Posted by Jill Toews on Aug 13, 2019

Minutes at the Mic for January 16, 2019

7:00 O Canada

7:05 Breakfast

 7:15 Minutes at the Mic

 
Monica - Rotary Saturday August 14, 4-6 $25.00 at Quatum Polytech
Gordon - the Projects for HOM funds are the Water School Project and the Circus School
Ric M - Anna, our student, is arriving from Brazil August 13.
Ric M - POG did well: thank you!
Kelly - Cultural Crawl is this week: August 10 & 11
Wendy -Tony turned 70
Wendy -15 August 1-4 is the Nurse Next Door open house.
Bob - recommends trying the Hop-On-Hop-Off bus, downtown.
Kathy - Age is Just A Number: a fund raising project for seniors, partnering with Senior Services, on Wednesday October 2, $75/ticket
Kathy - Hockey pool is coming soon.
 
7:20 Toonie Bucket winner – Haze
 

7:30 Guest speaker - Roy Prevost 

  • is planning to put a workshop together and so is creating an event: how to alleviate anxiety and stress in the workplace.
  • life presents us with the perfect storm through AI:life is speeding up, technology leaves people behind by replacing their jobs, and addiction to hand held devices. This is compounded because we don't talk about anxiety or mental illness.
  • Further, people internalize the negative news. Remember, TV news competes for viewers.
  • Roy is investigating alternatives to deal with anxiety. What helps:
    • meditation
    • journalling
    • turn off the TV
    • exercise
  • examine what you can control: not others, your trigger points, your environment.... What do you have control over?
  • Watch for more in the future.

8:10 Four Way Test