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In 1989, after many years working as a family therapist and professor in the United States, Nancy Baron decided to make a life change. She first moved to Tokyo, Japan, and with colleagues there established the Counseling Center of Tokyo. This was her first humbling immersion into a culture far different than her own. After leaving Tokyo, she entered the world of aid and development in Sri Lanka. It was there that she was inspired to write two children’s books―A Little Elephant Finds His Courage and A Little Elephant Helps to Find Peace―as practical educational tools promoting the responsibility of children, as tomorrow’s adults, to find their courage and become peacemakers not troublemakers.

Since then, she has become a leading consultant on the mental health effects of trauma and conflict as the Director of Global Psycho-Social Initiatives (GPSI). She provides consultation, assessment, training, program design, evaluation, and research in community-based and family-focused psycho-social, mental health, and peace building programs with UN organizations, governments, and international and local Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs).

Nancy leaves her largest suitcase in Nairobi, Kenya, though most of her time is spent in conflict and post-conflict countries. She periodically teaches in the USA and is the International Training Director for the International Trauma Studies Program (ITSP) affiliated with Mailman School for Public Health, Columbia University, New York. Nancy is also Consultant and Senior Trainer for the Psycho-Social Training Institute of the Transcultural Psychosocial Organization of Uganda.

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Alex and Manos Nathan are teaching a two-week course in Whakairo Maori art. Alex has a background in Maori art using traditional materials, but in the late 1980s he worked with Hopi silversmith Michael Kabotie who traveled to New Zealand, and since that time Alex has worked exclusively using sterling silver. Overlay and hand-carved finishing create the point of difference and, together with traditional motifs and designs, impart a unique character to his work. Alex’s work reflects an evolving process of adaptation and exploration of traditional designs including Whakairo rakau (woodcarving motifs), taniko (intricate woven borders of traditional cloaks and mats), kowhaiwhai (painted patterns on rafters of ancestral meeting houses), and tukutuku (ornamental lattice work of carved ancestral meeting houses). Examples of Alex’s work are on display at the Te Papa Museum in Wellington and the Dowse Gallery of Lower Hutt, both in New Zealand. Alex has been involved in workshops and cultural exchanges including Native American, Canadian, Hawaiian, and other Pacific nations.

Manos has been at the forefront of the development of the Maori ceramic movement since the mid-1980s. His involvement with clay emerged from a background of wood carving and sculpture. He carved the meeting house at Matatina Marae, Waipoua, on his tribal lands. His works in clay draw on a rich heritage of the customary art forms and on Maori cosmotological and creation narratives. Manos' work is held in public and private collections worldwide including the British Musuem, The Museum of Scotland, The Museum of Vokkerkunder in Berlin, The Burke Museum of Seattle, and the Te Papa Tongarewa Museum of New Zealand.

Manos has participated and promoted cultural exchange programs with First Nations Peoples from North America, the Pacific, and most recently, Japan. In 1989, he traveled to the United States on a Fulbright Grant to visit and work with Native American Potters. In 2002, he was awarded the “Te Ara Wahkarei” honorary user status for the Toi Iho-Maori Made Mark.

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Financial

TIAA-CREF Open Plan Solutions New Incoming Options
April 3, 11 a.m. to noon in Sayles-Hill 251

We will review the benefits of your retirement plan, including:

• What hasn’t changed with the plan, what’s new, and what you need to consider.
• Model portfolios to help you determine your appropriate investment mix.
• An expanded mutual fund lineup for you to “Build Your Own Portfolio.”
• A review of the custom Web site for Carleton

Objective advice and planning services for developing a plan to pursue your retirement income goal, or to find out if your current retirement planning strategy is on the right track.

Personal/Professional Development

EAP―Conflict Resolution
April 10, 2 to 3 p.m. in Sayles-Hill 251

• Define and understand the nature of conflict
• Identify common sources of conflict in the workplace
• Learn to identify symptoms and stages of unresolved conflict
• Learn effective techniques to resolve conflicts with co-workers

Tom Champoux―Emotional Intelligence, People Skills, and Managing Skills—a follow up and expansion of the Moving Forward Together presentation, April 30, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in Great Hall

It is not simply stimulus response; it is stimulus-choice-response. The choice of Emotional Intelligence is to take responsibility for your own actions and to influence and hold others accountable. This program provides strategies that enable individuals to enhance awareness of their own behavior and how to work successfully together while utilizing the strengths of individual differences.

