[NFB-DB] Flyer F2F Conferences 2017-18

[Sheila Leigland]

hi,I hope you are enjoying your time at the hellen keller national 
center.I hope you learn much.


On 6/18/2017 1:03 PM, maurice mines via NFB-DB wrote:
> Good afternoon everyone, Mme. second vice president, I can’t agree 
> with you more. Without going into it let’s just say that I have not in 
> the past and I’m certainly not now a fan of the professionals running 
> a duck blind person’s life. As you said Janice it’s up to us to run 
> our lives, I guess this really does strike at the heart of Vienna the 
> model live the life we want. But more than just quote a me to post, I 
> hope when we gather we talk about strategies to say to the 
> professionals politely, but firmly, that we should live the life we 
> want. Because I think that is a skill? That does not have a 
> one-size-fits-all answer. I am a computer person so live a very hard 
> time dealing with quote professionals on quote because sometimes I 
> just wonder if they deal with me as a person, or do they deal with me 
> the way their textbook said? Or deal with me in some way that some 
> government regulation says they are supposed to deal with me?
>
> Also it seems to me that some of what the professional does, is based 
> on what the professional bay  Thanks about those whom they are 
> serving/working with. Let me finish my thought this way, if the person 
> involved I stated they want XYZ for instance but the professionals 
> says MY inexorably is best for you, who carries the day? Here’s hoping 
> we work on talking about the empowerment piece of it? And not so much 
> what the professionals think, and/or do. I guess because I’ve 
> experienced way too much social worker textbook based professionalism 
> lately. But let me also state for the record here, not all social work 
> folks are all bad, all the time either. They have to deal with a very 
> wide variety of people so blindly blasting them is also not a good 
> thing either because I’ve seen it too often at times and Federation 
> gatherings that I have been out. I think it’s been said at one point 
> with great collective action/power, should also comes great 
> responsibility of knowing when, and where to pick one’s battles. I can 
> attribute that piece of advice to one of my past and probably at times 
> probably current Federation mentors in a sense, through the statement 
> I just made. More to the point the statement that I just repeated from 
> Diane McGeorge. I just say he was definitely the teacher, I am at the 
> times she’d mentioned this to me I was definitely the student. Yes her 
> lesson has come home to roost many times over. So as we talk at 
> convention about all of these things it’s probably helpful for us to 
> really stop and think about that when we all get going. Because we 
> probably have quite a few stories about situations like this. How many 
> solutions do we really have, and does one so answe hour selves., And 
> many different ways. There
>
> Sincerely Maurice Mines.
> note my comments above have been dictated to the computer.
>  My amateur radio call sign is, kd0iko.
>  PS just so that current low listers know ,  I am  currently attending 
> the Helen Keller national Center. So hopefully by comments I received 
> well see you all in Orlando.
>
> ution really fit every case correctly? The most part we deaf blind 
> people, must figure out the
>> On Jun 17, 2017, at 1:50 PM, Janice Toothman via NFB-DB 
>> <nfb-db at nfbnet.org <mailto:nfb-db at nfbnet.org>> wrote:
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>>
>> It bothers me as well.  I want the DeafBlind to advocate for 
>> themselves and often family members are those that impose barriers to 
>> communication and the DeafBlind individuals pursuit of independence. 
>> (Note: these are my personal views)
>>
>> Janice
>> Second Vice-President
>> National Association of the DeafBlind
>>
>> On 6/17/2017 12:40 PM, Lisa Ferris via NFB-DB wrote:
>>> Does it bother anyone else that this flyer is so totally directed 
>>> towards families of DB without even lip service to including DB 
>>> people and they being involved in directing and leading this kind of 
>>> activity? I know some family are good allies and some DB people are 
>>> small children, but the whole tone of this and even the website is 
>>> not even inclusive of DB people themselves. All directed towards 
>>> families and professionals. It makes me shudder.
>>>
>>> Lisa Ferris
>>>
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPad
>>>
>>> On Jun 17, 2017, at 8:38 AM, Catherine Miller via NFB-DB 
>>> <nfb-db at nfbnet.org <mailto:nfb-db at nfbnet.org>> wrote:
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>>>>
>>>> Sent from my iPad
>>>>
>>>> Begin forwarded message:
>>>>
>>>>> *From:* Catherine Miller <guillcat at gmail.com 
>>>>> <mailto:guillcat at gmail.com>>
>>>>> *Date:* June 17, 2017 at 9:23:17 AM CDT
>>>>> *To:* Catherine Guillory <guillcat at gmail.com 
>>>>> <mailto:guillcat at gmail.com>>
>>>>> *Subject:* *Flyer F2F Conferences 2017-18*
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> <F2FC phase 3 flyer 2017.docx>
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>>>>>
>>>>> Sent from my iPad
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