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In this Newsletter...
News & Events from Our Network: Online & Local
1. Request: For info on Gross National Happiness and Integral Spirituality (see below)
2. Life Visioning: Have you really "planned" for your retirement? by Andrea M. Winn
3. NewBook: Golden Years Legacy Play Workbook: Roadmap to a Stunning Retirement
4. How to Connect with Your Inner Hero - a 4 part series by David Cohen
5. New Book: Resurrecting Religion by Greg Paul + Book Launch, Mar 2, Toronto
6. Song/Meditation Retreat: Exploring Stillness, Feb16-19, Kinmount,ON
7. Spiritual Insights into Creating Change: Is what we are doing working? by E. Hellman
8. Why aren't we more effective at creating change? by E. Hellman, VancouverCourier
Resources & Events in Other Networks: Online
1. Bell Let’s Talk: A triple win for BCE, Consumers and Mental Health, Financial Post
2. How the Time's Up Movement Made Itself Heard at the Golden Globes, eonline.com
3. RiseAbove Cyberbullying: for Students, Teachers, Parents, an initiative from Telus
4. United Way: Connecting Social Purpose, Business & Giving, 2 articles, BC Business
5. New Book: The Mind of the Leader, from Harvard Business Rev. Publishing, on Mar.13
6. Sharing Love in the Workplace with Lance Secretan, audio/video, fr. Humanity's Team
7. Servant Leadership in Action: A better way to Lead?, free Livecast, Feb.28
8. Is There a Place for Compassion in Business? by P.Thompson, GarrisonInstitute.org
9. Seeds of Hope: Millennial Voices, The Interfaith Observer, January 2018
Profile: Online
1. Emmanuel Lopez: Artist, Movie Motivator & Mental Health Recoverer
Conferences: Online & Various Locations
1. Living an Elevated Existence: Mind, Body & Soul Summit, free 3 month series
2. World-Changing Women’s Summit, Feb 20-22, Scotts Valley, CA
3. Conscious Leadership: How Purpose is Evolving Business, Feb-Apr events, Montreal
4. Mindful Leadership Summit, April 11, San Francisco, CA
5. Mindful Workplace Summit, April 13-14, San Francisco, CA
6. Reimagining Interfaith: Empowering Interfaith Activists, Jul29-Aug1, Washington, DC
7. Parliament of World's Religions, Nov 1-7, Toronto / Proposals & Earlybird Fee dates
8. Int'l Sympos'm for Contemplative Research, Nov 8–11, Chandler, AZ; Proposals: Feb14
Inspiration & Reflection: Online & Below
1. Costume designer repairs a butterfly’s wing, from Good News Network
2. Quotes for the Month: (see more below)
a) People put you down enough and you start to believe it... - from Pretty Woman
b) Truth is powerful. And in a really good film we recognize the truth... - Barbra Streisand
c) My gratitude to all the women who have endured years of abuse and assault
because they... had children to feed and bills to pay... - Oprah Winfrey
e) True religion is to faith what voice is to a thought... - Greg Paul
3. Oprah Winfrey speaking about "Time's Up" at the Golden Globe Awards
4. Lady Gaga is ever-changing + song: Joanne (Where Do You Think You're Goin'?)
5. Why Walk When You Can Fly, song by Mary Chapin Carpenter
6. Late News: Canada Olympic House Will be a Home to Pride House at Pyeongchang
Click on the underlined link or read more below...
P.S. If you have difficulty with any links, email us at info@spiritualityatwork.org
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News from Our Network: Online & Local
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1. Request: For info on Gross National Happiness and Integral Spirituality
Rin Satian, a new Network member, is looking for information on how Bhutan's Gross National Happiness index, and Ken Wilber's Integral Spirituality, are being applied in business. If you have information or experience with either of these, please contact him at: rin.satian@gmail.com
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2. Have you really "planned" for your retirement? by Andrea M. Winn
"When reading that question, does your mind jump automatically to financial planning? It does for most people. But will this actually bring us the joy, richness and satisfaction we really want? I believe the lion's share of retirement planning needs to be planning for the kind of life you want to lead. I call it retirement life visioning”... [read more]
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3. New Book: Golden Years Legacy Play Workbook: A Step-By-Step Roadmap To Create a Stunning Retirement by Andrea M. Winn
Andrea has drawn on her own personal development, and work with clients, to design the ultimate retirement journey. This book contains a carefully crafted 14-week program that guides readers to step courageously through their retirement fears and directly into the most meaningful adventure of their lives - their Golden Years Legacy Play - a heroic journey into the most powerful contribution they have yet to make.
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4. How to Connect with Your Inner Hero - a 4 part series by David Cohen
"I believe we all have it inside us…and in some cases it is still wanting to come out…" In the first of this series, David shares the story of Viola Desmond, the woman on the new Canadian $10 bill. A Canadian hero and woman of courage, Viola built a career and business as a beautician and was a mentor to young Black women in Nova Scotia...
