Tuesday 28 September
Guests & Apologies
Nev brought along his grand daughter, Alicia to speak to us. Alicia is a Psycholgist in Clinical Health and works at the Bathurst Hospital.
Aplogies from Karl, Tim & Anthony.
Meeting Minutes
Heads & Tails was won by Frank, and after a brutal fine session from the sergeant, I seem to now have written down the winner of the lucky door. My apologies, they shall remain nameless until next week's blog.
Chris B reported on the dinner, all is going well. He will have an update on the poster tomorrow and the design will be completed and he will send round to the committee for comments.
Arthur said the BBQ went well on the weekend previous, raising money and awareness for prostate cancer.
Pres Pete again reminded everyone (from the treasurer) that subs were now extremely OVERDUE for those who have not yet paid.
Jack gave us a 2 minuter which started off about his uncle who had many an exploit in his Model A. Jack recently received a phone call from a man from O'Connell who had heard a little about this and brough his 1930's Model T into town to show Jack. Thanks Jack for your always interesting stories which take us back in the history books.
A big congratulations to David N, who recently became a father of a gorgeous baby girl, Emily. Congratulations to both David & Joanne and their new arrival who is reported to be doing very well.
And one more, actually make that two congratulations to Danielle who announced that her and her husband Dane (he does exist!) are expecting twins at the beginning of March.
Guest speaker - Alicia Dawson
Finally we heard from Alicia Dawson, who as mentioned before is a Psychologist in Clinical Health at the Bathurst Hospital. She spoke to us about her current project which is her Masters, it is a very ambitious, but interesting concept that sounds very beneficial. It is a form of therapy for children incorporating dance, callee JitterJive.
Alicia has always had a keen interest in dancing and still teaches dancing to young children. This was she is including her passion for dance, with her passion for child therapy to complete her studies.
The masters will be based on early intervention for children who show signs of anxiety and depression. Alicia already deals with a number of children who are affected from anxiety and depression and this will hopefully give them another way of dealing with their illness.
Dance is such a widely used phenomenon, and used by all different cultures around the world. It allows people to express themselves in an active way rather than using words, which may be uncomfortable for some children.
The dance psychotherapy group will run for 8 weeks and will be aimed at 7-10 years olds who have anxiety and/or depression. It will aim to improve their self efficacy or self esteem. This is something which has never been done before, therefore making it hard to compare literature for her masters work. A similar, but paper based program will be used as a comparision called, Kool Kids which is run by Macquarie University.
Alicia is currently jumping through hoops to get all of her program approved in the health system, so we wish her all the best with that and look forward to hearing how it goes. Eric has also stepped in and offered to help her approach the University for access to a room at the gymnasium for the classes to take place.
Next week
Sally has organised our guest speaker for next week, it will be Peter Veneestra.
Guests & Apologies
Nev brought along his grand daughter, Alicia to speak to us. Alicia is a Psycholgist in Clinical Health and works at the Bathurst Hospital.
Aplogies from Karl, Tim & Anthony.
Meeting Minutes
Heads & Tails was won by Frank, and after a brutal fine session from the sergeant, I seem to now have written down the winner of the lucky door. My apologies, they shall remain nameless until next week's blog.
Chris B reported on the dinner, all is going well. He will have an update on the poster tomorrow and the design will be completed and he will send round to the committee for comments.
Arthur said the BBQ went well on the weekend previous, raising money and awareness for prostate cancer.
Pres Pete again reminded everyone (from the treasurer) that subs were now extremely OVERDUE for those who have not yet paid.
Jack gave us a 2 minuter which started off about his uncle who had many an exploit in his Model A. Jack recently received a phone call from a man from O'Connell who had heard a little about this and brough his 1930's Model T into town to show Jack. Thanks Jack for your always interesting stories which take us back in the history books.
A big congratulations to David N, who recently became a father of a gorgeous baby girl, Emily. Congratulations to both David & Joanne and their new arrival who is reported to be doing very well.
And one more, actually make that two congratulations to Danielle who announced that her and her husband Dane (he does exist!) are expecting twins at the beginning of March.
Guest speaker - Alicia Dawson
Finally we heard from Alicia Dawson, who as mentioned before is a Psychologist in Clinical Health at the Bathurst Hospital. She spoke to us about her current project which is her Masters, it is a very ambitious, but interesting concept that sounds very beneficial. It is a form of therapy for children incorporating dance, callee JitterJive.
Alicia has always had a keen interest in dancing and still teaches dancing to young children. This was she is including her passion for dance, with her passion for child therapy to complete her studies.
The masters will be based on early intervention for children who show signs of anxiety and depression. Alicia already deals with a number of children who are affected from anxiety and depression and this will hopefully give them another way of dealing with their illness.
Dance is such a widely used phenomenon, and used by all different cultures around the world. It allows people to express themselves in an active way rather than using words, which may be uncomfortable for some children.
The dance psychotherapy group will run for 8 weeks and will be aimed at 7-10 years olds who have anxiety and/or depression. It will aim to improve their self efficacy or self esteem. This is something which has never been done before, therefore making it hard to compare literature for her masters work. A similar, but paper based program will be used as a comparision called, Kool Kids which is run by Macquarie University.
Alicia is currently jumping through hoops to get all of her program approved in the health system, so we wish her all the best with that and look forward to hearing how it goes. Eric has also stepped in and offered to help her approach the University for access to a room at the gymnasium for the classes to take place.
Next week
Sally has organised our guest speaker for next week, it will be Peter Veneestra.
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