560
DATE: Wednesday, Feb 8 -- 7:15-8:30 am
LOCATION: BC HYDRO Building
333 Dunsmuir Street, Vancouver
2nd Floor, Auditorium
Check-in at Security Desk - Main floor lobby
COST: Members - $7.00 Non-Members - $10.00
- muffins, tea and coffee included
- RSVP requested (if possible)
**NOTE about Credit Card Payments:**
As of January 1st, we will only be accepting Credit Card payments through PayPal. These must be made in Advance of events, and will be non-refundable. Please use our Payment Button below.
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About Our Speaker:
Dr. Gurdeep Parhar is the Associate Dean of Equity and Professionalism for UBC's Faculty of Medicine. He is a family physician with a practice focused on immigrants, refugees, workers' health and patients with severe disabilities. He also teaches extensively in both undergraduate & post-graduate programs in the areas of professionalism, equity, psychosocial aspects of health care, medical disability, informatics, reflection and self-care.
In 2010, the B.C. College of Family Physicians recognized Dr. Gurdeep Parhar as Teacher of the Year. Last year, he was awarded the Killam Prize, UBC's most prestigious teaching award.... [read more]
click here to RSVP or call: 604-685-6560
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Reminder: Our lunch meetings are now at a new location.
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Spirit at Work presents
 Thursday, February 16, 2012
12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
Spirit and Money:
We can make every dollar our legacy
with Joel Solomon, Chairman, Renewal2 Investment Fund & President, Renewal Partners
Does your relationship to money
reflect your deepest values?
As one of the most powerful symbols in our culture, money has inspired many conflicting and evocative terms: filthy rich, the almighty dollar, the haves and have-nots, poverty consciousness, prosperity, abundance and streets paved with gold. How do these attitudes shape the way that we earn, spend, and worry about money? Is there a correlation between our spiritual self and the money we have?
Join Joel Solomon as he reflects on how we can use our relationship to money to create a living map of our deepest values... [read more]
click here to RSVP -or- phone: 604-685-6560
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Date: Thursday, February 16, 2012 -- 12:00 - 1:30 pm
Location: Suite 700 - 1090 West Georgia Street, at Thurlow, Vancouver
Adler School of Professional Psychology
(Diagonally across from the Terasen Centre)
Cost: Without lunch: $10
With lunch: non-members - $20; members - $15
Lunch: Catered sandwiches, salad, tea and coffee
(RSVP requested for food)
**NOTE about Credit Card Payments:**
As of January 1st, we will only be accepting Credit Card payments through PayPal. These must be made in Advance of events, and will be non-refundable. Please use our Payment Button below. Thanks!
click here to RSVP -or- phone: 604-685-6560
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January 2012
Ethics for Breakfast presents
 Wednesday, Jan 11, 2011
7:15 - 8:30 am
The Ethics of
Human Enhancement:
How far will technology
go to boost our brain power?
with Mark Wexler, Endowed Professor of Business Ethics, Beedie School of Business, SFU
Do human enhancements reduce our
authenticity and dignity?
Do you support genetic intervention techniques to make children smarter and healthier? Would you take pills to improve your memory? What about capsules guaranteed to make you happier? Human enhancement is the use of medicine, technology and techniques to improve human capacities beyond what most people would consider normal or healthy.
Today, the private sector develops and markets non-therapeutic goods and services to boost human performance in many arenas, from the physical and sexual to the cognitive. What ethical issues arise from the sale and use of theseenhancers? What risks and consequences might we face from more powerful human enhancement methods... [read more]
click here to RSVP or call: 604-685-6560
DATE: Wednesday, Jan 11 -- 7:15-8:30 am
LOCATION: BC HYDRO Building
333 Dunsmuir Street, Vancouver
2nd Floor, Board Room
Check-in at Security Desk - Main floor lobby
COST: Members - $7.00 Non-Members - $10.00
- muffins, tea and coffee included
- RSVP requested (if possible)
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About Our Speaker:
Mark N. Wexler is Endowed Professor in Business Ethics and Management at Simon Fraser University's Beedie School of Business, and president of The Perimeter Group of Ethics Consultants and trainers. For over three decades, he has studied the ethical challenges that people face in the business world and the human use (and abuse) of humans in highly competitive contexts.