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5. New Book: Resurrecting Religion by Greg Paul + Book Launch, Mar 2, Toronto, from SanctuaryToronto
"There’s lots of bad religion out there. But the answer isn’t no religion, it’s true religion: living out―publicly and communally―what we say we believe privately and individually. At a time when most people practice their faith in the extremes―either extremely publicly... or extremely privately... award-winning author Greg Paul offers a vision for religion that is good for us and good for the world."
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7/8. Spiritual Insights into Creating Change: Is what we are doing working?
and Why aren't we more effective at creating change? by Eric Hellman,
from Vancouver Courier online
Two new articles on why we often have difficulty creating positive change -- in our relationships, work and the world -- and how we might use spiritual insights to be more effective.
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Resources & Events in Other Networks: Online
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1. How Bell Let’s Talk became a triple win for BCE, consumers and the mental health cause, by Emily Jackson, Financial Post
One in five Canadians experiences a mental health or addiction problem in any given year. Two-thirds of them don’t reach out for help, mainly due to the stigma attached to mental health issues. The Bell Let's Talk program is about removing that stigma, and helping people speak up. On Jan 31st, the company also donated 5 cents for every call, text & tweet about mental health. After more than 138 million of them, it donated $6.9 million to mental health initiatives.
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2. How the Time's Up Movement Made Itself Heard at the 2018 Golden Globes, by Natalie Finn, eonline.com
The 2018 Golden Globes served as a powerful platform for the Time's Up movement... in response to the overwhelming number of women and men from all walks of life who have come forward over the past few months to share their experiences about being sexually harassed, assaulted or otherwise mistreated.
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3. RiseAbove Cyberbullying: Resources for Students, Teachers, Parents,
an initiative from Telus (a telecommunications company)
"Nearly one in two youth have experienced online bullying in the last four weeks. We believe it’s part of our responsibility to ensure the digital space is a safe place and we want to help put an end to cyberbullying. Here you’ll find resources to help others rise above cyberbullying..."
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4. United Way: Connecting Social Purpose, Business & Giving,
articles from BC Business
The United Way is synonymous with giving to help our community. But now the United Way of Vancouver (Lower Mainland) is developing a new way of giving, by helping businesses connect their work mission with their social purpose. Two articles from BC Business magazine:
a) Corporate Social Responsibility Reimagined
b) How Social Purpose Makes Good Business Sense
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5. New Book: The Mind of the Leader by Rasmus Hougaard and Jacqueline Carter, from Harvard Business Review Publishing. Publication date: March 13th
This eagerly-anticipated book explores what it means for leaders to be humans before managers, and why that's so vital. Based on extensive new research, including assessments of more than 35,000 leaders and interviews with 250 C-level executives, it finds that organizations and leaders aren't meeting employees' basic human needs of finding meaning, purpose, connection, and genuine happiness in their work.
“In a 2016 McKinsey & Company study of more than 52,000 managers, 86% rated themselves as inspiring and good role models. But this stands in stark contrast to how employees perceive their leaders. A 2016 Gallup engagement survey found that 82% of employees see their leaders as fundamentally uninspiring.”
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6. Sharing Love in the Workplace with Lance Secretan, on audio & video,
from Humanity's Team
Dr. Lance Secretan is the former CEO of Manpower Inc, and a pioneering philosopher, teacher and author of 19 books about leadership, inspiration, corporate culture and entrepreneurship, and most recently an award-winning memoir, A Love Story.
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7. Servant Leadership in Action: A better way to Lead - through the Stories of Servant Leaders, free Livecast, Feb.28, from The Ken Blanchard Companies and Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Servant leadership happens when we act with respect, care, and fairness for the well-being of all involved, and not for our own self-serving interests. Servant leadership is one of the most effective approaches to guiding employees toward an outcome that fosters growth, connectedness, and encouragement...
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8. Is There a Place for Compassion in Business? by PatriciaThompson,
from GarrisonInstitute.org
"I recently coached a senior executive I’ll call Stephanie, who was grappling with a pretty common dilemma in the business world: her organization’s profits were [under projections], and her impatient CEO wasn’t happy about it. She and her colleagues were feeling intense pressure to perform and feared that they would lose their jobs if they were unable to turn things around..."
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9. Seeds of Hope: Millennial Voices, The Interfaith Observer, January 2018
The TIO explores interreligious relations and interfaith culture. Articles this month include: God With(in) the World, Reimagining the Interfaith Movement, an Interfaith Vision for the Future of Faith, Transforming Our Differences...
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Emmanuel Lopez:
Artist, Movie Motivator & Mental Health Recoverer
Also known as Motivatorman, Emmanuel is a Motivational Speaker, Author and an award-winning Movie Blogger & Illustrator. He works with organizations to inspire RESILIENCE and INDESTRUCTIBLE OPTIMISM through the power of Hollywood movies, while sharing his own stories of overcoming burnout, unexpected crisis and clinical depression. For over 25 years, Emmanuel has also inspired clients and the public with his uplifting illustrations, writing, photography and original music.
