FULL CONFERENCE PROGRAM
Thursday, November 14 |
6:30 am |
Organized Walk - Dawn DeWolf |
Exercise Room |
7:45 am |
Yoga/Meditation - Lisa Tomlin |
Columbia Room |
8:00 am – 12:00 pm |
Registration Desk Open |
Lobby |
8:00-9:00 am |
Breakfast |
Oak/Pine Room |
8:00 am |
Chica Marimba Band |
Oak/Pine Room |
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Quince Affolter - Mental Health
Professional
Lin Durham -Basic Skills Instructor
Kathleen Fallon - ESL Instructor
Alice Goldstein - ESL Dept. Chair
Cheryl Hollatz-Wisely - Director of Student Affairs |
Sue Stadler - Educator
Carol Tenenbaum -Educator
Ellen Wolfson -Counselor
René Zingarelli - Associate Dean |
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A nine member women’s marimba
band comprised of educators and counselors, seven of whom work at
Clackamas Community College. Two years ago the group began taking
marimba classes together. Not one member had ever played the marimba
before. Through a strong commitment to music, friendship and culture,
Chica Marimba is now a performing group whose music comes from Zimbabwe
and represents the Shona culture. They love to share their music with
others, and demonstrate that anyone cal learn to play the marimba.
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8:40 am |
Welcome/Introductions |
Oak/Pine Room |
9:00 -10:00 am |
Keynote: Dr. Kathryn E. Goddard
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Oak/Pine Room |
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Faculty, Student Development
in Higher Education and Director, Center for Collaboration in Education,
California State University, Long Beach
"Leading from the Edge: Insights from the Field"
Dr. Goddard will share insights on transformational leadership based on
interviews with successful practitioners throughout the United States,
informed by concepts from Margaret Wheatley's work. Areas of focus
include accomplishing change in large bureaucracies, identifying and
building student-centered programs, and collaboration with colleagues.
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10:00 - 10:20 am |
Break |
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10:20 - 11:45 am |
Concurrent Workshops I
A = Career and Professional Development, B =
Personal Growth and Enrichment, C = Mind, Body, Spirit |
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A.1 |
Leaders' Sharing Circle |
Oak/Pine Room |
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Dr. Kathryn E. Goddard,
Faculty, Student Development in Higher Education and Director, Center
for Collaboration in Education, California State University, Long Beach.
Dr. Goddard will lead a dialogue following her keynote address, inviting
participants to discuss transformational leadership and share challenges
and insights. |
A.2 |
Appreciative Inquiry: The Overview |
Columbia Room |
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Mimi Maduro, Workforce Development
Director, Portland Community College |
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Appreciative Inquiry (AI) is a
process designed to accelerate positive change. It’s based on the
premise that human organizations and systems grow in the direction of
what they repeatedly ask questions about and focus their attention on.
You’ll learn about positive deviancy and the four stages of AI:
discovery, dream, design, and destiny/delivery. The model focuses on
personal and organizational strengths and assets as well as identifying
what’s working well and what we’d like to see more of in our lives and
organizations. |
A.3 |
A Spirit of Empowerment for Women:
Combating Sexual Harassment in the Workplace |
Fir Room |
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Diane Watson, Dean of Student
Services, and Jackie Turle, Director,
Training and Business Development, Linn-Benton Community College.
This presentation provides an overview of what sexual harassment is and
ways of combating it in the workplace in an empowering and assertive
manner. Participants will have an opportunity to role play situations
specific to their work environments and discuss strategies to keep the
environment safe. Participants will have fun, be re-energized, and
empowered! |
B.1 |
Unlock Your Potential: Using Positive
Self-Talk and Affirmations |
Mt. Hood Room |
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Lynn Melow, Executive
Secretary to the Dean of Campus-based Instruction, and Marilyn Hart
Reed, Coordinator of Apprenticeship and Non-credit Campus-based
Programs, Chemeketa Community College.
