What is Emotional Intelligence and how we can increase it in our children? Dr. Noorani was guest speaker on Feb 17th in Rooyesh talking about above topic, and answered the audience questions at the second part of meeting. The complete contents of the subject is posted in Rooyesh Farsi blog for interested parties. With many thanks to Dr. Noorani.

Rooyesh Cultural Society General Meeting

On Friday January 20/2012 Rooyesh Cultural Society held its general meeting with about 30 witnesses, and the majority of board members. A report on what the group accomplished this previous year, and what it plans to accomplish in the up coming year were explained in depth, as well as a financial report was distributed by the society treasurer, Zahra Beigi.
The Rooyesh Society appreciates the support of group members and other individuals over the course of the past few years, and was happy to introduced a new board member, Ms. Maryam Saroei.
We hope to continue with our mission statement which is to help our community by holding bi-weekly meetings discussing subjects of interest to Iranian families.
Mina Sabzevari
Fereshteh Houshidari
Maryam Saroei
Mehdi Hosseini
Zahra Beigi

Rooyesh General Meeting February 4th 2011

The second Rooyesh General Meeting was held on February 4th 2011. In this meeting which was witnessed by a large number of participants and the majority of board members, we discussed the last year programs and new plans for the up coming year. We decided to work on our membership by making membership form and regulations.
In continue the new board member, Mr. Sedghi, talked about his ideas and how he will help Rooyesh to achieve its goals. Rooyesh Cultural Society is going to continue its biweekly meetings on certain dates which will be announced in newspapers in advanced.
Regards
Rooyesh Cultural Society

Peace day

This year, like last few years, Rooyesh Cultural Society celebrated the international Peace day. The night started by presentation of a movie about when and how Peace day has been chosen and then Poran Poreghbal talked about inner peace and peace in individuals and families. Then Mr. Doostdar had his speech about peace in Iranian history with a research in Persian poems. After a break, we had Afghan music group performing old afghan songs making memorable night for attendances.
With the special thanks to every one who helped us to celebrate Peace day. Rooyesh Cultural Society

Friday, May 14th, 2010

Psycho-educational Workshop

by Alireza Sedghi Taromi

Masters degree in Clinical Psychology
Masters degree in General Psychology
Doctorate student in Counseling Psychology


What is Happiness & Who is Happy?


• Do you consider yourself a happy person? Why? How happy are you?
• Is happiness related to genetic?
• Haven’t you felt as much happy as you expected after reaching your goals? Why?
• What is the relationship between happiness and health, wealth, success, popularity, power as well as immigration?
• What are the cultural differences between the West and the East in happiness?
• Finally, how can you live happily in the family and workplace in spite of physical psychological illnesses and daily stresses?

Come and see us to find your response for these questions.

Friday, May 14th, 2010

Rooyesh Group

On the last Rooyesh meeting in 2009, Dr. Afsaneh Nikkhoo continued her speech about Pain Body. She explained how pains form and how we can help ourselves to cure them.

In brief
1) we have to know that there is a problem
2) accept the pain and name it without judgement
3) observe the pain with techniques

If these steps are done correctly, we will have inner peace which in some cases ends to an action.
Meeting ended without break and Dr. Nikkhoo is going to explain how to know other people’s pain body and the techniques of dealing with them in future.
All the best for every one in 2010.

First Annual Meeting and Election of Broad Members for Rooyesh Cultural Society was held in December 13, 2009.

We held this first election of board members while briefly reviewing the B.C. Society Act.

On this note we brainstormed the roles and responsibility of board members according to the B.C. Society Act.

This meeting was witnessed by a fairly large number of members and participants.

We talked about all the services and programs offered during the year of 2009 and past couple of years before the society was registered.

A summary of all seminars and activities were discussed verbally. Our treasurer Zahra Beigi gave us a report about the financial situation with outstanding balance of 20 dollars.

We invited members to candidate for the role of board members and used a good amount of time to let people consider participating. After all the group discussions about future plans for new programs and partnership, we managed to elect five board members, four from the previous year and one new director.

Here is the list of new elected directors for Rooyesh Cultural Society for the year of 2010:

Mehdi Hosseini

Afsoun Golchin

Mina Sabzevari

Fereshteh Hoshidari

Zahra Beigi (Treasurer)

We wish all the success for the new directors of Rooyesh.

The Generation Gap

November 15, 2009, Rooyesh cultural Society had the pleasure to have a young yet experienced, knowledgeable, and well-spoken speaker Mr Ardeshir Ahmadi, who is a film maker.

Ardeshir is student at the University of British Columbia and he studies art of cinema. Recently he has done a documentary about Iranian singer and rap culture in Los Angles. In that documentary, he uses a critical eye on what he sees as he goes on a trip to L.A.

Ardeshir talked about the generation gap that he witness and the ways in which families would need more help in creating a mutual understanding.

We appreciate Ardeshir coming and talking to us and we wish him all the best in his much interesting film projects.

We like to add that Ardeshir is the founder of Ardeshir TV Group and you can find him in his website: http://www.ardeshirtv.com/

Meeting October 18, 2009

Rooyesh Cultural Society had the opportunity to organize for an information session about Global Warming.

Amir Soleimanian, a student of Simon Fraser University (engineering), offered our members an excellent presentation about global warming and the challenges as result. Amir started learning about Global Warming as a student of Carson Graham secondary school in North Vancouver. He has attended several presentations and seminars while he actively updates himself about this very important topic.

Amir managed to speak in Farsi for us while his very interesting video in English was talked about in the meeting. Amir definitely impressed us with this video that he had created himself.

We learned about Cape Farewell project and how our responsibility for careful use of energy is increasing.

Thanks to Amir who taught us a whole deal about this amazing project. We wish him all the best.