• Learn the five dimensions of Emotional Intelligence
• Gain a deeper understanding of behavior styles and how people are different
• Integrate behavior style information for more effective relationships
• Learn how to ask others for what you want
• Learn how to ask others for accountability

Whether or not you were able to attend Tom's last presentation, you won't want to miss this one! Lunch will be provided.

Mandated Training

Sexual Harassment Training
April 4, 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. in Alumni Guest House Meeting Room

Harassment in the work place has been prohibited for more than a decade. All employees share the responsibility for preventing harassment. The workshop content includes guidelines for defining harassment and suggestions for creating a harassment-free environment. The session will also cover the following:

• Guidelines on the definition of harassment
• Diversity and harassment
• Recognizing subtle forms of harassment
• Dealing with complaints

Joanne Jirik Mullen is the Advisor to the College on Sexual Harassment and Consultant to the College on Sexual Harassment.

Please note: All staff that have not previously attended a sexual harassment workshop at Carleton must attend.

Minnesota Employee Right-To-Know Act (MERTKA) and Asbestos Awareness Training
April 5,1:30 to 3:30 p.m. in Sayles-Hill 251

Mandatory for all new staff (Right-to-Know) and all those employed in or transferred to jobs which require training (Asbestos Awareness and Blood Borne Pathogens). New staff are required to participate in this training as part of their orientation process.

Any employees not required to attend, but interested in attending, are welcome. Sessions will be one hour each and will include training on Minnesota Right-to-Know.

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Thursday, April 5:
“Division Street Amusements: Movie-going Experience in Historic Downtown Northfield”

Carol Donelan, Assistant Professor, Cinema and Media Studies and Carleton students
Allison Dwyer '07
Alison Jarzyna '08
Andy Lauer '08
Matthew Moltaji '07

The Grand emerged as Northfield's sole municipal movie theater in 1917. Before that, movie fans could patronize several downtown "electric theaters," including The Gem, The Star, and The Lyric. Discover where these theaters were located, the kinds of films they showed, and the attitudes of citizens regarding the "movie habit."

Noon to 1:30 p.m., Alumni Guest House Meeting Room
Lunch provided for 50

Looking ahead:

Tuesday, April 10:
“Learning from the Writing Portfolio: Assessment Yields Research”

Victoria Morse, Assistant Professor of History, Director of Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Melinda Russell, Associate Professor of Music
Carol Rutz, Director of the College Writing Program, Lecturer in English
Kim Smith, Associate Professor of Political Science
Introduction by Elizabeth Ciner, Associate Dean of the College

Noon to 1:30 p.m., Alumni Guest House Meeting Room
Lunch provided for 50

Spring Book Discussion Group
Thursday, April 19 and Tuesday, May 15

Randall Kennedy’s Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word

Facilitated by Harry Williams, David and Marian Adams Bryn-Jones Distinguished Teaching Professor of History and the Humanities, co-sponsored by the Mellon Faculty Life Cycles Grant.

4:30 to 6 p.m. Headley House
with refreshments provided

If you are interested in reading the book and participating, please contact Jennifer Cox Johnson at the Perlman Center (jcoxjohn@carleton.edu; x4192).

See all the LTC events for spring on the poster in your campus mail or on the Web.
NOTE: April 17 event is on TUESDAY, April 17 (misprint on poster)
More posters available from the LTC by contacting Jennifer Cox Johnson.

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Representative John Kline has set up a public town meeting Tuesday, April 3, 7 to 9 p.m., in the Lakeville South High School Auditorium. If you are interested in going and have room in your car for some students, please let me know and I can give you directions and coordinate ride sharing.

A number of people from our district have gone to his office weekly for over a month to ask him to meet with his constituents about the war in Iraq. This town meeting is the result of that effort. The compromise that was accepted by all parties is that any topic may be raised at this town meeting. This is a rare opportunity for us to ask questions of our congressional representative and to hear his responses in person. Contact me for further details at x4367 or e-mail jweisber@carleton.edu.