2002 Fall Conference  
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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
 
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
  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.
 
8:40 am Welcome/Introductions Oak/Pine Room
9:00 -10:00 am Keynote: Dr. Kathryn E. Goddard Oak/Pine Room
  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.
 
10:00 - 10:20 am Break  
10:20 - 11:45 am Concurrent Workshops I
A = Career and Professional Development, B = Personal Growth and Enrichment, C = Mind, Body, Spirit
     
A.1 Leaders' Sharing Circle Oak/Pine Room
  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
  Mimi Maduro, Workforce Development Director, Portland Community College  
  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
  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
  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
  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
  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
  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
  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  
1:15 - 2:15 pm Keynote - Dr. Mildred Ollee Oak/Pine Room
  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  
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 Columbia Room
  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.

A.5

Overcoming Obstacles at Work: Stumbling Blocks or Stepping Stones Cascade Room
  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
  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
  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
  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
  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
  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  
7:00 – 10:00 pm Salon Oak/Pine Room
  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  
  Silent auction -ends at 10:00 pm  

 

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
  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  
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
  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
  Cam Preus-Braly, Commissioner, Dept. of Community College and Workforce Development
Andrea Henderson, Executive Director, OCCA

Oregon’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
  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 Cedar Room
  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.
  • 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.

B.6

Weathering the Storm: Planning for Retirement in Troubled Times Cascade Room
  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 Alder Room
  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
  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 Grand Suite (120)
  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
  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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