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Spirit at Work presents
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.
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.
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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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.
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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February 2013
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.
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)
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THE COST OF CARING: Compassion Fatigue, Resilience and Recovery
with Jan Spilman,MEd, RCC, BC Registered Clinical Counsellor and Compassion Fatigue Specialist
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.
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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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.
Location: Suite 700 - 1090 West Georgia Street, at Thurlow, Vancouver Adler School of Professional Psychology (Diagonally across from the Terasen Centre)
Cost: Without lunch: $10 With lunch: non-members - $20; members - $15
Lunch: Catered sandwiches, salad, tea and coffee (RSVP requested for food)
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About Our 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.
Larry is co-author of Turning Conflict Into Profit: A Roadmap for Resolving Personal and Organizational Disputes, published by The University of Alberta Press. He completed his B.A. in communications at University of Illinois at Urbana, his M.A. in social psychology at San Francisco State University, and his PhD in social psychology at the University of British Columbia. His studies have included a wide range of areas from attitude formation and value systems to theories of motivation.
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.
Gloria acknowledges the influence of the spiritual in her own healing journey to understand and accept her life experiences with shame. Her mission is to integrate the spiritual with counselling and to help others recognize the positive relationship between the spiritual-mental-physical, and workplace wellness. Gloria speaks and writes to guide people as they transform their inner shame into love of self and others, into what she calls "the wisdom of worth".
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).
Before launching Jazzthink in 2002, Brian was dean of St. Andrew's Hall, the Presbyterian college at UBC, and taught leadership and organizational development at Vancouver School of Theology. He ministers part-time with Brentwood Presbyterian Church in Burnaby, BC, and teaches coaching skills at Douglas College in Coquitlam, BC.
Reminder: Our lunch meetings are now at a new location. _____________________________________
Spirit at Work presents
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.
Location: Suite 700 - 1090 West Georgia Street, at Thurlow, Vancouver Adler School of Professional Psychology (Diagonally across from the Terasen Centre)
Cost: Without lunch: $10 With lunch: non-members - $20; members - $15
Lunch: Catered sandwiches, salad, tea and coffee (RSVP requested for food)
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March 2012
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]
Location: Suite 700 - 1090 West Georgia Street, at Thurlow, Vancouver Adler School of Professional Psychology (Diagonally across from the Terasen Centre)
Cost: Without lunch: $10 With lunch: non-members - $20; members - $15
Lunch: Catered sandwiches, salad, tea and coffee (RSVP requested for food)
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About Our Speaker:
Petrina Wing, RN, CHPCN has spent four years as the Vancouver Coastal Health palliative care program coordinator based in Sechelt, BC. She provides hospital liaison & consultation for palliative clients; supports community nurses and hospice staff in providing palliative care; and works with the local, volunteer-run Coast Hospice Society.
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]
Spirit and Money: We can make every dollar our legacy
with Joel Solomon, Chairman, Renewal2 Investment Fund and President, Renewal Partners
As one of the most powerful symbols in our culture, money has inspired many conflicting and evocative terms: filthy rich, the almighty dollar, the haves and have-nots, poverty consciousness, prosperity, abundance, and streets paved with gold. How do these attitudes shape the way that we earn, spend, and worry about money? Is there a correlation between our spiritual self and the money we have, both at home and in the workplace?
Join Joel Solomon as he reflects on how we can use our relationship to money to create a living map of our deepest values... [read more]
Date: Thursday, February 16, 2012 -- 12:00 - 1:30 pm
Location: Suite 700 - 1090 West Georgia Street, at Thurlow, Vancouver Adler School of Professional Psychology (Diagonally across from the Terasen Centre)
Cost: Without lunch: $10 With lunch: non-members - $20; members - $15
Lunch: Catered sandwiches, salad, tea and coffee (RSVP requested for food)
**NOTE about Credit Card Payments:** As of January 1st, we will only be accepting Credit Card payments through PayPal. These must be made in Advance of events, and will be non-refundable. Please use our Payment Button below. Thanks!
