At the Centre: with Trudy Boyle

An Online Speaker Series with program leaders at Naramata Centre

Naramata Centre is privileged to attract inspiring and exceptional program leaders from across Canada with a diversity of backgrounds. In this series we will share time and conversation with leaders that are new to our Naramata community. It will be an opportunity to become better acquainted with the work they do, experience they bring and their upcoming program offerings at the Centre.

This Month our guest speaker is: Trudy Boyle 

Trudy Boyle, author of the book, Ikigai and Illness: A Guide to Living Fully with Purpose, Meaning, and Joyful Moments has been studying, writing, and teaching the principles of Living with Illness, for three decades. Current Director of the ToDo Institute’s initiative on Living Fully with Illness, she continues to serve a broad digital community of people living with illness through weekly webinars and blog posts, online and residential programs, and as a regular contributor to the Thirty Thousand Days Quarterly. She is a former program director of Wellspring Alberta, a large community-based Cancer Resource Centre and continues to play an active role in this community. The love and joy of this work along with her many adventures with her grandchildren is her ikigai – a reason to get up in the morning. Trudy loves cycling, photography, learning, exploring, celebrations and being useful. She lives in Ottawa, Canada.

You can learn more about Trudy’s work by visiting

www.livingwellwithillness.com

Click HERE to learn more about Trudy’s upcoming program in partnership with Sorrento Centre

Our Host 

Kathie MacDuff is an artist, graphic designer and journalist who captures her artistic passions within her signature program, Creative Journaling. For the past 26 years, she has been teaching creative journaling as well as courses in watercolour, mixed media and a wide assortment of paper arts including book binding.

She is the Expressive Arts Team Lead at Wellspring Calgary where she’s been a regular facilitator offering many and varied courses over the past fourteen years in person and on Zoom. She was a forerunner instructor with the Tom Baker Cancer Center leading to the establishment of their Medicine in Art initiative and was involved with a year-long research program with the Primary Care Network Pain Clinic studying the effects of creativity on pain and depression.

She facilitated classes at the Good Shepherd Art Studio in Calgary since its inception in 2006 to 2022 and is a regular guest instructor and speaker at many retreat and conference centres throughout Alberta and British Columbia. Most recently, she relocated to British Columbia where she works as Associate Director of the Sorrento Conference and Retreat Centre overseeing Expressive Arts programming amongst other things. Her vision is to facilitate creative experiences that encourage connections, validate emotions, and nourish the soul. She finds fulfillment of these goals thanks to the wonderful people she gets to hang out with!

We look forward to having you Join us!

The next guest At the Centre: Wednesday, May 24, 2023 Save the date and watch for more details!