A New Time Schedule for Fall 2012 Lectures has been adopted to give working people an opportunity to attend the lectures during their lunch break. The main lecture will take place between 12 noon and 1pm.

10am – 11am: Open Community Support Group

11.30am – 1.30pm: Lectures & Discussion

1.45pm – 3.45pm: Collaborative Program Planning

The annual WE Board election will take place at the Advisory Committee meeting on 17th May to fill the four open seats on the Board. Nominations are now open and will close at the start of the 17th May meeting. You may nominate yourself or another, with their permission.

Monthly Conversations
The next Conversations meeting will take place at Emmy Robertson's from 1.30pm to 6pm on Sunday 24th June. Please be on time.

Planning the Spring 2013 series begins at 1.15 pm in the afternoons of the lectures this Spring. Stay for the afternoons and help sort through the mix of issues on the minds of women during the first two weeks and see how the Spring 2013 series will arise! Identify common issues and themes. Suggest speakers. Who knows? You could end up with an expert speaker giving a lecture on a topic very close to your heart.

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WE/TOP's Blog, written by volunteer contributors (If any of you would like to publish an item on TOP of My Mind, please let us know!) and Tracey L. Hurd
 
TOP of My Mind

The Power of Voices from Our Past: Haunting...Inhibiting...Liberating?
— Talk by Charlene Brotman, 15th March 2012
My story is about the power of two voices from my past. One voice is liberating. It came late in my life in the form of old, forgotten letters. It came too late to help liberate my sister, Jeanne.

The other voice I will tell you about was an inhibiting voice. No. “Inhibiting” is too mild a word. I would say “crippling” is the word for this voice. The crippling power of a voice from the past. ...more and latest postings

Reflections on Change: Writing the Narrative of Who We Are Now
— by Tracey L. Hurd, Executive Director
The past, present, and future walk into a bar. It was tense.

This season’s theme, Change as a Constant: Adapting, Surviving, Thriving seems linked to the above joke, which circulated widely via Facebook circles last week. Change can be difficult, in part, because it precipitates our active wrestling with our past, present, and future all at once. It’s a price we pay for being our own keepers of time.

Mary Catherine Bateson offered many ideas about change when she spoke to WomenExplore Lecture and Discussion Forum. ...more and latest postings

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