NEWS RELEASE

Contact: Jan Fiderio at 603.283.2107

November 2, 2009 for Immediate Release

AUNE, MAPS to Host Author, Psychologist Dr. Maria Sirois

Author of Every Day Counts: Lessons in Love, Faith and Resilience to speak November 9

Antioch University New England and MAPS Counseling Services will host psychologist Dr. Maria Sirois on November 9 for an inspiring presentation open to the public.

Dr. Sirois's talk, The Great Flourishing Life: The Potency of Resilience will explore how we can create an engaged, meaningful, generous, passionate life. Sirois will ask: How do we sustain such a life amidst the challenges and changes that come our way? How can we flourish, even in the presence of suffering? How can we be resilient in the realms of aging, relationships, illness, work, and spiritual questioning?

She will also explore wisdom from the mytho-poetic traditions and research from the fields of mind-body medicine, positive psychology, and spiritual inquiry, leaving participants with knowledge, tools, and inspiration.

Dr. Maria Sirois is a licensed clinical psychologist who has practiced in the intersection of mind/body medicine, illness, and spiritual inquiry for nearly twenty years. An inspirational speaker, she has been invited to keynote conferences throughout the country and is known for her capacity to weave together research, story, poetry, clinical anecdote, and wisdom. She is currently a consultant at The Hole In The Wall Gang Camp, Ashford, Connecticut, and on staff at Kripalu Yoga Retreat Center where she leads retreats on the tools of resiliency as a basis for health and vitality. Her first book, Every Day Counts: Lessons in Love, Faith and Resilience, was published in 2006 and has become a teaching tool at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, Massachusetts. For more information about Maria, please visit her website at www.mariasirois.com.

Antioch University New England and MAPS Counseling Services co-sponsor this event. It will begin at 7 p.m. and will be held at the Antioch University New England community room at 40 Avon Street, in Keene, New Hampshire.

For more information call Jan Fiderio at 603-283-2107. This event is free and open to the public.

About Antioch University New England
Antioch University New England, based in Keene, New Hampshire, offers rigorous, practice-oriented, values-based master's, doctoral and certificate programs to more than one thousand students. Programs in education, leadership and management, environmental studies, and psychology reflect a dedication to community service, sustainability, activism, and social justice.

About MAPS Counseling Services
Since 1973, MAPS Counseling Services (MAPS) has endeavored to integrate the insights and techniques provided by professionally trained psychotherapists with the healing resources of spirituality, all with an eye toward helping individuals and families to find meaningful answers to life's problems. MAPS is currently celebrating its thirty-fifth anniversary. For more information about MAPS call 603-355-2244 or 603-924-2240 or visit: www.mapsnh.org

About Antioch University
Antioch University is a five-campus university located in four states. Each campus has its own distinct academic programs, community life, and regional or national identity. Antioch University is founded on principles of rigorous liberal arts education, innovative experiential learning, and socially engaged citizenship. The multiple campuses of the University nurture in their students the knowledge, skills, and habits of reflection to excel as lifelong learners, democratic leaders, and global citizens who live lives of meaning and purpose.

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