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Spirit at Work Luncheons
When
3rd Thursday of every month -- 12:00 to 1:30 pm
Where
Terasen Building -- Main floor, Conference Rooms
1111 W. Georgia, at Thurlow, Vancouver, B.C.
(access to meeting room is on the north side, past the elevators)
Cost
Without Lunch: $10
With Lunch: $15 for Members
$20 for Non-Members
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To Sponsor an Event, please call: 604.685-6560
or email: info@workplacecentre.org
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June 2009
Spirit at Work presents
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 Thursday, June 18th, 2009
12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
Spirituality and Homelessness
with Judy Graves, Coordinator,
Tenant Assistance Program,
City of Vancouver
Does your spiritual heart reach out to people of all income levels?
Many people view development projects as a valued sign of a city’s progress, revitalization and economic growth. But few consider the impact on the homeless and low-income tenants. Who considers the needs of these urban-dwellers when slick architectural plans are unveiled? And what does a city’s treatment of the homeless reveal about its spiritual health and well-being?
Judy Graves has worked for City Hall on behalf of Vancouver’s homeless for 35 years. But she also sees her position as a spiritual calling. Join us to hear a passionate woman who works hard and cares deeply for people 'on the street'... [Read more]
click here to RSVP -or- phone: 604.685-6560
DATE: Thursday, June 18, 2009 – 12:00 - 1:30 pm
LOCATION: Main Floor, Conference Rooms, Terasen Building,
1111 W. Georgia St. (at Thurlow), Vancouver
Cost: Without lunch: $10
With lunch: non-members - $20; members - $15
Lunch: Catered sandwiches, salad, tea and coffee
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About Our Speaker:
Judy Graves received an honourary Doctorate of Laws from the University of British Columbia in May 2009. This summer, she will act as an expert witness regarding the homeless in a court challenge to the Election Act. In 2008, she received the Reg Robson Award from the BC Civil Liberties Association and an honourary Doctorate of Sacred Letters from Corpus Christi College. She was also the featured speaker (in May 2008) at the national Parliamentary Prayer Breakfast in Ottawa.
Judy has coordinated the City of Vancouver's Tenant Assistance Program since 1974... [Read more]
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May 2009
Spirit at Work presents
 Thursday, May 21st, 2009
12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
Nature Spirituality
in Cascadia:
The sacred power of
the Pacific Northwest
with Douglas Todd, Editor of Cascadia: The Elusive Utopia and Religion Writer/Blogger for The Vancouver Sun
How do you define and nurture your own unique “spirituality of place”?
Residents of the Pacific Northwest, from British Columbia to Oregon, savour the region’s remarkable mountains and forests, its rugged beaches and livable cities. But few know that the area, known as “Cascadia” for its cascading waterfalls, is home to the least institutionally religious people on the continent.
That doesn’t mean we’re a haven of atheists. Instead, most of the 14 million residents of this untamed territory are often deeply spiritual, gaining their sense of the sacred through the humbling, spectacular presence of nature.
Join us as Douglas Todd outlines the types of spiritual practices found in Cascadia, with a particular focus on nature spirituality. He’ll draw on the eclectic views offered in the 2008 book he edited, Cascadia: The Elusive Utopia. It features 15 leading contributors, from noted historian Jean Barman to Canadian poet laureate George Bowering.
click here to RSVP or phone: 604-685-6560
Date: Thursday, May 21, 2009 – 12:00 - 1:30 pm
Location: Main Floor, Conference Rooms, Terasen Building,
1111 W. Georgia St. (at Thurlow), Vancouver
Cost: Without lunch: $10
With lunch: non-members - $20; members - $15
Lunch: Catered sandwiches, salad, tea and coffee
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About our Speaker:
Douglas Todd is editor of Cascadia: The Elusive Utopia, published by Ronsdale Press in 2008. He is a blogger and long-time religion and philosophy writer for The Vancouver Sun and other newspapers. He has twice won the Templeton Religion Reporter of the Year Award, which goes to the top spirituality writer in North America’s secular media... [Read more]
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April 2009
Spirit at Work presents
 Thursday, April 16th, 2009
12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
Spirit on Stage: Humour and Disability
with David Roche, Stand-up Comedian, Inspirational Humourist, and Author of The Church of 80% Sincerity: “the church of choice for recovering perfectionists.”
How can we make our shadow side...
...a gift to ourselves and others?
Born with a severe facial disfigurement, he endured many surgeries and heavy radiation therapy as an infant and child. He’s had people spit on him and call him a monster. He was even rejected from a seminary because his appearance would "bring him disrespect as a priest," he was told.
