AUSTRALIA:
Location: Adelaide
The last module of the ICAA 6 module training program rolled off the Assembly
line last week in Adelaide. This particular event has been on the drawing board
for 10 years, with input from many colleagues, and over the last 4 years, has
been through several trial runs that were deemed 'not yet' . Jeanette Stanfield
has guided the process recently and there have been a number of meetings of ICAA
and Facilitative Leadership Program FLP team members in various cities to
correct and deepen the process. The two-day 6th module is named
'Transformational Leadership'. It began as an attempt to further secularise
RS-1 Religious Studies 1, one of ICA's original courses, but had little
consensus until the chart 'Underlying Dynamics of the ToP methods' came into
being. The next step was to focus the process as basic to facilitate
leadership.
The seminar is in four parts. the first, named 'push pull' is about
recognising the totality of our situation as initial to transformation. the
second, named 'chaos order' is about accepting our real situation as opening up
choices. The third, 'responsible decisions' has to do with making decisions
that bring with them responsibility and commitment. The fourth session is 'at
the edge', emphasising transformation as led by those who live at the edge.There
were fourteen people artound the table for the event in Adelaide. Jeanette
Stanfield and Joan Firkins were the lead facilitators, and the participants have
been on the journey through the other 5 modules for over a year.
This event was
something of a celebration, no only because Module Six was launched, but because
we had a team of people now considering certification.The next presentation of
'Transformationsl Leadership' is imminent. It is being held in India, under the
leadership of Kevin Balm and Mark Butz.
Brian Robins for the ICAA Facilitative
Leadership Program
rjhutchinson@optusnet.com.au
Location: ToP Facilitative Leadership Program
ToP training continued in Canberra with the first of two three-day sessions covering Modules 1 to 3 of the Facilitative Leadership Program. Attended mostly by NGO participants, this foundational session offered the Discussion, Workshop and Action Planning methods, underlying dynamics, and design and staging.
The second session takes place in late October, with practice events and coaching in the intervening period. This two session format is now solidly developed and appears to offer participants greater confidence and preparedness in applying their learnings.
Mark Butz mark.butz@bigpond.com
From Comments, Network Exchange: re ICA Australia article September 2007.
As a former staff member of the ICA assigned to the Brisbane House back in 1980,
its great to hear and see that our local colleagues there are still working to
promote a human future for Australia and the world. Greetings to all from
Suzanne Heilman in Williamsport, Pennsylvania.
BANGLADESH:
Location: Chandpur
Proposal on the national workshop on the underlying causes of deforestation and
forest degradation in Bangladesh was sent to GFC after improvement based on the
last meeting held on 6 September.
Aziz and Manik met Ghomara Asrayan Prokalpa
community Secretary on 13 September and discussed about the school activities
and flood situation in the community. They also met school teacher and monitored
about the performance.
Invitation along with brochure for marketing has been
started to attract participants for public training courses on GFM, PSP,
Leadership Development, Community Development, Proposal Writing and Fundraising
to held during 26 Nov-6Dec 2007 which will be facilited by Larry, Evelyn, Tatwa,
and Shankar.
Visa request letter and official invitation has been started for
facilitators and ICA represtatives for the Aisa-Pacific Regional Gathering in
Dhaka to be held during 1-3 December 2007. A number of individual has responded
to our invitation and asked for fees and finances from different
organizations.
Nicolien invited Aziz to meet on 15 September at Dutch Club in
Dhaka to discuss about our activities and forthcoming training and regional
gatherings.
Aziz marahman1976@yahoo.com
ICA ASSOCIATES INC. (Canada)
Bill Staples taught Group Facilitation in Orrilia and facilitated a strategy
planning workshop with a hospital in Kenora.
Duncan Holmes taught the Group
Facilitation and Facilitated Planning courses at ICA's office.
Lambert visied us
from ICAI and Katie, Sarah and Michael, ICAI's new employees, came to take the
Group Facilitation and Facilitated Planning courses. It is great to meet new
faces and see ICAI moving forward.
Planning for program - business units in other
Canadian cities continues. We've worked on key elements that indicate readiness
to form a sustainable unit and have held conversations with peole in Ottawa and
Vancouver.
Wayne Nelson wnelson@ica-associates.ca
NEPAL:
ICA Nepal carried out 'School Effectiveness Workshops' in two western districts
of Nepal. The one day workshop was attended by about 50 students, teachers,
parents, and other concerned people in the district.
In the last 2 weeks, Hemant
and Binod visited about 50 organisations in Nepal sharing about ICA work in
Nepal and abroad. As ICA Nepal has started 3 months long training of which one
month will be spent in any organisation. The participants will join any one of
these organisations to carry on internship.
Through our own funding support,
Devdaha community started a 6 months long training on 'sewing' for which ICA
donated 2 new sewing machines on Friday.
Tatwa P. Timsina ica@icanep.wlink.com.np
PERU:
Location: 100 Valleys
We received the expected US250,000 grant from Japan Platform for the emergency
aid program in the south of Peru which begins 15 Sept and runs through 31 Dec.
We are to build 1050 temporary houses and assist another 1200 families to
upgrade and relocate their temporary houses to their own lots. This means that
2,250 families will have cleared their lots of rubble and have a secure
temporary home in which to live while they begin to rebuild permanent housing on
the back of their lots, phasing out of their temporary houses in a year or so.
We are very excited about organizing the community in teams of five families,
which teams will cooperate in doing the construction of the houses, led by 60
resident coordinators who will receive ICA leadership training in the ICA
Training Center in Azpitia. Our hope is that a permanent local leadership will
emerge and that these neighborhoods will become a sign of hope for the entire
region as it rebuilds. More from the field in coming weeks.
Staff admin@ica-peru.org
ICAI:
Location: Montréal
Another busy week has just passed with activities around building a formidable
institution.
Sarah Miller worked on an information package for our public
relations activities.
Upon the suggestion of ICAI a meeting of selected INGOs in
Montreal was organised to explore the building of a network. The purpse of
establishing such a network is to enhace collaboration among INGOs based in
Montreal which is becoming an emerging hub of INGOs in the country and also to
increase our power for joint negotiation with government authorities.
Throught
the generous support of ICA-Associates, Michael, Katie and Sarah F participated
in a week long training in ICA methods in Toronto.
For the purposes of securing
further benefits from the Province of Quebec, Lambert met with the
officer-in-charge of international organisations to discuss the modalities for
concluding a Protocol for the purpose.
Two proposals on forest policy and the
Japan 2008 Conference have been submitted to initiatal group of funders for
consideration. This was based on initial discussions we have had with them.
We
also followed-up with other donors ragarding funding possibilities.
Lambert Okrah lambert@ica-international.org
