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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!
Workplace Centre



      Calendar
    of  Events


       

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 Our June 2013 Events:

 
Ethics for Breakfast

Wed, June 12: 
     The Future of Our Ethics:
                              What conversations do you need to have? 
                              a Members Forum facilitated by Andrew Mackey,
                              Chair of the Ethics for Breakfast program, and
                             
Sue Drinnan, a speaker and long time contributing
                              member of the Workplace Centre
                              
More information below...


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Spirit at Work Lunch

Thurs, June 20:    What Compassion Looks Like:
                                       Where has the spirit taken you?
                             with
Avril Orloff, an artful visual facilitator who has worked
                            
with the Dalai Lama, Karen Armstrong, Peter Block and
                             Margaret Wheatley, among others
.

More information below...

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To RSVP, click here (and indicate which event)


NOTE about Credit Card Payments:
We continue to accept cash and cheques for events. However, we now take Credit Card payments only 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!
Workplace Centre

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June 2013


Ethics for Breakfast presents

         Wednesday, June 12, 2013
                 7:15 - 8:30 am


   THE FUTURE OF
      OUR ETHICS


A Members Forum
facilitated by
Andrew Mackey, Chair of the Ethics for Breakfast program, and
Sue Drinnan, longtime contributing member of the Workplace Centre.


What conversations do you need to have?

As part of the new strategic plan, the Workplace Centre is committed to becoming more responsive to the needs of its members and community. It is in this spirit that the June meeting is being opened up both to discuss our own business challenges and to suggest topics for the next year of breakfasts. We look forward to seeing you and hearing your thoughts on making ethics relevant for the years
to come.


            click here to RSVP   or  call: 604-685-6560


DATE:            Wednesday,
June 12  --  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:**
We continue to accept cash and cheques for events. However, we now take Credit Card payments only through PayPal. These must be made in Advance of events, and will be non-refundable. Please use our Payment Button below. Thank you!

Option/Price


About our Facilitators:

Andrew Mackey has, for over 35 years, provided strategic communications advice and corporate training to small to large sized organizations. Andrew offers personal and corporate training in interpersonal communications that make business conversations work. He also provides communications planning, media training, and training in best practices for public consultation programs. Andrew is active as a Community Partner at Tri-cities Rapid Time Networks, and in Wisdom in Action at o2e ("Older to Elder").



Sue Drinnan, MSc (Neurosc), supports successful senior leaders and their teams to work even more effectively together. With 20 years of experience either coaching senior leaders or in national management roles herself, she is highly successful in helping individuals and global organisations make the changes they want and step up to what they are capable of. Sue is an award-winning speaker, ex-world-calibre athlete and a graduate of the Universities of British Columbia, Simon Fraser and Royal Roads.






            click here to RSVP   or  call: 604-685-6560




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Spirit at Work presents

          Thursday, June 20, 2013
                 
12:00 - 1:30 pm


WHAT COMPASSION
      LOOKS LIKE



with
Avril Orloff, an artful visual facilitator


Where has the Spirit taken you?

Our exploration of compassion is ending with discussion and drawings. Avril Orloff, a graphic recorder, will capture our learnings from the past ten months as well as the many ways we’ve been inspired by spirit. Avril is a talented artist who has worked with the Dalai Lama, Karen Armstrong, Peter Block and Margaret Wheatley, among others. Come excited to contribute your wisdom and enjoy the process as Avril captures the richness of our salon in a delightful way. Find out more about her work at www.avrilorloff.com.


         click here to RSVP  -or-  phone: 604-685-6560


Date:              Thursday, June 20, 2013  --  12:00 - 1:30 pm

Location:    Suite 700 - 1090 West Georgia Street, Vancouver

                   Adler School of Professional Psychology
                  
(Southeast corner of Georgia at Thurlow Street)

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:**
We continue to accept cash and cheques for events. However, we now take Credit Card payments only through PayPal. These must be made in Advance of events, and will be non-refundable. Please use our Payment Button below. Thank you!
 

Option/Price

 

About Our Speaker:

Avril Orloff is
a graphic facilitator who draws people’s ideas by creating a visual record of meetings, conferences and workshops. Avril's clients benefit from her powerful graphic meeting tools. Every graphic illustration is a unique creation. Avril has worked with the Dalai Lama, Karen Armstrong, Peter Block and Margaret Wheatley, among others.


         click here to RSVP  -or-  phone: 604-685-656


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Our Past Events:


May 2013


Ethics for Breakfast presents

          Wednesday, May 8, 2013
                   7:15 - 8:30 am



CONFLICT AND THE
CONNECTED SELF



with
Rob Riches, teacher, coach, counsultant, creator of Soul Dynamics, and lifelong meditator

How do we balance our personal values
with the values of our social groups?

Humans are social creatures, defined in part by our social connections. Where we work and live and play tells people about who we are and what we find important. This group membership also comes with group values and norms, and while belonging is important, group values can sometimes conflict with our own. How do we respond in these moments of conflict or confusion?

To answer this question, Rob Riches looks at our need for contribution, for conformity, but also for self-definition. He deepens the conversation by asking: what ethical guideposts can we use to support our behaviour? How can we navigate our need to belong with our need for independence? Join the Workplace Centre and Rob in May to refine your response in these challenging moments.


            click here to RSVP   or  call: 604-685-6560


DATE:            Wednesday,
May 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:**
We continue to accept cash and cheques for events. However, we now take Credit Card payments only through PayPal. These must be made in Advance of events, and will be non-refundable. Please use our Payment Button below. Thank you!

Option/Price


About Our Speaker:

Rob Riches has a private practice based on the importance of cultivating our emotional intelligence. He has developed his effective coaching techniques from thirty-plus years spent teaching. His lifelong interest in meditation has further supported his techniques by leading him to place prime value on the quality of our subjective experience of our self, based on balance and integration. With his focus on EQ, Rob helps people stimulate new thinking around self in conflict and facilitates new ways of moving through these challenging conversations.

This body of knowledge is captured in “Soul Dynamics” and the techniques that underpin it. “Soul Dynamics” focuses on achieving and maintaining inner states of emotional and mental balance and leads to emotional resilience. This balanced inner state results from a better understanding of integrating the 'divided' self, a dynamic process that speaks to all of the concerns of self and belonging.


            click here to RSVP   or  call: 604-685-6560




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Spirit at Work presents

          Thursday, May 16, 2013
                 
12:00 - 1:30 pm




    THE WISE SPIRIT



with Gary Bello, M.A., of Pacific Horizon Consulting. Gary is a therapist, coach and an interfaith minister.


How can we treat ourselves
with self-compassion?

Compassion is an essential ingredient for survival, and it is only by understanding the experience of another and responding to it that we are able to truly connect. But can you offer compassion if you can’t act with self-compassion? This question is at the heart of the modern struggle to create a compassionate business world. 

