LOCAL EVENTS

March 27, 2008, 7:00 – 9:00pm
CRISH Public Meeting: Making Integrative Healthcare
a Reality

Free Admission,
Unitarian Church, 949 – 49th Ave. West

The Canadian Research Institute of Spirituality and Healing (CRISH) would like to provide a forum for dialogues and a platform for planning an integrative healthcare service. We invite you to come join us to create a vision for compassionate care, and more importantly, to develop a model of integrative care that is community based and that is sustainable.
The question for this meeting is: What are the ingredients to succeed? Our feature presentation to inspire the dialogue is: Beyond Resistance: Finding the Healing Power of Gratitude, by Gabor Maté, MD, a physician, public speaker and the author of three bestselling books, published internationally.
Copies of Dr. Maté's most recent book entitled, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction, will be available for purchase and signing after the meeting.

Please see a PDF document for more details.

November 2, 2007, 2:30-4:30pm
CRISH Public Meeting: Making Integrative Healthcare
a Reality

Free Admission,
Unitarian Church, 949 – 49th Ave. West

Drs. Lyren Chiu, Soma Ganesan, and Steven Aung invite you to come learn about CRISH's vision for compassionate care, and more importantly, to help shape CRISH plans with your ideas and experiences related to integrative care.

Please see a PDF document for more details.

October 18, 2007, 6:00-9:00pm
Existential Analysis in Action: Phenomenological Encounter and Psychotherapy

Free Admission
UBC, 2125 Main Mall, Scarfe Building #100

In this presentation, Dr. Längle will overview existential analytical psychotherapy, discuss common misunderstandings about existential psychotherapies, and highlight the practical and applied nature of existential analytical psychotherapy. Additionally, he will outline an existential understanding of personhood and show how an existential approach to therapy and counselling engages the client at the personal or spiritual/noetic level.  A live therapy demonstration with Dr. Längle will follow.

Further information on the ongoing Existential Analysis training program, held at on the campus of UBC, is found at www.existential-analysis.org/vancouver

Sponsored by UBC's Counselling Psychology Program, the Canadian Research Institute for Spirituality and Healing, and the International Society for Logotherapy and Existential Analysis.

The event with Dr. Alfried Langle (3 hours), requires the free Quicktime player. To watch the video please click here for part 1 and here for part 2. Courtesy Simon Fraser University, LIDC Media Design, Vancouver Campus.