Houston IANDS February Meeting:
Dying to Live
with Roger Chan
Wednesday, February 22, 2023 | 6:30-8:00 PM CST
Held online via Zoom
Free of Charge | Donations Appreciated
OUR SPEAKER:
Roger Chan
From Roger: Up until the age of 25, I was extremely shy, stuttered severely, had a lisp, and a speech therapist all throughout grade school. Fortunately, I had very well-mannered and very academically inclined older siblings, so I was more often than not misread as being a "Strong Silent" type, which of course I was anything but that. I studied and became a teacher. I was chosen to co-create one of America's first "Alternative" education programs for the county government mental health dept and the board of education. Such programs are now more commonly known as charter schools. Our population was comprised of court referrals, meaning our students had to attend our program or go to jail. Our students were some of the biggest bad A's in the system so we included an Outward Bounds-based (OB) program to test just how bad they really were. It was during an OB expedition that I drowned. It was immediately upon resuscitation that I became the extreme extrovert that I am today.
Houston IANDS (International Association for Near-Death Studies) at the Texas Medical Center serves as a safe space to support those who have had a near-death experience as they integrate their experience into their lives. Houston IANDS also serves to inform the public about NDEs and the lessons and messages that experiencers bring back, and to educate the medical community to recognize and appropriately treat people who have had an NDE.