Gary Bello encourages us to create a healthier business paradigm by tuning in to our inner wisdom. He shares the edge that self-compassionate businesses have as well as how they develop a compassionate culture. How does your self-compassion enhance your ability to serve your clients? How do you stay connected and authentic?

         click here to RSVP  -or-  phone: 604-685-6560


Date:              Thursday, May 16, 2013  --  12:00 - 1:30 pm

Location:    Suite 700 - 1090 West Georgia Street, Vancouver

                   Adler School of Professional Psychology
                  
(Southeast corner of Georgia at Thurlow Street)

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:**
We continue to accept cash and cheques for events. However, we now take Credit Card payments only through PayPal. These must be made in Advance of events, and will be non-refundable. Please use our Payment Button below. Thank you!
 

Option/Price

 

About Our Speaker:

Gary Bello of Pacific Horizon Consulting, is a therapist, a coach and an interfaith minister. His fascination with the mind-body connection is evident not only in his post-graduate psychneuroimmunology training but also in his founding of several holistic residential treatment facilities. Through these experiences, he developed a system called ‘The Bello Method’ which utilizes physical postures, exercises, breathing and relaxation techniques.

Building on his work in holistic health, Gary co-wrote Enlightening Moments with his wife Radha. It is a program that supports self-awareness and mindful living, encouraging readers to look at how they operate and challenging them to respond rather than react. He also travels extensively, educating and inspiring people to live balanced and peaceful lives.


         click here to RSVP  -or-  phone: 604-685-6560



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April 2013

Ethics for Breakfast presents

          Wednesday, April 10, 2013
                   7:15 - 8:30 am



THE ETHICS OF OUR
BUILT ENVIRONMENT


with
Bob Ransford, CNU-A,
development consultant, Vancouver Sun journalist, and Trustee of the Granville Island Trust.

How do we plan for healthy
community development?

Humans need adequate shelter. It is an issue of basic survival. But the population continues to grow rapidly and our resource use outstrips the earth’s supply, or soon will. To complicate the issue further, humans are incredibly mobile in the modern world and land use planning needs to account for this mobility. Developing a 21st century city is a complex task with many competing interests.

Bob Ransford, a local urban design specialist, joins us at Ethics for Breakfast to tease apart some of these interests. How do we house people while acting as environmental stewards? What are the acceptable trade-offs and whose needs shouldn’t be sacrificed? On a more basic level, where does one lookk for ethical guideposts to direct this decision-making? Join the Workplace Centre in April as Bob explores how the built environment, community and natural systems intersect.


            click here to RSVP   or  call: 604-685-6560


DATE:            Wednesday,
April 10  --  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:**
We continue to accept cash and cheques for events. However, we now take Credit Card payments only through PayPal. These must be made in Advance of events, and will be non-refundable. Please use our Payment Button below.  Thank you!

Option/Price


About Our Speaker:

Bob Ransford specializes in communications and urban design with over 24 years of industry experience. In his role as a development consultant, Bob focuses on complex urban development and land-use challenges involving a wide range of stakeholders. His work combines effective community engagement and good public process with creative urban design and profitable urban development. Through his work, Bob helps private and public sector clients achieve their urban development objectives, while incorporating smart growth principles. 

Bob also works as a journalist, writing a regular bi-weekly column in the Vancouver Sun on urban development and housing issues. His influence on land use is further extended through his long record of community service. He was formerly Commissioner on the City of Vancouver’s Planning Commission and has sat on the City’s Urban Design Panel. Currently, he is a Trustee on the Granville Island Trust.


             click here to RSVP   or  call: 604-685-656
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Spirit at Work
presents

           Thursday, April 18, 2013 
                  
12:00 - 1:30 pm


  MEANING-MAKING
        AT WORK
 


with Carollyne Conlinn, MBA, MPH, MCC, international executive coach with 30 years creating programs effecting profound change in individuals and organizations.


Is spiritual intelligence the new
workplace frontier?

Conversations about emotional intelligence at work are commonplace. While the modern workplace isn’t perfect, most managers strive for balance and fairness. An emotionally intelligent culture, according to this line of thinking, is a healthy culture. But what if emotional intelligence isn’t enough? What if we also need spiritual intelligence in the workplace for truly engaged employees?

To help attendees understand its importance, Carollyne Conlinn of Essential Impact Coaching, starts by defining spiritual intelligence. She outlines its key factors and how to recognize it, both in your self and others. Carollyne then discusses the benefits of spiritual intelligence as well as how to develop a spiritually intelligent culture. Leave this discussion not only understanding what spiritual intelligence is but also why you need to start talking about it in your own workplace.


                  click here to RSVP  -or-  phone: 604-685-6560



Date:              Thursday, April 18, 2013  --  12:00 - 1:30 pm

Location:    Suite 700 - 1090 West Georgia Street, Vancouver

                   Adler School of Professional Psychology
                  
(Southeast corner of Georgia at Thurlow Street)

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:**
We continue to accept cash and cheques for events. However, we now take Credit Card payments only through PayPal. These must be made in Advance of events, and will be non-refundable. Please use our Payment Button below.  Thank you!
 

Option/Price

 

About Our Speaker:

Carollyne Conlinn is an international executive coach. She integrates entrepreneurial expertise with 30 years of corporate experience to create proven programs that effect profound change in individuals and organizations. She is a Master Facilitator of the Legacy Leadership® System that grows leadership capacity. Carollyne also teaches Executive Coaching at Royal Roads University and created part of the core curriculum for the coaching program Carollyne also teaches coaching at Royal Roads University and created part of the core curriculum for the coaching program.

To date, Carollyne has trained over 1000 external coaches and many more leader coaches in organizations. She was recognized for her talent in 2009 when she won Canadian Coach of the Year. With her partners at Essential Impact Coaching, Carollyne focuses on supporting her clients in building coaching cultures that last. Their ability to do this is evident in the success of their clients, with Joey Restaurants winning the 2011 Global Prism Award for their coaching culture.


             click here to RSVP   or  call: 604-685-6560


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March 2013

Ethics for Breakfast presents


Wednesday, March 13, 2013
           7:15 - 8:30 am
 




MELTING ICE, RISING WATER: Adapting to the
New Environment




with Deborah Harford, Executive
Director of ACT (the Adaptation to Climate Change Team)


How can ethics help us find solutions
to climate change?

There is a lot of talk about the impact of climate change. Scientists document the changes, politicians speak about energy, and citizens organize rallies. Though the discussions carry on, action seems to stagnate. Governments are slow to take the lead. This leaves adaptation up to forward thinking business leaders and presents society with new challenges around standards, incentives, policies and financing.

In reaction to these problems, a new organization was created to develop resources for our new world. Deborah Harford, the Executive Director of ACT (the Adaptation to Climate Change Team) will share with the Workplace Centre how ACT is combining research, education, outreach and policy innovation to build solutions. She also reminds us that the ethical and spiritual are essential components of these solutions. Bringing in First Nations values and advice from world faith leaders, Deborah challenges us to accept the realities of our shifting climate and to work together during this time of unprecedented change.


            click here to RSVP   or  call: 604-685-6560


DATE:            Wednesday,
March 13  --  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:**
We continue to accept cash and cheques for events. However, we now take Credit Card payments only through PayPal. These must be made in Advance of events, and will be non-refundable. Please use our Payment Button below.