Reminder: Our lunch meetings are now at a new location. _____________________________________
Spirit at Work presents
Thursday, January 19, 2012 12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
Zen and the Art of Chocolate-Making
with Greg Hook, Master Chocolatier and Owner, Chocolate Arts
What work brings passion and meaning to your life?
For many people, chocolate represents pure bliss. Is it those pheromones that kick in when eating it, the same chemicals released when we’re in love? Or is it the decadent smooth taste? What if you could make and taste chocolate every day -- how would that affect the way you look at your life and work?
Master chocolatier Greg Hook, owner of the successful Vancouver niche business Chocolate Arts, has created his own chocolate nirvana; he calls his work process part of the “zen and art of chocolate-making.” Come and hear Greg share what makes his business work for him; what brings him flow, passion, love & meaning. And join us in discussing how we can all bring more of that to our own work in the coming year. Free samples provided!
Date: Thursday, January 19, 2012 -- 12:00 - 1:30 pm
Location: Suite 700 - 1090 West Georgia Street, at Thurlow, Vancouver Adler School of Professional Psychology (Diagonally across from the Terasen Centre)
Cost: Without lunch: $10 With lunch: non-members - $20; members - $15
Lunch: Catered sandwiches, salad, tea and coffee (RSVP requested for food)
**NOTE about Credit Card Payments:** As of January 1st, we will only be accepting Credit Card payments through PayPal. These must be made in Advance of events, and will be non-refundable. Please use our Payment Button below. Thanks!
Note: Our lunch meetings are now at a new location. ___________________________________________
Spirit at Work presents
Thursday, Nov 17, 2011 12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
Trust Life: The Inner Work of Transformation
with Kate Sutherland, community and organizational development consultant, & author of Make Light Work: 10 Tools for Inner Knowing. ______________________________
What helps you to trust life?
We all choose whether to trust life or not. This decision, too often unconscious, profoundly shapes our lives. When we choose to trust life, we become more attuned to our inner signals and knowingness. We can find these everywhere, as gut feelings, the still small voice within, and nudges from whatever catches our attention. This inner knowing serves as our reliable and utterly trustworthy guide.
Join Kate Sutherland as she shares how all of us, when we choose again and again to trust life, can create joyous, aligned, effective and powerful lives. We show up authentically and take risks. However, as life calls us beyond our comfort zone, we also often ignore the signals, especially if we have felt burned by results in the past.
Life is always calling us forward. Each of us has work to do. To fulfill your destiny, how will you keep re-choosing to trust life?
NEW Location: Suite 700 - 1090 West Georgia Street, at Thurlow, Vancouver Adler School of Professional Psychology (Diagonally across from the Terasen Centre)
Cost: Without lunch: $10 With lunch: non-members - $20; members - $15
Lunch: Catered sandwiches, salad, tea and coffee (RSVP requested for food)
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About our Speaker:
Kate Sutherland is a community and organizational development consultant in Vancouver, BC. She specializes in designing and facilitating custom-made processes that transform how organizations, programs and communities function. She has worked with all levels of government on dozens of multi-stakeholder initiatives, and on a variety of social policy issues including homelessness, early child development, women’s safety, urban design, food security, sustainability, social economy, and community economic development.
Kate has a passion for helping individuals and organizations find greater alignment with their core purpose, and for creating dynamic, high-trust environments that support groups to be generative, effective and fun. She teaches in the Community Development program at Langara College Continuing Studies. She is currently writing a book, Make Light Work in Groups, to introduce ten frameworks for how groups can be more effective. This new book will serve as a companion to Kate’s earlier book, Make Light Work: 10 Tools for Inner Knowing.
with Shae Hadden and Andrew Mackey, Co-founders, 02E Older to Elder _________________________________________
How can organizations retain "spirit" in the workplace as employees age and retire?
As increasingly more people are laid off or retire in the next few years, what will it take for companies and organizations to sustain their core values and corporate culture? Who will provide the inspiration that retiring employees provided for corporate excellence and values (other than monetary values)?
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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. 
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. 
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). 
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