tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71888667103140826872024-03-12T20:46:25.652-07:00What iF ...I Create? What iF ...I Love?? What iF???YanYan Simbahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09139401992454507867noreply@blogger.comBlogger34125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7188866710314082687.post-75674766431416586562012-05-29T21:56:00.004-07:002012-05-29T21:56:46.427-07:00We are the Citizens of the Cosmos!<h1 class="contentheading clearfix">
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By Sharmaine de Guzman</div>
March 3, 2012, Botanical Garden, Baguio City—After a series of heavy
reading and prolonged meetings for our regular study group, we finally
finished Beradene Jocelyn’s Citizens of the Cosmos. Everyone shared
their insights from the book which triggered meaningful reflections and
wonderful learnings.<br />
The group started with a moment of silence as each individual invited
focus and positive energies. With the help of an assigned facilitator,
each member of the group was able to share their insights and explain
how those relate to themselves and/or to other events in their lives.<br />
Everyone was amazed by the values the book teaches. The load of
intellectual and spiritual learning it offers also fascinated everybody.
The realization that we are not separated from anything and that each
of us is significantly part of the larger whole—of the universe,
reflects the core thought of the book. Understanding life and its
relation to the cosmic movements—the journey of the planets, the moon,
and the stars—can be overwhelming; however, it creatively helped each of
us appreciate the meaning of life’s cycles and struggles as it enlivens
our consciousness about the wonderful things around us.<br />
As one of us shared in the group, the book helped us realized that
indeed “Life is a constant metamorphosis”. Life is a cycle. Life is a
lemniscate. Realizing this encourages everybody to be more conscious and
more appreciative about the wonders of life. The ups and downs, the
struggles and successes.<br />
Through the book, we were also able to understand the meaning of
death. Quoting from the book, it says “there is death, but death does
not end life”. The cycle of life involves death, but death is a
wonderful phenomenon that does not end anything but essentially welcomes
us to a more beautiful journey.<br />
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Death is part of the cycle, just as life is. Everyone is not
separated from world. Each event in our lives is significant in forming
our individuality. Each of us is significant part of the whole. We are
one with the universe. We are indeed, the citizens of the cosmos.<br />
Also, after the study group, we happily shared with one another news
and updates about our individual and group initiatives. We also had time
to discuss the events and updates coming from the national movement
through our nodal representative, Grace Calleja.<br />
With that, we happily end our meeting as we form a circle with our
hands holding one another. We offered a moment of silence as we send our
energies to the forces in the universe.YanYan Simbahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09139401992454507867noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7188866710314082687.post-32808644803196487312012-05-29T21:50:00.002-07:002012-05-29T21:50:56.811-07:00LIWANAG - What MISSION is all about<h1 class="contentheading clearfix">
LIWANAG - What MISSION is all about </h1>
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Impressions from the BC meeting in Davao – March 23rd to 25th, 2012</h2>
As one of the younger MISSION members (since February 2012) I had the
chance to attend the MISSION Birthing Center meeting in Davao as the
nodal representative of the newly formed global node.<br />
Coming to the Philippines in order to get to know MISSION, its
structure and its ways of operating I can say that I learned a lot
during nearly two months of interning, visiting different nodes and
getting to know their individuals with their initiatives. Still I was
surprised how much more I understood through my participation in the
meeting of the BC.<br />
In the following I want to give some glimpses into this meeting by sharing a few of my impressions.<br />
Having learned that food is central to the Philippine culture it
didn’t make me wonder anymore that a delicious lunch was the first thing
to share when I came to the location of the meeting in the Agri-Aqua
P.O. Complex in Davao on Friday afternoon. It was a get together of BC
members and those of the Davao node before visiting GAP Farm and
Crocodile Park on this afternoon. Together we investigated those two big
parks to sense into them and see if they might be useful locations for
the upcoming Liwanag festival in January 2013. Back at the P.O. (our
conference hall and shelter for most of us) we shared our impressions
and talked about the pros and cons of both places.<br />
After dinner most of the Davao node members left and only the BC
representatives stayed for the first proper BC session. The theme for
this evening was spiritual mastery: Together we did a thinking exercise
around a simple manmade object, shared our experiences and talked a bit
about the importance of those exercises for everyday life, enhancing our
self-awareness and strengthening the presence of our creative self.
>>Are we actually thinking or just thoughting?<< Do we think
new thoughts through engaging the imaginal self or are those thoughts
old ones, just repeated by our programmed thinking?<br />
The thinking exercise we did was the following: After focusing our
attention on a simple manmade object (e.g. ball pen, chop sticks, spoon,
etc.) we closed our eyes and recreated it in front of our mind’s eye.
Then we contemplated the process of its becoming (how is the object
produced? What are all the necessary circumstances?) and finally
pondered on its purpose (why was it developed in the first place? What
is it good for?).<br />
We could experience ourselves: Focused attention leads to
concentration which can become contemplation and meditation, wherein our
consciousness might become aware of the archetype of the object.<br />
The next day we started with the nodal updates and the simultaneous
sensing of the movement. Twelve nodes where represented (Cebu, Baguio,
Manila, Iloilo, Bayawan, Gen Santos, Dumaguete, Koronadal, Cagayan de
Oro, Iligan, Davao and the global node) by an own member, Laguna de Bay
and Zamboanga, both new, by a representative of another city. They all
shared about their nodal life and their initiatives, workshops, new
members and whatever else was important for the national level of
MISSION.<br />
Reflecting on what we heard we realized that the intention of
MISSION, which is the creation of a sustainable society, isn’t just an
aim far away in the future. Through all the shared experiences we could
hear that a conscious cooperation between politics, businesses and civil
society already started to happen and is happening right now.<br />
For me personally that is so exciting to witness. Back in Germany
where I come from I heard people talking about the so badly needed
paradigm shift and newspapers write about the big crisis in all kinds of
spheres a lot, too. But it seems that they don’t know what that
actually means. They don’t know what this change is about. Coming to the
Philippines I do not only learn more about what that means but I can
even observe the change. MISSION, as far as I am concerned, is globally
the only organization providing a framework for social transformation
and implementing it through the means of social threefolding (conscious
cooperation between the cultural/civil, the political and the economic
sector). It became very clear to me that networking plays a major role
in that. Currently the movement starts to develop a life of its own –
the dynamics of growth becomes unforeseeable since it is tapping into
more and more networks, some being quite big themselves.<br />
Talking about it we understood that there is a danger to it. As every
tree risks falling once his branches reach faster towards the sky than
its roots grow deep down into the earth, MISSION might lose its power
and eventually fall apart if its smaller parts are not deeply connected
with each other and thus with the whole. I could really see how
important it is that the members on an individual basis really care for
their relationships, their connections with other imaginals, the nodal
life and understand the movement as a whole. We can’t work effectively
and fully committed on our own initiative without being aware of the
bigger picture, without knowing what the MISSION is (the carrying bones
are articulated in the MODE) and what is going on in the other parts. In
order to serve this essential necessity an e-group is actually already
existent.<br />
Another realization we had was concerning the nodal life and how much
it actually mirrors the societal whole on a micro level. We saw that it
is such a beautiful opportunity to understand oneself as an initiative
in the context of the node as much as our initiatives and events are the
equivalent to it in the context of society at large. If we continue
that thought we can even see every single day as an initiative in
consciously placing it into the context of our higher aspirations. That
showed me once more how much potential is hidden in every moment and how
easily I just pass by without recognizing and using it if I am not
practicing being conscious in the presence.<br />
The next day was Sunday, the Liwanag day of the week. In the BC
meeting we continued working on the topics of our long agenda which we
came up with the day before. We got exiting news about a freshly formed
group of passionate people who took a creative writing workshop
beginning March, helping the MISSION magazine into manifestation. Its
task is to spread good news about initiatives and positive change
towards sustainable societies from all over the world.<br />
Then the nodes where encouraged to reflect upon their first
experiences with the MISSION Volunteer Program (MVP) which created the
possibility for international volunteers to get to know the different
concepts and parts of the movement “from the inside” and in “real time”
and simultaneously contribute to what is going on with heads, hearts and
hands. Together with Louisa (D), Mirka (D), Corinna (CH), Pete (AUS)
and Philip (USA) I had the chance to be part of the first batch
volunteering for mostly a months time. It was decided to collect the
written feed backs in the BC and evaluate the nodal situation towards
more internees. In the future they shouldn’t just come from abroad.
Instead we talked about national volunteers as well. Knowing that the
colleges hold a lot of students having to write a thesis each or PhDs,
we thought that many of them might be interested to do that with one or
several of the MISSION initiatives. Further down the line that could
eventually even form a MISSION university in the future.<br />
Another theme that came up was the readiness of MISSION to engage in
political debates as a movement. From the very beginning it was part of
the idea that it would take responsibility on a broad scale and engage
in national activities. The question which immerged quite clearly was:
“Is MISSION ready for that? Is the movement solidly enough rooted into a
carrying ground? Are the relationships between the individuals strong
enough to form the interconnected structures to really BE MISSION?”<br />
In a way this kind of engagement was targeted in the past with the
anti-noise discussion which happened on a national level. But now
MISSION as a whole was also asked to take a stand for MLC (Movement for a
Livable Cebu) and maybe even for the case around Cocoy Tulawie, who
seems to be one of the current folk heroes in his fearless fight for
justice and human rights in the islands of Sulu. MISSION being a
movement of individuals implies that it can just take a stand as a
whole, if every individual, which is part of it, takes this stand
individually as well. The consequence is that every node has to evaluate
first, if all members agree. Then they could take a stand as a node. If
then all existing nodes reach this agreement, then MISSION as a whole
could take a stand for a certain case/opinion.<br />
Once more, that made me realize how much MISSION depends on its
Imaginals, because it can only exist if the whole is much more than the
total sum of its parts (the individuals). MISSION is really the
formation of a higher collective, made up by smaller collectives being
formed by even smaller collectives again or individuals. That is really
what being a “Cultural Creative 2.0” is about: Not anymore believing
that one is alone in seeing a better world and calling oneself an
idealist (as it was with more than 140 million people in USA and Europe
according to scientific research in the year 2000 with a strong growing
tendency) but actually engaging with others, organizing higher
collectives and really doing the work, manifesting the change that wants
to emerge.<br />
The last hours before lunch and afterwards until 3.00pm the BC
members talked about the upcoming MISSION Liwanag: the Global Festival
on Creativity and Sustainability. Together we had a brainstorming on the
daily schedule and redesigned the opening day into a real Fiesta. For
the rest of the afternoon we again were joined by many Davao node
members and looked into different venue possibilities in down town
itself. The reason was that we decided to not use GAP Farm and Crocodile
Park anymore as the main venues. The main reason was that this way we
could more consciously celebrate Davao down town as a real time example
of a sustainable city and thus showcasing a future reality we want to
live in. This way it might happen that the inhabitants realize: “Wait!
Didn't the daily shopping work during the Liwanag Festival without all
the plastic bags? Why don't we continue to use only paper bags or
backpacks?” or “Actually the proper waste separation wasn't such a big
deal. Why don't we do that all the time?” or “I really liked the silent
solar powered Jeepneys. Can't we get them back?”, etc.<br />
The brainstorming transformed into “heartstorming” when we realized
that Liwanag isn’t only a festival on creativity and sustainability but
it will actually inherit those imaginal qualities throughout the whole
planning process. It will be an initiative in itself going through the
whole lemniscate process several times. Therefore it will be a holy
endeavor for those who decide to fully commit – it will change their
lives. Through the deep sharing of some participants concerning their
own life and its connection to this festival we all became very humble
by grasping the deeper meaning and importance of Liwanag for Mindanao,
the Philippines and our time in history as humanity. It really will be
the first broad scale manifestation of MISSION’s aspirations.<br />
Profoundly moved inside we preceded to watching a movie after some
moments of quality silence. It was “Journey of the Universe”, an epic
story of cosmic, earth and human transformation written by Brian Swimme
and Mary Evelyn Tucker. It touched me how vivid one can tell the story
of evolution and I wish that every student gets to see this documentary.
