New Directions

Hello Everyone,

Just would like to share the direction that we have in mind for the next few months and ask for any suggestions or ideas that may extend our own thoughts....

Accommodation available on Gold Coast - Through our Karuna Bali association with Paradise Kids - a Gold Coast based non-profit Foundation for children we have been offered the use of a new beautiful house with accommodation and suitable for 12 - 15 for the workshops.  It is centrally located on the Gold Coast by the Harbourtown Shopping Centre.  Rates are affordable, breakfast and dinner are also available very inexpensively.

Business and Others - Our goal now is to create some 'test cases' so that we demonstrate the benefit of the LVEP and how it can affect change at all levels throughout the community - in business, social services, police, nurses, families, schools.  If you have contacts to whom we could make a presentation to, please contact me.  In particular, we are interested in business/organisations which have high customer face to face interaction - banks, real estate, hotels and restaurants.

Living Values on Tour - Once we have our eight facilitators in place in November we intend to take LVE 'on the road' to medium sized towns in northern NSW and to Sydney with a view to attracting further interest in LVE workshops for facilitators in those areas.

Of interest to parents and teachers – in 2010 we plan to offer a LIVING VALUES EDUCATION 13 week school program (one day/class per week) - intro lesson plus one Value per week - to present to a large local high school to coincide with their new intake in February.  The object is to trial one class to qualify and quantify the difference in behaviour and attitude between children that are subject to LVE and those who are not.  Once we have that information we'll create a report that can be circulated through Department of Education, school principals both here in Queensland and in other States where we have qualified facilitators.

It would appear that through LVE we have been offered a dream come true - the best tool we could have asked for that has the potential to impact the whole community in Australia and best of all - to all ages.   So thank you everyone for your support and encouragement.  Now its time to have fun.