On Saturday, we spent the morning in small group discussions. We set up different options based on the responses to the pre-workshop questionnaire and women had the chance to choose one from Session A for the first ninety minutes, then one from Session B for the next ninety minutes.

Session A:

• What do we find are the positive and negative sides of doing women-only activities in our programs?
  
  
• How can we work with the question: What about the men?
  
  
• How can we sort out what is "woman-positive" when we are not doing explicit women's issues or when we don't have a women-only group?
  
  
• Do you feel split by different needs or demands? This is a repeat of the workshop offered by Kathleen and Evelyn, described above. Some women continued with this workshop throughout the entire morning, others joined in after Session A.

Session B:

• What happens when we work as feminists in our programs? How is this different than doing woman-positive work? (A group for women who define themselves as feminist.)
  
  
• What happens when we work as feminists in our programs? How is this different than doing woman-positive work? (A group for women who don't necessarily define themselves as feminist or who are struggling with the concept.)
  
  
• What do we think makes a program "safe" for women - especially women who have been physically or sexually abused, women who are dealing with racism or cultural ignorance, women who are in conflict with the law, women who have disabilities.

By lunchtime, women had completely taken over this process! As small groups formed and reformed throughout the morning, discussions took on a life of their own. One group decided to do some theatre work, moving from discussion into a skit that they would perform at that night's Show and Tell. Other groups decided to redefine their subject and continue into the afternoon. Some women carried on conversations in twos and threes.

The same flexible, informal format continued through the afternoon, with , some women carrying on with their earlier discussion topics while others shifted. Some women used the topics we had planned for afternoon workshops as themes for informal discussion. One focused on possible definitions of woman-positive work and how it might be different than learner-centred, community-based, or man-positive work.