Rejuvenate – finding well-being amongst life's busy-ness

Do you feel overwhelmed by life's busy-ness?  

Yearn for balance; a life that consciously supports health & well-being?

This Spring you are invited to explore these issues at Rejuvenate - a unique, living library event at Pearl Cove Library.  

Connect with individuals whose journey has confronted similar issues, and have found inspiring ways to bring greater health and vitality into their life.

Book a 'loan' conversation with one (or more!) of six individual 'living books' on offer.  Hear their story, delve into their life experience, ask questions, understand, connect, be inspired!

Six living library books are available for loan:

•  An Indigenous Australian National Park Ranger – who made the move from a fast-paced city-based life to an outdoors life emphasising connection to nature.
• A female trail runner - with a specific interest in mindful running.
• A cancer survivor - whose experience of illness led to a radical slowing down on life.
• A professional dancer - who overcame depression.
• A Chinese teenager - who carried high family expectations in regard to her studies.
• Reverend Stephanie Dowrick – on spaciousness and choosing happiness.

Saturday 14 September 2019, 1.00 - 4.00 pm

@ Pearl Cove Library

A free event, refreshments included, everyone welcome!

Bookings: pearlcovelibrary.eventbrite.com.au or ph 64992345

Further information & reading:

What is Mindfulness?

Free mindfulness programs at Monash University

'Mindful Running: how meditative running can improve performance and make you a happier, more fulfilled person', by Mackenzie L. Havey.

Event contact: Sarah Morrison

Bioscience: Breaking barriers

Pearl Cove Library is celebrating National Science Week with a Human Living Library event. Human Living Libraries facilitate one-on-one conversation between "Readers" and "Books." Books are real people from the local or wider community who share their personal stories, experiences and knowledge.

The theme for this years national science week is Game Changers and Change Makers. Some of the greatest scientific game changers of recent decades have come from the field of bioscience - the science of life. It's an area that is rapidly developing exciting new technologies and discoveries that will shape our future, from innovations in health and disease, to saving threatened plant and animal species. Our Living Books are breaking down the barriers of traditional science to encourage more open, collaborative and accessible science.

Some of the Living Books who will be available to borrow for a 20 minute chat include:

Dr. Alice Williamson: Open Source Scientist, University of Sydney
Open source scientists publish their work online, in real time, allowing their research to be freely accessed by anyone in the world. As well as lecturing at the University of Sydney and presenting on ABC radio, Dr. Williamson has been working with high school students to develop an open source anti-malarial drug. 

Symeon Marou: Indigenous ranger working in native species recovery 
Symeon works together with conservation scientists and other indigenous rangers, who use their unique knowledge of the land to collect data on pests and native animals.

Charlotte Lawrence-Slater: Cancer survivor and advocate for genetic sequencing in disease treatment 
In 2014, Charlotte was diagnosed with an aggressive form of adrenal cancer and given less than a year to live. She was faced with a lack of treatment options until her genome was sequenced by the Garvan Institute in only 10 days, allowing for identification of a specific gene mutation which could be treated with drugs originally used to target an unrelated form of cancer. 

Karlie Noon: Indigenous science graduate 
Karlie grew up in a poor household in rural Australia. She became the first person in her family to study at university and is currently completing her PhD, alongside working with the CSIRO's Indigenous STEM education Project through which she mentors indigenous students.

When?

Saturday 18th of August 2018
Where?
Pearl Cove Library - Cove Meeting Room
Bookings:
Not required. Living Books can be borrowed and reserved on the day.
Further information
Pearl Cove Library: Contact Us

National Science Week

Human Living Libraries

Image credits
Heads on bookshelf

Dr. Alice Williamson 

Symeon Marou 

Charlotte Lawrence-Slater 

Karlie Noon

By Ekaterina Jephtha 

Diets, Diabetes & Detectives - Borrow a Human Living Book - Free Event

We are holding a special event on World Diabetes Day

When:  14 November 2017

Time:  10.15 am ~ 12.45 pm

Where:  Pearl Cove Library, Main Library & in the Pearl Room

How it Works:  Readers will 'borrow' a Human Living Book in the library, for a 15 minute one-to-one conversation.

Diets, Diabetes & Detectives draws attention to our  Human Living Book event.  Our Living Books are women from our community with experience and stories to share, stories of living with diabetes.

There will be two types of books to read - one focused on detecting diabetes in unsuspecting people and the other is on developing healthy lifestyles as a preventative measure. Titles include 'How An Olympian Became A Diabetic', Early Detection Saved My Life', and 'Born Diabetic: A Gym Guide'.

Health professionals from the Diabetes Clinic will be here too, with information and resources for you to to investigate here in the library or take home.

This event is proudly sponsored by OUR LOCAL GYM.

* Refreshments will be available for our books, readers and volunteers.

* This is a FREE event.

BOOK A HUMAN LIVING BOOK TODAY

Go to our Eventbrite page here (link), see the full list of books, select your book and time. You will get a confirmation email. We will be in touch closer to the day.
For more information see our Facebook page (link) or telephone the library on 02 4067 8000.

See Diabetes Australia for more information about diabetes.




Robin King
Image:  Robin