It filled me with awe and wonder – just what good science is supposed
to do. The main message of the movie was (as we know it also from our
MISSION Workshop Courage): Behind evolution (or: world creative process)
lays some kind of directionality, purpose or divine
intention/intelligence in which we humans are just one of many species
the earth gave birth to.<br />
I am very grateful for the opportunity to participate in those three
days of BC meeting and I hope it will not be the last one for me. Thanks
to all of you who were there, for your resounding laughter, profound
depth and your sparkling ideas.<br />
Greetings from my heart, your first MISSION Volunteer<br />Christian (D)</div>YanYan Simbahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09139401992454507867noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7188866710314082687.post-71309452496207213162012-04-16T06:41:00.002-07:002012-04-16T06:41:32.491-07:00Dumaguete MISSION Initiatives<h1 class="contentheading clearfix" style="text-align: center;">
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Buglas Bamboo Institute</h2>
The reason for the establishment of Buglas Bamboo Institute was to
provide additional income to the subsistent farmers in the southern part
of Negros Oriental and at the same time to contribute to help diminish
global warming. After 4 years of study about bamboo and discussing with
small farmers in the country side about its feasibility, it became clear
that setting up such organization was not an easy task. And indeed,
after 10 years of hard work and deep reflections the reality is still
that the processing of bamboo takes a long commitment of farmers and
community workers, but also clarified that the task is not impossible.
There is income and money in bamboo if certain conditions are fulfilled.
A great contribution to minimize global warming can be made at the same
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Buglas Bamboo Institute (BBI) in Dauin,
Negros Oriental was recognized by the Philippine Government on August 7,
1999. Since then it has worked hard to use bamboo for the production of
construction materials, accessories, panels and even paper. In more
than 10 years BBI has evolved into a social development organization,
providing the local population with additional income of more than 2
million pesos a year. The slogan of a social organization is People,
Planet, Profit. BBI has been successful in the People and the Planet
aspects. In the Profit aspect BBI has suffered serious setbacks to the
extent that it has great difficulty to make the program self-supporting.</div>
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Everyone shared their insights from the book which triggered meaningful reflections and wonderful learnings.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The group started with a moment of silence as each individual invited focus and positive energies. With the help of an assigned facilitator, each member of the group was able to share their insights and explain how those relate to themselves and/or to other events in their lives.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Everyone was amazed by the values the book teaches. The load of intellectual and spiritual learning it offers also fascinated everybody. The realization that we are not separated from anything and that each of us is significantly part of the larger whole—of the universe, reflects the core thought of the book. Understanding life and its relation to the cosmic movements—the journey of the planets, the moon, and the stars—can be overwhelming; however, it creatively helped each of us appreciate the meaning of life’s cycles and struggles as it enlivens our consciousness about the wonderful things around us.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">As one of us shared in the group, the book helped us realized that indeed “Life is a constant metamorphosis”. Life is a cycle. Life is a lemniscate. Realizing this encourages everybody to be more conscious and more appreciative about the wonders of life. The ups and downs, the struggles and successes.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Through the book, we were also able to understand the meaning of death. Quoting from the book, it says “there is death, but death does not end life”. The cycle of life involves death, but death is a wonderful phenomenon that does not end anything but essentially welcomes us to a more beautiful journey.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><img border="0" src="http://www.imaginalmission.net/web2.0/cache/images/stories/426-cosmos1.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: initial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Death is part of the cycle, just as life is. Everyone is not separated from world. Each event in our lives is significant in forming our individuality. Each of us is significant part of the whole. We are one with the universe. We are indeed, the citizens of the cosmos.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Also, after the study group, we happily shared with one another news and updates about our individual and group initiatives. We also had time to discuss the events and updates coming from the national movement through our nodal representative, Grace Calleja.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">With that, we happily end our meeting as we form a circle with our hands holding one another. We offered a moment of silence as we send our energies to the forces in the universe.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br />
</div></div>YanYan Simbahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09139401992454507867noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7188866710314082687.post-47828743243399192412012-03-24T18:45:00.002-07:002012-03-24T18:45:26.148-07:00The art of trying<div class="headline_area"> <h1 class="entry-title" style="text-align: center;">The art of trying</h1><div class="headline_meta" style="text-align: center;">by <span class="author vcard fn">Paulo Coelho</span> on <abbr class="published" title="2012-03-14">March 14, 2012</abbr></div><div class="headline_meta"><br />
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Pablo Picasso once said, “God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style. He just keeps on trying other things.”<br />
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When we start working on our dreams, we always feel afraid. We wonder if there are rules to follow. Who comes up with these rules, while we all live such different lives? If God created the giraffe, the elephant and the cat, and we try to learn from his example, then why would we try to follow one rule or another?<br />
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Sometimes rules help us avoid the mistakes others have made before our time, but more often than not a rule will only make us repeat what someone else has already done.<br />
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Rest assured. Trust the universe, and look forward to surprising yourself. The apostle Paul said, “God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong.” The wise know some actions repeat themselves. They regularly encounter the same problems and situations they have dealt with before. Knowing that makes them sad. They start to think they’ll never be able to grow, since whatever they experienced before is happening again.<br />
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“I’ve already been through this,” they complain to their hearts.<br />
“That may be true,” their hearts reply, “but you haven’t mastered it yet.”<br />
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The wise understand that repetition has a cause: to teach the lesson that still needs teaching. Repetitive situations require different solutions every time. The one who fails must not see this as a mistake, but rather as a step toward greater self knowledge.<br />
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It’s like Thomas Watson said, “Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure.”YanYan Simbahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09139401992454507867noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7188866710314082687.post-1394813815406710812012-03-24T04:04:00.000-07:002012-03-24T04:04:15.017-07:00Soft Sculpture Exhibit to Open At Bliss Cafe<div class="column" id="ja-content" style="width: 71.43%;"> <div class="column" id="ja-current-content" style="min-height: 2268px; width: 100%;"> <div class="ja-content-main clearfix" id="ja-content-main" style="min-height: 2268px;"> <div class="item-page"> <h1 class="contentheading clearfix" style="text-align: center;"> Soft Sculpture Exhibit to Open At Bliss Cafe</h1><div class="article-content"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;">by Sarah Mae Sabado</span></span><br />
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Mica Cabildo, artist of works like Tawasman and Metaphysical Sickness, Kadua and Regret is Useless is coming back to Baguio to open her solo exhibit entitled Seeline Woman. The exhibit features crocheted craft about dreams and myths.<br />
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Cabildo’s works reflects her deepening understanding of society, man and his many dreams and beliefs. She describes the Seeline exhibit as an exploration of “Joseph Campbell’s idea of dreams as personal myths”. In this view, dreams serve as a reflection of a person’s perception of himself – his success or failure depends on what he believes are his strengths and weaknesses.<br />
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Seeline woman is a song by Nina Simone. In the song, the woman changes her clothing and through this change, she creates different effects on men. The song is based largely on the seal wife folktale where the seals turn into women when they remove their pelt.<br />
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Using the title Seeline Woman, Cabildo hopes to merge art and mythology through her soft sculptures and show the different factors that influence an individual’s personal myth. It depicts the need for an individual to identify his beliefs and ,worldviews and the importance of transforming them so that they serve the society as a whole.<br />
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Cabildo, born and based in Manila works as a graphic designer for Team Manila Graphic Design Studio. She has participated in a number of exhibits including the 1st AX(iS) Art Project held in Febreuary 2011. Her work was also featured in the WAPAAK (Women's Artistic Production and Action Kickstarter) exhibit held in VOCAS last August 2011. She has been a member of the Pointe Foundation since November 2010.<br />
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Seeline Woman opens on October 15 and runs until November 18, 2011 at Bliss Cafe, Hotel Elizabeth, J. Felipe cor. Gibraltar Road, Baguio City. Proceeds of the exhibit will benefit MISSION (Movement of Imaginals for Sustainable Societies through Initiatives, Organizing and Networking).</span><br />
</div></div></div></div></div>YanYan Simbahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09139401992454507867noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7188866710314082687.post-6189933059112632502012-03-24T04:01:00.000-07:002012-03-24T04:01:11.545-07:00First UP Baguio MISSION Workshop Courage<h1 class="contentheading clearfix" style="text-align: center;"> First UP Baguio MISSION Workshop Courage </h1><div class="article-tools clearfix"> <br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">“It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture that they are difficult.”- Seneca</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Indeed, one cannot know hardship if one will not dare overcome it.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">February 4-5, 2012—MISSION Workshop Courage was held among members of Philosophy Circle in University of the Philippines Baguio co-facilitated by Andy Veridiano and Francis Caguioa. The workshop was full of burning insights and challenging questions which led the group to very interesting debates especially on the first day of the workshop. However, difficulty and disappointment came in when on the second day, only one was left to participate. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">With initially seven participants on the first day, only one came back the next day to finish the workshop.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Armed by critical minds and thought-provoking insights, the group shared their ideas about the meaning of life. Shaded by the existentialist way of thinking, they defined life and individual existence as a medium of potentiality and freedom of actions and as itself a means to know its essence. Also, everyone shared interesting ideas about their view of the Philippine society re-echoing the downside of our corrupt politics and culture. A striking thought eventually summarizes their views about society as they recognized and presented the idea of inter-relatedness among social structures and individual actions.</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><strong> </strong></span></div><strong> <div class="MsoNormal" style="display: inline !important; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></div></strong> <br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">A culminating idea also stands out as each participant recognized the fact that everybody has his or her own creative moment/s and that creativity for each individual is unique, boundless, timeless, and somewhat magical. The energy during the discussion about their individual creative moments was very high that nobody in the group can deny that every single human being experiences its magic.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><strong> </strong></span></div><strong> <div class="MsoNormal" style="display: inline !important; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">At the end of the first day, everyone seemed to be excited and astonished by the thought of the workshop. Although only one of them came back the next day, we feel that each member of the group was touched by the wonderful ideas and concepts the workshop presented. On the second day, with the insightful questions of the lone participant, the energy stayed high as we responded to her questions and thoughts attentively. The discussion on the lemniscate journey was for her very interesting and challenging.</span></div></strong> <br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><strong> </strong></span></div><strong> <div class="MsoNormal" style="display: inline !important; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">We end the workshop with content as we know that eventually, considering their great thoughts and performances, the participants will be the seeds of a better future. Also, we feel very thankful that we were able to have this kind of experience that really challenged us. The experience helped us recognize some weaknesses of the workshop framework especially as it somehow overwhelmed minds that are just on its way to knowing a larger social reality. Also, this experience helped us evaluate our ways and preliminary means in conducting the workshop. Hopefully, through this experience, we would be able to incorporate our new learnings in designing and initiating our next Workshop Courage. </span></div></strong></strong>YanYan Simbahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09139401992454507867noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7188866710314082687.post-5451436126658135442012-03-16T23:32:00.000-07:002012-03-16T23:32:04.370-07:00Tuburan holds Steiner Education Seminar facilitated by RStEP<div class="column" id="ja-content" style="width: 71.43%;"> <div class="column" id="ja-current-content" style="min-height: 1677px; width: 100%;"> <div class="ja-content-main clearfix" id="ja-content-main" style="min-height: 1677px;"> <div class="item-page"> <h1 class="contentheading clearfix" style="text-align: center;"> Tuburan holds Steiner Education Seminar facilitated by RStEP </h1><div class="article-tools clearfix"> <br />
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<span class="fbPhotoCaptionText"><strong>Question:</strong> What's the first sign that a child is ill? Answer: s/he isn't playing. The lifeblood of a healthy child is natural, self-directed free play. And they do not need many toys for this; just a few simple ones made of cut up wood, for instance, that can be transformed into a boat, a car, a house, or a plate. </span><br />
<span class="fbPhotoCaptionText">Next question: What should a teacher do if his/her students are uncharacteristically unruly? Answer: The teacher should ask himself/herself first, "How am I today?" Wouldn't that be just wonderful - schools where teachers continually assess themselves and asking, "Am I thinking kind thoughts?" "Am I feeling happy?" "Am I being gentle and kind?" Steiner teachers are exactly like that. They understand that young children are like sponges, absorbing their surroundings as sense impressions. Young children don't just copy the teacher outside but also mirror the teacher's feelings, attitudes, and thoughts - even if these aren't "transparent." </span><br />
