Last week our speaker was Ravi Rade, a leadership coach from the Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute (SIYLI) that was established in 2012 as an independent nonprofit organization. Since then, Search Inside Yourself has become a globally recognized program that works with corporate, nonprofit and government organizations around the world.  SIYLI strives to teach people tools for compassion, empathy and wisdom so that they can create a better world for themselves and others and contribute to world peace within our lifetime.  Ravi was successful in getting our club to meditate as he taught us about mindfulness.

    

We heard from Will Beiersdorf, a veteran who founded Palatine-based Salute Inc. in 2003 to help out fellow veterans financially. Today he serves as executive director of the Road Home Program at psychiatry department at Rush University Medical Center. It treats what Will calls the “invisible wounds of war”: posttraumatic stress disorder, traumatic brain injury, and other types of military-related trauma. “If someone has lost a leg or an arm, you can see that,” he says. “But when you’re dealing with someone who’s got a traumatic brain injury, you don’t know what they’re going through.”   Will encouraged us to spread the word about this amazing and needed program.

Lisa wants to remind the members of the Outreach Committee that there is a meeting at Lou's at 11:15 on March 7.  Some of the projects to be discussed will include Bowlero, the Literacy Project and a K9 reading buddies project. 

Bo announced that the Buddy Bowling event that we support with the Village's Commission for Residents with Disabilities will be held this year on Thursday, April 18 from 6 pm to 8 pm at Bowlero and volunteers are needed.  Save the date!

 

 

Glenn passed on a request from the Lincolnshire Rotary Club for plastic bags that visitors to the Vernon area food pantry can use to carry their groceries.  The pantry would like to avoid having to purchase bags.  Please bring them to our meetings and give them to either Glenn or Martha.  Thanks!

  

Dylan went with the other exchange students to help at the Schaumburg Club's Feed My Starving Children event on January 11.

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