Our guest speaker last Thursday night at the Kent Town Hotel was former Club member Dr Stefan Neszpor. Stefan’s business is called Adelaide Couples Clinic and he is a child psychiatrist who also works as a psychotherapist, coach and group therapist. Stefan spent the past seven years on one of Canada’s small islands west of Vancouver; he was prevented from returning three years sooner due to Covid travel restrictions.
Stefan uses an holistic approach in his work as a psychiatrist and psychotherapist and blends his knowledge of brain, body and relationships with his interest in neurobiology in therapy. His talk focused on the brain and relationships and how understanding the principles of neurobiology can enhance our personal relationships. We explored how our brains and body are deeply interconnected with out social interactions, and how non-verbal mirroring with another person affects our brains. We learnt how stress can flood and overload us. Stefan talked about understanding the science behind our emotions and behaviours so that we can foster healthier, more empathetic connections with those around us – to engender more resilient relationships whether in groups like Rotary, team building or fostering community development.
Many thanks for an interesting talk, Stefan.
John Wotherspoon gave us a brief update on the current situation affecting our Timor Leste water project Global Grant application. John has spent a lot of time liaising with our partner Clubs in District 9560 (Qld, NT & Timor Leste), the Dili Lafaeke Rotary Club and the US-based Global Grants specialist to update our grant application following the death late last year of our work’s contractor Mersu (who was also President of the Rotary Club at the time).
Next Thursday is Coffee Catch-up at the White Picket Café in Dulwich from 9.30am. I hope to see you there.
Best wishes and have a great week. Yvette, President.
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One of my friends works in the customer service call center of a national pager company. He deals with the usual complaints regarding poor pager operation, as well as the occasional crank caller demanding to be paged less often, more often, or by more interesting people.
The best call came from a man who repeatedly complained that he keeps being paged by "Lucille."
He was instructed that he would have to call her and tell her to stop paging him.
"She don't never leave no number, so I can't call her back," he said.
After three such calls, someone thought to ask how he knew it was Lucille if she didn't leave a number.
"She leaves her name," was the reply.
After establishing that the customer had a numeric only pager, the light bulb came on.
"How does she spell her name?" the service rep asked.
