The purpose of this Book Club is to motivate, connect, and foster self-growth while building a stronger HR community. The Book Club is open to all members of the association. Books range in topics with suggestions from the membership. HR Book Club is held the third Wednesday of each month from 12pm - 1pm via Zoom. Our Book Club discussion is centered around the chosen book through a series of prompts and questions. There are several ways you can access reading materials, including your local library, both in person and through an online app like Libby, asking friends if they have a copy, or purchasing from your local bookstore. This professional development initiative is complimentary, and available to members of CPHR Saskatchewan.
No Cure for Being Human
It’s hard to give up on the feeling that the life you really want is just out of reach. A beach body by summer. A trip to Disneyland around the corner. A promotion on the horizon. Everyone wants to believe that they are headed toward good, better, best. But what happens when the life you hoped for is put on hold indefinitely?
Kate Bowler believed that life was a series of unlimited choices, until she discovered, at age thirty-five, that her body was wracked with cancer. In No Cure for Being Human, she searches for a way forward as she mines the wisdom (and absurdity) of today’s “best life now” advice industry, which insists on exhausting positivity and on trying to convince us that we can out-eat, out-learn, and out-perform our humanness. We are, she finds, as fragile as the day we were born.
With dry wit and unflinching honesty, Kate Bowler grapples with her diagnosis, her ambition, and her faith as she tries to come to terms with her limitations in a culture that says anything is possible. She finds that we need one another if we’re going to tell the truth: Life is beautiful and terrible, full of hope and despair and everything in between—and there’s no cure for being human.
About the Author
Kate Bowler, PhD is a New York Times bestselling author, podcast host, and a professor at Duke University. She studies the cultural stories we tell ourselves about success, suffering, and whether (or not) we’re capable of change. In her twenties, she became obsessed with writing the first history of the movement called the “prosperity gospel”—which promises that God will reward you with health and wealth if you have the right kind of faith. She researched and traveled across Canada and the United States interviewing megachurch leaders and televangelists and everyday believers about how they make spiritual meaning out of the good and bad in their lives. The result was the book, Blessed: A History of the American Prosperity Gospel, which received widespread media attention and a lot of puns about being #blessed.
At age 35, she was unexpectedly diagnosed with Stage IV cancer, causing her to think in different terms about the research and beliefs she had been studying. She penned the New York Times bestselling memoir, Everything Happens for a Reason (and Other Lies I’ve Loved), which tells the story of her struggle to understand the personal and intellectual dimensions of the American belief that all tragedies are tests of character.
Her third book, The Preacher’s Wife: The Precarious Power of Evangelical Women Celebrities follows the rise of celebrity Christian women in American evangelicalism. Whether they stand alone or beside their husbands, they are leading women who play many parts: faithful wife, spiritual authority, and Hollywood celebrity.
On her popular podcast, Everything Happens, Kate speaks with people like Malcolm Gladwell, Matthew McConaughey, and Anne Lamott about what wisdom and truth they’ve uncovered during difficult circumstances.
Her latest book, No Cure For Being Human (and Other Truths I Need to Hear), grapples with her diagnosis, her ambition, and her faith as she tries to come to terms with limitations in a culture that promises anything is possible.
Kate’s work has received wide-spread media attention from NPR, The Today Show, The New York Times, The Washington Post, the TED Stage, and Fresh Air with Terry Gross. She lives in Durham, North Carolina, with her family, continues to teach do-gooders at Duke Divinity School, and stockpiles anecdotes about the hidden benefits of being from the middle of Canada.
Location & Registration
The HR Book Club is held monthly via Zoom. Upon registering, you will receive a confirmation email immediately, which includes your Zoom link. Although virtual, these events will not be recorded.
Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
1.0 CPD hour CPHRs - As per the Summary of Qualifying Activities, under Self-directed learning, roundtables, non-credit courses, practice knowledge sharing through formal professional networking, you can claim up to 5.0 CPD hours annually for your participation. 
Hosts 
Angela Boyes, CPHR
Angela currently works at CAE in Moose Jaw, SK as the Labour Relations Manager/HRBP. She holds a Bachelor of Commerce in Human Resource Management and the CPHR designation. Angela holds additional studies in Sociology and Psychology, is a Qualified Mediator Designation, and is a Certified Grief Recovery Specialist. Angela's business acumen has been honed working in: Manufacturing, Construction, Oil and Gas, Municipal Government and Utilities in Saskatchewan, Alberta, and the Yukon. Angela loves reading, traveling and exploring, cooking and baking, quilting, biking, and spending time with friends and family. 
Koreen Mak, CPHR
Koreen is the founder and CEO of Peppermint Technologies Inc, the developer of MYNTIX™, a skills-based learning management system. Koreen is a CPHR and holds an Advanced Certificate in Human Resources, Undergraduate degrees in Arts and Education, and a Masters in Leadership. Koreen spent a decade managing a learning and development department for a Saskatchewan-based company before starting her own business. She is passionate about learning, employee experience, and organizational culture. Koreen loves reading, travelling, and spending time with her husband, two adult children, and her dog.
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