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| Community Outreach and Justice Initiatives | ||
Spiritual Directions continues to explore ways that we can live our faith in the community. |
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| Alberta Government Community Spirit Grant |
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| Spiritual Directions received a grant for $14,600 from the Alberta government
to enable us to expand our work and reach out into the community to help
more people be in touch with the Spirit in their lives. These are some
of the agencies we were able to partner with and provide services to their
staff or community. Wellspring Calgary: Carma House established in 2006, is a community centre offering emotional, psychological and informational support to people who have been touched by cancer. We are providing 3 programs: a healing circle, a Christmas expectation and preparation program, and a course on self-reflection, illness and healing. For more information please contact them at www.wellspringcalgary.ca. or 203-521-5292 or 1404 Home Road N.W. |
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| The Women's Centre The Women's Centre provides:
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| We provided a writing course called, Finding Your Voice, led by Margot Van Sluytman For more information please contact them at 646 - 1 Ave. N.E. or phone 403-264-1155 Monday to Thursday between 9:30 am and 8:30 pm or Friday between 9:30 am and 3:30 pm. |
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| The Calgary Drop-In and Rehab Centre has been providing essential life needs to homeless and low income Calgarians
for 40 years. They work with homeless men and women who have reached
the end of the road and have no where else to turn. In addition to providing
for physical needs they have programs to help people become aware of their
potential and their assets. Margo Van Sluytman lead a course on Honouring Your Voice which helps people express themselves and increase their self-confidence
and self-acceptance. For more information please see their website at www.calgarydropincentre.com. |
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| The Mustard Seed is a non-profit Christian organization that meets the needs of the less
fortunate. In partnership with the larger community, they offer guidance
and support toward independence and lasting change. Margo Van Sluytman
lead a course on Honouring Your Voice which helps people express themselves and increase their self-confidence
and self-acceptance. The Mustard Seed can be contacted at 102 -11 Ave. SE. or through their website at www.theseed.ca. |
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| Literacy Program for the Connought School About 20 children are attending this 2 month long program focussed on improving reading skills. It is being provided through our Strawberry Tree Art Studio by Straja Linder King and her two working dogs, Tangus and Tumbra. |
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With the help of this Community Spirit Grant we were also able to provide bursaries for several people to attend World Soul, What’s Your Purpose, Energy Medicine, and Creative Co-Dependence workshops and courses. Some of these were for professional development
and training, and others were for people with disabilities, living on on
AISH, to enable them to access counselling or personal development opportunities. |
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| Doing What We Can to Alleviate World Poverty and Hunger | ||
| Spiritual Directions donated 1% of our 2006 course revenues to RESULTS
Canada. RESULTS is an acronym meaning Responsibility for Ending Starvation
Using Legislation, Trim-tabbing and Support. RESULTS is a non-profit, non-partisan
and non-denominational organization that makes a difference through persistent
lobbying of governments to increase development assistance spending, and
to concentrate it in the areas of basic human needs for the poorest people.
RESULTS has proven that ordinary people can make huge changes in the world
if they apply pressure strategically. |
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"RESULTS is an organization that challenges civic despair and offers a new model of citizen empowerment and leadership. As an organization, it is committed to healing the break between people and government and to helping people take back their democracy." Sam Daley-Harris, RESULTS founder |
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| RESULTS was founded over 20 years ago by a teacher named Sam Daley-Harris in response to a realization that it was political will rather than resources that stood in the way of ending global hunger and poverty. He was inspired by a report from the National Academy of Sciences which stated that we possess all of the resources, structures and technology to end hunger in a single generation, but the political will to make it a priority is missing. RESULTS is a lean organization working primarily with volunteers. Their track record with financial stewardship is exemplary. Each dollar received in 2004 was leveraged into $1500 in global health programs for the poorest peoples in the world. Read more about their humanitarian achievements at www.results-resultats.ca |
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"The work that RESULTS chapters around the world have done to champion the cause of microcredit for the poor will go down in the history books as one of the major contributing factors to the elimination of poverty." Muhammad Yunus, founder of the Grameen Bank |
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| "Each of the great social achievements of recent decades has come
about, not because of government proclamations, but because people organized,
made demands and made it good politics to respond. It is the political
will of the people that makes and sustains the political will of governments." James Grant, former executive director, UNICEF |
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| Clergy Support | ||
We periodically offer programs for Christian Clergy. Grounding is a regularly offered 8 week exploration into one's call to ministry. John Griffith is now co-teaching a 2 year course called Training for the Ministry of Spiritual Direction. We also offer a Small Group Ministry leadership program which provides training for people interested in learning to lead small groups. |
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| Regularly Offered Supportive Programming | ||
| Spiritual Mentoring
Spiritual Mentoring/Spiritual Direction is offered by John Griffith, Norline Johnson and Betsy Young. It provides an opportunity to consult with a mentor on an occasional or regular basis in order to assess, learn, practice and grow in personal awareness and communication and intimacy with the Holy. See Mentoring page for more information about mentoring. |
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| Counselling and Energy Therapy
We have several practitioners offering various types of therapies. Please see the Individual Sessions page for more information or phone 403-210-2802 for an appointment. |
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| Strawberry Tree Art Studio The studio provides regular, ongoing art groups for the disabled. Straja has also provided resource leadership for Hospice Calgary, Inn From the Cold and various women's groups. |
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| Healing Touch and Energy Medicine We support Healing Touch and Energy Medicine by providing space for workshops and encouraging people to find out more about training to be practitioners. Healing Touch and Energy Medicine sessions are available by appointment at Spiritual Directions. Phone 210-2802 to book an appointment. |
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| Spiritual Directions operates under the auspices of the Community Opportunity Foundation of Alberta | ||
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