Clear, honest, open and direct communication may be the ultimate goal with children, their parents, your colleagues or family but it can be a challenge despite your strong desire to succeed. This day long workshop explores first what underlies the challenges – why you have difficulty communicating with some individuals or groups while other times you feel heard and understood. This increased awareness is step one to improved communication. You’ll always struggle with what is out of your awareness. For example our brains are wired to “tell stories”, to make sense of things. You’ll learn how this impacts our effectiveness in written and spoken communication plus how to work with our stories to be better at communicating. Effective communication is a skill and therefore can be learned. In the second part of this day you will learn to use a variety of powerful tools to be a more effective communicator.
Leona McIsaac Moran
Rich in lived experience, Leona has had a fulfilling career in the public service (her last 6 years as PD Coordinator with the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development) and chooses now to work through her own business where she engages with individuals in one on one coaching and facilitates group learning experiences.
Always a passionate learner, Leona integrates a wide body of knowledge into the many roles in her daily life, and will not bring to the conversation and classroom what she has not experienced as truthful and practical in her own experience. She invites individuals to be curious, to learn and have fun in the process.
She has an undergrad degree in Child Studies, a Masters in Adult Education, is a Certified WEL Systems Coach and is a sessional in the Faculty of Education at UPEI where she teaches Communication Practices.
“The choices you make determine the life you live”
November 12, 2020
9:00 AM
Cavendish Farms Wellness Centre-- 21 Sullivan Drive, Montague, PE C0A 1R0