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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

Just Between Us
Alfred DePew
Aug 26th, 2010
From Dubai to Oslo to Jerusalem to Calgary, Juhree Zimmerman is a woman on the move. At home in Kitsilano, she's still in motion.  She takes me into  the kitchen, and from there we move to...
Just Between Us
Alfred DePew
Aug 17th, 2010
Canadians often put me in mind of Dorothy Parker’s quip about Katherine Hepburn, who, she once said, “ran the gamut of emotions from A to B.” Some weeks ago, at dinner with my friend Hal, he said he...
Just Between Us
Alfred DePew
Aug 8th, 2010
“Everything in New York shocked me.” Final installment in a three-part series on Pastor Brian Heinrich of the Lutheran Urban Mission Society...
Just Between Us
Alfred DePew
Aug 3rd, 2010
Not everyone is finished when Brian lets in the second group. Some in the first group have shoveled pasta into plastic bags they brought and are calling for more...
Just Between Us
Alfred DePew
Jul 31st, 2010
This is part one in a three part series...
Just Between Us
Alfred DePew
Jul 22nd, 2010
When I sit down on the bench outside, I see a sheet of notebook paper with writing on it. The sheet has been unfolded, and the writing might be Polish. A poem, by the look of it. I lean over to see...
Just Between Us
Alfred DePew
Jul 14th, 2010
Paintings everywhere—on the floor, on the wall, hanging in sheets on a rack. Big paintings—one of them nearly 12 feet long. And I’m jealous.
Just Between Us
Alfred DePew
Jul 11th, 2010
First: the shock of seeing a gang of Buffoons. Then: the horror of their approach.
Just Between Us
Alfred DePew
Jul 7th, 2010
They’re a bit like Will’s blackberries, these poems, growing in secret underbrush—even published. Who thinks to search for them?
Just Between Us
Alfred DePew
Jun 30th, 2010
When I get to Intensive Care, I find Pat wired to several machines that beep softly. The nurse, Dave, asks if I am her closest living relative. I have to think a moment. I suppose I am.
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