Be a Pollinator – Not A Polluter Workshop
As we approach our work and our relationships, we always bring ourselves along. Our growth, relationships, skills and effectiveness are significantly influenced by the attitude we have in each moment. There are so many things we have no or little control over, but we can decide how we will show up – which means wrangling with and consciously determining the attitude with which we approach our work in particular and our lives in general. We create more meaningful, effective and joyful experiences when we are our best selves. This workshop will give us insights and tools to help us understand how we may be perceived and how to up our attitude game, so that we are as effective as possible in even challenging circumstances. In an atmosphere of warmth, acceptance and fun, we will explore these concepts and apply our understanding to the work and to our relationships with our co-interpreters, clients and others.
About Sharon Neumann Solow
Sharon Neumann Solow works with great commitment and joy as an interpreter, trainer, performer, lecturer, author and consultant. Her career, spanning almost 60 years, has taken her around the United States, and to Australia, Canada, Great Britain, Europe, Mexico, New Zealand, Scandinavia, and South America. She is the author of three books, Powerful Interpreting: Build Your Skills in 5 Steps, Sign Language Interpreting: A Basic Resource Book and Say It with Sign along with numerous professional articles and handbooks.
Her television appearances include talk shows, variety shows and documentaries and she co-stars with her husband, Larry Solow, on the Emmy award-nominated NBC Knowledge series, “Say It With Sign” which still airs on PBS throughout the United States. Sharon performs as an emcee and storyteller and does theatrical translation and production work. As the female lead in “The Electric Sign Company”, she and Gary Sanderson delighted audiences for over three decades. She is a working interpreter, primarily in legal, community and conference settings, with a long history of classroom interpreting and educational interpreter training and administration. She specializes in work with individuals with atypical communication.
Her travels and some of her conference work have involved interpreting using international gesture (a gestural, pantomimic form of communication across language barriers). Along with teaching sign language interpreters at all levels, she has been involved in the education of spoken language interpreters and interpreter educators through the Monterey Institute of International Studies. Sharon is honored to be a long-standing member of efsli (The European Federation of Sign Language Interpreters). She is an active member of the RID (Registry of Interpreters of the Deaf – US) and CIT (Conference of Interpreter Trainers – US), holding the NAD (National Association of the Deaf – US) SIGN (Sign Language instructor) Comprehensive Permanent Certificate as well as the RID Specialist Certificate: Legal and was certified as a Happiness coach in 2022.
The 2016 recipient of the Outstanding Educator Award from Region V RID, the 2016 RIT/NTID Award of Appreciation as well as the 2010 joint RID – CIT Mary Stotler Award, she was honored with the 2005 Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf (RID) President’s Award and the President’s Award for 2005 from the National Association of Black Interpreters (NAOBI). She also received the 1987 national Virginia Hughes Award for outstanding contributions to the field of sign language interpreting. Sharon has lived in California on the Monterey Peninsula since 1984. She and her husband have two wonderful children, 5 delicious granddaughters and a darling new grandson.