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Articles from LEAVEN
La Leche League's Publication for Leaders:
LEADER ACCREDITATION DEPARTMENT TOPICS

These articles are from Leader Accreditation Department sources, and are primarily about working with Applicants. For your convenience, we also have an index of LEAVEN articles by date and issue.

Note: Some articles that contained outdated information have been removed. We hope this makes it easier to share accurate information with fellow Leaders and Applicants.

Contents

• Helping Skills
• Leader's Role in Applications
• Meeting Skills
• Philosophy and Prerequisites

Helping Skills

• "Say What?!" Responding with Respect in Challenging Meeting Situations
• Listening Skills
• Helping Applicants Learn Telephone Helping Skills
• New and Improved Preview
• Are You Listening?
• Using the Breastfeeding Resource Guide
• Critical Reading, Critical Thinking, Critical Listening

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Leader's Role in Applications

• What Do I Say?
• Many Paths to Leader Accreditation
• Accredit a Leader in 13 Days?
• Attracting Mothers to LLL Leadership
• Announcing New Pre-Application Materials for Mothers and Leaders
• Lights, Camera, Action!
• Many Hands Make Light Work
• Learning Together
• Announcing Web Pages for Leader Applicants
• From Interested Mother to Co-Leader: The Application in a Nutshell
• Seeing Mothers as Potential Applicants
• Working Collectively with Leader Applicants
• A Self-Organized Workshop for Leader Applicants
• Shaping the Future of LLL: helping Mothers Become Leaders
• Connecting with Potential Applicants in Isolated Areas
• Road Map to Accreditation
• New Leader Ceremony
• You Can Make a Difference
• Journey To LLL Leadership: Moving Through The Application
• Keeping Mothers Interested
• The I's Have It!
• Getting Involved in Leader Accreditation
• I Need a Co-Leader, but I'm Too Busy to Work with an Applicant!
• What Do I Say? (what Leaders can say in letters to the ACLA)
• How Applicants Learn: Tailoring an Application to Ensure a Custom Fit
• The Education Campaign Comes to a Close
• Introducing the New Leader Recommendation Form
• The Leader's Apprentice
• Why All These Letters?
• Getting to Know Group Members
• To Push or Not to Push?
• Smoothing the Transition from Leader Applicant to Leader
• Confidentiality

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Meeting Skills

• Helping an Applicant Learn about Leading a Meeting
• The Series Meeting: Practical Ways the Leader and Applicant Can Work Together
• Helping Leader Applicants: Problem-Solving Approaches
• Planning Meetings

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Philosophy and Prerequisites

• Keeping the LLL Message Clear
• The Prerequisite Puzzle
• Being a Leader Applicant
• Mothers Who Experience Separation from Baby
• Myths of Leader Accreditation
• A Practical Philosophy, Part II: A Look at the Concepts
• A Practical Philosophy, Part I: The History of LLL Philosophy
• Suggestion or Requirement?
• Can? Can't? Why? Why Not?
• Keeping the Message Clear
• Leader Accreditation Yesterday ... Today ... Tomorrow?
• When the Answer Is "No"
• Picture a Leader: Leaders Focus on Accreditation
• Working with the Mothering Experience Prerequisite
• A Conversation with the Founders
• Prerequisite Guidelines Stimulate Discussion
• Many Pictures of LLLI Philosophy
• What is LAD?
• When I'd Rather Not Recommend (what to do when you have reservations about an Applicant)
• Interested Mothers' Workshop (meetings to help mothers learn about Leadership)
• Spanking and the Potential Leader Applicant (discussing Loving Guidance with Leader Applicants)

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