The Community Library will be CLOSED until 3:00 pm on Friday, November 1 for staff training.
We will be OPEN from 3:00 pm – 6:00 pm.
Join us for a special program at 4:00 pm – “Real People, Real Recovery: Overcoming Addiction in Modern America” with Piers Kaniuka.
*The Gold Mine and Gold Mine Consign will remain closed all day. The Gold Mine will reopen at 10:00 am on Saturday, November 2, the Gold Mine Consign will reopen on Saturday, November 9 at 10:00 am.
**This program has been cancelled — we apologize for the inconvenience. The program will be rescheduled for later in 2020.**
Peter Grunwald has discovered that certain areas of the brain, eyes and rest of the visual system correspond to specific areas in the human body. He has developed effective techniques to release patterns that underlie visual dysfunctions together with postural dysfunctions causing back, neck and shoulder pain, headaches and breathing disorders.
In his presentation at The Community Library, Peter will describe how the principles in practice can support you in your own process of seeing. He will work practically with some of the participants and offer some tools to take away.
Peter Grunwald was myopic and astigmatic from early childhood, with his first pair of glasses at the age of 3. He began to stutter and both his posture and self-esteem slumped. In 1984 he began professional training in the Alexander Technique (Australia) to overcome his stuttering and slumped posture. He emerged from this training with a sense of postural and mental poise and increased self-esteem. In the late 1980s he studied in Germany with renowned vision teacher Janet Goodrich, PhD, and within 18 month was able to let go of his 10 1/2 dioptre-strong glasses. His discoveries of the first intrinsic associations between eyes and body followed. From his experience he developed the Eyebody learning method and wrote Eyebody – The Art of Integrating Eye, Brain and Body. A native of Germany, Peter currently resides in New Zealand where he consults, writes, and leads retreats around the world.
In collaboration with the I Have A Dream Foundation of Idaho, The Community Library welcomes Dr. Alisha Moreland-Capuia.
This program will be live streamed and can be viewed on The Community Library’s LIVESTREAM page during and after the event.
Alisha’s story is a reminder to us all that there are paths to overcoming adversity and the power of education in our children’s lives. Alisha was in Portland, Oregon’s first “I Have a Dream” Foundation class. She faced plenty of adversity as a young child and with hard work and support from IHDF-OR throughout elementary school, middle and high school, Alisha went onto receiving a scholarship to Stanford University, where she received her Bachelor of Science, then went on to becoming an M.D. from The George Washington University School of Medicine and completed a four years of training in psychiatry and a fellowship in addiction medicine, at Oregon Health Sciences University. She will soon be starting as an Associate Professor at Harvard University this Spring.
Dr. Alisha Moreland-Capuia, MD, author of Training for Change: Transforming Systems to be Trauma-Informed, Culturally Responsive and Neuroscientifically Focused. Currently, she is executive director of Oregon Health & Science University’s (OHSU) Avel Gordly Center for Healing and an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry. Dr. Moreland-Capuia is also a Commissioner for Prosper Portland, serves on the board of the Oregon Historical Society, an appointee to the Oregon Health Policy Board Healthcare Workforce Committee, a former Mayoral appointee to the Community Oversight Board, and a former appointee to the Governor’s Council on Alcohol and Drug Abuse Programs. She is also the Co-Founder of The Capuia Foundation, whose mission is to build a sustainable economy through healthcare, education and agriculture in Angola.
Dr. Moreland-Capuia will soon begin her role as Director of the Program for Culturally and Trauma-Informed Community Outreach, within the Division of Depression and Anxiety, and as an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.
In collaboration with the St. Luke’s Wood River Foundation, The Community Library presents Piers Kaniuka, co-author of Real People, Real Recovery: Overcoming Addiction in Modern America.
