Happy Holidays Everyone! We wish you and your loved ones much health and happiness!
TRU Volunteer News and Education
Please click the following for INTERACTIVE view of the Volunteer Connection newsletter: https://vcnewsletter.blogspot.com/ You can also go to the Volunteer Home page and click on Volunteer Connection Newsletter for copies of all newsletters!
12/10 Friday: Volunteer Holiday Party! In-person (So far!!) at the Trailridge conference room. Bring a White Elephant Gift to exchange.
1/14/2022 Friday, 12:15-1:45: VC Zoom Book Review with author Dr. BJ Miller. A Beginner’s Guide to the End. Meeting ID Code: 448 343 968 This is an event with beloved Dr. BJ Miller you won't want to miss!
The first-ever practical, compassionate, and comprehensive guide to dying – and living fully until you do.
“There is nothing wrong with you for dying.” Palliative care Doctor BJ Miller and Shoshana Berger write in A Beginner’s Guide to the End. “Our ultimate purpose here isn’t so much to help you die as it is to free up as much life as possible until you do.”
An honest, surprising, and detail-oriented guide to the most universal of all experiences, A Beginner’s Guide to the End is a “book that every family should have, the equivalent of Dr. Spock but for the other phase of life.” (New York Times bestselling author Dr. Abraham Verghese).
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Live a little… Join the conversation!
2022 is just around the corner. Lots of challenges are out there but also lots of great opportunity to open our hearts and minds to learn and grow.
In response to many of your comments about continued feelings of anxiety and isolation, we will offer a once a month Friday Zoom Conversation Opportunity. These can be held on another day if Friday is not most preferred. Please let us know your preference.
A list of inspired and thought-provoking presentations and discussion opportunity follow. Please feel free to share your thoughts or ideas. This is a time created to build volunteer connection. “Be prepared to be amazed!”
Draft 2022 Conversation Topic Calendar: Future dates to be determined unless otherwise noted.
January 7, Friday: New Year Resolutions – Anything But!!! How to stop languishing and start finding the flow (Finding mastery and mindfulness) https://www.ted.com/talks/adam_grant_how_to_stop_languishing_and_start_finding_flow
January 14, Friday, 12-1:45pm: BJ Miller A Beginner’s Guide to the End. Meeting ID Code: 448 343 968 Join us for this Zoom conversation with Dr. B.J. Miller himself. A TRUly exceptional opportunity. Order your book now so you can contribute to the conversation.
Zoom presentation of documentary Alive Inside: Social worker Dan Cohen, through his nonprofit organization Music and Memory, advocates for the use of music therapy with dementia patients.
365 Daily Gives: The Key to Happiness https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78nsxRxbf4wA Learn more about the idea of a Daily Give and the 365 Blog. Inspired! “Be prepared to be amazed!”
East vs West – The myths that mystify https://www.ted.com/talks/devdutt_pattanaik_east_vs_west_the_myths_that_mystify
How to Have a Good Conversation/Celeste Headlee https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6n3iNh4XLI
The Rise of Predatory Scam – and how to avoid them. https://www.ted.com/talks/jane_walsh_the_rise_of_predatory_scams_and_how_to_prevent_them#t-51332
Seven Keys to Good Storytelling https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iV0M5l5KhnE
What makes things funny/Peter McGraw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysSgG5V-R3U Pete McGraw is a leading researcher at the Humor Research Lab at the University of Colorado, Boulder. In this talk he not only discusses what is funny, but what makes something funny as well.
Possibility Consciousness/Jarvis Smith
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=II7hsSIqKPI
The Most Unexpected Acoustic Guitar Performance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIrkhJut4Ew
An Underwater art museum, teeming with life https://www.ted.com/talks/jason_decaires_taylor_an_underwater_art_museum_teeming_with_life?referrer=playlist-extraordinary_larger_than_life_art
Yes, I survived cancer, but that doesn’t define me. https://www.ted.com/talks/debra_jarvis_yes_i_survived_cancer_but_that_doesn_t_define_me?referrer=playlist-survivor_s_wisdom
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