Archive for November, 2006

 

As part of outreach activities stemming from the Beyond Borders festival in March 2006, BB Sri Lanka decided to host a series of workshop along the popular themes of the festival which were Sexual Health, Conflict Resolution and Citizenship.
In this vein, the first outreach workshop was held in July 2006, under topic of ‘human effects [...]


Day 4
Session 15: Conflict Resolution
By Rita Mishra
Pravah
The workshop dealt with conflict in general and at a personal level. First the audience divided into subgroups and each individual in each subgroup were given a set of differently shaped pieces, in which each individual in the group were to form a perfect square. But he/she would not [...]


Day 3
Session 9:  Discussion on faiths and what it means to us
By Kanwalpreet Kaur
The session focused on an abstract concept of faith and spirituality, considering it in a larger sense, without relating it to a particular religion.  A somewhat lively discussion followed, with many of the participants challenging conventional beliefs and belief systems.  One could [...]


Day 2
Details of Day 1 could be found here
Session 6: Who am I? – Identity and stereotypes
Facilitated by Swati Chawla and Ankit Pogula.
BB India
This was another self-exploring session. At the begging of the session, we were asked to find something out of the environment which we could relate to. A hunt began and [...]


The Life skills training camp was organized by the British Council in New Delhi from October 5 to October 9 in Sanskriti Kendra, New Delhi. Beyond Borders CGMs from Core Groups in Sri Lanka, Mumbai and New Delhi were to attend the life skills camp.
Beyond Borders, as a project under the Connecting Futures initiative of [...]