Mark is a four-time teaching award winner and a recipient of the PricewaterhouseCoopers "Leadership in Management Education" Award. He was the Astra-Zeneca ethics scholar-in-residence at McGill University and a visiting professor at the Universities of Michigan, Macquarie (Sydney, Australia) and ESCM (Tours/France)... [read more]
click here to RSVP or call: 604-685-6560
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Spirit at Work presents
 Thursday, January 19, 2012
12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
Zen and the Art of Chocolate-Making
with Greg Hook, Master Chocolatier and Owner, Chocolate Arts
What work brings passion and meaning to your life?
For many people, chocolate represents pure bliss. Is it those pheromones that kick in when eating it, the same chemicals released when we’re in love? Or is it the decadent smooth taste? What if you could make and taste chocolate every day -- how would that affect the way you look at your life and work?
Master chocolatier Greg Hook, owner of the successful Vancouver niche business Chocolate Arts, has created his own chocolate nirvana; he calls his work process part of the “zen and art of chocolate-making.” Come and hear Greg share what makes his business work for him; what brings him flow, passion, love & meaning. And join us in discussing how we can all bring more of that to our own work in the coming year. Free samples provided!
click here to RSVP -or- phone: 604-685-6560
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Date: Thursday, January 19, 2012 -- 12:00 - 1:30 pm
Location: Suite 700 - 1090 West Georgia Street, at Thurlow, Vancouver
Adler School of Professional Psychology
(Diagonally across from the Terasen Centre)
Cost: Without lunch: $10
With lunch: non-members - $20; members - $15
Lunch: Catered sandwiches, salad, tea and coffee
(RSVP requested for food)
**NOTE about Credit Card Payments:**
As of January 1st, we will only be accepting Credit Card payments through PayPal. These must be made in Advance of events, and will be non-refundable. Please use our Payment Button below. Thanks!
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About Our Speaker:
Greg Hook is a pastry chef, master chocolatier, and owner of Chocolate Arts in Vancouver. This Kitsilano business, which crafts and sells chocolate products, is committed to sustainable and organic agriculture and uses no additives or artificial ingredients in its fillings. When Greg opened Chocolate Arts in 1992, he wanted to produce chocolates that were beautiful & tasty, and used as many local products as possible. Twenty years later, he has maintained this vision, creating chocolates that reflect his unique style and passion.
Last year, Greg was appointed as a member of the exclusive Chocolate Ambassadors Club of Cacao Barry, the world’s leading supplier of high-quality cocoa and chocolate products... [read more]
(For more on his company, please go to www.chocolatearts.com.)
click here to RSVP -or- phone: 604-685-6560
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December 2011
Ethics for Breakfast presents
 Wednesday, Dec 14, 2011
7:15 - 8:30 am
The Gift of Awe:
Deepen Your Relationship to Life, Work & Ethics
with John Anderson, MA, RPsych,
Senior Psychologist and Therapeutic Innovator, Vancouver, BC
Do you feel awe in daily life? If so, how has it changed you?
"Awe is the key to making a commitment to deep change."
-- Dr. K. Schneider, 2009
Most of us have had at least some powerful encounters with nature that evoke reverence and awe for all that is. They often feel too deep for words. But that doesn’t stop them from influencing our lives. Such moments of humble wonder can serve as compelling wake-up calls that help us discover the aspects of life and forms of service that we care about most deeply.
Once we believe we are doing meaningful work, it is only natural to further deepen our capacity for awe-inspired ethical insights and work practices. We can do this by savouring every opportunity to be freshly moved by our amazement, finding ways to build the best hope for all to find common ground within even the most extreme differences... [read more]
click here to RSVP or call: 604-685-6560
DATE: Wednesday, Dec 14th -- 7:15-8:30 am
LOCATION: BC HYDRO Building
333 Dunsmuir Street, Vancouver
2nd Floor, Auditorium
Check-in at Security Desk - Main floor lobby
COST: Members - $7.00 Non-Members - $10.00
- muffins, tea and coffee included
- RSVP requested (if possible)
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About Our Speaker:
John Anderson is a Vancouver-based senior psychologist who, during his training in clinical & organizational psychology in the 1960s, dedicated himself to developing the most natural ways to maximize people's strengths. He based his work on research that pointed to key factors that create a fully engaged personal, professional or corporate life. Since then, he has frequently experienced a sense of awe about his endless learning opportunities and has acquired skills to spot & develop others' talents & capacities for curiosity, mutual trust, commitment, and collaboration.
