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How will you celebrate and promote the power of facilitation this #FacWeek?
submitted by Martin Gilbraith
Facilitation Week is an event that takes place each year during the third week of October. Its purpose is to showcase the power of facilitation to both new and existing audiences and to create a sense of community among facilitators and their groups worldwide. Since its launch in 2013, the week has become a spark that ignites activities around the...
ICA Guatemala provides seed delivery to El Chorro village
submitted by ICA Guatemala
Due to the COVID19 pandemic, the government is responding with different actions, one of which is the delivery of food to vulnerable communities. This is a long-term strategy. A government entity planning to deliver food, has requested the population to choose one of these three options; Make barriers in your fields, Humus or family vegetable orchards. So a member of...
Development Institute Ghana building capacity to enhance territorial governance, sea turtle conservation and sustainable livelihood
submitted by Development Institute Ghana
The Development Institute Ghana organised a three-day training workshop for stakeholders within the Keta Lagoon Complex Ramsar site in the Volta Region of Ghana from the 29th to the 31st of July, 2020. The main goal of this workshop was to enhance the capacity of stakeholders in three main areas: the CREMA (Community Resource Management Areas) model, laws governing sea...
ICA Nepal resumes office physically
submitted by ICA Nepal
ICA Nepal mourns for heart-breaking incidences caused by the global catastrophe of COVID-19 and offer our sincere condolences to the bereaved families who are grieving at the moment. In these uncertain times, the public needs our presence more than ever before. Once the Nepal Government relaxed the lockdown to some extent, ICA Nepal resumed work physically by adopting the appropriate...
ICA colleagues worldwide gather for virtual Global Research Assembly
submitted by ICA USA
For years, the focus of the ICA Social Research Center (SRC) of ICA USA has been to translate our massive collection of written and recorded material to a comprehensive and accessible website. Throughout that journey of digitizing documents and building websites, the dedicated team of volunteers also began exploring tools for working together virtually. By last fall, the team was reconsidering...
ICA Taiwan conducts face-to-face training in March
submitted by ICA Taiwan
Taiwan is not on lockdown, so ICA Taiwan was ale to conduct two public, face-to-face training sessions in March. We had 40 people in a ToP Group Facilitation Methods 1 (Focused Conversation) course, and in April we had 20 people in a GFM 2 (Consensus Workshop) course. We have also been doing lots of exploration of the virtual world,...
ICA Nepal supports local NGO capacity building
submitted by ICA Nepal
STAY HOME STAY SAFE ICA Nepal expresses its sincere condolences to all families who have lost their loved ones due to novel Corona Virus Covid-19. We wish for the quick recovery who have been infected by the virus. With sincerity, we urge all to co-operate with the Government and authorities to contain this virus. In Nepal, the Government has taken...
ICA USA applies appreciative inquiry to articulate core values
submitted by ICA USA
Thirty years ago, the Institute of Cultural Affairs worked with Case Western Reserve University to research the inner life and workings of ICA. The case study began with the metaphor that organizations are “miracles of human interaction, the mystery of which deepens as we probe more into them.” To probe the mystery, the research team conducted an appreciative inquiry, a...
ICA:UK supports research into impact of ICA and ToP methods in Kenya
submitted by ICAUK
A team of people in Kenya, led by Patrick Mbullu and Henry Ikatukhu, have been conducting research to discover the longer term impact of the ICA’s Technology of Participation methods and the wider ICA approach in Kenya. Their report is now out and full of interesting information about the different initiatives visited, the long term impact they have had on...
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Sociodramas, enchiladas, ...
This post was published in ICAI’s online magazine Winds and Waves – now published at Medium.com (see explanatory note). To receive articles by email as they are published subscribe at https://medium.com/winds-and-waves. “It was a very nice experience because, through it, I learned how to interact and how to support my daughters in their development,” said one participant in the Learning Basket program delivered in small rural...
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Serving People & Pla...
We are pleased to share here extracts of two new books by Rob Work, a long-time ICA colleague and author of A Compassionate Civilization: The Urgency of Sustainable Development and Mindful Activism – see also his bio below. Serving People & Planet: In Mystery, Love, and Gratitude This memoir (January 2020) celebrates the love between one person and one planet, between...