Yet inspirational humourist David Roche, author and international speaker, has transformed his disability into a source of compelling spiritual growth and positive motivation for others. He says: “My face is a gift, because... [Read more]
click here to RSVP or phone: 604.685-6560
DATE: Thursday, April 16, 2009 – 12:00 - 1:30 pm
LOCATION: Main Floor, Conference Rooms, Terasen Building,
1111 W. Georgia St. (at Thurlow), Vancouver
Cost: Without lunch: $10
With lunch: non-members - $20; members - $15
Lunch: Catered sandwiches, salad, tea and coffee
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About our Speaker:
David Roche is a stand-up comedian, author and international motivational speaker. He performed his signature one-man show, "The Church of 80% Sincerity," at the Clinton White House, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC and the Olympics Arts Festival in Sydney, Australia. He has also headlined across the U.S., Canada, England, New Zealand, Australia and Russia, and garnered media attention around the globe, including a profile by Paula Zahn on CNN. [Read more]
“In laughing at himself, David Roche tricks us into laughing at ourselves, and thus disarmed, we dare to challenge our fears and assumptions.”
-- Bonnie Sherr Klein, Award-winning Documentary Filmmaker and Author
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March 2009
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Spirit at Work presents
20th Anniversary Event
 
Thursday, March 19th, 2009
12:00-1:30pm
 20 Years of Spirit at Work:
How have things changed?
with Harlene Walker, Founder,
Jim Evans, Long-Term Chair and
Gloria McArter, Ph.D., Board Member
(with moderator Brian Fraser)
How do you nurture your soul while at work?
Massive corporate layoffs. Widespread firing of employees. Executives blamed for organizational upheaval. In response to these events 20 years ago, visionary Harlene Walker offered a spiritual salve to Vancouver’s downtown business community: the Workplace Ministry Society.
Over the past two decades, the Workplace Centre for Spiritual and Ethical Development (as it's now called) has hosted the monthly events Ethics for Breakfast and Spirit-at-Work luncheons, and co-founded the Ethics in Action Awards.
This month, Founder Harlene and Chair Jim Evans will reflect on how public attitudes towards spirit in the workplace have changed over the last 20 years and the Centre's contribution to this. Gloria McArter will share how Board members are now more fully expressing and experiencing "spirit at the table" -- and thereby growing this energy with attendees, prospective members and the larger community. Brian Fraser will chair this lively panel discussion.
[Read more]
click here to RSVP or phone: 604.685-6560
DATE: Thursday, March 19, 2009 – 12:00 - 1:30 pm
LOCATION: Main Floor, Conference Rooms, Terasen Building,
1111 W. Georgia St. (at Thurlow), Vancouver
Cost: Without lunch: $10
With lunch: non-members - $20; members - $15
Lunch: Catered sandwiches, salad, tea and coffee
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About our Speakers:
Harlene Walker is an ordained Minister of the United Church of Canada who practiced seeing "old truths in new ways." She is Founder of the Workplace Ministry Society, now the Workplace Centre for Spiritual and Ethical Development. Retired and living in Whistler, she has fostered an ecumenically shared ministry and a multi-faith partnership in this B.C. tourist resort... [Read more]
Jim Evans is a Life Insurance Agent and Financial Planner who graduated from UBC with a bachelor of commerce degree. He was elected Treasurer of the Workplace Centre in 1995, becoming Chair in 1996. While Chair of the United Church’s Vancouver South Presbytery, he took part in Harlene Walker’s ordination... [Read more].
Gloria McArter, Ph.D. is a Registered Clinical Counsellor who works with individuals, couples, families, and workplaces issues in private practice in New Westminster, BC. She has almost 30 years’ experience as a trainer in human relations and communications. As a workshop leader and public speaker, Gloria focuses on the positive relationships between spirituality and mental, physical, and workplace wellness. She is a Board member of the Workplace Centre... [Read more]
Moderator Brian Fraser is the Lead Provocateur of Jazzthink. He does professional speaking, consulting, and executive coaching aimed at helping people and organizations achieve exceptional performance. Prior to launching Jazzthink, Brian served 16 years as Dean of St. Andrew’s Hall and Professor of History at Vancouver School of Theology.
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In celebration of the Olympic spirit, and the athletes who will compete
at the 2010 Olympic/Paralympic Games, one year from now...
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Spirit at Work presents |
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 Thursday, February 19th, 2009
12:00 - 1:30pm
With Glowing Hearts:
The Power of Purpose
with Andrea Holmes, Summer & Winter
Paralympic Athlete and Para-Pan Am Games
medal winner
Have you ever taken time to consider what you really want?
In a world that is so busy and so full of instant gratification, we sometimes forget that it is okay to slow things down, look into the future, figure out what we really want, and set out to achieve it.