While heading an outpatient clinic in Vancouver, John developed a "film therapy" group & other therapeutic innovations related to replacing control with curiosity. Eventually, he developed a busy private tri-city practice and also conducted "burnout-proofing" & resilience workshops for people from the Canadian Labour Congress to management, health, psychiatry, dental, child welfare, correctional & religious professionals... [read more]
click here to RSVP or call: 604-685-6560
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November 2011
Ethics for Breakfast presents
 Wednesday, Nov 9, 2011
7:15 - 8:30 am
Ethics and
Corruption:
How can industry protect itself?
with Robert Hanlon,
PhD, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Institute of Asian Research, UBC
What are the risks and moral implications
of bribery in foreign markets?
In today's new and emerging economies, Canadian businesses that operate abroad can face business threats associated with corruption. Yet many are unprepared to handle these challenges. The World Bank has classified corruption as the number one barrier to development. What does this mean for Canadian companies that source their products from overseas? How can a business protect itself with strong compliance procedures yet still remain competitive?
Join Robert Hanlon as he discusses strategies of corporate compliance and how promoting ethics in the workplace can reduce a firm's exposure to corruption. He'll also outline the ethical dimensions of bribery while providing an update on the Canadian government's latest efforts to hold business accountable to corrupt practices abroad.
click here to RSVP or call: 604-685-6560
DATE: Wednesday, Nov 9th -- 7:15-8:30 am
LOCATION: BC HYDRO Building
333 Dunsmuir Street, Vancouver
2nd Floor, Auditorium
Check-in at Security Desk - Main floor lobby
COST: Members - $7.00 Non-Members - $10.00
- muffins, tea and coffee included
- RSVP requested (if possible)
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About Our Speaker:
Dr. Robert Hanlon is a post-doctoral research fellow at University of B.C.'s Institute of Asian Research as well as a lecturer in political science and international studies at Simon Fraser University. He has a PhD from City University of Hong Kong and has researched corruption and human rights in Asia for the past seven years.
His findings have appeared throughout scholarly publications and media, including a book on human rights and rule of law in Sri Lanka. He is currently revising a new book on private-sector bribery in China, Cambodia, and Thailand. He has also researched corruption while at the University of Oxford and Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok... [read more]
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Spirit at Work presents
 Thursday, Nov 17, 2011
12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
Trust Life:
The Inner Work
of Transformation
with Kate Sutherland,
community and organizational development consultant,
& author of Make Light Work: 10 Tools for Inner Knowing.
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What helps you to trust life?
We all choose whether to trust life or not. This decision, too often unconscious, profoundly shapes our lives. When we choose to trust life, we become more attuned to our inner signals and knowingness. We can find these everywhere, as gut feelings, the still small voice within, and nudges from whatever catches our attention. This inner knowing serves as our reliable and utterly trustworthy guide.
Join Kate Sutherland as she shares how all of us, when we choose again and again to trust life, can create joyous, aligned, effective and powerful lives. We show up authentically and take risks. However, as life calls us beyond our comfort zone, we also often ignore the signals, especially if we have felt burned by results in the past.
Life is always calling us forward. Each of us has work to do. To fulfill your destiny, how will you keep re-choosing to trust life?
click here to RSVP -or- phone: 604-685-6560
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Date: Thursday, Nov 17, 2011 -- 12:00 - 1:30 pm
NEW
Location: Suite 700 - 1090 West Georgia Street, at Thurlow, Vancouver
Adler School of Professional Psychology
(Diagonally across from the Terasen Centre)
Cost: Without lunch: $10
With lunch: non-members - $20; members - $15
Lunch: Catered sandwiches, salad, tea and coffee
(RSVP requested for food)
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About our Speaker:
Kate Sutherland is a community and organizational development consultant in Vancouver, BC. She specializes in designing and facilitating custom-made processes that transform how organizations, programs and communities function. She has worked with all levels of government on dozens of multi-stakeholder initiatives, and on a variety of social policy issues including homelessness, early child development, women’s safety, urban design, food security, sustainability, social economy, and community economic development.
