Monthly Archives: December 2016

Inclusive Leaders Embrace Diversity

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The Inclusive Leadership Co-operative invites you to  cultivate your Inclusive Leadership Skills in 2017. Everyone has the potential to develop Inclusive Leadership skills, awareness and action plans for mindfully connecting with differences, communicating with compassion, standing up for inclusion, and for Building Bridges across differences. By embracing the diversity in all living beings as gifts that enrich the world, Inclusive Leaders are transforming ourselves and the places we live, learn, work, and play in inclusive, welcoming and sustainable ways.

A Human Approach to World Peace

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“I am sure that many people share my concern about the present worldwide moral crisis and will join in my appeal to all humanitarians and religious practitioners who also share this concern to help make our societies more compassionate, just, and equitable.”  (Dalai Lama)

 Click here to read: A Human Approach to World Peace by the Dalai Lama

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Inter-Faith Bridge Building

Inclusive Leadership Co-operative member, Bonnie Robertson, recently sent the ILC this news from the Baha’i International Community:

1140_00“Building inclusive societies requires profound change in mindsets”, stated the Baha’i International Community.

In her Nov 26, 2016 Keynote address, Diane Ala’i, representative of the Baha’i International Community to the United Nations Global summit on Religion, Peace and Security said:  Continue reading →

De-Stressing Learning Environments

destressing-titleHeadway – Victoria, BC, Canada’s Epilepsy and Parkinson’s Centre and the Inclusive Leadership Co-operative recently teamed up with each other and with a dynamic group of educators, parents and volunteers for a day-long exploration of: 

  • img_6187How can our homes and our classrooms become relaxed, inclusive learning environments for all students and all educators – including teachers and parents?
  • How can educators, educational assistants, and parents support all students – including students with epilepsy and other chronic health conditions – to feel equally welcomed to belong, to learn, and to contribute?

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Inclusive Leaders from Canim Lake BC

img_1221Outreach worker, Stanley Daniels, and a team of youth leaders from Canim Lake in the Shuswap Territory of BC, Canada will be participating in Cultivating Inclusive Leadership February 24 to 26, 2017. Canim Lake has been sending intergenerational groups of youth and mentors to Inclusive Leadership weekends since 2003.

In a blog post from 2015, Stanley shared what Inclusive Leadership means to him.  “Even though we are all different, we share a common theme of wanting to belong and having gifts to offer to one another. We all matter. Inclusive Leadership has given me the skills and motivation to do the work that not a lot of people can do. I can connect with people who would otherwise be cast aside; people who mainstream society has left behind or tossed away. I have helped people who have no one to go to. I have been told that I have saved lives, just by being there when no one else was.”

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Inclusive Leadership Skill-Building weekend 2015

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Syrian Artists: Ethical Witnesses From Behind the Lines

img_6234Behind the Lines – Contemporary Syrian Art is travelling across Canada in 2016 and 2017 with two stops in the Cowichan Valley, Vancouver Island,BC: Duncan United Church until Dec 2, then Brentwood School Dec 10 to 17.

Syrian Artist – Humam Alsalim and Penticton Art Gallery Curator – Paul Crawford collaborated via the internet to arrange for behind-the-lines100 works of art by 18 Syrian Artists to be secretly sent out from behind the lines of the Syrian War to be exhibited at the Penticton Art Gallery.

“Over the last year I could have never predicted or even fathomed how relevant this show would become due to the change in our government and the influx of all these Syrian refugees to our communities,” Crawford says.  Behind the Lines is now travelling across Canada with two stops in the Cowichan Valley, Vancouver Island,BC from November 28 to December 17. Contact Paul Crawford for the complete schedule of the Behind the Lines Exhibition.

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