January 21, 2010 | Registration 07:00 am| Breakfast and Awards 07:30 am | ICBC Concourse
July 8 2009 | 1:30–4:30pm
Dr. Kelly is an internationally recognized expert on children and divorce. Dr. Kelly’s work has been instrumental in helping shape the current thinking among professionals who help parents and children cope with divorce.
This particular lecture will focus on different options for parenting plans and what options work for some parents and some children but not others; how a child’s developmental capacities are factored into making age appropriate plans; what is needed to make joint custody plans work; and a discussion of the impact of high conflict and domestic violence on parenting plans.
This lecture will provide valuable information and materials to lawyers, mediators, and psychologists. Attendance can be reported as a continuing education credit.
July 8, 2009 | 6:00pm
Speaker: John Willinsky, PKP Founder and Director
pkp.sfu.ca/ocs/pkp2007/index.php/pkp2009/pkp2009
Additional conference sessions being held at SFU's Harbour Centre building
May 28, 2009 | Registration: 8:00am | Workshop: 8:30am–4pm
May 28-29, 2009
http://www.thehumphreygroup.com
May 3—5, 2010
Wednesday, April 29th | 8:00am–10:30am
www.sustainablebuildingcentre.com/marketinsights
April 24, 2009 | Registration: 8:00am Workshop: 8:30am–4pm
April 2-3, 2009
Innovations in Evaluation Research on Health and Aging Programs. Inquiries to bcnar@sfu.ca
March 30, 2009 | Registration: 8:00am Workshop: 8:30am - 4pm
Speaker: Benjamin Perrin, Assistant Professor, UBC Faculty of Law
March 27, 2009 | 11:30am–2:30pm
March 26, 2009
February 12, 2009
March 2-3, 2009
In Your Eyes: Community Approaches to Research in Mental Health and Addictions
March 5, 2009
March 5, 2009 | 8:00am–11:30am | Strategy Room #420
Presenter: Jill Dyche, Partner and co-founder of Baseline Consulting Group
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March 6, 2009
Community-based Research (CBR) in Mental Health and Addictions: Exploring the Connections and Fostering Collaboration
March 2-3, 2009
www.rebgvcommercial.ca
February 22, 2009
Speakers:
Dr Bruce Alexander
Dr Brian Emerson
Donald MacPherson
Philippe Lucas
Michelle Rainey
Gillian Maxwell
February 12, 2009
www.cdlawyers.org
January 8–14, 2009
rebgvcommercial.ca
January 12, 2009
Speakers:
Dr. Ken Rockwood
Dr George Kuchel
Dr. Stephanie Studenski
December 5
December 5
Registration: 8:00am | Workshop: 8:30am–4pm
This session is designed specifically for Healthcare audiences. www.cassonandchoi.com
November 26
November 25
November 24, 2008 | Registration: 6:00pm| Event: 6:30–8:30pm
November 25, 2008
November 26, 2008
December 5, 2008 | Registration: 8:00am | Workshop: 8:30am–4pm
This session is designed specifically for Healthcare audiences. Info at www.cassonandchoi.com
December 5, 2008
January 12, 2009
Speakers:
January 8–14, 2009
Intentional Leadership of Interprofessional Teams
November 19 | Registration: 8:00am | Workshop: 8:30am - 4pm
This session is designed specifically for Healthcare audiences.
Info at www.cassonandchoi.com
Leaders of Tomorrow CA Series
November 19
The Path to Productive Interprofessional Teams
October 30 | Registration: 8:00am | Workshop: 8:30am - 4pm
This session is designed specifically for Healthcare audiences.
Info at www.cassonandchoi.com
The Inspired Facilitator
October 27–29
masterfulfacilitation.blogspot.com
Canada Ocean Lecture
October 22 | 7 pm
Speaker - Dr Jeff Hutchings
This is a free public lecture, but registration is required in advance:
email: cs-science@sfu.ca
Click here for more information.
Nora and Ted Sterling Prize in Support of Controversy
October 15 | 7 pm
From South Africa's transition from apartheid to democracy to the seemingly intractable conflict between Israelis and Palestinians, sociologist Heribert Adam has spent his academic career immersed in the study of some of the most volatile political situations on the planet. He is being honored for his contribution to the understanding of conflict in ethnically divided societies with the 2008 Sterling Prize in support of controversy. He joined the SFU faculty in 1968. Now professor emeritus, he continues to teach in Graduate Liberal Studies. A prolific author, his most recent book is "Seeking Mandela: Peacemaking between Israelis and Palestinians," co-authored with UBC's Kogila Moodley. The award will be presented at SFU's Wosk Centre for Dialogue, 580 West Hastings St, 7 pm, Wednesday, Oct. 15. His lecture, "Peacemaking in Divided Societies: South Africa, Israel/Palestine, Canada," is followed by a reception.
The event is free, but seating is limited. Reservations: 778.782.5100.
www.sfu.ca/sterlingprize
BC Health Education Foundation — Board Meeting
October 14 | 9:30am–12:30pm
Miller Thomson Symposium
October 4
Learning for Leaders
October 2, 2008
Speaker: David Cichelli, Senior Vice President, The Alexander Group
www.learning4leaders.ca/courses
Statistics and Actuarial Science "Actuarial Afternoon"
October 1 | 3:00pm
VMware/Dell — Knowledge Series
September 25, 2008 | 10:00am- 5:00pm
Northern Standards Procurement
Critical Trends in Public Procurement
September 22
2nd National Pro Bono Conference
Pro Bono Law of BC
September 18–19
KPMG Backbone PICK20: the Corporate Adoption of Web 2.0
September 16 | Reception: 5:00pm | Session: 6:30pm
MITACS
Accelerate Canada Consortium Meeting and Banquet
September 12
MITACS
NCE Scientific Directors Meeting
September 13
Conveyor Design Consultants of Western Australia
Practical Belt Conveying course
September 8-11
Contact: David Beckley | www.cdcwa.com.au
Intrawest Orientation Session
Practical Belt Conveying course
September 4 | 9:00am - 2:00pm
The Egyptian Judiciary Between Secularism and Islamization
August 13 | Registration: 5:30pm | Welcome: 6pm | Keynote: 6:30pm
This event is FREE but pre-registration will ensure guaranteed seating.
Welcome and Introduction
Keynote Address
Please pre-register here or phone (778).782.8536.
Vancouver Board of Trade Bootcamp
Power Tools for Women in Business"
Presented in co-operation with the Women's Leadership Circle
July 17 | Asia Pacific Hall | Registration: 4:00 pm Program: 4:30 – 6:00 pm | Reception: 6:00 – 7:00 pm
Sponsor: Venue sponsor: Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue
Speakers:
Jill Earthy, Executive Director, Forum for Women Entrepreneurs
WORKING ON YOUR OWN TERMS: Fact or Fiction
Lynda Pasacreta, President and Chief Executive Officer, Better Business Bureau
REPUTATION AND CREDIBILITY OF YOUR BUSINESS
Rita Schnarr, President, Schnarr & Associates
DEVELOPING MORE EFFECTIVE LEADER
Website: www.boardoftrade.com
Industry Council for Aboriginal Business
2008 Forum "On Common Ground":
Using dialogue to move from barriers to agreements.
June 19 and 20
BC Healthy Communities presents
"the Hidden Curriculum of Adult Life"
June 13 | 7:00 - 9:00 PM | Asia Pacific Hall
Join Harvard Professor Dr. Robert Kegan as he shares a lifetime of research into the continuing stages of mental development after adolescence, and assesses the fit between the mental demands of our adult roles and our still-developing mental capacities.
Tickets $52.50 | Info 1-888-356-0892 x 1 | www.bchealthycommunities.ca
Frontline Health Dialogue
June 12 | Strategy Room #420
Internal Trade Secretariat
"Annual Meeting of Committee on Internal Trade"
June 9-10 | 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM
For more information: www.AIT-ACI.ca
BC Renal Agency: Peritoneal Dialysis- A Great First choice
June 6 | 8:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Please see details at: www.bcrenalagency.ca
Braidwood Commissions of Inquiry
Use of Conducted Energy Weapons (Taser) in BC
May 12-16
Rainforest Solutions:
Ongoing Success in the Great Bear Rainforest
May 9 | 8:30 AM - 2:00PM
Ongoing Progress in the Great Bear Rainforest &emdash; You have heard about new approaches to conservation that take into account maintaining sustainable logging and protecting ecosystems. The Great Bear Rainforest in British Columbia is considered, worldwide, as the most ambitious of these initiatives. It was highlighted in the recent American Forest and Paper Association study as a successful model of collaboration and in 2007 the agreements received the prestigious World Wildlife Fund Gift to the Earth award. The Roundtable will inform invited participants on progress made in implementing the historic agreements to protect British Columbia?s Great Bear Rainforest
Inquiries can be directed to: Valerie@forestethics.org or Patrick@moresbyconsulting.com
Raincity Studios Inc.
Drupal Camp Vancouver 2008
May 9
Dale McGladdery 604-988-3107
City of Vancouver "Collaborating for change Forum"
April 29, | Registration: 8:30 AM | Presentation: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
For information, please contact: Theresa.Beer@vancouver.ca
Sociology and Anthropology Department, SFU
NCD Surveillance in the Southern Cone
April 23 | 8:30 AM - 5:30 PM
www.sfu.ca/sociology/events/workshop.html
Air & Waster Management Association presents:
Changing Climate, Uncertain Futures, & Evolving Practices in Vancouver
April 21-23
One of the greatest climate change challenges facing British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest is applying uncertain predictions to engineering-type problems that demand immediate analysis and decisions regarding future impacts. In response to this challenge, local chapters of the Air & Waste Management Association (A&WMA) and the Canadian Water Resources Association (CWRA) are organizing a symposium to provide some guidance to practitioners on utilizing the available data for decision-making and understanding its limitations.
Registration and Full Symposium Agenda at www.climatesymposium.com
Natural Resource Sector Continuous Learning Forum
April 15
Please see details at: nrceforum.forrex.org
Problems of Arctic Security in the 21st Century
April 11 - 12 | Friday 9:00am - 5:00pm | Saturday 9:00 - 11:00am
There is no cost to attend the conference, but space is limited. To reserve a seat, please call: 778 782 8557 or email: intst@sfu.ca For more info on the conference program: www.sfu.ca/internationalstudies
Co-convened by The Simons Foundation and The School for International Studies, Simon Fraser University
Dalai Lama Centre for Peace and Education:
Panel Discussion: A New Vision of Learning
April 7 | 9 AM - Noon | $75.00 CDN each (plus GST)
Featuring Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence
Please join New York Times bestselling author Daniel Goleman and a distinguished panel to explore new insights in holistic education: education that integrates emotional and social literacy with academic excellence.
Panelists:
Reserve your tickets online &emdash; seating is very limited. We will e-mail you to confirm that your tickets are reserved and payment is processed. Reserving online doesn't guarantee tickets. Reservations will be processed in the order they are received.
For more information: 604-215-2352 | info@dalailamacenter.org
www.dalailamacenter.org/wosk/index.php
Communities In Jeopardy Public Dialogue
March 31, 2008 | 7:30 pm to 9 pm | Free Public Dialogue
This public dialogue on communities, nature, and climate change will feature brief presentations on climate-induced ecosystem shifts, and offer the public an opportunity to engage with experts and each other on the challenges we face adapting to climate change and possible solutions.
Free of charge, but seating is limited, so please register in advance at www.sfu.ca/act or at the door starting at 7 pm.
For more information contact: 778-782-8543 or actinfo@sfu.ca
Imagine BC Public Dialogue;
Facing the Future with Resilience: How Will BC Committees Do It?
March 28 | 11:30am -5:00pm | Asia Pacific Hall
Live Broadcast of CBC Radio One's "Almanac" with Mark Forsythe at noon.
Please see details at : www.imaginebc.ca.
BC Power Summit
March 10-12, 2008
This past year has seen a continuation of major developments in the B.C. power sector with the highlight being the release of the Province?s Energy Plan. This program is a unique opportunity to gain information to your business on an element of strategic importance to the BC economy.
Keynote speakers:
Click here for more information.
Parenting Coordinators: High Conflict, Separation and Divorce
Phyllis Kenney Family Lawyer
March 3-4, 2008 | 8:30 am - 5:00 pm | Strategy Room #320
Speaker: Dr. Joan B. Kelly
NAACCR CSI I
North American Association of Central Caner Registries
February 25-29, 2008 | HSBC Meeting Room #370
CentrePoint – Engaging a Changing Workforce
February 19. 2008
www.centrepointcareer.com/events_upcoming.htm
Campus Mental Health Project
February 8-9, 2008
Creating Campus Communities of Practice
BC Campus Mental Health Projects
Guest Speaker: Etienne Wenger
heretohelp.bc.ca or http://www.bcpcampusproject.org/public/
The Long Emergency is Vancouver's Problem Too
Thursday, Jan. 24, 7 pm
Urban critic James Howard Kunstler is SFU's first visiting fellow in urban sustainable development. Kunstler says he wrote The Geography of Nowhere, "Because I believe a lot of people share my feelings about the tragic landscape of highway strips, parking lots, housing tracts, mega-malls, junked cities, and ravaged countryside that makes up the everyday environmentÅ ." His 2005 book, The Long Emergency, is about the challenges posed by the coming permanent global oil crisis, climate change and other "converging catastrophes of the 21st Century." A former staff writer for Rolling Stone Magazine, he has no formal training in architecture or related design fields. Free, but seating is limited. Reservations: 778.782.7914.
BMO Financial Group / Canadian Institute of International Affairs
Distinguished Lecture Series 2007 - Global India
Thursday, November 29, 6 pm
Democratic India's New International Strategy
C. Raja Mohan has served as strategic affairs editor of the Indian Express in New Delhi, diplomatic editor and Washington correspondent of The Hindu, and as a member of India's National Security Advisory Board, 1998-2000 and 2004-06. He is currently professor at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He will examine the strategic and geopolitical priorities of India - the world's largest democracy - including India-U.S. nuclear cooperation. The event is open to the public and is free, but kindly let us know you are coming: vancouver@ciia.org. Professor Mohan's presentation will be followed by a question and answer period and a reception.
BC Multiple Myeloma Patient and Family Conference
Saturday, November 3, 2007, 9 am–5 pm
This first conference for BC's multiple myeloma patients and their families and caregivers and those interested in multiple myeloma, is organized by the Vancouver Island Multiple Myeloma Support Group. Experts will provide current information and answer audience questions. Fee: $25/person ($20 before October 1). Limited seating; registration deadline is October 23. For information and online registration click on BC Conference at www.myelomavancouver.ca or contact:
Lillian Barton - President, VIMM Support Group
250.743.2693 or fax 250.656.7728
lillianbarton@telus.net
Roundtable on Technology Skills Shortage II
Applied Science Technologists & Technicians of BC
Wednesday, October 31, 2007, 8 am
Keynote presentation by Barbara Jaworski. Please refer to the website for more information on the event. This event is not open to the public.
Autism: Early Intervention Approaches for Infants, Toddlers and Pre-School Children
Saturday, October 20, 2007, 9 am–5 pm
ACT (Autism Community Training) Focus on Research
Internationally renowned researchers, Geraldine Dawson, director, University of Washington Autism Center and Sally Rogers, director, M.I.N.D. Institute, University of California Davis, discuss early intervention approaches for infants, toddlers and preschool age children with autism. Topics covered will include new studies on brain plasticity and early development in autism and an overview of current approaches to early intervention. They will describe their Early Start Denver Model, a comprehensive intensive behavioral intervention designed for infants and toddlers with autism, integrating the science of ABA within a relationship-focused model to address core symptoms of autism.
Limited seating. Registration: info@autismcommunitytraining.bc.ca or 604.205.5467 Details: www.actbc.ca/workshops_and_training/workshops/2007
The International Peacebuilding Challenge
Friday, October 19, 2007, 7 pm
Can new players and new approaches bring new results? Carolyn McAskie, United Nations assistant secretary-general, peacebuilding support, discusses prospects for international peace. Prior to her UN appointment she had a 30-year career with the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). She also served as Canadian High Commissioner to Sri Lanka and the Maldives (1986-1989). This free public lecture is sponsored by SFU's School for International Studies. Seating is limited. Reservations required. 778.782.5100.
