Dear group, I'm looking for some ideas for a speaker on Collaborative Skills. I am part of a group who is putting together a conference and one of the ideas we had for a speaker was on this topic. I have someone who is extremely qualified to do this talk as he presents for non-profit and for-profit organizations; in fact has written several books and publication on Collaborative Skills in Organizations. My task is to acquaint him with the issues of cross disciplinary collaboration (in terms of breastfeeding) that we would like to have addressed. I need to provide literature on specific issues, some touch points to address and background material as he is not familiar with the issues we face. (Respectful disagreement and doing what supported the mother's choice to breastfeed was one that immediately came to mind!) I'm planning to provide him with some basic information about benefits of breastfeeding , Baby Friendly initiative, barriers and obstacles, and some WHO code background information. I welcome any ideas you may have to help give this person a crash course in breastfeeding politics. TIA, mary kay smith Romeoville, IL *********************************************** The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html