Every surface was put to use in our rooms at the hotel. Here, Pat MacNeil and Lynda Lehman develop a fan about validation.

Karen Bergman-Illnik (Arctic College) had agreed to facilitate the theatre: group where women ,would use several questions to develop a performance piece. Since she was delayed until the afternoon, women in that group took responsibility for facilitating themselves!

We worked in these three groups all morning and into the afternoon, coming back together at 4:00 to present our conclusions. Each group's recorder - Linda, Donna, or Alex - was present for the entire period. They recorded discussions as they happened and anything set out on flip charts. They took photographs of women at work.

In each of the three sessions, women moved from an understanding of their own experience to a consideration of women's experience in the project as a whole. They had a chance to hear other women's interpretation of what happened throughout the time of the project and to discuss where there seemed to be agreement or disagreement. Women expressed at least a part of their response in the way they felt most comfortable. When we came together at the end of the day, we had a chance to see how three different groups, working in three different ways, responded to the documentation.

The Drawing Group

This group began by creating visual images that reflected the feelings they experienced as they read through the different program documentation. Some worked individually and others worked in pairs. When they gathered to discuss their work, women talked about sunshine and clouds, caged spirits, hope, excuses, injustice.