ACLC will be hosting a last day of class lunch on Wednesday, April 3rd, 12:00-1:30 in the Faculty Lounge (off the main lobby in SDU Main). Drop by for some free food!
Category Archives: Events
Advanced Public Speaking Workshop with Bruce Rainnie
This Public Speaking workshop will include all new public speaking content and tips from Bruce. The workshop will on Friday, March 15, 1pm to 4pm, in K. C. Irving Chemistry Centre, rm. 104. Register here by Weds, March 13th at noon. Reach out to Phoebe (pbmurphy@upei.ca) or me for more details.
ACLC Workshop: The Insight Approach to Communication and Conflict with Dr. Cheryl Picard – February 1st-2nd, 2019
This workshop will introduce ACLC students to some of the communication, conflict and
leadership skills being advanced through the “Insight approach to conflict”. This approach was founded by Dr. Picard to help conflict professionals engage conflicting parties in an interactive learning process as a way to change dysfunctional patterns of interaction and resolve disputes.
This relational approach to communication and leadership responds to how individuals
interpret everyday interactions; interpretations that are embedded in dynamic and emergent social relations from which individuals make meaning and then act. In the Insight approach conflict is viewed as an interpretation of threat to deep level values that lead people to respond with “defend” patterns of interaction that only serve to generate, escalate or sustain conflict. Helping individuals and groups to understand more about their values and how they contribute to their actions assists them to seek new ways of interacting that are less threatening and more productive.
In this workshop, ACLC students will learn: 1) new ways of thinking about difficult and conflictual interpersonal and group relations 2) how to deepen the learning conversation by listening to understand and asking about interpretation, meaning-making, feelings and values, 3) how to link, delink and verify insights, and 4) to advance their existing communication and leadership skills and develop new ones.
ACLC Leadership Presentation with Bruce Rainnie – January 19th, 2019
ACLC will be hosting a leadership workshop led by Bruce Rainnie. Learn what good leadership looks like and how to improve your leadership skills from someone who has held leadership roles in various sectors. Rainnie is known on the island for hosting CBC’s Compass, the supper-hour news program for Prince Edward Island. He is nationally known for being the current President and CEO of the Nova Scotia Sport Hall of Fame in Halifax, a regular host on Hockey Night in Canada, and broadcasting seven Olympic games. The workshop will be held on Saturday, January 19 from 9 am to noon in room 103 HSB Health Science Building. There will be a halfway break with drinks and snacks. This is an interactive workshop with a maximum of 16 spaces; registrations are first come, first serve with priority given to ACLC majors and minors.