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THE ASPire NETWORK: Where Aspirations meet Inspirations

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ASPire NETWORK COMMITTEE
Georgina Galanis, Network Chair: geocolors@gmail.com
Bernard Starr, Ph.D., ASP President
Tina Felluss, LCSW
Lynda Klau, Ph.D.
Charlotte Wolovsky, LCSW

Diana Kerievsky, LCSW, Executive Director, 516 829-5027, cspofnip@optonline.net

Monthly Networking Meetings

Upcoming Meeting Dates: June 26

Next Meeting

Date	Friday, June 26th, 2009 7 PM to 9 PM
Place	250 West 57th Street Suite 501, New York, N.Y. 10019
Facilitator	Larry Winters, licensed mental health counselor
Topic	Breaking the Trance of Denial
Contents	If you want to break this silence and witness the truth, turn off the TV and throw the newspaper in the trash. Turn up public radio, step into the public square, and listen to the artists in our midst. There is where the blood flows. Only there will you hear the screams echo from the parents of the dead. There is the only reality that cannot be taken away by distraction. There is where it takes courage to accept the responsibility of how we have been hiding behind the rhetoric of those who say they know how to "fix it." Don't fool yourselves into believing the problems we must shoulder rest with our elected politicians or the lack of a draft or the aggressiveness of the enemy or the leftovers of 9/11. The problem is all those silent deaths that not only come from the soldier youth of our country and from Iraq and Afghanistan, but all deaths related to this current war. We must also add the forlorn parents and the families of the dead that we do not see or hear because the space for our grief is filled with a constant barrage of advertisements and commercials telling us life is good. Please RSVP to Georgina Galanis at geocolors@gmail.com

About Larry Winters

Larry Winters has been named to run the FOUR WINDS HOSPITAL Veteran Services Program which will "Reach Out to Our Veterans and Their Families to Assist in the Re-entry Process and All That it Involves...." Born and raised in New Paltz, NY, Larry Winters entered the United States Marine Corps after high school and served in Vietnam 1969-1970. Twenty-five years later, by then a licensed mental health counselor at Four Winds Hospital in Katonah, NY, the veteran returned to Vietnam with other heath care professionals to study Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in the Vietnamese people and to make peace with his past. Larry is a widely published poet, men's group leader and group psychotherapist. Navigating the aftermath of war will be with us a long time. If you want to know how a soldier feels, read "The Making and Unmaking of a Marine," subtitled "One Man's Struggle for Forgiveness" by Larry Winters. The book is available at makingandunmaking.com. You can also See the play, "Nothing Means Nothing" by Larry Winters. The play addresses the hidden questions in veterans' lives. He can be reached at winters.lawrence@gmail.com.

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