Kate has a passion for helping individuals and organizations find greater alignment with their core purpose, and for creating dynamic, high-trust environments that support groups to be generative, effective and fun. She teaches in the Community Development program at Langara College Continuing Studies. She is currently writing a book, Make Light Work in Groups, to introduce ten frameworks for how groups can be more effective. This new book will serve as a companion to Kate’s earlier book, Make Light Work: 10 Tools for Inner Knowing.
click here to RSVP -or- phone: 604-685-6560
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October 2011
Ethics for Breakfast presents
Wednesday, Oct 12, 2011
7:15 - 8:30 am
The Ethics of
Business Success:
You Can’t Separate
Values from Economics
with J. Paul Stevenson
CEO of Sego! Resources Inc. and
President, Vancouver Métis Community Association
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What business values guide the mining industry as a whole?
When it comes to the ethics and business values of the resource-extraction industry, mining has a less-than-squeaky-clean image. Do some mining companies say one thing publicly, then do the opposite? How accountable are they to their shareholders? And are profits the sole motive for most executives in the industry? When a leader, who equates ethics with sound business sense, stands out, the results can change working relationships on many levels.
Join Métis mining CEO J. Paul Stevenson as he talks about how ethical considerations form the basis of any successful resource project. In his view, ethics lead to profits: you can’t have one without the other. He’ll also share tales from his more than four decades in the mining industry, from summers as a prospector and claim staker to full-time corporate leader.
click here to RSVP or call: 604-685-6560
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DATE: Wednesday, Oct 12th -- 7:15-8:30 am
LOCATION: BC HYDRO Building
333 Dunsmuir Street, Vancouver
2nd Floor, Board Room
Check-in at Security Desk - Main floor lobby
COST: Members - $7.00 Non-Members - $10.00
- muffins, tea and coffee included
- RSVP requested (if possible)
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About Our Speaker:
J. Paul Stevenson is CEO of Sego! Resources and has worked in mineral exploration since 1965. Former CEO of Gillian Mines and Pacific Booker Minerals, he is one of the few Métis CEOs in the mining industry. He was a member of the B.C. Premier’s Mining Initiatives Committee, which resulted in the Mining Rights Amendment Act. He actively helps mining companies open dialogues with First Nations groups, and agreements between his companies (such as Sego! Resources) and the Upper Similkameen Indian Band are considered models for the industry. J. Paul has been profiled in numerous media including The Wall Street Journal, and has been published in The Globe and Mail... [read more]
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Spirit at Work presents
Thursday, October 20, 2011 -- 12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
Aging, Retirement &
Spirituality at Work
 
with Shae Hadden and Andrew Mackey,
Co-founders, 02E Older to Elder
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How can organizations retain "spirit" in the workplace as employees age and retire?
As increasingly more people are laid off or retire in the next few years, what will it take for companies and organizations to sustain their core values and corporate culture? Who will provide the inspiration that retiring employees provided for corporate excellence, spirit and non-monetary values at work? [read more]
Join Shae Hadden and Andrew Mackey, Co-founders of 02E Older to Elder, as they lead a discussion of:
• What role is there for spirit in the workplace? What might be lost if it disappears?
• If Elders do not inspire excellence, corporate values and a sense of inclusiveness in the social history of an organization, who will?
• How might a company retain its connection to its tradition of inspired work?
click here to RSVP -or- phone: 604-685-6560
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Date: Thursday, Oct 20, 2011 -- 12:00 - 1:30 pm
NEW
Location: Suite 700 - 1090 West Georgia Street, at Thurlow, Vancouver
Adler School of Professional Psychology
(Diagonally across from the Terasen Centre)
Cost: Without lunch: $10
With lunch: non-members - $20; members - $15
Lunch: Catered sandwiches, salad, tea and coffee
(RSVP requested for food)
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About Shae Hadden and Andrew Mackey:
As co-founder of 02E Older to Elder, Shae Hadden believes that everyone has the potential to be an Elder, to share the best of who they are and what they know in a way that brings out the best in others. As a workshop leader, she helps older adults realize their potential and create a fulfilling life. Her clients consist of senior executives, experts and consultants who strive to create a thriving, just and sustainable future through their organization or industry... [read more]
02E Older to Elder co-founder Andrew Mackey applies his background in intercultural communications and adult education to convey that everyone can achieve self-actualization -- at any age -- if they walk with others on the same path. Since 1978, through his firm Andrew Mackey + Associates, Andrew has managed a successful training and... [read more]
click here to RSVP -or- phone: 604-685-6560
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September 2011
Ethics for Breakfast presents
 Wednesday, Sept 14, 2011
7:15 - 8:30 am
Ethics and
the Military:
Values & Responsibilities
in Times of War
with Col. R. J. Lesperance,
LL.B, Deputy Judge Advocate General, Canadian Armed Forces Reserves
Do military personnel have special ethical responsibilities as professionals, especially during armed conflicts and war?
