Voices in Dialogue

... a quarterly newsletter published by Global Learning Partners

Autumn 2006

ISSUE 7

	From Jane's Back Porch I have always avoided using the word "empowering" since I have rarely met a four year old who was not full of his own power: "Me do, Mama!" We are born with power - the power to be ourselves, to love others, to serve, to create and recreate, to dance! Some occasions or situations seem to diminish the expression of that power - nothing can extinguish it. Dialogue Education at its power-fullest best was visible at the Dialogue Education Institute in Vermont in early October. There was one irrefutable indicator of power-full learning: the laughter that rang through those rooms for four days. (Robert Kegan's good humor was brilliant on Sunday!) No laughing, no learning. >>more
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Celebrating 25 Years... by Peter Noteboom ~ President Global Learning Partners, Inc. has grown from a small corporate entity with a beautiful title--Jubilee Popular Education Center--run out of Jane's back porch, to a virtual, global company with clients, teachers, associates and graduates located in many important nooks and crannies of the world. >>more by Dwayne Hodgson ~ GLP Programs Director My lasting impression of this year's DEI is that we are part of a movement that is exciting, complex, chaotic and lively. As more and more people apply Dialogue Education in their work in so many ways, it continues to bear fruit and spreads to new individuals, organizations and communities. >>more by Boyet Ongkiko ~ GLP Certified Teacher The 2nd Dialogue Education Institute – Dialogue Education on the Move! A gathering of 80 people from across the US and some other nations – Haiti, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Australia and the Philippines. A collection of minds set to engage and be engaged; of hearts ready to shape and be shaped; and of bodies willing to move and be moved. A movement standing by and gathering energy to be instruments of peace and justice. >>more by Mary Thompson ~ DEI participant I approached the Chapel in College Hall for the welcome and reception and heard laughter from up the long staircase... I tried to reassure those small voices inside my head clamoring "I don't know many people here. Who will I talk to? Who will talk to me?!" >>more Dialogue Education Institute Photo Gallery	Voices in the World Meetings in Malawi by P.D. Nitz I had been using the Dialogue Approach full swing in the classroom for several months. A meeting was coming up for our school board, including 4 expats, two Zambians, and four Malawians... >>more More Than a Technique in Haiti by a Course Participant In our staff meeting today, Michelet, one of the local MCC workers, shared how the seminar had impacted him. He told a beautiful story about how last night, his young son was frustrated with writing out the alphabet... >>more Applying the Principles in California by Diane Bray Well, I gave my first class yesterday using the 7 Principles of Design! The main new bits for me are the achievement-based objectives and trying to include some psychomotor tasks. >>more Add Your Voice! Voices listserv
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