<span class="fbPhotoCaptionText">Creative indoor and outdoor free play and kindergarten teachers' great personal mastery</span> - these were some of the things discussed by more than<span class="fbPhotoCaptionText"> 50 parents, teachers, administrators during the two-day Steiner Education Seminar held on March 3-4, 2012 at the Food Cove Conference Room, 2nd floor NCCC Mall, Davao City. Guest speakers Bella Tan and Jake Tan from Rudolf Steiner Education Philippines (RStEP) also talked about the twelve senses; the image of a willing, feeling, thinking human being; the development of a child from conception, pregnancy, to birth; educating the willful child; nurturing the dreamy consciousness of the child; creating the best learning environment that optimize children's creativity and imagination and draw out their full potential; etc.! <br />
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Aside from the potential Tuburan parents and teachers who came, there were colleagues from various schools in Davao City and Koronadal City: Ateneo de Davao University, South Point School, Tender Years, Green Valley School, Notre Dame of Marbel University, Values School Davao, Beacon Learning Center, Assumption College of Davao, Jose Maria College, LCB Performing Arts Center, and Circular Home Child Development.<br />
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Thank you Tito Jake and Tita Bella and all those who came!</span><br />
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Because of the success of this Steiner Education Seminar, Team Tuburan is inspired to bring more facilitators, mentors, and experts to Mindanao for trainings, workshops, seminars, and lectures - which will be open to all!</span><br />
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To see a part of nature<br />
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To understand a part of nature<br />
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To love a part of nature<br />
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To share part of nature<br />
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To help a part of nature <br />
is to help a part of ourselves.<br />
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<h2>What we do to nature we do to ourselves…</h2><br />
Modern Agriculture has cut our ties with mother earth. Most of our farmers are frustrated by low yields despite the heavy use of fertilizers and pesticides. It was such a relief to find out that there are so many things that we can do to bring back soil vitality and multiply its yield a thousand times using quantum techniques and practices in Agriculture.<br />
Let us heal mother earth and be healed. Let us enrich our lives and the generations to come by engaging in effective farming practices that will ensure more and healthy harvests with just minimum input and effort. This was the challenge posed at the “Quantum Leaps in Farming” orientation that was organized and offered by MISSION Cebu and was led by Pam Fernandez of the University of the Philippines, Los Baños. The workshop was held last January 20, 2011 at the Pagtambayayong Office in Private, Cebu City.<br />
The orientation was opened with the above prayer read by Gingging Balisacan, followed by a touching and inspiring introduction by Mario Gasalatan and an information-rich and passionate presentation by Pam. It was a well attended event not only by farmers and farm enthusiasts but by people from different walks of life – a medical doctor, an ex-councilor, students, community organizers and a nun -- who left so amazed and hopeful to know that more and more farm owners and farmers were transforming their practice towards the sustainable framework of agriculture and were rediscovering the ancient, time tested methods and practices in farming like biodynamic farming and agnihothra.<br />
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Time was too short to digest everything that had been presented but much had been learned and much more are yet to be done. A few new connections to start biodynamic farms in Cebu together were made and there was a lot of interest and energy towards having a second, more intensive and hands-on experience with quantum leaps in farming.YanYan Simbahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09139401992454507867noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7188866710314082687.post-63527205346287418862012-03-14T01:01:00.000-07:002012-03-14T01:01:58.906-07:00MISSION Sends Off Workshop Courage Soldiers<h1 class="contentheading clearfix" style="text-align: center;"> MISSION Sends Off Workshop Courage Soldiers </h1><div class="article-tools clearfix"> <br />
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Seeing MISSION reach the tipping point in two years’ time does not seem to be an elusive feat with twenty more members committing to propagate MISSION Workshop Courage all over the country and the world. Apart from the workshops that Nicanor “Nick” Perlas himself is conducting to open twenty new nodes in the country before the year ends, the newly-formed global node and the existing Philippine nodes are bound to grow in numbers with more facilitators ready to conduct the workshop in their respective nodal territories.<br />
Nick shares his excitement about the meeting of the different representatives from the different nodes who come from different sectors of society—business, government, civil society, activists, students, teachers, and young professionals—in the Facilitators’ Training. “I can remember exactly how each of you has manifested and continues to manifest your imaginality in so many different inspiring ways,” he said in e-mail sent to the participants a few days before the training.<br />
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The participants share not only MWC-related insights but also their knowledge on group dynamics, relationships and conflict resolution manifesting the emergence of a collective intelligence—"the wisdom of the whole." It is critical for everyone to participate, otherwise, “we won’t have an overview of the different ideas sitting in this room,” Nick explains in reference to drawing out input from the participants in a Workshop Courage.<br />
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What does it take for a facilitator to be ready? "Clone Nick,” the group offers. The joke proves to hold a rather profound meaning as the discussion goes along. It is evident in the questions, reflections and group interaction that facilitating Workshop Courage is “laden with responsibility” and “a sense of service.” The group resolves that one must have the right inner condition and must be constantly in touch with his imaginality. They coin the phrase “charismatic facilitation of Nick.” The group bursts into laughter. The best way to prepare, somebody says, is to be creative. The group agrees.<br />
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Being able to listen and being present in the true sense of the word are two critical points being highlighted in order for a facilitator to connect with the participants and be able to draw out their truths—thoughts, feelings, experiences. Workshop Courage, after all, is about the emerging realities and system of causes that create them as well as tapping into the True Self, sometimes called the Real Self, Higher Self and Creative Self depending on the input from the participants. Writing down what they say and using their language is essential, Nick emphasizes. He also cites some scenarios where the facilitator will have to reinforce the rules or simple agreements made before the workshop has started in order to keep the imaginal mood alive.<br />
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The profoundest of the discussions in the training is, probably, on the Journey of the Birthing of the Imaginal Self that is captured in the Lemniscate Process. It captures the same metaphor in the Inverted “U.” In that “gap” between Chaos” and “Enlightenment,” the group falls silent.<br />
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“All profound things and emotions of things are preceded and attended by Silence,” wrote Herman Melville.<br />
Silence, said Pico Iyer, is "something more than just a pause; it is that enchanted place where space is cleared and time is stayed and the horizon itself expands." It is in the gap where the self communes with the authentic, with the real, with the creative. It is where the self taps into a Higher Source, a Higher Creativity, a Higher Purpose. It is where we start to feel the oneness—the non-duality of existence. It is where we clarify our intentions. Questions came after the silence—like, what of people who choose to go on retreat, in the mountains or in any higher place or dimension, to live a meditative life and not come back to the world? One of the participants believes that there are people whose duty is to pray for the world. “If you don’t return, you become irrelevant to the world,” Nick asserts. The I.O.N. in MISSION stands for Initiatives, Organizing and Networking. It is the container of imaginality. It is the image of the creative self.<br />
Workshop Courage facilitation is a sacred task. It is where one realizes that change is possible— that there is a creative power to make it happen. It is a place where one realizes that true purpose has nothing to do with the self and that Providence moves when one commits to it.<br />
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The newly-trained facilitators committed to conduct the workshop within a month from the Facilitators’ Training last February 28, 2012 at Brgy. Libongcogon, Zarraga in Iloilo. They are: Corinna Zuckerman, Peter Crowe, Christian Gmelin, Philip Burroughs, Mirka Hurter and Louisa Mittmann of the global node; Asela Delariarte-Pe, Jose Pepito Pe, Jason Gonzales, Sam Prudente, Aurora Hugo, Frances Lacuesta, Joseph Teruel and Atho Dela Cruz of Iloilo; Felcon Rivera, Jude Cabangal and Ritchie Mortillero of Bayawan; Rico Colayco of Manila, Ma. Clara Rowena Ebdani of Cebu and Nerieza Suyom of Koronadal.<br />
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As of writing time, Corinna, Peter and Christian have already conducted their first workshop in Alegria, Cebu; Philip, Mirka, Louisa and Rowena in Cebu City and Ritchie and Jude in Bayawan.YanYan Simbahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09139401992454507867noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7188866710314082687.post-73477467758356432682012-03-09T09:50:00.002-08:002012-03-13T23:10:05.758-07:00PONCE SUITES, Kublai's Artwork is Awesome!<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"> PONCE SUITES, Kublai's Artwork is Awesome! </span></span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">by: YanYan Simba</span></span> </span> </span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> PONCE SUITES, Kublai's Artwork is Awesome! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">you can check also in youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAxeRM5qdHQ </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<div style="color: #660000; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">It was March 08, 2012, when I visited, on the first time, the artworks of KUBLAI MILLA in Davao City. It is really awesome and great to have MISSION Davao "Kamustahanay" with Kate Estember, Tina Suelto, Avvy Silva, Kristine, and Monica. Plus, ofcourse, I took pictures since I really appreciate Arts in any form! whew! </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Kublai Milla</b></div><br />
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the phenomenal Davao Artist Kublai </td> </tr>
</tbody></table><span class="begin">O</span>ne of the most volatile workers in the art trade of Davao is a young man named Kublai Millan...Kublai's energetic sculptures generate their own energy that necessarily affects the viewer.<br />
For one thing, they are larger than lifesize and have no timidity about it.<br />
They are fantastic also for their range of subject matter. We are of the opinion that if these Millan pieces were placed strategically throughout the city—at the airport grounds, at city parks, public playgrounds, mountain resorts, or in front of public buildings, that people from other cities and environs would take trips just to look, touch, paint, and photograph them.<br />
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The Durian at the Davao International Airport</td> </tr>
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There is for instance this giant, partly open clam shell with a family of eagles looking out at the viwer through the opening.<br />
And where are they situated? A small hotel called Ponce Suites...is now hemmed in by several pieces of Kublai's sculpture, appropriating the sidewalk on two sides of the island on which the hotel is situated.<br />
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As a matter of course, NGO meetings converge there, and poets and writers and yuppies of the first water, singers and musicians who come in from Manila, and strange folk who are attracted by this unusual burst of artistic energy.<i>—<b>Birds and Bees: Kublai's Energetic Sculptures by Tita Lacambra Ayala / Mindanao Times</b></i><br />
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Kublai perched on his giant eagle sculpture </td> </tr>
</tbody></table><div align="left"><span class="begin">K</span>ublai Ponce-Millan, who created all these giant works, was born on July 8, 1974 in Cotabato City. He finished schooling at the University of the Philippines with a degree of Fine Arts. After which, he dedicated his life back in Mindanao, sculpting the culture from which, where which he grew up, as a human being and as a soul. The massive pieces magnify calm, passion and grief proportonately in the stone-grain finish accomplished with the five-year technique developed through various weathers accompaning their inceptions and growth, from steel and wiremesh underpinnings above and below ground, to the finishing of the last detail of the gesturing hand.</div><div align="left"><br />
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</div><div align="left">Done in classic proportions, they exude grace, vigor, elegance, compassion and dignity of the human spirit. So much lightness and beauty from so much mock and sweat and strain. The everlasting irony of the making of art.</div><div align="left"><br />
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</tbody></table><div align="left">Kublai's sculptures feature the current tendencies and involvements evolving in the receptive imagination of the elfin sculptor. Looking at some of them, one is apt to wonder whether these are not spirits of all the huge ancient fallen trees that have disappeared into the rivers of commerce, recaptured and come to life again in a different form, to oversee the natural landscape and remind us of the lost presences that had wandered through the dead rivers and forests: the <i>diwata</i>s, the <i>babaylan</i>s, the <i>ninuno</i>s, the spirits of land, sea and air that have been banished by a new wave of culture and religion in the history and mythology of Mindanao, embraced into a resurgence of memory and identity. —<b><i>Sculpting Culture: Kublai Millan Sculptures in Mindanao by Tita Lacambra Ayala / Road Map Series</i></b></div><div align="left"><br />
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</tbody></table><div align="left"><span class="begin">K</span>ublai....makes these works of art hoping to "create a spark" in Mindanao—to start the fire burning so that the young ones can strive harder and move forward...He wants to inspire those young artists to pursue their love for their craft.</div><div align="left"><br />
</div><div align="left">Kublai now sculptures <i>(sic) </i>in every city in Mindanao. His most recent project...is the biggest church in Mindanao located in Tagum City. He will make the main sculptures of the church, including a 50-feet risen Christ...</div><div align="left"><br />
</div>So far, Kublai's tallest creation is the sword or <i>ikampilani</i> of Sultan Kudarat located in Sultan Kudarat Municipality, Maguindanao Province...The huge piece of art stands 50 feet! And would you believe he finished it in 16 days? Amazing!<br />
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source: http://www.poncesuites.net/artist.htm<br />
check in youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAxeRM5qdHQ <br />
