Cinderblocks 2025: Conference Day 1
May 19, 2025
We thank our sponsor Learning Health Community
8:00 am Breakfast in the fellowship hall
9:00 am Opening remarks by Regina Holliday, conference planner and founder of the Walking Gallery of Healthcare.
9:30 am Ben Merrion: Libraries Under Attack
Ben organizes Best Practices Meetings as part of a community of practice to help adult educators share knowledge related to various aspects of the adult education field including such topics as recruiting volunteers, sharing teaching strategies, and using data to inform student recruitment and teaching.
He created over 20 workshops focusing on mostly teaching strategies in the areas of basic reading and GED preparation including such topics as Adult Learning and Memory, Teaching Phonological Awareness and Teaching Visual Math. Informs the DC Council through testimony about issues facing the adult education community.
10:00am Josh Rubin, Program Officer for Learning Health System Initiatives at University of Michigan Medical School
10:30 am Jan Oldenburg: The benefits of challenging yourself to do something (That you can’t do perfectly)
11:00 am Nature Walk on the Trinity Hiking Trail led by Jack Illar
Noon Lunch
1:00 pm Pamela Dornburg on the healing art of massage.
1:30 pm Alex B. Fair from Medstartr.
2:00 pm Len Shindel: The Strike That Changed Maryland’s Wilderness County
3:00 pm Art project working on Walking Gallery jackets with attendees of all ages. We will go out to the pavilion and create art in the great outdoors.
4:30 Art as Activism: a conversation in the round.
5pm Supper in Fellowship hall.
6pm Cancer and caring: A conversation in the Round.
7:30 pm Walking Gallery Picture taken
8pm Fire dancer Aaron Smith will perform.
Conference Day 2, Tuesday May 20, 2025
8:00am Breakfast
9:00 am Opening remarks are by Regina Holliday, conference planner and founder of the Walking Gallery of Healthcare.
10:00 am Shannon Shine
11:00am Rebecca Parslow on Reiki, Community Organizing and Volunteerism
Noon Lunch
1:00pm Chaplaincy in practice and action a conversation in the round.
2:00pm Panel Presentation: Autism and Special Needs in Society.
3:00-4:00 Summing things up and making plans for next year.
