I am an experienced facilitator, trainer and teacher, having custom-designed my first seminar after completing my undergraduate degree in 1977. I have designed curricula and developed and taught seminars in a number of countries, at all levels and for universities as well as professional and corporate groups. I taught for eight years at the university level after completing my PhD and was awarded a Post-Doctorate Faculty Certificate on Teaching and Learning in Higher Education by the University of British Columbia in January 2001.
I also give meditation instruction and design retreats for all participant levels and to groups of any size. I am a certified meditation instructor and hold the Meditation Teacher Diploma awarded by the Willpower Institute, Bangkok, Thailand, which I received in March 2004 in Bangkok after completing a six-month, 206-meditation-hour course in Vancouver and scoring 94 per cent in the written examination. This was followed by a two-week, three-day mountain retreat in Thailand, which I also completed in full.
I include below details on seminar series I have designed for my companies, Spa for the Mind Coaching & Communication Inc. and Unlimited Inç, and which I can repeat on demand. The customised work I do for specific organisations and corporations is proprietal in certain aspects, which limits what may be disclosed outside of the contracted context. I design retreats and seminars on leadership, team-building, facilitation, meditation and communication, in formats to fit any particular organisational need.
In 2001/2002 I designed, developed and delivered a year-long programme in the Philosophers’ Cafe series for the Vancouver Art Gallery titled Time and its Telling to coincide with the exhibition Long Time. After this programme, the gallery’s in-house organizer wrote about me as a “dynamo of ideas” who was “adept at offering a wide range of ideas for consideration and discussion.” Also in 2002, I designed and delivered a seminar for Christ Church Cathedral and two for the University Women’s Club at Hycroft. After the latter two events, a member of the club’s board of directors wrote that my “skills as a facilitator are outstanding — she is able to listen to others’ ideas with an open mind and skillfully keep the topic on track.”
In 1997 I designed a series entitled Collecting and Conversing with Art, which I deliver and which includes gallery visits, as a result of which I was invited to and appeared as an expert guest on art, art collecting and art coaching in an instalment of the television show The Shopping Bags that first aired in April, 2003 on the W Network. This series, which was also presented through the North Shore School Board, was favourably reviewed by the administrative offices as well as participants. From 1994 to 2001, I was the founding chair and co-ordinator of the Cultural and Media Studies Interdisciplinary Group at Green College, University of British Columbia. The principal of the college, in a letter of recommendation written for me, describes me as “an exceptional person” who is “highly creative at imagining new projects and carries them through with great skill and enthusiasm.” He said I had been “an exceptional contributor to the social and intellectual life of the college.”
©S Fuller 2010