The first Change Your Mind Day on Cortes Island was well attended.
Over 50 persons enjoyed a day of meditation, dharma talks, chanting, Qigong, and contemplative movement.

Thanks to Carol Mousseau for initiating the idea and ably chairing a committee of island practitioners . Thank you to the Whaletown Community Club for the use of The Old School House Gallery.

A big Thank You to the speakers representing three Buddhist Traditions: Scott Lawrance, Tibetan; Kim Hoben Hansen from Vancouver, Zen; and Jack Kornfield (reading by Dar Booth). Thanks to Denise Maille, Qigong; Erika Meyer, yoga; and Steve Moore, for his poetry.

It was a beautiful sunny day.

"Change your mind day" is a global event which was held simultaneously in cities throughout the world in celebrating a day of Buddhist mindfulness and meditation. Lynn Martilla was off island and attended a Change Your Mind Day in Calgary.

Changing the mind from conditioned to its' natural unconditioned state is the context in which the word "Change" is used; a change from fragmentation to wholeness, agitation to calm, war to peace, which cannot be imposed, but achieved only by the individual

For background information on the event see www.tricycle.com