Archive for October, 2008

Sandy Lawrence works in the marketing of books running a company named Perceptive Marketing. He is also committed to making sure young people be able to read have full access to books. As a result, in his self expression and leadership program Perceptive Marketing launched “Operation Storytime,” a unique program designed to encourage and increase […]

For her project in Landmark Education’s Self-Expression and Leadership Programme, Meghan Murphy put together a major art display as part of Albany, New York’s prominent First Friday art festival which takes place each year on the first Friday in November.
Murphy’s exhibit featured art of Albany’s famous Washington Park, which has been a centerpiece of the […]

A Self-Expression and Leadership Programme project like no other has led to an equally novel photo exhibit taking place over the month of October. Jessica Bavinton was curious about where cats go when humans aren’t around, so she began attaching cameras to them to find out. Her project in the Landmark Education programme let to […]

Aviva Pal completed the Landmark Education Self-Expression and Leadership Program earlier this year in New Jersey, and in so doing created a workshop for young adults in recovery programs from alcohol or substance abuse to have a chance to breathe new life into their dreams.
Titled ‘Breathing Dreams’, the workshop took place with 30 recovering young […]

Ian Robins lives in the historic port town of Bridport in Southwestern England. When he took Landmark Education’s Self-Expression and Leadership Programme, he thought of and was inspired by the Japanese town of Kamikatsu, where each citizen is responsible for disposing of their own rubbish.
Robins invited the town council and community leaders of Bridport, […]

Chicago resident Allison Lerner is holding a fundraiser on Wednesday, October 29 for the Entertainment Industry Foundation’s Women Cancer Programs as an outgrowth of her project that she initiated in Landmark Education’s Self-Expression and Leadership Program. Held during and in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness month, Lerner is naming the event HAIRoic MEASURES - Those […]

Community Green, the website clearing house for New Jersey environmentalists and their projects around the state created by Ariane Delafosse in her Self-Expression and Leadership program last year, has continued to thrive and flourish, providing access and promotion to dozens of worthy projects and events.
Community green is an all-volunteer, 5013c non-profit that has a full […]

In July, Sue Lee-Lows created a parachute jump fundraising project (in her Landmark Education SELP programme) to benefit brain cancer research through the Samantha Dickinson Brain Tumor Trust (SDBTT), in honour of her friend Penny who suffered from brain cancer (see previous story).
Sadly, Penny died shortly before the parachute jump event in July. Lee-Lows has […]

When Dave Benjamin received an email from a friend requesting a donation for the “Reaching Out for Rob” traumatic brain injury (TBI) recovery fundraiser, he knew he wanted to help in a larger capacity because he had witnessed the impact that TBI can have on a person’s life. Soon it became his May 2008 Self-Expression […]

Thomas Lindner created a project in the Self-Expression and Leadership Programme that is utterly unique: The Tango Commute. The Independent, a leading National British Newspaper explains Lindner’s event in its theatre section.

Scores of couples, plugged into tango music no one else could hear, smooched on the concourses of several London stations. “Tango Commute” was the […]

Licensed real estate broker Jim Chubb of San Jose, California, took Landmark Education’s Self-Expression and Leadership Program this spring, and in the course he saw he wanted to make a difference with people who had loan problems. He decided to take on ways to help, including the planning of a website designed to answer questions. […]