Portage Express
Today we’ve been out and about on the conference Portage Express where we get to go on our selected community visits in the Thunder Bay area. Stop one for me was the Kinna-aweya Poverty Law Clinic which combines law reform, legal casework & community development activities. I was priveliged to meet some of the staff and five recent graduates from the Clinic’s New Directions Speaker’s and Leadership Development School who each gave an oral presentation about their life journeys and plans for the future. In a word…humbling.
Later in the day, I ventured forth to learn about video-conferencing, Education and technology at ‘An evening at the Theatre’. Oops…not that theatre & not that technology. Gulp. Dressed in my blue operating theatre gear & shaking a little in my shoe covers I was lucky enough to see a (simulated) demonstration of the stealth technology used to pinpoint areas of brain for surgery, laser the first letter of my name into piece of wood without torching anything,had a try at fusing the discs in the spine model and learnt a little about knee replacement technologies. Brilliant!
Each day of the conference has opened new insights and surprising learning encounters – from the keynotes presentations through to the theatre!
Natalie Radomski