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March 2012
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Spirit at Work presents
Thursday, March 15, 2012 12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
Working with the Dying and Bereaved: Does spirit create peace and balance?
with Petrina Wing, Registered Nurse, Palliative Care Coordinator, and Certified Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Nurse
How do you approach death and dying? And how do you relate to people in your life who are?
Death
and dying evoke a host of responses from denial and anger to quiet
acceptance, as psychiatrist Elizabeth Kubler-Ross has famously noted.
Yet the end of life also raises deeper questions, both for those dying and those working with them: Why are we here? Where do we go? What is death? And what is the soul/spirit?
Some people find answers and strength in their religious beliefs or
spiritual practices, while others struggle, convinced that no aspect of
themselves will live on.
So how do people navigate
their passage into the 'final unknown'? And how might we use our
personal version (or vision) of "spirit" or "soul" to guide us?
Join
Petrina Wing as she shares poignant and heartfelt stories of her work
with people who are dying. She’ll explain what she’s learned about the
dying process; how she finds balance amidst stress, loss and grief; and
how she keeps in touch with her spiritual nature, trying to be as
mindful and present as possible in her work.
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:
Petrina Wing, RN,
CHPCN has spent four years as the Vancouver Coastal Health palliative
care program coordinator based in Sechelt, BC. She provides hospital
liaison & consultation for palliative clients; supports community
nurses and hospice staff in providing palliative care; and works with
the local, volunteer-run Coast Hospice Society. She also helped set up
the first hospice on the Sunshine Coast (in Gibsons) as a two-bed
public/private partnership, and managed it from 2001 to 2005.
Petrina
emigrated from England to Canada in 1992, after volunteering with an
AIDS society in London. She then began working at the forefront of AIDS
care in Vancouver, St. Paul’s Hospital, where she spent five years on
the palliative care unit. In 1997, she returned to her love of community
nursing. And two years later, she moved to the Sunshine Coast -- where
she held various roles while transitioning to her new rural life,
including a year as community health nurse for the Sechelt Indian Band.
Petrina
graduated from Southampton University Hospital School of Nursing in the
U.K. in 1985. She later studied midwifery, but decided that wasn’t for
her. And then a six-month community practicum led her into community
nursing. She loved this work because it took her into people’s homes and
lives, and that’s where she felt drawn to work with the dying. She then
completed a diploma in community nursing at West London Institute of
Higher Education, and later became Certified as a Canadian Hospice
Palliative Care Nurse.
Today, Petrina lives in Gibsons with her husband John and two dogs.
Spirit and Money: We can make every dollar our legacy
with Joel Solomon, Chairman, Renewal2 Investment Fund and President, Renewal Partners
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, both at home and in the workplace?
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]
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!
Reminder: Our lunch meetings are now at a new location. _____________________________________
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!
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!
Note: Our lunch meetings are now at a new location. ___________________________________________
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. ______________________________
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?
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.
with Shae Hadden and Andrew Mackey, Co-founders, 02E Older to Elder _________________________________________
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 and values (other than monetary values)?
Honoring employees’ spirit while on the job is hardly a top priority or core value for most organizations, especially as they face downsizing or retirements. Some human resources professionals and older employees might highlight the benefits of workplace spirituality, but what happens when these people retire? If their advocacy isn’t embedded in organizational values, does the role of Spirit disappear? Overall, as more and more people are retiring, what is the future of "spirit" in the workplace?
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?
NEW Location: Suite 700 - 1090 West Georgia Street, at Thurlow 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 that reflects what they care about most. Drawing on experience in multiple fields, from media and leadership development to marketing and health and wellness, Shae passionately believes in the power of conversation to create the future -- for individuals, organizations and society.
As principal of New Leaf Communications and a transformational communications consultant, Shae Hadden helps business leaders inspire people to join them in fundamentally changing the way we do business. Her clients consist of senior executives, experts and consultants who strive to create a thriving, just and sustainable future through their organization or industry.
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 community relations business specializing in coaching executives and managers in aboriginal, private sector, government and NGO organizations.
