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Time
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Session #
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Workshop Title and Presenter
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Room
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9:00-
10:00 am
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Session 1
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Emotional Intelligence in Education
Emotional intelligence is an integral part of learning. When learning experiences address people's emotional needs of positive self-worth and peer acceptance, academic goals can be more easily attained.
Dr. Jerry Fischer, CRC, LPC |
Aurora
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How To Play Nice: A Team Approach to Getting It Done
We all have to work with others to get things done, but how can we do this most effectively? This workshop will explore the team approach, and how we can all be coaches, active players, and the entire cheer squad.
Dr. Emma Grindley |
Crest
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Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction
Introduction to mindfulness and how it can enhance our ability to deal with stress and increase our sense of aliveness. This program is based on Jon Kabat-Zinn's Mindfulness Based Stress-Reduction Program at University of Massachusetts Medical School.
Dave Potter |
Horizon
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Self-Stewardship & the Sustainable Profession
Purposely focusing our attention on our positive experiences is a form of self, organizational and civic stewardship. This session draws on the principles and exercises of Appreciative Inquiry and Appreciative Living to demonstrate the value of appreciation in daily living.
Roxanne Schreiber |
TLC, Room 50
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Staying Motivated to Work in Higher Education
This session is designed to allow participants to become re-energized by providing motivational strategies, information about reaching today's college student and tips on being student consumer oriented. You make a difference.
Nancy Hunter Denney
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Whitewater
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Women Entrepreneurs: Taking the Leap Into Leadership
Based on her personal experience as the entrepreneurial founder of three small but successful companies, the presenter will provide a strong real-life understanding of the challenges facing entrepreneurs, and discuss hints and tips for success.
Rhonda Abrams
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Clearwater
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Circle the Women: Leaders in Partnership Power (Part 1)
With Compassionate Communication consciousness, we will explore the effect of patriarchy on our personal lives and on our understanding of leadership. Through silence, singing, circles, and sharing we will explore our values, celebrate needs met, and envision empowering life changes.
Veronica Lassen |
Student Diversity Center
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10:30-11:30 am
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Session 2
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Empower Yourself: Learn How NOT to Have it All
Learning how to balance your lifestyle is empowering in and of itself. Making decisions about how to spend your time can lead to greater life satisfaction. This session will help you take an inventory of life and make goals which will create a more balanced lifestyle.
Dr. Sharon Fritz |
Aurora
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Understanding Academic Cultures and How to Better Communicate in Them
This workshop will present the six cultures of the academy and how to recognize which one(s) dominate our immediate work environment. The audience will be engaged in a conversation about their experience with these cultures and their values, and share ideas on how to most effectively communicate in each culture.
Dr. Patricia Sturko |
Crest
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Diverse Learning: Connecting with the Community
Come explore diverse learning styles to empower your teaching and increase student retention. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator/Kiersey Temperment Sorter will be explored in respects to learning styles, teaching styles and communication.
Dr. Linda Taylor, NCC
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TLC, Room 50
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Women's Ways of Leading
This session examines gender's influence on leadership style and behaviors based on the breadth of interdisciplinary research in this field, as well as the wide variety of practitioner accounts. Special attention is given to strategies for improving leadership effectiveness.
Dr. Heidi L. Connole |
Horizon
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What Did You Say? Gender Issues in Communication
Ever feel as if you were speaking a different language? Ever desire to be more informed about the influence of culture and gender on how you interact or do business with others? This informative and practical session will present the research on gender differences in communication and how these generalizations - once recognized - can interfere or assist you - in getting your goals accomplished. Considerable demographic data is offered to enhance participants' understanding.
Nancy Hunter Denney |
Whitewater
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Got Conflict? What's Your Management Style?
Workshop attendees will learn about conflict, sharing their own life experiences; the five styles of managing conflict: avoidance, competing, accommodating, compromising, and collaborating; advantages and disadvantages of each style; and their own management style taking the Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument.
Kay Keskinen, CPM, CMM |
Clearwater
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Circle the Women: Leaders in Partnership Power (Part 2)
With Compassionate Communication consciousness, participants will explore the effect of patriarchy on our personal lives and on our understanding of leadership. Through silence, singing, circles, and sharing we will explore our values, celebrate needs met, and envision empowering life changes.
Veronica Lassen
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Student Diversity Center
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2:30-
3:30 pm
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Session 3
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Servant Leadership in a Digital Age
This workshop will provide interactive, media-supported discussion that introduces participants to the concept of servant leadership and why this model is important. We will examine the difficulties inherent in developing leaders who are servants in a digital information age, and propose a model of servant leadership that appears effective.
Dr. Sharon Kay Stoll |
TLC, Room 50
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Join an Adventure! Women- Specific Outdoor Programming
There is no better way to get women of any age together to pursue common purpose than through an outdoor or wilderness experience. Women-only outdoor experiences have been offered at the University of Idaho for 20 years. This session will examine why programming for women specific to outdoor experiences is so important, and explore models, values, and differences, as well as provide an overview of current women's outdoor programming offerings.
Rachel Todd and Mike Beiser |
Horizon
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Finding Our Full Sound to Express Ourselves Fully
This program focuses on the role that speaking voices have in communication. Major topics: sound quality, vocal clarity, utilizing relaxation to find the sound that fully expresses "you," and allowing yourself to shine through speech and reach others.
Dr. Pamela Bathurst |
Aurora
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Work, Family, and Career Advancement in the Academic Context
There is an assumption in higher education that more women in the pipeline means more women in senior academic and administrative positions. This session uses findings from multiple research sources about female faculty, work, and family to discuss career advancement.
Dr. Gretalyn Leibnitz |
Crest
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| 2:15 - 3:45 p.m. |
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Film Showing
"Still Waiting: Life After Katrina"
The story of three women and their experiences in the aftermath of Hurrican Katrina. Film showing will be followed by a discussion. |
Borah Theater
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