Option/Price

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About Our Speaker:

As executive director of ACT, Deborah Harford is responsible for development of the initiative’s pioneering vision and its unique partnerships with the public and private sectors, as well as overall coordination and management of the program. She also directs and produces ACT’s pioneering policy recommendations for effective adaptation strategies at all levels of government, as well as communication and promotion of the program’s outcomes.

Through Deborah’s efforts, ACT has created networks between local, national and international climate change research practitioners, NGOs, industry representatives, all levels of government, First Nations groups and local communities; and high-profile public events such as the International Climate Impacts and Responses conference featuring speakers from Africa, South America, Australia and the Arctic. Deborah’s work with ACT has gained her national recognition as a resource for those seeking information on climate change adaptation and practical coping strategies.


             click here to RSVP   or  call: 604-685-656
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Spirit at Work
presents


                        Thursday, March 21, 2013   (12:00 - 1:30 pm) 




THE COMPASSION OF YOUTH:
A Spirited Exploration 

A panel discussion with: 
Pauline Lipska, BCom, CA, founder and president of the Young Women in Business (YWiB) Society;
Colin Stansfield, BA, MBA, Policy Research Consultant, Ecotrust Canada;
Shonagh MacRae, BA, currently completing her business-focused Masters in Organizational Psychology.

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What is the youth perspective of
compassion in the workplace
?

This month’s Spirit at Work asks the younger generation to discuss this year’s theme of compassion in the workplace. Find out if their ideas are radically different from your own or if there is cohesion across the generations.

The panel opens with a discussion of living in alignment with our values, compassion being but one. How does our experience of work change when we are able to live our values and support our coworkers in living theirs? From empathizing with the individual, the conversation shifts to the perspective of the business owner. Can there be too much compassion at work? Are we asking too little of employees and too much of business owners? Finally, compassion in the workplace is examined from a structural perspective. Do our work expectations and policies support compassion or pit our values and those of our employers against basic human needs? Join the conversation this March as the panel explores the future of compassion in the workplace.  


                  click here to RSVP  -or-  phone: 604-685-6560



Date:              Thursday, March 21, 2013  --  12:00 - 1:30 pm

Location:    Suite 700 - 1090 West Georgia Street, Vancouver

                   Adler School of Professional Psychology
                  
(Southeast corner of Georgia at Thurlow Street)

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:**
We continue to accept cash and cheques for events. However, we now take Credit Card payments only through PayPal. These must be made in Advance of events, and will be non-refundable. Please use our Payment Button below. 
 

Option/Price

 

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About our panel...

Pauline Lipska, BCom, CA, is the founder and president of the Young Women in Business (YWiB) Society, a non-profit that supports ambitious young women achieve success on their own terms. With a background in accounting and commerce, Paulina has worked for several high-profile companies in Vancouver including KPMG and the Sauder School of Business. If she isn’t busy working or volunteering, she is most likely whipping up a delicious meal or relaxing in child’s pose


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Colin Stansfield, BA, MBA, is currently doing policy research and design with the local branch of EcoTrust Canada. As a “recovering restaurateur”, his entrepreneurial perspective informs his work with EcoTrust as he collaborates with diverse community members to create integrative yet pragmatic solutions. In his spare time, Colin is often found exploring the city with his wife and young daughter.

 


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Shonagh MacRae
, BA, is at the tail end of a social justice and sustainable business-focused Masters in Organizational Psychology. Never wanting to actually finish school, she recently began a program in Horticultural Therapy and can’t wait to combine her passions for all things green. At this time of year, Shonagh is usually found trying to convince Mother Nature to heat things up a bit faster so she can don her gardening gloves.



  

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February 2013


Ethics for Breakfast presents

Wednesday, February 13, 2013
           7:15 - 8:30 am
 



BUSINESS ETHICS
THROUGH THE EYES
OF CONTEMPORARY
STUDENTS:



with Bob Korth, Ph.D. Professor of business ethics at Simon Fraser
University


What is ethically acceptable for the
modern business student?

How does the current business student view ethics? As corporate greed
continues, is this new generation set to reinvigorate an ethical perspective in the
workplace or merely to fall into self-interested line? These questions form the
foundation of the February Ethics for Breakfast session with Bob Korth, a
professor of business ethics at Simon Fraser University.

While there is variation, Bob finds the majority of his students are idealistic. They
desire to make a positive contribution and care about the future of the planet.
Despite this idealistic perspective though, Bob sees some troubling patterns. Join
the discussion as he explores their propensity to rationalize rather than reason
and their disturbing belief that cheating is ethically acceptable.


            click here to RSVP   or  call: 604-685-6560


DATE:            Wednesday,
February 13  --  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:**
We continue to accept cash and cheques for events. However, we now take Credit Card payments only through PayPal. These must be made in Advance of events, and will be non-refundable. Please use our Payment Button below.
Thanks!

Option/Price

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About Our Speaker:

Bob Korth teaches business ethics at Simon Fraser University but his
background is in philosophy and theology. He received his Ph.D. in philosophy in
1974 and his M.Div. in theology in 1986, which led to 25 years as an Anglican
priest. Besides philosophy and theology, Bob has also explored the human
potential and transpersonal movements, calling himself an unrepentant hippie.

As a teacher he promotes the idea that understanding is already interpretation
and signals where our own perspective is embedded. From his perspective,
gratitude is vital to a meaningful life and he is grateful for his two marriages, five
children and three grandchildren. Bob also believes that metaphor is far more
pervasive and powerful than many realize.


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Spirit at Work
presents



  Thursday, February 21, 2013
            
12:00 - 1:30 pm

 


COMPASSION AND
MATURITY:
The Male Journey 




with Scott Swanson, Interim
Minister at Crescent United Church,
and Volunteer Chaplain at
Correctional Services Canada
 

How can we build compassion
into the male experience?

Young men are frequently socialized away from embracing their compassionate selves, both personally and professionally. Instead, maleness is characterized as active and ego-oriented and compassion is stereotyped as a feminine trait.  But can we define maturity holistically, as incorporating healthy traits from both genders? How would that shift the male experience, and by extension, how he interacts with others?

Scott Swanson, Spiritual Director and Coach, asks us these questions as he explores how men relate to compassion.  From his work, both with congregations and in the prison system, Scott will share the impact of limiting the male experience. From his perspective as an ordained minister, he also explores how faith communities and people of faith can contribute to finding solutions. Join the conversation and share your experience of the compassionate male spirit.


             click here to RSVP  -or-  phone: 604-685-6560

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Date:          Thursday, February 21, 2013  --  12:00 - 1:30 pm

Location:    Suite 700 - 1090 West Georgia Street, Vancouver

                   Adler School of Professional Psychology
                  
(Southeast corner of Georgia at Thurlow Street)

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:**
We continue to accept cash and cheques for events. However, we now take Credit Card payments only through PayPal. These must be made in Advance of events, and will be non-refundable. Please use our Payment Button below.
Thanks
!

