Asia Pacific Mosaic Growth & Development Workshop - Thailand, April 2009

February 14, 2009; Posted by Chris Stokes

The International Mosaic Committee is extremely excited to announce:

The second ever regional CISV Mosaic workshop for Asia Pacific!

What? A four day workshop to find out more about Mosaic, how to make Mosaic work in your NA, how to train for Mosaic, and how to plan and run projects.
When? At the Asia Pacific Regional Workshop (APRW), April 4 - 9th 2009
Where? Just outside of Bangkok, Thailand
Who? People from all over the region who want to learn more about Mosaic, run Mosaic projects, and help spread the Mosaic program in their countries and in Asia Pacific through trainings and project support. The trainers for the workshop will be Chris (Australia) and Jali (Philippines)
How to register? Send your registration to APRW and mark "Mosaic Train the Trainer" as your preferred workshop.

Whats this all about?
In an fast changing world, the issues and challenges we face are simultaneously becoming both more global, and more local, in scale. We used to think about peace coming about when superpowers laid down their weapons - these days we know that we will never have true peace until we combat both universal challenges - climate change, poverty, resource scarcity - and those that directly affect our local societies directly - pollution of our local waterways, degradation of community, intolerance, marginalisation of indigenous people, and so on.

Mosaic is a programme designed to take the peace education principles of our beloved organisation, CISV, and apply them to our everyday lives - to our communities, to our cities, and to our local environment. It is an important and exciting step forward for CISV and one that is necessary to help plants the seeds of peace in very real and meaningful ways.

The Mosaic Regional Growth and Development Workshop (formally known as "Mosaic Train the Trainer Workshop") is absolutely important for us to help spread this relatively new programme throughout the various regions. Asia Pacific is a massively diverse and wonderful region, but engagement in Mosaic so far has been limited. It's time for Mosaic to take off in the region - and this is our one opportunity to make sure that happens!

We rely on our Mosaic Network of Trainers to help us spread Mosaic region-by-region. By coming to the workshop you will become qualified to join our Network and contribute to Mosaic's development as a program by training, supporting and running projects in your local chapters and National Associations.

We encourage every NA in Asia-Pacific to make sure they have at least one participant at this important workshop. Mosaic is a great way to assist in the development and expansion of CISV chapters, and we'd love to see it work across Asia Pacific - including in Thailand, China, New Zealand, South Korea, and Vietnam - as well as Japan, the Philippines, Indonesia and Australia, where is has already taken off...

To register please sign up for APRW (see infopack) and choose "Mosaic Train the Trainer" for your choice of parallel workshop.

Please email Chris ( chris.stokes@au.cisv.org ) if you have any questions at all about this workshop!
We hope to see heaps of you there!

Lots of CISV love
Chris (Australia) and Jali (Philippines)
International Mosaic Committee