Canadian Bar Association "General Practice, Solo and Small Firm Conference, CBA"
Thursday, October 11, 2007
Canadian League Against Epilepsy
Tuesday-Thursday, October 2–4, 2007
This meeting will celebrate the 30th anniversary of CLAE and its founder Dr Juhn Wada. The meeting will be associated with a meet-the-expert day where students, patients and their families can meet with Canadian experts on the different epilepsy syndromes. The meeting will include plenary and breakout sessions, as well as platform and poster presentations. Meet Canadian and international epileptologists, neuroscientists and trainees interested in the field of epilepsy. Discuss common interests and concerns. Develop collaborative projects and find out about the newest epilepsy treatments and discoveries. Seating is limited; open to the public Tuesday only. Early registration is recommended: www.clae.org. Information: 514-345-4931 ext. 5394 or lionel.carmant@umontreal.ca
Weighing the Options in Afghanistan
Thursday, September 27, 2007, 8:45 am to 5 pm
(registration begins at 8 am)
The dialogue focuses on options for Afghans and Afghanistan, and discussion about these choices among Canadians. Michael Stevenson, president of SFU, will open the dialogue among experts on the Taliban and recent Afghan history as well as Afghan-Canadians with long experience "on the ground." A detailed program will be sent upon registration. Seating is limited. Online registration at websurvey.sfu.ca/survey/6287696
Fee: $20 (includes lunch and refreshments).
Information: international_dialogue@sfu.ca or 778.782.3008 or www.sfu.ca/cstudies/international/afghanistan.htm
Forum on Child Care in the Workplace
September 25, 2007
Working to engage Canadian employers in the development of quality Early Learning and Child Care at the Canadian workplace. www.workplacechildcare.org
Harvard Business School Reception
Monday, September 10, 2007
One of a series of international for prospective students. By invitation only. Contact: 617.495.6128 or admissions@hbs.edu. www.hbs.edu/mba/admissions/canadaevents.html
Western Climate Initiative - Partners Meeting
Thursday-Saturday, August 2–4, 2007
British Columbia and five western U.S. states, Arizona, California, New Mexico, Oregon and Washington, are partners in the new Western Regional Climate Action Initiative (WRCAI). The purpose of the WRCAI is to identify, evaluate and implement ways to collectively reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the region and to achieve related co-benefits. These sessions are not open to the public.
Nisga'a: Dancing in Both Worlds
Wednesday June 6, 7:30-9:30 pm
Git-Ts'amiks Nisga'a Cultural Dancers highlight an evening of speakers and film hosted by the BC Treaty Commission. Speakers include provincial and federal representatives, Nelson Leeson, president, Nisga'a Lisims Government and Dr. Joseph Gosnell. A film by John Basset and Rosalind Farber will be shown.
Fraser Sockeye Salmon:
Moving from Talk to Action
Monday, June 4, 8 am-6:30 pm
Speaking for the Salmon, the third in a series of town hall meetings with SFU researchers and Fisheries and Oceans Canada and Fraser Basin Council representatives. www.sfu.ca/cstudies/science/missingfish.htm
A Dialogue on Racial Profiling
A British Columbia Civil Liberties Association participatory dialogue on the causes and effects
Saturday, May 12, 2007, 9 am-6 pm (registration and coffee from 8:15 am)
In addition to keynote speaker Kent Roach, this event brings together some of Canada's leading experts on racial profiling, national security, law enforcement and civil liberties. The list includes Reg Whitaker, Scott Wortley, Frances Henry and Carol Tator, Reem Bhadi, Barbara Jackman, Jameel Jaffer and BC RCMP Chief Superintendent Richard Bent. Kent Roach has, in recent years, specialized in anti-terrorism law and policy and is the co-editor of The Security of Freedom: Essays on Canada's Anti-Terrorism Bill and Global Anti-Terrorism Law and Policy. Professor Roach served on advisory committees for the Commission of Inquiry into the Actions of Canadian Officials in Relation to Maher Arar and the Ipperwash Inquiry into the killing of Dudley George.
This event is generously supported by The Law Foundation of British Columbia. Registration fee: $25.
Reservations: sarah@bccla.org or 604.630.9750.
Detailed schedule available at http://www.bccla.org
A Sustainable Future: Whose business is it anyway?
Wednesday, May 2, 2007, 7-9:30 pm
Jonathon Porritt, author of Capitalism As If The World Matters, discusses ways we can empower professional leaders - including educators - to play a fuller part in our transition to a sustainable world, Porritt is co-founder of Forum for the Future and Great Britain's foremost advisor on sustainable development.
Free, but seating is limited. Register at 604.291.3395,
porritt-sustainablefuture@sfu.ca or www.educ.sfu.ca/ee/
Presenting partners:
Event made possible by Alcan's "30 Days of Sustainability"
The Way of the Storyteller
with Mary Gavan
Friday April 20, 2007 | 9 am-4:30 pm
DLOG 420 | REG $325 | DISC $260
dialogue-info@sfu.ca | 604.268.7925
We understand intuitively that good stories open up our minds and hearts and make it possible for others to understand us and for us to empathize with and know others. But what does it take to become a good storyteller? What is necessary to create the sacred space within where stories arise? What might we do to cultivate our own capacity for storytelling and listening?
Mary Gavan grew up in the Celtic countries of Scotland and Ireland and experienced stories as a way of living. Mary Gavan's purpose in being a storyteller is to continue the Celtic tradition of sharing values and understanding through specific stories, as well as through the interchange of listener and teller that occurs in dialogue, so that we all grow in respect toward ourselves and others.
For more information about these workshops, download the pdf brochure or contact dialogue-info@sfu.ca or 604.268.7925.
Death in Iraq - cancelled
Friday April 20, 2007 | 7 pm
Iraqi casualty count researcher, Riyadh Lafta, is co-author of an October 2006 Lancet article which estimated that more than 650,000 Iraqis have died as a result of the 2003 US-led invasion. Professor of medicine at Al-Mustansiriya University, College of Medicine, Dr. Lafta lives in Baghdad. For 14 years he led the Iraqi Ministry of Health's UNICEF-funded rural immunization campaign.
As Dr. Lafta has been denied permission to visit the United States, his Vancouver talk will be video-linked to the University of Washington's Kane Hall in Seattle. The lecture is sponsored by the UW School of Public Health's Iraq sister university project and SFU's Faculty of Health Sciences.
Free but seating is limited.
Alternative arrangements have been made for a talk by Les Roberts, co-author with Lafta of a Lancet article on Iraqi casualties. Roberts will speak at the University of Washington, with a live feed to SFU's Wosk Centre. A question period will follow. The speech will take place April 20 at 7 p.m. The event in Vancouver will be moderated by Tim Takaro, an associate professor of health sciences at SFU who is studying the rise in childhood cancer in Iraq with Lafta and researchers from the University of Washington (U of W). Lafta was unable to make the visit after being denied a transit visa while in Jordan, en route to Vancouver. He had been scheduled to spend a week meeting with members of his research team while at SFU. The U of W, which launched the study with the University of Basra in Iraq, was supposed to host the week-long meeting of the research collaborators. The venue was changed to SFU when Lafta was denied an entry visa to the U.S.
Contacts:
Amy Hagopian 206.616.4989, hagopian@u.washington.edu
Tim Takaro 604.268.7186, ttakaro@sfu.ca.
Sex, Lies and Legal Red Tape:
A community dialogue about HIV disclosure and the law
Thursday, March 22, 2007 | 9 am-4:30 pm
The goal of this community event is to create a dialogue among people living with HIV, the Vancouver Police Department, AIDS service organizations, lawyers, health workers, local journalists, public health officials and anyone who is interested. Discuss and debate the hard questions on HIV disclosure, public health and criminal law.
Hear experts share professional and personal perspectives - and have your say - about:
Speakers will make brief remarks to spark discussion, followed by moderated, open dialogue.
All welcome. Free, but space is limited.
Pre-register to ensure a seat: dialogue@aidslaw.ca or 604.893.2246
Co-presented by AIDS Vancouver, BC Persons With AIDS Society and Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network and Community Education Programs, Continuing Studies, Simon Fraser University.
Exploring Democracy's Edge
one | dialogue
with Frances Moore Lappé
Thursday March 1, 2007 | 7 pm-9:30 pm
DLOG 410 | $25
dialogue-info@sfu.ca | 604.268.7925
In Diet for a Small Planet , Frances Moore Lappé forever changed our thoughts about the politics of food and hunger. Now, in Democracy's Edge , she reshapes our ideas about democracy. In a public dialogue that inspires by example, she shows participants how citizens around the world are discovering the power within themselves to act on democracy's core values and find solutions to society's toughest problems. Supported in part by the ICBC Civil Economy Endowment.
Frances Moore Lappé, author of Diet for a Small Planet and Democracy's Edge: Choosing to Save Our Country by Bringing Democracy to Life , is cofounder of Food First, the American News Service and the Small Planet Institute.
Exploring Democracy's Edge
two | workshop
with Frances Moore Lappé
Friday March 2, 2007 | 9:30 am-noon
DLOG 415 | REG $170 | DISC $136
You must register for this workshop concurrently with DLOG 410
dialogue-info@sfu.ca | 604.268.7925
To save the democracy we thought we had, we've got to take it to where it's never been. Join Frances Moore Lappé in this interactive workshop exploring what democracy is and can be. With discussion, Q & A and small group work, Lappé guides participants through an overview of ways of overcoming fear to claim individual and public power.
Frances Moore Lappé, author of Diet for a Small Planet and Democracy's Edge: Choosing to Save Our Country by Bringing Democracy to Life , is cofounder of Food First, the American News Service and the Small Planet Institute.
Compassionate Listening: Healing our world from the inside out
two | workshop
with Leah Green
Tuesday February 6, 2007 | 9 am-4:30 pm
DLOG 405 | REG $325 | DISC $260
You must register for this workshop concurrently with DLOG 400
dialogue-info@sfu.ca | 604.268.7925
Participants will learn how to become more powerful peacemakers in their families, communities and workplaces. They will cultivate compassion for themselves and others and explore the five core practices of compassionate listening and learn the skills necessary to bring this powerful technique into daily life:
Leah Green is founder and director of the Compassionate Listening Project, Seattle WA, and has taught compassionate listening in Israel and Palestine since 1997.
Compassionate Listening: Healing our world from the inside out
one | dialogue
with Leah Green
Monday, February 5, 2007 | 7-9 pm
DLOG 400 | $25
dialogue-info@sfu.ca | 604.268.7925
Personal and Global Reconciliation
Compassionate Listening is a foundational skill set and practice for a planet wracked by conflict, violence and disconnection, teaching us how to stay in our hearts when we are hurt, angry, scared or shut down. Leah Green, founder and director of the Compassionate Listening Project, will speak about the evolution of compassionate listening and share stories and video clips from the Israeli-Palestinian and Jewish-German projects.
Leah Green is founder and director of the Compassionate Listening Project, Seattle WA, and has taught compassionate listening in Israel and Palestine since 1997.
Animating Democracy: Art and Social Change
a dialogue with Judith Marcuse
Thursday, December 7, 2006 | 7-9:30 pm
Registration is required; call 604-291-5100
Around the world, the arts increasingly provide potent tools for creating positive change in the lives of individuals and the societies in which they live. Whether it is puppets used for AIDS education in Africa, dance and theatre performances that address women's and girls' rights in Pakistan or youth created music that speaks about life in the streets of Rio, these practices can nurture hope and meaningful change - and are critical elements in the development of essential dialogue.
The choreographer and producer Judith Marcuse will speak about some of these wide-ranging global arts initiatives, including her own youth-centred work and, with participants, will explore some of the issues in the field, particularly as they relate to voice, power and social change. Supported in part by the ICBC Civil Economy Endowment.
Judith Marcuse is the artistic producer of Judith Marcuse Projects and of the EARTH Project, an international arts initiative with youth that is exploring issues of social justice and environmental sustainability.
Moving Into Democracy: Cultivating an integrated self
with Catherine Fallis
Friday November 17, 2006 | 9 am-4:30 pm
DLOG 380 | REG $325 | DISC $260
dialogue-info@sfu.ca | 604.268.7925
Community work requires us to develop deep acceptance and tolerance of diversity in others, but how do we treat the less desirable parts of ourselves and our bodies? In this workshop participants will be invited to explore their experience of democracy within themselves. Through mindfulness practices of sensory awareness and 'authentic movement,' participants will be invited to bring gentle awareness and compassion to all parts of themselves and to trust the body wisdom that can often surprise and delight us with new, creative and inspiring insights.
Catherine Fallis has over 20 years of experience using movement and the expressive arts in work with groups and individuals, in private psychotherapy practice and in the public school system.
Dialogue and Creative Decision-Making: The stone game
with Joseph Schaeffer
Wednesday & Thursday | November 15-16, 2006 | 8:30 am-4 pm
DLOG 370 | REG $650 | DISC $520
dialogue-info@sfu.ca | 604.268.7925
Joseph Schaeffer will introduce activities that emphasize the importance of conscious awareness, meaningful experience, responsible participation, and openness to learning for those who wish to find ways to be more cooperative and creative with each other. In The Stone Game activity, participants explore meanings rather than needs, interests, or assumptions of fact as a foundation for finding ways to create "open agreements" with each other.
Joseph Schaeffer, author of The Stone People: Living Together in a Different World, is an educator and consultant with 40 years of practical experience in the field of creative communication.
The Business Intelligence Conference
Thursday, November 9, 2006 – 7:30 am-5 pm
The Marketing Research and Intelligence Association (MRIA) welcomes your participation in our second annual national Business Intelligence Conference. The event will be action-packed, focusing on integrated business intelligence with more emphasis on tools, techniques and practical applications. Don't miss this opportunity to hear from industry experts on the significance of BI for business, the current BI climate, and its future. Business Intelligence is the future of the marketing research industry. Join this interactive forum to explore this dynamic direction of our industry. Join decision makers, executives and practitioners and experience an innovative approach to BI.
The conference is designed for senior marketing, planning and knowledge executives, business intelligence practitioners, and suppliers of tools and solutions. Attendees are expected from across Canada and the northwestern United States. The program is aimed at the management level, and is not technical in nature.
Keynote speakers, panel discussions, case studies, break-out sessions, workshops and more. Conference objectives are to:
Cost $395 (members, $355; students $100, before Oct. 21).
www.mria-arim.ca/BICONFERENCE/
Planning Institute of BC: Membership Course for Professional
Practitioners
Friday–Saturday, November 3–5, 2006
This unique program offers experienced planning professionals who are seeking, or who are interested in seeking full membership in the Planning Institute of British Columbia (PIBC) and the Canadian Institute of Planners (CIP) the opportunity to complete the written exam requirements for membership in a collaborative setting over one weekend. The written exam is one of the requirements for membership for all applicants without a degree in planning from a CIP recognized program.
The program (October 27-November 5) includes one pre-course assignment (due 1 week in advance), professional preparatory instruction and guidance, a set of written assignments to be completed over the weekend, facilitated in a seminar room setting with refreshments. Participants will receive the assignments and readings approximately five weeks prior to the course date. The program will be instructed and facilitated by two professional, full members of the institute.
Application deadline: Friday September 29th, 2006.
Registration is $565 (plus GST) per person. This includes the program, assignment and refreshments. Click here to download the Membership Course Application Form (PDF).
Participants can register by submitting the completed application form, attached information and payment to PIBC at:
110-355 Burrard St., Vancouver, BC, V6C 2G8
Tel. 604-696-5031 Fax. 604-696-5032
Email: pibc@telus.net
Practices and Principles of Indigenous Decision-Making
with Lewis Cardinal
Tuesday & Wednesday | October 10-11, 2006 | 9 am-4:30 pm
DLOG 360 | REG $650 | DISC $520
dialogue-info@sfu.ca | 604.268.7925
This interactive workshop will look at holistic concepts of collective decision-making: how it unifies a community, moves community through tasks and goals, brings community together, and strengthens relationships in an ethno-plural environment. It will look at personal and interpersonal communication and group dynamics from an Indigenous perspective.
Participants will explore:
Lewis Cardinal is Cree from the Sucker Creek Cree First Nation in northern Alberta and is co-chair and coordinator of the annual Global Indigenous Dialogue in Switzerland.
