Maggie Whaley provided a session titled: Conversation Café’:
Exploring therapeutic recreation with students on Saturday, April 2nd,
2016 at the Great Lakes Recreational Therapy Student Conference.
Maggie is great. She donates her own time to serve at the
Student Chair of the American Therapeutic Recreation Association (ATRA). That
is really great of you. Also: it is evident that being a member of ATRA also
means that she is donating money to our profession/ professional association as
evidenced by paying her annual membership dues.
She had the members break down in small groups of three or
four.
Groups received a large sheet of paper (like a giant
stick-it –note) with instruction to draw/ write/ create answers to several
questions:
Regarding how people with various abilities are perceived.
What RT can do to advocate.
It appears that there are many wonderful ideas coming from
this.
I feel confident that some neat promotional efforts are
going to be the result of the student committee.
Those students will be tomorrow’s leaders of ATRA and our
profession.
ATRA has a blog (including a student blog).
I, Danny P. have viewed the student blog a few times and
posted feedback and comments.
Get involved. Join ATRA. Participate. Give back.
