Conference Topics

Workshop Schedule

For Individuals:

Finding my Path, Honouring my Purpose – Focus on practical strategies for clarifying who you are and what you need to do to develop your true potential.
Beyond Violence and Abuse – Understanding and healing the impact of family violence, abuse and trauma across generations.
Out of the Shadow of Sexual Abuse – Understanding and healing sexual abuse.
Using Art in the Healing Process – A hands-on exploration of art therapy approaches.
Tools for Wellness – Exposure to a wide range of practical tools and strategies for physical, emotional, mental and spiritual health.

For Families:

Peacemaking for Couples – Ending negativity, fighting, abuse and fear to build unity, peace and purpose in spousal relationships.
Parenting Difficult Children – Understanding the needs of traumatized and physically or emotionally challenged children, and developing effective parenting approaches.
Healing Intergenerational Patterns of Violence and Abuse in Families – Understanding where abuse comes from, how it is passed on within families and how to stop it.

For Communities:

Healing Workplace War Zones – Building forgiveness, respect, unity, diversity and love in workplace cultures.
The Politics of Abuse – How power and politics, when they are misused, can protect and enable abuse to continue, and the role of community leaders in breaking the patterns and building positive strategies for ending abuse.
Shifting to the Positive – Moving communities from a focus on crisis and dysfunction to a path of healing and positive community development.

For Everyone:

The Art and Science of Transforming Human Systems
Healing Conflict between Races, Cultures and Nations
A World in Transition – Understanding how global forces and “big ideas” such as terrorism, corporations, the anti-globalization movement, environmentalism, and human rights are part of the challenge of healing.

Special evening events at the hotel include Shaker Church Healing Ceremonies, Guided Imagery, and the Breath of Life Ceremony. As well, Sweat Lodge Ceremonies will be conducted at the Squamish Nation. (As always, Sweat Lodges will be open to people without charge.) There will also be early morning activities.