http://leadershipandselfdevelopment.com Landmark Education graduates create extraordinary projects that make a difference Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:53:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The New Zealand Newspaper Western Leader has written an article about the 'war on weeds' initiated by Sandy McGivern and Don Morrison as McGivern's project in the Landmark SELP programme. The project gathers people together to remove the weeds around Morrison's Titirangi primary school, specifically ginger weed. The event is taking ... http://leadershipandselfdevelopment.com/2010/03/09/dances-with-weeds/ The Self-Expression and Leadership Program project of New Jersey resident Mary Ellen Keller is the creation of a Career Awareness Day designed to assist women who have been out of the workforce for a long time. As detailed in the East Brunswick Sentinel, the event, to be held on March ... http://leadershipandselfdevelopment.com/2010/03/03/career-awareness-event-benefits-women/ 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 ... http://leadershipandselfdevelopment.com/2010/03/01/event-benefits-air-ambulance-trust/ Julia Hammer's plans to create a Gay community center in Long Beach are the subject of a Long Island Herald (a New York state newspaper) feature story that recently appeared - the plans are Hammer's community project in the Landmark SELP program. Hammer, who has tentatively titled the facility the LGBT ... http://leadershipandselfdevelopment.com/2010/02/17/hammer-plans-lgbt-center-in-long-beach/ Kelly Maria's project in Landmark Education's self-expression and leadership program was to form Hearts at Home, a group that provides hand-sewn fleece blankets to children newly in foster care. According to the Martinez News-Gazette of Martinez, California, Maria initiated the project because of her love of children. “I did a little ... http://leadershipandselfdevelopment.com/2010/02/11/hearts-at-home-helps-foster-kids/ We have received word that curator Adriana Marques put on the 'Love your Lido' fundraiser and artistic celebratory event in her SELP program. The event, which was held on the evening of January 9 at London Fields Lido, was an extravaganza designed to demonstrate the value of the London Fields ... http://leadershipandselfdevelopment.com/2010/02/09/love-your-lido-highlights-london-fields-lido/ The project created by Angela Eren in her Landmark Self-Expession and Leadership Program was designed to help Haitians in need though direct aid targetted at specific people. Eren put on a fundraiser which produced over $1,700 for an organization that does exactly that, Lime-Aid. One of the challenges facing relief organizations ... http://leadershipandselfdevelopment.com/2010/02/04/direct-relief-raised-for-haitian-orphanages-through-fundraiser-benefitting-lime-aid/ A recent project created in Landmark's Self-Expression and Leadership Program - a partnership of two women - raised money to help those affected by the Haiti Earthquake by holding a unique fundraiser - a pub night in Abbotsford, Canada (near Vancouver), at the Rain Bar & Grill. The event, which ... http://leadershipandselfdevelopment.com/2010/02/01/musical-event-fundraises-for-haitian-relief/ In the Landmark Self-Expression and Leadership Program, Vernon LaVia created the idea of Aurora Green Lights to educate others on the environment, and then turned the leadership of his project away to Mavis Bates. Aurora Green Lights is putting on an environmental fair this summer on June 12, which has ... http://leadershipandselfdevelopment.com/2010/01/26/aurora-green-lights-environmental-fair/ Susan Trost created an extraordinary event to help 38 women from the Denver, Colorado area in difficult situations kick off the new year in style. Trost's 'New Year, New You' event, her project in landmark education's selp program, treated 38 women to pampering such as massage, hair cuts, manicures/pedicures, body ... http://leadershipandselfdevelopment.com/2010/01/22/new-year-new-you/