Self-worth is a huge player in change. Change can be trusted as a
healthy, natural process. People resist it because they feel safe and
comfortable in the familiar. Change is good! Surf on it! Concentrate on
where you might go if you venture into the unknown. Presenters will
illustrate how our inner foundation crumbles when negative self-talk is
used. The benefits of affirmations and positive self-talk will be
described. A recipe for writing behavior changing self-talk will be
detailed. Individuals or small groups will then write affirmations and
exchange with others. Participants will go home with an envelope full of
small cards that have positive self-talk and affirmations written on
them. They can then pull out a fresh card every day for the next few
weeks to read and reinforce information given during this presentation. |
B.2 |
Retiring with PERS |
Cascade Room |
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Mary Soper, Retirement
Counselor, PERS This workshop is designed for PERS members within 15
years or less to retirement. Issues covered are the variable account
before retirement, active member benefits, vesting, factors and
calculation methods used to determine the retirement option choices.
Post-retirement issues discussed include health insurance and working
after retirement. |
C.1 |
Self as Teacher: Using Your Own Life
Experiences to Navigate the Tides of Change |
Birch Room |
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Patricia Nerison, Instructor,
Bard College Clemente Course, Port Hadlock
This session offers ways to look at yourself and your life experiences
from a fresh perspective. In everyday life, troubling situations or
challenging relationships, how can you be the person you really want to
be? The perspective presented here is called Life As a Waking Dream. We
will walk through a process that will help you examine and make choices
about
four areas: how you identify yourself; how others can reflect aspects of
you; how body, emotions and intuitions offer clues to wisdom; how you
can adjust give and take between you and others. |
C.2 |
Rituals for Your Daily Life |
Cedar Room |
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Anne Key, Skill Center
Director, Columbia Gorge Community College
Tips and practical rituals you can do to bring spirituality into your
daily life, at home and at work. |
C.3 |
Five Greek Goddesses Illustrating
Women's Leadership Styles |
Alder Room |
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Debbie Stone, Asst.
Coordinator, Women’s Resource Center, Portland Community College,
Cascade Campus.
Mythology provides women with stories of power and healing, allowing
women to envision and quest for goals they choose. This workshop
examines common leadership styles illustrated by five Greek goddesses—Hestia,
Hera, Athena, Artemis, Aphrodite. The story of each goddess, as well as
their particular energy, in terms of leadership approach and action,
will be explored. This is an experiential workshop with a self-test to
identify comfort level with each of the five leadership styles. |
12:00 – 1:15 pm |
Lunch with
Presidents/Networking/Awards |
Oak/Pine Room |
1:15 - 4:00 pm |
Registration Desk Open |
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1:15 - 2:15 pm |
Keynote - Dr. Mildred Ollee |
Oak/Pine Room |
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Executive Dean, Portland
Community College, Cascade/Open Campus
“The Tides of Change: A Leader’s View”
Dr. Ollee will discuss the changes and challenges facing the state's
community colleges, how we can respond to these, and what she has
learned about the challenges and rewards of leadership. She will share
her perspectives on transformational leadership and the strengths that
women can bring to leadership roles. |
2:15 - 2:30 p.m. |
Break |
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2:30 - 4:00 p.m. |
Concurrent Workshops II
A = Career and Professional Development, B = Personal
Growth and Enrichment, C = Mind, Body, Spirit |
A.4 |
Appreciative Inquiry: The Experience
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Columbia Room |
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Mimi Maduro, Workforce
Development Director, Portland Community College
In this follow-up session to “Appreciative Inquiry: The Overview,”
participants will engage in the “discovery” phase and learn how to craft
positive questions and will conduct and participate in an appreciative
interview. This is for participants who attended the morning session.
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A.5 |
Overcoming Obstacles at Work: Stumbling
Blocks or Stepping Stones |
Cascade Room |
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Jean Morton, Life
Coach/Trainer
Sometimes our problems are only problems because we perceive them that
way. Discover your potential to do things differently and have less
stress and more fun at work. |
B.3 |
Building Better Work and Personal
Relationships |
Mt. Hood Room |
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Sylvia Welch, Director,
Affirmative Action,
Portland Community College, Cascade Campus.
This session will help participants understand how they react when
things are going well and when things are not going well. In addition,
Relationship Awareness Theory provides practical insights into the
motivation behind behavior by identifying and exploring personal
strengths and motivational values in order to understand potential
sources of conflict and collaboration. |
B.4 |
Seeing Turkey through the Lens of an
Adult Educator and Tips for Traveling Abroad |
Birch Room |
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Ann Smart, Dean of
Institutional Advancement and Executive Assistant to the President,
Linn-Benton Community College
Have you thought about traveling overseas and wondered about going
alone, traveling with another person, or with a group? The presenter has
done all three. Her hobbies are travel and photography. She will share
her slide show of a trip to Turkey and answer general travel questions
from the perspective of a seasoned traveler who is a terrible packer.
