LEADERSHIP & PEER HELPING IN ONTARIO
ONTARIO
PEER HELPERS’ ASSOCIATION
NEWSLETTER JANUARY/FEBRUARY
2012
OPHA NEWS!
Once again we are looking forward to running an
exciting secondary student leadership
& peer helping conference. Student
facilitators from Bowmanville, Bear Creek, Banting & Campbellford high schools will help run the conference. The
conference would be a great opportunity for grade 9’s & 10’s to continue to develop leadership skills.
This would also bridge the gap between elementary & secondary leadership
programs.
Some schools use this conference to further develop
skills for their leadership students & may even bring their leadership
class. The theme of this year’s conference is to explore and develop leadership
skills through drumming.
A copy of
the registration form is on page 4 of the newsletter. You will also receive a
copy of the student brochure which you can send out with your students. Other
information will be sent out following your registration.
IMPORTANT OPHA DATES
Drumming Up Leadership
Thirtieth Ontario Secondary Leadership & Peer
Support Conference
April 25, 26, 27th 2012
SPECIAL
PRESENTATION BY DOUG SOLE, ONE OF NORTH AMERICA’S LEADING CORPORATE DRUM CIRCLE
FACILITATORS & TRAINERS
Our special guests are Doug Sole & Altaf Bwana Moto of Soul Drums (www.souldrums.com) Doug is a major force in the north
American drum community & has worked in schools, and with corporations etc.
Conference participants will find this session an exciting & enjoyable
experience.
Other
conference workshops and activities will continue the development of leadership skills through drumming. “Hand drumming, then, is an effective way to start
learning about
leadership and to begin to see the world and ourselves creatively, in terms of
possibilities. Leadership is the ability to communicate a vision and mobilize
the resources to make the vision manifest.. “ From an article by Edward E Mikenas www.irietones.com/drumtherapy-article_12.htm
The
fundraising project for this conference will be for the God’s Littlest Angels
Orphanage in Haiti. We will receive first hand information from Joan Macklin
who is going to work in this orphanage for 2 weeks in February.
Participants
stay at the Ontario Educational Leadership Centre on Lake Couchiching
near Orillia. Students sleep in heated cabins of approximately 12 students ( 2
from each school). Registration fees cover accommodation, meals &
materials.
Other conference Highlights
Relaxation workshop
Games & Crafts
1 year’s free OPHA membership for advisors
Fun Activities
Secret Friend Activities
School
Planning Time
OPHA : Sandy Philp, Philip Palmer, Joan Macklin,
D’Arcy Lichti
ONTARIO PEER HELPERS' ASSOCIATION
357 Major Street, Cobourg, Ont. K9A 4C8
Phone: 905-372-7275 Fax: 905-372-9332
(Affiliated with the Ontario School Counsellor’s Association)
email: peerhelping@hotmail.com
www.peerhelping.com
More information is listed on our website
www.peerhelping.com or contact the OPHA
office, 905-372-7275 email peerhelping@hotmail.com
OPHA Office: 357 Major Street., Cobourg. Ontario K9A 4C8
Phone: 905-372-7275
Fax: 905-372-9332
Email: peerhelping@hotmail.com
www.peerhelping.com
FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT OPHA AT peerhelping@hotmail.com
" TOGETHER WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE"
For more information on this program contact O.P.H.A.