Meet Jagdeep Singh, a Superintending Engineer of the Executive Director ( Transmission & Planning-Project Monitoring Unit) Madhya Pradesh Power Transmission Company in Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh India . He looks after the procurement of electrical outdoor substation equipment of up to 400 KV class via a project, mainly financed by ADB. He has been with this office from 1998. Continue reading An Echo from Goa
The Training of Facilitators (TOF) for Results-focused Project Design and Management for the Caucasus region is scheduled from 8-16 September at the Koc University in Istanbul, Turkey. This is the fifth in the series of seven planned for 2009 and will be delivered in the Russian language. This TOF will host a mix of at least 30 senior government staff from Azerbaijan, Armenia and Georgia, who are directly and indirectly involved in project design, development and even management. Russian-speaking consultants, freelance trainers and moderators and donors representatives are also welcome to participate. Continue reading Regional ToF Caucasus Opens Sept 8
The Training of Facilitators (TOF)in the practice and use of the PPMS/DMF tools has been recently completed in Luang Prabhang, Lao PDR from July 21 to 29, 2009. The course was conducted by Andrea Iffland, Pet Misa, Thaniya Jirasathitpornpong and Do Quy Duong. It was held in the Grand Luang Prabang Hotel and it attracted 36 potential facilitators from nine countries including Laos, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Afghanistan, Philippines, PRC, Thailand, USA, and Vietnam.
The July issue of the Global Flipchart, the monthly newsletter of the International Association of Facilitators, is now available.
You may access the current issue by clicking HERE or for previous issues, click HERE.
There is a resurgence of interest not only among facilitators but also among development practitioners and leaders on the concepts and practices of personal growth and change processes. One such an approach is the Satir Model. It relies on the idea that the process of change can be more empowering if the change comes from within. Rather than focusing only on behaviour (that seems to be the focus of most interventions, today), we can learn to take charge of and change our feelings, our perceptions and our expectations. There are now workshops that allows the participants to discover their own capacity for positive change and growth. They focus on helping people to discover the richness of their inner Continue reading Facilitators and Therapy
