Why CWooD Professional Development?
I launched CWooD Professional Development because I am passionate about providing a space where interpreters can gather to collaborate, share ideas, and engage in healthy discussions in order to move our profession forward. My goal is to offer high quality workshops that satisfy Michigan State endorsement and national credential requirements, in both English and ASL, to all my colleagues; certified, and pre-certified. This will be a safe environment where open dialogue can unfold and every individual will feel welcome. Presenters will be knowledgable, skilled, and dynamic professionals.
As a nationally certified interpreter, I understand Michigan credential guidelines, with regard to endorsements, as well as the national continuing education unit (CEU) requirements. Bringing Deaf, and Hearing individuals who are connected to the interpreting world to present on this platform is a priority, however I also believe there is huge value in learning from those outside of our tight knit profession. The work we do requires a tremendous breadth of knowledge, depth of skill, and high level of flexibility.
The only way to truly expand and feed our minds is to be open to all content areas. By doing so we all become better interpreters, allies and advocates to our community and profession. I hope you will sign up for a workshop, and enjoy nourishing your skills and developing your Extra Linguistic Knowledge (ELK) as you earn CEU's from the comfort of your own home!
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- Tue, Mar 09ZoomThis series will start with an introduction and overview of the RID CPC and then dig into each of the seven Tenets in the following weeks.
- Sat, Mar 13ZoomThis workshop is designed to explore subjects in the educational setting that can be a bit touchy to interpret. As interpreters how many times have we been faced with the decision: to expand or not to expand, what exactly is my role here, or how far is too far?
- Tue, Mar 23ZoomThis series will start with an introduction and overview of the RID CPC and then dig into each of the seven Tenets in the following weeks.
- Sat, Mar 27ZoomInterpreters, deaf community… are you tired of feeling tired? Sick of being sick? Worried about being overweight? Many of the triggers for what you’re experiencing can be reversed by eating a whole-food, plant based diet! Want to learn how to rid your diet of processed, and animal-based foods?
- Sun, Mar 28ZoomUnlearning Words is one workshop, part of a series, aimed to benefit anybody who wishes to improve their expressive ASL and advance their information conveying skills to a radical level.
- Tue, Apr 06ZoomThis series will start with an introduction and overview of the RID CPC and then dig into each of the seven Tenets in the following weeks.
- Sat, Apr 10ZoomThis lesson will prepare interpreters to address awkward, embarrassing, and uncomfortable situations appropriately in ways that do not interrupt Deaf clients' ability to fully receive information.
- Sun, Apr 11ZoomASL uses space and movement through classifiers to show visual space which may make interpreters and/or consumers feel uncomfortable with its visual descriptions of sexual health topics.
- Thu, Apr 15ZoomThis course endeavors to begin a conversation about how the current traditional educational interpreting model does not meet the needs of language deprived students in mainstream settings, and proposes a new model for interpreting for this population.
- Tue, Apr 20ZoomThis series will start with an introduction and overview of the RID CPC and then dig into each of the seven Tenets in the following weeks.
- Sat, May 01ZoomThis workshop will take participants on an adventure through etymologies of American Sign Language. As practitioners we present arbitrary rules of ASL as we use them and seem to know them but do we really KNOW them? Join us as Buck begins to describe ASL's rich history.
- Sun, May 02ZoomThis workshop will bring to light some of the stigmas and challenges individuals who identify as Deaf+++ face within the general population but also within the interpreting community.
- Tue, May 04ZoomThis series will start with an introduction and overview of the RID CPC and then dig into each of the seven Tenets in the following weeks.