She has experience traveling in Africa, Europe, Asia, Australia/New
Zealand and North and South America. Come and learn something about an
interesting culture, centuries of history, wonderful people, and
traveling abroad. |
C.4 |
Meaning in Music: Lyrics for the
Journey |
Alder Room |
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Margie Adam,
Singer/Songwriter, and Linda Reisser,
Dean of Student Development, Portland Community College, Cascade Campus
Music can provide inspiration and insight as we reflect on our personal
journeys. Using models of transformation and concepts from spiritual
teachings as context, we will focus on three songs written by Margie
Adam ("Watch for Me," "Avalon," and "A Woman's Work is Never Done") as
catalysts for questions and discussion about new ways to "imagine and
remember." We will also share reflections on the trials and revelations
of the hero's journey. |
C.5 |
Walking the Labyrinth |
Cedar Room |
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Renette Meltebeke, M.A.
Professional Career Counselor and Labyrinth Facilitator.
The labyrinth is an archetype of unity and wholeness found in various
forms in spiritual traditions around the world. For 4000 years, seekers
have used labyrinths as a walking meditation or path for centering and
connecting with the Spirit. Unlike a maze, a labyrinth has no tricks and
is an excellent tool for integrating the mind, body, and Spirit. This
workshop will give you an opportunity to learn about and actually
experience walking a labyrinth. |
C.6 |
Yoga Workshop |
Fir Room |
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Gail Dana, Yoga Instructor
This workshop will teach a 26 pose yoga flow, which stretches every
tendon, ligament, and muscle in the body, while improving balance,
focus, strength, and stamina. |
4:00 - 5:00 pm |
Labyrinth Walking |
Cedar Room |
4:00 - 5:00 pm |
OILD/NILD Reception |
Grand Suite (Room 120) |
4:00 - 7:00 pm |
Dinner on your own |
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7:00 – 10:00 pm |
Salon |
Oak/Pine Room |
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Conversation, networking, games, foodand
other delights (bring your favorite hobbies and books to share) Hosted
by Anne Key, Skill Center Director, Columbia Gorge Community College |
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Silent auction -ends at 10:00 pm |
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Friday, November 15 |
6:30 am |
Organized Walk - Dawn DeWolf |
Exercise Room |
7:00-8:30 am |
Yoga/Meditation - Lisa Tomlin |
Columbia Room |
8:00 - 9:00 am |
Breakfast |
Oak/Pine Room |
8:00 - 9:00 am |
College/Campus Contacts Breakfast |
Cedar Room |
8:00 - 11:45 am |
Registration Desk Open |
Oak/Pine Room |
9:00 - 10:00 am |
Keynote - Dr. Marie Eaton |
Oak/Pine Room |
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Professor, Western Washington
University
“Head, Heart and Hands - Teaching and Learning for the Whole Self“
In a time of the increasing industrialization of higher education, many
of us hunger for different kinds of learning experiences for our
students and working paradigms for ourselves. We struggle to create
spaces in the flurry of forms and outcomes, in the welter of committee
meetings and deadlines to ask the deeper questions about “what for” and
“why?” In this presentation, Eaton will explore silence, space and the
call of stories to talk about the ways reflective practice can impact
both learning and work. |
10:00 - 10:15 am |
Break |
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10:15 - 11:30 am |
Concurrent Workshops III
A = Career and Professional Development, B =
Personal Growth and Enrichment, C = Mind, Body, Spirit |
A.6 |
Meeting Facilitation |
Columbia Room |
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Mimi Maduro, Workforce
Development Director, Portland Community College
During this session you’ll learn a purpose-centered approach to meeting
facilitation including a discussion of facilitation tips for conducting
effective meetings. |
A.7 |
The Impact of Legislative Changes on
Community Colleges |
Fir Room |
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Cam Preus-Braly, Commissioner,
Dept. of Community College and Workforce Development
Andrea Henderson, Executive Director, OCCAOregon’s community colleges
face unprecedented growth in a time of budgetary challenges. This
workshop will address the impact of legislative actions on community
colleges and take a look at what is expected in the upcoming legislative
session. |
A.8 |
If You’re Not on The Edge, You’re
Taking Up Too Much Space |
Mt. Hood Room |
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Judy Deiro, Faculty, Western
Washington University
Most change places us on the edge. This workshop provides you with a
conceptual framework and simple tools to ease the anxiety that comes
with “hanging” on the edge. |
B.5 |
A Vivid Vision: Steering with Clarity
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Cedar Room |
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Jessica Page Morrell,
Instructor, Portland Community College and Mt. Hood Community College
and author, Writing Out the Storm
Steering a career path and living a life of meaning and fulfillment
requires setting a true and steady course. And that course cannot be
mapped without a vivid vision of who we are, what we want and where our
passions lie. But you don’t need to trek to a remote mountain top to get
in touch with your vision. This workshop will provoke a rethinking of
your direction and dreams and provide solid strategies for honing in on
where your authentic path leads. Discussion topics and practice sessions
will include:
- How a vivid vision leads to authenticity.
