Sarah Rise Weekly Updates

This week we got 25 hours and 20 min and I only did an hour of that! Sonia and Carl and my volunteers are rock stars! After each session I have people write up their reflections on what worked or didn’t work or changes they noticed or whatever they want to record. It was such… Read more »

This week we got 24 hours. I am still hoping to eventually regularly get over 30 hours, but some weeks it just doesn’t happen, usually for a multitude of reasons. Sometimes I feel disappointed about this but I also realized that it is really important to me that Amy and Sarah still get time to… Read more »

This week we got 30 hours! Sonia (Carl’s sister) is now officially moved in to her apartment and is my full-time assistant. Woohooo!! She does 4 SR sessions a week and watches Amy so I can get more SR time too. Sonia is also helping with laundry, cleaning, cooking, dishes, etc. It is so wonderful… Read more »

This week we got 15 hours and 20 minutes. This process sometimes feels sort of like magic, even though I know exactly what steps we are taking that seem to make a difference. What feels like magic is that we play in these specific ways in the SR room (child centered, joining, celebrating, building) and… Read more »

This week we got 14 hours. It has been a full week of wonderful Sarah moments and of my own learning. I feel twice as effective as a Sarah-Rise team leader and in the playroom. Coming back from my trip with the intention of not man-handling Sarah or doing so much for her but rather… Read more »

I was away this week for more Son-Rise training and with the help of  Sonia and Carl and my volunteers we still got Sarah-Rise time! We got 15 1/2hrs and I only did 2 of them. The name of my training course was Maximum Impact and I am soooooo glad I attended. It was one… Read more »

Since Jenny and Amy were away this week for more Sarah-Rise training, I got to have some quality Sarah & Dad time earlier this week and then my sister Sonia arrived Tuesday to help out. When I mentioned that it was just me and my daughter to another engineer at the company we’re working with… Read more »

This week we got 20 1/2 hours. I’m sending out this email before the week is quite done because I leave tonight to start driving to MA (just with Amy and my mom meets us there to care for Amy) for the next Son-Rise training session. I am spreading the drive over two days because… Read more »

This week we got 10 hours. I know long ago that would have felt like a huge achievement. Now that we have reached much bigger numbers and have bigger future goals that feels like a small number.  In my consultation with M. she helped me see that I am still running a program, even if… Read more »

This week we got 16 hours. Sarah is definitely talking more to her volunteers than in the past. She continues to tell stories about what happened to her or to Amy, mainly about falling down the stairs. Sometimes it is a bit confusing to follow whether she is talking about something that did happen or… Read more »