This will be an online Zoom meeting. Please RSVP on our Meetup for this event to get access to the Zoom link. See our online meeting instructions at: https://torontooasis.org/online-meeting-instructions
Our program will run from 11 am to 12:30 pm and you can join in to the meeting starting at 10:45 am for our open social. Followed by an extended discussion for a half hour. Volunteers please join by 10:30 am.
For our featured presentation this Sunday, Tim Mt. Pleasant, a Master of Philosophy Student focusing on Bioethics at McGill University, will facilitate a Death Café. Tim is currently approved for Fall Convocation, graduating from Ryerson University’s Honours BA- Philosophy degree program. Tim has worked for numerous years in Long-Term Care and Community Mental Health/Addictions. He has experienced, most significantly, the death of both grandmothers, which led Tim to previous participation in two Death Cafés.
Death Cafés are safe spaces to talk about death, dying and how that is conceived of by individuals who participate. Tim will introduce a 12-minute Ted Talk by Dr. Peter Saul of Australia, after which participants will be put in break-out rooms to discuss the narrative and preconceived notions of what the experience (or non-experience) of death entails, how we have experienced it with loved ones and how we might imagine our own encounter with it. The extended discussion will allow participants to come together to share, briefly, what has been discussed and what they take away from hearing the brief stories of others. Resources will be provided at the end for future death café’s that are available in various regions and resources for exploring information.
Tim Mt. Pleasant is a First Nations member of the LGBTQ2S+ and Disabled community from Six Nations of the Grand River First Nation; he has recently completed his Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy and is working on completing his Master of Philosophy degree with a concentration in Bioethics. His experience comes from work in the Long-Term Care (10 years), Mental Health/Addictions sectors (8 years) and Ontario Public Service. In addition, Tim completed a placement in the Bioethics program at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre / University Health Network in Toronto, ON.
Tim is currently completing the MA: Philosophy (Bioethics) – Thesis program at McGill University, with a broad range of research interests.
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Looking forward to seeing familiar faces and perhaps some new ones!