Classes & Trainings

Scheduled Trainings for Mentors on Maui:

January 8 & 9, 2009, 12:00 PM-- 4:00 PM

Please contact trainer Karen "Freesia" Peterson for more information and to register:
808-573-3109, KP@GivingBackMentoring.org

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Giving Back® is Ready to Go in Your Community

With a vibrant, new, full-color Training Manual just completed, Giving Back is in the pilot stage as a course for Brain Gym Instructors. The 2-day, 16-hour course will cover the nuts and bolts of replicating our successful intergenerational mentoring program in your community:

learn how to recruit, train, work & play with elders using Brain Gym®

learn the art of mentoring

learn the art of eldering

learn about the opportunity and current timeliness of intergenerational programs for healing the crises facing the aging population and the educational system

learn the tremendous benefits of intergenerational relationships for children, elders & communities, and how to present this information to potential funders

learn how to get interested, committed collaborators in your community

learn how to approach school principals, teachers

learn what you need to know to get funding

learn evaluation procedures, standardized testing

***If you are interested in sponsoring this course in your area,

please let us know.

Contact: Karen "Freesia" Peterson, Executive Director, for further information.

Course Description

Our elders have so much life experience and understanding to offer. Learn to tap this vast resource to the benefit of our other greatest asset, our children. Discover how to set up a successful intergenerational program in your community. You will come away from this course knowing how to train elders and bring them into the schools to"give back" their wisdom to the children. Recruiting, training, collaborating, evaluating with standardized tests, and funding are some of the many topics covered. All facets of setting up the program will be discussed, processed, role-played, and balanced until you have all the information in your mind and body. Course includes a full-color training manual pictured below.

Training Manual now available

Wednesday, 1 September 2004

Hot off the press, 44 pages of full 8x10 spiral bound 4-color brilliance, including all the details about our program, Brain Gym, Educational Kinesiology, mentoring, seniors, children...and more. Truly a remarkable publication.

Available to trained mentors for $45.00.

Contact:

Karen Peterson

P.O. Box 791339Paia, HI 96779 808-573-3109