Diabetes: How To Be Helpful Without Becoming the 'Food Police'”

Our warm, winter sessions continue on February 2 when the topic will be "Diabetes: How To Be Helpful Without Becoming the 'Food Police'” Join Melissa Melum, registered nurse and certified diabetes educator, for a discussion of diabetes intended to provide a basic understanding that will allow people to provide knowledgeable and appropriate support for friends and family members with this illness.  Although not intended as a diabetes education session for people with diabetes or pre-diabetes, some pointers for meaningful monitoring and lifestyle intervention will be presented. Diabetes is a complex and multi-faceted illness, with no two patients identical with regard to needs and management approaches. However, with a board understanding of the issues, people can provide appropriate support without interfering with patients’ lives or providing misinformation.

 Melissa became a Certified Diabetes Eductor seven years ago. Before partial retirement to North Carolina, she worked as an RN, CDE at Kaiser Permanente in Maryland and at a Joslin Center affiliate at University of Maryland.

"The Gift – A Sound Mind For Life"

On January 19 "The Gift – A Sound Mind For Life" will show how to improve memory, increase focus, and prevent or delay Alzheimer’s. Our returning   presenter, Dr. Suka Chapel-Horst, is an author and wellness educator. She is also the developer of Primary Brain Repair, the First Response for Optimal Health and Wellness.

On January 26 there'll be "A Forum On Forums" led by the O'Keefes, who'd like attendees' suggestions for future programs – topics to discuss, ideas for presentations, potential speakers, etc. Would YOU be willing to present or lead a Forum discussion? How can we increase attendance at forums? Do you have any other suggestions for the forum? Your ideas will help us continue to having interesting and informative forums. Please come, bring friends and ideas!

"Consciousness, Death and Rebirth."

On January 12 Jim Nourse will present "Consciousness, Death and Rebirth."  Fifty years of research in transpersonal psychology, including studies of the near-death-experience, make a compelling case that the materialist position that consciousness is the product of brain chemistry is untrue. We are on the verge of a revolution in the collective awareness of humanity that will establish eternal life and paranormal phenomena, not as articles of faith, but as experiential facts. Jim Nourse, Ph.D. has devoted his 40 year professional career to the study and application of ancient spiritual and healing practices in the modern clinical setting. His work at the Center for Integrated Health and Healing in Brevard combines his training and experience as a clinical psychologist, acupuncturist and time spent with Native American and Hawaiian teachers. He is the author of Simple Spirituality: Finding Your Own Way, and the newly released Opening the Aloha Mind: Healing Self, Healing the World with Ho’oponopono.

"A White Stone Ceremony To Start the New Year,"

Forum's new year begins this Sunday, Jan. 5 at 9:15 when the topic will be "A White Stone Ceremony To Start the New Year," What’s  in a name? The start of a new year is a time of beginnings. Join the O'Keefes for a special ceremony and gift to inaugurate a new you in 2014. Based on Revelations 2:17, “To everyone who conquers I will give some of the hidden manna, and I will give a white stone on which is written a new name that no one knows except the one who receives it.” Come join us, receive a white stone from the Holy Land and find your New You!