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ICA Associates Inc. Canada expands in 2019

April 1, 2019 was a watershed day for ICA Associates Inc. in Canada. For over a year the staff and owners have been preparing for a major expansion of the company by involving a group of 30 in thinking through a new structure, services and offerings. We now have 13 consultants, 12 active trainers and co-trainers with more on the...
You are invited to the ICA Asia Pacific 2019 regional conference, 7-13 November in Malaysia

The Institute of Cultural Affairs Asia Pacific announces and cordially invites you to attend the annual ICA Asia Pacific Regional Conference 2019 in Malaysia. Our Theme is “Knowing, Doing, Being… on behalf of the Future.” We will spend three and half days reporting, exploring the global reality we all face and what the possibilities might be for the...
ICA:UK & Fourmis du changement France support ToP training with ICA Benin

The ICA:UK Board recently approved a grant from the Village Volunteers fund as a contribution towards the training of women’s groups and Lambassa ICA Benin staff in ICA’s Technology of Participation. This article describes how the project came about and what is planned in the training. At the meeting of European ICAs in hosted by ICA Ukraine in Kiev in November,...
ICA USA’s Fifth City revisited through Chicago artist’s interpretation

Meida Teresa McNeal is a performing artist with Honey Pot Performance, Arts & Culture Manager for Chicago Park District, and a self-described “artist-administrator-educator”. She grew up in the Fifth City neighborhood of East Garfield Park on Chicago’s West Side, where her parents participated in ICA’s Fifth City community development project in the 1960s. Curious about her own memories and her...
ICA Canada presents the Courage to Lead Award

The Courage to Lead Award On May 9, 2019, ICA Canada presented the Courage to Lead Award to SKETCH Working Arts. This award is given to an individual or organization that has demonstrated courageous and purposeful leadership within the community. For over two decades, SKETCH has greatly impacted the lives of youth across Canada who live in poverty and homelessness....
ICA USA presents origins of Accelerate77 to Asset-Based Community of Practice

When Terry Bergdall returned to ICA-USA to serve as CEO, the organization was in the midst of a missional shift to meet the emerging climate crisis. The City of Chicago was also attempting to respond to climate change, but the City’s approach was to convene expert consultants who drew up environmental programs, then tried to sell them to Chicagoans. Terry...
Facilitating Authentic Participation: Transformative Steps to Empower Groups

About Facilitating Authentic Participation All too often, asking any group to work together without effective facilitation is a shortcut to disaster — James M. Campbell In this revealing step-by-step guide, now available from Amazon, master group process facilitator James M. Campbell takes you behind the scenes of the usually hidden planning and diagnostic process leading up to the “magic” of guiding...
ICA Nepal constructs a Community Training Center

Our Former ICA Nepal Chairperson, Prof. Dr. Tatwa P. Timsina’s new book entitled “Abridging KO brigand rabid Ra innovation” was out in the market in March. Dr. Timsina discusses the importance of innovation and technology in the development of the nation and community. Development is possible through regular learning and sharing. As per our commitment to distribute 500 copies of...
EPDI Nigeria joins in tackling substance abuse

#ASAP – anti-substance abuse project Lagos round-table event February 28, 2019 was a colourful and memorable day for EPDI Nigeria at the Civic Centre, Ozumba Mbadiwe Street, Victoria Island, Lagos, venue of the Lagos Roundtable Event for the Anti-Substance Abuse Project organized by MTNASAP FOUNDATION with a slogan #Drug Abuse is One Chance Bus. #ASAP is a multi-stakeholder and multi-sectoral...
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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...