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by: Casper_CuteYanYan Simbahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09139401992454507867noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7188866710314082687.post-16289221167945034982012-03-05T23:44:00.003-08:002012-03-09T01:18:32.710-08:00Steiner Education, an education that Heals! By: YanYan Simba<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 18pt;">Steiner Education, an education that Heals! </span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif";"></span></div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif";">By: YanYan Simba</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif";"></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif";">It is on the day of March 3 and 4, 2012 when I attended the Waldorf Steiner Education Seminar, facilitated by Jake Tan and Bella C. Tan, and hosted by the Tuburan Institute, the Davao-based Steiner-inspired school. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif";">The past years, my passion in education enables to me understand more deeply the fundamental nature of “Learner-Centered Education”. The time when I was a lecturer and facilitator at De La Salle College of Saint Benilde – Manila. I have learned that a learner-centered school is committed to seeking answers to the following questions: </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif";">“What is best for learners? </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif";">How will learning be most effectively facilitated?” </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif";">Learner-Centered education operates according to what is known about individual learners, their heredity, experiences, perspectives, backgrounds, talents, interests, capacities, and needs, and the learning process (the best available knowledge about learning and how it occurs, including effective teaching practices that promote the highest levels of motivation, learning, and achievement for all learners); and applying this knowledge to improve practice.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif";">Also, to be learner-centered means to learn continuously, evaluate learning experiences, advance synergy and collaboration, respect diversity, and nurture relationships. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif";">In this tertiary level of education, where a lot of experiences is already part of human development, my understanding goes deeply to identify human development after attending the seminar. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif";">What amazed me on Waldorf Steiner Education is that, this is an education that HEALS! </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif";">First, "the approach to art education in Steiner schools is conducive not only to more highly rated imaginative drawings in terms of general drawing ability and use of color but also to more accurate and detailed observational drawings. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif";">Second, Waldorf pupils to have a lower incidence of allergies and an effect which correlated with the extent to which they lived an "anthroposophic lifestyle" generally in particular with reduced use of anti-biotic and antipyretics. Children who had received MMR Vaccines showed an increased risk of rhino conjunctivitis.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif";">Third, the textures and colors of nature, the accomplishments and struggles of humankind fill the Waldorf students' imaginations and the pages of their beautiful books. Education grows into a union with life that serves them for decades. By the time they reach us at the college and university level, these students are grounded broadly and deeply and have a remarkable enthusiasm for learning. Such students possess the eye of the discoverer, and the compassionate heart of service to others and to the world. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif";">Fourth, Steiner Education affects not only the child or the student, but his or her parents as well. It is inspiring to know that it is a healing education to the entire family. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif";">Fifth, The splendour of the Waldorf School is that it keeps children intact until they are ready to move out into the world as whole individuals as it nurtures, protects and develops the intelligence of the true child. It brings out the best in each child, rather than molding children to a particular perspective of society.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif";">Sixth, Waldorf schools emphasize creativity in all aspects of children's work. The same teacher may stay with the same group of children for as many as eight grades. In so doing the teacher has to grow and learn with the children.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif";">Seventh, the Waldorf school represents a chance for every child to grow and learn according to the most natural rhythms of life. For the early school child, this means a non-competitive, non-combative environment in which the wonders of science and literature fill the day without causing anxiety and confusion. For the older child, it offers a curriculum that addresses the question of why they are learning. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif";">Eighth, Steiner education is not only educating the child, but the Parents themselves. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif";">As for me, learning, understanding and looking a peek on this two days seminar, makes me realize that this is a type of educational culture and system is needed in our country and in our community. There is a lot of things to change on Oneself before putting up a Waldorf Steiner Education. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif";">In Davao City, my friends , <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ms. Kate Estember and Ms. Maya Vandenbroeck</i></b> of Tuburan Institute, Inc. the non-stock, non-profit, Steiner-inspired school in Davao City is on its way!</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif";"> It was an inspiring MISSION Initiative when we commit something bigger than ourselves. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif";">The Tuburan Institute, Inc. will open 2 kindergarten classes in June 2012. Every year, successive classes will be added until the full 12 years of elementary and secondary education are catered for. Workshops are also offered. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif";">For more information, you can contact them: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/TuburanInstitute"><span style="color: #7030a0;">https://www.facebook.com/TuburanInstitute</span></a>. </span><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif";"></span><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif";">Rudolf Steiner stated, "It is not our intention to teach growing human beings our ideas or the contents of our world-view." </span></i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif";"></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif";">Today, Waldorf schools continue to seek to develop the perceptions and capacities for creative thinking in young adults so that they can shape society for the advancement of humankind out of their own insights and experiences.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif";"></span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif";">By: Casper_Cute</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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Iloilo held its first MISSION Workshop Courage for 2012 in San Lorenzo Ruiz Meeting Hall last Sunday and Monday, February 26-27. 34 participants were present with 22 new ones, 6 staff and 6 refreshers in preparation for Iloilo Facilitator’s Training on the first day. The group composed of catechists, tour guides, energy healers, top law enforcer, educators, government employees, businessmen, journalist, students and jobless. Despite of the diversity, one clear thing that manifested: the question of how we can affect CHANGE. Nick this time presented Courage framework in a more simple yet powerful way mostly in our own native language, Hiligaynon. Belief system was highlighted. As we identify all the dramas in our life (where some act out their old habit and BS as illustration) and connect it in our present belief systems, where it often comes from our subconscious, made this portion more fun, alive and energized. Participants were in realization mode and now in the space of comfort in sharing their personal experiences. So what would it be, CHOICE or CHOKE? <br />
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18 courageous souls went back, together with 4 staff and 5 refreshers on the second day. Reflections were so profound. And the word CHAOS was so present. (Where Nick illustrated this in a very detailed way in relation to the lemniscate. And also I love this part, probably because I can relate to it at that moment) One said we need CHAOS (imbalance) in order to be balance in life. That Re-chaos is not ultimately just crumbling inside, but a CALL to make an authentic decision. That chaos is a part of the liquification process to reach one creative moment. That there is no shortcut to avoid chaos because without it, there will be no enlightenment. In a larger context, our society is in chaos from the government programs up to the government officials especially in the police force as corruption is very present. And HABIT was quite hard to deprogram unless with conscious effort of how to act on it. REFRAMING.<br />
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Lemniscate never fails. From the CALL, where we start to question ourselves why. Then the TRIAL, where all sorts of challenges and chaos starts to appear. And when our Higher Being is sending message by seeing things in a different yet positive perspective, and is asking of intentions then we are in ENLIGHTENMENT. What makes most of us stuck usually is the lack of power to make that RETURN which completes the process supposedly. What is holding us back? Fear of the unknown maybe? Only the ability of an artist to transform a given into a creative result will truly complete our return. And that is COURAGE.<br />
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In the afternoon session of day 2, laughter yoga was introduced by one of the participants that made the entire group act outside their norm. It was really crazy and fun! How much more if we can laugh more often with our problems and challenges in our day to day life. It will be more exciting!<br />
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After all the exercises and realizations in acting initiatives, everyone was enthusiastic to participate and create one common goal, to create a better world to live in. <br />
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As a result, one of the graduates of this batch was greatly convinced to join us ALETHEIA 2012 and already undergone Facilitator’s training right after the workshop. Hurray! Hurray! <br />
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<span class="close">From MISSION Iloilo, this is Au Hugo In High Energy!</span><br />
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<span class="caption">By: Athena Masilungan (author and workshop facilitator)</span><br />
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<span class="dropcap">“</span>Conflict is natural, neither positive nor negative, it just is. Conflict is just an interference pattern of energies. Nature uses conflict as its primary motivator for change, creating beautiful beaches, canyons, mountains and pearls...”<br />
This is the opening statement of Realizing Community Workshop facilitator Gabriele Niemann in ISIP Makati last October 28-30, 2011 in this 3-day experiential training on managing and resolving conflicts in a group setting. Gabrielle Niemann is a coach, Waldorf school consultant and an expert in conflict resolution. She has given numerous leadership and conflict resolution workshops through her consulting group Akademie fur Entwicklungsbegleitung.<br />
By sheer providence, I was given a scholarship by ISIP and as a way of giving back, decided to share and reecho everything I learned from this very useful workshop with my friends and co-volunteers in the Sofia Waldorf-inspired School in Baguio (SWISBI) and Mission Baguio. <br />
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Despite hectic schedules and numerous activities which included saying 182 trees from being cut, we finally had our workshop on January 21-22, 2012 at the Gosioco residence in Wagner Rd. in Baguio City, amidst lush greeneries and tall pine trees. Faye Nicole Gosioco, a SWISBI parent and Mission Baguio member generously offered their beautiful home for the whole weekend, while the St. Scholastica Convent right across from their home, opened up their organic garden for our children to play in.<br />
Present for the weekend workshop was Baguio Node representative Grace Calleja and 11 of the more active members of the node: Francis Caguioa, Tet Mora-Uy, Kokoy Palma, Yana Gail Castillo, Faye Nicole Gosioco, Sarah Mae Sabado, Fernidand Veridiano, Sharm De Guzman, Jom Penaflor and Karen Cotiw-an, with Bardot Magtibay attending the last day. <br />
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Before the workshop began, participants shared their expectations. Some were interested in learning to resolve conflict and how it can be applied in all areas of life and for Mission Baguio. Others wanted to know how to understand conflict and their levels. A few people shared their interest in knowing how to resolve conflict in a healthy way, and the different techniques in conflict resolution. Lastly, one member shared a yearning to have a stronger bond as a group. <br />
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The workshop had intervals of lecture/ discussions and experiential activities.<br />
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The workshop module was as follows:<br />
<div style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong>Day 1:</strong></div><div style="padding-left: 30px;">I. Introduction<br />
II. Glass Top Exercise<br />
III. Discussion on Kinds of Conflict<br />
IV. Exercise in Resolving Conflict<br />
V. Notes on Mediation<br />
VI. Walking Exercise<br />
VII. Rod Exercise<br />
VIII. Discussion on the Thinking, Feeling, Willing Aspects of a Conflict<br />
IX. A lecture on the steps of the escalation of conflict<br />
X. Flipping the cloth exercise<br />
XI. Summary of the Day</div><div style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong>Day 2:</strong></div><div style="padding-left: 30px;">I. Centering exercise<br />
II. Sharing of reflections<br />
III. A Short Eurythmy exercise<br />
IV. Discussion on the 7 Conditions for Inner Schooling<br />
V. Thinking Exercise and the rest of the 6 subsidiary exercises from Rudolf Steiner<br />
VI. Lecture on self responsibility<br />
VII. The Knot exercise<br />
VIII. More notes on Mediation<br />
IX. Untangling exercise<br />
X. Courage Exercise<br />
XI. Feedback exercise<br />
XII. Partner drawing exercise<br />
XIII. Plenary discussion on the conditions for a Healthy Social Life in Mission Baguio.<br />
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MISSION Baguio members aced all the exercises and enjoyed each of them. At times, just for the fun of it, the children of some of the members joined as well.</div><div style="padding-left: 30px;">Each member took something unique and personal after the workshop, but certainly, the members of the node came out of it with a stronger bond and became closer towards one another. The experience brought more trust, acceptance, and harmony. It ended with a sharing of each member’s views on how to create better relationships in Mission Baguio with the workshop becoming the impetus for a longer planning session on the node’s major plans for the years to come.</div>As a final note the facilitator shared these words: <br />
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“Welcome conflict. It is interesting. Be open to what it will bring.”YanYan Simbahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09139401992454507867noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7188866710314082687.post-75080028703726986872012-02-25T12:08:00.000-08:002012-02-25T12:08:44.750-08:00Challenges Facing Philippine Society<h1 class="contentheading clearfix" style="text-align: center;"> Challenges Facing Philippine Society</h1><h2><span style="font-family: Tahoma,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;"> </span></h2><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;"><h2>Our Role in Creating These Challenges, and the Necessity for Change</h2></span></div>Not so long ago, we were one of the most promising nations in the world. But today, despite two globally admired People Power uprisings, we have earned the dubious distinction of being both a laughing stock and a leper on the world stage. We have become a banana republic. Our corrupt nation is bequeathing a bleak future of decay and despair. We are robbing our youth and our children of a better tomorrow.<br />
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Tingnan natin ang saril natin. We have reached thepoint where there is little we can be proud of, precious little we can hope for. The challenges of renewing Philippine society are complex, systemic, interrelated and multi-dimensional.<br />
<h3>Overview of our Challenges</h3>We are mired in poverty, huge budget deficits, a ballooning foreign debt, and a fragile economy. Millions have no job and go to bed hungry each night. Foreign interests increasingly dictate national policies. Lack of political will and budgetary support make promising laws stagnate. There is lawlessness and war in our land. Our high literacy rates mean nothing when we can no longer feed and house ourselves as a nation.<br />
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At the same time, our land is scourged with toxic tailings and scars from mines; our soil is blowing away; our forests destroyed; our rivers run dry; lakes and air polluted, and our seas over-fished.<br />
Meanwhile, depraved Filipinos drug our young, murder our neighbors, and exploit most everyone else. We are near the ultimate nightmare of a dog-eat-dog world. Uncaring. Violent. Meaningless.<br />
The trail of corruption in all spheres of society is permanently etched in the potholes that riddle our national highways and roads as well as in the public works that are now prematurely dilapidated. Worse, it is embedded in the very structure of our psyche, sa ating kaluluwa, creating “potholes” in our soul.<br />
Because our rotten justice system does not punish evil, and our goodness is not appreciated and promoted, the good among us are starting to succumb to the evil around them. Dahilsamaramiangnakakalusot at nagpapalusot.<br />
