I received an email from Chris Ng this week with a very exciting opportunity for our group to get involved in an event later in the year. Chris is organizing a forum in Toronto focusing on Buddhism and Health in Canada. The objective of the event is to bring to light the many benefits that Buddhist philosophy and practice has to offer the medical system. This forum will be a joint celebration involving local Sanghas and Toronto’s Buddhist temples.
The date and time of the event are still in the works but Chris is very interested in having our group represented as an active community organization focused on Buddhism and end-of-life care in Toronto. Chris is currently in discussions with prospective key-note speaker Dr. Linda Carlson from the University of Calgary.
Chris is keen to come to our next meeting and discuss this coming event. I think that this is just the type of opportunity that we were talking about wanting to be involved in.
Thursday, March 6, 2008
Group Name
Hi everyone,
As we have discussed our group needs a new name. Our current name is causing some confusion and people mistakenly think that our mandate is to try and build a hospice. I've been coming up with suggestions for new names and I'd like to know what you think. Please leave comments on which one you like, or by all means make a suggestion for a new name.
My thoughts are:
Buddhist Palliative Care Project
Toronto Buddhist Hospice Network
Toronto Buddhist Palliative Care Connection
Toronto Buddhist Care Connection
Toronto Buddhist End-of-Life Network
Bardo-well
As we have discussed our group needs a new name. Our current name is causing some confusion and people mistakenly think that our mandate is to try and build a hospice. I've been coming up with suggestions for new names and I'd like to know what you think. Please leave comments on which one you like, or by all means make a suggestion for a new name.
My thoughts are:
Buddhist Palliative Care Project
Toronto Buddhist Hospice Network
Toronto Buddhist Palliative Care Connection
Toronto Buddhist Care Connection
Toronto Buddhist End-of-Life Network
Bardo-well
Meeting February 20th, 2007
Meeting February 20, 2008
Attendees:
Helen Craigie
Will Sutherland
George Klima
Kanae Kinshoto
Marnie Roper
Andrew Blake
Terry Woo
Hello everyone, thanks again for making it out to our meeting. I think that the Multifaith Center was a great location for us to get together and we’ll continue to meet there in the future. Great suggestion Kanae!
This meeting was very interesting in that we had a couple of newcomers who offered great insight into other Buddhist focused groups in the city and what they are up to. Andrew is from Gitche M’Qua and he came to the meeting to get some more information on what we are up to. It turns out that Gitche M’Qua has some very similar objectives as far as organizing speaker series and education. Terry Woo came with great insight into what is going on in the Buddhist community in Toronto. She offered great networking links for us and ideas for groups to become involved with and possible funding sources.
Group Discussion
First topic raised was my meeting with Michael Skaljin who chairs the Council of Toronto Buddhists and he works for the City of Toronto. We were excited with the idea of joining forces with the Council so that our efforts can compliment each others in the future. We hope that Michael can make it to a meeting sometime in the future.
Next I spoke about the invitation that I received from the Bereavement Ontario Network. They are hosting a three-day conference, October 15-17, called “Grief in Today’s Mosaic Cultural Perspectives” and want someone from our group to speak about grief and dying from a Buddhist perspective. Kanae very kindly offered to get in touch with Bereavement Ontario, and possibly speak at the conference. I hope that this works out, it looks like a great event.
We then read over the revised Mission Statement and agreed that it adequately represents the goals of the group.
We discussed our four areas of focus (education, research, network, and care/support) and had a round table discussion about which activities each of us are interested in participating.
George and I share an interest in research into what the healthcare needs are in the Buddhist community and what good health means to a Buddhist living in Toronto. We are both keen to gain understanding as to where our system of care is not meeting the needs of the Buddhist community.
I also have an interest in leading management of the website networking tool. I am keen to get this going and I know that everyone else in the group will have many resources and links to offer for posting.
Kanae expressed interest in engaging in events. After speaking with Andrew about his experience with events such as speaker series, etc. with the Gitche M’Qua Centre. We realized that the types of events that our group is interested in hosting are of a very similar nature, and we even share group members who work on these events. We decided that the best course of action is for our group to team up with Gitche M’Qua in future events and work together to combine efforts when it comes to planning and working at events.
Marnie expressed an interest in transforming how we provide end-of-life care through broad education toward an understanding of religious needs and giving patients what they need.
Terry offered a unique perspective into the Buddhist community and offered great insight into what organized Buddhist groups are focused on and who we should contact to make connections.
As usual, the end of the meeting came very quickly. I will contact everyone for our next discussion in the next few weeks.
Attendees:
Helen Craigie
Will Sutherland
George Klima
Kanae Kinshoto
Marnie Roper
Andrew Blake
Terry Woo
Hello everyone, thanks again for making it out to our meeting. I think that the Multifaith Center was a great location for us to get together and we’ll continue to meet there in the future. Great suggestion Kanae!
This meeting was very interesting in that we had a couple of newcomers who offered great insight into other Buddhist focused groups in the city and what they are up to. Andrew is from Gitche M’Qua and he came to the meeting to get some more information on what we are up to. It turns out that Gitche M’Qua has some very similar objectives as far as organizing speaker series and education. Terry Woo came with great insight into what is going on in the Buddhist community in Toronto. She offered great networking links for us and ideas for groups to become involved with and possible funding sources.
Group Discussion
First topic raised was my meeting with Michael Skaljin who chairs the Council of Toronto Buddhists and he works for the City of Toronto. We were excited with the idea of joining forces with the Council so that our efforts can compliment each others in the future. We hope that Michael can make it to a meeting sometime in the future.
Next I spoke about the invitation that I received from the Bereavement Ontario Network. They are hosting a three-day conference, October 15-17, called “Grief in Today’s Mosaic Cultural Perspectives” and want someone from our group to speak about grief and dying from a Buddhist perspective. Kanae very kindly offered to get in touch with Bereavement Ontario, and possibly speak at the conference. I hope that this works out, it looks like a great event.
We then read over the revised Mission Statement and agreed that it adequately represents the goals of the group.
We discussed our four areas of focus (education, research, network, and care/support) and had a round table discussion about which activities each of us are interested in participating.
George and I share an interest in research into what the healthcare needs are in the Buddhist community and what good health means to a Buddhist living in Toronto. We are both keen to gain understanding as to where our system of care is not meeting the needs of the Buddhist community.
I also have an interest in leading management of the website networking tool. I am keen to get this going and I know that everyone else in the group will have many resources and links to offer for posting.
Kanae expressed interest in engaging in events. After speaking with Andrew about his experience with events such as speaker series, etc. with the Gitche M’Qua Centre. We realized that the types of events that our group is interested in hosting are of a very similar nature, and we even share group members who work on these events. We decided that the best course of action is for our group to team up with Gitche M’Qua in future events and work together to combine efforts when it comes to planning and working at events.
Marnie expressed an interest in transforming how we provide end-of-life care through broad education toward an understanding of religious needs and giving patients what they need.
Terry offered a unique perspective into the Buddhist community and offered great insight into what organized Buddhist groups are focused on and who we should contact to make connections.
As usual, the end of the meeting came very quickly. I will contact everyone for our next discussion in the next few weeks.
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