- Creating your own board of directors for brainstorming,
support and direction.
- Remembering your childhood passions to infuse your adult
dreams.
- Developing steadiness of purpose.
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- Using play and creative practices to entice your vision into
reality.
- Reentering experiences where you were both successful and
adrift to harness the potential of visualization.
- Rethinking obstacles and constraints.
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B.6 |
Weathering the Storm: Planning for
Retirement in Troubled Times |
Cascade Room |
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Lou Solly - Certified
Financial Planner
Participants will learn basic financial planning terminology and
techniques, helping them plan and implement a strategy for reaching
their retirement goals. Topics include:1. Where am I? a. Fundamentals
of Financial Planning and b. Analyzing your current situation
2. Where am I going? a. Goal Setting and b. Retirement Needs Analysis
3. How do I get there? a. Investment Basics and b. Asset Allocation |
C.7 |
Women’s Energy, Women’s Health
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Alder Room |
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Wendy Bjornson, MPH, Director,
Center for Creative Health From medicine to psychology, work out rooms
to living rooms, we are paying more attention to energy. Science tells
us that everything is made up of energy and energy is the basic
foundation for everything. But what does that mean to you and what does
it have to do with your health? Energy has everything to do with your
mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual health. This workshop will
provide a basic introduction to energy and health, teach you a simple
routine to balance your energy every day, and learn some acupressure
techniques you can use to help relieve stress, change moods, and feel
better. |
C.8 |
Losing It--In a Good Way: Transforming
the Body |
Birch Room |
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Rebecca Kenney, Director of Continuing
Education, Mount Hood Community College
Already beset with a thyroid condition and diagnosed with Diabetes in
1999, Rebecca Kenney found herself 100lbs overweight, at the end of a
relationship, a workaholic, and functioning at an all time spiritual
low. This workshop explores successful weight loss when all else has
failed (trust her, she was the youngest member of Weight Watchers in
1969!). Learn about balancing food choices, exercise, work, play, social
life, and the missing element: spirituality. Rebecca will share candidly
about her recent transformation, what works and why, while facilitating
interactive exercises and providing participants amazingly helpful
handouts. |
10:15 - 11:30 am |
What is AAWCC? And Why Should You Care
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Grand Suite (120) |
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Dawn DeWolf, Oregon Coast
Community College, and President, Oregon AAWCC An overview of AAWCC,
it’s mission, purpose, activities, and opportunities presented by three
long-term members of AAWCC. |
11:45 am -12:30 pm |
Awards Lunch (election results, door
prizes) |
Oak/Pine Room |
12:30 -1:30 pm |
Margie Adam Concert |
Oak/Pine Room |
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Margie Adam has carved out a
distinct niche in the "Who's Who" of contemporary singer-songwriters.
Peter, Paul and Mary recorded "Best Friend (The Unicorn Song)" on their
Reunion album; "Tender Lady" (newly arranged for Soon and Again) can be
found on one of the best-selling independent releases of all time - Cris
Williamson's Changer And The Changed; "How Many" has been featured in
AIDS Walks and names Project Quilt displays nationwide; "We Shall Go
Forth!" (known as the anthem of the Women's Liberation Movement) is a
part the Political History Division of the Smithsonian Museum; and
listeners of NPR's "Morning Edition" and "All Things Considered," will
recognize tunes from Soon and Again and Naked Keys. |
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