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The Living Language Institute Foundation is a not-for-profit charitable organization registered in 1987 in British Columbia, Canada. The purpose of Living Language Institute Foundation is to develop an appreciation of Canada with special focus on the inherent richness of the many and varied languages, cultures, stories and song of its citizens --- the ‘folk’ of Canada.
Living Language Institute Foundation (LLI) of Vancouver, B.C. Canada is committed to the support of children and parents learning through singing and song games - well researched learning methodologies that support our common humanity and our love of learning together.
News Flash: Living Language Institute Foundation has just developed a new Earth Literacies program offered primarily in Victoria
PROGRAMS IN EARTH LITERACIES
Conversations on Understanding Our Place in the New Cosmology
Facilitator - Bill Wilson, SJ, PhD
Date: Last Thursday of the month (No program in July and August)
Time: 12:00 – 1:30 pm
Cost: $10.00 suggested donation.
Location: 3931 Staten Place, Victoria BC
To register and info: 250-384 - 8740 or earthliteracies@gmail.com
Earth Literacies Program sponsored by Living Language Institute Foundation
Natural Landscaping In Our Cities – How Residents and Businesses Can Design Beautiful Outdoor Spaces, Save Money and Benefit Our World
Facilitator – Susan Green. Susan is an organic gardener and landscaper who is presently transforming a traditional suburban 1950’s landscape around her home in Nanaimo. She is a lawyer with a Masters in International Environmental Law.
Traditional landscaping dominates the cityscape. With its expanse of green lawn, sculpted hedges and borders of exotic plants, this outdated style uses copious amounts of water, chemicals such as fertilizers, herbicides and pesticides, and significant amounts of energy. Traditional landscaping not only depletes a disproportionate quantity of the earth’s resources, it separates us from nature, reduces the quality of our lives, and does not meet our needs as individuals or as a society.
Natural landscaping on the other hand reduces water, energy and chemical consumption, helps preserve native plant and animal species, preserves or enhances the environment, and increases pleasure. It is encouraged by dozens of municipalities and governments throughout North America, and is a growing social movement. Natural Landscaping is functional, aesthetically pleasing, and in keeping with a holistic world view.
In this presentation, the elements of natural landscaping will be outlined, and designs presented for incorporation in home landscaping and small urban businesses. Practical ideas will be given, and guidelines for new designs outlined.
Date: Saturday, April 5. 2008
Time: 9:30 am – 3:30 pm
Cost: $60.00 (Do not let the cost prohibit your attending, please call us.)
Location: 5990 Old West Saanich Rd
Please bring your lunch. Tea and coffee will be served.
To register and info: 250-384 - 8740 or earthliteracies@gmail.com
An Earth Literacies Program sponsored by Living Language Institute
Mystics as Guides in our New Cosmological World
Facilitator – Bill Wilson, SJ, PhD
Mystics frequently offer a view of the universe that is different than what the institutional religions present. In our contemporary world the view offered by the established religions in now experienced as inadequate. In this workshop we will look at some of the mystics and see how their view of reality might help us give direction as we try and make sense of our reality. We will explore views of Francis of Assisi, Teilhard de Chardin, Mark Wallace, & Judy Cannato.
Date: Four weeks, Mondays beginning April 14 – May 5.
Time: 10:00 am – 12:00 am
Cost: $85.00 for series, $25.00 drop in (Do not let the cost prohibit your attending, please call us.)
Location: 3931 Staten Place, Victoria BC
To register and info: 250-384 - 8740 or earthliteracies@gmail.com
An Earth Literacies Program sponsored by Living Language Institute Foundation
A Circle Dancing, Mandala Making Day with Hildegard of Bingen
Facilitators: Louise Taylor BMus, Orff 3, Dalcroze Crt. and Mary Jane Wilson CND MA
Hildegard’s theology is a concern for the whole of Creation and the place of humanity as part of that creation.
The cosmology Hildegard presents is an inspired and passionate attempt to represent the world in such a way that we, her audience, will better understand our role in it. …”to fulfill the Divine plan and to express the fullness and goodness of our own nature.”
Hildegard talks often of the “sweating power” of the earth, of the need to stay “juicy, wet, green, moist and also good humoured.” Humanity is to “become a flowering orchard, who does good works bearing good fruit just like the earth with its ornamentation of stones and blossoming trees.”
Date: Saturday, April 26, 2008
Time: 9:30 am – 3:30 pm
Cost: $65.00 (Do not let the cost prohibit your attending, please call us.)
Location: 5990 Old West Saanich Rd
Please bring your lunch. Tea and coffee will be served.
To register and info: 250-384 - 8740 or earthliteracies@gmail.com
An Earth Literacies Program sponsored by Living Language Institute
Were I to Say How Much I love the Earth “Over and over we speak our love of Earth. It is the how much that defies us. Comprehensive, boundless, diffuse, it lives as the passion of longing. Were we ever to complete its expression would we shatter into stardust?” Carolyn McDade.
