East and West Learning Connections
At East and West Learning Connections (the Organization), we promote life experience and thought exchange between people of different cultural backgrounds at an individual level. While we greatly appreciate our guest speakers kindly taking the time to share their life stories, thoughts, concerns, and/or suggestions with our audience, the guest speakers’ opinions do not necessarily represent those of the Organization’s. We encourage our audience always to exercise critical thinking, and have frank dialogues with guest speakers as well as with one another, and the Organization.
This online club meets ALMOST every week to read books together, chapter by chapter. Club members, who come from diverse backgrounds and live in different countries, take turns to present the chapter(s) they volunteer to lead the reading of and facilitate the breakout room discussion that follows. We welcome you to join us and bring your unique life experience and perspective to the discussion!
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At East & West Dialogue, volunteer guest speakers from different cultural backgrounds come to East and West Learning Connections to share their living experiences, expertise, thoughts, and have a dialogue with our audience.
This month, we are very much honoured to be joined by two humble, but highly achieving Canadians who have big hearts for the world. Come to see how they have developed their overseas charitable work from Canada over many years, in a secular and apolitical way, and discuss how such acts of kindness, whether big or small, can easily be achieved!
Time: Saturday September 28, 2024 at 7:30-9 P.M. (Eastern Time)
Please RSVP to info@eawlc.org if you wish to participate in person, or register the online Zoom session.
Continue reading “East & West Dialogue with Ron Kilius and Robin Mednick: Giving Gifts to the World”EAWLC Lunch Coaching Hour for Business Communication 2024
Due to popular demand, we are delighted to announce the return of the renowned communication trainer, Ric Phillips, for workplace culture and business communication coaching. Register here!
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Want to become an Entrepreneur? Already an Entrepreneur and have questions?
The East and West Learning Connections proudly kicks off a quarterly entrepreneur mentoring program hosted by Dr. Frank Wang, inviting business mentor Martin Copeland to sit in, and answer audience’s questions on everything about entrepreneurship. A successful business owner with over 40 ears’ experience in practice in both Canada and the U.S., and a business mentor since retirement, Martin would be happy to share practical advice as well as cultural context, and mindset insight of the business world to help guide early stage entrepreneurs. Visit here to watch an inspirational dialogue we had with Martin before.
Continue reading “EAWLC Entrepreneur Mentoring Program with Martin Copeland”*We are constantly recruiting native English-speaking facilitator volunteers for the English Social Conversation program! Please see the invitation message at the end of this announcement.
Have you ever wondered what to talk about in a social conversation? Or, as an immigrant, do you sometimes feel it is difficult to join your local co-workers’ conversation because you don’t know the people or things they are talking about, or you have some everyday questions that you would like to know how local people would think or deal with? Or do you just want to find a safe, relaxing and friendly environment to talk to some native English speakers, and enjoy a pleasant conversation?
Continue reading “English Social Conversation @East and West Learning Connections 2024”At East & West Dialogue, volunteer guest speakers from different cultural backgrounds come to East and West Learning Connections to share their living experiences, thoughts and concerns, and have a dialogue with our audience.
This month, we are very much honoured to be joined by two prominent Armenian Canadian authors: a literary critic/poet and a magazine editor. They shall address the topics of immigrant odysseys, and how sometimes exile and self-exile can lead to a recovery of roots of identity and more!
Time: Saturday June 29, 2024 at 7:30 – 9 P.M. (Eastern Time)
Please RSVP to info@eawlc.org if you wish to participate in person or register the online Zoom session. .
Continue reading “East & West Dialogue with Keith Garebian and Jirair Tutunjian: The Odysseys of Recovering”In our Book Talks program, authors and/or translators come to introduce their books, and facilitate discussions with our audience.
This month, we are delighted to have Toronto-based author Evelyn Chau to talk about her second works, a communication techniques book How To Speak To Anyone: Communication Tactics for the Quietly Ambitious Who Want to be Seen, Heard and Valued.
Time: Thursday, June 13, 2024 at 7:30-9 P.M. (Eastern Time)
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Come to East and West Learning Connections to meet with an amazing Chinese American young man who has traveled to more than 140 countries and created a clinic on an island in Kenya to help the people he loves. Dialogue with Dan Xia, and walk home with inspiration to embrace diversity, cultivate empathy, and strive for positive changes in our interconnected world!
Time: Thursday, May 30, 2024, at 7:30-9 P.M. (Eastern Time)
Continue reading “EAWLC Dialogue with Dan Xia: Making the Best out of Travelling the World”This dialogue will conduct in Mandarin. For English introduction please jump to next heading in English.
Frank对话方柏林: 人工智能时代教育的意义
2021年作客东西联学社、畅谈过剩时期的有效学习的两位博士爸爸，今次将结合他们孩子的成长轨迹，以及最近两年的研究与思考进展，再次联袂探讨教育问题，比如公立高等教育和私立高等教育的本质区别在哪里？私立大学的吸引力又在何方，值得家庭做什么样的牺牲？学校教育如何帮助个人教育？在通才和专才的选择中，技能和思维的平衡，在人工智能时代需要如何转变？
Continue reading “Frank对话方柏林: 人工智能时代教育的意义/EAWLC Frank Wang’s Dialogue with Berlin Fang: The Meaning of Education in the Age of AI”East and West Learning Connections is honoured to have a legendary eye doctor as a guest speaker to talk with our audience, and present a movie about his fabulous life stories!
Time: Monday May 6, 2024 at 7-8 P.M. (Eastern Time)
Register here.