Art Programs & Retreats   Five Oaks provides the ideal setting to come away and explore your creativity. Scroll down this page to see all our upcoming arts based retreats and programs.    Photography Start: Mar 4, 2014 @ 10:00 AM End: Mar 6, 2014 @ 12:30 PM Cost: $355.00 Photography with Richard Choe. …
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  The Theology of Providence: Perspectives and Problems   Annual Birks Lectures, Faculty of Religious Studies at McGill University, Montreal.   Tuesday and Wednesday, October 15th and 16th, 2013   With David Fergusson, Professor of Divinity and Principal of New College, Universityof Edinburgh   Lectures held at the BirksHeritage Chapel 3520University Street, 2nd Floor.

  FINDING MEANING-led by Dr. Sebastian Fazzari, Ph.D   Event Date: 29/Nov/2014 Event Details: Existential psychologists use the term “existential anxiety” to refer to the type of anxiety that is caused by not being able to reach one’s full potential in life.  Existential anxiety is a vague sense of tension, boredom, or desperation that arises …
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    LEARNING TO BECOME ASSERTIVE-led by Dr. Sebastian Fazzari, Ph.D   Event Date: 20/Sep/2014 Event Details: In order to become assertive one must learn to become self-aware.  It is also important to know what one wants because one has to learn to ask for what one wants.  As humans we have certain basic rights …
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  OVERCOMING PAINFUL PERSONALITY STYLES-led by Dr. Sebastian Fazzari, Ph.D   Event Date: 31/May/2014 Event Details: Individuals who are prone to anxiety share certain personality traits.  Like everything else, some of the traits are positive, like: creativity, intuition, sensitivity, and empathy.  These traits endear us to the people around us.  Other traits tend to interfere …
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    LEARNING TO IDENTIFY THE BELIEFS THAT CAUSE US PAIN-led by Dr. Sebastian Fazzari, Ph.D   Event Date: 29/Mar/2014 Event Details: Where does negativity come from?  The basic assumption is that we learned our “decisions” or “beliefs” from our parents, teachers, peers, and from society at large as we were growing up.  This way …
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    EXPOSING THE SELF-TALK THAT KEEPS YOU STUCK IN NEGATIVITY – led by Dr. Sebastian Fazzari, Ph.D   Event Date: 25/Jan/2014 Event Details: What we say to ourselves in response to a particular situation tends to determine our moods and our feelings.  Over time, we say things so fast that we don’t even notice …
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  DREAMS, VISUALIZATIONS AND ALTERED LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS – led by Dr. Sebastian Fazzari   Event Date: 30/Nov/2013 Event Details: November 30 – Saturday, 9:30 am – 3:30 pm Dreams can often be revolutionary messages coming to us from different levels of consciousness that can teach us how to set ourselves free. A dream more …
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    LEARNING TO FACE YOUR PHOBIAS – led by Dr. Sebastian Fazzari, Ph.D   Event Date: 30/Nov/2013 Event Details: When you are confronted with having to face something that you have been avoiding for a very long time it can be both a frightening and daunting task.  However, the daunting task can be broken …
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  Kootenay School of Ministry   Issues in Death and Dying (O 104 002)  August 22-25, 2014  St. Andrew’s, Kelowna Instructor: Dr. Lynda Phillips