Landmark Education Self-expression and Leadership

A fundraiser for the Devon Air Ambulance Trust took place this February at the Globe Inn, in Newtown, with about 100 people attending. The event was created by Martin Sanders, for whom it was his project in Landmark Education’s self-expression and leadership programme.
Sanders says that £447 has been raised so far as a result of [...]

Celebrating the London Lido in style, this event took place on January 9.

Karen Fletcher’s Landmark selp project brought families together through the creation of monthly family dance jams.

A drum circle is Craig Evans’ landmark selp project.

Genesis at the Crossroads flourishes a decade after its creation.

Joy Brockman’s project in the Landmark SELP was Art in the Heart.

On September 7th he will complete the third part of a course that, he says, has changed his life forever. And the forthcoming function will represent his commitment to his own community – a key component of the Landmark Education programme he involved himself initially in towards the end of last summer.

In her landmark self-expression and leadership programme, Benita Nwulu undertook a truly novel idea: to put together a book based on letter women write to their younger selves.

Seattle Street musician Ed McMichael was a fixture outside Seattle sports stadiums and events, entertaining onlookers by playing the tuba and wearing a ridiculous hat. When McMichael was robbed and murdered by three juveniles last fall, Doug Creson thought that he deserved some kind of tribute. He made his project in Landmark Education’s Self-Expression and [...]

In Landmark Education’s Self-Expression and Leadership Program, Amy Silverman helped pioneer the launch of BeWell, at bewellliving.com, a website that creates events and resources that support wellness in all its aspect – physical, financial and personal.
One of BeWell’s premier launch events was the “Thriving Arts Initiative”, held January 19th in New York City, which was [...]

Over £1,000 were raised for cancer research at a U.K. dance event, thanks to the SELP project of Monne Whyte-Macpheson. The following article appeared in The Express newspaper on February 13th.
Cha-cha-cha raises cancer cash
Breakfast with a kick was the order of the day in Windsor at the weekend.
New Windsor Community Association came alive [...]

Books for Africa ships more donated books to the African continent than any other organization. The group partnered with the Invisible Children organization in a book drive on the campus of University of Guelph, in Guelph, Ontario, to collect 500 textbooks to send to Africa. Jasmine Sereda’s project in the Landmark education SELP program involved [...]

An all day Yoga training/day fundraiser raised money for the cancer assistance program as a result of Vanessa Pazzi’s Self-expression and leadership programme project. The following documentary video gives a picture of the event, which took place January 3 for over 100 people at the Hamilton Convention Centre in Canada.

Ben Flood’s project in the SELP allowed students from four schools to create an art exhibition which aided children in South African townships. The Anglo-Celt newspaper wrote the story.
Schools do their Art for Africa
Michael Cryan
The four secondary schools in Cavan town took part in an art exhibition in the Town Hall to raise funds for [...]

Lisa Stachler’s project in the Landmark Education SELP program was a benefit to raise money for college scholarships for those afflicted with cerebral palsy. The Benefit, named “Oh the Places You’ll Go,” took place on Sunday, November 2 at Cafe Live in Philadelphia, and featured top-end entertainment, as well as a mention in Philadelphia Weekly.
Oh [...]

Olivia Seery leads Landmark Education’s Self-Expression and Leadership programme in Ireland. Four years ago she visited the beautiful and historic Aran island of Inis Mean, located in Ireland’s Galway Bay and fell in love with the island and its people. She created a project in the programme which was an artistic weekend holiday for a [...]

Belfast, Ireland, resident Claire McBride has channeled her passion for food into a novel Landmark Education (SELP) project: the launch of a social networking site for food lovers.
Mangetwo is designed as an interactive website combined with face-to-face events which allow visitors to be informed about “food, flavours and chefs’ signature cooking styles”, according to the [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Kim Henry took the Self-Expression and Leadership Program in Houston this summer, and her project was “Heart Thru Art,” a fundraiser that both promoted art to the local community and benefited children in need. The Fort Bend and Harris County community came together over the weekend of September 27 and 28 to see art in [...]

As her project in the Self expression and leadership program offered by Landmark Education, Illinois resident Ann Pellegrini helped put together a fundraiser for the Northern Illinois Food Bank, held in Cantigny Park, IL. The event, held in partnership with Oberweis Dairy and titled the 1st Annual Art of Giving, took place on Thursday, September [...]