Andrew has executive-produced television programs, led strategic planning programs and facilitated hundreds of workshops, conferences and training programs. He has led transformational workshops for men and won awards for his consulting work, including one for a public consultation program from Environment Canada.
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 ______________________________
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]
Change in 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]
Beyond Systems to Spirit: How do you live outside the box?
Does your relationship to money reflect your deepest values?
A Workplace Centre Salon-Dialogue facilitated by Brian Fraser, Lead Provocateur, Jazzthink ________________________________
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.
(Note: This is our last Spirit at Work luncheon event until September.)
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. Before launching Jazzthink in 2002, Brian served as minister of Glebe Presbyterian Church in Toronto (1978-1985) and Dean of St. Andrew's Hall, the Presbyterian College at the University of British Columbia (1985-2001). During his tenure as Dean, he was also Professor of History at Vancouver School of Theology, where he focused his research and teaching on teams and their leadership.
Bringing Your Essence to Work: What is the source of your true power?
with Coleen Doucette, Certified Professional Coach, Principal, Clearly Forward, Leadership Coach & Team Facilitator, and Member, International Coach Federation _____________________________
What qualities do you admire in the remarkable people of your life?
In our busy, action-packed lives, we often get lost in what we think others expect of us, and lose touch with living from within. How do we access and maintain the source of our true power, both at work and elsewhere?
Join Coleen Doucette as she explores how, over time, we develop our character and persona while on the job and in daily life. She'll reveal how we can apply both of these aspects of our personality to support us. And as an inspirational prompt, she'll ask: Of all the people in your early life, which ones stand out in your memory as remarkable?
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 Speaker:
As Principal of Clearly Forward, Coleen Doucette is a leadership coach, team facilitator and a Certified Professional Coach. She has mentored accomplished leaders and dynamic teams for the past 30 years.
Coleen has an extensive background in the non-profit and for-profit sectors as a Founder, Executive Director, Director of Operational Programs and Operations Manager. For the past 14 years, she has directed programs for leading wildlife emergency response organizations... [read more]
with Louise Mangan, Spiritual Director, Pacific Pathways InterSpiritual Care, and Chair of the InterSpiritual Centre of Vancouver Society
Are you bold or fearful while on the job? Why... or why not?
For many of us, fear is an all-too-frequent part of life, whether at work or elsewhere. We’re conditioned to think of fear as a weakness that limits our relationships and can block advancement and success in the workplace. Yet fear also serves as a tremendous ally...
Join us as Louise Mangan explores the dynamics of fear in the workplace, how these affect us as individuals and groups, and the benefits of cultivating trust... [read more]
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 Speaker:
Louise Mangan is the spiritual director of Pacific Pathways InterSpiritual Care and Chair of the InterSpiritual Centre (ISC) of Vancouver Society. She also serves as the ISC representative for both the Greater Vancouver Compassion Network and the B.C. Poverty Reduction Coalition.
A founding member of the Pacific InterChristian Community, Louise previously worked as its ministry coordinator. Now part of the liaison team for the InterFaith Alliance on Ending Homelessness, she is also a retired pastoral minister for the United Church of Canada... [read more]
Spirituality & Judgments: How do they affect our workplace relationships?
with Lorraine Jensen, Program Leader, Excellence Seminars International, and Co-Author, Olive Juice Forever: Confessions of a Love Junkie
Does judging others make us less spiritual - and effective?
When we meet strangers, it's easy to make a snap judgment about who they are. But how long does it take to know someone's spiritual core? Why do we accept some things as they are, yet pass judgment on others? What impact does this have in the workplace -- and what can we do about it?
With humor, passion, and stories from her life, facilitator and public speaker Lorraine Jensen will share the complex dynamics of spirituality and judgment. Find out how judgments about yourself and others affect all of your relationships, and particularly those in the workplace.
