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Take Your Relationships From Zero To Hero – Dale Choquette

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The most valuable things in our lives are our families and friends. Have happy, healthy relationships, get closer to each other and revitalize your relationships.

Transform, design or revitalize your relationships. Working together I can help you identify how each of you is “wired”, because how you’re wired determines your communication style. You’ll learn how and why you establish priorities the way you do, which determines your how you make decisions. Also, you’ll understand the areas in which you complete each other and where you may be competing with each other. All of this helps you can communicate more effectively with each other.

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Art. Why? – Cherie Hanson

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I have come to realize I have a relationship with art and with cultural events that is central to my sense of well being. As I do in all relationships, I step back and analyze the dynamic with a curious mind.
 
What I seek from art is a transformation of self. I stand before a painter that was looking at his concept reality in 1400 and I feel as if I have stepped into his very mind. This was the world he inhabited; these were the beauties of mundanity that surrounded him. What appears on the canvas are the objects limiting and expanding his very sense of his own humanity. And it deepens my understanding of what it means to be mortal beyond the boundaries of my own culture, current normative habits and constructs.

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Change Happens when we Connect – Hilary Davies & Dirk Terpstra

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The OKANAGAN is Head Quarters for Coherence Hotspot.   We are all familiar with the wifi symbol connecting all of us to the internet.  The Coherence Hotspot symbol is a revolutionary concept connecting all of us in a heart centred and impactful way.

Research has proven that our emotional state directly influences our experience in life, as well as our worldview, and the lens in which we view others. This affects each decision we make and the quality of life we have. Could it mean then, that when we collectively change our emotional state, life as we know will change? Pretty close, and understanding the science in this process is just the beginning.

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At Home in the Valley of Stories – Oak Writer

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– originally released on July 14, 2016
You never really know someone’s story — that is, until they have the courage to stand in a room of strangers, wrestle with fear, and turn the visceral into the verbal.

Such is the remarkable human spirit I witnessed last month at 97 Street Pub when I attended the fourth monthly Storytelling Tuesday (STT), hosted by Balance Well-Being Centre Inc. (BWB), a Kelowna organization of passionate individuals deeply committed, as the name suggests, to balance among four of life’s pillars of well-being: financial, social, mind, and body.

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BWB Podcast

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There is now an additional way for people to CONNECT to BWB Business Members – podcasts.
Check it out and please subscribe to wherever you listen to podcasts:
Your podcast, BWB (Balance Well-Being)
is now available on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1xV5Az0Upi48hP0u2iKxpI
is now available on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bwb/id1473703763?uo=4
is now available on RadioPublic: https://radiopublic.com/bwb-GqVXMr
is now available on Breaker: https://www.breaker.audio/bwb
is now available on PocketCasts: https://pca.st/6aD6
is now available on Google Podcasts: https://www.google.com/podcasts?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy9jZDFkNDcwL3BvZGNhc3QvcnNz
is now available on Overcast: https://overcast.fm/itunes1473703763/bwb-balance-well-being
is now available on Anchor:
https://anchor.fm/shawna-mccrea