Landmark Education Self-expression and Leadership

Kelly Maria’s project in the Landmark SELP program was to create Hearts at Home, to bring hand sewn blankets to new foster kids.

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

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

Family fun day, a landmark education selp project.

A fundraising walk across the most famous bridges in London is benefiting the largest children’s hospital in Hungary.

In what looks like a new landmark self-expression and leadership program project in the news, The Middletown Journal of Ohio is reporting that Floating Smiles is a new project offering balloon rides to children with cancer.

For her project in the Landmark Education SELP Program, Heidi Riggs created Desire to Inspire, an adult talent show which also rewarded two students with arts scholarships.

Joe Amantea’s project in the Landmark SELP program made a difference for senior citizens in Ontario, Canada. The Pickering News Advertiser wrote a story about Amantea’s project, which was called Operation Clean Sweep.

The Bucks County Courier Times of Pennsylvania recently published a story about the Landmark Self Expression and Leadership Program of Vicki LaRosa, whichy  raised money for the Dress for Success Organization.
Helping women dress for success
by Kate Fratti
The hardest part of the work day, in my estimation, is getting dressed.
What to wear? What to wear?
And the [...]

Tessa Mills created a fundraising event to raise £1,000 for new classrooms at a Himalayan school. The event, which was her project in the self expression and leadership programme, actually raised £1,500 and the attention of the London Informer.

Sheba Mohankumar created a project in the SELP program that allowed high school students to get an opportunity to find out about what it would be like to be a vet. Mohankumar also got an article published in the Lansing State Journal(of Michigan) about the project. The article, which is reprinted below, can also be [...]

Joan Brefeld’s SELP project involved collecting used medical equipment that could then be lent to elderly person’s in need. The project was covered in the Belleville News Democrat newspaper.
Gifts of Used Health Equipment Sought
11/13/08
The St. Louis Health Equipment Lending Program (St. Louis HELP) will accept donations of used equipment from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. [...]

Mike Arazyan’s SELP project involved making a difference for sick children, but just as important to him, it has his children and their friends learning the value of making a difference for others. The family took on doing raking, snow shoveling and other chores to raise money for the Hospital for Sick Kids in Canada. [...]

Peter Landau of Chicago has created a project in the Self Expression and Leadership Program to get computers and computer equipment to children in need. Landau reports on what the organization is creating:
I’d like to share with you an exciting new organization that I am starting with a group of fellow technology professionals. It is [...]

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 [...]

Tricia Tarantino of South Florida is a third grade teacher at the Sabal Palm elementary school. For her project in the SELP program, Tarantino led her class to raise money for the Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital. The Collier County Public School district wrote about the event.
Sabal Palm Elementary Operation Inspiration Update
Recently we told you about [...]

Melissa Yaich has developed a new program to help young girls achieve self respect through running and physical fitness. Working through the national Girls on the Run nonprofit organization, Yaich and Geogie Koch developed a 12 week training program culminating in a 5 kilometre run. The Mountain Mail of Salida, Colorado wrote a story about [...]

The Chicago Defender recently ran a piece about the landmark SELP project of April Preyar, which is designed to impact the lives of female African American teenagers in Chicago through a “Li’l S.I.S.” mentoring Expo event being held in December. Here’s how it appeared.
Saving Our Girls
Cheryl Burton, ABC 7 Chicago newscaster, and Bionce Foxx, WGCI-FM/107.5 [...]

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 [...]

Sharon Maynard is committed to making a difference in the lives of teenagers and their families, and her project in the SELP program did just that. She put on a an all day event with family activities and expert speakers talking about family issues. The event took place on October 4 and written about by [...]

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 [...]

For her project in Landmark Education’s Self-Expression and Leadership Programme, Joanne Kelly created a fundraiser event for the Northern Ireland Chilren’s Hospice. The event took place on Sunday, November 30 at the Ballysillan Leisure Centre. The event was a “Bounce-Athon” for children, which goes from 1:30-2:3-pm for 8-13 year olds and 2:30-3:30pm for 5 [...]

Jessica Bavinton of the UK has passed on the news to Leadership and Self Development that the project she created in Landmark Education’s SELP program in 2006, titled “BeRecreative” has entered successfully entered its third year. The project is an annual, free event for young people and their families to learn fun and creative ways [...]

For his project in the Landmark Education Self-Expression and Leadership Program, Philip Walter created “Mary’s March for the Cure” event, to honor his mother, Mary Ellen Walter, who died of cancer in 2000. The event took place in Itasca, IL, at 9am on October 25. Participants walked two miles through the town of Itasca in [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Lopa Mehotra’s TestToob project is gaining acclaim from the media. This project, which began in the Self Expression and Leadership Program, creates a website for youngsters to share science videos and experiments. Here’s a piece of an article from the Lane Report, Kentucky’s leading business publication. The original story can be found here.
Lopa Mehrotra is [...]