The opioid epidemic is laying waste to America. Overdose deaths have decimated a generation and lowered overall life expectancy. Between Big Pharma, the war on drugs, and ineffectual treatment, addicts and their families face an uphill battle in getting the help they need. But there is a way out! Noted recovery professionals Eric Spofford and Piers Kaniuka provide some much needed hope. They describe how they beat opiate addiction and went on to help thousands of addicts find recovery. Along the way, they discuss the root causes of the current opiate epidemic, which include dislocation, the prison industrial complex, practices of the pharmaceutical industry, stress, racism, poverty, and much more. In addition, Real People Real Recovery explains the difference between recovery and sobriety and what actually constitutes success in treatment.
**Special program start time is 4:00 pm**
Piers Kaniuka is Director of Spiritual Life at Granite Recovery Centers. He has worked in the field of addiction for over twenty years and is an expert in how to best utilize holistic practices in the treatment of addiction. Piers is the former chair of the department of Transpersonal Psychology at Burlington College and is a core faculty member in the Contemplative Spiritual Direction certificate program at the Alcyon Center in Seal Cove, Maine. He is also a co-founder of the Liberation Institute, a non-profit dedicated to training incarcerated men and women to become yoga instructors. Piers has Master’s degrees in Theological Studies (Bangor Theological Seminary) and Counseling Psychology (Antioch University, New England).
Did you know?
• Just 6.6% of Fortune 500 CEOs are women.
• Women in the U.S. start 30-40% of all businesses, but those account for just 4% of income earned.
• In 2018 just 2% of venture capital dollars went to companies with a female founder.
• 23 percent of fifth grade girls think they are not smart enough to pursue their dream career, and by high school this number doubles.
In her new book, Girls Who Run The World: 31 CEOs Who Mean Business, Diana Kapp introduces readers to successful, innovative women in a variety of fields, from biotech and construction to food and fashion, who share their personal narratives of struggle, failure and their fight to the top. Their stories are powerful and necessary as girls continue to overcome generations of intellectual and occupational constraints.
This celebration of triumph and perseverance includes the stories of entrepreneurs and many others made it big—along with excellent advice to their teenage selves—and material useful for enterprising young women and girls.
Join us for an evening with Diana as she shares the stories of these entrepreneurial women and where we go from here. She’ll share stories geared for all ages, so bring your sons, daughters, nieces, nephews, and grandchildren along!
Diana will be in conversation with Gretchen Wagner, architect and principal of scape design studio in Ketchum.
Diana Kapp is an award-winning journalist whose work has taken her inside San Quentin prison (to cover an entrepreneur training program), and to deepest Afghanistan with a female school-builder. She writes about education, culture, technology and entrepreneurism for media outlets such as the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Magazine, ELLE, O the Oprah Magazine and Marie Claire. She holds an MBA from Stanford and has worked in web and biotech start-ups.
Books will be available for sale and signing, courtesy of Iconoclast Books.
In celebration of Dale Chihuly’s and Seaver Leslie’s Ulysses Cylinders on display in The Community Library foyer (through January 10, 2020), please join us for an afternoon with modernist scholar Enda Duffy. Dr. Duffy will be discussing James Joyce, the novel Ulysses, and its intimate connection to the glass cylinders on display.
Enda Duffy is a Professor in the English Department at UC Santa Barbara. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University, where he won a Whiting Fellowship, and taught at Reed College and Wesleyan University before coming to UC Santa Barbara. His central interests include modernism and postmodernism, Irish literature, cultural studies and critical theory, and James Joyce. He is the author of The Subaltern Ulysses, and of The Speed Handbook: Velocity, Pleasure, Modernism. The Speed Handbook was co-winner of the Modernist Studies Assocaition Book Award as the best book in modernist studies, 2010. Prof. Duffy is co-editor of Joyce, Benjamin and Magical Urbanism, of an edition of Ulysses and of Katherine Mansfield’s short stories, and of numerous articles on Joyce, Irish modernism, and on post-colonial and modernist literature and culture. He is the founding director of COMMA, the Center on Modern Literature and Culture in the English Dept. Professor Duffy is currently working on two projects: a cultural history of modern Ireland, and a book on energy in modernist culture.
Photo by Paul Wellman for Santa Barbara Independent ©