Option/Price

 

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About Our Speaker:

Scott Swanson is a spiritual director, coach, pastor and educator. Ordained by The United Church of Canada in 1998, he has served congregations in Manitoba and BC. Since 2008, Scott has worked in transitional congregational ministry and has offered spiritual direction in the Lower Mainland. In the last few years, Scott has increasingly been led to working with men – as a spiritual director, prison chaplain and speaker.

Scott articulates his mission as one called to witness and facilitate the transformation of individuals and organizations in achieving their own deeper purpose, healing and wholeness. Scott uses deep listening, reflection and curiousity to support others on their journey. In 2011, Scott and his partner Jennifer, started Uzima Services (www.uzimaservices.com). Uzima is a Swahili word meaning wholeness, completeness and fullness of life, it is this spirit that infuses both Scott and Jennifer’s work.


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January 2013

Ethics for Breakfast presents


Wednesday, January 9, 2013
           7:15 - 8:30 am
 


CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY:
CSR As Competitive
Virtue Signaling



with Mark Wexler, Ph.D. Professor of Business Ethics and Management at the Beedie School of Business SFU

What are the ethical implications?

Mark Wexler begins our New Year by looking at four competing models of green business from a virtue signaling approach. Mark discusses how each of the four models of green business adds value. These models include: green ecopreneurs; green by certification; green activists; and green philanthrocapitalists.

Dr. Wexler argues that the green signal associated with each model carries different ethical consequences for society. As such, there are moral and economic implications to each model. Dr. Wexler will trace each signal to its competing value base. The session ends with a question and answer period intended to explore how Workplace Centre attendees view the ethical implications of the different virtue signals.


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DATE:            Wednesday,
January 9  --  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:

Mark N. Wexler Ph.D. is the University Professor of Business Ethics and Management in the Beedie School of Business at Simon Fraser University and the President of the Perimeter Group of Consultants. Dr. Wexler is also a member of the Management and Organization Studies (MOS) and the Policy Analysis groups in the Beedie School of Business at Simon Fraser University.

Mark's work appears in over 110 refereed journals and in eight books. He is the recipient of 4 teaching awards, numerous grants and research funds and was selected as Price Waterhouse Cooper's 2004 Leader in Management Education (LIME). Mark has consulted for diverse organizations in the private and public sectors. These include Abbott Laboratories, Air Alaska, Bank of Montreal, BHP Billiton, Canadian Immigration Services, Diageco, Doctor's without Borders, Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, Nokia, Proctor and Gamble, Revenue Canada, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Royal Dutch Shell, Toyota Motors, United Technologies, Vancouver Hospital, and others.


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Spirit at Work
presents



  Thursday, January 17, 2013
            
12:00 - 1:30 pm

 

THE COST OF CARING:
Compassion Fatigue, Resilience and Recovery



with Jan Spilman, MEd, RCC, BC Registered Clinical Counsellor and Compassion Fatigue Specialist
 

Does spirituality support our ability to empathize?

You’re a parent with a severely autistic child needing constant supervision. You’re a nurse working with trauma survivors, people who need to tell their stories to heal. But over time, you find yourself backing away emotionally, losing your ability to connect. This lack of empathy, what professionals call Compassion Fatigue, is an unfortunate natural consequence of caring in high stress environments. So how do we recover, how do we move back to a place of empathy and connection? And what role does spirituality play in the recovery process?

These are the questions for January’s luncheon with Jan Spilman, a registered clinical counselor in Vancouver. According to Jan, it is not only possible to recover from Compassion Fatigue, we can actually return to a place of being "weller than well" – better off than when we started. Jan also feels that developing our spiritual side is important during this process. Join her and the Workplace Centre as we discuss taking care of our own self and spirit.


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Date:          Thursday, January 17, 2013  --  12:00 - 1:30 pm

Location:    Suite 700 - 1090 West Georgia Street, Vancouver

                   Adler School of Professional Psychology
                  
(Southeast corner of Georgia at Thurlow Street)

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:

Jan Spilman is a BC Registered Clinical Counsellor and Compassion Fatigue Specialist who travels the country helping people-who-help-people live well with the stress of their personal and professional caregiving. Jan began her career in acute and critical care nursing before opening a private counselling practice specializing in trauma and grief therapy. She worked in private practice for nineteen years, which overlapped with seven years of caring for her spouse, leading to her developing compassion fatigue.

After closing her practice and healing her own compassion fatigue, she launched Caregiver Wellness Workshops to raise awareness about compassion fatigue and chronic sorrow. Through her work, Jan offers psychospiritual wellness strategies to help professionals, volunteers, and family caregivers. Her Compassion Fatigue workshop series is available to organizations interested in supporting employee wellness and retention as well as reducing sick time and stress leave.


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December 2012


Ethics for Breakfast
presents
 


Wednesday, December 12, 2012
               7:15 - 8:30 am



Climbing the
Mountain
:



with Samuel Wyatt, Mountaineer

A tale of one man's Everest transformation

When we hear stories of epic adventures, we don’t always hear the side story – the story of the fear and self-doubt overcome in order to scale the mountain. We think the adventurer must possess a natural ability and fearlessness, that to them the peak just isn’t as high. “Not so,” says Sam Wyatt. People who accomplish great things suffer the same setbacks, doubts, and challenges. The difference is that they have learned that so called “failures” are merely experiences on the eternal road of progress, and that through determination and patience, achieving our goals becomes inevitable.

For Sam, meditation has given him the ability to transform his fear and self-doubt.  It has proven itself a valuable tool, not just in mountaineering, but also in everyday life. As part of his session, he will challenge attendees to re-think their idea of Everest, not as a once in a lifetime climb but as a daily event. That by focusing on inner progress in their daily lives, on small challenges as well as large, they can also transform their fears. Leave this session not only inspired by Sam’s amazing story, but also with a new joy for life.  


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DATE:            Wednesday,
December 12  --  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:

Samuel Nirabadhi Wyatt is a Vancouver Realtor with RE/MAX Real Estate Services. Besides his work in real estate, Sam is a lecturer on meditation and an avid mountaineer and outdoor enthusiast. His passion for mountaineering has led him to scale big peaks around the world: Denali in Alaska, Huascuran in Peru, Cho-Oyu in Tibet, and, of course, Mount Everest. Sam is always up for a challenge.

When he is not off scaling a peak, he provides free meditation classes at the Canadian Memorial Centre for Peace. Through his weekly class, he advocates for meditation, sharing its transformative ability with others. His enthusiastic and dynamic approach to life is underpinned by high integrity, honesty and diligence.  

 
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Spirit at Work
wishes everyone 


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November 2012


Ethics for Breakfast
presents
 


Wednesday, November 14, 2012
               7:15 - 8:30 am


The Ethics of
Government
Sponsored Gambling




with Sandra Garossino, CEO of
Intellex Legal Project Management



Should the province embrace gambling
as a source of income
?

With research showing that more casinos equal more gambling, why did the BC Liberal government embark on a massive expansion of gambling in 2001? This question kicks off the November breakfast session with Sandy Garossino, co-founder of Vancouver Not Vegas. Fast forward to today and the Centre for Addictions and Mental Health finds that approximately 159,000 British Columbians suffer from moderate to severe gambling addictions. This number represents almost 4% of the British Columbia population. 