Many people perform ethically at their jobs, but how many would be willing to put themselves last, perhaps risk their life, for the sake of an employer's mission?
Military personnel do this every day while in combat.
Join Col. Bob Lesperance as he outlines the four key values and duties of military personnel: service to Canada before oneself (the professional code is "mission, own troops, self"); loyalty (to the state); integrity (leaders and commanders must not abuse the power they wield over subordinates); and courage (besides enduring physical hardship and danger, having the will and resolve to do what is ethically right and not to quit). [read more]
click here to RSVP or call: 604-685-6560
DATE: Wednesday, Sept 14th -- 7:15-8:30 am
LOCATION: BC HYDRO Building
333 Dunsmuir Street, Vancouver
2nd Floor, Auditorium
Check-in at Security Desk - Main floor lobby
COST: Members - $7.00 Non-Members - $10.00
- muffins, tea and coffee included
- RSVP requested (if possible)
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About Our Speaker:
Bob Lesperance, LL.B and B.C.L., is a Colonel and Reserve legal officer in the Office of the Judge Advocate General of the Canadian Armed Forces, and a partner in a private law firm where he works in environmental and commercial litigation.
Bob began his service with Canada’s military forces in 1969. In June 2009, he was promoted to the rank of Colonel and holds the position of Deputy Judge Advocate General, Reserves. In 2008/2009, he was briefly deployed to Afghanistan as a senior legal adviser to the Canadian Forces Task Force Commander in Kandahar. A former Adjunct Professor at the UBC Law Faculty (where he taught a course in the law of armed conflict), Bob now teaches leadership and ethics for the Canadian Forces College, Joint Command Staff Program through the Royal Military College... [read more]
click here to RSVP or call: 604-685-6560
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Note: This month's lunch meeting is on the 4th Thursday of the month
and at a new location.
Spirit at Work presents
 Thursday, Sept 22, 2011
12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
Spirit and Disability:
Finding a calm
centre after "catastrophe"
with Bonnie Sherr Klein,
Disability Rights Activist and Director
of Award-winning National Film Board Documentaries
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In times of peace and crisis, how do we identify
who we are, both to ourselves and to others?
Twenty-four years ago, at the age of 47 and at the height of her professional life, Bonnie Sherr Klein survived a "catastrophic" brainstem stroke which left her with significant disabilities. She also lost a large part of her identity, which had been her work as a documentary filmmaker and feminist activist.
Over the years, she slowly learned to define herself through the art of "being" rather than "doing", though everything conspires against maintaining this state of consciousness and serenity. Join Bonnie as she describes her painful and fulfilling process of self-discovery and rediscovery of... [read more]
click here to RSVP -or- phone: 604-685-6560
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Date: Thursday, Sept 22, 2011 -- 12:00 - 1:30 pm
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Location: Suite 700 - 1090 West Georgia Street, at Thurlow, Vancouver
(Diagonally across from the Terasen Centre)
Cost: Without lunch: $10
With lunch: non-members - $20; members - $15
Lunch: Catered sandwiches, salad, tea and coffee
(RSVP requested for food)
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About Bonnie Sherr Klein:
After surviving a brainstem stroke in 1987, Bonnie Sherr Klein wrote the book Slow Dance: A Story of Stroke, Love, and Disability (Vintage Canada 1997); co-founded the KickstART Festivals of Disability Arts and Culture in 1998; and directed & appeared in the 71-minute National Film Board (NFB) documentary SHAMELESS: The Art of Disability in 2006.
