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Become a leadership coach certified through the International Coach Federation.

Join Mason’s Leadership Coaching for Organizational Well-Being program! This program is designed for professionals striving for positive change in team and organizational culture. The Mason coaching focus – led by an outstanding leadership coaching team – emphasizes strengths-based approaches and methodologies. 

• The fall 2019 cohort takes place from September 2019 to January 2020. Application deadline: July 15, 2019. 
• The spring 2020 cohort takes place from February 2020 to June 2020. Application deadline: December 15, 2019. 

Benefited employees from Mason receive a 10 percent discount. Learn more and apply here! For questions, contact the Center for the Advancement of Well-Being at coaching@gmu.edu or 703-993-6090. 

Do you have a Pint-Sized Patriot in your family who supports the green and gold?

The Mason Staff Senate is accepting photos of your future Patriots (ages birth to 18) who are sporting Mason gear and proud to be a part of the Mason Nation!

Submit your photos by Friday, February 15, for a chance to be featured on the Staff Senate Facebook page during Homecoming Week. The photo that receives the most “likes” will be featured in our Staff Senate March Newsletter.

Need to update their Mason wardrobe? The Mason Bookstore offers a 10 percent discount to staff with a Mason staff ID.

Send your photo to staffsenate@gmu.edu, post it on our Facebook page, or tag @GMUStaffSenate on Twitter.

Social Media: Marketing Optics Workshop

Join us to learn more about using social media to market your business or product effectively. More information about the workshop, including date, time, and location can be found here. 

Creative Writing Program: Visiting Writers Series

Rebecca Makkai 

Rebecca Makkai is the Chicago-based author of the novels The Great Believers, recently named a finalist for the National Book Award; The Borrower; The Hundred-Year House; and the collection Music for Wartime—four stories from which appeared in The Best American Short Stories. The recipient of a 2014 NEA Fellowship, Rebecca has taught at the Tin House Writers’ Conference and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and is currently on the faculty of the MFA programs at Sierra Nevada College and Northwestern University. She is the artistic director of StoryStudio Chicago. 

The reading is open to the public. More information about the event, including date, time, and location, can be found here. Mark your calendars now for the full Visiting Writers Series this spring. 

Lyz Lenz

Journalist, essayist, memoirist, and more—nonfiction writer Lyz Lenz kicks off the Creative Writing Program’s Spring 2019 Visiting Writers Series, hosted for the first time by George Mason University Libraries. 

Lenz is the author of the forthcoming books Godland: A Story of Faith, Loss, and Renewal in Middle America and Belabored: Tales of Myth, Medicine, and Motherhood. She also has an essay in the anthology Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture, edited by Roxane Gay. 

Lenz is a contributing writer for the Columbia Journalism Review and the former managing editor for The Rumpus, and her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Buzzfeed, The Guardian, Marie Claire, Salon, and more. 

The reading is open to the public. More information about the event, including date, time, and location, can be found here. Mark your calendars now for the full Visiting Writers Series this spring. 

Mason’s Creative Writing Program offers the Visiting Writers Series each semester. The events are hosted by Mason Libraries. 

The March Staff Senate meeting will feature guest speaker Shernita Rochelle Parker, interim vice president, HR/Payroll and Faculty/Staff Life, and director, Organizational Development, Learning, and Coaching. Shernita will discuss the results of Mason’s recent Quality of Work Life Survey.

Wednesday, March 6, 2019
10:30 a.m. to noon
Fairfax: Merten Hall, Room 1201
Arlington: Founders Hall, Room B119 (video-conferenced)
SciTech: Colgan Hall, Room 221 (video-conferenced)
Front Royal: Academic, Room 219 (703-249-8067)
WebEx:  gmu.webex.com / Meeting Number (access code): 648 314 965  / Meeting password: 2ktMam99

The Staff Senate represents all classified and non-student wage employees at George Mason University. Working closely with university administration, we address concerns that have an impact on the quality of work-life for the Mason community. The work of the Senate is accomplished through open and continuous communication with its constituents.

All are welcome to attend the Staff Senate general meeting.

Submit your questions for the Staff Senate:

To promote dialog at the Staff Senate general meetings, the Senate is collecting questions/comments from constituents. Submit your question using the online submission form or email your question to staffsenate@gmu.edu. You may include your name, or you may ask to remain anonymous.

All who attend the Staff Senate general meeting are welcome to ask questions in-person during the session.

For questions, contact staffsenate@gmu.edu.

The Julian Bliss Septet

Celebrating Gershwin: A Stroll Down Tin Pan Alley

Virtuoso clarinetist Julian Bliss leads his band on A Stroll Down Tin Pan Alley, which explores the treasured sounds of Gershwin and his contemporaries, including a suite from the iconic American opera Porgy and Bess, an excerpt from the beloved Rhapsody in Blue, and popular jazz tunes like “I Got Rhythm,” “Embraceable You,” and “Lady be Good.” The swinging evening will be complemented by Bliss, who will share good-humored anecdotes and stories about Tin Pan Alley and the artists who popularized American music traditions.

Friday, March 1, 2019, at 8 p.m.
Hylton Performing Arts Center, Merchant Hall
Tickets: $44, $37, $26

Buy tickets online: hylton.calendar.gmu.edu/the-julian-bliss-septet

Erth’s Prehistoric Aquarium Adventure

The Mystery of the Dinosaurs of the Deep

The creators of Erth’s Dinosaur Zoo Live want to take your family on an all new adventure—this time to the bottom of the ocean. Erth’s Prehistoric Aquarium Adventure is an immersive experience that invites you to jump in and explore unknown ocean depths where prehistoric marine reptiles lived eons ago—and maybe live still today! Erth shows are at the forefront of family entertainment, using actors, technology, puppets, science, and imagination to create an amazing visual experience that connects young audiences to the real science of paleontology.

Sunday, March 3, 2019, at 2 p.m. and 4 p.m.
Center for the Arts, Concert Hall
Tickets for children: $10
Tickets for adults: $15
Tickets for Girl Scouts Day: $10 (call 703-993-8600 for more information
Buy tickets online: cfa.calendar.gmu.edu/erth-39-s-prehistoric-aquarium-adventure