Strong Engagement Works Wonders!
with Vince Verlaan
Tuesday October 3, 2006 | 1-4 pm
DLOG 350 | REG $170 | DISC $136
dialogue-info@sfu.ca | 604.268.7925
Participants will experience the power of group process that creates meaningful engagement of citizens with pressing public issues (e.g., sustainability, social inclusion and accessibility). Here is an opportunity to learn about dialogue as a means for 'strongly engaging' citizens on these and other issues; to discuss how the framing of 'strategic questions' is a core leadership and governance practice; to share examples of where this approach has been effective; and to practise how to do it.
Vince Verlaan, principal of Wellspring Facilitation & Planning Inc., excels in designing and using participatory tools and creative processes to improve strategic planning, organizational development, public policy, research programs, community-level action projects, educational initiatives and service delivery.
Mapping the Creative Community
with Cathy Stubington, Paula Jardine
Monday September 25, 2006 | 9 am-4:30 pm
DLOG 340 | REG $325 | DISC $260
dialogue-info@sfu.ca | 604.268.7925
In this hands-on workshop participants will take a fresh look at their communities through mapping their resources, issues, histories, people and landscapes, using the colours and textures of pastels and pens on paper.
From this point, participants will identify the art forms that best reflect and serve their communities, leading to a second map that answers the question, How do we get from here to there? This map can serve as the basis of a plan for a new community arts activity or event.
Cathy Stubington is artistic director of Runaway Moon Theatre; Paula Jardine is artistic director of the Public Dreams Society.
Season Launch: An Exploration of Art Animating Democracy
Wednesday September 20, 2006 | 6:30-9:30 pm | Reception included
DLOG 331 | $50
dialogue-info@sfu.ca |
604.268.7925
Gather and learn from artists about ways to animate creative and transformational civic engagement using music, dance, theatre and visual arts. Artists, educators and special guests will engage participants interactively and demonstrate ways citizen engagement is made possible when dialogue and creative art practices come together. Supported in part by the ICBC Civil Economy Endowment.
Special guests include:
Haruko Okano, Homing Pidgin
Jabbar Al Janabi, AnU is 'Living Democracy'
Sean Muir, Comic Books for Social Change
Kathryn Rickets, My Name/My Voice
Amir Ali Alibhai, Rangoli
Sima Elizabeth Shefrin, The Middle East Peace Quilt
Bonnie Soon, Taiko Drumming
David Hatfield, Soul of Song
A Public Reading—Reconciliation: First Nations Treaty
Making in British Columbia
by Tony Penikett and published by Douglas and McIntyre
Tuesday, September 12, 3:30-4:30pm
Tony Penikett, Dialogue Associate, will read from his work and answer questions.
Reconciliation is a public policy work that reflects on the troubled five-hundred year history of conflict and peacemaking between America's indigenous peoples and European colonists. It also examines the faltering treaty negotiations process in British Columbia today.
Tony Penikett is a Vancouver-based mediator, and a former British Columbia deputy minister and Yukon premier. He has been involved in aboriginal rights negotiations for over twenty years.
For more information, contact dialogue-info@sfu.ca, 604.268.7925 or view the postcard.
This event is sponsored by Simon Fraser University's Undergraduate
Semester in Dialogue and Dialogue Programs, the Walter and Duncan Gordon
Foundation and Douglas & McIntyre.
TV Anchor uses Wosk Centre
August 28, 2006
Kevin Newman, anchor and executive editor for Global National TV, will host this fall a new documentary series on current affairs. And it all begins in SFU’s Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue in downtown Vancouver. There, on August 25 and 26, Kevin shot the opening “intros” for the fall series, Global Currents, noting as he did so the Centre’s role as a home for dialogue and debate.
Says Global: “Global Currents reflects a 'new journalism' for Canada . . . entertaining, engaging, enlightening; each project is driven by a dramatic narrative structure with provocative characters who challenge conventional wisdom.” The Centre for Dialogue is a conference centre dedicated to understanding effective communication.
Since its opening in September 2000 the Wosk Centre has been the catalyst for issues ranging from restorative justice to real estate, health care to transit, and international law to art. It is the only facility in BC certified by the International Association of Conference Centres, ensuring the highest standard of conference meeting space.
The Centre is also a show-piece of architectural revitalization in the heart of Vancouver.
Dialogue as Praxis: Beginning without an end in mind
Friday, July 21, 2006 6:30-9 pm
Saturday, July 22, 2006 8:45 am-4:30 pm
Registration: $150 (plus GST)
Many current approaches to dialogue emphasize its use as a negotiating strategy to accomplish desired ends and its advantages over other forms of discourse such as debate or bargaining. This symposium aims to explore educational dialogue as a desired end in itself.
Beginning Friday evening July 21 and continuing all day Saturday July 22, we hope to sustain a collective, informed exploration of dialogue as praxis among a limited number of participants and have invited Joseph Dunne (author of Back to the Rough Ground: Practical Wisdom and the Lure of Technique) of St. Patrick's College, Dublin to guide us through that exploration.
Statement of Interest
Registrants are invited to submit a brief statement (500-word
maximum) outlining their motivation for participation in a symposium
on educational dialogue and some of the questions that preoccupy them
about dialogue. We intend to circulate the statements to participants
prior to the symposium and structure the program to reflect the statements.
Conference proposals (500-word maximum) must be submitted by Friday, June 30, 2006 as an email attachment (MS Word or PDF file) to dialogue-info@sfu.ca with "Praxis Proposal and your name" in the subject line. Please include your name, affiliation, contact information and a brief (50-word) biography in your email. Proposals received after the deadline will only be considered if space remains in the program.
Successful applicants will be notified by email.
Registration is limited to the first 50 registrants. For more information or to register, please contact 604.268.7925 or download the flyer.
This symposium is sponsored by: SFU's Dialogue Programs, Continuing Studies and Undergraduate Semester in Dialogue; and UBC's Department of Educational Studies.
Weapons of Terror: Freeing the World of Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Arms
Wednesday, June 28, 2006
9 am–12 noon
A joint seminar with members of The Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission and Global Action to Prevent War to discuss the major recommendations of The WMD Commission's report.
Speakers include Dr. Jennifer Allen Simons, president of The Simons Foundation, Dr. Paul Warwick, Political Science, Simon Fraser University, Dr. Hans Blix, chair of The Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission, Ambassador Jonathan Dean, Dr. John Burroughs and Dr. Randall Forsberg of Global Action to Prevent War
A dialogue will take place between Dr. Blix and Randy Rydell of The WMD Commission and Ambassador Dean, Dr. Burroughs and Dr. Forsberg.
This Vancouver launch of the Report of The Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission is sponsored by The Simons Foundation, The Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission and Simon Fraser University.
Free and open to public, but seating is limited. Reservations and information: 604.268.7779
Green is the new Black
At the Roundhouse Community Centre
Thursday, June 15, 2006
10 am–5 pm
Join us at the Roundhouse Community Centre for a one-day dialogue exploring
our shared responsibility for creating a sustainable future in BC. Activities
include dialogue, insightful speakers, story telling, music, and art.
Visit www.roundhouse.ca/footprints/sharedfuture.html for
more information.
Exhibition Hall,
The Roundhouse Community Centre
Corner of Davie and Pacific, Vancouver, BC
Cost: $10* (includes lunch)
Admission waivers are available
Reservations are required, so RSVP by calling 604.713.1800 [ask for
"Creating a Shared Future", Course #62801.304R4], or email hdillhoc@sfu.ca.
Convened by: The Undergraduate Semester in Dialogue, Simon Fraser University Vancouver.
Simon Fraser University's President's Forum with Dr. Nancy Olivieri
Medicie, Morals and Money
Wednesday, June 7, 2006
Is industry funding the only avenue to fund expensive clinical research trials? What are the possible mechanisms to protect research subjects in an era of corporate science? Join Dr. Nancy Olivieri in exploring the role and responsibilities of university researchers.
Nancy Olivieri is professor of pediatrics and medicine at the University of Toronto. She is best known for her research in the field of thalassemia—a genetic blood disease—and her work on the development of safe treatment for thalassemia patients in the developing world. Dr. Olivieri's legal struggles with a drug company and with the administrations of Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children and the University of Toronto have provoked an ongoing public controversy between those who oppose, and those who support, the increasing commercialization of research and of medical care.
Special guests include Michèle Brill-Edwards, Barbara Mintzes, Arthur Schafer and Hal Weinberg.
China Access 2008: What is Your China Strategy
China's Economic Legacy for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games
Wednesday, May 24, 2006
For details, visit the China Access 2008 website or download the flyer.
Engagement Coaching Workshop
Tuesday–Wednesday, May 30–31, 2006
Enhance your ability to coach individuals for increased engagement and sustained high performance with this important style. By focusing on your current workplace challenges and issues, workshop activities deliver relevant solutions while developing your coaching core competencies. You will leave with a practical 30-day plan for integrating coaching skills into your daily routine and boosting employee engagement.
Registration: www.wraygroup.com/events_workshops/workshops.htm
Tel: 604-921-1321
Fax: 604-921-1341
Email: clientservices@wraygroup.com
The Adaptive Leader
Tuesday–Wednesday, May 16–17, 2006
Based on the latest version of the Situational Leadership model, this program provides participants with essential insights into the four foundational management styles. Highly interactive discussions, case studies and activities give a practical guide for choosing the leadership style that will bring out the best in the people you lead.
Registration: www.wraygroup.com/events_workshops/workshops.htm
Tel: 604-921-1321
Fax: 604-921-1341
Email: clientservices@wraygroup.com
Beyond Criminalization: Healthier ways to control drugs
Film festival and public dialogue series
Sunday, April 30–Thursday, May 4, 2006
The dialogues will feature speakers and delegates from the 17th International
Conference on the Reduction of Drug Related Harm, being held concurrently
in Vancouver. Sponsored by Keeping The Door Open, presenting innovative
research to diverse audiences in order to reform Canadian drug policy
and to prevent and reduce the harms associated with problematic substance
use. For more information or to pre-register (optional) call 604.677.2759,
visit www.keepingthedooropen.com,
or download the PDF
flyer.
Learning to Listen, Learning to Teach: An introduction to dialogue
education
Monday, May 1-Thursday, May 4, 2006, 9-5pm
Based upon the field research and teaching of Dr. Jane Vella, this four-day workshop provides the building blocks of the dialogue education approach to curriculum design and facilitation skills. By switching the focus from 'what the instructor says about a topic' to 'what the participants will do with the content to demonstrate their learning,' adult learners are invited to take new ideas, apply them and reflect on their significance for their own lives and context.
After engaging in a participatory discussion of the principles and practices of dialogue education, you will co-design and co-teach two 40-minute practice teaching sessions on a topic of your choice. You will then receive feedback from the facilitators and the other participants, and be able to watch a videotape of your session.
Fee: $1400 (discounts available, refreshments provided)
This workshop is part of the 2005/2006 Dialogue Maker's Series.
For more information or registration, please contact 604.268.7925
or download
the flyer.
Engagement Coaching Workshop
Tuesday–Wednesday, April 18–19, 2006
Enhance your ability to coach individuals for increased engagement and sustained high performance with this important style. By focusing on your current workplace challenges and issues, workshop activities deliver relevant solutions while developing your coaching core competencies. You will leave with a practical 30-day plan for integrating coaching skills into your daily routine and boosting employee engagement.
Registration: www.wraygroup.com/events_workshops/workshops.htm
Tel: 604-921-1321
Fax: 604-921-1341
Email: clientservices@wraygroup.com
Asian Immigrants in BC: What do government policy changes mean
for Asian immigrants in the labour market and what are the solutions?
Saturday, April 8, 2006
The workshop is part of an on-going study under the Economic Security Project (ESP) that explores the impact of recent changes to BC's labour market policies and employment standards on the economic security of recent Asian immigrants.
The Economic Security Project (ESP) is a joint research project of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and Simon Fraser University . It brings together academic collaborators and community partners to document and analyze BC's recent policy changes and their effects on the economic security of vulnerable populations, and present workable alternative solutions.
Researchers to share the project's research, experiences, stories and analyses with project participants as well as groups and individuals interested in labour and employment policy issues for immigrant communities.The invitation-only workshop will also discuss solutions and formulate policy recommendations at the provincial level. Project participants will be able to deepen their understanding of the issues that emerge from the research project, particularly employment standards and labour policies.
Sponsored by Simon Fraser University's Department of Women's Studies and the Philippine Women Centre, with the support of the Vancouver Foundation.
Information: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, 604.801.5121. ext. 230.
Look Who's Talking! A Dialogue on the future with today's and
tomorrow's leaders
Thursday, March 23, 2006
6:30–9:30 pm
The Fraser Basin Council is pleased to host this important conversation, a contribution to 30 Days of Sustainability. The event promises to be an inspiring evening of dialogue between a group of leadership-oriented Vancouver youth whom we have been working with, and a panel of influential community leaders on the questions of:
What are youth's hopes, aspirations and concerns for the future?
How can leaders of today better engage the leaders for tomorrow?
Our Panel of community leaders:
For more information visit www.fraserbasin.bc.ca or download the PDF flyer.
Financial Statement Analysis and Accounting Red Flags (CFA Institute)
February 13, 2006, 9-5pm
CFA Institute is the global, non-profit professional association that administers the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) curriculum and examination program worldwide, publishes research, conducts professional-development programs, and sets voluntary, ethics-based professional and performance-reporting standards for the investment industry.
Guest speaker Jay Taparia, CFA, brings more than 15 years of experience
in the financial services industry to his teaching career and his money
management/financial planning practice. Since 2001, he has been educating
business journalists as well as CFA Institute member societies on how
to interpret company financial statements and improving quality of writing
for the business press. Press release:
www.cfainstitute.org/pressroom/05releases/20051202_02.html
For more information please contact:
434-951-5348; fax 434-951-5350 or
email: Kathy-valentine@cfainstitute.org
Shared Sacred Space: A Dialogue
Thursday, February 9, 2006, 6:30–9:30 pm
Creating shared sacred space begins in the give and take of dialogue. Part of the Dialogue Maker's Series, this forum invites spiritual practitioners (both members of groups and those who explore the spiritual on their own) and dialogue practitioners with an interest in the deep interpersonal experiences that dialogue can bring about, to gather and examine what it means and what it takes to create shared sacred space.
This dialogue will explore the meaning of sacred space: what is the sacred? How do we experience it? How can we share what is sacred? We also want to explore the profound role dialogue itself can play in the understanding and creation of a shared, sacred space. In the spirit of dialogue, active participation in the dialogue will be encouraged.
For more information on this dialogue please view the event flyer.
For registration, please contact 604.268.7925 or dialogue-info@sfu.ca.
Special guests include the Roundhouse Community Centre's arts programmer Amir Alibhai, Simon Fraser University professor of education Heesoon Bai, and The Vancouver Sun's spirituality and ethics writer Douglas Todd.
This session will be followed by a six-hour workshop on Saturday, February 11, 2006 for those who wish to work together in developing the ideas generated in the dialogue. There is no additional cost but seating is limited to 20. For more information on this workshop, please view the workshop program. For registration, please email sssdialogue@hotmail.com
BC Energy Forum
January 24 -25, 2006
The conference fee of $100 includes the two conference days, refreshment breaks, and lunch. Agenda available on the website. Register online at www.terasengas.com/bcenergyforum or contact 604-592-7871 or james.wong@terasengas.com
Giving the Steam a Tea Kettle: Facilitating Emotionally Charged
Groups
Friday, January 27, 2006, 8:30 am–4:30 pm
Through highly interactive discussions, experiential small group exercises and PACT's drama-based simulation training exercises, Structured Improvisations™, this workshop will introduce you to:
Fee: $325, discounts available
This workshop is part of the 2005/2006 Dialogue Maker's Series.
For more information or registration, please contact 604.268.7925
or download the flyer.
Business Intelligence Conference and Workshop
Thursday, December 1, 2005: Business Intelligence Conference
Friday, December 2, 2005: Competitive Intelligence Workshop
Expand your opportunities to grow markets or products with better business intelligence! Whether you are looking for new markets, new products or taking away business from your competitors, however you measure it, success today demands in depth and accurate knowledge of your business environment in ways unheard of just a few years ago. Business intelligence uses all the tools we know as well as some new ones to deliver definitive intelligence on your competitors, your markets, and the customers for whom you compete.
