With the success of this year's conference, many attendees on presenters have been e-mailing in their thanks, as well as favourite memories. We are also working at getting the various pictures taken during the weekend, formatted and ready for the site. Below are some of the first comments in to our inbox. If you would like to add your voice, please feel free to e-mail us, webmaster@meaning.ca, and note that you would like to see your feedback on this page.

"I wanted to thank you for your work to put the Meaning Conference together. Both professionally and personally, I was thrilled with the experience. It was a way to really claim my interest in the field of meaning-making and get to connect with the latest buzz from the field. I was also pleasently surprised to see the extent of overlap between the fields of meaning and spirituality. I am really excited to begin my dissertation journey next semester and dive into this field of meaning, focusing on the transcendent aspects of meaning."
Zvi Bellin, M.A.
Pastoral Counseling PhD Student at Loyola College in Maryland

"The opportunity to hear Roy Baumeister speak was especially exciting for me, and it was a tremendously stimulating thing to interact with such a diverse interdisciplinary group, seeing connections made all the way from the specifics of individual empirical studies to philosophical and theological considerations of the meaning of life and death.  The presentation of stories and family photos by Viktor Frankl's grandson was a real treat.  I want to thank Paul and Lilian (and their small army of sleep-deprived volunteers) for all their work at making this conference a success"
Charles H. Hackney, PhD

"I gained plenty of personal and professional treasures on this occasion. I shall remember your gems, "We are performers."; "It's about building relationship." and the 5Rs. Many thanks"
Teresa Steinfort, MA, MA, CCC

"It was enjoyable to hear so many people discuss their research at the recent Meaning Conference and have the opportunity to further converse with them. As a contributor to Dr. Hart's symposium, it was also informative to receive feedback on my work with logotherapy as relates to college students and alcohol abuse. The meeting was productive, with numerous opportunities to exchange information."
Stefan E. Schulenberg, Ph.D

"I want to commend Paul Wong, his wife Lilian, and their entire crew for a successful, well-organized, conference of the International Network on Personal Meaning this past weekend.

Some of my personal highlights were Roy Baumeister's two presentations on his new research on self-regulation, Salvador Maddi's talk on hardiness research, and Jeff Zeig's two presentations on resiliency, grief, and clinical work.

I would highly recommend those who were not able to attend to consider it in the future."
Ryan M. Niemiec, PsyD
Psychologist, consultant, and seminar and retreat
leader; co-author of two books, Positive Psychology at
the Movies (2008) and Movies and Mental Illness
(2005).

"I just wanted to say congratulations on another wonderful conference.  I know this one was a unique challenge and you did a fantastic job in organizing and carrying out the conference. Thank-you!"
Ed Peacock, Ph.D, C.Psych