June 17, 2007

 Jun 2007 Newsletter: Yumi's Monthly Note

Hello Everyone!

We hosted facilitator training sessions at Seoul, Tokyo, Mie, and Kyoto during the month of May. Boy! That was quite a trip. In total, we now have 25 new trained facilitators, they soon will be receiving Certificate for taking the Pagnaea Facilitator Training session. Compared to previous trainings, we tried to focus more to cover how to communicate and deal with various situations with participants, and repeatedly described the importance of surrounding environment, such as setting a space, formations of groups etc. Materials used for training now Ver. 3 since we started the program, and it improved so much in appearances and contents. In Seoul, many university students from various schools have come, in Tokyo, we had a cool looking consultant was among members with high school student who participated Pangaea in past three years as a participant. In Mie, employee of IT Venture company, and in Kyoto, college students took a part. Well, although doing these in 3 weeks, it was really a great fun for myself and Toshi. After each session, we reviewed, and tried to improve each time. By the time we returned back to Kyoto, being the fourth round, things got really well.



Last week, Pangaea was selected at Microsoft NPO assisting funds as this was 3% Passing rate.
We now can presume to create good Webcam contents with this fund. Toyota Foundation fund now enables us to push facilitators communications network, and this fund is now being used very effectively. We now have regular communication paths with German speaking or Korean speaking facilitators using Langrid project tool. These funds are very nice to push Pangaea forward. Having the requirement for writing the report and deadline are not all that bad, as this forces us to work hard and effectively. Without such deadlines, I sometimes feel bit lazy... I must admit.

From this month, we changed the style of Newsletter as you notice. Less writers! But this is not to say we are lazy.

As we see the increase of activity in access from different countries. I will be in Europe this summer. I hope to see some of you there!

Yumi

Posted by: kumakinoko | 3. Newsletter