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Change, Power and Resilience
Thursday Half-Day Conferences
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September 16, 2010 - 10:00AM, at University Lutheran
WHEN WE FEEL POWERLESS IN THE FACE OF UNWANTED CHANGE, HOW DO WE DEAL WITH OUR FEELINGS?
Setting the issue: True Story Theater Ensemble
Lecture by Judith Jordan, psychotherapist, dir Jean Baker Miller Training Institute, Wellesley College
September 23, 2010 - 10:00AM, at University Lutheran
HOW CAN A CULTURE HAVE RESILIENCE? HOW CAN WE DEVELOP IT?
Setting the issue: Lindsa Vallee*
Lecture by Tim McCarthy, historian, Harvard's Kennedy School of Government
September 30, 2010 - 10:00AM, at University Lutheran
PROS & CONS OF A WIRED WORLD: CONNECTING IN A "GLOCAL" COMMUNITY
Setting the issue: Cynthia Gilles*
Lecture by Charles Nesson, Founder and Faculty Co-Director, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard Law School
October 7, 2010 - 10:00AM, at University Lutheran
CONFRONTING THE FOOD INDUSTRY: CHANGES AND CHOICES
Setting the issue: Carol Staszewski*
Lecture by Katherine Brown, executive director Southside County Land Trust, Providence, RI
October 14, 2010 - 10:00AM, at University Lutheran
NEGOTIATING POWER IN MALE/FEMALE RELATIONS
Co-lectures by Janet Surrey & Samuel Shem, co-authors of We Have to Talk: Healing Dialogues Between Men and Women
*- Advisory Committee member
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October 21, 2010 - 10:00AM, at University Lutheran
CHANGING PERCEPTIONS OF GENDER ROLES AND GENDER IDENTITIES
Panel setting the issue: Susan Nulsen*, Sandy Wayne*, Emily Robertson*
Lecture by Renée Bergland, professor of English, Simmons
October 28, 2010 - 10:00AM, at University Lutheran
FINDING OUR WAY IN MOTHER/ADULT-DAUGHTER RELATIONS
Setting the issue: Martha Nielsen* and her daughter Rebekah Santagata
Lecture by Linda Weltner, activist, former Boston Globe columnist
November 4, 2010 -10:00AM, at University Lutheran
THE CHALLENGE OF CONNECTING IN MOTHER/SON RELATIONS
Setting the issue: Christine Farrow-Noble*
Lecture by Ruth Nemzoff, author of Don't Bite Your Tongue: How to Foster Rewarding Relationships with Your Adult Children, resident scholar at Women's Studies Research Center, Brandeis University
November 11, 2010 - 10:00AM, at University Lutheran
WHAT IS THE DIFFICULTY WOMEN HAVE WITH WOMEN IN POWER?
Setting the issue: Kathy Jellison*
Lecture by Michaela Walsh, founding president of Women's World Banking
November 18, 2010 - 10:00AM, at University Lutheran
WHAT ARE THE SPIRITUAL ISSUES IN CHANGE, POWER AND RESILIENCE?
Setting the issue: Claudia Demick, First Congregational Church, Providence
Lecture by Janet Cooper Nelson, chaplain, Brown University
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Thursdays 10 am - 12:30 pm at University Lutheran Church, 66 Winthrop St, Cambridge MA - just east of JFK St near the Kennedy School of Government.
To register for the series or for more info: TOP, 351 Atherton St, Milton MA 02186 • 617 285 7408
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10th August 2010 • TOP, 351 Atherton St, Milton MA 02186 • 617 285 7408
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Announcements
The Advisory Committee Annual Meeting will take place on Thursday 2nd September at 10am at 34 Mt Vernon St, Cambridge MA 02140. All TOP participants are welcome. Please bring your lunch and be prepared to take all your trash away with you.
The TOP Board Annual Meeting will be held at Liz and David's home in Wellesley, from 10-2 on Friday 20th September. Please bring your own lunch and drink. Ice tea will be available. All members of the Advisory Committee are welcome to attend and there will be opportunity for non-board members to contribute.
Planning the Spring 2011 series continues. Go to Spring 2011 and print out the theme and topics come up with so far. Can you think of possible speakers? Would you like to focus one of the topics from your personal experience? Bring your ideas, yourself and your lunch to the next planning meeting. Check with Liz for the dates.
Donella Meadows Award.
On 3rd June 2010 Elizabeth and David Dodson Gray were presented with the Donella Meadows Award by the Club of Rome (USA). ...more Announcements
Announcing a new Coordinator.
The Advisory Committee announces the election of Muna Killingback as the new Coordinator. Muna will begin as Coordinator on 1st August 2010.
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TOP's Blog, written by Cheryl Suchors
TOP of My Mind
Cheryl is stepping down as TOP's regular blogger to set up her own blog. If any of you would like to take on the position of TOP Blogger, or if you would just like to publish the occasional post, please let us know!
In the meantime Cheryl has generously agreed to let us repost some of the posts from her multi-faceted blog (five blogs in one), starting with a fascinating article on what we can learn from hawks.
WWII B-18 Bomber Crash Site Hike
This was a hike with history. On January 14, 1942 at 7:40 in the cold, dark night, a US B-18 Bomber crashed into the shoulder of Mt. Waternomee in North Lincoln, NH. The shock made tableware dance and windows rattle; even in Plymouth, 22 miles away, people wondered what on earth had happened....more
Summer Reading
Light is the word here. I enjoy light reading. Not as a steady diet, but it’s refreshing in between heavier stuff. So here are some of my hitherto-secret vices. Enjoy, and let us all know what you think of any you read. Also add your own suggestions to the list!...more
My First AMC Hike
My first official Appalachian Mountain Club (AMC) hike after being certified to co-lead was, ironically, called “My First AMC Hike.”
Bob, the experienced hike leader who had created the concept years before, agreed to resurrect it when I said it appealed to me. Designed to attract new people to hiking and to the benefits of AMC membership, “My First AMC Hike” was a two-part hike in the Blue Hills of Milton, MA....more and latest postings
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