Previously, Bonnie directed numerous award-winning documentary films for the National Film Board including SPEAKING OUR PEACE: A Film about Women, Peace, and Power (1985), and the infamous NOT A LOVE STORY: A Film about Pornography (1981). Today, she continues to write and speak about feminism and disability rights. [read more]
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June 2011
Join us for a great opportunity to hear one of BC's leading business speakers, with experience in government, business and the non-profit sector!
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Ethics for Breakfast presents
 Wednesday, June 8, 2011
7:15 - 8:30 am
The Ethics of Disclosure:
How Can Business
and Governments
Earn Our Public Trust?
with Greg D'Avignon, President and CEO, Business Council of B.C.
What is reasonable disclosure and transparency
-- for both business and government --
and what are the ethical principles involved?
In today's news-hungry and media-savvy world, the public expects instant information. In turn, people frequently make immediate opinions based on both credible & biased sources.
This poses an ethical challenge for leaders in companies and governments: When should they communicate with employees & the public, and how much should they disclose? At the same time -- since the public's trust in most institutions has seriously eroded -- how can organizations also address the growing need for timely, factual and unbiased communication and transparency?
Join Greg D'Avignon as he outlines the ethical and not-so-ethical choices made in a less transparent and more complicated world... [read more]
click here to RSVP or call: 604-685-6560
DATE: Wednesday, June 8th -- 7:15-8:30 am
LOCATION: BC HYDRO Building
333 Dunsmuir Street, Vancouver
2nd Floor, Auditorium
Check-in at Security Desk - Main floor lobby
COST: Members - $7.00 Non-Members - $10.00
- muffins, tea and coffee included
- RSVP requested (if possible)
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About Our Speaker:
Greg D'Avignon is President and Chief Executive Officer of the Business Council of British Columbia. Established in 1966, the Business Council is an association representing approximately 250 major business enterprises, and is the foremost policy and business advocacy organization in the province. Its members are drawn from all major sectors of the provincial economy, including forest products, mining, manufacturing, transportation, telecommunications, agri-food, information technology, financial services, energy, tourism, retail, construction, healthcare, education and professional services.
Before joining the Council, Greg was President in Western Canada of Canada's National Brewers, with total annual sales in excess of $4 billion. Between 1999 and 2010, he created and developed the organization from the ground up, resulting in active membership in each of the four western provinces. From 1995 to 1998, he was Executive Director of the B.C. Salmon Farmers Association. And since 2003, Greg has served on the board of the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation, BC/Yukon Region, and is its past Chair... [read more]
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Spirit at Work presents
 Thursday, June 16, 2011
12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
Beyond Systems
to Spirit:
How do you live
outside the box?
A Workplace Centre Salon-Dialogue
facilitated by Brian Fraser, Lead Provocateur, Jazzthink
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Does your workplace honor your true Self?
Do you share your "spirit" with colleagues at work? Do your friends and family experience your deepest self? How are you different at work than you are at home and elsewhere? How much expansiveness do you invite into your life?
Join us for a special Workplace Centre Salon as Board member Brian Fraser facilitates an open-format session on the role of Spirit in our work and life. This is an opportunity for everyone to share their own experiences and views, and listen to a provocative dialogue in an informal setting.
click here to RSVP -or- phone: 604-685-6560
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Date: Thursday, June 16th, 2011 -- 12:00 - 1:30 pm
Location: Main Floor, Conference Rooms, Terasen Building,
1111 W. Georgia St. (at Thurlow), Vancouver
Cost: Without lunch: $10
With lunch: non-members - $20; members - $15
Lunch: Catered sandwiches, salad, tea and coffee
(RSVP requested for food)
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About our Facilitator:
Brian J. Fraser, Ph.D., is the Lead Provocateur of Jazzthink, an organization that offers keynotes, seminars and facilitation to improve the potential and productivity of teams. Brian is a professional speaker, teacher, facilitator, and coach specializing in how teamwork relates to organizational productivity. He is also the author of 11 books, including his latest, Jazzthink: Playing with the Stuff of Success. Brian ministers part-time with Brentwood Presbyterian Church in Burnaby, BC, and teaches in the Demers Group's Core Alignment Profession Coach Training program... [read more]
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