Karen will address the topic of belonging, which has countless perspectives.  She hopes to stimulate thoughts about belonging to a community, whether it is religious or spiritual, or neither of those.  She will link it to personal experience with being part of a faith-based institution, in her case, Unitarianism, and expand through examples to the greater whole in Canada, the Canadian Unitarian Council.

Bio

Karen Christie has been a member of Capital in Victoria for the past 2.5 years, having moved from Ottawa where she was a member of the UU Fellowship there for 20 years.  Before retiring in 2016, Karen had been working for Global Affairs Canada for 12+ years.  This provided her with the opportunities to serve at Canada’s embassies in Haiti and Afghanistan.  Independently her other overseas experiences included working on elections in the former Yugoslavia, and as a teacher in Ethiopia, Australia and the Yukon.  Karen is currently striving to belong in Victoria through singing and dancing, plus outdoor pursuits such as walking, cycling, swimming and kayaking!