An Eco-Spirituality Retreat
Facilitator Cecilia Hudec, SC MA
A time of solitude and prayer to attend to our longing with input and reflection on our deep connections with our Planet Home and the natural community. A space to bring awareness to what we see and hear and feel and how we are seen and heard and felt by the community that surrounds us as we move into deeper relationships of communion.
Date: Saturday, May 10, 2008
Time: 9:30 am – 3:30 pm
Cost: $60.00 (Do not let the cost prohibit your attending, please call us.)
Location: 5990 Old West Saanich Rd
Please bring your lunch. Tea and coffee will be served.
To register and info: 250-384 - 8740 or earthliteracies@gmail.com
An Earth Literacies Program sponsored by Living Language Institute
Meditation and the Twelve Steps
Facilitator - Susan Green., a member of a Twelve Step program and a mediator.
Step Eleven encourages meditation in recovery. In this weekend, Step Eleven will be explored in a non-residential retreat setting. The course will include speakers, practical instruction, and an opportunity to discuss the Step with other Twelve Step practitioners. Ways to mediate include yoga, walking meditation, sitting meditation, and guided meditation. These will be explored, and participants will be encouraged to find the best ways for each individual to mediate to support recovery.
Date: Saturday, May 24, 2008
Time: 9:30 am – 3:30 pm
Cost: $60.00 (Do not let the cost prohibit your attending, please call us.)
Location: 5990 Old West Saanich Rd
Please bring your lunch. Tea and coffee will be served.
To register and info: 250-384 - 8740 or earthliteracies@gmail.com
An Earth Literacies Program sponsored by Living Language Institute
Brian Swimme’s Earth’s Imagination, Video series
Facilitator – Gertie Jocksch, SC, DMin
“In The Earth’s Imagination, cosmologist Brian Swimme places the human psyche within the fifteen billion year cosmic process in order to highlight the directions in which human consciousness is evolving today and into the future.”
Date - 5 wks, Mondays begins June 2 to June 30.
Time: 10:00 am - 12:00 am
Cost: $45.00 series or $10.00 drop in (Do not let the cost prohibit your attending, please call us.)
Location: 3931 Staten Place, Victoria BC
To register and info: 250-384 - 8740 or earthliteracies@gmail.com
An Earth Literacies Program sponsored by Living Language Institute Foundation
A Spirituality for Our Newly Discovered Universe
Facilitator – Bill Wilson, SJ, PhD
The discoveries of the new scientific community are forcing us to adopt a different world view then we grew up with. In this workshop we will look at ways some have tried to deal with this new reality, e.g. hanging on to the past. We will then look at how we can integrate these vast new discoveries into our lives and how our spirituality and ways of living will need to change so that we will feel at home in this awesome universe.
Date: Saturday, June 7 2008
Time: 9:30 am – 3:30 pm
Cost: $60.00 (Do not let the cost prohibit your attending, please call us.)
Location: 5990 Old West Saanich Rd
Please bring your lunch. Tea and coffee will be served.
To register and info: 250-384 - 8740 or earthliteracies@gmail.com
An Earth Literacies Program sponsored by Living Language Institute
Earth Mysticism
Facilitator Gertie Jocksch, SC DMin
“The earth is at the same time mother, … She is the mother of all, for contained in her are the seeds of all.” Hildegard of Bingen. Where better to seek wisdom then from Mother Earth. Come and join in this day of retreat with Earth as our Wisdom. The day will include guided reflection, poetry and dance. There will include plenty of time of quite to simply be with and to listen with trees, water, soil, and air.
Date: Saturday, June 21, 2008
Time: 9:30 am – 3:30 pm
Cost: $60.00 (Do not let the cost prohibit your attending, please call us.)
Location: 5990 Old West Saanich Rd
Please bring your lunch. Tea and coffee will be served.
To register and info: 250-384 - 8740 or earthliteracies@gmail.com
An Earth Literacies Program sponsored by Living Language Institute
News Flash: Living Language Institute is starting a new Song Game Development Project on February 16, 2008. Together with the Marpole Oakridge Community Centre, Living Language has received a grant from the United Way Community Innovations to use song games in several languages to engage children and parents in meaningful developmental play intended to support family literacy and kindergarten readiness. The song games will be based on the Sound to Symbol methodology and will carry the cadence of the languages chosen, involve developmentally important social interactions and incorporate sensory motor game movements that support healthy child development. The languages will include English, Tagalog, Mandarin, Japanese, Spanish- all languages spoken by families in the community around the Marpole Oakridge Community Centre.
News Flash! Singing English for Families with Children with Developmental Delays will begin March 29, 2008.
Who is Singing English For? Parents of Children with Developmental Delays and their Parents
How Many Sessions? 8 Sessions of one hour
What are the Dates? Saturdays 1PM – 2PM
March 29, April 5, April 12 April 29, May 3, May 10, May 24, May 31
Where is it held? Friends Meetinghouse, 1090 W 70th Avenue, Vancouver BC V6P 2X9
Cost: $300 for 8 sessions $40.00 an hour for less than 8 sessions. This is not a drop in program. We do understand that families may not be able to attend each session. |
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