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On May 3rd and 4th, Providence Health Care will host, in Vancouver, the conference entitled: Spirituality: The Hidden Ingredient in Health and Healing.  This event will unite many engaging speakers and provide invaluable concurrent sessions.  The session I will lead is entitled Therapeutic Poetry: Supporting the Healing Journey through the Language of the Soul. Please take a look at the PDF for early bird pricing and to register.

This year International Women’s Day on March 8 will celebrate accomplishments of women around the world.  In my book Living Forward, Giving Back I have devoted a chapter entitled Women Ushering in the Future to celebrate women’s leadership which is showing up in all fields of endeavours across the planet. This title was inspired by Kofi Annan’s quote which states: The future of the world depends on women. While Annan’s quote acknowledges the power of women to affect, heal and transform the world, it also implies a heavy responsibility.  The current times of rapid change and uncertainty call for us all to grow the inner capacity to attune to our foundation of resourcefulness and inner genius. Regardless of our present circumstances, our resilience and...

In recent years a body of research on happiness and the brain has revealed strong evidence for a genetic inheritance towards a particular set point or level of happiness. However, what is being further understood is that although you may have a genetic susceptibility to a particular range of happiness, this propensity requires certain circumstances in order for that gene to be triggered into expression. Such circumstances can include financial loss, a painful divorce, too much stress at work, etc. Although you may have a somewhat unchangeable set point of happiness, you can still cultivate the circumstances, the mindset and the habits that are, for you, conducive to experiencing a greater happiness flow – like the river here. I will address this as part of...

As our sunny days are making way for autumn, we can appreciate the shared moments of summer which served to deepen our relationship with loved ones and with nature. Perhaps you too felt the joy of discovering yet more beauty in the majesty of nature in the past weeks? (The photos included here were taken by my 16 years old daughter Natasha Samorodin). On the threshold of fall time, many of us seek moments of introspection and new opportunities to learn. If you value life-long learning you may set your sights on new horizons of personal and/or professional development. For those who are meandering through the middle passage of life, consider attending the workshop Midlife: A Call to Passionate Engagement which I will lead through Hollyhock – in Vancouver on...

If you’re in the legal profession you know first-hand how fast paced and hectic your professional life can be. Focusing on work at this speed and intensity can lead you to loose touch with your authentic self and what matters most in your personal life. This year, the first wave of Baby Boomers, those born in 1946, will be turning 60 and many of them will decide to go into some form of retirement. If you’re a Boomer, you’ve been part of an era that has seen the most effective visionary leaders changing the world in significant ways. Martin Luther King Jr., Robert Kennedy, and Pierre Elliot Trudeau were models of moral leadership as they contributed to the advancement of human rights. Collectively, theBoomers’ generation can re-capture the sense of purposeful...