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the braidwood enquiry into robert dziekanski’s death, the polish immigrant who was tasered at […]
Entries Tagged as 'news and events'
taking responsibility: constance barnes and the braidwood enquiry
June 20th, 2009 · No Comments
Tags: alcohol · eating disorders, body image & similar topics · emotional health · news and events
supporting iran’s protesters on a wordless wednesday
June 17th, 2009 · 3 Comments
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Tags: news and events · peace, environment, social justice et al
reconciliation. music.
June 12th, 2009 · 2 Comments
from nancy’s blog yesterday:
today was a day of reconciliation, initiated by the assembly of first nations.
here are some facts every canadian should know (i didn’t until recently):
approximately 250,000 kids were forced by law to go to residential schools in canada, starting in 1850
these were kids age 6 - 15
the intent was explicit: “to kill the […]
Tags: news and events · peace, environment, social justice et al
the cinderella project
June 8th, 2009 · 2 Comments
on friday i went to a highschool graduation ceremony - my first one! not having grown up in north america, and my older children having decided to skip grade 12, i had never been to one.
my first impression were the beautiful clothes everyone was wearing. where did all these gowns come from?
well, some of them […]
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tiananmen square - standing up
June 4th, 2009 · 3 Comments
the twentieth anniversary of tiananmen square. i sit at the mall in richmond centre as i write this. richmond, we sometimes say, isn’t vancouver – it’s part of china. if you want to get a job here, it really helps if you speak mandarin or cantonese.
so there are a lot of chinese […]
Tags: emotional health · news and events
homophobia, the 4 noble truths, and the 8-fold path
May 17th, 2009 · 8 Comments
today, on the international day against homophobia and transpobia, i’d like to gather a few thoughts on homophobia in view of the four noble truths, the core ideas of buddhism.
there is suffering - giving birth, aging, illness, etc. in the pali text, there are two things that specifically apply here, i believe: “union with […]
Tags: news and events · peace, environment, social justice et al · queer talk, gender issues and sexual identity · spirituality
ride for mental health - join the party!
May 14th, 2009 · No Comments
if you live in vancouver, or anywhere in canada for that, please join 60-year-old xerox executive mel thompson in his 100-day ride for mental health. more here at our MentalHealthCamp.
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is tweeting about omid reza misayafi a negative thing?
March 24th, 2009 · 5 Comments
the other day, an interesting discussion took place on twitter. i tweeted a link to the death in prison of omid reza misayafi, the iranian blogger who had been sentenced to three years in prison for blogging in ways that the iranian government found threatening.
one of my fellow tweeters found that this was a […]
Tags: communication · news and events · peace, environment, social justice et al
mental health hopes
March 20th, 2009 · 6 Comments
i just came back from an invigorating time with raul raul and cathy, talking about MentalHealthCamp. poor cathy had to listen to me being stubborn about not “massaging” the message about MentalHealthCamp too much – i like the raw greassroots approach.
what’s funny is that on my way back on the bus i read […]
Tags: depression and mental illness · interesting books · news and events
MentalHealthCamp - registration now open!
March 12th, 2009 · 1 Comment
the mental health camp that grew out of our panel discussion at the northern voice blogging conference is growing in leaps and bounds. we now have
a date - april 25, 2009
a location - workspace (for free!)
a blog
a registration page
and a call for presenters
and a twitter ID
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Tags: depression and mental illness · news and events
chaotic thoughts on employment counselling
March 4th, 2009 · 7 Comments
another live blog from the career management conference!
glenn olien works in employment/career counselling in the construction industry
warning: aptly, since this is about chaos theory in counselling, these notes will be somewhat chaotic, more than the two live blogs before. kind of like twitter on a blog
questions to be discussed: why do people […]
Tags: creativity: poetry, art, etc. · news and events · psychological research and other things academic · therapy
collaborative learning
March 3rd, 2009 · 2 Comments
now i’m at a session on collaborative learning by michael yue and maria starosta. more live blogging!
some of the impetus for this session came from the philosophers café projects
“collaborative learning is better than learning by yourself”
presenter not an authority; he may have taken a bit more time to look into the topic but he […]
Tags: news and events · philosophy and education · the net
eating disorders week
February 27th, 2009 · 5 Comments
i have an amazing talent for missing national eating disorders week in canada, which was february 1-7. and i was even reminded by a number of people! fortunately, clinically clueless, who has been posting about national eating disorders week in the US, has also sent me a reminder - so i’m getting in here under […]
Tags: eating disorders, body image & similar topics · news and events
no-bully pink on a wordless wednesday
February 25th, 2009 · 11 Comments
a plethora of pink today, to celebrate anti-bullying day.
to find the photographers of the images, click on the links:
1. pink club door, 2. something pink this way comes, 3. soudeh is well now!, 4. untitled, 5. greenlake petals ortonized, 6. hibiscus, 7. swirly pink driving gloves, 8. spidey jump, 9. everything was tasty, 10. day […]
Tags: news and events · peace, environment, social justice et al · wordless wednesday
MentalHealthCamp - a whole conference about mental health and blogging
February 23rd, 2009 · 9 Comments
coping digitally, a session at the 2009 northern voice blogging conference that talked about the intersection of blogging and mental health and how social media can help derease the stigma of mental health was a real success. raul did a live blog of the session. thanks, raul!
the overwhelming feedback, during and after the session, face-to-face […]
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