Please read the Introduction in Chapter 1 of the Source book (pages 3-17) for the first workshop. The remaining pages of the chapter include an introduction to each of the six programs, which you may find interesting to read at some point. We will be reading examples of the sort of changes project participants made in their programs later in the course.

Your reading package also includes two excerpts from books about writing and drawing journals by Lucia Capacchione and Julia Cameron. Look at these excerpts if you don't already know them and begin to think about how you would like to explore and document your learning. At the workshop we will be talking about the record-keeping you will be doing during the course—creating journals and portfolios. These excerpts might give you ideas to try or help you to see what style might work for you.

If you have time I also encourage you to read the chapter included from Saving Bernice by Jody Raphael. I chose this both for its content and as an interesting example of research. Jody interviewed one woman in depth to create a picture of the impact of violence on women living on welfare; then she interwove Bernice's story with lots of information from more conventional research studies to create an interesting and multilayered picture.

Further Readings

Choose one of the readings from this section to explore an issue about which you are curious. The further readings cover several different themes so that you can choose any of them. The themes fall generally into four categories:

• Experiences of violence for specific groups such as people with disabilities or First Nations communities; e.g., Hodgson, Ticoll and Pnitch.
• Conceptions of trauma and violence; e.g., Brown, Fraser, Herman, Johnson