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Charis
"Communication, Teaching, and Coaching"
Workshop
Was held Saturday,
February 4, 2017
At Charis
Childbirth in North Port, Florida
Left to Right: Marilyn Garman,
Brenda Copenhaver, Mary Spicher,
Kristin Schuchmann, Makayla Hunt, Alyssa Willis
What a blessed
and educational time we all had at the Charis “Communication, Teaching, and
Coaching” Workshop!
The ladies
spent the day making new friends and becoming
more skilled in preparing effective introductions, asking powerful
questions, creating a learner-friendly environment, capturing the attention
of learners, helping clients embrace their responsibility of making informed
decisions, and so much more.
In addition to the valuable skills acquired at the workshop, they also took
home an assortment of visual aids and other valuable teaching tools to
enhance their future students’ learning experience.
Rearranging
the room to create a creative and comfortable learning environment.
Kristin Schuchmann enjoys every
moment of the workshop's activities
and loves our amazing and brilliant students!
Makayla Hunt, Mary Spicher, Brenda
Copenhaver, and Marilyn Garman
Marilyn Garman
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I
learned about "asking questions" and how to keep asking
to gather information and not assume I know the answers.
Creating a friendly environment and building a community setting
is important. I also learned fun ways to "hook" people to draw
them into what you are speaking about.
~ Marilyn Garman,
Charis Doula Student |
Makayla Hunt, Mary Spicher, Brenda
Copenhaver, Marilyn Garman and Alyssa Willis
Alyssa Willis
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We
started off the class learning how to create a safe environment
that encourages learning and group interaction. The role plays
were awesome as we practiced hooking our audience before
plunging into teaching a subject in our childbirth classes. We
learned how to be a good listener and then to ask good powerful
questions that will be most helpful to our clients. I had fun
and look forward to using what I learned!
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Alyssa Willis, Charis
Midwifery Student |
Makayla Hunt and Mary Spicher
Alyssa Willis and Sarah Gardner
practicing communication skills.
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The
highlights of this workshop include: How to explore open
questions compared to closed questions. Ways to get your class
to interact and get to know one another. Creating a warm
environment. Learning how to listen instead of giving an
opinion. Ways to increase breastmilk and when a problem
presents, finding a solution!
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Sarah Gardner, Charis Childbirth and LifeSong Midwifery
Administrative Assistant |
Makayla Hunt
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It was
amazing to see how asking awesome questions in different ways
effected communication between anyone, a doula client or even
your family members! Learning how to help a mother reach her own
conclusion or solution by asking questions rather than giving
her a solution right away. It was also wonderful learning how
important a good listener really is to effectively care for a
new mother.
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Makayla Hunt, Charis Doula
Student |
Good conversation between Marilyn
Garman and Brenda Copenhaver.
Makayla Hunt and Mary Spicher honing
communication skills.
Mary Spicher
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I
learned that asking big, powerful open questions is helpful in
relationships with doula clients. Kristin Schuchmann had
activities and games for us to use in our childbirth education
classes and they were fun!
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Mary Spicher, Charis
Doula/Childbirth Educator Student |
Marilyn Garman, Mary Spicher and
Makayla Hunt
enjoying a "transition activity".
Brenda Copenhaver
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I
experienced the importance of really learning to be a good
listener and how to ask questions - I think it's so important to
do this with new mammas, they need to know you really care!
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Brenda Copenhaver, Charis
Postpartum Doula Student |
Makayla Hunt and Mary Spicher
deeply
involved in "listening skills"
Opening workshop gifts!
A blessed, rewarding and wonderful
time was had by all
during the Charis "Communication, Teaching, and Coaching" Workshop
'Behold, I will bring them from the north country, And gather them
from the ends of the earth,
Among them the blind and the lame,
The woman with child and The one who labors with child, together,
A
great throng shall return there...And My people shall be satisfied with My goodness, says the LORD.'
Jeremiah 31:8, 14
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