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Orgs We Love: Assist WI

Screen Shot 2016-05-03 at 11.46.17 AMIf you don’t know who Assist WI is, then we are excited to share them with you!  Assist WI is a nonprofit based out of Wisconsin Dells, WI and is the brain child of William Meissner. The organization was formed in Spring 2014 and operates as a project of the Families in Transition Support Network in the Wisconsin Dells area.

Assist WI’s main goal is to pair volunteers with families traveling to the area who have unique needs. Assist volunteers are available to accompany families on their adventures and act as an extra set of hands where needed while visiting this tourist destination. It is tScreen Shot 2016-05-03 at 11.45.09 AMheir mission to turn obstacles into opportunities and facilitate family bonding through inclusion of every family member. 

This summer, Assist WI has a lot of activities for people can get involved with!

May 17th, 2016: Assist WI is  facilitating an Adaptive Golf Clinic at Trappers Turn from 1-3pm!  The golf program portion will be taken care of by Jason Manke of Kalahari Resorts and our role is what we do best, making sure each participant can enjoy this learning experience!  Please contact Assist WI as soon as possible if you are interested in participating. 

May 25th, 2016: Kalahari Waterpark day for the Community Coalition on Transition of Adams/ Marquette Counties.  These students have joined Assist WI for many adventurous field trip days and they look forward to facilitating the day at this world class waterpark…AGAIN! If you’d like to help out with this awesome end of the school year trip, please contact Assist WI as soon as possible. 

July 7th, 2016: Annual Golf Outing at Trappers Turn   Please let Assist know if you have anything that you would like to see or contribute pertaining to the organization.  This event has a lot of volunteer opportunities prior and the day of the event including getting donations, signing up teams, logistics, and basic labor. Please contact Assist WI as soon as possible if you are interested in participating. 

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Events We Love: International Forum on Consciousness

15th International Forum on Consciousness Topic Announced:

Awakened Consciousness and the Evolution of Business

Join leadership theory thought leaders, writers, educators and other global business experts in examining the way organizations are successfully combining the drive for economic gain with an equally passionate drive to actualize humanistic, culturally and environmentally sustainable values for the enrichment of employees, communities and the health of our planet. The 15th International Forum on Consciousness, Awakened Consciousness and the Evolution of Business: How the Self-Actualized Business Lays New Grooves for the Development of Self and Society, will be held May 5–6, 2016, in Madison, Wisconsin.

WHAT:    The International Forum on Consciousness is a yearly event dedicated to information-sharing and discussion regarding important—and often challenging—topics related to the exploration of consciousness. This year, the forum will address how business is changing the way we think about the world around us.

THEME:  Awakened Consciousness and the Evolution of Business

WHEN:    May 5–6, 2016

WHERE:  BioPharmaceutical Technology Center, Promega Corporation, 5445 East Cheryl Parkway, Fitchburg, WI 53711

WHO:        Co-hosted by the BioPharmaceutical Technology Center Institute (BTC Institute) and Promega Corporation.

The 15th Annual International Forum on Consciousness is open to the general public but limited to 350 participants. Forum registrants have the opportunity to join a presenter for a small group discussion over dinner on Thursday evening, May 5. Registration is now open. For more information or to register, visit: http://www.btci.org/consciousness/.
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Looking Back: Madison Protests

As we looked back at the year 2011, we can’t help to look at the political climate over the year as well as the outrage that citizens had all over the country.  Three months after the protests and demonstrations began in Madison, WI, I went for a walk with my friend Alyssa to check out what was happening in the middle of everything happening.  Here is that post as well as the video we took.

Unfortunately I wasn’t able to witness everything happening in Madison, WI in the months of February and March but when I arrived into Madison, I wanted to make sure I got the feeling of what was happening over those two months.  Thankfully, my friend Alyssa was in the middle of it which made her the perfect tour guide for this video.  As you watch it, keep in mind that it was the middle of winter, covered in snow with an average temperature of 26 degrees.  Over those two months, there were hundreds of thousands of people with the largest protest maxing out at close to a hundred thousand people.  That was the protest where the state farmers came to support and brought their tractors right up to the capital and drove around it the entire day.

 Also keep in mind what this means to have a hundred thousand people in this space.  Over the last five months, we have been reading and hearing about hundreds of protests in the Middle East from places like Tunisia, Yemen, Egypt, Libya and so on.  The protests in Madison were as large and in some moments, larger than those.  Americans will rally too and we can’t forget what we can do when we come together.

In this video there are a couple references that are made and just in case you would like to check them out, here are a few links.

Kent State Massacre

Kloppenburg Recount

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The Word of Rhonda

We only spent one night in Beaumont but I got a good chance to check things out the next morning though.  The night that we got in town however, the four of us just wanted to grab a drink so we headed downtown to find an open bar with some locals to chat with.  Our search became extremely limited when we only found one bar open, this little country gay bar called Beaumont Patio and Bar.  We walked in and were welcomed by a large empty bar area with a few people carrying things out to their car.  We sat, ordered a round from the bartender and waited.  The bartender was the owner, Chris, and she welcomed us and chatted with us for a bit but we didn’t get any information until Rhonda sat with us on the outside patio.

 Rhonda grew up in Beaumont and works part time in the medical field and the rest of her time cleaning vacation houses for a friend.  When we asked her why there was nothing open, she said that there was really no reason for anything to be open.  As for the gay bar, she told us everyone had

Rhonda was our welcome wagon into Beaumont

 started to go to a new spot down the road.  That is how things work in the LGBT community in Beaumont, when something new opens, the old ends up shutting down.

I find great sadness in this because if a community is working towards the same goal, then why isn’t there more cooperation?  This isn’t just for the LGBT community, this is for all communities.  In order to get things accomplished, we have to find common ground in order to move forward together.

In this example, yes I realize that these are business’ in competition, but there is still a way to make it work so that the entire community can flourish.  I take this from the example that Madison, WI made.  When I moved back to Madison in the fall of 2006, there were still only two GLBT friendly bars.  They were always competing against and defamating each other.  Now, in 2011, there are five successful gay bars that all have good standing in the entire city of Madison, find pride in holding winter dart leagues and summer softball tournaments and continue to build a larger and more successful pride celebration each summer.  That is a community working together.  We all have to find common ground and we can do it and I believe that Beaumont’s LGBT community will.  Everyone can take a lesson from Rhonda and “Just find it through love”

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