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The Oakville Beaver, W e d n e s d a y F e b ru a ry 6, 2002 - C3 Buddhist nun presents healing workshop The Venerable Dekyi Lee Oldershaw, a former Olympic kayaker and now a Buddhist nun. will lead a workshop, sponsored by the Women's Centre, on the Healing Power of the Mind: Tibetan Buddhist Perspective of Healing. The Saturday, Feb. 16 workshop, to instruct participants a simple meditation technique, will be held at the Oakville Central Library Auditorium. 120 Navy St., from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. "I will use the three hours to teach one specific visualization technique that you can use to help you through psy chological challenges, and the tough times," she explains. "It's worked for terminally ill cancer patients." Oldershaw has been involved with healing for 15 years, "training people, abused people, and the terminally ill in hospices." About six years ago, she was ordained as a Tibetan Buddhist nun in the Dalai Lama tradition, and continues to specialize in healing. she trained with two doc "My technique is very universal. It crosses tors in Mexico. She is also writing a all religions and cul tures. Only about 10% of book. Transforming the my clients are Suffering o f Abuse. Buddhists." She is currently in Oldershaw has facili Ontario looking after her father following an acci tated transformative selfhealing for 12 years in dent. She plans to go to Australia, Scotland. New Zealand in March. New Zealand. Canada "I will be teaching people a method, a tool and India, most recently assisting those with ter they can use, a simple technique of some basic minal illness or back steps in healing using a grounds of abuse. She has led workshops for transform ative mental health, social services process as opposed to a and education institu psychological analytical process." tions, trained practition Dekyi Lee Oldershaw ers and counsels individ She describes her uals. Six years ago she was ordained in technique aS inner transformative heal ing visualization, and "it's so easy, even the Tibetan Buddhist tradition of the Dalai Lama and creatively combines children can do it." the Buddhist perspective o f healing Tickets cost $10 each. Call the with imagery and art. Earlier this year. Women's Centre at 905-847-9104. FABRICLAND CANADA'S LARGEST f a s h im i f a r r ip K T R iR iu n n FASHION FABRIC n DISTRIBUTOR ON SELECTED FALL & WINTER CLfARANCE Series about Jews The Heritage and Civilization of the Jews will be the theme of a four-week non-denominational discus sion series at St. John's United Church on Thursday evenings starting Feb. 7. The series, with Rev. 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