Volume 4, Number 1, March, 1997
Editor's Message
from Rod Paynter
No doubt you've noticed that this is only the second newsletter you've received since the Quebec meeting last spring. As the first newsletter said, we decided at that meeting to do the bulk of our communicating by email and the CALSCA Website. For those of you who haven't got access to the Website, I'm including in this newsletter the text of the email messages that I've sent over the net but not in printed form to you. These messages can also be found on the Website:
CALSCA 96 email file CALSCA 97 email file
Please get on it and send $10 for yourself and $20 for your organization to:
c/o YWCA of Metro Toronto, Life Skills Dept.
276 Merton St., Toronto, ON, M4S 1A9
Make your cheques and money orders payable to CALSCA and everything will be just fine.
What with the lack of newsletters, you may be wondering about why you should still be supporting CALSCA. Let me remind you first of our Mission Statement, developed at the 1994 Saskatoon meeting:
The Canadian Alliance of Life Skills Coaches and Associations is committed to the belief that all individuals are entitled to learn the Life Skills necessary for personal and social development. We support and promote professional excellence in Life Skills Coaching - Personally, Regionally and Nationally.
To date we've had two major methods for supporting and promoting professional excellence. The first is the annual meetings, held so far in Ontario, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Quebec, and this year to be held in Alberta. These meetings allow for in-person dialogue about Life Skills coaching and the forming of personal connections with coaches from across Canada.
The second has been newsletters, email and the Website. If you can find some way, perhaps through a friend or an Internet Café, to check out the Website, please do! You'll find a wealth of coaching information and contacts available for free to anyone who can get to it. Since August 1996 when I started this incarnation of the Website it has been accessed over 200 times.
So, check out the Website, come to the Alberta meeting if you can, and please, send in your 1997 dues, to help pay for the Website and the occasional newsletter.
Cheers,
Rod
26/02/97 - Conference News (from Email 97 file)
Good Day CALSCA -
I'm sorry to be telling you that we are putting off our National Conference in Prince Albert until the May long weekend (May 15 - 18) in 1998. Those of us working on it took a look at what we've done and what needs to be done and don't believe that we can pull it off this year in the style that we think it deserves. Our apologies.
In the meantime, we're planning to have a regular style meeting this year in Saint Albert, AB, just north of Edmonton. Be sure not to confuse Saint Albert AB with Prince Albert SK, or for that matter Prince George BC, or you'll be hitchhiking. We've moved the date to the May long weekend this year to accommodate seat sales, which end May 20.
Here's the info:
CALSCA - Annual Meeting
May 16 - 19, 1997 (Long Weekend)
Star of the North Retreat Centre
34 St. Vital Ave.,
St. Albert, Alberta
3 nights accommodation (single), 3 meals Saturday, 3 meals Sunday, 2 meals Monday for $136.00. GST included.
Double occupancy will be $230.00 per couple. This is for "BED SHARERS ONLY". There are no rooms with two single beds. This rate includes all meals, coffee and juice for the Significant Other.
The Star of the North Retreat Centre is on a hill in the centre of St. Albert, with a view of the area in winter/spring, and a lot of privacy in the summer when the hedges are in full foliage (who knows what season we will be in that weekend?). The Centre is close to a river valley with trails, a live theater/music centre, and 20 minutes from West Edmonton Mall. St. Albert is located 5 minutes North of Edmonton. People traveling in from out of town can be picked up at the airport by any of a number of hosts/hostesses.
To register: email Paula Drouin
LET PAULA KNOW IF: you have any dietary restrictions; you want a single or double room; would you rather be billeted in a home; you want supper on Friday evening, available as a tray meal for $5.00 that you heat up when you arrive; you want to picked up at the airport.
Rod will take care of organizing an agenda, so send suggestions to him if there's something you want to cover at this meeting.
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