July 20th: Learning to Walk the Talk

Four Seasons Hotel Vancouver - Le Pavillon I & II, 791 West Georgia Street

5:00 - 8:00 pm

It isn’t easy for anyone to hear what they don’t want to believe. We all have road blocks and speed bumps thrown in front of us as we travel down our chosen paths, yet we all have choices. Tyler Mosher was lucky that spinal cord injury surgeries and rehabilitation treatments have progressed a great deal since the 1980's and 90's. Staying positive helps him have the choice to push through the road blocks put in front of him while slowly rolling over the speed bumps and carefully navigating hurdles. Weeks after his injury and post reconstructive surgery, it was apparent his spinal cord injury was incomplete as Tyler began to regain some mobility. Although he was still told he would have to learn to live in his wheel chair for the rest of his life, with new hope of walking, Tyler chose to leave his chair in the corner of the room and get up and fall down until he didn’t fall down anymore.

Today, he is 40% paralyzed and you probably wouldn’t know it if you watched him walking down the street. Through perseverance, hard work, luck and help from loved ones and many others; Tyler not only walks but he is the 2009 World Champion in Adaptive Snowboarding and competed for Canada at the 2010 Winter Paralympic Games in Cross Country Skiing. More recently, Tyler participated in the 2011 Winter X Games for the First Ever Adaptive Boardercross and also completed all three World Birkebeiner 55km Ski Marathons in one year over a five week period which less then 10 people have accomplished and by doing so will receive the Haakon Haakonson Award; all bookended by Para-Snowboard World Cup podiums.

Registration and Payment Details:

Please bring your ticket to the event. Payment for the event is by credit card via this registration site. As this event includes a dinner, you must be registered to attend.

Walk-Ins Strongly Discouraged. $85 Cheque or exact cash only - regardless of time of arrival.

Corporate Credit Cards are often a problem when registering online with Eventbrite. If not successful, please use your personal card or contact Cynthia Caine executive.director@pmi.bc.ca

Late Arrivals: Dinner will be served until 6 pm.  If you must arrive after the speaker has commenced, please enter very quietly and sit at the back, near the door.

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Refunds:

Due to event arrangements, cancellations and refunds will be accepted until seven days prior to the event (July 13th) after which the tickets will be non-refundable.

To cancel or request a refund email Tracey Murphy director.operations@pmi.bc.ca

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