Candelaria Silva


About Candelaria Silva

Candelaria Silva-Collins is a marketing, community outreach and programming consultant; writer; and trainer/facilitator who lives in Boston, Massachusetts. She has designed and facilitated workshops on a wide variety of topics including communication, facilitation, job search skills, team building, and parenting issues. She currently coordinates the Community Membership Program of the Huntington Theatre Company. Her work as Director of ACT Roxbury was profiled in several publications, including The Creative Communities Builders Handbook. Candelaria’s children’s stories, short stories, essays and reviews have been published in local and national publications and she is an active blogger. Her publications include the booklets, Handling Rejection; Pushing through Shyness: Networking Tips when You’re Shy, Slow to Warm Up or Just don’t Feel you Belong; and Real Questions about Sex & Relationships for Teens: A Discussion Guide for Parents. She has served on the boards of Goddard College, Wheelock Family Theatre, Boston Foundation for Architecture, and Discover Roxbury. She is currently Chair, Designators of the Henderson Foundation.

The Inoculation Effect

The Inoculation Effect happens when a child, in disadvantaged circumstances, is guided through childhood by his/her parents to particular schools, […]


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More than One

One of the most important lessons we can teach our kids, particularly in their young adolescence, is the concept of more than […]




It’s great to be useful

The email jumped out at me. I knew the writer. She’d purchased my booklet, Pushing through Shyness and had written […]


Why am I here?

Why am I here? (Well I know that Mommy and Daddy had some fun but other than that…) What […]




From the Job Boards – 3

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But You Didn’t!

I could have written a better book than that. You’re right, but you didn’t. I could have made a better […]


Culture for the poor

“Culture for the poor must never be poor culture. We must have the best instruments for the poorest children, the […]



The Importance of Context

Context Until finding that first book by Langston Hughes with his photo on the jacket, I hadn’t realized that all […]





Secrets and Lies

My mother once shared the following line that she overheard a man saying to his girlfriend, “I ain’t lyin’ I […]


Divine

Divine Number. Divine Sound. Divine Word. Divine Mind. Divine Light. Divine Air. God is Everywhere! (Written, 9/20/09, copyright 2010 by […]




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Sensitive, Aren’t We?

Giving and receiving feedback can be tough. It’s also very necessary for growth, connection and understanding. Guess what? Not […]