Date: 6/10/2019, 9:15 am—4:45 pm
County: Alameda County
CEUs: 6
Location: eBerkeley
Sponsor: A Better Way, Inc.
Phone: 510-601-0203
In this broad-ranging workshop, based loosely on Gabriel Kram’s new book Keywords, we’ll examine the ways that our language choices as providers impact the foster youth we serve. In every moment, through the way that we deploy language as providers, we are speaking not only to the conscious and cognitive aspects of our clients’ awareness, but also to their hearts and bodies, which are often beneath the threshold of conscious awareness. Our own authenticity, and openness, the degree to which we are using invitational language, our awareness of the language of inclusion, and work to de-weaponize everyday speech will all be addressed. We’ll explore the power of “us/we” language versus “you/they” language. And we’ll delight in words from cultures around the world that speak to aspects our experience that are systematically unaddressed in English. Did you know, for example, that there is a word in Korean that speaks to the subtle art of gauging another person’s mood through noticing gesture, posture, eye gaze, voice tone, and energy?