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Please use the feedback link on the left and write
me for further information about any of these talks. Some of these are open
to the public in Edmonton, Calgary, Vancouver, and Victoria.
1. Sunday, Feb. 15, 2009, 10:10
a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
LIMMUD FESTIVAL at
the University of Toronto, Bahen Building
Writing Family Stories and Memoirs
Stories passed from one generation to the next
carry the values, culture, and unique mythology of that family. Knowing our
family's stories solidifies our sense of belonging. If you have been thinking
of collecting family stories for your children and grandchildren, then this
workshop is for you. Writer and editor, Lil Blume, will give you ideas for
reviving memories and writing and organizing your family story project. Come
prepared to do some writing and storytelling.
2. Sunday, Feb. 22, 2009, 1:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
JEWISH ARCHIVES AND HERITAGE SOCIETY,
Jewish Community Centre, Edmonton
Writing Family Stories and Memoirs
Description above
3. Monday, Feb. 23, 2009, 5:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
WOMEN IN SCHOLARSHIP, ENGINEERING,
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY, University of Alberta, Edmonton
Communication Skills for WISER Women
Do you feel your ideas are not always
heard?
Do your project contributions sometimes get less recognition than they seem to
deserve?
Do you stay silent when you have an opinion to express because others might be
defensive or dismissive?
In this fun, interactive workshop, Lil Blume will help you understand your
reaction to workplace communication issues. You will practice alternate
responses to difficult situations, learn strategies for improving teamwork,
and become a wiser communicator.
4. Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2009,
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon
DR. S. GUIGARD'S TECHNICAL COMMUNICATIONS CLASSROOM, University of Alberta,
Edmonton
Presenting
with Passion
This session for 180 civil and
environmental engineering students will help students conquer PowerPoint
presentations. We will combat fears and negative attitudes towards public
speaking, help students understand audiences, and develop skills to use for
their final presentations.
5. Tuesday, Feb.
24, 2009, 4:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
WOMEN IN TECHNOLOGY (WINtech) at Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT),
Edmonton
Facing
Conflict with Confidence
Do conflicts seem recurring and unresolvable? Would you like
new ways of dealing with the dismissive, distracted, destructive, or
dysfunctional people you encounter at school, work, and everywhere else? In
this participant-centred, interactive workshop we build awareness of our
choices and develop further skills in communicating in conflict situations.
Participants will:
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Examine our attitude towards conflicts
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Understand conflict styles and strategies and evaluate the success of each
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Role-play both speaking and listening assertively in a conflict
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Learn basic strategies for creating win-win outcomes
6. Thursday, Feb. 26, 2009 2:00
p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
WOMEN'S ADVANCEMENT OFFICE,
University of Calgary
Workshop for Grad Students:
Goal-Setting: The Dark Side
Researchers claim that 90% of people
believe goal-setting is a good thing, but only 3% actually set goals and write
them down. Is there ambivalence and fear related to goal-setting? Is
goal-setting a genderized activity? Is goal-setting necessary for success?
Do women’s needs for responsiveness, spontaneity, and flexibility make
goal-setting difficult?
This fun, challenging workshop will help
participants
- Recognize attitudes and feelings
towards setting goals
- Explore goal-setting processes
- Learn how to create positive,
achievable goals
- Learn strategies for handling
conflicting goals and thwarted goals; and if time
- Look at the myth of the balanced
life
Understanding our attitudes towards
goal-setting will strengthen our ability to set goals and work towards
achieving them.
7. Friday, Feb. 27, 2009
TIME: tba
WOMEN'S ADVANCEMENT OFFICE,
University of Calgary
Introduction to Negotiating
Is your time taken up by students needing
help, departments needing committee members, collaborative projects needing
collaboration, and family needing everything? Are you struggling to find time
for thinking, writing, research, and career development?
We will look at how clarifying your goals
can help you decide when to say "yes," when to negotiate, and when to say
"no."
We will then examine how you can use
interest-based negotiation.
Finally, we will look at a formula for a
clear assertive message to use when you want to begin a negotiation.
8. Sunday, March 1, 2009 TIME:
9:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.
LIL'S 2ND GEN AND GUESTS WRITING
GROUP, Vancouver, B.C.
