Thursday, 1 August 2013

July 10 Meeting Minutes

MINUTES
Wednesday, July 10, 2013
1:30-4:15PM

In Attendance
Via Conference Call, Web Meeting
Absent                            
David Ibsen
Alison Chang
Brandon Lieu
Damian Karl
Melody Guo
Mehmet Budak
Trudy Sauer
Johanna Ibsen
Carole Ibsen
Nicole
Jon

Dr. Grant Mullen
Alliah Krahn



Minutes Taken By:  Brandon Lieu
Summary of Action Items – FACTS Meeting – DATE:

No.
Action Item
1
  • Action Required (Everyone): Get flag done by next week (July 17th)
2
  • Action Required (Damian and Nicole): Decide if you guys will be meeting before FACTSnet meetings or after (before 4:15 or after 6:00)
3
Parents as Coaches Seminar (PAC) Tuesday, July 16:(Meet at 5PM at the Church)
  • Action required for everyone to prepare (15 minutes max per presentation)
    • (~5 minutes) Introduction: Prenatal (preconception) to postsecondary (Dave or Carole)
    • (30 minutes max) Inclusion (Damian and Brandon)
    • (~2x10minutes)Technology (Mehmet and Alison [blogger: how parents can use it, how they can set up their own blog Family Journal])
    • (~15 minutes) Personal Development (Trudy, Dave, Carole)
    • (~10 minutes)Dialogue beyond the seminar (Everyone)
*Put the seminar under meeting for your timesheet
4
  • Action Required (Dave): Closed captioning for seminar?
5
  • Action Required (All presenters) Get blog posts together so people attending the seminar can follow up after PAC seminar (Damian and Brandon will post in PAC website)(Alison and Mehmet will post in Hsummers)
6
  • Action required (Brandon): update Damian on Additional information after meeting officially ended
  • Action required (Dave): update Carole and Trudy Additional information after meeting officially ended
7
  • Action Required (Alison): Should all be linked on factsnet.org and 2 clicks will get you to the powerpoint and relevant information (blogs)
8
  • Action Required (Everyone): will be required to review the minutes and send a confirmation email to ecalberta@mail.com
9
·         Action Required (Alison): Book room for august 7 from 4:15-9PM
·         Action Required (Brandon): Need Pre-reigstration set up

Minutes approved by: Brandon Lieu
Review & Completion Status of Action Items from july 3rd Meeting Minutes:
No.
Action Item
1
Value Based Medium- without values, “anything goes” (we just do whatever we want without guidance)
o   Will need to revise- address the issue
o   Action Required: Alliah, Alison, David
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Comments/Completion:
Alison will create a document to address this later
2
Action Required: Brandon
·         Action: assign who, a deadline for that person, and include actions in the email body
·         Minutes: create google folder
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Comments/Completion:
Complete
3
Trudy (Actions required):
·         Send template for agenda to Dave
·         Send Brandon minutes templates
·         Send information about outlook to Alison
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Comments/Completion:
Complete
           
Webinar with Dr. Mullen
The webinar will compact a 4 hr seminar into 30 minutes for a summary on the book and how it applies to us:

·         Book focuses on productivity when working with other people
·         Are we working at our potential? What is our potential?
·         Number one thing that holds us back is how we think
o   Negative thoughts negatively impact us
·         3 systems:
o   Mental Hardware-Physical equipment we are born with (nerves and connection) if lose thought control, than you have a mood disorder
§  Depression is greatly affecting our society and is an increasing problemà ”invisible handicap on our productivity”
§  Most people wait too long and they crash before they go for help
§  Comparing mood disorder to a vision problem
·         Number one problem is you can’t shut your mind off
·         Mostly starts during adolescence
·         Will notice personality change
·         Moodswings-Upswing: energized
·         All from changes in chemicals in the mind
·         Medication is prescribed to restore mood control
·         Early detection and looking for help is very important
o   Mental Software
§  Patterns of thinking that was learned
§  All of our experiences are stored in our emotional baggage
§  Most important is how we interpret our events
§  Our experiences eventually becomes “autopiloted” and directs up
·         Ex. If you have great hardware but bad software, you can’t get anywhere
§  Self esteem
·         If you have low self esteem, you may become a successful adult but still feel like a weak child or wear a mask to block yourself off
·         Adds to our emotional baggage
·         Leads to isolation
·         How to deal with it: Talk to a counsellor
o   Mental Operating System
§  Personal spirit
§  You need a meaning and purposeàtreat your spirit as important as the hardware and software

o   Need all 3 components to work well
o   There are many resources you can find on Dr. Mullen’s website, talk to a counsellor, etc.
o   If you address all of the issues, you will succeed

