Palo Alto University Invites You to Community Events in Silicon Valley

PALO ALTO, Calif., May 11, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Palo Alto University (PAU) is a private, nonprofit educational institution founded in 1975 with a mission of "improving lives locally and globally." The university is committed to providing services to our community and is offering educational events that will help improve lives.   You are invited to attend the upcoming events which are free to all:

Mindful Parenting Workshop
May 14, 7-9pm
Conference Room A, Palo Alto Unified School District Office, 25 Churchill Avenue, Palo Alto, CA.

This workshop will be presented by Dr Hui Qi Tong, Director of MA in Counseling and Adjunct Professor at PAU. Dr. Tong has played a key role in bringing mindfulness-based approaches to China. 

Through mindfulness practices and small and large group discussion, the workshop will:

• Help tap into the deep intention of becoming a parent in the first place.
• Facilitate the understanding of the blessings and challenges of parenting.
• Teach skills to cope with the ever changing dynamics between a parent and a growing child.
• Cultivate greater wisdom, compassion, patience and open-heartedness in parenting.

Please note that this workshop will be presented in Mandarin and is open to all parents and there will be a focus on parents of middle and high school students.
RSVP to: Dr. Hui Qi Tong at [email protected].

Palo Alto University's Town and Gown Event. "Mobile and Internet Technology: Using Psychology and Technology to Help as Many People as Possible"
May 15, 12 Noon - 1:30pm
Sheraton Palo Alto Hotel, Palo Alto, CA.

Presentations by Palo Alto University faculty on:

• Expanding Health and Mental Health Services by Dr. Ricardo F. Munoz
• Mental Health, Technology and Youth by Dr. Eduardo L. Bunge
• Expecting the unexpected: Teaching new mothers how to manage how they feel by Dr. Alinne Barrera

For more information, or RSVP to: Sondra Presho at [email protected]

Annual Computer Equipment Donation Drive
May 28, 11am to 1pm
Palo Alto and Los Altos, CA.

PAU will host its annual computer equipment drive with Camara on Thursday, May 28, 2015.  Camara is one of the world's leading education-based charities. Its goal is to improve learning in disadvantaged communities around the world through the use of technology.  Your donation will support delivering education technology for Haiti and Africa. Please donate your old computers, desktops, laptops, monitors, printers, keyboards, and mice to this worthy cause.   Camara will erase and clean all donated devices' data before shipping them to schools in countries that are desperately in need of technology in their classrooms.  

Mr. Blake Burke, Chairman of Camara USA, commented:  "We are delighted to work with Palo Alto University in this initiative.  Having such a well-respected educational institution share its resources with schools and colleges in very impoverished countries says a lot about the ethos of the college."

• Camara staff will be at two Palo Alto University campuses' parking lots on Thursday May 28th:
• 11am to 12 Noon: PAU main campus, 1791 Arastradero Road, Palo Alto, CA.  (Drop off location outside of Delivery, Building 3, next to PAU Library)    
• 12:30 to 1pm: PAU Los Altos Campus, 5150 El Camino Real, Los Altos, CA. (Drop off location located in the parking lot outside Lobby D)

CONTACT: Helena Ting, 650-520-3451, [email protected]

SOURCE Palo Alto University