Archive for 'Facilitation'

InterAction

Project Description: Bolstering human potential for a new style of leadership for social positive change in Africa and the world. Learning Point: To influence is at times involves letting go of the reins – to participate and not lead – to be the learner and the teacher, to be able to reassess ones position and be vulnerable in [...]

Cuban Medical Diplomacy in Kashmir

Project Description: To provide medical care to the victims of the Kashmir earthquake and to promote Cuba by demonstrating altruism. Learning Point: Such projects seem, on the surface, to have little to do with foreign policy. Yet Cuba was able to gain a strategic ally simply by providing a much-needed service. Organisation: Cuba Full Case Study: Cuban Medical [...]
  Project Description: To implement educational policies for equality in gender, race/ethnicity and sexual orientation in the classroom, by sensitising teachers towards the issues of discrimination and encouraging a positive appreciation of diversity.   Learning Point:  The success of the project can be attributed to having approached it from the point of view of the participants [...]

Writers forum at Jebel Barkal – Sudan

Project Description: Work with Sudanese artists and writers to help them to understand and overcome the conflicts which have scarred their country for the past fifty years. Learning Point: Resonance; the careful choice of location resonated with the participants and later with the media to ensure wider impact for the programme. The facilitative approach, providing [...]