East and West Learning Connections
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)
Continue reading “EAWLC Tour of Toronto Zoo Guided by Dr. Andrew Lentini”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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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.
You can bookmark this playlist for all videos of Martin’s lectures and Q&As at East and West Learning Connections’ YouTube Channel.
Click to learn more and register this free coaching series and view coach Ric’s profile.
October 24, 2024
There is an old saying in Chinese, “To stand like you are a pine tree (Zhan Ru Song),” symbolizing steadiness. Today, Coach Ric introduced us to a new tree to mimic during presentations: the palm tree. It represents both steadiness and natural flexibility. The session was packed with theoretical and practical advice, including RSVP (Rhythm, Speed, Volume, Pace) for voice and PPP (Pleasure/Pain Principle). My personal favourite, though, is his honesty about how he, a native speaker and communication coach, still practices his speeches and looks for improvement constantly. Check out this month’s material here.
Continue reading “Notes for the 2024 Lunch Coaching Hour on Business Communication”At our monthly East & West Dialogue, guest speakers from different cultural backgrounds volunteer their time and expertise to share life experiences, thoughts, concerns, , and have a dialogue with our audience.
This month, we are very much delighted to welcome two renowned Canadian poets and writers, Alice Major and DC Reid, who both have broad interest in literature, science, and social issues. They’ll talk about how they came to make their living as writers, and share how their interest in science informs their work. They’ll also talk about having some of their poetry translated into Chinese, and together with their translator, Mississauga’s first poet laureate Anna Yin, read a little of their work.
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Time: Sunday October 27, 2024 at 7-8:30 P.M. (Eastern Time; starts at 5 P.M. Mountain Time, and 4 P.M. Pacific Time)
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”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”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”By Ed Shiller at EAWLC, April 27, 2024
I’ll begin by sharing with you a few observations and experiences.
I believe that prejudice and racism are acquired traits, perhaps emerging as a consequence of the human instinct to form tight-knit communities of like-minded people.
Continue reading “Notes for “EAWLC Dialogue with Ed Shiller””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.