Workshop on Social Artistry Leadership

An Introduction to Social Artistry Leadership was offered as a pre-conference workshop. 

Over 30 people from eight countries participated in the event guided by Jan Sanders (Canada) and Pramila KC (Nepal).  The introduction facilitates the development of skills and potentials in both individuals and group. 

The sensory-rich and experiential processes enhance participants societal awareness, liberate their inventiveness, increase their ability to work cooperatively and raise their levels of self-esteem. 

Social Artists work on their own personal development so as to be skilled to provide consultation, values, projects and new structures for their societies.   

Three social artist from the US and Canada traveled to Nepal to experience the processes in an international setting.  (Karen Johnson, Rosemary Dowling and Marie-Therese Fournier).

HIV/AIDS Meeting

The meeting was held on the Saturday evening before the main conference at the ICA Nepal office. ICAs in attendance included Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Canada, US, UK, Nepal, Taiwan and India.

ICAs provided a brief update, then each discussed the HIV/AIDS work they are doing in Africa, including details of current and developing projects, finances /funding and documentation/evaluation.

Overall takeaways/next steps were: Another meeting between African ICAs - it would provide a platform for things we could do regionally, e.g. – the impact evidence collection. We would like ICAI support for this – but we need to be careful on how we go about making this happen as ownership of it is crucial.

Three ICAs from Africa at the conference saw this as the start of the dialogue, and hope to continue conversations from there.


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