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A presenter’s responsibility to her participants
I'm in the middle of a two-day conference in Tsawwassen, BC and I have one idea to share about a presenter's responsibility to her participants. I feel like I could write a whole manifesto on this (maybe someday I will!) but for now here's just one thing: A presenter...
Recognized
Post by yoUnlimited. A week ago I was honoured at the Unlimited Woman Awards in the category of Community. One of the best parts about the night was that my family was there in person to celebrate alongside me. My parents took my daughter around the room as people...
The girl with the itchy foot
When my daughter was small, a friend of mine gave her a wonderful board book by Julia Donaldson called The Snail and the Whale. It starts off, This is the tale of a tiny snail And a great big, grey-blue humpback whale. This is a rock as black as soot, And this is a...
Creating the volunteering win-win
Last night I attended my last meeting of the UBC Victoria Leadership Council. It's a volunteer commitment that I've had for the last 2.5 years; the council is made up of University of British Columbia alumni and our main purpose is to advise on events and programming...
The merits of being still
I read two interesting blog posts today that both had to do with the merits of being still. They came among the plethora of posts about managing time and setting goals that have been blanketing every corner of the web landscape these past couple of weeks since New...
Don’t tell me that online learning doesn’t work for you
I heard it again recently from someone: "I learn best in a face to face class." It makes me cringe every time. Don't get me wrong, I love teaching and learning with people in person as well but I want to highlight that just because you're sitting physically in a...
In gratitude
As the days of 2014 wind slowly to a close I've been thinking a lot about the goings-on of my business and work over the past year. Last year my friend Julia encouraged me to look back over 2013 and capture my successes and failures and it was such a useful activity...
From one course to another
Well, October went by in a flash, didn't it? I spent the entire month co-facilitating a blended model course in volunteer management with colleagues from Volunteer Victoria (my old workplace as well) and over the weekend I shifted from ramp-down mode on that course to...
Finding Ladies Learning Code
"Awwww, I want to learn how to code too!" Those were my 6-year-old daughter's words as I left the house yesterday morning on my way to a Ladies Learning Code meetup here in Victoria. I was going to an event just for women and she was disappointed that she couldn't...
Women in tech and learning to code…more
A couple of weeks ago I went to a Netsquared Victoria meetup event focused on Women in Tech. I hadn't been out to Netsquared in a while but the topic drew me and I'm glad I made the effort. First I had to find my way to Fan Tan Alley for the after work event, to the...