Join industry leaders at Marketing Research and Intelligence Association's first business intelligence conference and find out the latest on this new and evolving field. Find out the new and latest strategic opportunities to expand your business.
Fee $395 (December 1); $445 (December 2) (discount for members; early bird rate to October 17)
Information: 604-299-0997, roger@griffinassociates.ca
or 905-337-3550, bwycks@mria-arim.ca
www.mria-arim.ca/BICONFERENCE
Dialogue Practitioner Workshop
Thursdays, October 6, November 3 and December 1, 2005, 5:30–8:00 pm
This facilitated workshop is for practitioners and researchers who are engaged in creating, facilitating and understanding dialogue as a significant part of their daily work and life.
Through readings, discussion and dialogue, you will enrich your understanding of:
Fee: $150, discounts available
For more information, please email dialogue-info@sfu.ca,
call 604.268.7925 or see dialoguemakers_web.pdf
The Adaptive Leader: Bringing out the best in those you lead
Thursday–Friday, September 29–30, or
Thursday–Friday, November 17–18, or
Monday–Tuesday, November 28–29, 2005
What does a manager or leader do to become a critical player in the workplace? The truth is that effective leaders do a lot of different things under different circumstances.
Learn how to direct your actions as a leader in a focused and purposeful way using the leader's window model - a four quadrant, situational leadership approach first introduced by John Beck and Neil Yeager in their book, The Leader's Window.
Dr. Beck has built on the foundation of Dr. Ken Blanchard and Dr. Paul Hersey's situational leadership model to create the third generation model of situational leadership, which incorporates the latest research into this area of leadership. This interactive workshop incorporates the research from Gallup on employee engagement.
Leaders and managers at all levels of the organization accountable for managing, developing and boosting the productivity of others should attend. Through a combination of lectures, group discussions, case studies, and hands-on activities, we've created a two-day workshop that is highly experiential and fast paced.
Workshop Fee: $1,095 + GST
Registration and information, 604-921-1321, Sandra@wraygroup.com
www.wraygroup.com/whatwedo
Learning from the Citizens' Assembly: A
conversation with Jack Blaney
Monday, November 21, 2005, 8:00–9:30 am
How do you judge the success of the Citizens' Assembly? Jack Blaney, former chair of the Citizens' Assembly on Electoral Reform reflects, on the lessons learned:
How was the Citizens' Assembly created? It began with the people: "The idea of a citizens' assembly-its unique authority and its importance as a democratic process-clearly exerted a powerful force, attracting highly talented staff, researchers and administrators to its cause."
How did the assembly choose an electoral system? It was all about learning through dialogue. "We assembled to invent a new way to engage citizens in the practice of democracy. Of course we will challenge ideas, but we will do so within the context of dialogue-where all are equal, where individuals will for some time suspend judgment, where different views are respected, and where individuals will focus on understanding different values. We will listen to understand. We will ensure that others have the same space and time to speak as we do. And our work will not be about winning, but about exploring common ground."
The Government of British Columbia gave Jack Blaney, president emeritus of Simon Fraser University, the mandate to put together a group of citizens to decide on how the British Columbian electoral system should be changed. The resulting Citizens' Assembly on Electoral Reform would recommend an electoral system voted on in a referendum during the 2005 election.
"Nowhere else in the world, ever, have voters themselves designed the voting system," noted Jack Blaney with some pride as he looked back upon the Citizens' Assembly on Electoral Reform. In his recap of the Assembly process, Blaney highlighted two major causes for its success: focus and ownership. "Had we gotten into other sorts of things, we never would have made it." Before even discussing which form of electoral system was superior, the Assembly flushed out the values by which they believed an electoral system should operate, such as local representation and greater voter choice, while not allowing itself to be distracted by broader questions such as low voter turnout.
The greatest achievement of the Assembly was likely the degree to which its membership owned the process. Members conducted their own consultations in their home constituencies, often appearing on TV and radio to engage the broader public. And unlike the stereotype of the apathetic voter, members were bright, enthusiastic, and able to engage in issues of a complex nature.
This form of citizen-driven democracy has attracted interest from around the world, including Holland, the UK, and California. When asked if the Citizens' Assembly model could be extended to issues other than electoral reform, Blaney was cautiously optimistic, stressing that the topic would have to be well defined and focused.
For more background on the Citizens' Assembly on Electoral Reform visit: www.citizensassembly.bc.ca/public.
Prepared by Nicole Mah and Robin Prest
Dr. James Hollis Workshop: Finding Meaning in the Second Half of
Life
Saturday, November 18, 2005, 9:00 am–4:00 pm
Dr. James Hollis, is a Zurich-trained Jungian Analyst in practice in Houston, Texas, where he is also executive director of the Jung Educational Center of Houston. He is the author of 11 books, the latest being Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life. Participants will engage questions which stir, sift, and raise consciousness of deeply ingrained "ideas" which autonomously govern our lives. With increased consciousness comes increased possibility of the recovery of a more authentic journey. (Please bring a pad and pen for journaling).
Seating limited: Reserve in advance to guarantee a seat
Workshop: $140 / members $115
Registration information:
CG Jung Society of Vancouver
604-924-5379
www.mythsamongus.com
(The workshop follows a Friday evening lecture at Christ Church Cathedral, 690 Burrard Street. Seating Limited for the lecture: Reserve in Advance to guarantee a seat Lecture: $25 / members $20.)
Dynamic Facilitation: An approach for facilitating solutions
to the unsolvable
Monday, November 14 to Wednesday, November 16, 2005, 9:00 am–5:00 pm
Dynamic Facilitation is an approach to facilitating meetings, which delivers
superior results in conflict resolution, innovation, diversity work, citizen
involvement, team building, trust building, quality management and especially,
solving 'impossible to solve' problems.
Explore how to help people and groups:
Fee: $1375, discounts available
For more information, please email dialogue-info@sfu.ca,
call 604.268.7925 or see dialoguemakers_web.pdf
Canadian Macro Study Group 19th Annual Meeting
Friday–Saturday, November 4–5, 2005
National and internatinal econmist gather to discuss unemployment, productivity, the Great Canadian Depression, social change interest rates and monetary policy, marriage trends and gender wage gaps trade and economic development, diseases and development business cycles.
Hosted by SFU Economics, with support from the Bank of Canada (research department) and the Canadian Economics Association.
For more information contact cmsg@sfu.ca or visit www.sfu.ca/cmsg
Spiral Dynamics integral-Transcending Turf-Wars: Exploring a
framework for the frameworks
Friday, November 4, 2005, 9:00 am–4:30 pm
Spiral Dynamics integral (SDi) reveals how to focus and mesh authority, power and influence for appropriate collaboration and governance at all levels of human systems. It provides the insights for designing elegant, natural, systemic problem-solutions that meet people and address situations where they are.
Dr. Don E. Beck, founder of the Center for Human Emergence, cofounder of the National Values Center in Denton, Texas, will offer insights into:
Fee: $325, discounts available
For more information, please email dialogue-info@sfu.ca,
call 604.268.7925 or see www.sfu.ca/dialogue/dialoguemakers_web.pdf
The Sheldon Chumir Foundation for Ethics in Leadership Forum:
Ethics, Public Policy and the Pharmaceutical Industry
Tuesday, November 1, 2005, 7:30 pm
Pharmaceutical companies have brought countless medical innovations to market over the past 50 years. They have also become one of the most powerful interests in health policy debates. Health policy requires a balance between the industry's interest in expanded market growth with the public's right to medicines that are safe, effective, and affordable. This event is designed to encourage informed discussion on this important public policy issue.
The forum is free of charge, but seating is limited. To reserve space
please call 604-291-5100. For further information please email the Sheldon
Chumir Foundation: info@chumirethicsfoundation.ca.
Fora on this topic will also be held in Calgary (Nov. 2nd) and Winnipeg
(Nov. 3rd)
This Forum is presented by The Sheldon Chumir Foundation for Ethics in
Leadership in collaboration with Simon Fraser University's Morris J.
Wosk Centre for Dialogue.
Appreciative Inquiry: Creating positive change in organizations
and other human systems
Monday, October 31 to Tuesday, November 1, 2005, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Based on a set of principles for how to collectively elicit new, provocative and compelling images of organizational futures, appreciative inquiry uses storytelling, dialogue, and a variety of structures to guide transformational change. Participants will be introduced to:
Instructor Dr. Gervase Bushe is an associate professor of Management and Organization Studies at Simon Fraser University.
Fee: $525, discounts available
For more information, please email dialogue-info@sfu.ca,
call 604.268.7925 or see www.sfu.ca/dialogue/dialoguemakers_web.pdf
Dialogues on Drug Use: Beyond drug prohibition
Tuesday–Wednesday, October 18–19, 2005
The Health Officers Council of B.C. is calling for a comprehensive public health approach to drug control, including exploration of a regulatory system. This symposium is designed to foster informed public and interdisciplinary dialogue on the changes a public health approach to a regulatory system for currently illegal drugs would bring.
Fee: $125; evening events are free.
Seating is limited so advance registration is advised.
www.keepingthedooropen.com
Focusing ouR View
Monday, October 24, 2005
9am–4:30 pm
Focusing ouR View is a unique opportunity to explore and develop new ways for tracking change in our region. This workshop and dialogue is being led by the Regional Vancouver Urban Observatory (RVu) and will bring together 100-150 individuals who are:
The results of Focusing ouR View will provide the basis for a six-month study group process to develop a set of urban indicators for regional Vancouver. These indicators will be presented to the public and the international community at the World Urban Forum in Vancouver in June 2006. They will also become the focus of the observatory's monitoring activities.
For registration visit www.rvu.ca/registration.htm. If you haven't done so already, please contribute your views to the Cascadia Sustainability Research survey prior to the event.
Print Culture and New Media Conference
Thursday–Saturday, October 27–29, 2005
This Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada annual conference invites investigation into the problem of definition that surrounds the emerging interdisciplinary field of print-culture studies and seeks to explore the research terrain and conceptual boundaries consolidating the field of study. The panel topics encourage analyses of the complex links between print and the nineteenth-century "media explosion."
This conference is supported by SFU's Master of Arts (Print Culture) program, Department of English, School of Communications, School for the Contemporary Arts, Graduate Liberal Studies, Department of Humanities, Institute for the Humanities, Master in Publishing program, W.A.C.Bennett Library Special Collections, the 40th Anniversary fund, Department of History, and Vice-president, Academic (Munro lecture).
All conference information can be accessed at www.sfu.ca/vsawc2005
2005 Leadership Refresher:
Prescriptions for Addressing Toxicity at Work
Friday–Saturday, October 28–29, 2005
Opening reception: Thursday, October 27, 2005
This innovative conference is designed for teams, team leaders, aspiring coaches and all those that want to affect positive change in their workplace. Join a group of committed learning leaders for a meeting that will rejuvinate and re-energize. Learn new tools and network with like-minded people to address those "organizational blues" that can sometimes get us down. Leave the conference with your own prescription for making your workplace a more productive and pleasant place to be.
Fee: $795 ($695 to June 30)
Pre-registration required. Discounts available for guests of attendees. Complete conference schedules and registration information at http://www.intersectionconsulting.com/index_files/leadershipbrochure.pdf [PDF]
For more information, contact msmiciklas@intersectionconsulting.com or call 604-788-9449.
Ending Global Poverty: Are We Meeting the UN Millennium Goals?
The President's Forum with Dr. Jeffrey D. Sachs, Director, The Earth
Institute at Columbia University
Friday, October 7, 2005 from 6-8:00 pm
This dialogue examined progress on the UN Millennium Goals and the leadership required to respond to poverty in Africa and Asia. If we can meet those goals, says Jeffery Sachs, tens of millions of lives can be saved. "Solutions exist, all that is needed is action." Respondents included: Bob Elton, president and CEO of BC Hydro; Meg Holden, assistant professor in Simon Fraser University's Urban Studies program; Stephen Owen, minister of Western economic diversification and minister of state (sport); and Yuen Pau Woo, president and co-CEO of the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada. Response to the poverty in Africa and Asia is a key theme of the World Urban Forum to be held next year in Vancouver.
The President's Forum is hosted and moderated by university president Michael Stevenson. The forums bring distinguished visitors to SFU into a public dialogue on the major issues for which they are known.
Video, audio and photos from the event are available at www.sfu.ca/presidentsforum
The Good News: Focus on Autism Research
Friday, October 7, 2005, 8:30 am–4 pm
Case Management for Autism—A Survival Guide for Parents, a Practice Guideline for Professionals presented by Jill Calder, Clinical Director of Rehabilitation Services, Thompson Cariboo Shuswap Region
Dr. Calder is recognized throughout BC for her insightful and amusing presentations on the nature of autism and the need for parents to develop their skills as knowledgeable team leaders for their child's intervention program—a case management approach. With a decade's experience of successfully parenting her son with autism, Dr. Calder builds on her expertise as a highly respected rehabilitative medicine specialist and combines this with her wide-ranging practical grasp of autism treatment. The result is a workshop full of important insights into the special challenges of autism for families. Dr. Calder's focus is on how parents can learn to manage their child's care, with initial support from professionals. This approach is supported by international research which demonstrates that increased parental involvement results in improved outcomes for children with ASD.
Contact: infor@autismcommunitytraining.bc.ca or 604-205-5467; toll free 1-866-939-5188; or visit www.actbc.ca
Sponsored by the Department of Psychology, SFU's Consortium for the Advancement of Child Health and Autism Community Training, with support from the SFU 40th Anniversary fund.
International Intervention and the Responsibility to Protect
President's Forum with L.Gen the Hon. Roméo A. Dallaire, OC,CMM,GOQ,MSC,CD, (Ret'd),
Senator
Wednesday, October 5, 7–8:30pm
Roméo Dallaire led the United Nations peacekeeping mission to Rwanda. During the recent inaugural President's Forum, Dallaire and respondents Clement Abas Apaak, president of the Simon Fraser Student Society, Senator Mobina Jaffer, special envoy for peace in Sudan, and SFU political scientist Douglas Ross examined when the duty to protect and intervene in nations involved in civic conflict does or does not apply. The President's Forum is hosted and moderated by university president Michael Stevenson. The forums bring distinguished visitors to SFU into a public dialogue on the major issues for which they are known.
Video, audio and photos from the event are available at www.sfu.ca/presidentsforum
Dialogue Methodologies Showcase
Wednesday, September 28, 2005, 5-9pm
Join us for the 2005/2006 Dialogue Maker's Series launch, where participants will be introduced to dialogue methodologies that include:
David Diamond, Director of Headlines Theatre, will animate the Showcase through Theatre for Living techniques.
Fee: $75, discounts available
For more information, please email dialogue-info@sfu.ca,
call 604.268.7925 or see www.sfu.ca/dialogue/dialoguemakers_web.pdf
Vancouver Board of Trade/Members' only special event
Wednesday, August 17, 2005
Board Business Boot Camp: How to re-invent yourself
Sandra Miles, President, Miles Employment Group Ltd.
Glen Dierker, District Sales Manager, Canada, Alaska Air Group
Registration: 3:45 pm
Program: 4–5:30 pm
Networking Reception: 5:30–6:30 pm
Tickets: $28.04 + GST
Register
Online
Information: www.boardoftrade.com
Vancouver Board of Trade/Members' only special event
Tuesday, August 9, 2005
Board Business Boot Camp: Power of positive engagement
The world's greatest leaders will never tell you their best-kept secret:
networking works. Call them rainmakers ... power brokers ... movers and
shakers, but it's the connectors that make business - and politics - flourish.
Networking is the art of building relationships, yet it remains a mystery
to many and is an under-appreciated leadership skill. Learn how you can
develop this fundamental business tool at The Board's Summer Boot Camp,
then practice your new-found skills at a private reception to meet the
Board of Directors of The Vancouver Board of Trade.
The workshop will include an up-dated expansion of Darcy Rezac's N.E.T.W.O.R.K.TM program and techniques with emphasis on improving your leadership skills through Positive NetworkingTM. Following this session, Gayle Hallgren and Judy Thomson will discuss team networking methods and guidelines for making great networking conversation, including those oh-so-difficult icebreaker openings. A few hours invested in this session will add to the bottom line of your career success as you learn the best-kept secret of the world's greatest leaders ... great networking equals great leadership.
