East and West Learning Connections
Welcome to the EAWLC 2026 Spring Festival Silent Auction! Online bidding has now closed, but the excitement continues.
In-person bidding will take place on Saturday during our Celebration Party. If you’ve registered, come ready to join the fun, place your bids, and support EAWLC’s wonderful programs for our community.
We look forward to celebrating with you! All winners will be announced and notified
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Great conversations and insights seem to flow naturally during year-end reviews. It’s always wonderful to hear how people have learned and grown over the past two and a half years through EAWLC Lunch Coaching Hour. Slowly yet deeply, I’ve come to understand that communication is more about people than about language or technique. Want to see all the topics covered this year in one place? You can view them here.
Welcome back to the EAWLC Lunch Coaching Hour Series on Business Communication! This year, we’ll guide you through your career journey—from expanding your professional network and building your personal brand to stepping into leadership, assembling a team, and inspiring others. Register today and grow with us!
Time: On the fourth Thursday @12-1 P.M. (Eastern Time) each month from March to November, excluding July and August.
We are also very grateful to welcome coach Ric back to lead all the sessions this year.
We are resuming our coaching sessions in September. For the final three sessions this year, we will focus on leadership-related topics.
November 27th: Session #7 Year End Review of all 2025 Sessions
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Come to this 12-session online entrepreneurship lectures offered by Martin Copeland through The East and West Learning Connections for free!
A successful business owner with over 40 years’ experience in practice in both Canada and the U.S., and a business mentor since retirement, Martin would also be happy to answer audience’s questions on everything about entrepreneurship, to share practical advice as well as cultural context, and mindset insight of the business world to help guide early stage entrepreneurs.
Continue reading “EAWLC Entrepreneur Mentoring Program with Martin Copeland 2025”At East and West Learning Connections, we have been holding an online salon for registered members once a month since July 2022. Members and their families are welcome to take the opportunity to meet each other on Zoom, share recent experience, encounters, thoughts, and hear a guest speaker’s stories. Continue reading “EAWLC Member Salon Minutes”
East and West Learning Connections (EAWLC) is run by volunteers. Without their talents, commitment, and hard work, all the programs we have offered to the public just cannot possibly come into reality. Every year at our Annual General Meeting, our Board chooses a number of winners to receive the EAWLC Outstanding Service Awards based on time commitment, task impact, and organization involvement in the previous year. The award does not apply to board directors, advisors, or guest speakers, even though they are also volunteers to whom we are deeply grateful for their help. Each year there will be friends generously donating some cool items so we can give the winners as a gift. The winners are the representatives of all EAWLC volunteers who all come to help us with a giving heart for the community. Thank you so much, members, volunteers, and donors, for your great support and contributions!
Continue reading “2025 EAWLC Outstanding Service Award Winners”At EAWLC’s Book Talks program, authors come to present their books, and have discussions with our audience. This particular session will be conducted in Mandarin. For English description, please jump to the English part below.
东西联学社诚邀您来我们的书话节目，听作家讲他们自己的作品和作品背后的故事，当面交流、参与讨论。
Continue reading “EAWLC Book Talks with Echo Liu: No Detours in the Black Hole / 彼方书话《黑洞不绕行》”If you know a good restaurant from your culture, or any restaurant you really like, in Toronto or near vicinities, please kindly share with us!
East and West Learning Connections initiated the Foodies Group in 2024 for its registered members, volunteers, and guest speakers. Group members, coming from different cultural backgrounds, are encouraged to take turns to lead an outing to a restaurant of their choice, and if possible, to think of ways to enhance the experience for the group culturally. For example, they may share knowledge or stories related to the food/culture, or try to arrange for a cooking demo, etc.
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Join us in this fascinating tour of Toronto Zoo guided by a prominent scientist who has devoted to animal study and wild life protection for decades! Moreover, the Zoo has kindly offered a complimentary animal encounter for us. We may also meet with the Zoo’s CEO.
Time: Sunday December 1, 2024 at 10 a.m. to noon (Eastern Time)
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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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