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 Lorraine Jensen:
A straight-shooting public speaker with passion and wit, Lorraine has inspired audiences all over the world, from her hometown of Nanaimo, BC to Sydney, Australia. She connects with audiences by sharing her authentic self, using her real-life stories, struggles, and triumphs. Renowned for her expertise in relationships and the application of the law of attraction, Lorraine and her husband Shawn co-wrote the book Olive Juice Forever: Confessions of a Love Junkie, a book on relationships and... [read more].
Finding Courage For Your "Next Step": How is Spirit leading you?
with Gloria McArter, PhD, Registered Clinical Counsellor, Registered Marriage, Couple & Family Therapist, and Certified Canadian Counsellor
How do you "listen" to your true Self or Spirit energy?
For many of us, work might offer a lot of security, comfort and confidence, but not much meaning or satisfaction. What happens when you feel drawn to shift your focus away from the comfortable and familiar? What does it mean when you feel called to take your work to another level? Are you willing to let Spirit lead you to your next step?
Join Gloria McArter as she shares her own healing, spiritual journey and reveals how living with purpose, and remembering and sharing our natural gifts, bring contentment and fulfillment. (Bestowed at birth, "gifts" are our natural qualities, often experienced as ordinary; yet they produce extraordinary results, including greater courage and compassion.)
Gloria’s interactive conversation will help you explore your authentic self in a safe and trusting space, as you welcome the wisdom within. She'll also describe how appreciation of your personal and Spirit-given gifts can bring more wholeheartedness to your work, health and relationships. And how to listen to your own "felt-sense," as you and the Spirit co-create your next step.
Date: Thursday, February 17, 2010 -- 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 Speaker:
Gloria McArter, PhD, has almost 30 years of teaching experience, primarily as an adult educator and a human relations and communications trainer. She has worked as an employment and personnel placement counsellor and a crisis intervention counsellor. After receiving her Masters of Counselling Psychology, she began clinical work with individuals, couples and families, helping with personal, relationship, family and workplace issues.
Gloria has her Doctorate in Psychology, completing her dissertation on the relationship of religious and spiritual practices and personality style. As a workshop leader and public speaker, she focuses on the positive relationship between spirituality and mental, physical and workplace wellness. Gloria encourages the practice of creative questioning to explore meaning, heighten potential, build relationship, and deepen the experience and presence of wisdom.
She has a private practice in New Westminster, B.C. and is a Registered Clinical Counsellor (B.C. Association of Clinical Counsellors), a clinical member of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (Canadian Registry), and a Certified Canadian Counsellor (Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association). Gloria is also a board member of the Workplace Centre for Spiritual and Ethical Development.
Courage and Resourcefulness during Turbulent Change: What stories do we tell ourselves?
with Thomi Glover, M.A., M. Div., PCC, CMC, Principal, MayneStay Consulting Group, Certified Professional Coach, Anglican priest (retired) ______________________________
How well do you handle long periods of dramatic change?
An exciting opportunity... or cause for ulcers and anxiety? Most organizations and individuals have faced relentless and often fearful change over the last two years, regardless of their line of work. We all respond to such conditions differently, but wouldn’t it be great to learn a simple way to gain courage and resourcefulness during challenging times?
Thomi Glover offers such a welcome process. Join her for a highly interactive session that's guaranteed to leave you with a new awareness of your own resources. She will show you how you can support and inspire others during times of significant change. She'll also take you through a process that you can easily repeat with clients, colleagues and loved ones.
In Thomi's view, navigating purposefully through turbulence and change can become a meaningful spiritual exercise, inviting a deeper level of conversation. In her words: "You are a child of God. The universe is not served by you playing small."
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 Speaker:
Thomi Glover is a founding partner of MayneStay Consulting Group and an associate of the Demers Group. A retired Anglican priest, Thomi now works as a Certified Professional Coach and Certified Management Consultant who focuses on the inner work of leadership. She has trained in both eastern and western spiritual philosophy and practice, including extensive work in transpersonal psychology.
As a coach and facilitator, Thomi uses a wide variety of processes and tools, including assessment of emotional intelligence, to enhance and integrate learning. One model she uses for spiritual processes is walking a labyrinth to access inner wisdom.
