How would they be involved? A few women spoke very strongly about the need to develop a publicity plan. They wanted to leave the workshop knowing that people in literacy programs, in women's organizations, in the government, and in the academic world would find out about what we had discovered.

When we asked women what they didn't want to happen they talked about process and content. They wanted to have enough time to talk things through without feeling like they had talked things to death. Kate Nonesuch (Malaspina College) identified the line that many women wanted to walk.

I don't want discussions to disintegrate into wrangling, but neither do I want to gloss over differences.

Women wanted to come away feeling that there was some direction for the final development of the project. They didn't want to feel like they had wasted their time talking around things - they wanted something concrete because, as Vicki Noonan (Malaspina College) said, "we have no other chance."

Frances and I met in Ottawa the week before the third workshop to develop an agenda using these second interview responses and ongoing discussions with the program women as a guide. We had to move through each program's presentation of their documentation to an interpretation of the documentation as a whole. From there, we wanted to move into the collaborative analysis and a sense of completion. At the same time, we wanted to recognize women's different working styles and give women the time they needed to reconnect with each other, integrate information, and relax.

The recorders became a central part of the workshop. Here Alex Keir records the theatre group.

We developed three different sets of interpretive activities for Friday. For Saturday, we would use three different ways of coming at the collaborative analysis. We contacted women before the workshop to get a sense of the way in which each one wanted to work.

We also asked three Ottawa women to act as recorders. We sent them the documentation and met before the workshop to discuss their integration into the group. Alex Keir, Donna Truesdale, and Linda Dale each had a laptop computer and access to a camera. Each of them would work with one of the three groups or activities. After Tannis Atkinson left the Toronto ALFA Centre we asked her to work with us on some of the documentation for the project. She attended this workshop to facilitate discussions about the many publishing questions we needed to consider.