Looking at current government statistics, the province now makes over $1 billion dollars annually from gambling. Is this income worth the social costs? Is it worth the increase in addictive behaviour, with the resulting impact on families and the community? Is it worth giving organized crime a venue to launder money with little police oversight? Does the province truly benefit from expanding gambling as a source of income? Join Sandy as she discusses and explores the ethics of government sponsored gambling by grappling with these difficult questions.  


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DATE:            Wednesday,
November 14  --  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:

Sandra Garossino began her career as a Crown prosecutor focusing on youth crime and gang activity. As she transitioned into entrepreneurship and eventually business investing and incubating, these early experiences with criminal behaviour left their mark. It was this knowledge that inspired the formation of Vancouver Not Vegas and motivated her opposition to the proposed mega casino in downtown Vancouver. 

Currently, Sandy is the CEO of Intellex Legal Project Management, a recent startup company that employs technology innovations and contracted services to drive down legal costs. Besides working to make legal services accessible, Sandy is also active in the arts, in education, in publishing, and in technology. She is truly an engaged citizen, not only believing in social justice, but also in furthering social justice with her actions.

 
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Spirit at Work
presents
 

Thursday, November 15, 2012
          12:00 - 1:30 pm

 
 


Compassion
in Conflict:

Transforming
Our Villains




with Gary Harper, Principal
of Gary Harper and Associates


How does compassion change the spirit of conflict?

We often experience conflict as a clash of wills or a winner take all battle. As familiar (or even comfortable) as we may be with this dynamic, we also know that this approach rarely ends with real resolution. Rather, it locks us into what Gary Harper calls the "Drama Triangle of Conflict", in which we see ourselves as the hero or victim and cast our opponent as the villain. This view of conflict polarizes and creates confrontation rather than collaboration.

In advocating a different approach, Gary asks how compassion could transform conflict? What would happen if we let go of our roles and treated our “adversary” with empathy and curiousity?  How would this transform our relationship with conflict? What stops us from bringing compassion to our conflicts? These questions form the foundation of Compassion in Conflict and the resulting discussion may help shed a new light on the villains in your own life.

  
                     
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Date:          Thursday, November 15, 2012  --  12:00 - 1:30 pm

Location:    Suite 700 - 1090 West Georgia Street, Vancouver

                   Adler School of Professional Psychology
                   
(Southeast corner of Georgia at Thurlow Street)

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:

Gary Harper, principal of Harper and Associates, specializes in conflict resolution training. With a background in personal injury law, store management and insurance regulation, Gary understood early on the importance of clear and compassionate communication. This understanding led him into the field of conflict resolution and mediation in 1991, and since then he has worked with a wide variety of organizations – from health care to the film industry to many levels of government. 

Gary presently focuses on teaching and writing. He does this as a member of the instructional team at the Centre for Conflict Resolution at the Justice Institute of BC. As an instructor he encourages students to examine their own role in conflict and to choose more productive approaches. In 2004, he authored The Joy of Conflict Resolution: Transforming Victims, Villains and Heroes in the Workplace and at Home.  He also writes a conflict resolution blog at www.joyofconflict.wordpress.com


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October 2012


Ethics for Breakfast presents


Wednesday, October 10, 2012
           7:15 - 8:30 am
 



The Relevance of Liberal Humanism: In the University
and Society




with Graham Good, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus at the University
of British Columbia


Why does liberal humanism matter?

What exactly is humanism? The same question can be asked of liberalism, a term with even more varied uses. And what do the two terms mean when put together? Join Professor Emeritus Graham Good (UBC, Faculty of English) as he explores the meaning of liberal humanism. His discussion begins by defining several of the core values found in liberal humanism and then outlines some of the attitudes and ideas that, he believes, disregard, oppose or undermine these values.

Drawing on several lines of thought from his book Humanism Betrayed, Good explains the relevance of liberal humanism, both in the University and in the wider society. As we approach the centenary of the birth of Northrop Frye, Canada’s greatest literary critic and self-described "liberal humanist", Good reflects on the resurgence of liberal studies and the renewal of the liberal tradition.  


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DATE:            Wednesday,
October 10  --  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:

Graham Good Ph.D. is Professor Emeritus at the University of British Columbia, where, before his retirement, he taught English and Comparative Literature. He is the author of Humanism Betrayed, a collection of essays criticizing contemporary literary analysis and defending the use of liberal humanism. Professor Good most recently authored a translation of several works by the poet Rilke entitled, Rilke’s Late Poetry.

 
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Spirit at Work
presents
 

Thursday, October 18, 2012
          12:00 - 1:30 pm

 


 
The Spirit
of Civility:

Creating Kind
Workplaces




with Ray Williams, President and
CEO of Ray Williams Associates


How does incivility impact the workplace?

Eyes roll, mouths whisper, jokes sting - seemingly small acts that over time wear away at the spirit. This is the problem with incivility. In the moment it seems silly to complain, but eventually the workplace is no longer welcoming or inspiring. We start counting the hours on the clock rather than pushing for excellence. But can't we transform a culture of incivility into a workplace of compassion and kindness? Isn't it possible to create workplaces where civility is business as usual?

According to Ray Williams the answer to both questions is yes, it is possible. Ray opens by describing the state of incivility not only in our current organizations, but also in the world at large. He then outlines why we can't allow incivility to continue, and how creating civil organizations will lead to compassionate and kind organizations, organizations where employees are inspired to work. Finally, Ray encourages us to reflect on our own behaviour by discussing how we can all contribute to rekindling civility in our workplaces.

  
                     
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Date:          Thursday, October 18, 2012  --  12:00 - 1:30 pm

Location:    Suite 700 - 1090 West Georgia Street, Vancouver

                   Adler School of Professional Psychology
                   
(Southeast corner of Georgia at Thurlow Street)

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:

Ray Williams, as President and CEO of Ray Williams Associates, specializes in leadership training and executive coaching. With more than 35 years of experience not only as a CEO, but also as an HR Executive and Management Consultant, Ray is a highly sought-after platform speaker and trainer. Besides running a busy consulting firm, he is also Vice-Chair of the Vancouver Board of Trade where he enjoys sharing his knowledge and helping the organization develop.

His skill in bringing out the best in others was recognized by the American Society of Education Executives when he received the Master Educator Award, and again at the Vancouver Board of Trade where he was recognized as Mentor of the Year in the Leaders of Tomorrow program. When he’s not coaching and mentoring, Ray is writing. His subject matter ranges from leadership development to personal performance to emotional intelligence. His most recent book, which he co-authored, is Chaos to Calm: What To Do When You Don’t Know What to Do. It is due out in October. 


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September 2012



Ethics for Breakfast presents
 


Wednesday, September 12, 2012
           7:15 - 8:30 am
 



The Ethics of Decriminalizing
Sex Work





with Dr. Kate Shannon, Director, Gender and Sexual Health Initiative at the British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS.  


 What price do we pay to keep sex workers on the street?

Our relationship with the oldest profession is a complex one. In a world where sexuality is comfortably viewed in black and white, prostitution is rife with grey. 
Are sex workers empowered and independent or vulnerable and necessarily broken? Should society focus on abolition or harm reduction?

