That about sums up my week here at Spirit Lake Consulting. There is not much time to get bored because, like the weather in Missouri, the workload changes every 30 minutes.
The Adulthood, Aging and Disability on-line workshop will be finished in less than two weeks. This workshop has been very different to write. Our other workshops are more organized in sections, e.g. an introduction to disability and then the 13 categories under special education law. The on-line workshop on Adulthood is more by topic, like the series of readings a person would get in their last course in their senior year of college, or in a course toward the end of a graduate program. By now, if you have been adjusting to a disability for forty years, either your own or that of a spouse or child, you know what the diagnosis means, you know the address for the Social Security office and you have already been in a fight with someone at IHS over medical care.
At this point, you are probably looking for kindred spirits, for people who understand and can sympathize. Out of your community education, you want less education and more community. In this workshop we have more personal stories. Jessica Holmes talks about growing up with a father who is schizophrenic and obsessive compulsive. She says,
"Even at eight years old, I knew there was something wrong with my father. Looking at the way he had to obsessively organize our refrigerator shelves told me that."
Erich Longie writes about the loss of his seventeen-year-old son, Dakota beliefs on grief, death and a year of mourning.
Moving from touching to tech-y, I have finally created menus for the Adulthood and Aging workshop. If you check our site now, some of the pages look 100% or more better.
While I have been home working on the website, Erich has been at the United Tribes Pow-wow meeting with representatives from tribal councils throughout the Great Plains states. Our next workshop is focused on training on ethics for tribal councils, tribal employees and board members. As Erich always says, there is universal agreement that ethics training is needed - for someone else! It will be interesting to see what the response is from this current set of meetings.
Do people really want ethical changes, or do they just say they do?
The Adulthood, Aging and Disability on-line workshop will be finished in less than two weeks. This workshop has been very different to write. Our other workshops are more organized in sections, e.g. an introduction to disability and then the 13 categories under special education law. The on-line workshop on Adulthood is more by topic, like the series of readings a person would get in their last course in their senior year of college, or in a course toward the end of a graduate program. By now, if you have been adjusting to a disability for forty years, either your own or that of a spouse or child, you know what the diagnosis means, you know the address for the Social Security office and you have already been in a fight with someone at IHS over medical care.
At this point, you are probably looking for kindred spirits, for people who understand and can sympathize. Out of your community education, you want less education and more community. In this workshop we have more personal stories. Jessica Holmes talks about growing up with a father who is schizophrenic and obsessive compulsive. She says,
"Even at eight years old, I knew there was something wrong with my father. Looking at the way he had to obsessively organize our refrigerator shelves told me that."
Erich Longie writes about the loss of his seventeen-year-old son, Dakota beliefs on grief, death and a year of mourning.
Moving from touching to tech-y, I have finally created menus for the Adulthood and Aging workshop. If you check our site now, some of the pages look 100% or more better.
While I have been home working on the website, Erich has been at the United Tribes Pow-wow meeting with representatives from tribal councils throughout the Great Plains states. Our next workshop is focused on training on ethics for tribal councils, tribal employees and board members. As Erich always says, there is universal agreement that ethics training is needed - for someone else! It will be interesting to see what the response is from this current set of meetings.
Do people really want ethical changes, or do they just say they do?
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