Please join us for a day of Training presented by Michael Vincent. Click on the poster for more detail The cost has been kept low to encourage easy participation. Lunch is included. If travelling from out of town see below. The Sandman Abbotsford Airport Hotel is offering a discounted rate of $89 per night, plus tax. To access this rate, call the hotel directly at 604-859- 7263 to make reservations and request
Hello Gentle Teaching International Community! I know many of you have your sights on the 2016 Gentle Teaching International Conference in Akureyri Iceland this September 2016. I am excited as I recently found out that I will be attending GTI 2016. The experience in Kansas City last year was very inspiring and Akureyri looks to be another great opportunity. In addition to GTI 2016, we are hopeful that some
Please join us for a 3-day workshop on Gentle Teaching, hosted by The SHARE Foundation and produced in collaboration with GLOBE STAR LLC and The Quality of Life Institute, Inc. The SHARE Foundation honors a Christian tradition that we will celebrate and incorporate into our three days, from the morning blessing/service, officiated throughout the day in the workshop activities. Click on link to download the flyer.
Thanks to all who worked hard to make the GTI2015 conference such a success. Special thanks to Nancy Nicolaus and Tracy Mauk and the many Volunteers who made the conference delegates and attendees feel welcome part of an International Community with events such as the world cafe. Many thanks to Eitas for hosting this conference and to the many sponsors for both displaying products and sponsoring breaks and help with advertising. Eitas has
Firstly, I would like to publicly thank the team at Eitas for hosting a great conference in Kansas City, your hard work and attention to detail was much appreciated! As many of you know we held our first official Board elections this year, an important step in strengthening our organization. I would like to congratulate and introduce the new GTI Board of Directors: Tim Jones (Canada) – President Kristinn Mar
The newly elected GTI board consist of 15 members. Elected were Cam Dore, Maurits Eijgendaal, Tim Jones, Michael Lavis, Anthony Mccrovitz, Simone Schipper, Toni Start, Pouwel van de Siepkamp, Mike Vincent, Charles Woodard, Dave Lappin, Nancy Nicoloaus, Kristinn Már Torfason, Mark Veen and Tracy Mauk. Congratulations to all. The board met in Kansas City and chose the following 4 members to serve in executive capacity. Chair of GTI Tim Jones,
The GTI 2015 Conference held in Kansas City Mo, USA was a big success. Many thanks to EITAS for taking on the sponsorship and the the many sponsors, participants and especially to Nancy Nicolaus and Tracy Mauk for their leadership. the Hotel was very accommodating and centered in the heart of Kansas City. The many International speakers were a great success. We hope to release some of the talks as
In Denmark we have formed a Gentle teaching network to work for – Offer teaching and training regarding Gentle Teaching – Support sharing knowledge about gentle teaching in practice – Arrange events to share knowledge – as smaller conferences etc The network persons are: Ann Nedergård Frederiksen / Region Nordjylland <annf@rn.dk, Consultant at Soedisbakke : Trine Schierff <trine.schierff@skanderborg.dk>; Deputy at the village of Soelund in Skanderborg Lene Dannemann’ <Lene.Dannemann@skanderborg.dk>; Head
Message in the Guestbook of Gentle Teaching International Encounter with Gentle Teaching At the final day of GT International Conference in Denmark in September, was the last time I met John McGee. We had an intensive and deep discussion about John’s long letter which he had sent on June 11, 2011. The content of the letter was “the current circumstances and the future of GT”. We promised to continue talking more about details in
Message in the Guestbook of Gentle Teaching International My first experience with John McGee was very meaningful .I invited him in the community –I was involved – in the Netherlands in 1993 and his first question was : “Please introduce me to the most vulnerable people” From this first moment I was continuously quite impressed about the empathic way he connected people who often are neglected because of difficult behavior