·         Questions/comments:
o   We will be doing a personal development session on  how to diagnose yourself
o   How to tell if you have an abnormal mood:
§  if you can’t stop thinking about something for months or years or
§  if you are so driven, you keep going and can’t slow down (elevated mood doesn’t mean happy, it just means higher than normal emotions)
§  This has to be LONG TERM to be diagnosed as a mood disorder
o   Different types of seminars by Dr. Mullen: does combining seminars cut the cost? YES (cost is per session)
o   “Soul”: mind, will and emotion = personality (can become a learned disorder)
o   Does requiring excessive sleep mean you have a disorder? It is just whether they are relaxed or not while you are sleeping (unrelaxed state could be a mood disorder)



How we are doing personal development
·         Going through flags next week (July 17th)
·         Action Required (Everyone): Get flag done by next week (July 17th)
·         We will go through tips from Dr. Rhom
·         Week after that (July 24): will talk about Dr. Mullen’s resource with checking on our mood (there is a link on his website that we can use to check our mood)
·         Personal Development will occur each week
·         Action Required (Damian and Nicole): Decide if you guys will be meeting before FACTSnet meetings or after (before 4:15 or after 6:00)

Parents as Coaches Seminar (PAC) Tuesday, July 16:(Meet at 5PM at the Church)
·         Action required for everyone to prepare (15 minutes max per presentation)
o   (~5 minutes) Introduction: Prenatal (preconception) to postsecondary (Dave or Carole)
o   (30 minutes max) Inclusion (Damian and Brandon)
o   (~2x10minutes)Technology (Mehmet and Alison [blogger: how parents can use it, how they can set up their own blog Family Journal])
o   (~15 minutes) Personal Development (Trudy, Dave, Carole)
o   (~10 minutes)Dialogue beyond the seminar (Everyone)
*Put the seminar under meeting for your timesheet

·         Nicole has sent invitation for PAC out to parents of children with disabilities
o   Her contact base is throughout Alberta
·         Action Required (Dave): Closed captioning?
·         Dragon dictation and other speech to text aren’t too accurate but can be used as a backup plan
·         How to make the connection on going between FACTSnet and parents (to continue to  support families)
o   We will see how the blogging goes
o   Will do more in the fall
o   Work experience for Cody: focus on chiropractic
·         Action Required (Everyone): Send information for presentation to Nicole
·         Apx 30 people will attend

Additional information after meeting officially ended:
·         Action Required (All presenters) Get blog posts together so people attending the seminar can follow up after PAC seminar (Damian and Brandon will post in PAC website)(Alison and Mehmet will post in Hsummers)
o   Action Required (Brandon and Damian): “For more information: contact factsume@gmail.com (Brandon) edualberta@gmail.com for Damian”
o   Put the powerpoint presentation you will present at the PAC on Google drive and link it on blogger (or use blogger (by using PDF))
·         Action Required (Brandon): Invite Brandon to PAC
·         Action required (Brandon): update Damian on Additional information after meeting officially ended
·         Action required (Dave): update Carole and Trudy Additional information after meeting officially ended
·         Action Required (Alison): Should all be linked on factsnet.org and 2 clicks will get you to the powerpoint and relevant information (blogs)

Professional Development Tasks
·         Action Required (Everyone): will be required to review the minutes and send a confirmation email to ecalberta@mail.com
·         All emails: cc to factsume@gmail.com and factsc@gmail.com
·         Remember to fill in availability sheet by each Sunday
o   unhighlight your name when you have it completed
o   Blacked out means NOT AVAILABLE
o   Alison will update the sheet on Thursday
·         Action Required (Alison): Book room for august 7 from 4:15-9PM
·         Action Required (Brandon): Need Pre-reigstration set up




4 comments:

  1. Make sure you guys read the July 30 Minutes as well! It is at the bottom of the list because it was the first post.
    Thanks guys.

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