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

Monday, 10th March 2019
Sleep Awareness: a Living Library event

About the event:
World sleep day is being organised by the World sleep society (http://worldsleepday.org/) on 15th March 2019, to spread awareness about the importance of sleep health and better management of sleep disorders. Pearl Cove library is organising a similar event to commemorate this occasion through living library. 

 A living library event is where actual people come as a resource to interact with people. Come and participate in this Pearl Cove library initiative and interact with various living libraries. Our living libraries include an "adolescent sleep physician", a person with "narcolepsy", an "Indigeneous Australian scientist" and an "Indian community leader".

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When and where

Time: 10.30am-12 pm

Date: 10th March, 2019. 

Place: Pearl Cove library

Bookings essential: Eventbrite by 5th March, 2019

Free event, Light refreshments with Tea/Coffee and delicious baked goods.

Show bags and information booklets provided at the end of the event.

Contact Lipika Pujari Kakati at Pearl Cove library

Health Ideas for the Elderly

Living Library Event:

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Event Information

Come  along and speak with a Specialist Doctor in Geriatric medicine, Aged Care Nurse and Physiotherapist, and an Aboriginal Health Elder. Including a Senior Citizen Association Stall, manned by its president and other members to have a chat with and gain information. 

• Find out about prime health matters that affect us in our elderly years
• simple hints to ways of keeping our bodies and minds in good condition
• learn about what each speaker contributes to the elderly in a working capacity 
• information supplied about other professional agencies that assist the elderly in the community

Further information about health and ageing can be found at the following websites:

https://www.myagedcare.gov.au/getting-started/healthy-and-active-ageing

https://www.healthdirect.gov.au/physical-activity-guidelines-for-older-adults

When and Where

Time:   1.15 pm - 4.30 pm
When : Friday 19 March 2019
Where: Pearl Cove Council
             Pearl Room
Bookings essential: Eventbrite by 12 March 2019

Senior Citizens Association stall
Free event.
Light refreshments
(includes gluten and nut free food)

by Carolyn Rickeard

Saturday, 29 September 2018

Off the Grid

 Attribution: http://survival-mastery.com/basics/how-to-live-off-the-grid.html

We at Pearl Cove Library have organised a special event for you.  Our yearly Human Living Library event is where you can borrow a ‘living book’ and ask all the questions you want for 20 minutes per speaker.  September is the month for Sustainability so the theme is about all things sustainable. 

Find out about how to forage and identify edible local bush foods, grow a food garden, harvest water, grid connected solar power systems for your existing home or off-grid solar power systems with back up battery storage options.   For the more adventurous, find out how to build your own home with rammed-earth or mud-brick materials found locally and automate household waste management.  Also, find out how an eco-home can be built from as little as $5,000.

Speakers

Patrick Jones and Meg Ulman, authors of The Art of Free Travel and practice a sustainable lifestyle in regional Victoria, will bring their permaculture skills to the event.  They also have vast knowledge and experience in foraging and hunting for food.  In their travels, camping and searching for bush tucker, they were able to document a wide range of edible plants.

Find out more - The Artist as Family blog

The Art of Free Travel

Attribution:  http://theartistasfamily.blogspot.com

Other speakers will include an indigenous aunty from our local community who will share her knowledge on foraging and local bush foods. An off-grid living expert from the Byron Bay hinterland will share knowledge on how he built his own home using local materials, how he started a food garden and makes use of off-grid solar power for energy needs, harvests his own water and has a household waste management system.  Another speaker from Off-Grid Energy Australia will explain options for off-grid solar power systems or grid connected solar power systems, and back up battery storage options.

Find out more - Changing your life and going off the grid - ABC 

Enjoy didgeridoo performances throughout the day. 

Light refreshments and lunch served.

Gluten/nut free options catered for.  (Our food order includes these options so no need to advise)

Event is free – Please book online through Eventbrite.  Or come see us at the Service Desk at Pearl Cove Library and we will book for you.

Date: Saturday, 29 September 2018

Time: 10:30am - Registration and light refreshments

Event start: 11:00am  

Venue:  Library Courtyard, Pearl Cove Library

 

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