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Sojourner House: Empowering Women Workshops

Founded in 1981, Sojourner House offers shelter and support to women in need. Learn about their workshops on stress management, yoga, moral reasoning, computers, and more. Discover the impact of these classes on empowering women to lead meaningful lives.

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Sojourner House: Empowering Women Workshops

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  1. Sojourner House Winston Anderson KayLee Hamlin ZeinaNaoum John Scuola

  2. The Sojourner House • Founded in 1981 by Nancy Watson Dean and Virginia Fairchild • Mission: “Sojourner House provides shelter, structure, strength, and inspiration to individuals and families in need, so they are prepared to lead responsible and meaningful lives” • House had on average 12 women there • Women’s stories: • Many women are dealing with some sort of chemical dependency issue, mental health issues, criminal justice involvement or are victims of domestic violence

  3. Our Responsibilities • Visit the house every other Friday • Prepare lesson plans for each class • Mediate discussions • Engage women to offer opinions • Help prepare dinner • Talked to the women • Played with the children

  4. Workshop 1: Stress Management • General Overview • Definitions, effects • Activity: • Facial massage • Listened to music (Lil Wayne, Lupe Fiasco, Enya) • 60 beats per minute is perfect for stress management • What is stress? Can someone share with us how they manage it? • Reflection- Went pretty well, helped us get to know the women

  5. Stress Management Quiz:

  6. Workshop 2: Yoga • General Overview: • Transition from stress management • Women not engaged • Poses: Chair, Warrior, Tree • Reflection: Us vs. Them, not taken very seriously

  7. Workshop 3: Moral Reasoning • General Overview: • Definition of morals, given hypothetical situations and made up their own, debate at end of class • Situations: • Driving in the rain • Bank and the bank teller • Women’s reactions • Reflection: BEST CLASS • A lot of participation • Learned a lot about women, shared personal experiences (stabbing experience, Grandfather in Jamaica, roommate and anorexia)

  8. Workshop 4: Computers • General Overview: • Groups • Basic skills • Excel • PowerPoint • Reflection: Women asked for this class. Many of them did not even know how to turn on a computer or access the internet. They really learned a lot.

  9. Workshop 5: • General Overview • Jeopardy • Bracelet making • Reflection: • Small class • Difficult because some of women were new • Showed how much we really did teach the women • Sad it was the last class

  10. What they learned…

  11. What we learned… • How to work together to prepare lessons despite our own opinions • Mold our classes to the needs of the women • Not to judge people by their situation • Look past our own perceptions

  12. “Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation” -Robert F. Kennedy

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