Each year, to develop shared knowledge about the world, and to continue to explore the question: “What Kind of World do I want?” Havergal has chosen a complex issue (or theme) to focus on. Inspired by and related to the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals, the past four years have moved from the year of the story, to the year of water, to the year of health and well-being and, now, to the year of food – food for thought.
Last week, professor Mark Kingwell helped us to launch this year’s focus. He challenged us to expand our horizons of care, and to be conscious of the ripple effect each of us creates through our actions. He helped to demonstrate that ‘Food for Thought’ is our effort to explore and connect our collective purpose to make a difference with our individual action to contribute to the world we want.
Peggy Kotsopoulos - Registered Holistic Nutritionist, Culinary Consultant, and Health Educator - is one person who has made this connection. Peggy is the Founder and Director of beVibrant wellness consulting, is in the process of filming her own television show, joined us at Havergal last year as a workshop facilitator for WellFest, and is currently writing a new cookbook titled: 'Guilt Free Goodies'.
Her food philosophy encourages us to create big change in terms of flavour and overall well-being by making small changes to our favorite recipes. She came to our school today today to build on Dr. Kingwell's presentation last week, and to offer another approach to Food for Thought. As we learn to connect our personal choices to individual and societal well-being, it is people such as Peggy who will help inspire us to consider the many ways we can, and should, approach the issue of food. She is creative, energetic, and is an encouraging examples of how powerful it is to create your own personal mission.
Peggy will offer workshops in the Forum for Change in October and November. Workshop dates are the following:
Friday Oct. 9th (Lunchtime)
Friday Oct. 30th (Lunchtime)
Friday Nov. 6th (Lunchtime)
Friday Nov. 20th (Lunchtime)
If you're interested in coming to the workshops, please come to the Forum for Change (C32) to sign up. The first workshop is now full, and the second workshop is close, so come secure your spot for the workshops in November now!
*If you can't make it to any of them for one reason or another, don't fret! I'm filming the workshops and will post them on the blog!*
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