Western Oregon University and Local Award-Winning Author Offer New Course for Grandparents

(ALBANY, Ore.) Grandparents are often the least tapped group when it comes to providing empowerment and nurturing leadership qualities in today’s youth (the future leaders of our country). But baby boomers and grandparents should understand and use the influence they have to shape family legacies and contribute to the larger society.

Debra Slover, local author, grandmother and founder of Leadership Garden Enterprises, LLC, takes this responsibility seriously, providing educational tools for parents and grandparents including a new workshop at Western Oregon University.

The workshop, “UNIQUE Leadership: Grandparents Nurturing Leadership Gardens”, is offered as part of the Leadership Garden® Legacy "Family" Empowerment Series. The Leadership Garden is a metaphor for passing knowledge on to future generations.

The workshop is designed to harness the U.N.I.Q.U.E. (understanding, nurturing, inventive, quality, unstoppable, expression) power of unconditional love, wisdom and leadership of grandparents both at home and in the community. In an eight-step process, grandparents explore the age-old questions: who am I, how do I matter, what is my purpose, what does it mean to be a leader and how can that make a difference in my life, especially for my family and grandchildren?

The workshop blends metaphor, fable, exercise, discussion, coaching and playfulness to provide a life affirming educational experience.

Workshop participants will:

• distinguish the two conditions of Leadership Gardens
• examine your current reality and contrast that to the one you desire
• construct your leader balance wheel and identify the survival or thriving tendencies of four leader behaviors
• demonstrate leader-friendly gardening practices
• create a unique purpose and aim statement
• examine the leadership attributes necessary for thriving leadership and identify new behaviors that will empower your unique purpose and aim
• create goals you want to achieve inside your family
  design a plan that will help you blossom your family leadership

Slover conducts the workshop in a facilitated process that provides instruction via her audio book fable story of U.N.I.QU.E.: Growing the Leader Within, author illustrations, personal journaling, coaching, discussion, role-play and action planning.

Slover has dedicated her life to empowering leadership greatness in both youth and adults. She spent 20 years as Director of a youth leadership program promoting safe and healthy communities operated out of Oregon State University.

Registration info:
When: April 30 & May 1
Where: WOU Campus Monmouth, OR
Fee: $110 per person
To register, call 541-928-2232 or visit grandparent workshop to register online.

For further information, please visit www.leadershipgardenlegacy.com. To schedule an interview with Debra Slover, please contact Elaine Krackau at elaine@prbythebook.com | 512.501.4399, x 704