Events

Date: Friday, June 4 2010
7:00 pm Creative Leadership for the 21st Century
9:00 pm Living Institute Cultural Innovator Award 2010
Location: Hart House Debates Room, University of Toronto
Cost: $25

This event will highlight the need for creative leadership in addressing the global ecological crisis and the evolutionary challenge this brings to Western culture in understanding who we are in an interdependent planetary ecosystem, recognize two leading figures in the field, Dr Dennis O'Hara and Alice Klein, with the Living Institute Cultural Innovator Award.

Work is an important part of one’s life purpose, yet so many people are working in organizations where they don’t feel their efforts have any meaning. The many complex problems in our world today will require a greater level of consciousness on the part of businesses as well as individuals. For these reasons, it’s important to start to look at work and the workplace in a different way.

This lecture will discuss the following:

Mindfulness and attitude adjustments toward living in a state of nature is the focus of this introductory workshop for a course on wilderness living skills, including attitudes toward living in nature, materials and clothing, basic shelter building techniques, water acquisition, fire building, food acquisition, navigation and protocols if you are lost, and how not to freeze to death, find water and stay alive!

Evening - This evening's introduction into the origins of BodySoul Rhythms®, a quarter of a century after its inception, will provide participants with an opportunity to learn about and share the experience of “subtle body” in their own life. What does the body as “that portion of Soul discerned by the five senses” mean to you now, how does “Body Awareness” appear in your dreams, and what are your preferred ways of nurturing and expressing your personal body-soul hunger? How do you encounter and befriend “shadow” elements?

Thursday, Dec 10 & 17, 6:30 – 10:30pm
Crystal Hawk, AB, MEd, Recognized Teacher 

Sunday, Nov 22, 10am - 5:30pm

Saturday, August 8 2009
2:00 to 6:30 pm
Westin Harbour Castle Hotel,Toronto

Please download the event flyer or read the papers for more info.

Using the mythology of the Goddess from across the ages, Caroline Mardon will show how the re-emergence of the Goddess in the 20th century provides strong new models for women seeking to live a fully realized, authentic life.

Dr Thomas R. Verny, psychiatrist and Dr Kirk J. Schneider, psychologist.

Date: Friday, July 18 7:00 – 9:15pm
Event: The Human Dimension of Psychotherapy Conference
Location: Hart House Debate Room, University of Toronto
Friday evening fee: $25