Virtual Conversation Cafe
Learn about our Virtual Conversation Cafe's
What is it all about?
The purpose of the Conversation Café is to promote capacity building for community based service providers and volunteers around addressing the issue of violence in Labrador Communities.
We will provide brief learning opportunities for service providers to increase knowledge on a variety of topics related to violence among vulnerable populations.
The idea is an expert or leader in a specific field will provoke thought and discussion among the participants on the call around a specific topic and leave participants to discuss local issues and local solutions, and hopefully some potential actions to move forward.
We will provide brief learning opportunities for service providers to increase knowledge on a variety of topics related to violence among vulnerable populations.
The idea is an expert or leader in a specific field will provoke thought and discussion among the participants on the call around a specific topic and leave participants to discuss local issues and local solutions, and hopefully some potential actions to move forward.
How it Works!
The online component of the Conversation Café will last between 1 and 1.5hr. The rest of the morning is left to network, have conversation about the topic as it relates to you, whether that is personal, professional, in a volunteer capacity, or all of the above... and enjoy a cup of coffee of course!
Interested in being a Host!
Check out the Guidelines for Hosting.
Interested in being a Host!
Check out the Guidelines for Hosting.
Six Principles for Good Conversation!
The http://www.conversationcafe.org/ organisation in the US has produced a set of process guidelines and agreements to encourage good practice for Conversation Cafe's. These include six principles for good conversation:
Open-mindedness: Listen to and respect all points of view.
Acceptance: Suspend judgment as best you can.
Curiosity: Seek to understand rather than persuade.
Discovery: Question assumptions, look for new insights.
Sincerity: Speak what has personal heart and meaning.
Brevity: Go for honesty and depth but don't go on and on.
Open-mindedness: Listen to and respect all points of view.
Acceptance: Suspend judgment as best you can.
Curiosity: Seek to understand rather than persuade.
Discovery: Question assumptions, look for new insights.
Sincerity: Speak what has personal heart and meaning.
Brevity: Go for honesty and depth but don't go on and on.
Poster
(larger version)
(larger version)
Locations, Dates, Topics!
October 6th, 2011
Locations
Rigolet: DHSD Building
Nain: Nunatsiavut Government Building Board Room
Download Nain Poster
Makkovik: Makkovik Markland Building
Download Makkovik Poster
Labrador Straits: E M Taylor Resource Building
Download Labrador Straits Poster
Happy Valley Goose Bay: Labrador Friendship Center
Download Labrador Friendship Center Poster
Locations
Rigolet: DHSD Building
Nain: Nunatsiavut Government Building Board Room
Download Nain Poster
Makkovik: Makkovik Markland Building
Download Makkovik Poster
Labrador Straits: E M Taylor Resource Building
Download Labrador Straits Poster
Happy Valley Goose Bay: Labrador Friendship Center
Download Labrador Friendship Center Poster
Safe Spaces!
Speaker Bio
Bill Ryan is a professor of Social Work at McGill University in Montréal, Québec, Canada. He is an internationally-recognized expert in the field of sexuality, sexual education, homophobia, health and gay men's health. He has conducted research in all these areas, published scientific articles, chapters and edited books. He has spoken at conferences internationally and consulted and trained with many international organizations.[1]He is one of the leaders in the international gay men's health movement and has been a driving force behind the transformation of Action Séro-Zéro in Montréal into a full fledged gay men's health organization, now named RÉZO. He is the founder of the Canadian Safe Spaces movement, which, beginning with four sites (Halifax, Moncton, Montréal, Kamloops), has grown into a movement with dozens of supportive services for youth questionning their sexual orientation. He was founding co-chair of the Canadian Rainbow Health Coalition. In 2006, the Canadian Institutes for Health Research, granted funding to a pan-Canadian team, SVR (Sexuality, Vulnerability and Resilience), of which he is co-chair, to study the impacts of homophobia on the health of gay, lesbian, bisexual, trans and two-spirit Canadians. He has an active psychotherapy practice in Montréal. In 2001 he was named a Hero of the AIDS Crisis by the Farha Foundation. In 2009 he was named Person of the Year by the Gay and Lesbian Council of Québec. In 2010 he was awarded the Martin Luther King Jr. Legacy Award for Montréal as well as being named one of the «Top Ten» researchers by the Institute of Gender and Health of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.
For the Conversation Cafe
In 2009 he cofounded the Institute for Sexual Minority Health which offers a series of workshops on the areas of sexuality, sexual orientation, homophobia, transgenderism and gender.
One of these programs is Creating Safe Spaces: A focus on the important elements which contribute to creating safe and welcoming environments for lesbian, gay and bisexual (lgb) individuals, couples and families in schools, health and social service agencies, community organizations, and other relevant settings. http://www.ismh-isms.com/safespaces.html
During the Cafe he will be discussing issues related to sexuality, homophobia, creating safe spaces for learning and interacting in youth agencies and schools as well as addressing issues of importance to the participants related to these questions.
Bill Ryan is a professor of Social Work at McGill University in Montréal, Québec, Canada. He is an internationally-recognized expert in the field of sexuality, sexual education, homophobia, health and gay men's health. He has conducted research in all these areas, published scientific articles, chapters and edited books. He has spoken at conferences internationally and consulted and trained with many international organizations.[1]He is one of the leaders in the international gay men's health movement and has been a driving force behind the transformation of Action Séro-Zéro in Montréal into a full fledged gay men's health organization, now named RÉZO. He is the founder of the Canadian Safe Spaces movement, which, beginning with four sites (Halifax, Moncton, Montréal, Kamloops), has grown into a movement with dozens of supportive services for youth questionning their sexual orientation. He was founding co-chair of the Canadian Rainbow Health Coalition. In 2006, the Canadian Institutes for Health Research, granted funding to a pan-Canadian team, SVR (Sexuality, Vulnerability and Resilience), of which he is co-chair, to study the impacts of homophobia on the health of gay, lesbian, bisexual, trans and two-spirit Canadians. He has an active psychotherapy practice in Montréal. In 2001 he was named a Hero of the AIDS Crisis by the Farha Foundation. In 2009 he was named Person of the Year by the Gay and Lesbian Council of Québec. In 2010 he was awarded the Martin Luther King Jr. Legacy Award for Montréal as well as being named one of the «Top Ten» researchers by the Institute of Gender and Health of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.
For the Conversation Cafe
In 2009 he cofounded the Institute for Sexual Minority Health which offers a series of workshops on the areas of sexuality, sexual orientation, homophobia, transgenderism and gender.
One of these programs is Creating Safe Spaces: A focus on the important elements which contribute to creating safe and welcoming environments for lesbian, gay and bisexual (lgb) individuals, couples and families in schools, health and social service agencies, community organizations, and other relevant settings. http://www.ismh-isms.com/safespaces.html
During the Cafe he will be discussing issues related to sexuality, homophobia, creating safe spaces for learning and interacting in youth agencies and schools as well as addressing issues of importance to the participants related to these questions.