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...
Meetings are presentation-and-discussion format, about 75 minutes long, with speakers chosen on topics that help you keep ethics and spirituality alive and well in your place of work.
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We are on "summer break" at the moment...
Our next events will be:
Ethics for Breakfast -- Tuesday, Sept. 9th
Spirit at Work Lunch -- Thursday, Sept. 18th
Speakers are still being selected for our 2008-2009 program, so please contact us if you have suggestions.
Enjoy your summer... and see you in September!
Workplace Centre
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June 2008 EVENTS
Ethics for Breakfast presents
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 Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
7:15 - 8:30 am
Our Carbon Footprint:
The Ethics of Offsets
with James Tansey, PhD,
Co-Founder, Offsetters.org, and
Chair of Business Ethics, Sauder School of Business and Centre for Applied Ethics, UBC
How important – or ethical – are carbon offsets?
Carbon offsets are one of a number of strategies for addressing climate change.
Offsets are financial investments in projects that prevent greenhouse gases from being emitted into the atmosphere. They can include paying to have someone else curtail air pollution or develop "renewable" energy sources. Praised as an important way of promoting green development, they've also been criticised for allowing "catholic" indulgences and "business as usual."
Join us as James explores the ethics of offsets, and describes how they can play an important role in addressing climate change and reducing our carbon footprint in the short-to-medium term.
click here to RSVP -or- phone: 604.685-6560
DATE: Tuesday, June 10th -- 7:15-8:30 am
LOCATION: BC Hydro Building
333 Dunsmuir Street, Vancouver
Register at Security Desk - Main floor lobby
COST: Members - $7.00 Non-Members - $10.00
(muffins, tea and coffee included)
click here to RSVP or phone: 604.685-6560
About Our Speaker:
James Tansey, PhD, is the Chair in Business Ethics at the Sauder School of Business and W. Maurice Young Centre for Applied Ethics at the University of British Columbia.
He is also co-founder of www.offsetters.org, a Canadian Web site/organization providing carbon offsets that are "verified, permanent, socially beneficial and additional" by investing in greenhouse gas prevention projects that would otherwise not take place.
Managing Editor of the journal, Integrated Assessment, and an Assistant Professor in the Organizational Behaviour and Human Resources Division at UBC, James also works as an advisor and contributor to such organizations as the World Economic Forum, the UK National Audit Office, Oxford Analytica, Cisco, ISIS Innovation (Oxford), Environment Canada... More on this Speaker
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Spirit at Work presents
 Thursday, June 19th, 2008
12:00-1:30pm
Creating Authentic Sacred Space at Work
with Rev. Ric Matthews
Minister of the Mission & Community Life,
First United Church/Mission, Vancouver
How are these connected: Inner-city churches and industrial workplaces in South Africa. Corporate Boardrooms in the U.S. & Canada. And the First United Mission in the Downtown Eastside?
Ric Matthews has worked in them all.
Appointed to First United in 2007, Ric has a diverse background of experience and a fire in his soul for change. Come and hear this passionate speaker as he talks about:
- challenges of the South African workplace – as he moved from Ministry with inner-city congregations to industrial work for reconciliation & trust building, then organizational change consulting with Deloitte Consulting.
- the spiritual challenge of social-political injustice, personal pain and organizational dysfunctionality.
- North American workplace & social issues, including poverty & wealth, and materialism & homelessness; and
- the world of Vancouver's First United: Insights from Apartheid, building community across social strata, and implications for local workplaces.
Ric will also explore what we can learn for our OWN workplaces: Seeing the gift in the present moment. Balancing "transcendence" with "immanence." And calling and defining the moment… More about this Event
click here to RSVP or phone: 604.685-6560
DATE: Thursday, June 19, 2008 – 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
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About our Speaker:
Ric Matthews has 25 years' experience in leading Organizational Development and Change Management projects in South Africa, Zimbabwe, Canada, the USA and Thailand. He was appointed lead minister at First United Church in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside in August 2007.
An ordained minister in the Methodist Church of South Africa, he served in a variety of ministries including four inner-city churches in Johannesburg, where he faced the harsh realities of extreme poverty, injustice, violence and apartheid. During the first democratic election in South Africa, he chaired the local Peace Committee and the Reconstruction and Development Committee for the Johannesburg East region.
Inventor of a board game called Know Me – now used around the world for conflict resolution, relationship-building and understanding across racial, religious and sectarian lines – Ric became involved in resolving workplace conflicts. This led to his secondment to industry, redressing injustice in the workplace, and then to Deloitte Consulting South Africa as Associate Director of Change Leadership. He was transferred to the Vancouver Deloitte office in 1997.
Ric then started Radical Momentum Consulting where he… More about this speaker
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Past Events
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DIANNE DOYLE
President and CEO
Providence Health Care
Spirituality in My Workplace
Thursday, November 15 2007
Spirit at Work Lunch 12:00 - 1:30 pm |
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DR. ELI SOPOW
Human Research & Organizational Devt
RCMP, Pacific Region HQ
You’re Okay – It’s the Organization that’s Sick
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Ethics for Breakfast 7:15-8:30 am |
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REBECCA EPHRAIM
Publisher and Editor in Chief,
SharedVISION Magazine
"The Real F-Word is FEAR"
Wednesday October 17 2007
Spirit at Work Lunch 12:15 - 1:30 pm |
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Dr. MARK WEXLER
SFU Professor of Business Ethics
Corporate Psychopathy, Ethics and Social Responsibility
Tuesday, October 9, 2007
Ethics for Breakfast 7:15-8:30 am |
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DR. BRIAN FRASER
and the JazzThink Trio
Jazzing Up Your Leadership:
Swing and Spirit at Work
Thursday, September 20, 2007
Spirit at Work Lunch 12:15 - 1:30 pm
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DANIEL SAVAS
Senior V-P, Ipsos-Reid
Ethical Use and Interpretation of Polls
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Ethics for Breakfast 7:15-8:30 am
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HAL GUNN
Co-founder and CEO, InspireHealth
Thursday June 21 2007
Spirit at Work Lunch 12:15 - 1:30 pm
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JIM HOGGAN
Ethics, the Environment and Public Relations
Tuesday May 8 2007
Ethics for Breakfast 7:15-8:30 am
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TREVOR SIMPSON
From Confusion to Clarity,
A Guide to Spiritual Decision Making
Thursday April 19 2007
Spirit at Work Lunch 12:15-1:30 pm
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DR. GLORIA McARTER
The Ethics of Marriage
Tuesday April 10 2007
Ethics for Breakfast 7:15-8:30 am
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KERRACE ALEXANDER
Journey Through Leadership:
Deepening Your Connection to Spirituality
Thursday March 15 2007
Spirit at Work Lunch 12:15-1:30 pm
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DR. MARK WEXLER
Understanding Corporate Scandals:
Who are those Monsters?
Tuesday March 13 2007
Ethics for Breakfast 7:15-8:30 am
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