About his story: In January 2015 I was diagnosed with clinical depression and it put me in a momentary state of shock. Yet the silver lining was finally being given a name to a challenge I’d been dealing with for over 20 years. Since then I have dedicated my work and life to improving my mental health and wellness while sharing my creative coping strategies with others... Movies were a powerful tool to help me manage depression symptoms. They saved my life numerous times during dark periods when I wanted to end it all. - from his article on LinkedIn
Emmanuel's resources for others - on our Bulletin Board
Website: www.motivatorman.com
Movies that Motivate Blog: www.motivatorman.blogspot.com
Top 10 Inspiring Movies for Managing Depression - his article on LinkedIn
Lifting Barriers to battling the dark demon of depression - in The Toronto Star
Recommends an article/book: Is everything you think you know about depression wrong? by Johann Hari, from TheGuardian.com
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Conferences: Online & Various Locations
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2. World-Changing Women’s Summit, Feb 20-22, Scotts Valley, CA
Women leaders in conscious business: Nourish Yourself. Find Each Other. Elevate Business. Join a powerhouse group of female leaders to share wisdom, find inspiration, and connect around best practices for leading & thriving in the conscious business world. Discount code available.
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3. Conscious Leadership: How Purpose is Evolving Business, February to April events, in Montreal, from the International Centre for Conscious Leadership
Events include: Global Summit of Conscious Leadership; From Training to Transforming Leaders: The Path to Conscious Leadership; and Effective Change Management Training
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4. Mindful Leadership Summit, April 11, San Francisco, CA
More and more employees are unwilling to accept a purely top-down approach in the workplace, and there’s an emerging movement of employees looking for more meaning, happiness and connectedness at work. This requires a new way of leading, and a new, people-centered approach to leadership -- requiring mindfulness, compassion and service.
Savings on Advance Tickets: Until Mar 2
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5. Mindful Workplace Summit, April 13-14, San Francisco, CA
Employees want to feel a sense of purpose in what they do, and a real connection to the organization’s mission. They’re often not satisfied remaining at an organization where they don’t. Yet a 2016 Gallup study found that 67% of workers are either not engaged or actively disengaged. Also according to Gallup, business units in the top quartile of employee engagement: Are 21% more profitable and 17% more productive; Have 10% better customer ratings; Experience 41% less absenteeism; and Suffer 70% fewer safety incidents.
People-centered organizations are about putting responsibility for engagement and meaning on the organization, not the employee. This summit is about how to do that...
Savings on Advance Tickets: Until Mar 2
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6. Reimagining Interfaith: Empowering Interfaith Activists, July 29-August 1, Washington, DC
A global event supporting activists and leaders working together in the face of fear to connect with people across faiths and strengthen activist skills.
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8. International Symposium for Contemplative Research, Nov 8–11, Chandler, AZ; Call for Proposals/Abstracts: Due by Feb14
The flagship academic conference for interdisciplinary investigations of the mind and contemplative practices. We welcome everyone engaged in contemplative research... and those who seek to understand how to apply this research in their work and communities.
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Inspiration & Reflection: Online
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Wonder how many ways you can make a difference in the world? Consider this one...
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1. Costume designer repairs a butterfly’s wing, from Good News Network
Romy McCloskey is a costume designer who put her needleworking abilities to the test when she rescued a 3-day-old monarch butterfly from certain death by fixing its shredded wing.
2. Quotes for the Month:
a) People put you down enough and you start to believe it... The bad stuff is easier to believe. Ever notice that? - spoken by Vivian (Julia Robert's character), in Pretty Woman
b) Truth is powerful and in a really good film we recognize the truth about ourselves, about others. It's so powerful it can even change people's minds, touch people's hearts, and ultimately even change society itself. - Barbra Streisand, 2018 Golden Globe Awards
c) [This is] not just a story affecting the entertainment industry. It's one that transcends any culture, geography, race, religion, politics, or workplace. So I want tonight to express gratitude to all the women who have endured years of abuse and assault because they, like my mother, had children to feed and bills to pay and dreams to pursue. They're the women whose names we'll never know. They are domestic workers and farm workers. They are working in factories and they work in restaurants, and they're in academia, engineering, medicine, and science. They're part of the world of tech and politics and business. They're our athletes in the Olympics and they're our soldiers in the military. - Oprah Winfrey, 2018 Golden Globes
d) True religion is to faith what voice is to a thought. It puts flesh on the bones of faith. - Greg Paul, from his new book: Resurrecting Religion
3. Oprah Winfrey speaking about "Times's Up" at the Golden Globe Awards
4. Lady Gaga is ever-changing (article from eonline)
+ New song: Joanne (Where Do You Think You're Goin'?)
"Joanne was my father's sister who died at the age of 19 from the auto-immune disease Lupus. She was a powerful, beautiful force in my family's life -- and then it's like a beautiful light that just goes out... I've always used the fact that she didn't get to live the rest of her life as a sense of strength and power within me..."
5. Why Walk When You Can Fly, song by Mary Chapin Carpenter
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