Are you a parent or guardian looking to start the career conversation with your youth? 

New WorkBC webinars can help! WorkBC is partnering with the CES Career Education Society to facilitate upcoming evening sessions for parents and guardians.

Each one-hour virtual session will help you:

• Understand career exploration and planning.
• Be better equipped to guide your youth while they explore their future.
• Get tips on how to approach the conversation. 

Register today – select the date that works best for you! 
January 20, 2022 | February 8, 2022 | February 17, 2022 | March 1, 2022 | March 10, 2022

Please see the digital flyer for more information.

The ABC Skills Hub allows you to learn from anywhere, anytime, and at your own pace.

ABC Skills Hub

ABC Life Literacy Canada is a non-profit organization that aims to strengthen organizations that promote adult learning. We develop and support the use of high-quality introductory learning materials and resources written in clear language. We envision a Canada where everyone has the tools and opportunities they need to improve their literacy and essential skills.

Vision

We envision a Canada where everyone has the tools and opportunities they need to improve their literacy and essential skills.

Mission

ABC Life Literacy Canada strengthens organizations that promote adult learning by developing and supporting the use of high-quality introductory learning materials and resources written in clear language.

 

Values

Lifelong learning: We strive to build our expertise and deepen our understanding by listening, reading, and learning in and out of the classroom.

Integrity: We are honest and transparent across all of our relationships, communications, and activities.

Clarity: We communicate clearly, thoughtfully, and with purpose.

Collaboration: We are inclusive, and we bring together diverse stakeholders to deliver on our vision and mission.

Excellence: We bring our best to our organization, our community, and our activities. We do this through research, evaluation, and innovation, and a careful and considerate stewardship of our financial, human, and community resources.

Core Services

ABC Life Literacy Canada:

• Creates and distributes introductory-level, high-quality learning materials to organizations that promote adult learning across Canada.
• Supports access to and effective use of those materials by providing them at no cost to end users.
• Consults on clear language and design.
• Builds awareness of the importance of helping everyone acquire literacy and essential skills.
• Advocates for literacy and essential skills programming and for the adult learning sector.
• Contributes to the professionalization and connectedness of organizations that promote adult learning in Canada.

I’ve learned so much from so many… but this beautiful lesson really sat with me.

“Lessons from an Orange: Its what’s inside that counts!”

The Great Dr Dyer and I had a mutual friend. Her presence in my heart has been insurmountable.  She and he were friends in Maui and she sent me a beautiful collection of many resources, books and “CD’s”. He was moving through the Tao De Ching while writing Change Your Thoughts—Change Your Life, based on the year he spent studying and living according to Lao-tzu’s wisdom in the way of the Tao te Ching.

“I am letting go of all my attachments and heading to my writing space on Maui. I am being called to do something on the Tao te Ching.”  I suppose I was one of the lucky ones as a recipent of these gifts.  I have since given away countless resources with the intention of sharing the good Dr. with as many as possible and use his teachings as lessons.   When we met in Vancouver in 2009, I knew I was fortunate to be in the devine company one of my greatest teachers. 

By Dr Wayne Dyer:

I’m in the middle of what has become my annual Canada tour and it’s such a pleasure to feel all the love from my spiritual kinspeople here. I think of myself as “almost Canadian” since my parents were both born in Ontario, my father in Chatham in 1914 and my mother in Hamilton in 1916. I grew up in Detroit and Canada is part of my world. Last month I spoke at the Hay House I Can Do It Conference in Vancouver—wonderful and beautiful as always. And on June 29, I’ll be speaking at the Hay House I Can Do It Conference in Toronto. It’s the weekend before Canada Day on July 1 so maybe we’ll have some early fireworks to enjoy.

I have some great Canada stories, like the time I got lost in Vancouver’s Stanley Park and instead of my usual six miles ended up running a marathon before I found my way out! Lately, I’ve been sharing one of my favorite Toronto experiences with my audiences. It happened several years ago when an unsuspecting young man helped me illustrate an eternal truth we all need to be reminded of:

I was preparing to speak at an I Can Do It conference and I decided to bring an orange on stage with me as a prop for my lecture. I opened a conversation with a bright young fellow of about twelve who was sitting in the front row.

“If I were to squeeze this orange as hard as I could, what would come out?” I asked him.

He looked at me like I was a little crazy and said, “Juice, of course.”

“Do you think apple juice could come out of it?”

“No!” he laughed.

“What about grapefruit juice?”

“No!”

“What would come out of it?”

“Orange juice, of course.”

“Why? Why when you squeeze an orange does orange juice come out?”

He may have been getting a little exasperated with me at this point. “Well, it’s an orange and that’s what’s inside.”

I nodded. “Let’s assume that this orange isn’t an orange, but it’s you. And someone squeezes you, puts pressure on you, says something you don’t like, offends you. And out of you comes anger, hatred, bitterness, fear. Why? The answer, as our young friend has told us, is because that’s what’s inside.”

It’s one of the great lessons of life.  What comes out when life squeezes you?  When someone hurts or offends you? If anger, pain and fear come out of you, it’s because that’s what’s inside. It doesn’t matter who does the squeezing—your mother, your brother, your children, your boss, the government. If someone says something about you that you don’t like, what comes out of you is what’s inside. And what’s inside is up to you, it’s your choice.

When someone puts the pressure on you and out of you comes anything other than love, it’s because that’s what you’ve allowed to be inside. Once you take away all those negative things you don’t want in your life and replace them with love, you’ll find yourself living a highly functioning life.

Thanks, my young friend, and here’s an orange for you!

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