INCLUDE_DATA the forbidden kingdom

Archive for November, 2008

Manu Vasudevan describes the “Junk Rock project” she created in the Landmark self-expression and leadership programme as like “my dream come true”. In the last week of October, disabled children and their families created an orchestra of instruments out of discarded materials. Then 30 of these children and their families performed on October 31 on [...]

Leadership and Self Development received this report from this spring about the project of Arlene Stein taking place in Florida. The following is her first-hand account.
My project is about children being able to use their creativity to make their learning fun. I have targeted the teachers of elementary children who have difficulty in school with [...]

Ryan Mueller’s project in the SELP is literally an adventure: He is embarking on a “grassroots project that is committed to giving back to others through community projects and cultivating cultural exchanges through artistic expression,” according to Mueller’s Extra Mile Adventure website.
On December 1, a team of 18 people will board a biodiesel bus in [...]

Risa Caudles held a unique event on November 14 for female students at the Proviso high school in Chicago where she teaches. The event provides the young women bra fittings, a free bra, and information on how to do self breast exams. Caudles is receiving support from the v103 Radio station, that is sending someone [...]

As a project in the Landmark Education SELP Program, Hamilton Simons-Jones took on having a fundraiser dinner for the Gulfsouth Youth Action Fund be an extraordinary event. Based in New Orleans, the GYAF is a youth-led philanthropy initiative developed to empower them to make strategic investments in their peers and their community. Hamilton’s work [...]

Venkat Seeks to Quiet Bangalore

Bala Venkat of the metropolis of Bangalore, India, has come up with a novel idea to reduce the noise pollution of the city. His project in the Landmark Education SELP programme is to create a campaign against this by raising awareness, educating drivers about indiscriminate honking, and working with police and other officials. [...]

For his project in Landmark Education’s Self Expression and Leadership Program, Eric Riley held a gala, black tie fundraiser for Betty’s Haven, a prominent women’s shelter located in Houston. The event, which he named the ‘Essimage Beauty Celebration’ also featured some of the women from the shelter as guests of honors. The details come from [...]

Liza Shaw created a powerful project in her Landmark self expression and leadership program earlier this year – an anonymous, online program to allow people the opportunity to make amends; to forgive and ask forgiveness. According to the Amends Project, participants have the opportunity “to heal their pasts, share the powerful impact of forgiveness with [...]

Caroline Glasner’s project in the Self-Expression and Leadership Programme (offered by Landmark Education) is clearly a first: She put on a public walk and fundraiser with people wearing their underwear on the outside to raise underwear, money and attention for destitute asylum seekers in the U.K. Glasner’s walk on October 12 raised over £5,000 [...]