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Alfred DePew

Alfred DePew’s day job consists of training executive leaders and their organizations in change management, emotional intelligence, conflict resolution, diversity, non-toxic communication, and implementing vision. He is on the faculty of Center for Right Relationship, for whom he delivers advanced training in Organization and Relationship Systems Coaching. He is available for keynotes, breakout sessions, leadership training, staff development, team building, and retreat facilitation. For more information see his website or read his regular blog, “Relationship Matters”.

Before moving to Vancouver in 2007, DePew taught at the Maine College of Art, the Salt Center for Documentary Studies, and Haystack Mountain School of Crafts. His first book of stories, The Melancholy of Departure, won a Flannery O’Connor Award. His second book, Wild & Woolly: A Journal Keeper’s Handbook is available to Canadian readers through his website and at a few local independent bookstores. His third book, another collection of short fiction, is in search of a publisher—got any ideas?

 

Articles

Cynthia Loy Darst: Inside, Outside, All Around Your Life
Just Between Us
Alfred DePew
Mar 7th, 2010
Cynthia Loy Darst knows a lot about roles. Which stands to reason. She used to be a professional actress. In fact, it was when she was studying theatre, that she discovered the seeds of what was to...
Backstage at the Olympics: Jeff and Aly Pain Are Going for the Gold in Marriage
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Alfred DePew
Feb 22nd, 2010
Aly Pain has asked her Olympic Silver Medalist Skeleton racer husband Jeff, for a divorce more than once in the last several years. And yet today, their marriage is stronger than ever.
Martha Perkins and the Bowen Island Undercurrent
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Alfred DePew
Feb 17th, 2010
Perkins sees the Undercurrent as a source of community building. She wants people to spend an hour each week reading the Undercurrent, “to feel they have to pick up a copy every Friday morning, or...
Inside the Chocolate Factory in Time for Valentine's Day
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Alfred DePew
Feb 5th, 2010
“I can’t believe it,” says Glenn Knowles. “That I’ve turned into a chocolatier after 20 years working in finance. I believe it because I can see it. I’m just awestruck that I’m turning out beautiful...
This Writer’s Life: The Practice of Fiction
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Alfred DePew
Jan 31st, 2010
That’s what keeps us writing. We want to find out what happens next.
Buffooning Around with Trilby Jeeves
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Alfred DePew
Jan 17th, 2010
"Buffoons want to expose us to ourselves. In making fun of us, they want us to smarten up."
Julia James and The Mini-Retreat Solution
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Alfred DePew
Jan 8th, 2010
When Julia James was working on her Masters Thesis in Physical Geography at UBC, she noticed that most of her best ideas came to her when she got up to use the washroom. A different quality of...
Becoming Still
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Alfred DePew
Jan 3rd, 2010
The aim is to get beyond the “monkey mind.” My fear is always that it’s nothing but monkeys as far as the mind can see.
Eldership Circles
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Alfred DePew
Dec 18th, 2009
The notion of eldership circles is ancient—the bringing together of the collective wisdom of a group or tribe in service of the greater whole has been around, I would venture, as long as humanity.
Barbara McAfee: Inciting Radical Aliveness Through Song
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Alfred DePew
Dec 7th, 2009
Barbara McAfee teaches people to sing—sometimes as many as 1,500 at a time—from 50 different countries—in English—a round, no less—in about 20 minutes.
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