Weblog Update: Slightly Off Kilter #2297

[Vicki Brown]

Recent updates to Slightly Off Kilter weblog:

"Time to SOAR"
Posted on 20160804 by Vicki Brown
In category: Personality Type,Show & Tell,Special Interests

I presented a two-hour workshop on Temperament and Communication for SOAR
for Youth in July. SOAR for Youth is a week-long summer residence
program for foster youth. These were the 3rd-year students.

SOAR for Youth, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, was
established in 2009 to provide high quality support,
opportunities, and rapport that foster youth would have otherwise
received from their parents.
...
Through a three-year summer residential pre-collegiate program and
additional years of academic support, SOAR teaches, coaches, and
counsels our young people (grades 6 -12) in academics, life
skills, leadership, emotional intelligence, and career
development.

These third-year students had attended a "True Colors" temperament
workshop last year. The program director wanted a deeper look, this
year, into how knowledge of temperament can be applied to
communication.

I've been working with Mary Miscisin's Personality Lingo system (based
on True Colors and enhanced in several ways). A fellow BAAPT member,
who has worked with SOAR, contacted me about teaching this workshop.

I was delighted to have the opportunity to talk to the students. ...

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