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News, Reviews & Resources || Issue 97 March 2013 Dear Reader, While some of our readers in the northern hemisphere are shivering in wintry blast
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News, Reviews & Resources || Issue 97 March 2013 |
Dear Reader,
While some of our readers in the northern hemisphere are shivering in wintry blasts, we have been suffering a heatwave almost unprecedented at this time of year in Melbourne.
So, we hope this month's Starlink will add sunshine and warmth to the day for some, but provide 'cool' resources for others who have sweltered with us in the heat. :)
And we have a 'bumper edition' for you this time! :)
You'll find suggestions for your professional library, several workshops, a call for tutors (for those who have the time and inclination), a fundraising resource, great tours for those in aged care, links for early childhood educators, inspirational snippets and, among our recent blog posts, an informal interview with us by a colleague from India.
Finally, don't forget to check our Events Calendar for even more!
Enjoy!
Cheers
Sue & Chris
BJ Seminars International |
A final reminder about our Essence of Appreciative Inquiry workshops, which are again being offered this year - in Canberra, Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney. We have extended the Early Bird registration until 17 March, so if you are interested in attending, register now. |
We have been invited to deliver Performance Management Fundamentals as a one day workshop on behalf of Tonkin Corporation. We take a strength-based approach which includes Appreciative Intelligence(R) and Kinaesthetic Intelligence.
Canberra 5th April 2013; Brisbane 9th April 2013; Melbourne 16th April 2013; Sydney 30th April 2013
Details and Registration Form |
The Australian Catholic University is currently seeking tutors for their Indigenous Tutorial Assistance Scheme.
This scheme provides tutoring for Indigenous students enrolled at both our Victoria Campuses (Melbourne & Ballarat). We seek tutors in a variety of academic areas including Health Sciences, Education, Arts & Sciences, Theology & Philosophy, Law, Business, and more.
TAS Tutors are paid an hourly rate and may be assigned one or more students depending on availability, the area of study and the demand of students accessing the program. The current rate for ITAS tutors is $40 per hour for single tuition and $46 per hour for group tuition. Tutoring can take place on campus or in a variety of locations for Away from Base students.
If you are interested, please download the flyer for further details, and visit the website
Yvonne Hajduk
Jim-Baa-Yer Indigenous Higher Education Unit
Centre for Indigenous Education and Research (CIER)
Australian Catholic University |
Published by Appreciating People in the UK, Food for Thought) is a daily journal that will help you live more appreciatively. Filled with tips, tools and techniques, it is an ideal resource to help you develop an appreciative mindset, support your well being and build your resilience.
Appreciative journaling is based around the idea of noticing and recording the good things in your day. Food for Thought encourages you to develop an appreciative attitude to life, prompting and inspiring you to notice the good things.
Ideal for anyone who would like to strengthen their Appreciative Intelligence, this book would also make a great gift for a colleague, family member or friend.
We are delighted to be the agent for Food for Thought in Australian and New Zealand
More information |
It's been a while since we last promoted the wonderful products and services provided by St Luke's Innovative Resources, which is the best source we know of in Australia for a very wide range of strength-focused resources and ideas!
Here are a just few examples of current and forthcoming offerings.
Angels: The Strengths of Everyday Kindness
Angels is a set of 52 exquisitely-illustrated, heart-warming cards featuring ‘everyday’ angels. Each card represents an important quality or skill that we may want to celebrate or invite into our family, workplace, classroom and community, such as contentment, peace, assertiveness, clarity, openness, balance or adventure.
Choosing Strengths
In the rich tradition of strength-based conversation-building tools, Choosing Strengths cards are powerful reminders that our use of strengths is in our own heads. We can choose to adopt for ourselves any number of strengths from a huge array of possibilities. This set of 36 cards and its accompanying booklet will be published in April this year.
Tools of the Trade Workshops
‘Tools Of The Trade’ is the name we give to our highly interactive and flexible suite of workshops that showcase an array of our ‘conversation-building' materials, purposefully chosen to be relevant and useful for each audience we present to.
