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Spirit at Work Luncheons


Mission
To provide a forum for inspiring speakers and conversations that promote the practical application of spirit in work and everyday life.

When  
3rd Thursday of every month -- 12:00 to 1:30 pm

Where
Adler School of Professional Psychology
Suite 700 - 1090 West Georgia Street, at Thurlow

Cost 
Without Lunch:   $10
With Lunch:         $15 for
Members
                              $20 for Non-Members

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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?

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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)



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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.


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Our Past Events:


April 2013

           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.


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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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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.

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.


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March 2013


                        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.  


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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)



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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. 
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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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Our Past Events:


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.


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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
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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 (http://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


  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)


**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.
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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 to 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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November 2012 


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 http://www.joyofconflict.wordpress.com/


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October 2012   
 

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


Spirit at Work presents 

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

 

 
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


Reminder: Our lunch meetings are now at a new location.
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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.

  
                     
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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)



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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.

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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.

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". 

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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). 

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.
 

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May 2012



Reminder: Our lunch meetings are now at a new location.
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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.

  
                     
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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)



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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. 


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April 2012


Reminder: Our lunch meetings are now at a new location.
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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

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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
 

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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]
  

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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]

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

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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:**
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
 

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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] 


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February 2012

 
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 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] 

 
                     
             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
 

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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/.)

 


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January 2012 



Reminder: Our lunch meetings are now at a new location.
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Spirit at Work presents
 

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

 


 
 
Zen and the Art of Chocolate-Making



 

with Greg Hook,
 Master Chocolatier and Owner, Chocolate Arts
 



  What work brings passion and meaning to your life?

For many people, chocolate represents pure bliss. Is it those pheromones that kick in when eating it, the same chemicals released when we’re in love? Or is it the decadent smooth taste? What if you could make and taste chocolate every day -- how would that affect the way you look at your life and work?

Master chocolatier Greg Hook, owner of the successful Vancouver niche business Chocolate Arts, has created his own chocolate nirvana; he calls his work process part of the “zen and art of chocolate-making.” Come and hear Greg share what makes his business work for him; what brings him flow, passion, love & meaning. And join us in discussing how we can all bring more of that to our own work in the coming year. Free samples provided!

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

                           __________________________


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.)

 


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November 2011


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.
 
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What helps you to trust life?

We all choose whether to trust life or not. This decision, too often unconscious, profoundly shapes our lives. When we choose to trust life, we become more attuned to our inner signals and knowingness. We can find these everywhere, as gut feelings, the still small voice within, and nudges from whatever catches our attention. This inner knowing serves as our reliable and utterly trustworthy guide.

Join Kate Sutherland as she shares how all of us, when we choose again and again to trust life, can create joyous, aligned, effective and powerful lives. We show up authentically and take risks. However, as life calls us beyond our comfort zone, we also often ignore the signals, especially if we have felt burned by results in the past.

Life is always calling us forward. Each of us has work to do. To fulfill your destiny, how will you keep re-choosing to trust life?

 
                     
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                           __________________________


Date:           Thursday, Nov 17, 2011  --  12:00 - 1:30 pm

NEW
Location:
    Suite 700 - 1090 West Georgia Street, at Thurlow, Vancouver
                    Adler School of Professional Psychology
                   
(Diagonally across from the Terasen Centre)

Cost:           Without lunch: $10
                    With lunch:  non-members - $20;  members - $15

Lunch:        Catered sandwiches, salad, tea and coffee
                    (RSVP requested for food)


                            __________________________

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


Spirit at Work presents
 

Thursday, October 20, 2011  --  12:00 - 1:30 p.m.

Aging, Retirement &
Spirituality at Work

 
  

with Shae Hadden
and Andrew Mackey, 
Co-founders, 02E Older to Elder
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How can organizations retain "spirit" in the workplace as employees age and retire?

 

As increasingly more people are laid off or retire in the next few years, what will it take for companies and organizations to sustain their core values and corporate culture? Who will provide the inspiration that retiring employees provided for corporate excellence and values (other than monetary values)?

Honorin

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