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Corruption knows no bounds, infecting both the rich and the poor, the highest national officials and the grassroots. We have now gained the dubious distinction of being the 11th most corrupt country in the world and the number one (# 1) most corrupt in Asia. And not to be outdone, corrupt and violent pushers have also made our country the number one (#1) drug users in Asia. Truly disgusting! Mga walanghiya! Walay ulaw!<br />
<h3>Multi-dimensional and Systemic Challenges</h3>In the economy, to use and expand United Nations Development Program (UNDP) language, we are experiencing jobless growth and ruthless growth. In recent years, before its current contraction in 2009, our economy grew but unemployment and underemployment continued to hover at high levels. In addition, this economic growth was “ruthless” in that it only benefited the rich upper classes as 4 million Filipinos entered the ranks of the poor between 2003 and 2006. The Philippines has one of the highest Ginicoefficient (0.44) in the ASEAN region and in the world, indicating that economic growth is unevenly and unfairly distributed. Furthermore government has re-established the dreaded practice of crony capitalism, where, as a result of political indebtedness, the state favors certain individuals and corporations in different industries to prosper at the expense of other businesses. Finally, the economy is resting on weak and narrow fundamentals, with a weak manufacturing sector and an over-reliance on OFW remittances.<br />
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In politics, we are experiencing voiceless growth. Citizens, the true subjects of democracy, have no real voice in the affairs of the state. Political dynasties continue to reign supreme in Philippine politics. Traditional politicians in the executive, legislative and judicial branches of government violate laws and regulations left and right yet continue to justify these violations as their defense of law and order. The upper levels of the military are highly politicized and corrupted. Government officials at all levels steal hundreds of billions every year from the national budget. When citizens protest government wrongdoing and abuses, citizens are met with water cannons and police brutality. Worst, some citizens become victims of unresolved extrajudicial killings. On top of it all, the justice system is increasingly becoming corrupted, preventing citizens from obtaining relief from the harm done to them. The growth of condominiums and malls hides the massive betrayal of democracy.<br />
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In culture, we are experiencing the growth of moral rootlessness. The pervasive and almost unstoppable corruption around us destroys our sense of what is right and wrong and uproots our capacity for moral outrage. We are becoming more apathetic and cynical as a people. Worse, an increasing number among us flow with the tide of corruption instead of resisting it. And because we are cut of from our moral center, we cannot unify as a nation around moral issues that profoundly affect our future. Our low quality education does not help the situation. The increasing corruption of civil society, including NGOs, peoples organizations, social movements, schools, media, and religious groups, adds further to moral cynicism and inaction. On top of it all, we have no clear vision of who are as a people nor do we have an understanding of what our collective talents are as a nation.<br />
For society as a whole (that is, our economy, politics, and culture), we are facing the challenge of hopeless growth. We are surrounded with the same urgent issues that have faced us for more than two decades: poverty, corruption, lawlessness, conflict, crime, overpopulation, damaged institutions, and others. The promises of past and present government administrations to address these societal issues now sound empty amidst the massive growth of these problems. Our prospects for renewal seem to be bleak and hopeless in the decades to come.<br />
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While our society is burdened with the challenge of hopelessness, we are also facing the stark reality of futureless growth in our relationship with our ecology - our sources of life, in our almost utter disregard for the integrity of creation. Solid waste, water and air pollution is increasing to dangerous levels. We are inadequately prepared for the massive impacts of global climate change that is upon us. Our chemical and poison-based agriculture continues to destroy the fertility of our soil and undermine our health as consumers. We continue to over-fish our oceans and destroy our forests and watersheds. Mining practices continue to be environmentally unsound and socially disruptive.<br />
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Economic, political, and cultural structures and institutions are responsible for the massive challenges we face today. Yet, in the end, human beings constitute systems and structures. People run the great institutions of our society. If people have integrity and competence, then the issues of society will be meaningfully addressed. If people are corrupt, then they will corrupt the systems, structures and institutions that they manage.<br />
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Unfortunately, at the spiritual and the individual level, we are also facing the challenge of meaningless growth. Filipinos are becoming more and more self-centered and egotistic. They only think of their immediate personal advantage instead of the common good. They cannot find their place in the wholeness of society and human history and therefore they do not find meaning in their lives. They are also becoming more materialistic. They value corrupt shortcuts and material possessions over honesty, hard work and a deep spiritual life. As a result of egotism and materialism, Filipinos increasingly feel empty and meaningless inside. They try to fill this meaninglessness with material possessions. They do not realize that gold can never replace principles and values as the basis for true meaning, purpose and satisfaction in life.<br />
<h3>Institutional Failure</h3>The behavior of key institutions in Philippine society contributes greatly to this crisis.<br />
Corporations continue with business as usual, focusing solely on their own gain and ignoring their dependence on the vitality of society at large. They continue to pollute the environment and exploit their workers. They do not mind being the cronies of the political powers that be as long as this special albeit stigmatize status brings them money, money, money. They also maintain their monopolies and oligopolies by buying off politicians or running for public office themselves.<br />
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Traditional politicians (“trapos”) are multiplying like pests, rapaciously feeding on and fueling the national chaos. The Presidency and the Executive Branch has behaved mostly like landlords and beauty contestants, concerned pre-eminently with their own narrow interests and their popularity. Congress has become a stage where the chief objective is not to govern wisely and prudently, but rather to determine who wields greater political power and who can suck, uncaught, the most in terms of monetary pilferage. The Supreme Court and its system of courts have also been ravaged by corruption. Money, not legal merits, determines the outcome of a case. The Office of the Ombudsman shelters the powerful, corrupt criminal, instead of prosecuting them. Comelec, ideally the guardian of clean and honest elections, has become the most brazen violator of our electoral process, a key feature of our democracy.<br />
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And, unfortunately, the recent elections in May 2010 do not promise much change. Massive and widespread electronic cheating marked the conduct of the recent elections. The “electronic Garci” dwarfs, in scope, bravado and pervasiveness, the manual Garci of the 2004 presidential elections.<br />
Significant segments of civil society including NGOs and Church groups, increasingly become irrelevant to the crying needs of the country, distracted by ambitions, power, moral corruption, and their own narrow instincts for institutional survival. Meanwhile most of our mainstream media feast, like vultures, on the dead bodies and broken dreams of the nation. They focus on sensational murders, accidents, robbery and spend countless prime time hours highlighting shallow, meaningless and often scandalous programs. For its part, significant segments of the academe are basically irrelevant to the discourse on national transformation. They become ego-centric, insular, unimaginative, conservative, reactionary, and mostly irrelevant to nation building.<br />
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The national chaos, not surprisingly, is encouraging millions to leave the Philippines and seek their future in strange lands. There they would rather brave loneliness, soul depravation, and broken homes than face the certainty of hunger, crime, drugs, hopelessness, and frustration.<br />
<h3>We are our own worst enemy</h3>We think the problem is only out there. But, in truth, the problem is also inside us. There is corruption and decline outside, because, inside many of us, we have died to our ideals, to our sense of freedom, courage, imagination, bayanihan, entrepreneurship, justice and fair play. We have found the enemy and the enemy is us.<br />
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There is a universal truth that we ignore at our peril. The most powerful governments and institutions exist only as long as citizens allow their existence. Rizal said it more simply and directly. “There are no tyrants if there are no slaves.”<br />
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Yet, for so long, we seem to prefer the status of apathetic slaves, quietly enduring the many sufferings inflicted upon us by corrupt, deceitful, unprincipled and egotistic leaders and their equally corrupt followers. Instead of doing something about the decline of the Philippines, we hope that, someday, maybe the sufferings of our country would quietly go away. Our favorite habit is to complain about how bad the country is. Yet we do not lift one finger to make the Philippines a better place.<br />
We have thus reaped the seeds of our own passivity and indifference. We now face the horror of a vastly more aggressive and arrogant army of corrupt leaders, professionals and followers in many businesses, government and congressional offices, media, schools, and even a growing number of religious institutions and NGOs.<br />
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Our apathy and indifference is reinforced by our doubts and our fears. Inside us, we tell ourselves: The problems are too many and too complex. We are too few to make a difference. We are too ordinary to galvanize mass action. On top of these, we are a divided people. We are no match against the trapos and the corrupt elite. They are too powerful to resist. They may arrest and even kill us. Our doubts and our fears become a self-fulfilling prophecy. When we doubt whether we can overcome our regional and linguistic divisions and be united against corruption and the trapos, then we empower trapos and elites to ruthlessly exploit this division for their own benefit. Our external prisons start with the prisons we have constructed in our minds and in our hearts. Our external defeats have their origins in the inner defeats we have allowed to fester inside.<br />
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<div style="padding-left: 30px;"><span class="caption">Trinaidor natin ang Inang Bayan sa ating pagbaliwala, kaduwagan, at pagdududa.</span></div><div style="padding-left: 30px;">Our apathy, cowardice, and doubt betray the Philippine Spirit.</div><div style="padding-left: 30px;"><br />
<span class="caption">May pag-asa pa! Ang liwanag ng kagalingan ng bawat tao<br />
Ngunit sa ngitngit ng dilim, may liwanag na nagaanyaya sa atin na gumising at lumaban. </span></div><div style="padding-left: 30px;">In the darkness of night, there is hope.</div><div style="padding-left: 30px;"><br />
</div>Filipinos, if they want, can succeed and rank with the best in the world. It is a good sign that, while the media concentrated on the disgusting and sickening developments in the Philippines, a number of Filipinos quietly gave honor to the Philippines by winning prestigious global awards in many areas of life. Recently Filipinos were awarded for global excellence in journalism, urban architecture, science education, governance, business and financial management, environmental protection, solar energy, children’s choir, globalization analysis and critique, social innovations and the theory and practice of social movements for a better world.<br />
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But this is only a small part of the story. Many Filipinos, from all walks of life, all over the country, are quietly engaged in exciting efforts to create a better Philippines. We do not know about them only because most of our mainstream media prefer masochism and trivia to celebration. They want Filipinos wallow in the melodrama of their own dirt because they think that that is the news that sells. They resist bringing greater recognition to the thousands of decent and honest efforts done by ordinary Filipinos across the archipelago.<br />
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The question therefore is not whether we have excellence as individuals and as a people. Rather the question is how to mobilize this excellence that is in each one of us and then unite it to renew the Philippines.<br />
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This is where MISSION (Movement for Imaginals for a Sustainable Society thru Implementation, Organization and Networking) comes in. Its mission is to bring together individuals of good will and love for the country to stop our on-going plunge into perversity, mediocrity, and suffering. (Click link to “What is MISSION?”)<br />
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Yes, we can shift the future of this country. Defeat and death stalk the countryside. But we can snatch victory from the jaws of defeat and death if we release the resurrection power that resides in each and everyone of us. Yes, we can make a new reality, now!<br />
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<b>source:</b><i> http://www.imaginalmission.net/web2.0/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=97&Itemid=160 </i><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">TO MY COLLEGE CLASSMATES IN ATENEO, BATCH MATES, AND SCHOOLMATES.... I'M GOING TO ADD MY NAME TO THIS LETTER (SEE ATTACHMENT BELOW) AGAINST MINING.<br />
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IF YOU, TOO, WANT TO ADD YOUR NAME, PLEASE TELL KARL GASPAR <karlgaspar@gmail.com> BY EMAILING HIM YOUR NAME. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">HE'S GOING TO THEN PUBLISH THE LETTER IN SUNSTAR, MINDANEWS, AND SUNSTAR.<br />
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THIS IS ASAP!<br />
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THANKS,<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Jan Elias D. "YanYan Simba ll </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times","serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><br />
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Monday (Feb. 20) issue of PDI had a full-page paid ad paid for by the Save Palawan Movement, Alyansa Tigil Mina, CEAP and our dear old alma mater debunking the Philippine Chamber of Mines' claims that mining will attract and bring in more investments, generate millions of jobs, etc. etc. Perhaps to provide moral support to Fr. Joel Tabora SJ, President of ADDU who has been the leader of this movement, we the alumni in civil society might issue a statement in support of this panawagan entitled - underMINING LIES! I will be sending this statement to all groups, agencies and institutions where there are ADDU alumni so we can have as many alumni to sign this statement and have it released within the week.<br />
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I propose the short statement below and if you are in agreement, would you kindly indicate that you are and that your name will appear in the statement that I will then send to Mindanews, SunStar, even the PDI.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times","serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><br />
Karl<br />
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STATEMENT OF ADDU ALUMNI ENGAGED IN CIVIL SOCIETY CONCERNS IN SUPPORT OF ADDU'S STANCE ON MINING<br />
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We are a group of graduates of the Ateneo de Davao University who - for many years now - have been engaged in social and ecological concerns, with special focus on Mindanao. Owing to our work in various development agencies we have traversed the various regions in Mindanao and have been in contact with grassroots Lumad and lowland peasant communities. In the 70s-90s, our main concerns were issues related to land ownership, ancestral domain, human rights violations, poverty and underdevelopment. Since the 1990s, we have become more interested in pursuing ecological issues as these have become very urgent considering the impact of climate change and the expanding occurrence of man-made calamities. One of these major issues is mining and its implications for both the delicate eco-system of our shared environment and the well-being of Mindanawons, especially the most marginalized.<br />