Sing Out Against Hunger, the Musical fundraiser for the hungry in Rhode Island formed by Jane Bitto in her Self-Expression and Leadership program back in 2003, is still going strong as an annual fundraiser/foodraiser. This year’s festival will be held on September 7th to 9th. The Providence Journal mentioned the event:
Singing Out Against Hunger: Evelyn’s [...]

Soledad Medina Calvoy designed a project in Landmark Education’s SELP program which made a difference close to home–In her own family–With someone far away. Soledad’s sister Ale Medina is a photographer from Mexico, and Soledad got a gallery organized for her sister to have her own photography exhibit in Soledad’s home city of London.
The exhibition [...]

There are countless worthy projects created in the Self-Expression and Leadership Program that have videos about them up on the Youtube video service. We will summarize a small portion of them and give links to the videos that you can watch.
Causes for Change
Chicago resident Zully Alvarado founded Causes for Change in order to contribute to [...]

Chris Kriklas of Texas has created a project in his Self-Expression and Leadership Program to make books available to underprivileged youth and the homeless in his community. Titled ‘1000 Books – 1000 Lives’, the project will get the books to people in need through two different charities. Here are excerpts from his website and why [...]

Jarda Dokoupil decided to do something about the preponderance of bad news that occurs in the media and the news today. For his project in Landmark Education’s Self-Expression and Leadership programme, he decided to create a sort of news broadcast that consisted of 100 inspiring stories told by 100 amateur reporters from around the world.
Dokoupil [...]

Deb Carroll has had children dance in her second grade class, but it wasn’t until she took on a project in Landmark Education’s Self-Expression and Leadership program that she decided to enroll the whole school in dancing, and raising money for a good cause at the same time. The Chicago Daily Herald reports.
Cha-cha-cha-ching!
Wheaton Students Kick [...]

‘Be Heard, Be Visible’ is the brainchild of artist, entrepreneur and web designer Melinda Taylor. During the Self-Expression and Leadership program of landmark education, Melinda Taylor became reacquainted with the childhood desire to sing. This led her to take voice lessons from friend and performance improvement specialist MaryBeth Smith. Truly hearing her voice during the [...]

Miami native Gustavo Briand had a musical idea in mind for his project in the Self-Expression and Leadership Program. He Created “An Evening with Music”, an evening of classical music held May 30 at 7:30 pm at the Standard Hotel in Miami Beach.
The evening was a free concert featuring some of South Beach’s best classical [...]

Rosy Maria of Hampton, England, has brought youth together inside of her project, titled Hampton’s Street Dance and Music Festival, while taking Landmark’s Self-Expression and Leadership Program. The project she created, with the partnership of fellow youth worker Peter Moorcock, attracted the attention of The Informer newspaper of the Hampton area. The article appears below.
Hampton’s [...]

Phil Zenner’s passion has always been nature photography. When he took the Landmark Self-Expression and Leadership Program this past spring, he decided to create a project, “Picture the Earth”, that raised money for the Sierra Club by auctioning off great framed nature photographs. He worked to have local photographers and studios donate photos and framing [...]

Howard Cattie had a couple of different goals in mind as he began Landmark’s SELP program. He loved music, and wanted to support something musical that made a difference in the world. He also wanted to strengthen his relationship with his family, and finally he wanted to promote something he was really passionate about. In the [...]

For Monet Critchley’s Self Expression and Leadership program project, she didn’t have to look further than her own life. As a single mother, she is acutely aware of what single moms have to deal with in their lives.
“Single mothers have a more difficult time than some may realize,” says Critchley, a Draper, Utah resident. “They [...]

Jill McAdaragh decided to make a difference in her Self-Expression and Leadership program by supporting an organization that plants and conserves trees, Trees Atlanta. On June 21, from 7-10pm, she is holding a collaborative event that is a fundraiser/art auction designed to bring artists, art lover, and lovers of the environment together to hlep support [...]

A Landmark Education Self-Expression and Leadership program project that took place recently in the UK featured a dance fundraiser for both cancer research and impoverished children in Peru. Richard Hoffman combined a passion for dance with a passion for making a difference in the lives of those less fortunate with a charity dance held on [...]

When Jimena Villaseca took the Self-Expression and Leadership Program, she was committed to building ties between Chile and the United States, and at the same time support Chilean blues artist Pedro Rodriguez build a following in the United States. Her project resulted in a unique concert being held on May 2 near New York City. [...]

I am the out-going voluntary Director and Founder of the Streatham Festival, an event that originally grew out of my participation in Landmark Education’s Self Expression and Leadership Program 5 years ago. At that time I had already led many successful projects but deep inside did not consider myself to be a “real [...]