Chris Riley is the San Mateo County Organizer for Compassion & Choices’ newly launched Death with Dignity Campaign (https://www.compassionandchoices.org/2014/07/03/california-kicks-off-dwd-campaign/). She will discuss how this Campaign is leading the effort to make aid in dying open, accessible, and legitimate in the state within five years.
Who do we let in? Who do we keep out? And what are we doing in there anyway?
We’ll watch a few portions of Jamy Ian Swiss’s talk describing how he sees the skeptic’s tent.
We’ll springboard from there and talk about how we see our own humanist tent.
All members, potential members, and interested parties are welcome to join the discussion, which will be facilitated by HCSV member Laura Mappin.
Watch the video in advance below
Below are slides from Laura that are helpful in advancing this important discussion.
In 1992, Allart Ligtenberg retired early from his Hewlett-Packard engineering manager’s job to follow his dream of disseminating solar cooking/water pasteurization and renewable energy in developing countries in order to improve health, the environment, and reduce poverty. Allart started long-term solar cooking programs in Nepal, and each year he spends 2-3 months in Nepal to follow up on these programs. Come hear Allart discuss his many wonderful green technology efforts.
If anyone is interested to become involved and help volunteer in any of the ongoing programs he describes, please contact Allart. His contact details may be found in the slide deck below.
To see the slides Allart Presented click here
For more background on Allart and his work click here
Humanist Community Forum (2014-08-24): Solar Cooking and Other Green Technology Projects in Nepal (Allart Ligtenberg) from Humanist Community-SiliconValley on Vimeo.
Paul Hebert (Case Manager for the Palo Alto and Los Altos Mediation Programs, www.paloaltomediation.com, which are administered by Project Sentinel, www.housing.org) will briefly describe the services available through Project Sentinel and the Mediation Programs. Then he will describe the key elements of communication skills which mediators model and support to help resolve conversations that have gotten off track. He and a panel of other mediators will then take questions from the audience about challenging communication scenarios they have experienced, and describe how a mediator would approach those conversations.
For a copy of Paul’s handout provided at the forum click here
Humanist Community Forum (2014-08-17): Moving Through Difficult Conversations (Paul Hebert, Jeffrey P. Blum) from Humanist Community-SiliconValley on Vimeo.
What do you appreciate about HCSV? How could HCSV change to be more meaningful to you? What would you be willing to do to help make HCSV be more worthwhile to you? This Forum will be a discussion among attendees (co-facilitated by HCSV members Laura Mappin and Paul Gilbert). Bring your thoughts to share, and your willingness to listen to, and collaborate with, others.