Darcy Rezac, Managing Director, The Vancouver Board of Trade
Judy Thompson, COO, Frog and Prince Networking Corporation
Gayle Hallgren, VP, Marketing, Frog and Prince Networking Corporation
Registration: 3:45 pm
Program: 4–5:30 pm
Networking Reception: 5:30–6:30 pm
Tickets: $28.04 + GST
Register
Online
Information: www.boardoftrade.com
BCP-Campus Project: Working with BC Campuses toward Improving Mental Health and Decreasing Substance Use Problems at Post-Secondary Institutions in BC
An Invitation to hear Elissa Weitzman, ScD, MSc., Research Scientist, Department of Society, Human Development, and Health; Harvard School of Public Health and Division on Addictions, Harvard Medical School/Cambridge Health Alliance
Lecture Title: Substance Use and Mental Health Issues at Post-Secondary
Institutions: Working Toward Comprehensive Evidence-Based Action, Reflections
From US Research and Initiatives
Friday August 5, 7:00–9:00pm
BCP: The BC Partners for Mental Health and Addictions Information are
seven nonprofits working together to support individuals and families
to better manage mental health and substance use problems: Anxiety
Disorders Association of BC, Awareness and Networking Around Disordered
Eating, BC Schizophrenia Society, Canadian Mental Health Association,
BC Division, Centre for Addictions Research of BC, FORCE Society for Kids’
Mental Health, Mood Disorders Association of BC.
BCP-Campus Project Coordinator: Jeff Thompson
jthompson@cmha-bc.org
604.340.4131
Symposium on the Novel: The Role of Character
Saturday, July 23, 2005
10 am–3pm
The Symposium on the Novel brings together authors, media critics and commentators, and the public to engage in dialogue about writing and literature. Now in its fourth year, the symposium is a highlight of the Canadian literary calendar. This year, the symposium tackles the role of character in the novel. The discussion will explore the importance of character development. Where do characters come from? What happens when a character takes on a life of its own? Are all novels essentially character-driven? Is a story only as good as its characters?
John Burns, books editor of the Georgia Straight, will moderate the event. Authors David Albahari (Snow Man), Michelle Berry (Blind Crescent), John MacLachlan Gray (The Fiend in Human), Anosh Irani (The Cripple and His Talismans), and Janice Kulyk Keefer (Thieves) will discuss fiction writing and character development.
The authors will be joined by a panel of well-respected media personalities including Martin Levin, books editor of The Globe and Mail, Sheryl MacKay, host and producer of North by Northwest on CBC Radio One, and Ira Nadel, a book critic for CBC Radio. This event offers the audience a unique opportunity to enter into conversation with some of Canada's best-known authors.
Tickets are $75 and include five books, one from each author.
Please have your VISA, MasterCard, or purchase order number ready when you call. Monday to Thursday, 10 am-7 pm, and Friday, 10 am-5 pm PST. 604-291-5000 or fax 604-291-5060.
Information: 604-291-5241 or pubworks@sfu.ca
www.sfu.ca/pubworks
GML Days 2005
Tuesday–Saturday, July 19–23, 2005
This is the fourth annual conference on OGC geography mark-up language (GML) and web services for GIS. GML is rapidly emerging as the world standard for the XML encoding of geographic information and is the foundation for the Geo-Web. GML is being applied to a wide range of geographic applications including national security & critical infrastructure protection, integrated land and resource management, location-based services, telematics and intelligent transportation systems, and oceanography. With the advent of GML, web services are experiencing a renaissance. By harnessing the power of a non-proprietary mark-up language and the inherent interoperability potential of GML, web services are poised to enter another major expansion of use.
The conference will be of interest to anyone interested in GML and GML-based web services - novices and professionals at all levels.
Registration: www.gmldays.com
Information: Galdos Systems Inc.,
1300 - 409 Granville St., Vancouver, BC V6C 1T2
Canada
Tel: +1 (604) 484-2750
Fax: +1 (604) 484-2755
Email: info@gmldays.com
Vancouver Board of Trade/Members' only special event
Tuesday, July 19, 2005
Board Business Boot Camp: Hiring, firing and keeping great employees
Grace Pulver, Director, Human Resources, Vancity
Carman Overholt, Fraser Milner Casgrain, LLP
Sean Steel, The HR Department
Colin Hillstrom, Vision Into Action Consultants
Registration: 3:45 pm
Program: 4–5:30 pm
Wine and cheese reception: 5:30–6:30 pm
Tickets: $28.04 + GST
Register
Online
Information: www.boardoftrade.com
Vancouver Board of Trade/Members' only special event
Wednesday, July 13, 2005
Board Business Boot Camp: Marketing tips for your non-profit/small
business
How effective is your brand? It's one of those questions that is vital
to the success of your business, but which few of us truly comprehend.
If you'd like to know more about branding, marketing, and communications,
this Board Business Boot Camp is for you. You'll hear from high-profile
industry experts on these subjects from developing a rock-solid marketing
plan and negotiating with corporate sponsors, to corporate marketing and
fundraising, and the importance of communications and P.R. These experts
will cover it all, and then answer all of your questions. After the session,
join us for some positive networking where you can talk shop with these
industry giants. Limited to 150 participants.
Victoria Gray, Director of Strategy, MacLaren McCann Canada Inc.
Marcie MacLellan, Managing Partner, IN CONTEXT Marketing & Public
Relations
Registration: 3:45 pm
Program: 4–5:30 pm
Networking Reception: 5:30 - 6:30 pm
Tickets: $28.04 + GST
Register
Online
Information: www.boardoftrade.com
Vancouver Board of Trade/Members' only special event
Wednesday, July 6, 2005
Board Business Boot Camp: Entrepreneurial excellence
Elena Rivera, Rivera Design Group (Winner of Vancouver 2010 Olympic Logo)
Registration: 3:45 pm
Program: 4–5:30 pm
Networking Reception: 5:30 - 6:30 pm
Tickets: $28.04 + GST
Register
Online
Information: www.boardoftrade.com
Simulation and Advanced Gaming Environments
Monday–Tuesday, June 20–21, 2005
This workshop will showcase research taking place in Canada's SAGE for Learning network, a bilingual, collaborative network of researchers and practitioners working to transform health-related learning through the study, development, and application of technology-based games and simulations. SAGE for Learning is funded through the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada initiative on the new economy.
Information: www.sageforlearning.ca
Learning and Instructional Development Centre
Simon Fraser University
Tel: 604-268-6570 or 604-291-5529
Fax: 604-291-4900
email alice_ireland@sfu.ca
Changing Views: World in Play
June 16–20, 2005
This second international conference of the Digital Games Research Association, Changing Views: Worlds in Play, will bring together game researchers, designers and developers, and the diverse and fast growing communities of users of digital games for education, training, social action, research, persuasion, and community-formation. Game studies, as a field of inquiry, in many ways lacks well-defined intellectual and scientific foundations. Changing Views invites a collision and collusion of standpoints on the study of digital games, players and play, and engages, in particular, the diverse conceptions, experiences, purposes, and contexts of 'serious play' as a connective link between game design and game research. This meeting will advance digital games research through interdisciplinary dialogue within, and across, the many communities of interest for whom digital games hold great promise. Some events, for example, the games tournament, are open to the public.
For further information on the program and fees see:
www.gamesconference.org/digra2005
The Adaptive Leader
Thursday and Friday, June 9–10, 2005
The Adaptive Leader (formerly "The Leader's Window") workshop incorporates the third generation situational leadership model that shows managers how to match their leadership skills to different people and challenges.
Fee: $1,095 + GST
To register or to find out further information, please contact Sandra McMillan at clientservices@wraygroup.com or call 604-921-1321.
SFU Business Executive Management Program
Thursday, May 26–Saturday, May 28, 2005
The Organizational Behaviour module of SFU Business' Executive Management Program for 2004/2005 with award-winning professor Dr. Mark Wexler.
For the 27 busy executives enrolled in the program Dr. Wexler's course is the final step in an eight-month journey toward earning a highly-respected certificate in executive management from SFU Business.
The Executive Management Program is the oldest and most respected course of its kind in British Columbia. The EMP is ideal for mid- to senior-level corporate managers and small business owners. The courses are completed in 3-day modules over eight months. (Even the busiest executive doesn't lose much time away from her or his desk.)
This comprehensive program offers instruction in key functional areas of finance, accounting, marketing and technology, as well as modules in negotiation, organizational behaviour and economics.
For more information on the 2005/ 2006 Executive Management Program please visit www.sfubusiness.ca/emp or contact Miguel Strother at 604 291 5295.
Debate on Kyoto
Wednesday May 11, 2005
7:00 – 9:00 p.m.
David Hawkins, Forensic Economist at Hawks’ CAFE will propose the
motion against the Kyoto Accord. To ensure a balanced and informed debate,
David is inviting present or former Canadian or BC cabinet ministers and/or
high-profile candidates for elected office to second the motion or speak
against it.
Each of the 154 seats in the Wosk Centre has its own microphone allowing
every member of the audience to participate in the debate. At the conclusion
participants will be asked to vote their opinion on Kyoto.
Registration for the event is $15.00 per person. Please register early
as seating is limited. Sponsored by the Reform Party of British Columbia:
www.reformbc.net/
To register, please call Ron Gamble, Leader, Reform Party of British Columbia,
telephone 604-980-7779
Simon Fraser University Faculty of Health Sciences Global Health
Forum
Tuesday, April 19, 2005
This Forum will bring together national and international experts in global health to discuss global health education, training and research programs.
For more information please visit the website:
www.stat.sfu.ca/globalhealth/
Political Dialogue on Poverty
Sunday, April 3, 2005
2–4 pm
The Fulcrum Project invited representatives from several of BC's
provincial political parties to share what they intend to do to end
poverty in BC if elected on May 17. Participants were presented with an
opportunity to ask questions and share their concerns, bringing the issue
of poverty to the forefront of the provincial election campaign.
For more information: 604-986-9208 or info@thefulcrumproject.org
The Adaptive Leader
Thursday, March 10–Friday, March 11, 2005
The Adaptive Leader incorporates the third generation situational leadership
model that shows managers how to match their leadership skills to different
people and challenges. This Wray Group workshop is for leaders and managers
at all levels of an organization accountable for managing, developing
and boosting
the productivity of others.
The workshop is open to the public but by advanced registration only. Registration fee is $1,095 + GST and includes workshop manual and supplies, as well as breakfast, lunch and refreshments each day.
For more information, please call or email: 604-921-1321 or clientservices@wraygroup.com
Fostering Compassion in the Family, Workplace and Community
A Dialogue with Tendzin Choegyal, the Ngari Rinpoche and younger
brother of His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Tuesday, March 8, 2005
6:30-8:00 pm
According to Buddhist teachings, compassion means "to give happiness" and "to remove suffering" offered in the spirit of openness and fearlessness. Contrary to Western notions of compassion as a warm feeling for others, the Buddhist concept of compassion is the result of knowing one is part of a greater whole and is interdependent and connected to that whole. Such an awareness comes out of practiced meditations. It is the spirit of Buddhism to develop a sense of compassion toward all people-toward any person, not only those who show us kindness. But when faced with difficult behaviour in the family, workplace and community how do we, governed as we are by the impulse for self-interest, express compassion in a constructive and meaningful way? How might we learn from Buddhist teachings to encourage and foster compassion in our public and private spaces?
Please download the PDF. This dialogue is free, however, seating is extremely limited and reservations are required. To reserve your seat, call 604 291 5100.
United Nations Food and Agriculture Conference
February 28–March 4, 2005
Delegates from around the world met at the United Nations Food and Agriculture Conference. The conference addressed guidelines for regulating wood packaging material to prevent the spread of invasive alien species through international traade routes. Children from a local school created world flags which were displayed in the Atrium.
Dialogue and Negotiation: Impasse as Opportunity Workshop
February 24, 2005
9 am–4 pm
Why are some conflicts seemingly impervious to resolution? When conflicts get stuck in repeating, negative patterns, what can be done? Experienced practitioners know that impasse is a critically important topic, and that unfreezing stuck dynamics is essential to successful conflict resolution. They also know that creativity often lies on the other side of impasse. In this workshop, we will
Participants will add to their repertoires for shifting impasses and deepen their creative capacities as intervenors in this experiential workshop with two seasoned practitioner/scholars.
Presenters: Michelle LeBaron is Director of the Program on Dispute Resolution and Professor of Law at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. Mark McCrea has an extensive conflict resolution practice focused on workers' compensation, employment and organizational issues. He manages a team of mediators and arbitrators for the Minnesota Department of Labor and Industry, and he conducts mediations for a number of local and national mediation organizations.
Fee: $300 (includes GST), discounts available for students and staff
For registration or information, call 604.268.7925, email dialogue-info@sfu.ca, or download the PDF
Forum for Dialogue: Building Bridges for the Prevention of Older
Woman Abuse
Thursday–Friday, February 17–18, 2005
The BC/Yukon Society of Transition Houses, in partnership with Simon Fraser University’s Gerontology Research Centre, invites you to participate in a dialogue on preventing abuse of older women.
The forum will address the hidden, and often unreported, social problem of violence against older women in their homes. The purpose is to encourage coordination, cooperation, and collaboration among those addressing these issues, between agencies and across sectors. Add your knowledge and expertise to this innovative, strategic exercise which brings together representatives from federal, provincial and non-governmental agencies, researchers and advocates working in the fields of elder abuse and violence against women.
For more information contact BC/Yukon Society of Transition Houses, telephone 604-669-6943 or fax 604-682-6962. Email: gretasmith@shaw.ca or hightower@dccnet.com. Web www.bcysth.ca.
Imagine BC: Bringing imagination and dialogue to the complex
challenges facing British Columbia
Friday, February 4, 2005
Broadcast live from the Centre for Dialogue, CBC Radio's BC Almanac host Mark Forsythe moderated a discussion among participants and distinguished guests as part of the Imagine BC Dialogues—a dialogue initiative of Simon Fraser University's Dialogue Programs to explore British Columbia's current reality and possible futures.
On Friday, February 4, 2005 listeners were invited to tune in to CBC Radio 690 AM and listen to BC Almanac live from 12:00–2:00 pm.
As a lead-in to the dialogue, daily interviews starting from Monday, January 31, 2005 with Max Wyman, SFU's Dean of Arts Dr. John Pierce, UBC's Dr. Thomas Hutton and Chief Sophie Pierre were broadcast on CBC Radio's BC Almanac. Highlights from the dialogue were broadcast on Monday, February 7, 2005.
To listen to the live public forum and daily interviews, visit the Imagine BC website.
The Future of Learning in British Columbia
Thursday, February 3, 2005
5:30–8:30 pm
The Canadian Society for Training and Development (CSTD) presents a panel discussion with industry and education leaders, on the future of learning in BC, and expectations for the training and development community over the short-, and long-term. Refreshments will be served. Anyone with an interest in adult learning and/or training is welcome to attend. Advance registration required.
Fee: $45/$38 CSTD members (plus GST)
Registration: 604-253-5351 or carole@comwave.com.
Registration deadline: January 31, 2005
Information: www.cstd.ca/events/vancouver
Investment Dealers Association Conference
Wednesday, February 2, 2005
Canada's Self-Regulatory Organizations host a conference for securities industry participants. Featured luncheon keynote speaker is RCMP Commissioner Giuliano Zaccardelli. The program includes panel discussions on up-to-the-minute issues such as trading practices and issues, and best practices: technology as a catalyst to compliance. Concurrent sessions, led by SRO staff, will provide detailed, practical and relevant information on common issues faced by new and experienced industry participants.Delegates can choose two of four concurrent sessions offered by the IDA, the MFDA, the Montréal Exchange and RS Inc. to help firms comply with new and continuing regulatory requirements.
Fee: $280 plus tax; register online at
www.cipf.ca, www.ida.ca,
www.regulationservices.com,
www.m-x.ca or www.mfda.ca.
This event is not open to the public.
For more information contact Connie Craddock at 416.943.5870 or email ccraddock@ida.ca
Simon Fraser University Research Luncheon
Friday, January 28, 2005
Meet some of SFU's most eminent researchers and learn more about their work.This year the speaker is biological scientist Zamir Punja who will discuss his studies of ginseng.