Thomi Glover has spent 25+ years in the private, public and not-for-profit sectors. Her client organizations have ranged from BC and federal government ministries to TransLink, Vancity, Providence Health and the University of Victoria. She has shared more than 1,800 hours of individual leadership, executive coaching and effective team-building. Two years of work in the Philippines also gave her important experience in cross-cultural communication and sensitivities.
Since 2001, Thomi has been an Associate Faculty member at Royal Roads University School of Leadership. She lives both in Vancouver and on Mayne Island with her husband John and their golden retriever Sophie. For more about Thomi, please see www.maynestay.com/Thomi.html.
The Power of Symbols: Creating Community & Healing with SoulCollage®
with Heather Conn, Writer & Educator, SoulCollage® Facilitator and Owner, Sunshine Coast SoulCollage
What colours, objects or animals represent the inner and outer you?
If you saw a table full of images -- animals, landscapes, children, a laughing face or a fearful body -- which ones would draw your attention? How would you combine them to symbolize your Warrior or Crone self, or your playful spirit?
Join Heather Conn as she uses a fun, hands-on exercise to introduce the intuitive process of SoulCollage®, created by Seena Frost of California. This insightful practice draws on the power of symbols to awaken your creative spirit and portray aspects of your inner self, what Carl Jung called "sub-personalities." You will discover ways to celebrate those who have shaped your life and honour all parts of yourself... [read more]
Date: Thursday, November 18, 2010 -- 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 Speaker:
Heather Conn trained in California as a SoulCollage® Facilitator in 2008 with founder Seena Frost, who received her Master's in Theology at Yale Divinity School. As owner of Sunshine Coast SoulCollage®, Heather has hosted sessions in a variety of applications, from family grief work to mid-life transition and adults with mental illness.
As a professional writer and educator, Heather has worked for decades with Jungian symbology, dream journals, mandalas and archetypal forms. A long-time writing instructor and former freelance photographer who is passionate about spirituality and the environment, she has published in 50+ magazines and newspapers, teaches writing for Pull Focus Film School and Capilano University, and is a Board member of the Workplace Centre for Spiritual and Ethical Development... [read more]
with David Gouthro, President, The Consulting Edge
What values are essential for you to share with any partner?
Are you a lone wolf or a team player? Do you know the benefits of working with others? What would you hope to gain by creating a new partnership with a colleague?
Join David Gouthro, an international facilitator, consultant and speaker, as he promotes a "share the stage" philosophy. He believes it's time for lone presenters, speakers and consultants to embrace and effectively model a spirit of partnership.
David will describe and explore enticing possibilities for working with another colleague (or two) in a way that maximizes value for you, your clients and your professional environment. And why workplace collaboration is not only viable, but perhaps even essential, to thrive in today's competitive world.
Date: Thursday, October 21, 2010 -- 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 Speaker:
David Gouthro is president of The Consulting Edge: Movers & Shakers, Inc. and a professional facilitator, consultant and speaker. He works with private, public and not-for-profit organizations on three continents to help individuals and groups interested in leadership, change and innovation.
Since 1995, David has worked with many industries, from financial services, high tech and pharmaceuticals to healthcare, municipal government, entertainment and education. His clients have included Providence Health Care, Price Waterhouse Coopers, BC Hydro, IBM... [Read more]
Letting Spirit Lead: Learning to trust your Creative Self
with Melba Burns, PhD, Writer and Leader of Creative Writing Groups
What rules in your life: spirit-flow or creative blocks?
Can you remember a time when you got out of your own way and allowed Spirit to guide you in your work and life? It's easy to say "Trust the unknown," but how many of us truly live that credo without fear and misgivings? Often, we think we know where we're going and how best to handle things. Yet Spirit or intuition knows better; and sometimes it leads us down pathways we never dreamed of venturing.
So how do we recognize the gifts that Spirit brings? Move our ego out of the way for future guidance and direction? Or practically tune in, even dialogue with Spirit, so we feel more deeply empowered?