That's what Andrea Holmes did. Born without her lower left leg, she was inspired by a one-legged athlete at the Salt Lake City Paralympic Games– and set her sights on competing at the Athens Games in 2004.
Join us as Andrea shares her story and leads us in an exploration of purpose, focus, inner balance and outer performance.
Balancing my heart and my mind, I believe, is one of my strengths and keys to success as an athlete, and a member of society. Being an athlete has also given me some great skills that I am able to translate into life outside of sport.
- Andrea Holmes
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click here to RSVP or phone: 604.685-6560
Date: Thursday, February 19, 2009 -- 12:00 - 1:30 pm
Location: Main Floor, Conference Rooms, Terasen Building,
1111 W. Georgia St. (at Thurlow), Vancouver
Cost: Without lunch: $10
With lunch: non-members - $20; members - $15
Lunch: Catered sandwiches, salad, tea and coffee
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About Our Speaker:
West Vancouver resident Andrea Holmes was born without her lower left leg. Despite that, she became active in sports as a youth. But as she grew up, she found fewer and fewer opportunities to participate and lost the confidence that came from playing in sports.
Inspired by a one-legged skier to compete at the Athens Paralympic Games in 2004, Andrea had to overcome many challenges – including finding a coach, changing sports and qualifying... [Read more]
"Best Advice I've Ever Received"
Driving with her father to the airport one day, Andrea said, "Dad, you better hug me because the next time you see me my life could be totally different." And he said to her, "Awesome. Go and change your life. You only get one chance at it, and you should make it how you want it to be."
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Past Events
January 2009
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Spirit at Work presents
Transitions at Work:
The Challenges of Change
- with a Panel of Four Speakers in significant work transitions
Thursday, January 15th -- 12:00 to 1:30 p.m.
Copyright (c) 2009 Borderrose Images LLC, all rights reserved. Used with permission.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I –
I took the one less traveled by,
and that has made all the difference.
- Robert Frost
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We all want to grow at work. But how do we decide which road to choose, and deal with what comes next?
It's a New Year, a time of change. We look forward to finding that new job, growing our business, bringing our passion into the world. Or perhaps we've been forced to change, through downsizing or the recent economic meltdown. If you're facing transitions in your work, you're not alone.
This month we have a panel of four speakers – all Workplace Centre Board members – who are in significant work transitions of their own. Here are some of the changes they'll be talking about:
• on the verge of retirement, John K. suddenly found himself launching a new manufacturing venture, with a partner who's a drug addict
• downsized from a managerial job after 30 years, Lois has now become a cold-calling salesperson -- something she said she'd NEVER do -- and loves it
• "was it destiny or stupidity?" Roxanne asks herself. Jumping into her "dream job" in 2008, she found herself with three jobs and work responsibilities beyond her wildest expectations
• a "flood of imagery" one night has led Eric to move to Toronto this March. What he's going to do there, he's not fully sure. But the "knowing & peace underneath" tell him it was definitely a 'spiritual call'…
Join us as we explore how to decide & cope with transitions at work – and help each other move into 2009 with more confidence, resources and wisdom.
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DATE: Thursday, January 15, 2008 -- 12:00 - 1:30 pm
LOCATION: Main Floor, Conference Rooms, Terasen Building,
1111 W. Georgia St. (at Thurlow), Vancouver
Cost: Without lunch: $10
With lunch: non-members - $20; members - $15
Lunch: Catered sandwiches, salad, tea and coffee
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About Our Speakers:
John Kuchenthal
Instead of retiring in 2008, John has become a partner in an innovative new manufacturing venture in the alternative health field in California. A Board member of Workplace Centre for over 15 years, John has 20 years' business consulting experience and 35 years as a personal development trainer... [Read more]
Lois Brassart
Lois spent 30 years working for Fletcher's Fine Foods -- so long and with such loyalty that people called her "Mrs. Fletcher's." In 2008, the company downsized and Lois was terminated. Finding new life in the chaos, she is now a Business Consultant for EMBERS, a company that finds work for people who have graduated from drug & alcohol programs... [Read more]
Roxanne Davies
For eight years, Roxanne was Program Manager with Successful Contracting and Consulting, a federally-funded centre offering entrepreneurial training for unemployed professionals. In 2008, she landed her dream job to "develop community" in Kitsault, a town in northern B.C. As part of the package, she also became Office Manager for Best Entertainment, a TV production company, and... [Read more]
Eric Hellman
Eric came to Vancouver four years ago because of a "spiritual call," and is now moving to Toronto for the same reason. A communications consultant and spirituality-at-work coach, Eric also has 30 years experience in organizing and marketing projects and new ideas. Co-designer of the first Blue Box recycling program and consulting writer of the bestselling book, Leadership from Within... [Read more]
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