For more information please contact Gloria Chu at 604.291.5301 or email gloria_chu@sfu.ca
Innovation and New Ventures 2005
Tuesday, January 21–Wednesday, January 22, 2005
Representatives of industry, universities and colleges, and government from across Canada share strategies and best practices in the areas of innovation, new ventures and entrepreneurship. This year's conference is the fifth in the series and is organized by WestLink Innovation Network and CATAAlliance, with host organization Simon Fraser University.
This is an important forum for addressing issues regarding support and funding of new ventures and infrastructure at the community level and nation-wide, plus the sharing of experiences.Innovation and New Ventures 2005 will focus on the following topics:
Pre-registration is required, and event is open to the public.
Registration and further information available online at www.westlink.ca/NewVentures2005
Fees: $795 ($695 to December 6); other discounts apply for WestLink/
CATA members; research professors and students. Pre-conference session,
January 20 (with lunch): $295
Post-conference session, January 22 (with lunch): $295
Information: 403-974-8471 or heather.frew@westlink.ca
Dialogue Maker's Network
The first Tuesday of every month
SFU's Dialogue Maker's Network began in 2003 as a space for those interested in the creative potential of dialogue to learn about our values and pre-conceived understandings in a spirit of non-judgmental curiosity. Monthly gatherings give participants the opportunity to cultivate the core capacities of dialogue: listening to understand, suspending judgment, surfacing assumptions, and demonstrating empathy and respect. Watch the Quicktime video as some of the participants comment on the Dialogue Maker's Network. [MP4 ]
Here Be Dragons: The Life and Times of Peter C. Newman
Monday, November 22, 2004
4–6 pm (registration desk opens at 3 pm)
Peter C. Newman has been called a national icon but he prefers to be known as the junkyard dog of Can. Lit., being neither a lapdog nor a watchdog but the collector of tasty bits of inside dope. The 75 years he describes in his new memoir, Here Be Dragons: Telling Tales of People, Passion and Power add up to a singularly fascinating life. His books have sold over two million copies. He was editor-in chief of the Toronto Star and founding editor of Maclean's news magazine. In this memoir he proves again why he is the country's most cussed and discussed author.
Reservations required: www.boardoftrade.com
Fee: $65 ($49 Vancouver Board of Trade members and guests) plus GST
The New Leadership: Creating a Climate for Responsibility in
Business With Nancy McKinstry, Simon Fraser University 2004 honorary degree
recipient
Tuesday, November 16, 2004, 6-7:30 pm
What is the responsible business leader to take as his or her mandate? This dialogue will focus on establishing the nature of responsible leadership in business and on the question of character, how it is formed, and how it manifests itself in professional life.
Nancy McKinstry is a founding member of the Minerva Foundation for BC Women, an organization dedicated to supporting women in need to attain their educational goals. Nancy was the first woman to be appointed a director at Odlum Brown Limited and in 1996 was appointed vice president. In 2003, she received the Queen's Jubilee Medal for her commitment to her industry and the community.
For more information, download the pdf flyer.
Exploring Victims Concerns and Restorative Justice
Tuesday, November 16, 2004, 8:30 am–4:30 pm
Dr. Linda G. Mills, New York University, author of Insult to Injury: Rethinking Our Responses to Intimate Abuse and Sandy Bryce, manager of Victims Services and Family Violence Prevention Unit, Yukon Territories, are guest speakers at this 2004 Ting Forum on Justice Policy. Lunch included.
Registration fee: $25 (students $15)
Information: empower@sfu.ca
Economic Leadership Forum 11
Monday, November 15, 2004
The Economic Leadership Forum II is a gathering of representatives from the private, labour, and public sectors to work together to further develop a business plan for the creation of a Greater Vancouver regional economic development initiative.
Participation is by invitation only: www.leadershipforum.ca
Information: Vancouver Economic Development Commission; ldeguchi@vancouvereconomic.com
or 604-632-9668 ext. 109
What Leaders Need to Know About Citizen Assemblies
Wednesday, November 10, 2004
7:30–9:30 pm
Join Gordon Gibson, Jack Blaney and Matthew Mendelsohn as we examine what we have learned from recent citizen engagement processes. What are the key challenges, barriers to moving forward? How does this inform the skills and nature of leadership for citizen engagement? For more information, please download the PDF flyer.
This event is free, however, reservations are required. To reserve your seat, call 604.291.5100
The Efficient Society: Is an efficient society a caring society?
Dinner and dialogue with Joseph Heath, Associate Professor of Philosophy,
University of Toronto
Monday, November 8, 2004
6–8 pm
Dinner at 6 pm, followed by dialogue
Joseph Heath is the author of The Efficient Society: Why Canada is as Close to Utopia as it Gets.Each year, the United Nations Human Development Index ranks Canada as one of the best countries on earth in which to live. In The Efficient Society, and at this dinner, Dr. Heath explains how we got that way.
Heath argues that this ranking reflects not so much our commitment to social justice - the level of inequality in Canada has remained unchanged since the 19th century - but rather our commitment to efficiency. Unfortunately, those who appeal to the value of efficiency in evaluating our society tend to focus too heavily upon the economic standard of living, and ignore the way that everything from environmental regulation to gun control contribute to our quality of life.
Registration Fee (includes dinner): $50.00 (includes GST)
Registration: 604.268.7925 or dialogue-info@sfu.ca
For more information, please download the pdf
flyer.
Asia Pacific Summit 2004
Wednesday and Thursday, October 13–14, 2004
The Asia Pacific Summit is Canada's premiere business conference examining
the outlook for Asia and the evolving nature of the Canada- Asia relationship.
Organized by the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, the Summit brings
together Canadian and Asian business leaders, government ministers, diplomats
and trade officials, for high-level dialogue sessions and networking events.
Conference fee: $500 (session only fees available). Details and registration
online at: www.asiapacific.ca/apsummit
The Asia Pacific Summit is Canada's premiere business conference examining the outlook for Asia and the evolving nature of the Canada-Asia relationship. Organized by the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, the meeting brings together Canadian and Asian business leaders, government ministers, diplomats and trade officials, for two days of high-level dialogue sessions and networking events.
Phone: 604 684 5986
Email: apsummit@asiapacific.ca
A Dialogue on Learning Communities
Monday, October 4, 2004
Learning Communities have become a popular reform at all levels of North
American education. They are at the heart of a number of community literacy
initiatives and link business and NGOs with education.
British Columbia, already planning a new Literacy Now initiative, is launching
province-wide conversations about the function and expansion of these
efforts.
This session at the Wosk Centre is co-sponsored by the BC Ministry of
Education and the Association of BC Deans of Education.
Information: bhall@uvic.ca; rob.tierney@ubc.ca;
pshaker@sfu.ca
The Best Defence
Wednesday September 29, 2004
Continuing legal education for the defence bar and others in the
insurance community. Fee: CDL members $175; Non -members $200.
More information at www.cdlawyers.org
or email info@cdlawyers.org.
The Good City
Wednesday, September 22, 2004
7:30–9 pm
Asia Pacific Hall, Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue
SFU's Dialogue Programs hosted Their Excellencies Adrienne Clarkson and
John Ralston Saul at "The Good City" dialogue, as part of the
Who Cares?: Creative Responses to Social Obligations series. One hundred
and fifty residents shared their thoughts on what makes Vancouver a good
place to live. For more information, please download
the pdf flyer.For a summary of this event originally published in
the www.tamarackcommunity.ca e-newsletter, please download the pdf report.
DVDs are now available of the Good City event. To order copies, please contact Dialogue Programs at 604.268.7925 or email dialogue-info@sfu.ca
Moving Forward: Improving treatment for heroin addiction
Monday and Tuesday, September 20–21, 2004
A City of Vancouver drug policy symposium to promote informed public discourse
on effective treatment for heroin addiction. Speakers will present best
practices from around the world for treating heroin addiction and explore
how innovations may be applied to the Canadian context. It will be a dialogue
among professionals, policy makers and consumers to foster an improved
methadone program. Fees: September 20, evening: Free. September 21, day
$125; evening (dinner included): $25. Seating is limited; pre-registration
essential. Registration and information: 604-871-6483; debbie_kempton@city.vancouver.bc.ca
or www.keepingthedooropen.com.
At the Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue and and St. Andrew's-Wesley
Church.
Citizens' Assembly on Electoral Reform
Public Hearing: Saturday, September 11, 2004 – Sunday, September
12, 2004
This initiative is unique. Nowhere else in the world have randomly selected
citizens so been empowered to shape the electoral process. The Citizens'
Assembly has been unanimously endorsed by the parties in the legislature,
and parties and community leaders outside it.
The Assembly is an independent, non-partisan assembly of 160 randomly selected British Columbians who will look at how votes cast in provincial elections translate into seats in the Legislature.
They will examine the province’s electoral system and they will look at other electoral systems in use around the world.
If they decide that B.C. should have a new system, their proposal will frame a referendum question that will go directly to the voters in the provincial election of May 2005. If a change is approved by voters, the current government has indicated it will go into effect for the election of 2009.
Members began meeting in January 2004. Their year will be divided into three phases: Learning about electoral systems, January-March 2004; public hearings, May-June; and deliberation, September-November. Their final report and recommendation must be delivered by December 15, 2004.
Contact Information:
Cathy Stooshnov
Citizens' Assembly
Telephone: 604-660-1291
Fax: 604-660-1236
cstooshnov@citizensassembly.bc.ca
www.citizensassembly.bc.ca
Educating the Heart: A dialogue inspired by his Holiness the
Dalai Lama's visit to Vancouver
Friday, September 10, 2004, 6:30–8:30 pm
Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue, Asia Pacific Hall
In April 2004 the 14th Dalai Lama visited Vancouver and participated in the Roundtable Dialogue "Balancing Educating the Mind with Educating the Heart". An interfaith and secular community formed around this visit inspired by the message of compassion, altruism, discipline and forgiveness. Seeking a balance between heart-mind education has implications for all sectors in society. But what is a language of the heart? How are issues of the heart introduced in higher education? And what is the curriculum for educating the heart? Join us for a dialogic exploration of these questions.
This dialogue is free, however, pre-registration is required. To reserve,
please call 604.291.5100.
Postcard One
Postcard Two
Design Features of Green Buildings:
What are the economic costs and benefits?
Saturday, June 10, 2004
David Orr, Oberlin College, discussed the inter-relationships between
design excellence, innovative green features and economics.
www.sfu.ca/city
Conscience and Science Conference and Public Forum
Wednesday-Thursday, April 28 and 29
The ability to sequence and manipulate genetic material has brought society
to the dawn of a new age. This capability has revitalized the world of
genetics and spawned numerous scientific discoveries in the field of medicine.
The rapid rate of research reflects the enormous untapped potential of
genetic technology, but the pace of discovery creates an alarming regulatory
gap. Our capacity to refine, reform, and redesign the world is outstripping
our ability to foresee the social and ethical implications. The cost of
scientific overzealousness and exuberance could be harmful for future
generations.
The Conscience and Science public forum, Thursday, April
29,
attracted a full house to hear a stellar panel of speakers,
including (left to right) Hal Weinberg, Maureen McTeer, Arthur
Kroker, Barry Beyerstein, Sir John Sulston and Eugene Oscapella,
discuss many of the issues presented by the new age of genetic
research.
This international conference provided a forum for citizens to discuss
and debate the implications and possible repercussions of the molecular
revolution with internationally known scientific, ethics and legal experts.
www.conscienceandscience.com
Mountain Equipment Co-op. Annual General Meeting (AGM)
Thursday, April 22, 2004
Open to MEC members only. Please visit our website at www.mec.ca/agm for more details.
For more information, please call Steve Milum at (604)707-3300 or email: smilum@mec.ca
Simon Fraser University Special Convocation
The Dalai Lama, Shirin Ebadi and Desmond Tutu
Tuesday, April 20, 8:45–10:30 am
Simulcast from Christ Church Cathedral.
Creative Conflict Management in Healthcare
March 24–26, 2004
More than a conference, the dialogue on Creative Conflict Management in
Healthcare was three days of idea exchange and development, learning,
and community building. Focusing on the complex issues driving conflict
in healthcare, and the need for improving working relationships and fostering
culture change, participants from the healthcare industry and the field
of dispute resolution worked together to explore creative responses to
managing conflict and improving the quality of healthcare. Innovative
formats-including story theatre, World Café, and dialogue-fostered
openness, informal brainstorming, and creative thinking. Ninety-seven
participants from around the world came to explore the complex issues
in the roots of healthcare conflict and to develop creative responses
for managing disputes.
For more information please go to www.healthdialogue.org.
or go to http://www.sfu.ca/dialogue/proceedings.htm
BC American Marketing Association Speaker Series 2003/2004
http://www.bcama.com/
Drumbeat of Change
Daniel Igali's Nigerian School Project
Fundraising Dinner
Wednesday, March 17, 2004, 6-10 pm
Nigerian-born Daniel Igali, a Simon Fraser University graduate who won
Canada a gold medal in wrestling at the 2000 Olympic Games, has a dream.
He wants to build a new primary school in his small home village of Eniwari,
Nigeria.
SFU Chancellor Milton Wong, a well-known Vancouver philanthropist and
entrepreneur, has thrown his support behind this project and worked with
Daniel to complete the fundraising through this event.
The evening's MC CBC Radio's Kathryn Gretsinger and the event featured
authentic African drumming and dancing.
For more on Daniel Igali's school see
http://www.sfu.ca/mediapr/sfu_news/archives_2003/sfunews09040314.htm
http://www.sfu.ca/mediapr/sfnews/2002/Feb7/igali.html
Collecting the Governor General's Award Winners
Share the Enthusiasm: SFU Library's Special Collection's Series
Wednesday, March 31, 2004 7:30-9 pm
Hamber Foundation Room #470
Vancouver book collector and seller, John Meier, has recently completed
a collection of all the English Language First Editions of the Governor
General's Award winners for fiction and is currently working on a bibliography.
His collection consists of over 300 volumes including various issues of
the American, British and Canadian first trade editions, uncorrected proofs,
galleys, advance review copies and association copies. He will talk about
the history of the Governor General's Awards, how he began collecting
and why he feels it is an important collection. John Meier has a background
in business management and international business.
For more information please contact Kim Minkus at 604.291.4304 or kminkus@sfu.ca
Creative Conflict Management in Healthcare
Wednesday, March 24 - Friday, March 26, 2004
More than a conference, this dialogue is three days of idea exchange and development, learning , and community building. Through open inquiry and focused discussion, participants will connect with a diverse community committed to advancing the field of healthcare conflict management to improve healthcare delivery.
For more information please call 866.590.7195, email info@healthdialogue.org, or go to www.healthdialogue.org.
Women in Leadership Foundation
Monday, March 8, 2004, 6- 8 pm
A panel of highly accomplished Aboriginal women leaders from across Canada
shared their career experiences and life lessons. Designed to inform and
inspire, these role models offered their journeys to success.
Panelists included:
Chief Liz Logan, Fort Nelson First Nation
Chief Sophie Pierre, St. Mary's Indian Band and
administrator for the Ktunaxa/Kinbasket Tribal Council
Michele Baptiste, national manager - Aboriginal relations, Scotiabank
Moderator: Chief Leanne Joe, Squamish First Nation
For more information, please contact Maya Kanigan at maya@womeninleadership.ca
or call: 250.386.8580.
http://www.womeninleadership.ca
Facilitation Skills for Leaders Workshop
Tuesday, December 2, 2003 - Thursday, December 4, 2003
Words, patterns, images and metaphors, developed by participants at the Leaders' Forum, February 25-27, 2004, found their way onto artist Joey Mallett's mural during the recent Canadian Education Association conference that considered What is an Educated Canadian?
This thought-provoking question was discussed by 100 of Canada's leaders from business, labour, education, government, and the voluntary sector, along with parents and students.
The forum, sponsored by the Canadian Education Association, and partners,
sought to articulate a new vision for education in Canada, new clarity
about learning outcomes, and new ways to translate these values and aspirations
into meaningful ideas for change.
