Linda Capone-Newton facilitated this small training in late June. The group included pairs of colleagues from three centers who were more inclined to talk to one another than to people they didn’t know, so the main challenge for Linda was to get the discussion flowing more freely. She found that Nappy Hair prompted good discussion.
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Born to Read ushered in the month of June with back-to-back trainings in Hancock and Aroostook counties. Linda Levesque, the facilitator in Ellsworth, started her training with a handout from the Center for Nonviolent Communication to convey the variety of words to describe emotions. (The list of words is also available online.) One participant had [...]
The Bi-County Conference in Sullivan, Maine, is sponsored by the Child Care Opportunities RDC for Hancock and Washington counties. This April, Bahia Yackzan facilitated two workshops sessions, each one hour and fifteen minutes long, on Many Eyes, Many Voices. She chose to distribute one copy of Thanks to the Animals and one Somali Alphabet book [...]
When this blog is quiet, you can be sure that it’s because Born to Read has been busy! Since my last post, we’ve worked with three different facilitators to present workshop sessions at three day-long conferences. We were disappointed that we had to cancel our own Born to Read conference, which would have taken place [...]
Here’s a report from Denise on a training in Belfast on March 9 and 16. There were 20 people in the first session, and 16 in the next, representing 7 different programs. She notes that the group had both very talkative and very quiet members. She spoke to this at the end of the first [...]
