EVENTS

The Learning Institute for Growth, Healing and Transformation (LIGHT) is located in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Normally, events sponsored by LIGHT will take place in Winnipeg. Other Community Events (listed below) will list other events we feel may be of interest to LIGHT members and friends.

LIGHT Events

LIGHT Lecture Series
The lectures, with discussion following, will be held on the following dates, starting at 6:30 p.m.:

Tuesday, February 5
Brian McLeod: “Buddhist Principles and Meditation Practice”
The Buddhist tradition uses meditation to investigate the nature of the mind through direct moment-to-moment observation of consciousness. Brian will explore the basic premises of meditation and the Buddhist path of transformation, as well as providing a short technical introduction to the practice of meditation.
Brian McLeod has been teaching Buddhist meditation for the past decade, and has led meditation retreats in Canada and Germany. He was a student of the Canadian teacher Namgyal Rinpoche for 25 years.

Tuesday, March 4
Link Phillips: “Finnegans Wake: How To”
James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake, published in 1939, was the Irish author's final novel and perhaps his most controversial and least understood work. The book has been described as a “linguistic experiment” and a “dream narrative” - reflecting the unique language chosen by Joyce whereby his words and phrases contain multiple layers of meaning. Link will show how Joyce challenges readers to transcend ordinary categories of thought and perception which condition our cultural world view and reach a new understanding of the meaning of words and language.
Link Phillips is a freelance graphic artist living in Winnipeg. He is a compulsive sidewalk shoveler and Finnegans Wake enthusiast.

Tuesday, April 8
Doug Tataryn: “Ken Wilber's Integral Spirituality: Transcending and Including the Perennial Wisdom Traditions”
Ken Wilber’s recent book Integral Spirituality makes some astounding conclusions about limitations of the world wisdom traditions, including Buddhism, Hinduism, and the foundational assumptions of the Perennial Philosophy. This lecture will summarize the basic framework and contributions of Integral Spirituality and how they can be applied to enhance people’s lives and spiritual practices.
Dr. Douglas Tataryn is a clinical psychologist in private practice who works within an integral framework, acknowledging the behavioural, somatic, emotional, cognitive, and spiritual dimensions in his work with clients.

Tuesday, May 6
To be announced.

Location: Charisma Restaurant
               83D Sherbrook St.
Attendees are invited to a buffet starting at 6:30 p.m.; the presentation will begin at 7:00 p.m. Admission is free but donations would be appreciated.

Storytelling Event

Saturday, May 10 - 10:30 a.m. to noon
Millennium Library ‘Reading in the Round’
“If You Have No Troubles Buy a Goat: Jokes and Wisdom of the Incredible Nasrudin”
Featuring Storyteller and Author Aubrey Davis

Mulla Nasrudin is the world’s wisest fool and funniest jokester. Nobody really knows who he was, where he came from or whether he lived at all. But the wisdom hidden in the wacky jokes of this timeless trickster can help us understand our world and ourselves.

Presented as part of the 2008 Winnipeg International Storytelling Festival.

LIGHT Film Series

Dates:

Sunday, April 27 - 7:00 p.m.

We will be presenting two films on the essence of meditation. In the short documentary film Zen and Now, Alan Watts explores learning to
live in the splendor of the eternal now. Contemporary spiritual teacher Eckhart Tolle illuminates meditation with or without the use of
practices and methods to realize who you are at the deepest level in What is Meditation?

Location: Robert A. Steen C. C.
980 Palmerston Ave. - Fireside Room
(side entrance off the parking lot)

Other Community Events

Health Sciences Centre, Spiritual Care Department and University of Winnipeg, Faculty of Theology present
SPIRITUAL DIVERSITY: HOPE AND HEALING
A spiritual care education program based on the principles of diversity and inclusivity
September 17, 2008 to April 30, 2009
For more information and to apply, contact:
Patricia Frain, Health Sciences Centre Spiritual Care Department, 787-3884
or
John Lenshyn, Faculty of Theology, University of Winnipeg, 786-9857