Saturday, March 1, 2014

Training: Globalization of Addiction - Vancouver

I've attended this series and it is an excellent training experience.

ADDICTION: It's Not About Drugs
Re-thinking Root Causes of Addiction

Date: March 18 to April 22, 2014 - Six Tuesday Nights

Location: Mosaic Immigrant Services (Ground Floor) 
1720 Grant St., at Commercial Drive, 7:00-9:00pm

Registration by email to communityaware@gmail.com

Cost: $20 total for all six sessions

March 18      If it’s not about drugs, what is it about?
  
March 25     The Globalization of Addiction: A social problem of the rich and the poor 

April 1         12 Step Groups and the Western Spiritual Approach.   

April 8         The Human Spirit; Beyond Logic 

April 15        Hope: Imagining a world without addiction

April 22        Final Workshop Meeting: Content to be Planned with Participants  

 A Community Aware has served the Vancouver Commercial Drive neighbourhood and beyond since 1999. Bruce Alexander is author of The Globalization of Addiction, A Study of Poverty in Spirit (Oxford Univ. Press). Barry Morris is a United Church Minister at Longhouse Ministry in Vancouver. Terry Patten is a retired administrator; Gurvinder Parmar has extensive experience as a social worker in BC.  

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