I’m at a Casey Family Programs conference in Seattle that is looking at applying science to early learning in kids. The people here are learning about brain science and the results of early adverse childhood experiences and what the science can tell us about how we should react in the policy sphere to create healthy kids, families and societies. The keynote is by Jack Shonkoff, who is a leading brain researcher in this field and who has been sharing some of the basics of what we know about brain science, relationships and healthy societies. Here are some of his key …
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From the Applied Improv Network ning, here is a great set of Improv Games for Larger Groups. For use in conferences, large groups settings, school assemblies, church services, riots and demos, sporting events, concerts, Apple store lineups, picket lines and anywhere else a few dozen people or more are gathered. I especially like this line from Paul Levy in the discussion “There are no large groups, just tiny facilitators!”
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If this is Sunday morning I must be back in Toronto shaking off the cobwebs from a redeye from Vancouver. Will I ever be home? # Settled into a beautiful retreat centre in Arnprior Ontario on the shores of the Ottawa River for an art of hosting #AoHArnprior # Home? I'm actually home? Ahhhhhh…… # Lovely morning,,,early ride to the continent to work with some United Churches in White Rock, and excited for Spurs v ManU! #coys #
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Three very interesting resources on a new form of evaluation to me, developmental evaluation, created by Michael Quinn Patton: A Developmental Evaluation Primer Patton’s own slides on developmental evaluation A practitioner’s guide to developmental evaluation This is the first thing I have seen on evaluation that has got me excited about the connection between complexity, systems thinking and change.
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Stunning clear day at Harrison Lake and tens of thousands of spawning sockeye and chum at Chehalis. # 150 people arriving here at Harrison Lake Resort for a groundbreaking gathering on Indigenous Child and Family Services. # Dawn never struggles but sometimes the light is slow to come to deep valleys. # Witnessing history today for First Nations child and family services in BC: http://bit.ly/dl72jt # Heavy pulp mill smog in Prince George this morning. Stinky town, deserted centre. Hard times. Storm rolling in across NW BC this am. #