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 [...]

When Chetan KS took the landmark education self expression and leadership programme in Bangalore, India, he wanted to do something that provided for the health of seniors. And rather than have them visit a doctor or health practice, something that isn’t always convenient for seniors, he brought the doctors to them.
On August 16, he held [...]

 
Various television stations and newspapers have recently covered the story the the Self-Expression and Leadership Program project of Charlene Westgate. Westgate, who tragically lost her son to suicide two years ago, created a series of events in the form of tea parties to raise awareness about teen suicide and raise money as well. Two stories [...]

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 [...]

For her project in the Self-Expression and Leadership Program, Lynne Richardson is supporting young people in creating a family play day in Plymouth, Massachusetts, called “Into our World” Day. The project was created with the desire to empower children and parents by coaching child leaders to create this fun event for families in their communities. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Third grade teacher Tracey Mott decided to make her Landmark Education Self-Expression project be something that would directly impact her students, as well as the lives of students around the world. She decided to bring the “Pennies for Peace” program to the Hickory Grove Elementary School where she works.
Pennies for Peace is a program that [...]

Cynthia Zenner took Landmark Education’s Self-Expression and Leadership program in Atlanta, and the area of life she wanted to impact was educating people about elderly people who are dealing with Alzheimer’s disease. She created a symposium at her church, the All Saints Episcopal Church in Atlanta, where a panel of experts came together on May [...]

Linda Kamka created “Project with Love” as her community project in Landmark Education’s Self-Expression and Leadership Program. The project was a fundraisher which inspired her local community in Orange, CA, to donate new jewelry, which would then be passed on to kids in the care of the Children’s Hospital of Orange County. These children weren’t [...]

Dr. Bryce Crowley, of Centerville, Utah, recently put on a safety event, Helmet Heroes, to protect young bike riders from head injuries. About 500 young people were fitted with and given new, high quality bicycle helmet. Crowley chose this as his project in landmark’s self-expression and leadership program based on personal experience – He recently had a close [...]

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 [...]

According to the Arlington Advocate, Sabine Keller of Arlington, Massachusetts has created a project out of taking landmark education’s self-expression and leadership program that is a special event for German families to be held on June 22. Working with several of her friends, Keller has organized a potluck picnic that at least 30 families have [...]

Jacinta McManus’ project in Landmark Education’s Self Expression and Leadership Programme took the form of a huge family celebration. The McManus family came together to celebrate the lives of its three most senior ladies. The matriarch of the family, Mrs. Mary McManus, recently turned 95 years of age. Her sister, Mrs. Kate McManus, is 91, and [...]

Dan Davis has been an avid racquetball player and instructor for years. Davis took on a novel project when he took Landmark Education’s Self-Expression and Leadership Program in Denver: He invented Wacquetball, a special version of raquetball with a larger, slower ball and a two bounce rule that makes the game easier for seniors, children, or the handicapped. The project [...]

Nagendra K.S. took on being a source of happiness, innovation and leadership. During his participation in Landmark Education’s Self Expression and Leadership Program that started in February, he created a project called “ULLASA” (In English it means Joy).
The specific intended result of the project was to unite orphan kids and old age people. [...]

Brandy Runkle took Landmark Education’s Self-Expression and Leadership program earlier this year and looked at creating a project, she wanted to do something which helped families spend more time together in today’s fast paced world. She created a project which created a family day together in a scenic outdoor setting. The Olympian, a the leading [...]

Ten years ago, Cheryl Prater attended a family reunion where a family tree with 500 family members was presented. Ever since that time, Cheryl had always wanted to pick up that project and run with it.
When she completed Landmark Education’s Self-Expression and Leadership Program earlier this year, that wish became a reality. She enrolled about [...]

When Claudia Beltran tutored for the East Village Youth Program (EVYP) a couple of years ago, she was impressed by the ambition of the young people she worked with. The EVYP provides tutoring and mentoring youths in Chicago, with the mission of encourage and prepare primarily low-income, Latino youth for a college education. She worked [...]

California resident Jodi Azulai is using her Self-Expression and Leadership Program to set up a nonprofit to give people access to parent education. Azulai, who has also begun a meetup meeting for parent education, is looking for a variety of assistance to make this nonprofit a reality. The Daily Democrat of Woodland, Calfifornia, recently published Azulai’s request: 
Parent [...]