Dr. Kate Shannon takes a firm harm reduction stance and recommends legal brothels as a means to providing a safe and healthy workplace for sex workers. Join the conversation as we wrestle with what this means for our society. Are we sanctioning the exploitation of vulnerable populations? Should sex be for sale, and ultimately, whose rights matter most?


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Date:             Wednesday, September 12 -- 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. Kate Shannon as Director of the Gender & Sexual Health Initiative at the BC Centre for Excellence and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine at UBC, works to support the creation of healthy social policies. Her research underscores the importance of structural interventions, especially when dealing with vulnerable populations. 

With experience ranging from maternal health in Bangladesh to sex trade safety in Canada to HIV research in Africa, she is passionate about and committed to women’s health. This passion was acknowledged in 2011 when she received the Peter Lougheed/CIHR New Investigator Salary Award. The award will allow her to continue pursuing her groundbreaking work in the field of sex worker health and safety.


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Spirit at Work
presents


Thursday, September 20, 2012
      12:00 - 1:30 p.m.

 

 

CONNECTING WITH COMPASSION:
Rebuilding Our Sense of Community


with Lidia Kemeny, Director at the Vancouver Foundation and President of the Kindness Foundation of Canada

How can the workplace help us
connect more with each other?

A recent study by the Vancouver Foundation finds a concerning level of social alienation in metro Vancouver. What concerns people most is a growing isolation and disconnection; the feeling that we increasingly live in silos, separated by ethnicity, culture, language, income, age, and even geography. In the words of one respondent: "We have lost…the community…feeling we had 20 years ago. I'd like to have that back." But how do we re-create this sense of connection? And is work destined to remain a part of the problem, a barrier to connection?

To answer these questions, Lidia Kemeny of the Vancouver Foundation will open with a discussion of their "Connection and Engagement" report. We will use the results of this survey to focus on how we can help build bridges between our various communities — between neighbours and neighbourhoods; between residents of different ages, cultures and backgrounds; between marginalized people and the larger community — with the goal of helping residents of metro Vancouver connect and engage for the greater good. This dialogue is guaranteed to leave you with a greater understanding of why we need to connect with compassion and also excited to reach out more in your own life. 

  
 
                    
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Date:          Thursday, September 20, 2012  --  12:00 - 1:30 pm

Location:    Suite 700 - 1090 West Georgia Street, Vancouver
                   
Adler School of Professional Psychology
                  
(Southeast corner of Georgia at Thurlow Street)

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:

Lidia Kemeny is a director at the Vancouver Foundation and President of the Kindness Foundation of Canada. Lidia is deeply involved in creating a better Vancouver. Before working with the Vancouver Foundation, Lidia was engaged in injury prevention and health literacy. With this background in health promotion at the national level, she understands how to drive initiatives forward and achieve results. Building compassionate connections is currently a key initiative for her at the Vancouver Foundation.  


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June 2012


Ethics for Breakfast presents
 


Wednesday, June 13, 2012
           7:15 - 8:30 am
 


Ethics and the Marijuana Business:
Why we need to
make pot legal




with Ian Mulgrew, Legal Affairs Columnist, Vancouver Sun, and
A
uthor of Bud Inc.  


Is the demonization of marijuana immoral?

From the 1936 movie Reefer Madness to its denunciation as "demon weed", marijuana has triggered huge socio-cultural fears, and has been accused of corrupting youth and destroying careers & relationships. But in today's world, with proven recognition of its benefits in easing the pain of cancer and other medical conditions, does the drug still deserve prohibition? Is keeping pot illegal unethical?

Join Vancouver Sun columnist Ian Mulgrew as he outlines why, in his words, many "smart people" (e.g. medical health officers, four former B.C. Attorneys-General and Vancouver mayors, and the federal Liberal Party) have called for the legalization of pot. He'll discuss recent developments regarding this issue and draw on material from his 2005 book, Bud Inc.


click here to RSVP   or  call: 604-685-6560


DATE:            Wednesday, June 13 -- 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:

Ian Mulgrew is Legal Affairs Columnist at The Vancouver Sun, where he has worked as a senior reporter since 1997. He also writes book reviews for The Toronto Star, and his magazine journalism has appeared in publications from Asia Week to Saturday Night.

Ian's latest book Bud Inc. (Random House 2005) covers the controversy of marijuana prohibition in B.C. and Canada. He has written three other books: Who Killed Cindy James? (Bantam-Seal 1990), Final Payoff: The True Cost of Convicting Clifford Robert Olson (Bantam-Seal Books 1989), and Unholy Terror: The Sikhs and International Terrorism (Key Porter Books 1988)... [read more]


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Spirit at Work
presents

                       Thursday, June 21, 2012   (12:00 - 1:30 pm) 


SHAME IN THE WORKPLACE:
How do we shift to greater
openness and connectedness
?

A panel discussion with: 
Larry Axelrod, PhD, Dean of the Adler School of 
Professional Psychology (Vancouver campus); 
Gloria McArter, PhD, Spirit-based Counselling Therapist; 
Brian Fraser, PhD, Lead Provocateur at Jazzthink and Presbyterian minister.

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Do you feel supported and loved at work?

Whether it's through a bullying boss or a malicious colleague who routinely debases others, shame and shaming appear far too often in today's workplaces. For those on the receiving end -- and even the shamers themselves -- how do we identify, address and heal this sickness of the soul and its resulting sense of inferiority and incompetence?

Our dynamic panel, comprised of three professionals well-versed in handling toxic behaviour, will discuss a variety of ways to transform a shame-based workplace into one full of spirit and openness. How do we replace criticism, ridicule and rejection with mutual respect, dignity, and love of self and others? The panelists will reveal work situations that affirm connectedness and appreciation: ones that encourage and support the full range of human experience from joy and contentment to sadness and fear.

  
 
                    
             click here to RSVP  -or-  phone: 604-685-6560

                           __________________________


Date:          Thursday, June 21, 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:**
We continue to accept cash and cheques for events. However, we now take Credit Card payments only through PayPal. These must be made in Advance of events, and will be non-refundable. Please use our Payment Button below.
Thanks
!

Option/Price
 

                            __________________________
 
 
About Our Panel:

Larry Axelrod, PhD, is dean of the Vancouver Campus of the Adler School of Professional Psychology. He is a past president of The Neutral Zone Coaching and Consulting Services, providing a variety of services from strategic facilitation to education and training and mediation. Larry has extensive knowledge of professional ethics and served on the Vancouver Hospital ethics committee for six years...[read more] 


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In her 20+ years as a counselling therapist,
Gloria (Glo) McArter, PhD draws on her rich experiences as an educator, personnel consultant, and human relations and communications trainer. As her clients (individuals, couples, and families) meet the challenges of daily life, she stimulates their creative expression and inherent wisdom...
[read more] 
 

 
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Brian Fraser, PhD is the lead provocateur of Jazzthink. As a speaker, coach and facilitator, he uses the wit, wisdom and workings of jazz to inspire people to have conversations that are SMARTer (more Soulful, Mindful, Astute, Responsible and Trusting)...
[read more] 
  


 



            click here to RSVP  -or-  phone: 604-685-6560



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May 2012



Ethics for Breakfast presents
 


Wednesday, May 9, 2012
          7:15 - 8:30 am
 



Ethics and “The New Abnormal”:
How can we best respond to today’s unprecedented weather and global events?





with Jim Stephenson, Budgeting Systems Consultant,
Trained Presenter of Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth,
and former Federal Green Party candidate
_____________________________


How hopeful do you feel about the future of
our planet and younger generations?

