Enid has the capacity and experience to understand financial statements, to evaluate the budgets of the organizations and project budgets, to allocate resources to achieve results.

She is gifted in analytical and critical thinking and is able to evaluate different options, proposals and arguments, and to make sound decisions.

She has the ability to think strategically about the concerns and challenges facing Centre for Spiritual Living and to plan for the short, medium and long term solutions. 

She is skilled in interpersonal communications and is an effective communicator of ideas, views and perspectives to peers, as well being able to receive and respect the ideas, positions and views of peers. She is able to participate in dispute resolution in the interests of CSL.

Enid has taken many communication courses including Non Violent Communication, Crucial Conversations, Fierce Conversations and several Stephen Covey courses

She has completed Rev. Michael Beckwith’s visioning course and has the ability to consider and define future goals and objectives that consider the unfolding of CSL’s highest outcome. 

Enid has a strong understanding and experience of the roles, group processes and administrative and policy regulations that make up CSL’s organization's governance systems. (Previous board President at the Spiritual Living Centre at the Whitemud Community centre). 

She has a clear understanding of the distinction between the role of the board and the role of our members and other leadership roles. 

Enid has demonstrated her personal commitment through past community events & her obvious strong motivation to contribute to the well-being and development of CSL . As a Team Leader of the “Happy Hour” she has demonstrated teamwork, ability to inspire, motivate, guide and lead. She values and has a complete understanding of the importance of teamwork.

Sandra is a Registered Practitioner and participates in the services on Sunday mornings. She has spent more than 40 years teaching children and has also taught adults at our Centre. She was in leadership with the Teen Group for eight years. Sandra is committed to her spiritual community and is a life-long learner. Sandra joined the Board as a nonvoting – recording secretary in Fall 2021 and has continued as secretary since becoming a voting member in January 2022. She is now the Vice-President of the Board. Sandra also participates in the Vision Core team as the voice of our Youth.

Rabin has been involved in Centres for Spiritual Living since 2001. He was on the Leadership Council for International Centres for Spiritual Living from April 2021 to April 2024.

 He has also served on the Board of Trustees of another Centre including holding the position of Treasurer, over a cumulative period of some 13 years.

Rabin has a Degree with Distinction from the University of Alberta with a double major in Economics and Sociology and has also completed many supplementary courses in the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research at the U of A in Business.

This is in addition to the Management Accounting training he received in Sri Lanka.

He has a total of 21 years as a senior Director in the Public Sector (Province of Alberta) plus a further 10 years in the Private Sector and nine years in the Not-for-Profit Sector.

He is retired but teaches Business Management and Managerial Economics at an Edmonton Private Career College as a sessional instructor. He is also involved in Business Consulting on a limited basis.

He is a singer, songwriter and plays piano and electric guitar.

He is married to Trish Barr Mendis, a practitioner at this Centre.

Margot Biro

Secretary

Arne Poulsen RScP Emeritus is a retired business owner. He is a founding member of CSL Edmonton and has been a Practitioner since 1994.

Arne served on the BOT in 2021 and 2022 and assisted the Community with the transition to a transparent bookkeeping system.

He believes in the teaching of the Science of Mind and has used it in his business and private life for many years.

Jack's biography testifies to a love of investigation, diligence, and communication. He began university at Carleton in Ottawa in 1969, originally studying journalism. He worked in this field for a few years but eventually wanted some greater academic depth and switched to English, completing an Honours Degree First Class in 1973 and a Master of Arts in 1975; then he moved to Edmonton to be near family and completed a Ph.D. at the University of Alberta in 1983.

 A Fellowship enabled him to complete doctoral studies while living in Montreal, which he loved. He worked part-time at MacEwan from 1987, obtaining a full-time position in 1989.

Jack's disciplinary focus has always been in Canadian Literature, and his teaching and research have been influenced by a strong interest in writing and style. He served as Chair of the MacEwan English Department for six years from 2006 to 2012. The community college became a university in 2006, so those were years of much change. He became an Associate Professor in 2013 and has remained in that position.

From 2015 on, Jack developed an interest in Indigenous literature, mainly in Canada. He did research and taught several senior undergraduate courses in that area in addition to his customary Canadian Literature courses.  He also participated in an Interdisciplinary Dialogue on Indigeneity with several colleagues, hosting many Indigenous speakers over several years.

During the Covid pandemic, he developed new first-year courses on Leonard Cohen and on the nascent field of Literature about Artificial Intelligence, which he is still teaching, though he retired in the summer of 2023 at the age of seventy-one. He continues to love reading literature, talking about it, writing, and discussing ideas with friends. 

Sue has been attending the centre for over 10 years. It has changed her life in profound ways and she now spreads the word to all she knows, that if you are looking for a spiritual home and community, look no further. Changing the way you think, really does change your life!! So much so…she is currently on track to become a licensed practitioner.

Sue also sits on the Personnel Committee, volunteers on both the Concierge and Count Teams and serves regularly at the Hope Mission as part of our Outreach program. You can always find Sue helping out where needed. 



She is a retired business owner and has sat on many boards in her lifetime. She feels honored to be on the CSL Board and is eager to serve the community that has given her so much.

Carol Secord

Trustee