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2009
Classes/Courses
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Meditation
Qi Gong
Relational Mindfulness Practice
Class
Andrea Warnick:
Talking to Kids Workshop
Lysa Toye: Dancing in the
Darkness Workshop |
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2009 Weekly
Classes
All classes are held at
Gitche M'Qua Centre
69 Heathdale Road,
(Bathurst & St. Clair), Toronto |
Tuesday Night Meditation Practice
6:50pm -
8:00pm (Dana/Donation)
We will sit
for 2 periods of zazen or "just sitting" with a walking
meditation. All
are welcome. Instructions for beginners at 6:45pm,
please arrive promptly, as our first sitting practice begins
at 7:00pm sharp!
Please call
in advance if you plan to attend: 416-654-8905
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Wednesday Qigong Practice
(resumes September 9th, 2009)
11:00am -
12:15pm (Suggested fee $18.00/class)
Sheng
Zhen practice is moving meditation that cultivates the heart
of joy, love and compassion. In this U-tube video you
can view Master Li performing the first 5 movements of one
of a series that we practice, called Healing Qigong at :
www.youtube.com/watch?v=p12vknxpz_o
Each session includes a brief period of meditation, where we
offer prayers to those who are ill or in need of healing.
All are welcome.
Please call
to let us know if you are attending: 416-654-8905.
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THURSDAY NIGHT RELATIONAL MINDFULNESS PRACTICE
- WILL RESUME IN MARCH 2010
This new and
exciting class based on Gregory Kramer's, Insight Dialogue,
will explore the foundations of mindfulness practices in the
context of relationships. Periods of sitting will be
interspersed with dyads, triads, and group sharing.
Each sharing will be grounded in Kramer's methods of Insight
Dialogue, alongside contemplative themes. Working from
the practice of pausing into the moment, opening to our
experience, trusting what emerges, and speaking from the
heart, we move into relationship with others, without whom
there would be no existence at all.
7:30pm -
9:00pm (Dana or Donation)
Call Andrew
in advance: 416-654-8905
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BEING WITH OUR DYING COURSES
BWOD courses are held at
Gitche M'Qua Centre,
69 Heathdale Road, Toronto,
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By talking about death, by
studying some insightful practices in working with the dying, and by
exploring contemplative and healing approaches, we learn valuable lessons
about death & dying: we learn to live each moment consciously. Our BWOD courses are designed to support professionals and laypeople.
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Saturday, October 17th, 2009
1:30pm - 4:30pm
Dancing in the Darkness: Creative Encounters with Death
Lysa Toye, MSW
Cost: $ 40.00 |
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For many of us, death brings us
face-to-face with the deep seed of what it means to be human; that we are
born, we live, and we die. But how do we understand this passage, and
how do we use it? For all people, from children through adults of all
ages, creative practices offer an experiential and exploratory space that
awakens an investigation into our ideas and wonderings about the meaning of
dying and death. This
three hour workshop will explore creativity and the arts as a vehicle
through which to engage questions of life and death and locate and/or
re-imagine the self within our experience of dying, death and grief.
This program designed for health care professionals, volunteers, caregivers,
and anyone interested in creatively exploring their relationship to death
and what it can teach us about how to live fully today.
Lysa Toye, MSW.
Lysa is an
Expressive Arts Therapist and a Master's trained Social Worker who believes
in the power of creativity, play, art, ritual and the natural world to
ground us in and awaken us to the full experience of being human. She works
at the Max and Beatrice Wolfe Centre for Children's Grief and Pallative Care
at the Temmy Latner Centre for Palliative Care, Mount Sinai Hospital, where
she provide psychosocialspiritual support and education for children and
their families living with the experience of dying and death.
To Register: https://www.securewebexchange.com/innovative4you.com/bwodlysatoye2009.htm
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Saturday, November 28th
10:00am - 4:00pm
Talking to Kids About
Death: Confronting our Fears and Theirs
Andrea Warnick
Cost: $ 90.00 |
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workshop will identify common barriers for both family and
healthcare providers regarding talking to children and adolescents
about an impending death. It will include stories and
important messages from children and their families that illustrate
"best practice" guidelines for supporting children through the death
of a loved one. In addition, the workshop will offer practical
suggestions regarding how to move from a model of 'protecting'
children from death to a model of 'preparing' children for a death.
This workshop is appropriate for healthcare providers, volunteers,
caregivers, parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles - any adult who
comes into contact with a grieving child.
Andrea Warnick, RN.
Andrea is a Registered Nurse with a Masters of Arts degree in
Thanatology. She has extensive experience domestically and
internationally with ill, dying and bereaved children and adults.
Andrea's passion lies in both working directly with the dying and
their families, and in teaching others how to optimize their care of
the dying, particularly when children are involved. Andrea
travels internationally teaching about children and grief, and works
with children and families as a grief counsellor in Toronto.
To Register:
https://www.securewebexchange.com/innovative4you.com/bwodandrea2009.htm
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