More follow ups keep coming in from the conference. Lyle Angus, the Health Director at Kitkatla sent me this picture of one of the community’s youths standing in front of the sunset Sunday night, after they returned to the community from Prince Rupert. Kitkatla is about 65 kilometres from Rupert. Lyle told me on the phone today that the community is planning a big celebration for the youth, to thank them for being such good ambassadors at the Inter Nation Forum and for showing the way to the policy makers and leaders, that the issue of youth suicide must transcend …
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One of the communities that was involved in the Inter Nation youth forum last week was Gitga�at, more commonly known as Hartley Bay. The health director there, David Benton, is spearheading a number of small changes on big leverage points in that community. One of the real successes that Hartley Bay has experienced is with a program called Brighter Smiles that brings student doctors and dentists from the University of British Columbia to the community every month to learn about the culture and to provide some acute medical care. The program started with a desire to lessen the amount of …
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From a new book by Robert Laughlin: �What physical science has to tell us is that the whole being more than the sum of its parts is not merely a concept, but a physical phenomenon,� he writes. �Nature is regulated not only by a microscopic rule base, but some powerful and general principles of organization�some of the principles are known but the vast majority are not. New ones are being discovered all the time�.If a simple physical phenomenon can become independent of the more fundamental laws from which it descends, so can we. I am carbon, but I need not …
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It’s been a couple of days since I’ve been home from Prince Rupert and it’s going to take a long time to fully process the youth suicide prevention summit I facilitated on Thursday. The overwhelming result of that gathering was a profound invitation from youth to connect again with their families, communities and traditional laws. The biggest hurdle to overcome in working with suicide as a topic is the fear and overwhelming nature of the problem. In many ways it seems ridiculous to choose an appreciative framework to deal with the topic, but that’s what we did. The result of …
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Prince Rupert, BC The results aren’t quite in yet, but it was a good day, as this doodle from one of the participants indicates.