More frequently than ever, our current newscasts use the term "unprecedented" when referring to extreme weather conditions, political turmoil, and financial collapse around the globe. It's easy to point blame at the unethical actions and policies of powerful bodies, from banks to governments, but how can we reduce the magnitude of both the causes and consequences of such events?

Join "green" thinker and business analyst Jim Stephenson as he explores some causes of today's calamities and predicts what else might happen in future decades. Although he thinks that we will face strange environmental surprises in the 21st century (what he calls "the new abnormal"), he's also oriented to present-day solutions rather than doomsday gloom.


            click here to RSVP   or  call: 604-685-6560



DATE:            Wednesday, May 9 -- 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:**
We continue to accept cash and cheques for events. However, we now take Credit Card payments only 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:

Jim Stephenson is a computer consultant who served as a Green Party candidate in BC in the 2006 and 2008 federal elections. In December 2006, he travelled to Nashville, Tenn. to train with Al Gore to present An Inconvenient Truth slide show. Since then, he has presented the show to 50 groups. His involvement in environmental issues dates back to the 1970s, when he worked at the Westwater Research Centre at the University of BC and edited a book about applying economic incentives to control pollution.

Jim's past experience includes First Nations economic development (Haida and Cowichan bands), and projects for BC Hydro, BC Gas, and WorkSafe BC. He has also consulted for corporate clients in the U.S., the U.K., Australia, Singapore, and Hong Kong. As a professor of business at UBC and Simon Fraser University... [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.
_____________________________________
 
 
Spirit at Work
presents
 

Thursday, May 17, 2012
      12:00 - 1:30 p.m.

 

 
COMPASSION IN THE WORKPLACE:
Are we listening
to spirit?



with Alisdair Smith, ABA, MA,
Chair Greater Vancouver Compassion Network, and Business Chaplain, Christ Church Cathedral
 

How easily do we dismiss the suffering of others?

Some people view compassion as just another buzz word, an abstract notion that rarely enters their daily lives - especially not their workplace. What is our society missing as a result? How does compassion intersect with our work and spiritual lives? How can we make room for both in our homes and at work?

Alisdair Smith, chair of the Greater Vancouver Compassion Network, believes that compassion is absolutely vital for the long-term sustainability of any organization. Join us as he outlines how compassion is the key ingredient to creating healthy leadership and productivity. Without it, he warns, we might as well get ready for a long cycle of "gold rushes" and economic disasters.

  
                     
             click here to RSVP  -or-  phone: 604-685-6560

                           __________________________


Date:          Thursday, May 17, 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:**
We continue to accept cash and cheques for events. However, we now take Credit Card payments only through PayPal. These must be made in Advance of events, and will be non-refundable. Please use our Payment Button below.
Thanks
!

Option/Price
 

                            __________________________
 
 
About Our Speaker:

Alisdair Smith is the chair of the Greater Vancouver Compassion Network, a non-profit network of institutions, organizations, working groups and individuals committed to furthering compassionate engagement and conduct in our communities. As business chaplain at Vancouver’s Christ Church Cathedral, he works with individuals and groups in the business community, exploring issues of ethics, decision-making and dramatic change in the workplace. Alisdair is also a deacon in the Anglican Church of Canada, Diocese of New Westminster.

Alisdair serves as national learning facilitator at CUSOURCE, a subsidiary of Credit Union Central of Canada that provides learning and development solutions to this country's credit unions. For eight years, he was principal at Dare Communications, where he offered leadership development coaching, life coaching and facilitation in areas from strategic planning to conflict resolution. Alisdair has worked for 20+ years in change management, training, coaching and performance development with high-profile telecommunications and financial services corporations. He also served as a senior manager in knowledge management with a start-up high-tech credit union subsidiary. 


           click here to RSVP  -or-  phone: 604-685-6560



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April 2012
 
  

Ethics for Breakfast presents
 


Wednesday, April 11, 2011
           7:15 - 8:30 am
 


Ethics in Infancy:
Are Babies Born With a
Moral Compass?



with J. Kiley Hamlin, PhD,
Canada Research Chair and Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of British Columbia



What adults, leaders or peers most shaped
your ethical choices as a child?

When making judgments about what is "good" and "bad," most adults rely on some mix of cultural influences, personal experience, complex reasoning and their own developmental changes. But what about infants and toddlers? At a pre-verbal stage, do they have a sense of who is ethical and who isn’t?

Yes, according to a groundbreaking study by J. Kiley Hamlin, an assistant professor in Psychology at the University of British Columbia. Her recent research shows that children as young as eight months prefer those who help rather than those who harm. Her child study-subjects also demonstrated a desire to punish wrongdoers and help those who have helped others. Join us as Dr. Hamlin reveals her surprising research results... [read more]


            click here to RSVP   or  call: 604-685-6560


DATE:            Wednesday,
April 11 -- 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:**
We continue to accept cash and cheques for events. However, we now take Credit Card payments only 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:

J. Kiley Hamlin, PhD teaches cognitive development and psychology in infancy at the University of British Columbia. In her research, Dr. Hamlin examines our tendency to judge actions as good or bad, as deserving reward or punishment, and as morally praiseworthy or blameworthy. She also asks: "How do our social and moral evaluations influence our understanding of others' future acts, their mental states and underlying personalities?" To study the origins of these processes, she uses preverbal infants and toddlers, who have not yet been influenced by language, inhibitions or culture.

Last year, Dr. Hamlin began her role as Canada Research Chair in developmental psychology through the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada... [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.
_____________________________________
 
 
Spirit at Work
presents
 

Thursday, April 19, 2012
       12:00 - 1:30 p.m.

 

 
The Immortal
Spirit of
Shakespeare:

How he inspires
the modern soul



with Christopher Gaze,
Artistic Director, "Bard on the Beach" Shakespeare Festival



What qualities have kept Shakespeare’s work
so popular for centuries?

Many generations of schoolchildren have recited Hamlet's famous soliloquy, "To be or not to be..." For centuries, Shakespeare's plays have inspired theatre troupes around the world. And today, almost 400 years since the Bard's death, his characters & story lines appear in numerous films and satires, his words are quoted by leading public figures, and his collected works form the basis for countless courses and theses.

Join Christopher Gaze as he shares how Shakespeare's work continues to inspire, educate and impact our everyday lives. And he'll reveal how we can use the 'spirit of the Bard' as a source of creative power for many years to come.

