NETWORKING
CONNECTIONS
(2) Write It Through the Language of TOC, Kathy
Suerken
(3) November
Schedule: Colombia and Venezuela, Francis
de Conde
(4) TACT
Training: Detroit, Cheryl
A. Edwards
QUOTE
(5) Elihu Burritt
EDITORS’ NOTES
By Limor Winter–Kraemer,
Israel
I am responsible for TOC
for Education in the north of Israel in one big city by the name of Haifa, and
in many towns and villages. (Yes, I
travel a lot to beautiful places!) I
would like to share with you a workshop I gave in an Arabic village by the name
Pki-in. These days, you probably hear
about all the fights we have, yet, this is not all we have. The workshop in Pki-in was on one hand with
the awareness of the problematic relationships between Arab and Jew, and on the
other hand, with a deep understanding that only win–win can bring good to all
of us.
At the workshop we
worked on conflicts from different subjects:
romantic love between an Arabic girl and a Jewish boy, kids that want to
stay out late, a woman that wants to go out to study and her husband does not
want her to go, violence at school, and clouds from Arabic text books.
I do not want to go into
politics; however, I just want to let you know that TOC gave me the opportunity
to meet my neighbors and to create with them a good and close dialogue. The students wrote down their clouds, etc.,
so now more people can see their reality vs. what they assume about it. I know that even if it is a small impact…
it has an impact.
(2) Write It Through the Language of TOC
From Kathy Suerken
On December
4, Galina Dolya will be a plenary speaker at the 10th International
session of "Culture of Peace, Human Rights- Content and Methods of
Education” to be held in Moscow, Russia.
Her session is entitled: "Don't War It, Write It Through the
Language of TOC."
The
conference, sponsored by the Office of the Commissioner on Human Rights in the
Russian Federation, the Moscow Committee of Education, the Moscow School of
Human Rights, and the International Society for Human Rights, is expected to attract
participants from neighboring countries.
Conference
trainings are designed to prepare secondary school teachers, university
professors, social workers and managers of educational institutions in human
rights, civic, democracy and peace education. In addition to her plenary presentation, Galina will be conducting
a workshop on the cloud.
From
Francis de Conde, TOCFE Venezuela, South America
In Colombia:
Audience: TOC business congress.
Date: November 8 (morning)
Location: Colombia City, Bogotá, Bogotá
Plaza Hotel
Presenter: Francis de Conde, e-mail: francismejia@cantv.net
Audience: Group of Teachers
Date: November 8 (3:00 p.m.)
Location: Colombia. City, Bogotá,
Bogotá Plaza Hotel
Presenter: Francis Mejia , e-mail: francismejia@cantv.net
Rafael Conde, e-mail: conderafael@cantv.net
In Venezuela :
Audience: Unidad Educativa Grancolombia: 40 teachers
(covering 500 children)
Date: Fridays of November
Location:
Caracas Venezuela
Presenters: Javier
Arevalo, Rafael Conde, email: conderafael@cantv.net
(4) TACT
Training: Detroit
Date: December
8, 9 and 10, 2000
Facilitator: Cheryl A. Edwards
This class is for new to TOCFE educators or TOCFE
educators who would like an upgrade to see the new materials and refresh their
TOC skills. Anyone interested in
attending this class or knows someone who might be interested, can contact
Cheryl for more information at <redwards@sault.com> or 906.484.6808.
(5) "All that I have
accomplished has been by that plodding, patient, perservering process of
accretion which builds the ant heap particle by patricle,
thought by thought, fact by fact." —Elihu
Burritt
(6) Kay Buckner-Seal, Cheryl A. Edwards
Courage comes in many forms… thanks, Limor, for
contributing to this week's TACTics. To
the rest of our TOCFE, send us your courageous utilizations, successful
applications, humorous connections, favorite quotes, worthy news, and flying
pigs. Send them by mail to Cheryl A. Edwards, 2253 S. Hill Island Rd., Cedarville, MI
49719, USA. Or, send hyperlink to
<redwards@sault.com> or <bucknek@resa.net.