Schedule
Wednesday
5:30 pm...................................	Dinner—Option to Dine with Division Staff
7:00 pm...................................	Opening Session & Meet & Greet
8:30 - 10:00 pm.....................	Departmental Meetings
Thursday
7:00 – 8:00 am......................	Breakfast
8:00 am – 12:00 pm.............	Departmental Meetings
12:00 - 1:15 pm.....................	Lunch
1:30 - 2:45 pm.......................	Session A
3:00 - 4:30 pm.......................	Session B
5:00 - 6:15 pm.......................	Dinner
7:00 - 8:00 pm.......................	Dessert Reception
8:00 - 10:00 pm.....................	"Vitamin D: Its Importance to the Breastfeeding Mother and Her Infant"
	Dr. Carol Wagner
Friday
7:15 – 8:00 am......................	Breakfast
8:00 am – 3:30 pm...............	Silent Auction
8:00 am – 5:00 pm...............	Exhibits
8:00 – 11:45 am....................	Team/Leader Open Sessions
8:00 - 9:45 am.......................	HPS Session 1
10:00 – 11:45 am..................	HPS Session 2
12:15 - 1:30 pm.....................	Lunch
1:45 - 5:00 pm.......................	Team/Leader Open Sessions
1:45 - 3:15 pm.......................	HPS Session 3
3:30 - 5:00 pm.......................	HPS Session 4
5:00 pm...................................	Pick Up Silent Auction items
Evening on your own in Philly
Saturday
8:00 - 8:45 am.......................	Breakfast
8:45 - 10:00 am....................	Interdepartmental Session C
10:15 am - 11:15 am............	Interdepartmental Session D
11;30 am - 12:30 pm............	Interdepartmental Session E
12:30 - 2:00 pm.....................	Lunch
2:00 - 3:15 pm.......................	Interdepartmental Session F
3:30 - 4:30 pm.......................	Interdepartmental Session G
5:15 - 6:30 pm.......................	Dinner
7:30 - 9:00 pm.......................	Marketplace
Sunday
8:30 - 10:00 am.....................	Departmental Meetings
10:30 am - 12:00 am............	Closing Session & Brunch

Sessions

Wednesday evening
8:30 – 10:00 pm	Departmental Meetings
Thursday
8:00 am – 12:00 pm	Departmental Meetings
1:30 – 2:45 pm	Interdepartmental Session A	3:00 – 4:30 pm	Interdepartmental Session B
	..........Continuing Ed/Leader		..........Leader/Professional Liaison
	..........Professional Liaison/Pubs		..........Pubs/Leader Accreditation
	..........Leader Accreditation/Finance		..........Finance/Communication Skills
	..........Communication Skills		..........Continuing Education

Friday Team/Leader Walk-in Sessions

Session 1: 8:15 – 9:45 am

A. Connecting with Technology: Upgrading your outreach. Jake Marcus

B. Out of Focus: How mixing causes distorts the image of LLL. Sally Allison & Wendy Sullivan

C. Letting the Chips Fall Where They May: Successfully working through conflict resolution. Suellen Slater & Alice Roddy

D. Charting Your Course: Goal setting as an Area, looking at the bigger picture and setting objectives to ensure a vital and energetic Area. Ann Marie Lindquist

Session 2: 10:15 – 12:00 am

A. Dollars and Sense: Fun-raising ideas and appropriate use of Area funds. TBA

B. Widening the Lens: Volunteers come in all shapes and colors. How you can reach out to mothers throughout the country by giving just a little bit of your time to the LLL Breastfeeding Helpline-US. Laura Goodwin Wright

C. Creating New Shapes: Writing Agreements for the Area or Area Network, Part 1. Interactive workshop to get those agreements written! Judie Gibel & Diane Jeffer

D. True Colors Shining Through Time: LLL history shared by a co-Founder of La Leche League. Bring your questions about the early days of LLL and its changes in the past 53 years. Marian Tompson            FULL

Session 3: 1:45 – 3:15 pm

A. Everyone’s a Gem: Discussion of volunteer recruitment and retention. What kind of paycheck do volunteers need? Mary Beth Rumpf & Joan Reeve

B. With each Twist of the Kaleidoscope: Explore the many changes happening throughout LLLI. Cindy Garrison & Amy Shaw          FULL

C. Creating New Shapes: Writing Agreements for the Area or Area Network, Part 2 Interactive workshop to get those agreements written! Judie Gibel & Diane Jeffer

D. Leader Chat Lists: What type of information is appropriate (or not) to share? Setting guidelines for protecting privacy, medical/PL questions, and mixing causes. Laura Probst and Elizabeth Campion

Session 4: 3:30 – 5:00 pm

A.   Bringing the Area/Area Network into Focus: Ways to energize, enrich, and enthuse the Leaders in the Area or Area Network. Pam Freedman

B. Find Your Own View: Determining your personality and learning styles and how to effectively work with others. Diana Cassar-Uhl

C. Today’s Patterns: Explore hot topics and current trends in the field of lactation. Bring your questions for an open discussion of the current trends—what’s hot and what’s not. Sara Dodder Furr & Jake Marcus          FULL

D. Putting the Pieces in Place: Juggling a family, a Group and administrative work. Susan Para

Saturday
8:45 - 10:00 am	Interdepartmental Session C	2:00 – 3:15 pm	Interdepartmental Session F
	.......... Leader/Leader Accreditation		......... Leader Department/Pubs
	.......... PL/Communication Skills		........ CED/Communication Skills
	.......... Pubs/Continuing Education		........ Finance/Professional Liaison
	.......... Finance Department		......... Leader Accreditation
10:15 am – 11:15 am	Interdepartmental Session D	3:30 – 4:30 pm	Interdepartmental Session G
	........ Continuing Education/Finance		.......... Leader Department/Finance
	........ Communication Skills/Pubs		.......... Continuing Ed/PL
	......... Leader Accreditation/PL		.......... Communication Skills/LAD
	......... Leader Department		.......... Publications Department
11:30 am – 12:30 pm	Interdepartmental Session E
	.......... Continuing Ed/Leader
	.......... Leader/Communication Skills
	.......... Publications/Finance
	.......... Professional Liaison
Sunday
8:30 – 10:00 am................	Departmental Meetings
110:30 am – 12:00 am....	Closing Session & Brunch