Rebel Book Club Vancouver x REWIRED

Join us for RBC's July event as we explore this month's theme via Dr Gabor Maté's book, Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of ADD.
About this Event

About the book:

Gabor Maté is one of the world's most respected voices on addiction, trauma, and childhood development, and he himself has ADD. In , he challenges the idea that attention deficit disorder is purely genetic, arguing instead that it develops through the interplay of environment, stress, and early childhood experience. Drawing on neuroscience, his clinical practice, and his own life as both someone with ADD and the parent of diagnosed children, Maté offers a compassionate, evidence-based framework for understanding the condition and, crucially, for healing it.

Why we chose it: “A healer to be cherished and this exciting book arrives at just the right time” - Naomi Klein

Inspired by our monthly non-fiction reads, our mix of part cocktail party, part creative classroom is a recipe that builds your reading habit while connecting with like minded people.

Interested? Want to join us at our July event?

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Your hosts for the evening

Paige Eager

Paige joined Rebel Book Club in London in July 2018. She loves how RBC encourages her to explore new subjects and perspectives she might not have discovered otherwise.

After moving across the pond and missing the events and connections she made with fellow RBC'ers, she wanted to recreate that experience in vibrant Vancouver.

Top RBC Reads:

• ⁠Bad Blood, by John Carreyrou
• ⁠Life 3.0, by Max Tegmark
• ⁠In Extremis: The Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin, by Lindsey Hilsum

Amirali Sharifian

Amirali is a programming language designer for AI computers. Having made Vancouver his home, he found himself missing a like-minded community—one that thrives on curiosity, deep conversations, and a shared passion for learning. Rebel Book Club offers just that, and Amirali is excited to help grow a space where diverse perspectives come together to challenge ideas and expand horizons.

Amirali's nonfiction recommendations:

• The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size, by "Tor Nørretranders"
• ⁠Factfulness, by Hans Rosling

About Rebel Book Club

Every month since 2015, we've helped 1000's of curious minds explore a topic, meet, discuss and share learnings & actions. We're meeting monthly in London and four other locations within the UK (Oxford, Manchester, Bristol and Edinburgh), in Denver and New York (USA), in Sydney & Perth (Australia) and Toronto & Vancouver (Canada) + we have a digital membership for members round the world.

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