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DATE: Monday, November 26th 2018 from 8 AM - 2:30 PM at Natick High School.

Agenda:
7:15 AM - 8:15 AM Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:15 AM - 9:35 AM Session 1 Workshops (80 minutes)
9:45 AM - 11:05 AM Session 2 Workshops (80 minutes)
11:15 AM - 12:00 PM Session 3-L1 Workshops and Wellness Fair (45 Minutes)
12:10 PM - 12:55 PM Session 3-L2 Workshops and Wellness Fair (45 Minutes)
1:10 PM - 2:30 PM Session 4 Workshops (80 minutes)
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM Exit

Deep Dive Sessions:
8:00 AM - 11:00 AM - Three hour morning session
11:30 AM - 2:30 PM  - Three hour afternoon session
8:00 AM - 2:30 PM - Full Day Deep Dive (6 hour) with discretion on when to break for lunch.  

LUNCH: Attendees and speakers should plan for lunch during session 3-L1 or 3-L2. Lunch will be available from 11 AM - 1 PM.
Monday, November 26 • 8:15am - 9:35am
Improbable Players: How to Talk About It: Addiction and the Classroom FULL
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This workshop will benefit all educators in understanding and identifying motivations and methods of substance misuse in their communities. Interactivity and small group work will be present throughout. The first half of the session will be highly informational conveying the latest brain science and medical underpinnings of addiction. The second half will ask participants to assess and present their experience of addiction in the professional context. (This workshop can be thought of as an optional Part 1 of the second workshop 


Speakers
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Andy Short

Co-director, Improbable Players - Prevention Education Theatre
Improbable Players uses theater performances & workshops to address addiction, alcoholism, and the opioid epidemic. Our performances are 25-45 minutes long followed by a talkback/Q&A. Our workshops give students the space and tools to combat social pressures and find coping strategies... Read More →


Monday November 26, 2018 8:15am - 9:35am EST
RM 314