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.

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Why Are You Good?

My blog posts are inspired by snippets of conversations that I’ve had or overheard, close encounters of all kinds, observations […]


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How to stick to a job

Recently, I’ve had conversations with and about four youngish adults (all in their early thirties) and one fortyish adult who […]


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Keeping Regular

A regular paycheck will motivate you to stay in a place that is horrible, oppressive, boring, snarky, ineffective, and soul-crushing.  […]



Awarding Diversity

Awards are given to recognize work above and beyond the call of duty, beyond the usual. Right? The Encarta Dictionary: […]





Zen in the Unexpected

I’ve recently found tranquility in unexpected actions and moments.  I am grateful to have learned to recognize and savor these […]


Love-Cuts

This is what I’ve observed:  that sometimes, most times the people who cut you are the closest to you, the […]




This is why to buy “This is How”

This is How: Help for the Self: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude, & […]


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They Call Me Mr. T

I didn’t invite Mr. T*, but he came anyhow. Sometimes Mr. T lands noisily into your house – big, loud […]


Sojourner’s Truth

This the exact quote that woke me up from my sleep: “And ain’t I a woman?” The full text of […]



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Books Read in 2013

I have loved to read all of my life but have recognized recently that when my life is especially challenging […]






A Cautionary Tale

I’ve become a cautionary tale to two people who are very close to me.  They have each told me that […]