Prepared by Margaret Henderson RSM, CEO, PO Box 102, North Hobart ,Tas
7002
Dear
Colleagues
As
we move further into Spring I hope that your days are filled with sunshine and
joy.
TRAINING
AND ENRICHMENT CONFERENCES
As
you know the Training Conference for new Registered Directors is fast
approaching. Overlapping of course is the Enrichment Conference for Current
RDs.
The
Training Team, established by Suzy Yehl is preparing this training and this will
help to ensure the continuation of Rainbows into the future.
HE’S
GONE AND I MISS HIM.
Hilary
Fraser from City Mission in Launceston is the successful author of a book
entitled, He’s Gone and I Miss Him. This book deals with suicide and because
of its sensitive nature an adult is required to assist to process the material
in the book. The book contains three age appropriate stories specifically
designed for a caring adult to read to/with a child. There are questions for
discussion to encourage the child to tell his/her own experience and express the
relevant feelings. General guidelines for helping children are listed at the
back of the book.
For
further information or to purchase the book, contact Hilary Fraser (03) 6331
6999 or hilary@citymission.org.au
SITE
STATUS REPORT FORM
This
is the time each year when RDs distribute the Site Status Report Form. You will
notice a few changes. This Form will continue to undergo change until such time
as it suits our requirements.
NEWS
FROM WESTERN AUSTRALIA
Rainbows
in Western Australia has been very busy this school term with a continued demand
for places in our facilitator trainings. We are now spreading out of Perth in
all directions, especially to the south. Our trainings are not advertised, yet
we are booked out a term in advance, including places already booked for 2009!
A
Celebrate Me workshop is held annually where school Facilitators and
coordinators have an opportunity to meet, network and share ideas. Some
of these ideas include Life Savers on hat elastic as a bracelet, rainbow
coloured salt in jars, some amazing Dream Catchers and candles decorated with
glitter glue - just to name a few.
This
is a very positive workshop with school sites able to share their highs and lows
and take home suggestions from other school sites.
We
have two wonderful facilitators attending the Queensland Conference and look
forward to them coming back to WA and assisting with the growth and promotion of
Rainbows in the West. Jenny Miolin and Julie Shimmen are attending as part of
the training team and Colleen Smith, Margaret Maassen and Julie Craig will be
attending Enrichment.
Two
amazing ladies from WA have been nominated and accepted as new members on the
Australian Rainbows Board. They have much to contribute and share with
Rainbows from their respective professions – we warmly welcome and
thank them for their support to Rainbows. Happy Rainbowing !
WA
looks forward to catching up with everyone at the Queensland Conference.
‘Care’
also comes from the gothic word Kara meaning ‘mourning’. Care is
participation in the pain of another, a solidarity in suffering.
‘Listeners
are life’s rarest breed … Listeners – those who hear the pain behind the
pain … come few and far between.
Joan Chittister OSB.
If you would like a coloured
copy of this newsletter sent by email, please contact me and let me know on