My Journey to the Invictus Games
Schedule
Thu Sep 19 2024 at 05:30 pm to 08:00 pm
Location
Maury Young Arts Centre | Whistler, BC
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About This Event:Corporal Retired Lealand Muller wants to bring awareness to persons with disabilities and accessibility, and highlight the benefits of sport for those facing mental and physical limitations. Audience members will be inspired to push past any mental and physical limitations that may exist in their lives.
About Speaker Lealand Muller:
Corporal Retired Lealand Muller is from Winnipeg, Manitoba. He was an army vehicle technician for eight years and was posted to Shilo, Manitoba. In 2018, Muller sustained a catastrophic injury while tobogganing that left him paralyzed from the waist down. No longer able to serve in the military and left with many unknowns of what the future may hold, he fell into a dark depression.
Searching for hope and answers, Muller was awarded the opportunity to wear the Canadian flag once more to represent his country and compete at the 2023 Invictus Games in Dusseldorf, Germany. Participating in those games was a once in a lifetime experience that gave Muller a new perspective on life: he has been able to push past mental and physical obstacles sustained from his injury. Muller learned from other competitors at the Games with similar experiences, and benefited from that one of a kind ‘tough love’ and ‘never give up’ mindset found within the military community.
Being a part of the adaptive sport community has done wonders for Muller’s mental and physical health. Using his experience as a wheelchair user and Invictus Alumnus, he hopes to bring awareness to people with disabilities and make meaningful change in the built environment regarding accessibility across Canada.
Drawing from his experience at the 2023 Invictus Games in Dusseldorf, Muller is now working with the Invictus Games Organizing Committee in Vancouver to support their continuous growth and development. Muller hopes to make the 2025 Invictus Games in Vancouver and Whistler as accessible and inclusive as possible.
About the Global Perspectives Speaker Series
The Global Perspectives Speaker Series (GPSS) is produced by one of the Whistler Institute’s working committees. Topics are selected based on a blend of community input, contemporary global conversations, and access to speakers. These evening events focus on the world’s greatest challenges, elevating leading experts and game changers to share bold ideas, new perspectives, and disruptive concepts that have the potential to create positive change in the world today and into the future.
About the Whistler Institute
The Whistler Institute is a registered charity funded through private donors, foundations, government grants, and fees for service. We facilitate and promote place-based learning opportunities, and our mission is to influence change and inspire minds through education and thought leadership. The Whistler Institute gratefully and respectfully acknowledges that we operate on the land now known as Whistler, located on the shared, unceded territories of the Sk̲wx̲wú7mesh Nation and Líl̓wat Nation.
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Where is it happening?
Maury Young Arts Centre, 4129 Village Stroll, Whistler, BC V8E, Canada,Whistler, CanadaEvent Location & Nearby Stays: