July 2014

I admit, it was tough waking up for seminar sometimes. But at the end of class each Friday, I always left feeling very motivated and curious as to how I would apply what we learned to the rest of my project. The most interesting parts of the seminar were hearing from the different community organizations […]

How might we build a community? Is the question that I think was propose to my group. However, its a question that is important to everyone because everyone is involved with some type of community in their work; whether is a business community, a municipal community, or a neighborhood community. But I dont want to

So, here at CBRP, we don’t have fridays. Well, we do have fridays, I mean, we haven’t lost an entire day of the week to the void. But we don’t have traditional “last day of the work week, everybody is grateful” fridays. For that we have thursdays. I like to call them “thursday-fridays”. But friday-fridays

Seminars were much like having a DCBRP “class” every Friday morning. Rather than a time to reflect on and discuss our experiences at our sites, seminars were geared towards teaching us something new and focusing on a different topic each week. Sometimes the speakers gave us a what I considered to be a lecture, just

I always look forward to Friday…and not just because it’s almost the weekend. Our seminars have been a great addition to our workweek. They provide the opportunity to learn, discuss, and engage one another in conversation about important topics that we’re experiencing around us. Each week is a different topic, led by various speakers from

Fridays can be dreadful sometimes. Waking up early can seem impossible at times, but Friday mornings are always productive mornings too. Friday seminars are a crucial part of our living and learning experience in the Detroit community based research program. It not only gives everyone in the program a chance to come together as a

I’m not gonna lie, I’m not one for powerpoint presentations. They’re boring and distracting and just words on a screen when I’d rather just see pictures. If you want to tell me about something, please at least act like you’re interested. I don’t want to hear you read the words off the screen and then

I’ve really enjoyed all of the seminars throughout the program and I’ve learned a lot from them. The sessions have altered my perspective in different ways and now I tend to consider things that I hadn’t before. I feel as though I can pick out many things from each seminar that I enjoyed and that

While I can’t say that I’m the type of person who enjoys getting to class at 8:30 in the morning and staying there till noon, I agree with many who have blogged before me that the seminars made for a nice change of pace. I learned a little something new at each seminar, and that’s

This summer, seminars have been a bit of an awkward bump in the work routine for me. After spending all week on the job, I feel I am less likely to be really engaged during seminar on Friday and often just sitting and listening for much of seminar was a bit tedious (although not too bad).