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In monitoring media's coverage of the mining issue, we are greatly disturbed by the manner that The Chamber of Mines of the Philippines (CMP) is mobilizing its huge resources to further reinforce the myths of the great advantages and that our country and its people will enjoy from mining as well as counter-attack civil society's opposite claims. The myths being perpetuated more and more aggressively by CMP and its allies - including some agencies in both national and local government - include the following: that mining will attract and bring in more investments, large-scale metallic and non-metallic mining can generate millions of jobs, will increase government revenues that can then be used for the poor, and that the mining sector improves the quality of life in host communities while mitigating its impact on the environment.<br />
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For a number of years now, many of us have gathered facts and figures on mining not just in our country but in other countries from various sources and do an analysis to objectively assess the impact of mining. We have consulted with various experts as well as sought their counsel as to what we need to do vis-a-vis the aggressive drive of mining companies in our country. We have gone on exposure to the countryside where there are mining explorations or actual operations and actually seen for ourselves the impact of mining as we talked with the local communities regarding their experiences in being in communities affected by mining. <br />
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This is why we have the audacity to claim that despite some benefits that we can derive from mining, by and large the negative impact will far outweigh the benefits. This is the reason why an increasing number of grassroots communities from the Zamboanga peninsula to the SOCSARGEN area to the Caraga Region have opposed mining. And thankfully, an increasing number of civil society agencies - from Local Churches to NGOs - have supported them in their struggle to stop mining in their areas if these are still on the exploration stage or to minimize its impact if operations have begun.<br />
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It is in this light that we are very much heartened by the statement - <i>underMINING LIES!</i> - issued by Save Palawan Movement, Alyansa Tigil Mina, the Catholic Educational Association of the Philippines and our alma mater,the Ateneo de Davao University, which appeared recently in many broadsheets. We are very proud of our alma mater for extending its social capital in support of the people's struggle to oppose indiscriminate mining in our country and in Mindanao today. This statement expresses our own deepest sentiments regarding mining and our stance re debunking the myths have have been peddled by the CMP in the media today. We support this coalition's position to "support the draft executive order on mining" as we also reiterate the call for "total economic valuation, additional areas closed toming (prime agricultural lands and eco-tourism zones), review of all existing mining contracts and agreements, suspension of approval of all pe4nding mining applications, measures to increase government revenues in mining and development of downstream industries for the mineral sector".<br />
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We call on our fellow alumni who are in government, business and the rest of the private sector to support this call, even as we encourage all Filipinos to be vigilant regarding this issue. Let the truth be told and let justice guide our actions not just on behalf of our disadvantaged brothers and sisters but for the whole of creation! In the spirit of Lent, let us ask forgiveness for all the trespasses we have committed that has led to sad state of the country and its eco-system. We pray that all may be converted to defend the integrity of God's creation even as we continue to serve the poor in our midst who are the ones who suffer most when ecological calamities strike.<br />
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Hinaut pa unta!<br />
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(Signed)<br />
- Carlito M. Gaspar CSsR<br />
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(who will sign next?)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></div>* Please copy and send this to Karl Gaspar (karlgaspar@gmail.com) with your name below to support Anti-Mining Campaign. <br />
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In Light and Love,<br />
YanYan<br />
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by: Casper_CuteYanYan Simbahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09139401992454507867noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7188866710314082687.post-89392263971089649982012-02-25T04:50:00.001-08:002012-02-25T04:50:06.186-08:00Mission Workshop Courage Mindanao UpdatesMISSION Workshop Courage for Mindanao, pls. be guided of the following updates:<br />
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1. Zamboanga <br />
Date: March 3 & 4<br />
Venue: LRC Conference Room, Ateneo de Zamboanga<br />
Investment Fee: Php 500.00 inclusive of two lunch<br />
Contact Persons: Tammy-<br />
09166445806 and/or Kate-<br />
09177174668 <br />
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2. Cagayan de Oro<br />
Date: March 10 & 11<br />
Venue: The Malasag House, Malasag, Cugman, CDO <br />
Investment Fee: Php 500.00 inclusive of two lunch<br />
Contact Persons: Ayyi-<br />
09177023432, Lee-<br />
09175961454 and/or Kate-<br />
09177174668 <br />
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3. Bukidnon - we changed this to ILIGAN City<br />
Date: March 13 & 14<br />
Venue: TBA soon!<br />
Investment Fee: Php 500.00 inclusive of two lunch<br />
Contact Persons: Ayyi-<br />
09177023432 and/or Kate-<br />
09177174668 <br />
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4. Midsayap <br />
Date: March 21 & 22<br />
Venue and Investment Fee: TBA-we're still working on it! Contact Persons: Jemil-<br />
09228619242, Ayyi-<br />
09177023432 and/or Kate- 09177174668 <br />
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Pls help us invite ur friends and family who are currently based on the areas mentioned above. Thank you! - YanYanYanYan Simbahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09139401992454507867noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7188866710314082687.post-59926635870094798202012-02-24T11:51:00.000-08:002012-02-24T11:51:23.605-08:00What if… In Baguio, it IS more fun outside of SM<div class="column" id="ja-content" style="width: 71.43%;"> <div class="column" id="ja-current-content" style="min-height: 2220px; width: 100%;"> <div class="ja-content-main clearfix" id="ja-content-main" style="min-height: 2220px;"> <div class="item-page"> <h1 class="contentheading clearfix"> Occupy SM Baguio! </h1><div class="article-tools clearfix"> <br />
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<h2>What if… In Baguio, it IS more fun outside of SM</h2>Much has already been said and much will still be said regarding the cutting of 182 trees in SM City Baguio, now called Project Save 182. Sadly, some see this as a done deal and environmentalists and concerned citizens can shout themselves hoarse and nothing will come out of it, at least that is what SM and City Officials would probably want everyone to believe.<br />
save the trees in baguio, eco living, green living, project save 182<br />
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Maybe so… but then again maybe not. But it IS by keeping quiet that you make sure that those 182 trees do not have a chance, the city does not have a chance.<br />
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I am 40, I have never joined a rally all my life, not a very unusual thing, but for an alumni of UP Diliman that is unusual, (I cringe to admit) it speaks volumes of my apathy and indifference.<br />
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But last January 20, in an adopted city I found my voice and for the first time joined a rally. And what a rally that was!<br />
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It has been difficult to write for in the past months, I have hesitated and just forgot about writing, I just didn’t have the motivation to do so. But that rally gave me the reason to write again. I first heard about it through Dr. Bengwayan of A Tree A Day, the main proponent of the movement. A brave man who inspired more than 5,000 people to walk.<br />
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Because of him and his inspiration, I realized that it is by finding my voice and way back to writing again, I also give the chance for another to find his own voice and way.<br />
save the trees in baguio, eco living, green living, project save 182<br />
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Even at 40, its never too late to have your voice heard.<br />
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save the trees in baguio, eco living, green living, project save 182<br />
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But doing so earlier doesn't hurt either<br />
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I have always thought SM City Baguio was the most beautiful SM, hands down. Why? Simply because of the pine trees. Nothing beats dining in SM with its view of the pine trees and the mountains. At night, dining al fresco even at Mang Inasal has its charm.<br />
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Now SM would want us to believe that a skygarden can replace a forest, that it IS the tourist destination of the City of Pines (without the pine trees).<br />
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That is NOT fun, that is funNY (if it weren’t so sad).<br />
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I have also thought SM City Baguio was one of the most ecologically progressive among all SM malls, with limited airconditioning, recycled water flushing system and even supporting our Climate Change Presentation of Shiela Castillo, one of the Philippine’s top experts in Climate change.<br />
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But recent developments is changing that perception. Can SM’s green advocacy merely just a marketing ploy to give them a little competitive edge? uhhmmm… Personally, I’m no expert here, but if that IS merely a positioning, it is a very dangerous one in a world that is waking up. Eco or green has very definite parameters that are very transparent, evident and obvious when you are NOT it.<br />
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Now that is NOT fun nor funny.<br />
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I would suggest you read more credible discussions on the issue so you can have your own opinion, you can read it in the Green Pen and Rappler via JP Alipio.<br />
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But what can we do about it? I am just a mother, a teacher, what can I do? Do we stand a chance against a corporate giant with billions in their pocket? Maybe if we start to rethink where we spend the pesos in our wallets, then they will start to understand and we will start to understand.<br />
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Not to promote activism for activism’s sake nor protest just to protest. I am imagining what would make this more fun?<br />
save the trees in baguio, eco living, green living, project save 182<br />
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hmm… what if we are to imagine another way of making our voices heard? what if we imagine another way of enjoying Baguio?<br />
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What if… In Baguio, it is actually more Fun outside SM.<br />
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Here’s just partial list why…<br />
<ol><li>Bookstore: Mt. Cloud, National Bookstore in Abanao Square, CID stores</li>
<li>Grocery: Sunshine, Victoria’s, Tiongsan</li>
<li>Clothes: Tiongsan, Ukay-ukay</li>
<li>Furniture: Tiongsan Harrison and Mabini</li>
<li>Dining: OMG, Eve’s Garden, Cafe by the Ruins, Oh My Khan (mmmm…this is getting exciting!)</li>
<li>Cinema: Cinemateque</li>
<li>Family and Kiddie Fun activities: Camp John Hay’s Butterfly Farm, Eco Trail, Tree Top Adventure</li>
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The more I think about it, the more exciting it gets!<br />
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Fo the complete article please go to http://myquaintlife.com/2012/01/24/project-save-182/<br />
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source: http://www.imaginalmission.net/web2.0/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=214%3Aoccupy-sm-baguio&catid=66%3Afrontline&Itemid=168<br />
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</div></div></div></div></div>YanYan Simbahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09139401992454507867noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7188866710314082687.post-71226059114648060942012-02-23T23:53:00.000-08:002012-02-23T23:53:10.766-08:00MISSION ILOILO: The Roadrev Forum by: Allyn Mae Canja<div style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">MISSION ILOILO: The Roadrev Forum </span></div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">by: Allyn Mae Canja</span></div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
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</div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The worlds largest and most successful revolutions were fueled by asking challenging questions. Every morning, we face the scene of cars literally bumping each others bumper because of crowded roads, people illegally and legally crossing the streets and the choking smell of burnt fuel. Heavy traffic has brought us many problems that need to be answered, but since we’re aiming for a revolution, we should ask a question: What can we do about it?</span></div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">MISSION</span></div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> Iloilo has an answer. As a part of the “we” in the question ”What can WE do about it?” and recognizing the need for a revolution, Mission Iloilo said “Yes!” when asked to help organize the Road Revolution forum. Open free to the public, with Atty. Antonio “Tony” Oposa as the resource speaker, it was held last Saturday, February 18, 2012 at the Victory Christian Church in Iloilo City. Over 50 key leaders and representatives of various mulri-sectral groups converged to listen to the speaker and interact with other concerned citizens. Local Media also came to cover it, from print and radio including The News Today and MBC; both ABS-CBN and GMA.</span></div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">An impassioned speaker and leader, Atty. Tony Oposa has mobilized revolutions for the environment by fueling people’s passion with his world-changing ideas. He is a great “imageneer” whose thinking has been put into action and has been applauded by the people who share his causes. The Road Revolution is a movement of people from all walks of life to seek to turn around the mindset of the road system – now biased in favor of cars and motor vehicles to a mindset and bias for people and open space.</span></div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">According to World Bank data, 97% of Filipinos don't own or have cars and othe motorized vehicles, though you can’t tell by looking down the street. So why do the 97% have to live and abide by rules geared toward the other 3%?If the remaining 3% who use cars will be responsible enough to share the roads with the majority, we won’t be enduring this daily burden. </span></div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">According to Mayor Jed Patrick Mabilog, who was also present during the forum, Iloilo City has 12,000 traffic ordinances. That alone tells how huge the need to control daily traffic is, at the local level. Ably supported by the City Councilors also present in the forum - Jeffrey Ganzon, RLeone Gerochi and the speaker’s good friend, Jason Gonzales - the Mayor remained positive about unifying and streamlining various ordinances into one working Traffic Code.</span></div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">This is the Theses</span></div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Revolution means “to turn around” and that is exactly what the city needs – to turn the cirrent situation around. The Road Revolution actively seeks to participate in presenting creative, alternative problem-solving opportunities to the apparently insolvable problem of heavy traffic. It proposes the equal sharing of the road by the people who use it. </span></div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Atty. Oposa proposes a 30/30/30-10 sharing of the road. We can have a lane for people who love walking. The people who ride their bicycle to work can also have a lane of their own. Public transportation and private vehicles will also occupy another lane, folowing a single file system. The reamining parts of the road are for islands and roadside gardens which can be used for vegetable and herbal gardens. It is a simple solution that can turn the complex traffic problem around. It will also result to a cleaner air due to the lesser number of vehicles.