Yesterday’s Workshop

I had a good turn-out for my presentation, I had about 20 -25 people attend it. They put me in a 400 seat auditorium and when I walked in to the room, I thought OMG, I hope they don’t expect me to fill it! The screen was huge, about 40’ across and they had a neat computer system to run the room. After my workshop, I had a number of people come up to me and said that the presentation was an eye opener. They said that it was a story that needed to be told. One person who came up to me after the workshop was a trans-man from the US Dept. of Labor, Office of Disability Employment. He gave a workshop on Friday, that I wish I knew about because I would have loved to attend it because the workshop that I wanted to attend was cancelled. His workshop was,

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After my workshop, I collected the evaluations and I went through them, they all were “Excellent” or “Very Good” except one. That person gave me a “Poor” with the comment “Didn’t have any discussion! Only had a Q & A session after the presentation.”… Um what part of “Presentation” didn’t you understand? If you wanted a discussion, you should have gone to a workshop that said it was a discussion.

Next year, I think I might do a workshop on being an ally.