Wit Works Ltd.

About Wit Works Ltd.

Organizational consultant, prevention research, social change projects, author in field of prevention of adult abuse. April is a Registered Clinical Counselor and a certified teacher (PB6) Owner of management consulting firm working across all sectors and regionally, in BC , in Canada (particularly with Federal govt) and in the UK. Have a long time strategic cooperative alliance with Wit Partnership (Nottingham), and a collective association with Alofii Consultancy in Powell River BC.

September 2017

Research on Women 50 + Housing fleeing abuse

By |September 7th, 2017|

Wit Works and  Sunshine Coast Community Services Society have a project to develop a picture of  women over age 50  needing housing because of fleeing abuse or being vulnerable. Surveys of women, focus groups  and interviews / surveys  with key service providers are currently being conducted. Models of housing which  support  women over 50 […]

July 2017

Provincial Elder’s Gathering and Prevention of Mistreatment

By |July 31st, 2017|

The BC CRN Association and April in her Regional Mentor role, personed a table at he 41st Annual Elder’s Gathering for BC, at Campbell River. About 3000 Elders and family and caregivers attended to renew family ties, see indigenous vendors wares, take part in cultural ceremony, and to have fun. Health and prevention strategies […]

Banjos, Co-Learning and the Log Driver’s Waltz.

By |July 24th, 2017|

Courtney Hartman (see other posts and Acoustic Guitar articles); and I have been engaged in a  skills / thinking exchange (co-learning). We are exchanging our expertise in music and consulting. So topics and tools like  productivity matrixes, neuroscience, forcefield analysis, SWOT diagrams, and coaching in their use  have been going to Brooklyn. In return […]

June 2017

A Nomination for a Leadership Award

By |June 20th, 2017|

Consultant April Struthers has nominated the band Della Mae and Courtney Hartman for the Joyce and Paul Aicher Leadership Award for their work in leadership in arts organizations supporting social justice, for reaching across divides, for their cultural ambassadorship with the US State Department and America Music Abroad (especially for thier work with women […]

May 2017

Walking, Creativity, and the Conversations that Matter – and an award nomination!

By |May 1st, 2017|

 

April and Courtney Hartman meet in Spain – to walk, talk, de-brief Courtney’s ***experiences in the first half of her Camino Way journey, share ideas about creativity, where music springs from, how to ‘show up’ fully in life and in performance, and the role of others in any journey. April got to play the […]

April 2017

The Rain in Spain Falls Mainly on the Plain – Walk, Write, Sing…And De-brief – Courtney Hartman

By |April 1st, 2017|

Courtney Hartman is a virtuosic flatpicking guitar player from Colorado. With DELLA MAE and in a solo career, Courtney (called by Acoustic Guitar magazine-‘staggeringly good’), plays guitar and banjo, writes and sings up a storm (see http://https://youtu.be/ljeZBBsCTms  and https://youtu.be/NFRr7Bnif9Y ). This month she is launching a ‘walk, write, record, sing’ journey along The Camino FRANCES (an 800 […]