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DREAMCATCHER WORKSHOPS >> AWAKENING THE DREAMER >> DR. DAVID BURMAN
 David grew up in Toronto's west end and attended the University of Toronto where he graduated from dental school, during which time he spent a summer in Iqaluit, Nunavut, learning about the Inuit people. After interning at Mt. Sinai Hospital, the next four years were spent providing dental treatment in various remote, largely Aboriginal, Northern Ontario communities. Then an abrupt change to London, England where he did a 6 months stint learning general anaesthesia, and a year in Geneva, Switzerland where he did research and taught in the dental school there. Returning to Canada, he further developed his interest in doctor-patient relationships, which eventually led him back to graduate school from whence he obtained his PhD in behavioural science in 1989 from the Faculty of Medicine at U of T.David has long been active in the peace and environmental movements, was a candidate for the Green Party in 4 elections, and helped start Toronto's first local currency system. He is a member of Science for Peace, Physicians for Global Survival and Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment. He has served as director of the Ontario Healthy Communities Coalition and ICA Canada, a community development organization and is currently president of the Toronto Dollar. David tries to balance his community work with a dental practice and teaching here at U of T, where he is Assistant Professor for both the Faculties of Dentistry and Pharmacy and the Department of Aboriginal Studies, and the Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine. He is married with 3 cats. He says of Awakening the Dreamer, Changing the Dream Symposium: "In almost three decades of working in this field, this is the most moving and inspiring event I have ever experienced. Designed to bring about a socially just, spiritually fulfilling, and ecologically sustainable human presence on this planet, the symposium seeks to bring an indigenous world view of connectedness to the post industrial world of technology and creativity -- the gifts of the global south together with those of the global north." David has been to Cuba several times and is looking forward to seeing you there. |
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