</span></div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Perhaps the biggest positive impact that this revolution will have is on the environment. Imagine how this will affect our continued effort to mitigate the effects of Climate Change? One less car on the road equates to lesser pollutants in the air caused by production and usage. A huge amount of metal, plastics and other non biodegradable materials will not be needed anymore. More and more people will also be attracted to the idea of biking and walking as forms of transportation thus generating healthier, environmentally-concerned people. Like a domino effect, when we solve road problems, poverty, pollution and climate change are possitively impacted. </span></div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Turning Thought into Action</span></div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">With the number of government officials and concerned citizens present during the forum, it is Mission Possible for the Road Revolution to develop into a new system. After all, the most important modern day revolutions that conitnue to change our world, started on the road.</span></div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">What we need now is to continue the mission of changing mindsets, and apparently there are people who want to push this revolution to the front-line of what the local government should work on. If there are more forums to educate people, like what Mission Iloilo has organized, it wont be impossible for this cause to spread, and members of Mission Iloilo have committed to taking the forum on the road, spreading news about the data and encouraging a change of mind. </span></div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">On a personal note, I love walking. Treñas Blvd has been my favorite place in the city. It's a gateway to places I want to go to. While on a trip, I enjoy walking as therapy. My eyes can feast on the scenic beauty of Iloilo river juxtaposed with the buildings along its bank. Iloilo City has a certain charm that makes people appreciate its simple beauty. If more lanes are provided for people like me, more and more people will surely join us, as mindsets change.</span></div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">After the forum, during the lunch sposored by the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources at Tatoy’s, one of our members got to thinking: if a mindset is simply a learned set of rules and ways of viewing life, accumulated from the past, and if in revolutions, we dream about how life can be in the future -shall we call it a lifeset?- then not only do we change mindsets, we must consider now, the whole collection of our thoughts and actions, a lifeset.</span></div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">And upon considering it, live in a certain way, because we believe that when we commit to it from the outset, we set in motion a chain of events that will inevitably empower us and those around us to living more and more authentically, on the road to the best future we can all share...</span></div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Mission Iloilo has taken the first step, one of many, as it continues its commitment to taking the good news on the road! The road is for everyone! Let us occupy them!</span></div><div style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br />
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Let all of us be of one mind.<br />
May we be of one undivided heart.</div>YanYan Simbahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09139401992454507867noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7188866710314082687.post-64652805184553789442012-02-21T12:32:00.000-08:002012-02-21T12:32:28.754-08:00MISSION KORONADAL by: Dianne Espanol<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-PH</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/> <w:DontVertAlignCellWithSp/> <w:DontBreakConstrainedForcedTables/> <w:DontVertAlignInTxbx/> <w:Word11KerningPairs/> <w:CachedColBalance/> </w:Compatibility> <m:mathPr> <m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/> <m:brkBin m:val="before"/> <m:brkBinSub m:val="--"/> <m:smallFrac m:val="off"/> <m:dispDef/> <m:lMargin m:val="0"/> <m:rMargin m:val="0"/> <m:defJc m:val="centerGroup"/> <m:wrapIndent m:val="1440"/> <m:intLim m:val="subSup"/> <m:naryLim m:val="undOvr"/> </m:mathPr></w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="true"
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-US">MISSION KORONADAL </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-US">by Dianne Espanol</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Movement of Imaginals for Sustainable Societies through Initiatives, Organizing and Networking</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></b><span lang="EN-US">Hearing about MISSION COURAGE from Kate for the first time back in December 2011 made me excited, nervous, and that unexplainable feeling when you believe that an answer to a LIFE-boggling question is just within your reach. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let me integrate my experiences during the two Mission Courage workshops that transpired approximately 2 months apart. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">THE CALL. THE TRIAL.</b> Today many of the young generation begin to question and search for their life purpose. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I, at 30 years old, must say that I felt the great question a few years ago. Recalling the experience, I see myself leaving my routine and surrendering to an unfamiliar. I felt accompanied and confident as I treaded the starting point of the less traveled path. Shifting that abstract picture to where I choose to be now – a teacher, a student, a daughter, a sister, a friend, and a lover - that unusual road placed me at one of its bends… worth discovering!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>MISSION COURAGE presents a more scientific echo of the learning’s and experiences I have acquired and gone through. Refer to it as <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">ningas cogon</i> in which you just know what to do and then lose the drive of acting on it so you endure feeling bothered, and being dragged by your stubbornness and complaints. All the while I was searching for that strength and direction from within. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was waiting for that opportunity to come again. I even challenged myself, “why wait when opportunities are everywhere.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then I prayed for what I needed - an open and faithful heart. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 4.5pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">THE REVELATION.</b> MISSION COURAGE is a force of change that speaks “love…compassion, selfless act… responsibility… PROVIDENCE…”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s like a slap telling me “you knew it!” I have realized the stirrings will always lead me to where OTHERS matter. My life is for others. I also remember the passage, “…the moment we definitely commit ourselves, the providence moves too.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 4.5pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 4.5pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I played a slightly different role In the second MISSION COURAGE workshop. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes, I was part of the organizing and at the same time, a PARTICIPANT, and will still be in the future workshops! In the 2 month-gap where a hullabaloo of school, work and other concerns could derail me, I needed the 2-day workshop to restore my IMAGINAL nature. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It switched on once again the meaning and passion for life and all it grasps – the moment I step in the classroom, the time when I’m with my family, the hours I work and study, the time to relax and enjoy, and when I make decisions. From information to knowledge to wisdom – this is transformation; an AHA moment! I believe I share this significant experience with the rest who completed the workshop. Whether it was checked in the smaller group, or in the bigger group, or knowing it in yourself, it is an AHA moment. Remember when the invitation says “it will change your life forever,” it sincerely does. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is like living with a bulb on your head reminding you that hey you know what you ought to do, stop ignoring it. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The truth is, I just could not ignore that MISSION COURAGE changed me and must act with this change. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 4.5pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</address><address>Reports by: Jim Sharman, Au Hugo and Sam Prudente</address><address> </address>The Tornado that was Shiela Castillo-Tiangco’s visit to Iloilo has come and gone but not without stirring things up both for the Iloilo Mission Node and hopefully for the students, faculty members, government officials, community leaders and concerned citizens from Iloilo and neighboring provinces (including Guimaras Island) who attended the presentations. Sheila was unstoppable and amazing, continuously reworking her presentation and bringing a real quality of commitment and passion to all her presentations.<br />
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Even with months of preparation, time seemed to accelerate as the event neared. Last minute glitches, like a wrong booking for Shiela's flight, only served to strengthen our resolve. Individuals were tested. The Iloilo Mission node was tested. And maybe, even Sheila was tested, given that we scheduled her for nine presentations over a four-day period! We knew that The Climate Reality Project was meant to be a learning opportunity for participants, but we had not realized what a learning opportunity it would become for the node! This was one of my own key insights from the event—that the second “I” in MISSION, is a powerfull and indispensable aspect of becoming an imaginal. Taking initiative together forces us to undergo the lemniscate process both individually and as a group. In the end, we moved, and Divine Providence moved too! But first to the report of the event.<br />
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A day before the launch, the small circle of carriers had the chance to sit together and be quiet. It was an important re-visiting of and reflection on intentions and sources of imaginality. This gave a renewed sense of purpose and strength and really helped gell the group in preparation for the long days ahead.<br />
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We had three venues on the first day—University of the Philippines in the Visayas (Iloilo City Campus); John B. Lacson Foundation Maritime University; West Visayas College of Science and Technology. We were able to reach over 950 people through the efforts of these three institutions. Media covered the event at UP and Sheila had a phone-patched interview with a local station.<br />
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Day two also consisted of three venues: Iloilo Doctor’s College; PHINMA-University of Iloilo; and PHINMA-University of Iloilo College of Law, which hosted 100 businessmen and law students sponsored by JCI Regatta Iloilo. Through these venues and venue partners, we reached approximately 1,300 people.<br />
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On the third day, we sent Sheila to Guimaras island where she gave her presentation to a small group of residents and civil servants of Nueva Valencia at the John B. Lacson Foundation Maritime University’s Villa Igang Training facility. Later, back in Iloilo, Shiela spoke to 400 students of Saint Paul University of Iloilo.<br />
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Finally, on the fourth day, the DENR in cooperation of the Central Philippine University gathered almost 1,600 participants from all walks of life: elementary, high school and college students of CPU as well as other schools like the Western Institute of Technology, the Oton National High School, San Jose College; DENR and Local government officials from various LGUs; businessmen and civic society representatives. The day was capped off with a live interview on the Cable TV show Ecoforum, but not before the hardworking Iloilo Node members, together with Sheila, had enjoyed a good traditional hilot massage!<br />
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All in all, we were able to reach over 4000 people who attended the various presentations to learn about MISSION and about the reality of global warming and the need to act now! Sheila has been invited to return by several groups and dates have already been set.<br />
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There were at least six Mission Iloilo node members at every venue. And one member who attended every single presentation and was the computer operator! Each presentation began with a prayer. Different Iloilo node members introduced MISSION and Sheila at each event. At the end of each presentation we played an audio slideshow about MISSION that we made for the event and we distributed feedback forms, which also gave participants an opportunity to tell us about initiatives they were involved in, their areas of interest and their contact information. We now have thousands of forms and the opportunity to capture the interest and energy generated by the four-day whirlwind event. We also distributed leaflets that described MISSION and the Climate Reality Project. We set up a table for initiative display including: solar lantern, mission possible book, BD Veggies, and sponsors initiatives. We were also able to get some sponsorships to cover expenses and in exchange we played short videos that showcased the CSR advocacies of our sponsors. Finally, we had a t-shirt printed with MISSION logo that MISSION members were proud to wear at all the events.<br />
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At least 20 Iloilo Mission node members were present in one or more of the events. Others were instrumental in the planning and preparation. Nick was able to join us at the St.Paul's venue. Pictures can be viewed here: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.2491253513501.130516.1017639547&type=3#!/media/set/?set=a.2491253513501.130516.1017639547&type=3<br />
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In viewing the Initiative as a learning opportunity and in appreciating what we had been been gifted with—what we were able to be a part of—some questions arose for us that included: how can we share and organize the responsibilities so that more nodal members would have the possibility to participate and contribute? How can we create clearer lines of communication? And how can we sustain our weekly nodal meetings as places of re-sourcing when in the midst of event preparation?<br />
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Our gratitude to Sheila for eveything! We also thank the Baguio and Dumaguete nodes for sharing their experiences and allowing us to learn from their successes! We also thank the Davao node for their support, the Cebu node (hi Tressa) for pictures, Jagat for the poster layout! And to all our co-sponsors!<br />
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This report is a compilation of reports by Au Hugo and Sam Prudente.<br />
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I am honored to have been a part of the experience!<br />
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Jim Sharman<br />
MISSION Iloilo<br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">Sofia Waldorf Inspired School is so blessed to have the support of Mission from all over, and Dr. Alonzo has volunteered to give a public talk about Multiple Intelligence to promote the school.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Much to the Sofia community’s delight, the audience has reached even non-Mission members and was able to promote another way of learning which is very much at the heart of the Waldorf curriculum.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">As the usual with Dr. Marian’s lectures, there would always be shocking surprises of new information debunking commonly accepted “truths” and of course the enlightened oohs and aahhhs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was a very informative and affirming lecture on Dec 10,2011 a Sunday morning that we hope would benefit the participants in their journey in parenting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">We still have a long way to go to making Steiner education a viable option for Baguio students but if the participants just remember one single gem from Dr. Marian’s lecture then a seed has been sown and we WILL have education that nourishes the child in Baguio.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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<tr> <td valign="top" width="385"><div>We do care about our future, the fate of humanity and the decline of the planet. But many of us also feel we are too small, too insignificant to do anything about the massive problems that are overwhelming our nations and the world.</div><div>History offers a different picture. Throughout centuries all over the world, individuals, acting together with courage against impossible odds, have succeeded in shaping their societies and in changing the world forever. </div><div><br />
