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E40- Monika Gross and Child Welfare in Nebraska Trying to understand the relationship between the state, agencies, children and their families feels impossible. That’s why we brought in Nebraska native, UNL graduate, and the executive director of the Foster Care Review Board, Monika Gross. She walks us through the timeline of when Nebraska outsourced case management to agencies in 2009, through our current crisis of financial mismanagement at the current Kansas based vendor, St Francis Ministries. Get involved to help Nebraska’s most vulnerable children: Be on a review board: https://fcro.nebraska.gov Be a child advocate in court: https://www.nebraskacasa.org/volunteer/volunteer.html Be a foster parent: http://dhhs.ne.gov/Pages/Foster-Care.aspx The Black Friend: On Being a Better White Person by Frederick Joseph How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi Buy great books recommended by SeeingRed and the Pod: https://bookshop.org/shop/seeingrednebraska Social Media links: https://seeingrednebraska.com seeingredne@protonmail.com Tweet@seeingredNE FB@seeingrednebraska Instagram @seeingrednebraska
Monika Gross, a 2019 Caregiving Visionary Award Winner, developed The Poise Project to help family caregivers build their resilience. Monika joins us to share her vision for supporting family caregivers around the world. You can learn more about Monika through her website, www.thepoiseproject.org. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/caring-conversations/message
Monika Gross, a 2019 Caregiving Visionary Award Winner, developed The Poise Project to help family caregivers build their resilience. Monika joins us to share her vision for supporting family caregivers around the world. You can learn more about Monika through her website, www.thepoiseproject.org. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/caring-conversations/message
Alexander Technique teacher and founder of The Poise Project, Monika Gross joins Mark Walsh, host of the Embodiment Podcast, to discuss theatre, what is the Alexander Technique, being a First Person Expert, socio-economic and cultural factors in embodiment, language barriers to practice, how to access groups we may not usually work with, working with caregivers, being of service and how somatic techniques can help people keep a healthy sense of self. Mark and Monika paint a vision for a more embodied world, and how everyone can learn to be “body literate”. Monika’s websites: FormFitnessFunction.com and ThePoiseProject.org The Embodiment Podcast’s website: EmbodiedFacilitator.com/the-embodiment-podcast Gereral information about the Technique: AlexanderTechnique.com You can learn how to support this and other Alexander Technique websites at AlexTechExpress.com/support
Alexander Technique teacher and founder of The Poise Project, Monika Gross joins Mark to discuss theatre, what is the Alexander Technique, being a First Person Expert, socio-economic and cultural factors in embodiment, language barriers to practice, how to access groups we may not usually work with, working with caregivers, being of service and how somatic techniques can help people keep a healthy sense of self. Mark and Monika paint a vision for a more embodied world, and how EVERYONE can learn to be "body literate". https://www.thepoiseproject.org/ http://www.formfitnessfunction.com
Robert Rickover talks with Monika Gross, an Alexander Technique teacher and Executive Director of the Poise Project, about the project and it's first Initiative: "Alexander Technique and Parkinson's." The Poise Project website: ThePoiseProject.org Monika teaches in Asheville and Charlotte North Carolina. Monika's website: FormFitnessFunction.com Robert teaches in Lincoln, Nebraska and Toronto, Canada. Website: AlexanderTechniqueNebraska.com More information about the Alexander Technique: AlexanderTechnique.com Learn how to support this and other Alexander Technique websites at AlexTechExpress.com/support
Monika Gross, an Alexander Technique teacher in Asheville, North Carolina, talks with Robert Rickover about ways in which Skype can sometimes can actually be more effective that traditional Alexander teaching. Monica's website: formfitnessfunction.com Robert teaches in Lincoln, Nebraska and Toronto, Canada. Website: alexandertechniquenebraska.com List of Alexander Technique teachers who use Skype: alexandertechnique.com/teacher/distancelearning More information about the Alexander Technique: alexandertechnique.com You can learn how to support this and other Alexander Technique websites at AlexTechExpress.com/support