Further information www.cea-ace.ca/
Wrestling with Destiny: The Life and Times of Daniel Igali
Tuesday February 24, 2004, 6-8 pm
Preview screening of a new film on SFU's Olympic gold medalist wrestler
who is on a quest to build a new elementary school in the Nigerian village
where he was born.
Broadcast premier CBC, Tuesday, March 9, 2004 at 7pm.
Information: Joel Gordon
Omni Film Productions
Telephone: 604-684-8025/416-894-3676
email: vformation@mail.com
Urban Traplines: Exploring Safety and Social Inclusion in Our City
Friday, February 20, 2004, 7-9:30 pm
Participants explored the related issues of homelessness, increased visibility
of poverty, mental illness and drug use on the streets and how these conditions
challenge our notions of community standards of livability and public
safety. They viewed Benoit Raoulx's Traplines, which examined the lives
of "binners" in Vancouver, and engaged in dialogue with the
filmmaker on their personal responses to homelessness. United We Can,
the non-profit, Downtown Eastside recycling organization established by
Ken Lyotier encouraged Simon Fraser University and other organizations
to convene this forum.
Want to get involved? For more information, visit the community website
of the Downtown Eastside at http://www.dtes.ca
or join the Urban Traplines discussion group at http://groups.msn.com/UrbanTraplines
Download the PDF brochure
on this event.
The Undergraduate Semester in dialogue at the Morris J. Wosk Centre
for Dialogue
Fall 2003
Simon Fraser University has initiated an exciting new program for its students, the Undergraduate Semester in dialogue at the Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue. The Centre for Dialogue provides a unique opportunity to affirm the major role of a university to educate students into productive, creative, well-balanced, thoughtful, and reflective members of society.
The Dialogue Maker’s Series
September–November 2003
The Dialogue Maker’s Series offers learning spaces for those who wish to create environments in which people "think together". There are many situations in which organizations, communities and government might engage in dialogue: to build community, solve complex problems, transform confl ict, improve understanding, or to infl uence decision-makers. But how does one begin? What are the core mental maps and skills?
The series included workshops and short courses, a one-day forum in the Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue, as well as a network for community development practitioners, municipal planners, educators, health care workers, policy analysts, regional district and parks board staff, and others whose work involves public dialogue and deliberation.
Click here to download the brochure in PDF format.
Strategic Conversations: Collaboration & Cooperation
Aboriginal Economic Development Conference
November 19-20, 2003
Contact Information:
Ray Gerow
Aboriginal Business Development Centre
Telephone: 250-562-6325
Fax: 250-562-6326
Email: abdc@bcgroup.net
Visioning a Future for Prevention: A Local Perspective
Thursday, November 20 from 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Friday, November 21 from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.
The City of Vancouver's Four Pillars Coalition sponsored Visioning a Future for Prevention: A Local Perspective, a public symposium on substance misuse prevention.
The symposium was hosted by Vancouver Mayor Larry Campbell and moderated by CBC Radio's Kathryn Gretsinger, and featured presentations and panel discussions with experts in the field of drug and alcohol prevention. The event offered a wide range of local perspectives on prevention and provide an opportunity to explore what a comprehensive, integrated and evidence-based prevention strategy for Vancouver might look like.
Program details will be available at http://www.city.vancouver.bc.ca/fourpillars
Fostering Public Deliberation in an Adversarial World
November 27, 2003
This one-day dialogue forum brought together urban and regional planners, community activists, government officials and others concerned with the question "What should planners and other public decision-makers know about inclusive and effective decision-making processes?" In the highly complex context of public policy planning—whether concerned with the environment, transportation, public housing, education or health—John Forester's work on practical judgment and how practitioners learn from each other offers a new way to see old debates. Forester, key respondents and Forum participants discussed the ideas, concepts and specific local and regional issues in British Columbia that have relevance and application in diverse contexts.
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here to download the program in PDF format.
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here to download the conference notes in PDF format.
BC Schools Superintendents Association
November 13, 2003
"Ethical Decision Making" with Dr. Rushworth Kidder, Institute for Global Ethics. Sponsored by the BC School Superintendents Association.
This event is not open to the public. Please see www.bcssa.org for more information.
Passages to Canada Member Orientation
November 8, 2003
This overview of the Passages to Canada program, provided an opportunity for members to meet with each other and discuss ideas about the project. It was hosted in part by a public speaking professional who conducted a workshop on storytelling techniques and offered suggestions for speaking with different audiences.
For more information, contact Tina Edan at tina@dominion.ca or 1.866.701.1867
Turning Green into Gold
October 30, 2003
Evaluating the benefits of sustainable design.
Speakers included Alan Whitson of the Corporate Realty, Design and Management Institute. For more information contact Rick Beck, Brooks Coming Co. Tel 604.688.6655; Fax 604.688.7544; email rbeck@brookscoming.com; website www.squarefootage.net
Life Sciences Symposium with Dr. Francis Collins
October 29, 2003
Information: 604.637.4390 or visit www.genomebc.ca for more details. Presented by: Genome British Columbia, BC Biotech, BC Cancer Agency, University Presidents’ Council of BC.
The Genome Era Dialogue
Invitation [Word 174KB]
The Genome Era Dialogue
Invitation [PDF 84KB]
Home and Away: Crossing Cultures on the Pacific Rim
October 25, 2003
10 am–5 pm
This symposium examined the ways that global economies and increased mobility unsettle notions of home, heritage and identity. Keynote Speaker: Irit Rogoff, University Chair in visual cultures at Goldsmiths College/University of London, discussed "Of Fear, of Contact, of Entanglement". Panel discussion topics included "examining borders as shifting margins, boundaries and crossings that, in their mutations, give rise to diverse histories" and "in the move between cultures, autobiography acts as a thread connecting incomparable experiences; yet the story of the 'I' is not a truthful story—it spirals off into ethnography, surrealism and fiction."
Jointly produced by the Vancouver Art Gallery, Centre A: Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, and Simon Fraser University's School for the Contemporary Arts.
Information 604.662.4717
Dialogue on Immigration and Migration
October 27, 2003
This dialogue stimulated productive discussion on one of the most important issues facing the province—immigration. Four panelists shared their immigration and settlement experiences and reflected on what contributed to the success, challenges, and quality of their experiences. The day was organized around 5 themes: 1) The Immigrant Experience; 2) The Big Picture on Immigration: Stats, Trends, and Implication for BC; 3) Finding Work and the Struggle for Foreign Credential Recognition; 4) Immigrant Children and Youth; and 5) Discoveries, Understandings and Implications for Action: Weaving the Strands Together. Members of the Vancouver Foundation planning/advisory committee acted as facilitators or "Dialogue Weavers" with the goal of achieving a connected and evolving interchange among all participants.
Information: 604.291.5076 or email joanna_ashworth@sfu.ca
Sacha Trudeau: Embedded in Baghdad
Alexandre (Sacha) Trudeau showed his new film, Embedded in Baghdad
at the Wosk Centre for Dialogue October 16, 2003, from 5:30-7:30
pm. Discussion followed the presentation.
After September 11: A Dialogue on the World After 9/11
"The Challenges and Consequences of this Moment in Time"
September 11, 2003, 4–6 pm
The University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University together presented a series of programs on "After September 11: A Dialogue on the World After 9/11".
Col. Bill Smullen, former chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, and director of National Security Studies at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, via live video cast discussed with audiences at UBC and SFU on "The Challenges and Consequences of this Moment in Time."
GML Dev Days 2003
July 20–24, 2003
Geospatial technology professionals attented workshops, presentations and exhibitions.
See www.gmldev.org for more information.
Who Cares? Creative Responses to Social
Obligations: Mobilizing the Hidden Assets of Our Communities
A Dialogue with Dr. Stefano Zamagni and John McKnight
Tuesday, June 24, 2003
7:00–9:30 pm
Information: 604.291.5100
Globalization, Regionalization and Democratization (GRAD)
Annual Conference
Friday, June 13, 2003 - Monday, June 16, 2003
Peace scholars from five continents participated in a unique multi-civilizational and dialogic research program on the most pressing problems facing humankind in the new millennium. The keynote speech was given by Richard A. Falk, Professor Emeritus of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University, prolific writer, speaker and activist of world affairs and the author or co-author of more than 20 books, among them Crimes of War and Nuclear Weapons and International Law.
Presented by the Dialogue Institute, Simon Fraser University and the Toda Institute for Global Peace and Public Research, Honolulu.
Information: 604.291.5179.
David See-Chai Lam Centre for International Communication
Pacific Region Forum on Business and Management Communication. A New Concept
of Non-confrontational Democracy by Dr. Edward Woo
Monday, June 9, 2003
2–3:30 pm
For more information, visit the website at www.cic.sfu.ca/forum
What Makes News
Sunday, May 25, 2003
1–4 pm
Panel composed of representatives from the media, the Canadian Senate, academe and business, moderated by Vancouver Sun "columnist alumnus" and former Southam News correspondent Patrick Nagle.
Offered the public a platform from which their concerns may be heard across the country and linked the B.C. debate to Senate hearings into corporate concentration in the media.
A project of CEP Local 2000, Media Union of BC, the Simon Fraser University School of Communications and the Institute for Media Policy and Civil Society (IMPACS).
Information: 604-408-0746 or email: hyphen@mediaunion.ca
Urban Transportation Forum
Tuesday, May 20, 2003
8:30 am–4:30 pm
Information: 604.453.4658 or email russell_busche@translink.bc.ca
Keeping the Door Open
Tuesday, May 6, 2003
7–9 pm (doors at 6 pm)
Special guest speaker: Ethan Nadelmann, PhD
Executive Director, Drug Policy Alliance
The New York-based Drug Policy Alliance is the leading organisation in the United States promoting alternatives to the war on drugs. The Alliance advocates for drug policies grounded in evidence-based research, compassion, health and human rights. Ethan Nadelmann has been described by Rolling Stone magazine as "the point man" for drug policy reform efforts. He is widely regarded as the outstanding proponent of drug policy reform both in the United States and abroad.
The Keeping the Doors Open Speakers Series was organised by a committee of health and community outreach professionals, joined by concerned Vancouverites with backgrounds in business, law, public policy, and communications, who advocate a harm-reduction based integrated response to drug addiction. Dr. Nadelmann's visit to Vancouver was supported by Tides Canada, a national public foundation, and this event is co-sponsored by local agencies, service providers and the business community.
For more information visit www.keepingthedooropen.com
Vancouver Dialogue on Foreign Affairs
"What's the UN's Significance after Iraq?"
May 5, 2003
The Vancouver Dialogues on Foreign Affairs is a multi-institutional cooperative forum aimed at creating dialogue on foreign affairs issues that are of interest to Canada and Canadians. The dialogues are chaired by Professor Robert S. Anderson, director of The SFU Dialogue Institute.
Information: 604.322.5580 or kcvance@sfu.ca
Annual General Meeting
Vancouver Branch of the United Nations Association in Canada
Tuesday, April 29, 2003
Vancouver branch of the United Nations Association in Canada in conjunction with the International Centre for Criminal Law Reform and Criminal Justice Policy offered a panel discussion on "The New International Criminal Court: What can it do for the present state of the world?"
Vancouver Branch UNAC Annual General Meeting at 6:30 p.m. Panel Discussion at 7:00 pm.
Information: 604.732.0448 or email unacvancouver@canada.com
The First Annual BC Symposium on Conflict Resolution
Investing in DR Futures: Shaping Directions in Policy, Research and Pedagogy
Friday, April 25, 2003
8:30 am–5:00 pm
The symposium provided an opportunity to experienced practitioners, academics and policy makers to learn of new directions in policy, research and pedagogy, to participate in workshops designed to "push the envelope" of theoretical and practical issues, and to shape new directions for the field of conflict resolution. Participants heard synopses of nine presentations in the morning, three within each of the substantive streams, and then workshops throughout the remainder of the day.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: The Honourable Geoff Plant, Attorney General and Minister Responsible for Treaty Negotiations, on Innovation and Conflict Resolution in the Civil Justice System.
Presented by the Justice Institute of BC, Centre for Conflict Resolution; Royal Roads University, Peace and Conflict Studies Division; Simon Fraser University, Dialogue Institute; University of British Columbia, Program on Dispute Resolution; University of Victoria, Institute for Dispute Resolution
For more information: conflictresolution.pdf (PDF, 140k)
Canada NewsWire
Tuesday, April 15, 2003
Each session provides valuable information
on trends that affect
communications professionals.
Join BC Securities Commission chair Doug Hyndman and vice-chair Brent Aitken discussed why the BCSC believes its approach to effective Canadian securities regulation should be part of any outcome from these initiatives. Hyndman and Aitken unveilled a new BC legislative model and explained the value of a regulatory approach that goes beyond rule-making to build strong Canadian markets.
Contact: Steve Stojanovski
Canada NewsWire
steve.stojanovski@newswire.ca
Vancouver Dialogues on Foreign Affairs
March 10, 2003
Immigration is the people aspect to globalization. Is Canada opting out of this part of the globalization equation? Canada has raised the entry barrier for skilled immigrants and applications are down. Is the barrier too high now that only 25 percent of Canadians could pass the test to enter their own country? Or have we raised the barrier just to exclude non-English speakers including the Chinese? Will this new policy lead to an improved performance of immigrants or just fewer immigrants? These questions have implications for our understanding of the people-to-people aspect of foreign affairs.
This is a multi-institutional cooperative forum at creating dialogue on foreign affairs issues that are of interest to Canada and Canadians. The dialogues are organized by Professor Robert S. Anderson, director of The SFU Dialogue Institute.
Information: 604.291.5179 or Dialogue_info@sfu.ca
Dialogue and Negotiation: Lenses, Tools and Strategies
Friday-Saturday, February 21-22, 2003
The Second Annual Symposium on Dialogue and Negotiation offered a convergence of tools and strategies for planning specific dialogue experiences. Theoretical concepts illuminated a series of presented "dialogue" cases drawn from various contexts—labour relations, multi-stakeholder processes, and community consultation.
The full day session on Saturday was preceded by a Friday evening dialogue community-building reception. Program cost: $155.15
Information: 604.291.5179
Olympic Vote Town Hall 2003
Thursday, February 20, 2003, 7:30–9:00 p.m.
The forum gave the Vancouver public an opportunity to engage in an open dialogue about the Olympic bid and provided them with the facts needed to make an informed vote on February 22nd. Cosponsored by CBC Radio One and the Urban Studies Program at Simon Fraser University at Harbour Centre.
For more information, please contact Terri Evans, Urban Studies Program, at 604.268.7914.
Urban Transportation
Forum
Wednesday, February 19, 2003
9:00 am–5:00 pm
This forum launched TransLink's consultation process with major stakeholders to assist in the creation of a new long-range transportation plan for the Greater Vancouver region. It is anticipated that three or four Urban Transportation Forums will be held during 2003 with feedback from participants serving to guide the development of the regional transportation plan. A broad, inclusive range of organizations were represented at the forum and a wide scope of input was shared.
For more information please direct inquiries
to:
Jennifer Raywood
Translink
Telephone: 604-453-4691
Fax: 604-453-4632
E-mail: jennifer_raywood@translink.bc.ca
www.translink.bc.ca
The Creative Crucible:
Composers in Society
Saturday, February 8, 2003
The dialogue explored the dreams of our composers, the contribution they can make to society, the parrallels between composers and creators in the other arts, and the social transformation to allow musical creativity to flourish.
For more information, please contact
Colin Miles, Canadian Music Centre
Telephone: 604-734-4622
Fax: 604-734-4627
Email: bcregion@musiccentre.ca
Jack P. Blaney Award
Recipient: Maurice Strong
Thursday, January 16, 2003 CANCELLED
Award presentation and address
The Jack P. Blaney Endowment Fund was established at Simon Fraser University in September, 2000 by friends and colleagues to honour Jack P.Blaney, Senior Fellow of the Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue, and former President, Simon Fraser University. The Endowment Fund supports the Jack P.Blaney Award for Dialogue. The Blaney Award will be made each year to a distinguished citizen of the world who exemplifies the spirit and programs at our new international conference centre, the Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue.
This year's recipient wasMaurice Strong, former Senior Adviser to United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan and to the President of the World Bank. He is also the author of Where on Earth are We Going? In every way, Mr. Strong is the ideal recipient of this honour and sets the standard for others to follow. Unfortunately, Mr. Strong has been called out of the country on urgent business, and will be unable to accept his award in person.
