Reading and Book Signing
May 13, 2010 6:30PM – 8:30PM
Banyen Books and Sound
Vancouver, BC

I will be speaking about and reading from my book, Did You Know I Would Miss You? Come join the conversation about how to heal from having lost someone you love to suicide. The experience of the suicide survivor is minimized in our culture, and yet The American Psychiatric Association says that it is comparable to that of a concentration camp survivor.

Write a Wild Horse
March 13, 2010  10AM – 3 PM
Free Spirit Yoga (Thornhill) studio
Maple Ridge, BC

There are still a few openings in this one-day women’s writing workshop, but it’s filling up fast!  Seize this chance to canter through your barriers, trot with your Muse, and joust with your demons in playful combat. Break in your anthology of undiscovered stories and poetry, echoing in your bones and blood. Saddle up the shadow, the dream world, personal archetypes, and other realms that evoke the instinctive writer. Whatever your genre, Write a Wild Horse will get you out of your stall and into the open frontier of your creativity.

For more information or to register, email me at donaleen@donaleensaul.com, or call 1-604-839-7270.

Suicide Survivors Alumi Group Presentation
January 24, 2010
Valleyview Funeral Home
Surrey, BC
by invitation only

Vancouver Peace Summit
Nobel Laureates in Dialogue
Vancouver, BC
September 26-29, 2009
I attended the Women and Peace-Building dialogue featuring Maria Shriver, Jody Williams, Peter Buffett, Swanee Hunt, Susan Davis, Ela Bhatt, Fasle Hasan Abed, and His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, and prepared a report for The Dalai Lama Centre for Peace and Education.

Write on Bowen – A Festival for Writers and Readers
July 10-12, 2009
I presented a workshop, From Heart to Hand – Journaling to Heal and was part of a panel on “Why We Write” with Pauline LeBel and Geoff Olsen.

Canadian Federation of University Women
Richmond, BC
December 5, 2008
A talk + discussion with members on Did You Know I Would Miss You? – A Healing Journey, which was their November 2008 book club selection.

Book Launch – Did You Know I Would Miss You? – A Healing Journey
Canadian Memorial Centre for Peace,
Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Suicide Survivors Day, November 22, 2008
There was a program of speakers from the following communities:
education,  bereavement, suicide survivors and faith communities,  followed by a reading and signing by the author (i.e., me!)

Metro Vancouver Leaders Summit on Immigrant Employment
Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue
Simon Fraser University
Vancouver, BC, Canada
October 22, 2008
I prepared a report for Dialogue Programs, Simon Fraser University, Continuing Studies.

Imagine Abbotsford – A Dialogue on Health and Community
Sweet Dreams Luxury Inn
Abbotsford, BC, Canada
September 26-27, 2008
I prepared a report for Dialogue Programs, Simon Fraser University, Continuing Studies.

Creating Welcoming and Inclusive Communities – What Will it Take?
Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue
Simon Fraser University
Vancouver, BC, Canada
June 26, 2008
I prepared a report for Dialogue Programs, Simon Fraser University, Continuing Studies www.sfu.ca/dialog//study+practice/WIC/

The Power of Writing Conference
Center for Journal Therapy
Denver, CO, USA
June 18-21, 2008
I gave two talks on healing loss by suicide, and introduced Did You Know I Would Miss You? – A Healing Journey to the international journal therapy community.