So far, 90% of all the 21 participants have excitedly agreed to be part of this event. The selected participants were selected from a total of 42 participants who attended in SEAPCP CO course of 2007 and 2008.
To all those who have responded to SEAPCP, we wish you congratulations for having made it to this next level of CO course. This course will be designed a little differently from the past. Just to give you a peek into the programme.... participants will have to form small teams to conduct sessions with different groups of people in Malaysia, especially grassroots members from the indigenous people's communities, urban poor and plantation workers!So you will have to master your facilitation skills and use of creative media because
most of you might encounter language problems as well!BUT of course we will guide you through this challenge which will be organised on the 3rd day of the course! That will leave us with the rest of the 7 days to review, evaluate, and explore different points of community organising that needs to be improved.
Well just a short note to keep you all excited! keep on blogging you guys,...its not that difficult! just register your email to google and become a blogger!
take care
Jo Hann
9 comments:
thanks for the sneak preview into workshop methodology; it just raised my temptation and I cannot hold myself anymore. Facilitating communities on real issue, sounds really a great opportunity; i think this is sure gonna be a one of the great opportunities for us to enhance our community organizing skills.
Good luck to all you guys, hope you will keep sharing your Advance CO Course to all participant who have no opportunity to join this year
this advance course will be tough! it is meant to be..he he...expect lots of challenges and hard work! But I am sure as you are all selected participants you will be able to keep up and excel !! good luck
Thanks for the update! I guess, we always encounter challenges in life, which means it is a path to development ;-D I am frightened at the same time excited to be conducting a session in unknown community, coz we always face difficulties, hardships within our own communities where we work.
its so nice to read all your comments, instead of only hassan and I only!! ha ha
Hi guys, after a lot of motivation from Jo Hann I am once again trying my luck in blog.
The curtain raiser of 2009 Advance CO was interesting. I think Action Aid should sponsor both "he he he he" and "beautiful smile". Without "he he he he" we will be losing the great reporter and without "beautiful smile" we will be losing the great observer. I think Jo Hann can convince Action Aid head.
I have a loud thinking- My grassroot CO experiment (post Bali) is a mixed bag- initially very frustrating due to very slow progress later it picked up gradually.
I observed that instead of educational qualification CO capacity building progress depends more on trainee's understanding of practical issues.
In my staff I had found that they are picking up CO as more problem solving. So instead of giving them whole CO in one go I divided the CO into various parts and let them think what they should do next? It was more like a self explanatory and learning.
The best outcome is that not only they stopped in jumping to the action first - they came up with the problems and then they tried to divide the problem in as miniscule as possible. Here many a time they got lost and still tried to go ahead.
Honestly speaking, it was a great learning for me. To tell the truth- in many cases few of them faired very well.
My request to all of you:
Can we jot down in this blog - what are the major challenges we are facing in CO?
Welcome participants of SEAPCP Advance CO to Malaysia especially Kuala Lumpur - the CITY THAT NEVER SLEEPS!
If you have the will power and passion, IMPOSSIBLE IS NOTHING!
Will further strengthen the network,explore possibilities of deeper understanding COMMUNITY ORGANIZING. It would also provide participants an opportunity to evaluate themselves and build on what they learned before and practiced in the field.Wise decision, gudluck.
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