  
                     
             click here to RSVP  -or-  phone: 604-685-6560

                           __________________________


Date:          Thursday, April 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:**
We continue to accept cash and cheques for events. However, we now take Credit Card payments only through PayPal. These must be made in Advance of events, and will be non-refundable. Please use our Payment Button below.
Thanks
!

Option/Price
 

                            __________________________

About Our Speaker:

Christopher Gaze, artistic director of Vancouver's Bard on the Beach, founded this Shakespeare festival in 1990. It has since become one of the most successful not-for-profit arts organizations in North America, with annual attendance averaging 80,000 to 90,000. 

Besides performing and directing for Bard on the Beach, Christopher has performed in England, the U.S. and across Canada. He does regular voice work in cartoon series, commercials and on radio. He hosts the Vancouver Symphony's popular Tea & Trumpets series and its annual Christmas concerts. And in December this year, he will star in and direct Vancouver Opera's The Pirates of Penzance. Since moving to Vancouver in 1983, he has received many awards and commendations including... [read more]
 

           click here to RSVP  -or-  phone: 604-685-6560


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March 2012
 

Ethics for Breakfast presents
 


Wednesday, March 14, 2011
           7:15 - 8:30 am
 

Ethics and
Personal
Responsibility:
Why is society's moral
code failing us?



with Larry Axelrod, PhD, Dean, Vancouver campus, Adler School
of Professional Psycholog
y
  


How do you justify your actions...
when they stray from your own moral code?

We’ve all heard about the Golden Rule and grown up with some notion of right and wrong. Then why don't the basic ethics upheld in our society, which construct our "moral compass," stop us from acting in ways that most of us recognize as immoral? Similarly, many people act in unethical or harmful ways (perhaps we all do at times), yet our tendency is still to justify the “rightness” of our behaviour.

Perhaps the problem lies in our moral code itself, not simply in our failure to follow it. Join Larry Axelrod as he reveals the inadequacy of the moral lessons we learned in childhood... [read more]


            click here to RSVP   or  call: 604-685-6560


DATE:            Wednesday,
March 14 -- 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:**
We continue to accept cash and cheques for events. However, we now take Credit Card payments only through PayPal. These must be made in Advance of events, and will be non-refundable. Please use our Payment Button below.
Thanks!


Option/Price

                 ___________________________________

               

About Our Speaker:

Larry Axelrod, PhD is Dean of the Vancouver campus of the Adler School of Professional Psychology. He served on the Vancouver Hospital Ethics Committee for six years and has extensive knowledge of professional ethics. Prior to his role as dean, Larry served as president of The Neutral Zone Coaching and Consulting Services, where he provided strategic facilitation, education and training, and direct-case intervention (mediation, assessment, investigation) for public- and private-sector organizations, locally and nationally.

Larry is the co-author of Turning Conflict into Profit: A Roadmap for Resolving Personal and Organizational Disputes and has presented at many international conferences... [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.
_____________________________________
 
 
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?

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 heartfelt stories... [read more]

 
                     
             click here to RSVP  -or-  phone: 604-685-6560

                           __________________________


Date:          Thursday, March 15, 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:**
We continue to accept cash and cheques for events. However, we now take Credit Card payments only through PayPal. These must be made in Advance of events, and will be non-refundable. Please use our Payment Button below.
Thanks!

Option/Price
 

             __________________________

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.

Petrina 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. She has also been a community health nurse for the Sechelt Indian Band. And from 1992 to 1997, she worked on the forefront of AIDS care in Vancouver, at St. Paul’s Hospital, where she spent five years on the palliative care unit... [read more] 


           click here to RSVP  -or-  phone: 604-685-6560


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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.

Option/Price

                 ___________________________________

               

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

                           __________________________


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!

Option/Price
 

                            __________________________

About Our Speaker:

Joel Solomon is chairman of Renewal2, a $35-million impact investment fund that funds businesses in the areas of organic food, green building and green consumer products. He is also president of Renewal Partners, a collection of organizations, such as the Endswell Foundation, that invest in socially responsible companies. Joel was instrumental in the development of both Renewal Partners and Endswell and has led them since their inception in 1994.

Joel brings his experience into other capital pools and advisory roles as well -- including Vancity credit union, entrepreneur-in-residence at RSF Social Finance, a founding member of the Social Venture Network, Business for Social Responsibility and Tides Canada, board chair of the Hollyhock Foundation... [read more] 

(For more on Joel's work, please go to http://www.renewalpartners.com/.)


           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)


                 ___________________________________

               

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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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!

                     
             click here to RSVP  -or-  phone: 604-685-6560

                           __________________________


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!

Option/Price
 

                            __________________________

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]

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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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About Our Speaker:

Bob Ransford specializes in communications and urban design with over 24 years of industry experience. In his role as a development consultant, Bob focuses on complex urban development and land-use challenges involving a wide range of stakeholders. His work combines effective community engagement and good public process with creative urban design and profitable urban development. Through his work, Bob helps private and public sector clients achieve their urban development objectives, while incorporating smart growth principles. 

Bob also works as a journalist, writing a regular bi-weekly column in the Vancouver Sun on urban development and housing issues. His influence on land use is further extended through his long record of community service. He was formerly Commissioner on the City of Vancouver’s Planning Commission and has sat on the City’s Urban Design Panel. Currently, he is a Trustee on the Granville Island Trust.


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Spirit at Work
presents


           Thursday, April 18, 2013 
                  
12:00 - 1:30 pm



  MEANING-MAKING
        AT WORK
 



with Carollyne Conlinn, MBA, MPH, MCC, international executive coach with 30 years creating programs effecting profound change in individuals and organizations.

Is spiritual intelligence the new
workplace frontier?

Conversations about emotional intelligence at work are commonplace. While the modern workplace isn’t perfect, most managers strive for balance and fairness. An emotionally intelligent culture, according to this line of thinking, is a healthy culture. But what if emotional intelligence isn’t enough? What if we also need spiritual intelligence in the workplace for truly engaged employees?

To help attendees understand its importance, Carollyne Conlinn of Essential Impact Coaching, starts by defining spiritual intelligence. She outlines its key factors and how to recognize it, both in your self and others. Carollyne then discusses the benefits of spiritual intelligence as well as how to develop a spiritually intelligent culture. Leave this discussion not only understanding what spiritual intelligence is but also why you need to start talking about it in your own workplace.


                  click here to RSVP  -or-  phone: 604-685-6560



Date:              Thursday, April 18, 2013  --  12:00 - 1:30 pm

Location:    Suite 700 - 1090 West Georgia Street, Vancouver

                   Adler School of Professional Psychology
                  
(Southeast corner of Georgia at Thurlow Street)

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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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)

                 ___________________________________

               

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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Note: Our lunch meetings are now at a new location.
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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.
 
 ______________________________

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

                           __________________________


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)


                            __________________________

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.

 

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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

___________________________________________________

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

                 ___________________________________


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)


                 ___________________________________

               

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
_________________________________________


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?
 
                     
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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)


                            __________________________

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]


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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)


                 ___________________________________

               

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] 
 
  
             
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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
______________________________

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

                           __________________________


Date:           Thursday, Sept 22, 2011  --  12:00 - 1:30 pm

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)


                            __________________________

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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