Graduate Assembly events this week

The Graduate Student Support Services and the Graduate Minority Student Projects are putting on two timely workshops this week.

Wednesday, March 17, get all your 2009 tax questions answered at the Taxes Workshop, led by H &R Block representative Caan Nguyen. This workshop will be held from 3:30-5:00 pm in Stephens in the MLK Jr. Student Union. As always refreshments will be provided!

Thursday, March 18, Mushim Ikeda-Nash of the East Bay Meditation Center is leading a workshop on meditation and writing from 12:00-2:00 pm in 554 Barrows Hall. Unfortunately, this workshop, which teaches techniques to improve your writing process, is already full. However, if this type of offering is of interest, please keep an eye on the GA calendar. The workshop organizers are hoping to offer it twice next year.

Of the workshop, Ms. Ikeda-Nash has written: “This is not journaling for self-expression or personal therapy or contemplation; it’s not creative writing to ‘express our feelings’ or explore something artistically through language. This will be about having an assignment, a goal, a timetable, and basically doing ‘project management’ on oneself to produce a ‘deliverable’ without getting snowed under by one’s perfectionism, inner critic, procrastination, feelings of overwhelm, or stress from other parts of one’s life.”

Email Erica at gssp@ga.berkeley.edu with any questions.