The Evolution of the Strengths Approach: Symposium 1
(Tuesday 19 March)
Expanding the Frame of Solution-Focused Supervision with Presenter: Dr Roger Lowe
(First of the Practice Symposium Series)
You can also join their mailing list to receive their Seriously Optimistic Online Newsletter (SOON), with information about new releases and special events. (SOON is published every six weeks or so) |
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For Starlink readers who work in or with nonprofit organisations, this could be a useful resource!
After more than a decade of bringing you the latest and greatest hints, tips and tools for better fundraising, Raising Funds has released a special Sealed Edition.
This special one-off publication is a 2013 fundraising planner that contains secrets, wisdom and best practice guides to help community groups and schools unearth stacks of money all year long.
This is every community group's must-have resource for fundraising in 2013.
More Information |
Coursera is a wonderful resource for anyone who would like to undertake further study or professional development. They offer a huge range of online courses - at no charge!
We are a social entrepreneurship company that partners with the top universities in the world to offer courses online for anyone to take.
We envision a future where the top universities are educating not only thousands of students, but millions. Our technology enables the best professors to teach tens or hundreds of thousands of students.
Through this, we hope to give everyone access to the world-class education that has so far been available only to a select few. We want to empower people with education that will improve their lives, the lives of their families, and the communities they live in.
We offer courses in a wide range of topics, spanning the Humanities, Medicine, Biology, Social Sciences, Mathematics, Business, Computer Science, and many others. Whether you're looking to improve your resume, advance your career, or just learn more and expand your knowledge, we hope there will be multiple courses that you find interesting. |
For anyone who works with the aged or in aged care, SAGE offers innovative study tours to the aged care and retirement living industries. SAGE delegates have the opportunity to evaluate the advancement of Eldercare from a global perspective and receive insights from some of the world's most highly respected industry professionals. Upcoming tours include the UK, USA, Australia and Asia. |
 Zero to Three | |  The Curious Child | |  Teacher Quick Source | |  Social/Emotional Intervention |
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Here are a few items about the power of dreaming, and of thinking or acting differently.
Meeting Michael is the story of how Mai received more than she gave and 'made a new friend', when she offered to buy a meal for a homeless man.
In February 2011, Thai Military Bank (TMB) launched a campaign entitled “Make THE Difference,” which included making a film to inspire people to start thinking differently. We are sure you'll enjoy watching this five minute film about the Panyee Football Club, which is based on a true story about about a 1986 soccer team. Film makers engaged local village kids to tell the story of the original team members, and it's a wonderfully inspiring story about passion and creative thinking!
Here's an amazing performance of a Bach cantata played one of the most creative and meticulously crafted musical instruments we've ever seen!
What about ending our dependency on fossil fuels of any kind - an impossible dream? Not according to the folk at Solar Roadways! Check out the introduction and vision pages of their website. As George Bernard Shaw once said: You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?"
When you find yourself struggling to work out how very different groups of people can possibly manage to communicate well with one another, take heart from this video. A cat and a dolphin teach us all a lesson about getting along.
This may be a 'crafted' performance ... but we find ourselves wondering what hidden musical talents can be unearthed in any workplace! Bop along to this hallway performance of Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da and perhaps think about music might be used to lift the spirits of your own workmates. |
Visit our Events Calendar to find details of conferences, workshops, training opportunities, exhibitions and special days to celebrate.
There are several conferences and workshops coming up in April, for example. Apart from those mentioned in this issue of Starlink, there are the National Rural Health and Child Aware Approaches conferences as welll as the Third Sector Expo 2013.
We also found a few surprises among the special day events. For example, 25 April is not only ANZAC Day but also World Malaria Day and Pay It Forward Day! April also includes Creativity and Innovation Week - so why not take the opportunity to play with some of those new or creative ideas you've been thinking about. :) |
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