Friday – September 24, 2010 @ The Faculty Club, University of Toronto

Registration: 6:30 to 7:20 – 8:00 to 10:00
Networking, Full Dinner & Guest speaker (If you need a special diet please advise)
Cash bar; only available at the PUB downstairs.

$35.00 members - $35.00 students - $45.00 non- members - $50.00 at the door.
Display table: $30.00 for non-members – no charge for members

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Guest Speaker: Philip Shepherd

Philip will offer a Book as a door Prize!
& $2.00 of each book sold during the evening will GO to the WIN FOUNDATION or simply click on Philip’s book and Amazon will send us their contribution!!

New Self, New World
Recovering Our Senses in The Twenty-First Century

New Self, New World challenges the primary story of what it means to be human – a story that leads us to live in our heads, absorbed in our own anxieties. Called a “profound and original masterpiece” in the foreword by Andrew Harvey, renowned mystical scholar and founder of the Institute for Sacred Activism, New Self, New World shows how the patterns of thinking we inherit from our culture divide us not only from the body, but from the world itself. As a result, we inhabit a shattered reality, and take our sense of personal isolation to be a normal state. Drawing from diverse sources and inspiration, as well as from his experiences in Japan, Italy, India and Iran, Shepherd shows how we can move beyond those patterns by opening ourselves to the interplay between the two poles of our natural intelligence: the one in the head and the one in the body. Each chapter concludes with a contemplative exercise to help readers increase their self-awareness and connect with their deeper intelligence.

ABOUT THE PRESENTER:

PHILIP SHEPHERD has traveled extensively since he first headed off on a bicycle at the age of 18. Intent upon seeing the world, Shepherd left his home in Canada, determined to immerse himself in different cultures. He traveled by bike across Europe, the Middle East, Iran and India, before spending seven months in Japan, where he studied Noh theatre. Shepherd’s varied experiences have taken him to the olive groves of Greece, the ghettos of Baghdad and the Great Syrian Desert. Since his return to Canada, he has founded an interdisciplinary theatre company, worked with companies as a corporate coach, taught creativity workshops and written two plays and a documentary for CBC television. He is the editor of The Complete Art Critic and has acted in several films. He is also the director of Reactor Core Theatre Company, which puts into practice the principles outlined in New Self, New World.
Philip is currently lives in Toronto with his wife and two children. For more information on Philip Shepherd and his new book:
By email & by phone

philip@philipshepherd.com
416-203-0808
www.philipshepherd.com
www.phenixpublicity.com/new-self-new-world