Mosaic Growth & Development Workshop in Asia Pacific

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

Training Teams and Other Foursomes

For some of us, it's the dead of winter, for others it's way too hot, and especially it's too dry at the moment. We live (from left to right) in Canada, Austria, Australia and the Philippines. We are two boys and two girls (just like Abba, the children in the Chronicles of Narnia, or two thirds of the cast of Friends) and we all use gmail. A lot.

We make up the training team of the International Mosaic Committee. What that means is that we are charged with the important task of coordinating the training of Mosaic staff, project coordinators and trainers all around the world. Doesn't sound like a small task, does it? It's not. Mosaic strives to make sure that every Mosaic project undertaken has a project staff and project coordinator that have received training. This is important for the programme because it ensures a level of quality. The themes and approaches of Mosaic projects are massively different from one chapter to another. What does that mean? For example, one project in India explored water conservation in a classroom setting. Another project in Sweden engaged immigrant youth using the arts. Yet another project, this one in Canada, brought together youth from every single province in Canada and ran a unique peace-education camp. But even with so much variation in form and content, all of these projects share a common educational framework. It's a framework that pays attention to how people learn and how things we do in our communities can have a real, measurable impact. And the people who put these projects together, they all received training in this framework. It's not that hard. You could learn it.

The four of us don't do all that training ourselves. In fact, we don't do much of it at all. Instead, we train trainers. Mosaic trainers are individuals who have learned about the Mosaic programme inside-out and have developed a special set of Attitudes, Skills and Knowledge. Equipped with these special attitudes, skills and knowledge, Mosaic trainers are the best people anywhere to train people in the Mosaic framework and support projects at they are being planned and while they are happening.

A few times a year, in different parts of the world, we hold Mosaic Growth and Development Workshops (or MGDWs). This is where we, the training team, train keen individuals to become Mosaic trainers. After each MGDW we add our new group of trainers to our global Network of Trainers which is really the core of the Mosaic training system. Part of our job is to coordinate this global network of trainers. We draw on them to meet training needs in the parts of the world where they live. Montreal needs some training? No problem, we say, we've got a trainer in our network who lives right around the corner.

Sound like an interesting role?

Interested in becoming a Mosaic trainer? There are opportunities coming up. In April, there will be two MGDWs. One will take place in Thailand, the other in France. We are actively looking for enthusiastic individuals to participate. If you are keen about Mosaic, we would love, love to have you. Get in touch with the Mosaic committee to find out more. Don't delay.

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certification

This week the International Mosaic Committee sent out certificates to the coordinators of all projects since 2006 that have been reported back to us. It is important that we make an effort to have the qualities and the competence of our volunteers valued by society in a larger extent. Certifications is one way of doing so.

Did you do a Mosaic project and did not recieve a certification? Then your projrct is not reported. Get in contact with our international office or mosaic (a) cisv. org!

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