For more information, please see the Jack P. Blaney Award for Dialogue website or contact pgraca@sfu.ca
Understanding Phage Display
January 17–20, 2003
This conference was the sequel to the 2000 conference "Understanding Phage Display: Structure, Biology and Applications". There were five workshops, with each workshop comprising 2–3 30 minute presentations, as well as several 10 minute short presentations, and the rest of the time devoted to discussion. For more information, please visit the conference website at www.sfu.ca/conferences/phage
Vancouver Board of Trade
Members' Reception and Orientation:
Discover the Magic of Positive Networking.
January 14, 2003
A opportunity to fine-tune your networking skills or learn how to do it. A no-charge network event.
The Vancouver Dialogues
on Foreign Affairs: Negotiating Kyoto
January 6, 2003
The Vancouver Dialogues on Foreign Affairs is a multi-institutional cooperative forum aimed at creating dialogue on foreign affairs issues that are of interest to Canada and Canadians. This session was the fourth in an ongoing series of dialogues organized by Professor Robert S. Anderson, Director of The Dialogue Institute.
Attendance was by invitation only. For further information please contact Kirsten Vance at (604) 322-5580 or kcvance@sfu.ca.
Vancouver 2010 Speaker Series Presents David Chernushenko
December 10, 2002
[PDF] 2010 Speaker Information Flyer
For more information, contact Amy Johnson at 604-806-500 or email amy_johnson@winter2010.com
Policy Directions for
Coastal Tourism
December 6–7, 2002
The intent of the conference was to engage in multi-stakeholder dialogue around creating a more sustainable coastal and marine tourism industry. For more information visit www.sfu.ca/coastalstudies/calendar.htm
Vancouver Dialogues on
Foreign Policy:
"Is an effective Canadian Policy on the Middle East possible?"
December 2, 2002
Vancouver Dialogues on Foreign Policy is a multi-institutional cooperative forum aimed at creating dialogue on foreign affairs issues that are of interest to Canada and Canadians. This was the third in an ongoing series of dialogues organized by Professor Robert S. Anderson, Director of The Dialogue Institute.
For further information please contact Kirsten Vance at 604-322-5580 or kcvance@sfu.ca
Strategic Conversations
November 20-21, 2002
Aboriginal Economic Development Networking Conference, designed by practitioners for practitioners. Included Indian & Northern Affairs Canada's Community Economic Development Organization Program review.
For general inquiries please contact Veronica Creyke, telephone: 250-562-6325, fax 250-562-6326 or email: vcreyke@bcgroup.net
Vancouver 2010 Speaker
Series: The International Olympic Committee
November 12, 2002
"A View from Within" A conversation with Charmain Crooks
Charmaine Crooks, five-time Olympian, Silver Medalist, and International Olympic Committee (IOC) member.
The goal of the Vancouver 2010 speaker series is to offer different perspectives on the potential impacts and benefits of hosting the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic "winter Games on the community, and to encourage community dialogue. For more information on the Vancouver 2010 Bid, visit www.winter2010.com
Mayoral Visions of Vancouver
2002 Policy Forum
November 12, 2002
7:15-9:00 pm
CBC Radio One and Simon Fraser University presented the MAYORAL VISIONS OF VANCOUVER 2002 POLICY FORUM at SFU's Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue on Tuesday, November 12th, 2002. Hosted by The Early Edition's Rick Cluff, Vancouver Mayoralty candidates Larry Campbell, Jennifer Clarke and Valerie MacLean debated the issues that face Vancouverites, and shared their visions for the future of the city.
Panel members Steven Quinn of CBC Radio, Frances Bula of the Vancouver Sun, Professor Patrick Smith of the Institute of Governance Studies at SFU and Jerome Yau of Fairchild Television asked questions of the three Mayoralty candidates. Questions from the public were directed to the panelists as well.
The Mayoral Visions of Vancouver 2002 Policy Forum was broadcast live on November 12th from SFU on CBC Radio One 690. A live webcast was available at vancouver.cbc.ca.
Creative City Network
November 6-9, 2002
For more information visit www.creativecity.ca
Negotiating the Changing
Landscape
October 23-26, 2002
BCMA Annual Conference. The British Columbia Museum Association looked to conference 2002 negotiating to changing landscape as the chance to offer a timely forum for instructions and exchange that would be of practical and lasting benefit to stakeholders in the Province's museums, galleries and cultural heritage community.
Contact: Lesley Moore, BC Museums Association
Telephone: 604-809-1709
Fax: 604-669-5918
Full program available at www.museumsassn.bc.ca
Dividends: Now More than
Ever
Wednesday, October 23, 2002, 7:00-8:30 p.m.
Executive Keynote Speaker: Matthew Wood, CFA, Portfolio Manager of Vertex One Asset Management
This event was sponsored in part by Bissett Investment Management & CM Investment Management Inc.
Caring in Action: An
Evening with Social Inventors
Thursday, October 17, 2002, 7:00–9:00 pm
Social inventors are like other inventors except their focus is on creating or uncovering approaches to how we care for each other. The world is full of social inventors. So is British Columbia. This evening offered an opportunity for BC's social inventors to be profiled along with some of the best social inventors in the world.
Presenters: Christy Gibb, Director, Ashoka Canada, Toronto; Ken Lyotier, United We Can, Vancouver; Caroline MacGillvray, Beauty Nights, Vancouver; and Mary Gordon, Roots of Empathy, Toronto.
Conference on Sustainable
Products, Buildings, Vehicles & Certified Wood
October 9–10, 2002
Sustainable products and buildings are growing at a phenomenal 500% rate creating substantial demand by the design community for credible information. This program covered 14 Sustainable Products Standards, including building products. For more information visit the conference website at http://mts.sustainableproducts.com/standards.htm or email info@sustainableproducts.com.
Pacific
Northwest Canadian Studies Consortium
September 27-28, 2002
Faculty from up to 34 colleges and universities in western Canada and the American Pacific Northwest met in Vancouver to advance Canadian studies and exchanges between their schools. The Pacific Northwest Canadian Studies Consortium, with member schools in Alaska, Yukon, British Columbia, Alberta, Washington, Idaho, and Oregon, has worked since 1986 to develop Canadian studies programmes at its member universities. The two-day annual general meeting, held partly at the Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue, showcased Canadian studies programmes at Simon Fraser University, the University of British Columbia, and the University of Calgary, as well as examined trends in western Canada, research opportunities and resources, and teaching programmes at several Consortium schools. For additional information, please contact Fr. Michael Treleaven, S.J., Political Science Department, Gonzaga University, the executive director of PNWCSC, at treleaven@gem.gonzaga.edu.
Venture Philanthropy Breakfast Panel
October 1, 2002
A business breakfast panel was held at the Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue. Venture Philanthropy: Engaging a New Generation was presented by the BC Technology Social Venture partners and is sponsored by the BC Technology Industries Association and supported by the Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue.
Becoming a Corporate Director in 2002: What
You Need to Know
October 3–4, 2002
Presented by Board Resourcing and Development, Office of the Premier of British Columbia and Women in the Lead Inc., this two-day program was designed to help qualified women attain corporate board appointments and prepare them for the responsibilities therein. The program offered timely, up-to-date information on best practices in corporate governance.
The Sixth Biennial Conference
of the National Coalition of Independent Scholars
October 4–6, 2002
For more information about this conference go to http://www.sfu.ca/cstudies/arts/independentscholar/ or email azgscholar@hotmail.com
Creating Dialogue: The
Role of Urban and Metropolitan Universities in Fostering Civil Society—The
8th conference of the Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities
October 6–7, 2002
Themes for this gathering included: community foundations as educational partners, educational consortia, closing the gap--increasing access, civil society and the city, the university as a partner for social change, public/private partnerships, privileged education and civil society. For more information about this conference go to www.sfu.ca/cumu
The Age of Terrorism:
Challenges for Canada and the International Community
Friday, September 20, 2002
Speaker Barbara McDougall is President and CEO of the Canadian Institute of International Affairs. She was a Member of Parliament for nine years and held several cabinet posts, including: Finance (Minister of State), Privatization, Employment and Immigration, and finally External Affairs. She is a graduate of the University of Toronto, a Chartered Financial Analyst and has an honorary doctorate from St. Lawrence University.
McDougall is widely recognized for her expertise in international relations and is frequently invited by the media to comment on current events. Her extensive knowledge and interest in international policy have led her to sit as a Canadian representative to the Inter-American Dialogue in Washington; The International Crisis Group in Brussels, the International Advisory Board for the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, and as Chairperson of the Japan Society in Toronto.
Barbara McDougall was a public governor of the Toronto Stock Exchange. She is a director of several Canadian corporations including Bank of Nova Scotia, Corel, The Independent Order of Foresters, Stelco. Mrs. McDougall is the founding Chairperson of the Patron's Council of the Toronto Association for Community Living. She is also a Governor of York University, and a director of the Canadian Opera Company and the Council for Canadian Unity. Mrs. McDougall is an Officer of the Order of Canada.
Union of Canadian Transportation
Employees (UCTE) Press Conference
September 19, 2002
For more information contact:
Dominic Vidmar, UCTE
Tel: 613.238.4003, ext: 28
Fax: 613 236 - 0379
email: vidmard@psac.com
www.ucte.com
Saving Money, Saving Lives: An Integrated
Approach to Vancouver's Drug Problems
September 17-18, 2002
This symposium on drug policy examined the costs of Vancouver's current approach, explored alternatives and better uses of tax dollars, sought sustainable solutions and directions, and built a framework for best outcomes. For more information visit www.keepingthedooropen.com
Biennial Exhibition of Glass Art in British
Columbia
August 12-September 6, 2002
The BC Glass Arts Association, in conjunction with Simon Fraser University and the SFU Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue, presented the Fifth Biennial Exhibition of BC Glass. The show opened August 9, 2002, with a reception in the Atrium of the Centre for Dialogue.
Galdos Systems—GML Development Days
Conference
July 22-26, 2002
The Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue hosted this conference sponsored in part by Simon Fraser University's Faculty of Applied Sciences Continuing Education. The objective of the conference was to provide a broad public forum for developers to discuss GML, to learn things from one another and to foster the development of the Geo-Web—the world wide web of geographic information. For more information, visit the GML Development website at www.gmldev.org
Greater Vancouver Community Leadership
Summit Series—Inside the New Community Charter: Decision Making
Closer to Home
July 11, 2002
The Provincial government says the new Community Charter for British Columbia's municipalities is designed to bring local decision making closer to home. Today, the Community Charter's white paper is out for discussion before it is introduced in the Legislature this fall. Now is the time to take a closer look at what local autonomy really means, how it will work and who will pay.
Vancouver Conference on Aggressive
and Violent Girls: Contributing Factors and Intervention Strategies
May 10-11, 2002
This conference provided a context for researchers, practitioners and others to exchange knowledge regarding the challenges of understanding and working with aggressive and violent girls. For more information, visit the conference website at www.sfu.ca/mhlpi.
Locating Asia International Symposium:
The Meeting of People, Art and Culture
May 2, 2002
"'Locating Asia'', a three day symposium of dialogue, focused on the ways in which artists relate to Asia from a variety of aesthetic and philosophical positions. ''Asia'' at the beginning of the new Millennium is a constantly shifting locus, enwrapped in discourses of cultural memory and globalization. For those who live on the increasingly blurred borders between racial and cultural communities, antiquated notions of East and West, Oriental and Occidental, are losing their relevance. ''Asia'' conveys more than just a geographical region, it evokes complex images and ideas that mean different things to different people, involving diverse economic, political and cultural issues. The symposium situates the discussion in relation to the cultural development of Vancouver and within the broader context of Canadian and international trends. The symposium took place at the Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue, a space expressly designed to encourage communication and exchange. Seats in the centre's Asia Pacific Hall are arranged in concentric circles of tables, each seat equipped with a microphone. Plenary discussions were the heart of the symposium, supported by keynote addresses, panels, performances, an exhibition at the Centre A gallery and social events. The symposium involved a wide range of participants from Vancouver, across Canada and other countries. For more information, visit the symposium website at www.centrea.org.
Tough Choices for Canadians: Forum
II
Class of '02: Are Grads Ready for the World of Work?
Tough Choices is about the choices you make in your life. Those that affect your health, your career, your community, your family, your well-being. CBC Television and Simon Fraser University combine their resources to bring you new information, perspective, and opportunities to talk to other Canadians about the things you care about. Continued and ongoing online discussions are currently taking place at www.cbc.ca/toughchoices
Cities and Transportation: Choices
and Consequences
February 17–19, 2002
What influence does urban design have on urban transportation? What choices in design and operation of modal systems are out there? What are characteristics of effective urban transportation systems? These are some of the topics discussed at this three-day invitational dialogue. This event featured international planners, politicians and opinion leaders such as Robert Cervero, professor of city and regional planning at University of California, Berkeley. Other guest speakers included Peter Nijkamp, Free University, Amsterdam, Michael Harcourt, former Premier of British Columbia, and Phil Goodwin, University College of London, UK. A summary of the conference, speaker presentations and much more are available at www.sfu.ca/dialogue/cities
Association for Moral Education
October 25–27, 2001
The 27th annual meeting of the AME took place at the Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue last October. The theme for the conference was "Moving Toward Moral Excellence." For more information, visit the official conference website at www.educ.ubc.ca/ame2001
International Cooperation Days Forum
June 18–20, 2001
International Cooperation Days (ICD) is the second international forum organized by CIDA for all its partners. More than a thousand representatives from the non-governmental, voluntary, public, and private sectors will meet eminent international development experts and professionals from around the world. Together, they will explore the new realities of international cooperation and share innovative strategies for international development in a context of increasing globalization.For more information, visit the conference website at www.acdi-cida.gc.ca/jci-icd
Philosophers' Café: All-day
café with guest speaker John Ralston Saul
April 21, 2001
This Philosophers' Café special event, "Rights and Responsibilities: a Dialogue on the Nature of an Evolving Society" was moderated by Stan Persky. Please visit the Philosophers' Café website for more information: www.sfu.ca/philosopherscafe
Architectural Institute of British
Columbia Annual Conference: Architects in Dialogue
April 6–7, 2001
Inspiring communications, this event will foster interactive, open and inclusive conversations with community, industry, media, government and environmental stakeholders. For more information, visit the AIBC website at www.aibc.bc.ca
The 2nd Annual Global Conference on
Environmental Taxation
April 2, 2001
The objective of this conference was to provide a forum for the exchange of policies, ideas, information and research findings among scholars, executives, tax professionals, non-governmental organizations and policy makers focused on environmental taxation issues, experience and potential throughout the world. The conference featured speakers from Canada, the United States, Australia, Belgium, Malaysia, Finland, the Netherlands, Italy, Bangladesh and the Czech Republic. For more information, visit the conference website at: www.pembina.org/whatsnew.htm
Études francophones, multimédia et internet / Internet
and Multimedia Applications to French Studies
March 8-10, 2001
The aim of this Conference was to explore new research and teaching trends in French Studies (Language, Linguistics, Literature) as well as to bridge traditional approaches to French Studies in Canada and the use of new technology, multimedia, and the internet. For more information visit www.sfu.ca/french/Colloque2001.htm
Dialogue and Negotiation
February 2–3, 2001
Also available is an essay: "On Dialogue and Its Difficulties" by Robert Anderson and "The Ten Commandments of Dialogue" by Majid Tehranian.
"Canada as a One Party State"
January 19, 2001
On Friday, January 19, 2001, award-winning affairs columnist and political journalist Jefferey Simpson delivered a keynote address at the "Canada as a One Party State" conference held at the Centre for Dialogue's Asia Pacific Hall.
Dialogue and Leadership: A conversation with Daniel
Yankelovich and Steven Rosell
October 11, 2000
Former Simon Fraser University president Jack Blaney invited Daniel Yankelovich and Stephen Rosell, two leading thinkers and practitioners in the field of dialogue, to hold a briefing for a small number of business and community leaders. Daniel Yankelovich is the author of The Magic of Dialogue.
Opening Ceremonies
On Wednesday, September 20, 2000, viewers from around the world tuned
in to watch the Centre for Dialogue Opening Ceremonies.