33 - Sunday, September 18, 1988 - North Shore News

COMMUNICATION SKILLS

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SKILLED HELPING is a course for anyone interested in improving
communication and helping skills.

This six-session introductory course is designed for volunteers, staff
and individuals wanting to build active listening and communication
skills for one-to-one relationships.

Shirley Lytle, a North Shore teacher and experienced trainer, will
facilitate the course. She describes the content as ‘learning what com-
munication is all about.’’ She adds that participants will learn ‘“‘how to
listen,’’ develop self-awareness techniques and what she calls the ‘‘lan-
guage of feelings.”

The grieving process will also be examined — not just in cases of
bereavement but the grief for loss of a job, retirement or as the victim of

. Pea crime.

. oe Skilled Helping begins Thursday, Sept. 20 at Lucas Centre, 2132

NEWS photo Mike Wakelield Hamilton, North Vancouver, from 7 to 9:30 p.m.
Pre-registration, by calling 986-8888, is encouraged as the class size is

NORTH SHORE Neighbourhood House’s programs for seniors have been upgraded with this mini-van limited for more effective learning.
recently donated by the Mary Emerson Trust Fund. The fund was established in the memory of long-time Fee for the six weeks is $30 or $25 each if two or more from one
IODE member Mary Emerson. Pictured sre (left to right) provincial [ODE treasurer Karen Kalyk, Van- organization are registered by the organization.
couver zone [ODE chair Louise Lazarus, trust fund chair Helen Kalyk, North Shore Neighbourhood House The course is co-sponsored by North Shore-Continuing Education and
executive director Don Rutherford and IODE Lions Gate chapter representative Mary Gunn. the North Shore Information and Volunteer Centre, a United Way
member agency. Call 985-7138 for more information.

S. Africa
discussed

SOUTH AFRICA’S political situ-
ation will be examined by Bill
Schermbrucker, fiction writer and
Capilano College teacher.

Schermbrucker is hosting a
three-part reading/discussion series
on South Africa at the North
Shore Unitarian Church.

Born in Kenya of South African
parentage, Schermbrucker is an
opponent of apartheid. He has
travelled recently in South Africa
and has just completed an histori-
cal novel, Mimosa, which is being
published this fall.

He will try to provide some il-
lumination of the nature of South
Africa’s political predicament and
examine whether any possibilities
exist for a less violent future.

The first session of the series is
on Monday, Sept. 19 at 7:30 p.m.
at 370 Mathers Ave., West Van-
couver. For more information call
926-1621.

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