June 2008
- Pat has had a writers group for 14 years that meets weekly.
June 2008
- With her sons, Pat recently backpacked into Zion National Park.
August 2007
June 2007
- The President of Rwanda, Paul Kagame, receives Pat's draft of "The Origins of Leadership: Personal Stories from the Top 100 Leaders in Rwanda.
May 2007
- Almost Grown comes out in Mandarin, distributed in the Republic of China.
- "Re-Storying Rwanda" The Republic of Rwanda considers Patricia's proposal to bring a mobile storytelling unit around the country, as a therapeutic aid for Rwanda's first generation to be born after the genocide.
- Patricia makes a third visit to Rwanda, delivering over $4500 in donations to 15 school children needing tuition assistance, penpal letters from three Michigan schools, and a mental health proposal to the Ministry of Youth, Sports, and Culture. Work on leadership stories continues.
April 2007
- Presentation to Northville Public Schools on The College Transition
- Visit to StoryCorps headquarters in New York.
March 2007
- Publication of three chapters in In Our Uncles' Words: We Fought For Freedom. Book signing in Norfolk Virgnia. Meet the Philippines' Ambassador to the US.
February 2007
- Presentation to the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, University of Michigan: At the Water's Edge: Early Filipino Navymen
- New York City: Meet with Dr. Yael Danieli, award-winning author of books and articles about children of the Holocaust survivors and PTSD, and Jacqueline Murekatete, genocide survivor and chairperosn of Miracle Corners of the World, Inc. a non-profit company devoted to human rights
January 2007
- Pat's second visit to Rwanda where she conducts a workshop for bpeace, on the integration of peace missions with business missions to a group of women entrepreneurs. Work on leadership stories continues. Visit to the Nyamata Genocide Memorial.
December 2006
- Delivery of "Singgalot" summary to online Filipino-American magazine.
November 2006
- Delivery of 46-page Web piece for the Smithsonian Institute on Filipinos in the Military ("Singgalot"). Pat joins bpeace, a non-governmental agency supporting small businesses among women in Afghanistan and Rwanda.
September 2006
- Begins blog, "Rwanda."
- Working trip to the nation of Rwanda. Contact schools for penpal project; consult to Leadership Training Workshop; inception of Leadership Story Project; visit Kigali Genocide Memorial; meet with director of AVEGA, a genocide widows support project.
August 2006
July 2006
- Deliver three chapters for In Our Uncles' Words: We Fought For Freedom.
June 2006
- Deliver speech to 200 attendees on "Filipinos in the Military" at the Smithsonian Institute, Washington D.C.
May 2006
- Research at the Naval Historical Museum and National Archives, Washington, D.C. Attend the opening of "SINGGALOT," a major exhibit in commemoration of 100 years of Filipino migration to the US.
April 2006
- Announce the closing of clinical practice
Spring, 2006
- Pat's short story "Rose Petals and Vanilla Beans" is selected by the Asian American Writers' Workshop to be reviewed by a top fiction publisher.
February 2006
- Submit historical family pictures to the SINGGALOT project being assembled in Hawaii. Accept the authorship of Web-based historical piece about Filipinos in the US Military. Accept invitation to give a major address at the Smithsonian Institute.
January-Februarty 2006
- Visit to the Philippine Islands; research at the National Archives in Manila; meet the authors of a book on Batangas; meet F. Sionil Jose, Jose, celebrated Filipino novelist and, at De La Salle University, author Alfredo Roces, who launched Adios, Patria Adorada: The Filipino as Ilustrado, the Ilustrado as Filipino.
October 2004
- First Ann Arbor meeting of the Narrative Family Therapy Consultation Group.
- Pat hires a new assistant, U-M psychology student Mandira Ghai.
September 2004
- "Almost Grown" is listed 3rd on Amazon.com's "Leaving the Nest" list.
- The Filipino-American Intermarriage Oral-Interview Project (FIOP) continues with interviews in New York City.
August 2004
- Dr. Pasick, and "Almost Grown" is quoted in the August edition of US News World Report.com.
- Beginning of the FIOP Project, with interviews in Florida.
July 2004
- Participant in Filipino-American Historical Society's annual meeting.
June 2004
- Conducted workshop on Positive Psychology, University of Michigan Counseling Center.
- Gave last of nine workshops in Narrative Family Therapy.
- " Interviewed by the Village Voice about young adult children and money.
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Did You Know?
- Pat has created an avatar named Ines Phillip on Second Life, a free, online, and virtual world of international adults engaged in discussion, learning, architecture and design, and commerce.
- Pat recently raised over $4500 for Rwanda children needing help with school tuition. To make a contribution, contact Pat at ppasick@gmail.com.
- In a recent 10K race, Pat finished in the top third of her age group.
- During her work in Rwanda, Pat connected over 200 children and youths with three groups of schoolkids in the Detroit/Ann Arbor area. See Rwanda/Michigan Pen Pals link.
- In 2006, Pat met some distant cousins of her grandfather's in the Philippines, perhaps the first family linkage between that country and the US since 1911.
- Pat is a consulting member of bpeace (Business Women For Peace), a non-governmental organization based in New York City which supports women's small businesses in both Rwanda, and Afghanistan.
- Filipino relatives of Pat's were featured on promotional material for a 2006 Smithsonian Asian-Pacifc American program.
- Pat contributes to a large genealogical data base about her mother's Tennessee ancestry.
- Pat was once a production assistant on ABC's "All My Children."
- Pat volunteered as a mental health worker for the American Red Cross and spent time in New York City right after 9-11 helping families.
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