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LIGHT
Symposium 2011
June 3
- 4, 2011
Fort Garry Hotel - Winnipeg |
LIGHT will be presenting
a symposium, “Spirituality and Healing: A Cross-cultural Perspective,”
on Friday and Saturday June 3-4, 2011 at the Fort Garry Hotel. A Friday evening
reception and keynote address by author and storyteller Aubrey Davis will be
followed by a series of concurrent workshops on Saturday morning and afternoon.
The symposium builds on the success of our June 2010 symposium, “Healing
with Spirit,” which was well received by the community and prompted many
attendees to request a similar gathering in 2011. Once again the focus of the
symposium will be the relationship between spirituality, health and healing,
but from a cross-cultural perspective.
LIGHT believes
that it is important at this critical time in human history to bring together
people from different cultural and spiritual backgrounds to share their approaches
to healing and spiritual growth. The theme of the symposium is congruent with
LIGHT’s goal of fostering inter-faith and cross-cultural
tolerance and understanding. And Winnipeg’s rich cultural and religious
diversity makes it an ideal city to host such an event.
The specific symposium objectives
are:
- To share interdisciplinary and
cross-cultural expertise from a broad range of health and spiritual care practitioners
- To create a forum for the presentation
and dissemination of theoretical and practical research examining the relationship
between culture, healing and spirituality
- To provide opportunities to learn
and experience spiritual practices from many of the world’s cultural
traditions which enhance health, healing and personal growth
Workshop presenters will be drawn
from a wide range of traditional health care disciplines and cross-cultural
perspectives. Keynote speaker Aubrey Davis will also be presenting a workshop
on Saturday afternoon. The symposium will feature music, information tables
of groups and organizations with a spiritual and healing focus, and provide
opportunities for participants to meet like-minded people on a similar journey.
By bringing together individuals, groups and organizations representing a spectrum
of cultural and spiritual approaches to healing, optimal health and inner development,
LIGHT hopes to illuminate the universal nature of the human
aspiration for love, wholeness and fulfillment.
Location and
Parking
Keynote Address
Workshops
and Presentations
Closing Concert
Registration Form
Display Table Registration Form
Location
and Parking
The Fort Garry Hotel is located at
222 Broadway in downtown Winnipeg, between Fort and Garry Streets. There is
ample street and lot parking available. The symposium will take place on the
mezzanine level of the hotel.
Keynote Address
Four
Travellers: One Coin
A Persian, Arab, Turk and Greek
with a single coin fight about how to spend it. Can the four at odds become
as one? Can their single coin become as four? We face a task of unprecedented
magnitude, complexity and urgency. Biologically equipped for savannah,
family and tribe, we now live among millions in huge cities, bumping against
unfamiliar peoples with disconcerting ways. We face new technologies,
increased poverty, dwindling resources, conflict, environmental disaster
and more. Our cultural and educational institutions are not keeping up.
But do we already possess something that could help? What else do we need
to learn? This address probes and explores traditional tales and contemporary
research to reflect on our global family and how we might create a sustainable
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Featured
Keynote Speaker - Aubrey Davis
Aubrey Davis is an award-winning Canadian author and storyteller who has
studied Afghan Teaching-Stories for over 30 years. His book, Bagels
from Benny, has won multiple awards in Canada and the US. Forthcoming
titles include Kishka for Koppel (Orca 2011) and A Hen for
Izzy Pippik (Kids Can Press, 2011) A retired teacher, Aubrey is a
Director of the Institute for Cross-cultural Exchange (www.iceeducation.org),
a Canadian charity dedicated to promoting cross-cultural education and
understanding. Its current priority is to donate high quality illustrated
folk tales from the Middle East and Central Asia to children’s literacy
programs in Canada and Afghanistan.
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Celtic
Harp and Tibetan Bowl Concert
Celtic harpist
Lisa Marie Tucker weaves a tapestry of exquisite melodies, rich harmonies
and eclectic rhythms that elevates the human spirit. She will be accompanied
by Tibetan Bowl player Craig Forster.
Lisa Marie Tucker is a composer
and performer who expresses the universal Spirit through Celtic harp,
piano and voice. An accomplished Reiki master, she soothes the soul through
her healing energy and magical music.
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