Leadership
Activities
- Planning
and decorating a
Christmas party
- Planning,
facilitating
and speaking
at
women's
memorials and
creating memorial brochures
- Teaching:
Preparing
and leading a class
in a
craft activity
such as beading
or
instructing internet email and research
skills
- Peer
teaching: showing a newcomer
how to
start a project
(embossing cards, making
a bracelet)
how
to use the computer, sign up
for
hotmail,
or researching
rental housing
- Assisting
to maintain
an atmosphere of calmness in
the Learning
Centre
- Negotiating
and resolving
conflicts
that
occur in the Learning
Centre
- Welcoming
and
orienting
new women
- Participating
in Women’s Advisory
Group meetings
and initiatives:
attending, speaking, joining
a committee,
reporting back,
asking for accountability,
working with
other members
of the organization
on issues
(staff, board, other volunteers),
taking minutes,
typing minutes,
cofacilitating,
distributing minutes, encouraging
peers to raise
issues
- Creating
and publishing
the WISH Newsletter:
writing articles
and poetry,
researching
issues, reviewing
a book on poor-bashing,
designing the
cover
and inside pages, soliciting announcements from other members of
the organization, stapling and folding, distributing the Newsletter throughout
WISH
- Applying
for a Learners-Talking-to-Learners grant, (a Provincially funded
literacy activity): brainstorming ideas, researching possibilities, developing
a
budget, coordinating movie outings, publicizing the trips, writing up
experiences, completing the group evaluation and preparing a financial
report
- Participation
in the conference "Portraits of Literacy": deciding to participate
by sending a group poster, reflecting on personal participation in the
Learning Centre, reflecting on how the Learning Centre could improve,
designing and decorating the poster
- Participation
in the Research Project: assisting with questionnaires, filling out questionnaires,
participating in discussions
about various topics that arose
with the research project, providing feedback and suggestions for revisions.
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