[Hac-announce] West Point Cadets Coming To Yale Humanist Community March 4th Event

[Richard Siddall]

FYI, the program for the March 4th Humanist Haven has changed.  Yale 
Humanist Community Executive Director Kathleen Green will lead a 
discussion about resilience after Sandy Hook.

See 
https://www.meetup.com/Yale-and-New-Haven-Humanist-Community/events/247969212/

Kathleen Green was our guest speaker at last November's HAC monthly meeting.

	Richard.

Rebecca Williams wrote:
> West Point’s Office in Charge of the Secular Student Alliance is bringing 7
> cadets to Yale Humanist's March 4th event. The intention is to “introduce
> West Point cadets to a secular-humanist world outside of West Point”.  YHC's
> Executive Director will be doing special outreach to Yale students as well.
> Please consider attending.
> 
> Event Details:  Join a discussion with Shayn Williams-Burris about the
> SMART recovery movement.  Event title: "How to skip all 12 steps and still
> recover from addiction".
> 
> Event Speaker information: Shayn Williams-Burris was raised in an
> evangelical family in Oklahoma, but even as a kid they tended to question
> everything and always gravitated toward the scientific rather than
> religious. Shayn moved to California for undergrad and completed their BA
> in Neuroscience in 2009 from Claremont McKenna College, then went on to
> earn their PhD in Neuroscience in 2016 from UCLA where their research
> focused on understanding a genetic disorder called Klinefelter syndrome.
> They moved to New Haven in August of 2017. Even before moving to
> Connecticut, but especially since, Shayn has become highly involved in
> SMART Recovery. Shayn currently facilitates one standard meeting each week
> at The Grove on Wednesday nights that is hosted by Yale Humanist Community,
> as well as a Teen SMART Recovery meeting on Monday nights at the Children's
> Center of Hamden. Shayn also helps advertise the SMART Recovery meetings
> across the state on www.smartrecoveryct.org and especially on twitter
> @SMARTRecoveryCT.
> 
> RSVP at
> https://www.meetup.com/Yale-and-New-Haven-Humanist-Community/events/247969212/
> .  If you are not on Meetup, let me know I will RSVP for you.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> 
> *Rebecca Williams*
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