Writing
Memoirs (and Family Stories) Session #4
I've been meeting with members of this
writing group once a year for the past four years. Each year we look deeper
into our building our identities as writers and developing an authentic
voice. The goal is to write the stories that need to be told.
9. Tuesday, March 3, 2009
TIME: 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon
STAFF DEVELOPMENT OFFICE, Simon
Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C.
Communicating Nondefensively
Are you often on the defensive? Do you
sometimes feel attacked? Do your responses tend to make you feel worse?
Defensiveness prevents effective communication and, rather than protecting
us, usually leads to more conflict and frustration.
If you are defensive or surrounded by defensive people, this interactive
workshop can help you get more control of your responses to perceived
attacks. You will identify defensive responses in yourself and others and
learn how to respond nondefensively to stressful or difficult situations
involving supervisors, coworkers, students, or faculty.
Bring a statement said to you -- by anyone -- that made you feel defensive.
Topics to be covered include:
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Causes and consequences of defensive behaviour
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Nine defensive responses that tend to hinder communication
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Nine nondefensive responses that can open communication
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Steps to living nondefensively
10. Wednesday, March 4, 2009
TIME: 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
STAFF DEVELOPMENT OFFICE, Simon
Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C.
Facing Conflict with Confidence
Do conflicts seem recurring and
unresolvable? Would you like new ways of dealing with the difficult,
demanding, or dismissive people you encounter in the university
environment? In this participant-centred, interactive workshop we build
awareness of our choices and develop further skills in communicating in
conflict situations.
-
Examine our attitude towards conflicts
-
Understand conflict styles and strategies and evaluate the success of each
-
Role-play both speaking and listening assertively in a conflict
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Prepare a clear, assertive message that will begin negotiations for a
win-win outcome
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Look at the barriers to long-term conflict resolution
and the process of finding tools to break through the barriers
11. Sunday, March 8,
2009 TIME: 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Victoria, B.C.
Writing
Family Stories and Memoirs
Description above
12. Monday, March 9, 2009, 1:30 p.m. -
4:30 p.m.
Academic Women's Caucus, University of Victoria
http://web.uvic.ca/awc/index.php
No, I'm
Too Busy. What Time Should I Be
There? Part 2
This workshop will follow from last year's work on assertiveness and
negotiation for academic women. Details to be announced.
13. Tuesday, March
10, 2009 5:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
WOMEN IN ENGINEERING AND
COMPUTER SCIENCE, University of Victoria
Goal-Setting: The Dark Side
Description above
Coming Later in the Spring:
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Let's Talk: The Listening
Link
A
communication workshop for parents in Ward 21 (Scarborough-Rouge
River) of the Toronto District School Board offered by their trustee,
Shaun Chen.
We want to make helpful remarks to our children and others when they
are trouble. We want to open communication -- yet, well-intentioned
comments often have the opposite effect. This workshop explores what to
say -- especially when we don't know what to say.
and
Thursday, May 7, 2009 6:00 p.m.
Live Ambitiously: Degrees,
Careers, and Our Personal Lives
Memorial alumni are invited to a provocative, interactive
discussion on how ambition plays out in the lives and minds of working
women on Thursday, May 7 at 6:00 p.m. Facilitator and communications
consultant, Ms. Lil Blume will look at the sources of women's ambitions
and how our attitudes and the attitudes of others influence our personal
and professional decisions.
At this event, Ms. Blume will explore our attitudes towards our careers,
dreams, and ambitions; look at influences in the culture, in the
workforce, and in us that discourage us from dreaming big; and help us
discover ways not to let our careers unravel when children and family
become part of our lives.
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TESTIMONIALS
 "I wish you’d
come back to Victoria to give the faculty another session. The few hours I
got to spend with your were some of the most useful I’ve ever spent on
professional development." Lorna Crozier, award-winning poet, professor
University of Victoria
“The ability to communicate effectively is especially
important in my role as an elected official, and I have Lil Blume to thank.
Her communications course has taught me important lessons on how to listen
with empathy and communicate non-defensively – skills that are essential
whether I am in a boardroom debate, being interviewed by the media, or on
the phone with a constituent. Lil is a dynamic and energetic teacher
who delivers with passion."
– Shaun Chen, Trustee (Ward
21, Scarborough-Rouge River), Toronto District School Board
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