Join Melba Burns, author, creative writer, and leader of writing groups for over two decades, as she shares her experience and insights. She'll also share her own stories of learning to let Spirit lead in her life and creative work -- from leaving her writing business in Los Angeles for parts unknown, to how Spirit once saved her son's leg when it was due for amputation.
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 Speaker:
Melba Burns has been writing in diverse genres for more than 40 years. For the past 21 years, she has led creative writing groups for more than 3,000 people. Melba earned her M.A. and Ph.D. in Speech Communication from the University of Denver in 1983; her dissertation focused on creative problem-solving.
Melba has thrived in multi-aspects of creativity for many years, from painting to writing songs, novels, nonfiction and poetry. She has lived in Vancouver since 1986. Before that, she spent eight years in Los Angeles, writing educational film scripts for Disney and feature film screenplays. Her latest book is called Romance Your Writer Within & Reawaken Your Passion to Write.
Spirit and the Recession: What helped you get through it?
A Conversation Salon facilitated by Gregg Taylor _________________________
How has Spirit "supported you" over the last year and a half?
Salons are “conversational and conceptual jazz,” says Eric Utne, founding editor of The Utne Reader -- and we at the Workplace Centre for Spiritual and Ethical Development agree. Therefore, we’ve decided to host a salon this month to hear your stories about: How has Spirit helped you weather the recession?
Did you find new work? Did you take much-needed time off? Did you get propelled to create something new, or are you still pulling yourself out of it? Have you felt more alienated from, or closer to, your spiritual inspiration during tough times?
Spirit shows up in many ways -- from compassion, intuition and creativity to completion and cooperation. And we're wondering what's happened for you.
Career coach Gregg Taylor will convene this engaging session to invite talk that amuses, challenges, amazes and inspires. Please join us; we’d love to have you contribute and see what wisdom we can generate together.
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
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About our Facilitator:
Gregg Taylor is a Career Coach and President of Transitions Career & Business Consultants Inc.
Gregg has over 18 years' experience as a career & employment counsellor, consultant and coach. Through his Vancouver-based company, Gregg and his team of coaches provide career testing, career coaching and career transition & outplacement services. Their monthly, government-funded career exploration program, The Transitions Program, is now in its 15th successful year of operation.
Through his extensive work in this field, Gregg has seen and studied the many challenges that people face during job loss, career changes and the search for work, and has developed tools, strategies and resources to help people get back on track.
Gregg is a Certified Human Resource Professional through the Human Resources Management Association of BC, and is President of ENET Society, BC's Education, Training and Networking group for Career Practitioners. Gregg writes a weekly "Career Coach" column for Vancouver area community newspapers, and has been featured on CBC Radio's "Almanac" and in the Vancouver Province and National Post. He is also a featured speaker at various career events throughout the year. For more, read his blog at http://www.thecareerpeople.ca/.
Meditation & the Mind: The Latest Advances in Neuroscience
with Victor Chan, Founding Director and Trustee, Vancouver’s Dalai Lama Centre for Peace and Education
How and where do science and spirituality link inside us?
Fitness gyms might exercise our bodies, but what about mental gyms to exercise our minds? That's one of the purposes of meditation. While people have meditated for centuries, only in recent decades have researchers understood how such practices influence the brain and neural pathways. So how does meditation alter our brain function?... [Read more] __________________________ Date: Thursday, May 20, 2010 -- 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
Victor Chan is a Trustee and Founding Director of the Dalai Lama Center for Peace and Education. He is also a board member of the Canadian Research Institute of Spirituality and Healing, based at UBC, and has been a member of the Clinton Global Initiative for the past four years.
With the Dalai Lama, Victor co-wrote Wisdom of Forgiveness: Intimate Conversations and Journeys (Riverhead Books) in 2005. He chaired the organizing committee for the Dalai Lama’s visit to Vancouver in 2004. And in September 2009, the Dalai Lama Center hosted the Vancouver Peace Summit... [Read more]
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