Workshop Courage is a unique, proven, and potent integration of science, spirituality, social theory, psychology, and other disciplines – all in the service of profound inner and outer transformation. MISSION has successfully conducted this workshop in key areas of the country as well as in the United States of America and Europe. </div><div><br />
Workshop Courage aims to awaken the creative "imaginal" in us, the Infinity within, our Real Self - our massive, unstoppable force for truth, enthusiasm, compassion, courage, good, transformation, and initiative. In addition, the workshop aims to introduce participants to MISSION,s framework of societal transformation that creative individuals (imaginals) consciously becoming and acting together can realize. <br />
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<h3>WHAT would your child do if she or he was never allowed to watch television throughout her or his childhood? What will your child do?</h3><br />
To many, this may sound unimaginable. But to an education system that strives to develop the natural curiosity of each child and help him explore the world to feed and nurture that urge to learn, it is one of the requirements.<br />
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And no, a child who is nurtured in such a learning environment will not lack for anything, even if his peers will be handling all kinds of gadgets and he still has to see one. And this is because, when the natural curiosity and eagerness to learn is there, fear of not being able to do something yet untried is minimized if not removed. It is that fear which holds us back. Even adults would be heard saying, “Ay, baka masira ko ito!”<br />
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A child who has learned the concepts of prying into what is, will just need to figure out how things work confident in one’s analytical approach, excitement on the impending discovery overcomes fear.<br />
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Now imagine…<br />
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How much better would your child turn out if he is schooled in an environment where rich and poor get the same learning advantage and each child brings in the experiences and realities of where he comes from? Beyong just the drive to learn is the openness to understand. Are in Utopia yet? No. But this is the learning experience the Steiner/Waldorf education has introduced worldwide, which has been gaining positive response from parents who only want the best for their children.<br />
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In the website, whywaldorfworks.org, it says:<br />
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“For the Waldorf student, music, dance, and theater, writing, literature, legends and myths are not simply subjects to be read about, ingested and tested. They are experienced. Through these experiences, Waldorf students cultivate a lifelong love of learning as well as the intellectual, emotional, physical and spiritual capacities to be individuals certain of their paths and to be of service to the world.”<br />
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Developed by Rudolf Steiner in 1919, the Steiner/Waldorf education is based on the understanding of human development, which addresses the needs of a growing child.<br />
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Thus teachers do not just impart lessons as designed in a textbook and expounded on in a lesson plan, rather, they consciously transform education into an art, thus educating the child not just as a mind that has to be filled with age-appropriate information but as a heart to be touched, a hand to reach out and touch, and a head to figure out how everything else works.<br />
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“Teachers in Waldorf schools are dedicated to generating an inner enthusiasm for learning within every child,” whywaldorfworks.org states.<br />
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This kind of education will be introduced to Davao City this coming school year in June through Tuburan Institute at the Blissful Family Village in Buhangin. Tuburan means wellspring and its mission is “to become the wellspring of life in the educational landscape by replicating similar-intentioned schools in other parts of Mindanao.”<br />
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The institute is to be run by young teacher Maya Flaminda J. Vandenbroeck and Katherine E. Estember.<br />
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Tuburan opens this relatively new approach to teaching to parents who are, first and foremost, willing to do without television at home.<br />
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Tough. But, aren’t parents supposed to do everything they can for the good of their children? What if this is really for the good of your child?<br />
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“We really encourage parents to attend our orientation so they can have a full grasp of what Waldorf/Steiner is all about,” Vandenbroeck said. “If they are open to have a home school partnership with Tuburan, then first is that we really discourage TV viewing and parents will have to sign a memorandum of agreement that they will reinforce what the children have learned in school.”<br />
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Vandenbroeck grew up without television as her parents encouraged her and her brother to instead engage in open discussions with their parents instead.<br />
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Both Vandenbroeck and Estember underwent the Stiner Education Training in Iloilo by the Gamot Cogon Institute.<br />
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The idea to put up such a learning institution here was inspired by the Steiner/Waldorf school in Iloilo, specifically in Libongcogon, Zarraga -- the Gamot Cogon School.<br />
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<span class="caption"><em><strong>Gamot Cogon - A Waldorf-inspired school in Iloilo.</strong></em></span><br />
Libongcogon is a poor rural community, and yet, children of rich people from several kilometers away are entering its doors, sharing learning space with the children of farmers.<br />
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As in any learning institution that drums up quality of teaching and learning, the first that will cross a parent’s mind is the cost. Quality education these days costs a lot.<br />
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Not quite.<br />
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Vandenbroeck explained, the full tuition is P40,000 a year. There is a big but to that.<br />
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“That’s why we really encourage people to go to the school orientation to understand better because each family will pay differently,” she said.<br />
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The parents will have to state their income, and the appliance they have and use, as a gauge of their living standards and how much they can afford to send a child to school.<br />
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And then there is the interview where the main agenda, especially for those who are tight in regular cash, is to negotiate for the tuition.<br />
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The idea is to share the system of learning to as broadest possible spectrum of children that can be handled with utmost care by one teacher in a class. After all, each child brings with him the life experience and perspective of his family, which when handled with the desire to nurture can enhance every other child’s development.<br />
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“Whatever their school fees, all children will get the same education. It is inclusive of merienda that they prepare together in class, as well as writing materials, art materials, and musical instruments,” Vandenbroeck’s paper on Tuburan reads. “Moreover, students do not need to buy uniforms but are instead encouraged to wear simple, plain clothes, shoes, and bags devoid of any brand names, logos, and cartoon characters. Students also do not need to buy standardized textbooks because each creates his or her own illustrated summary of coursework in book form inspired by the creative lessons that teachers put together out of the resources available in the faculty room.”<br />
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Gamot Cogon, the school that inspired Vandenbroeck and Estember to bring the system her, was established in 2005 and now has classes ranging from a small nine students in Class 9, and as many as 25 students in Class 3. There, even children of very rich families arrive in school in rubber sippers.<br />
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The two ladies work closely with Nicanor Perlas and Bella Tan, the co-founders of the Manila Waldorf School.<br />
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The circle that brought them to the Waldorf School is Perlas’ campaign that gave birth to the Movement of Imaginals for Sustainable Societies through Initiatives, Organization and Networking (Mission).<br />
“Kate and I are part of Mission, a movement of Filipinos who have from different institutions and concerns who vow to support each other for a better Philippines,” she said.<br />
The putting up a Stenier/Waldorf inspired school here was given the final push when they attended Mission’s three-week Aletheia workshop.<br />
“It was during that three weeks workshop when we decided to quit our jobs and start Tuburan,” she said.<br />
The Aletheia Vandenbroeck is referring to is Mission’s Aletheia Course, which is the acronym for Advanced Leadership Training for Human Empowerment thru Integral Awareness and Action. Aletheia is also a Greek word which means “Truth”. In this context it means “truth” as a foundation for effective action in the world, Mission’s website reads.<br />
“The curriculum of the Aletheia Course is built around this journey of unlocking the deepest and most profound potential that resides in us and channeling and shaping these energies for the benefit of society. Societal innovations require new capacities,” the page on Aletheia course further explains.<br />
Vandenbroeck, however, added, “This has been a life dream to start something that will effect change in Mindanao’s educational landscape. Aletheia just gave us the final push to quit our job and focus on Tuburan.”<br />
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Tuburan is opening in June 2012 with only 40 slots for children between ages 3 to 6 (kinder level students). Each year, only one grade level will be added until there are 240 students from kinder to grade 12 in 2020.<br />
n the paper Vandenbroeck sent as additional information, she pointed out that just recently Department of Education (DepEd) introduced the Kinder to 12 Years of Basic Education System (K-12) in recognition of the worsening quality of education the children are getting.<br />
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“As a result, school pressure has increased even more: enrollment has been moved to an earlier age, reading and writing are taught earlier, competition is intensified, lots of tests, classes become more intellectual, less movement, no arts, no playing,” the paper reads.<br />
“Our IQ-focused education ignores naturalistic and existential intelligence and disregards emotional, moral, and spiritual intelligence. Our IQ-focused education leaves us prey to super machines which will soon take over all IQ-dominant tasks, easily replacing educators, medical doctors, and other professionals working solely on the basis of IQ,” the paper continues.<br />
This early, the idea sounds too radical, but the results are trickling through the Waldorf schools in the country that are now enjoying the growing confidence of more and more parents.<br />
As one of Vandenbroeck’s friends in Facebook said as greeting for Tuburan wrote, “I was not a believer of the Steiner method until my nieces went to Manila Waldorf. Good to know you are now in Davao.”<br />
Suffice it to say that this friend comes from a well respected family with a thriving business here.<br />
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So far, they have been getting encouragements from like-minded friends, but hesitation from mothers who are not yet willing to let go of the high quality of education promised by the top private schools, as well as their television habits.<br />
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But if you just search the Internet about Waldorf School, and you were the adventurous and curious child who had to be repressed most of the time, you will feel a sense of disappointment for having been born too early.<br />
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</div></div></div></div></div><div class="ja-col column ja-inset2" id="ja-inset2" style="min-height: 5272px; width: 28.57%;">You can check this site: http://www.imaginalmission.net/web2.0/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=208:where-education-is-childs-play-yet-not-&catid=47:davao-news&Itemid=179</div><div class="ja-col column ja-inset2" id="ja-inset2" style="min-height: 5272px; width: 28.57%;">Published in the Sun.Star Davao newspaper on January 15, 2012 </div><div class="ja-col column ja-inset2" id="ja-inset2" style="min-height: 5272px; width: 28.57%;"><br />
</div></div></div></div>YanYan Simbahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09139401992454507867noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7188866710314082687.post-90036069468408189342012-02-20T09:21:00.000-08:002012-02-20T09:21:53.861-08:00MISSION in International Exchange Platform in Thailand<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-OIcnr9zWTO4/T0KAkKLLpEI/AAAAAAAABIc/ACLm6YmRLHM/s1600/grace.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-OIcnr9zWTO4/T0KAkKLLpEI/AAAAAAAABIc/ACLm6YmRLHM/s320/grace.jpg" width="320" /></a> </div><h1 class="contentheading clearfix" style="text-align: center;">MISSION in International Exchange Platform in Thailand </h1><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>by Grace Calleja</b></span></div><br />
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<div>The Birthing Center members were invited by Nick during the June 2011 BC meeting to attend the International Exchange Platform on August 25-27 2011. This was organized by the School for Wellbeing in Chulalongkorn University. The organizers are the same people who closely worked with Bhutan's famous Gross National Happiness. Four of us expressed interest to attend, but I was the only one left who could go.</div><div>Nick was a Keynote Presenter on The Threefold Nature of Social Innovation. </div><div> </div><div>To know more about the details of the conference, please log on to <a href="http://www.schoolforwellbeing.org/c.php?id=42" style="color: #0000cc;" target="_blank">http://www.schoolforwellbeing.org/c.php?id=42</a>.</div><div> </div><div><img border="0" src="http://www.imaginalmission.net/web2.0/cache/images/stories/400-img_3472.jpg" /></div><div><br />
</div><div>There were more than 100 people who attended the conference representing all continents of the world, except Africa.</div><div> </div><div>Most of the participants came from the field of academe, civil society organization and funding agencies. A few from the government of Thailand and 3 of us from the business sector. I am half-half though, because I represented MISSION in the conference.</div><div> </div><div>A highlight of the conference was the World Cafe Process where the following questions (not verbatim) were discussed:</div><div>1. What are the challenges that prevent social innovation to take place?</div><div>2. What social innovations can we expect to see in the next 5-10 years?</div><div>3. How can we support these social innovations to take place?</div><div>Another highlight was the Marketplace of Happiness, where 12 topics were discussed simultaneously and we had to choose which "market" we wanted to go to. I chose 1. Youth and Sustainable Education and 2. Media and ICT (Information Communication Technology)</div><div> </div><div>I am convinced that MISSION's framework is so far the most sophisticated and encompassing in terms of approach to societal transformation. Others were overwhelmed with the task ahead, at the diversity of interests and ways to achieve "sustainable wellbeing" in a national level, moreso at the global level. MISSION is saying it is POSSIBLE and we have the tools and formula on how to go about it.</div><div> </div><div>I also brought home with me ideas on how to organize Karangalan and/or other conferences, where to get funding for MISSION, new contacts/network for MISSION, and possible expansion of MISSION in Thailand starting from an IT expert who created a Free Downloadable Apple Application called Doctor Me (in Thai).</div><div>I also learned the huge advantage we have in front of us to create value out of common property such as knowledge, communication, network, etc....</div><div> </div><div> </div><div>You can check this site: http://www.imaginalmission.net/web2.0/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=177:mission-in-international-exchange-platform-in-thailand&catid=55:birthing-news&Itemid=235</div><div> </div><div>Casper_Cute </div>YanYan Simbahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09139401992454507867noreply@blogger.com1