LIVING VALUES EDUCATION IN AUSTRALIA
OBJECTIVES AND ACTION PLAN FOR 2010/2011

GOAL BY DECEMBER 2011:

• To have introduced 250 individuals and created 50 facilitators for LVE in Australia.
• To have 50 sites in Australia utilizing the LIVING VALUES EDUCATION PROGRAM.

ACTION ONE:

DEVELOPMENT — Create a mechanism whereby we can build the Facilitators cadre/base so that LVE can be extended to the wider Australian regional community.

Require to promote extensively in all States for those individuals who are interested in this work.

QUALITIES OF A LIVING VALUES FACILITATOR:

1. Desire to make a difference in the world.
2. Have a genuine concern for their fellow man.
3. See not problems to be fixed, but opportunities to do things differently.
4. Are naturally organized and disciplined in own lives.
5. Creative thinkers.
6. Have tenacity and ability to follow through.

Hold regular — twice yearly initially, to quarterly "Train the Trainer" workshops so that those passing through and completing the required LVE workshops can be processed without delay into Facilitator status.

Create annual week long Retreat for Facilitators and other interested parties to gather and share the opportunities, perceived challenges, to check on and improve on the quality of facilitator styles and training methods.

ACTION TWO:

MARKET — Direct awareness campaign to priority key groups who can benefit both personally and professionally from LVE.

Our opportunity lies in being able to impact directly the quality of the lives of the participants and through them to their immediate families and then to the wider community. The ‘entry point’ for the Living Values awareness is whereever anyone interacts with another and through that interaction can change the quality of experience of the other.

The priority groups must include —

• Group 1 — Teachers, nurses, police, social welfare workers, counselors and therapists.
• Group 2 — would-be public interface sales orientated commercial organization — real estate, hotels, restaurants, coffee shops, retail outlets — supermarkets, chain store, sales staff .
• Group 3 — Local government, aged care specialists, library staff, etc.,
• Group 4 — Community organisations — Service Club members — Rotary, Lions, etc.,

We will approach the Gold Coast City Council early on for participation by their staff as this will open the door into local community and social services. Also all MPs will be offered the opportunity to come themselves and/or send their support staff.

ACTION THREE:

AWARENESS — Indirect Awareness Campaign — an approach through advertising, media PR, newsletters, flyers, radio talk-shows, public talks — about LVE and the benefits it offers.

In conjunction with one of our national sponsors, Living Now magazine, we make a major approach to individuals throughout Australia who are seeking the role and lifestyle provided by a Facilitator of Living Values workshops in the community.

ACTION FOUR:

WORKSHOPS — Provide a regular series of LVE weekend training workshops — minimum once every two months.

The LVE base is on the Gold Coast, Queensland. With the inexpensive cost of airfares to Gold Coast from major centers and by providing local accommodation we can initially satisfy participants’ interest from other areas.

As these LVE participants are inspired to promote and bring together other interested persons in their areas we will travel to those areas to make public presentations and, as numbers dictate – we will hold the LVE workshops in those areas. The first national workshops will be held during Jan – March in Geelong, Melbourne, Adelaide.

ACTION FIVE:

LVE ACTIVITIES – Gold Coast is provided through the relationship with Paradise Kids Australia.

Paradise Kids Foundation, 11 Dunkirk Place, Arundel, Gold Coast offer their premises on regular basis in return for financially supporting their Foundation.

ACTION SIX:

EXTENDING LOVE — Supporting others financially.

With the expansion of LVE activities in Australia a percentage of business will be donated to:

• Provide a scholarship opportunity for financially challenged individuals to receive LIving Values training as facilitators.
• Paradise Kids by directing funds through their Foundation and gifting a percentage of the income in return for use of the meeting rooms etc., and assisting Facilitator training to be eligible for tax deduction.

ACTION SEVEN:

FUNDING – Provide for major sponsorship opportunity to a few select appropriate national players to support initial administration and marketing.

Initially, costs associated with LIVING VALUES’ development, administration, marketing and staffing needs are being funded personally through the National Coordinators, Raj Miles & Suzanne Stallard, until sufficient of the LVE income derived from workshops can be directly applied to sustain and support the Focal Point infrastructure requirements.

Sponsorship funding is required to create public and community awareness for both Facilitators and events and to assist in the administrative overheads.

Long term self sustainability will remain the primary focal. The key to the success and ongoing expansion of the Australian Living Values program is by creating a workable financial structure that can be applied both to individual and group workshop income.

Through this we will be able to support:

• Paradise Kids Foundation in return for use of training facilities, participant accommodation and providing tax deductible receipts for the participants.
• Our administration costs associated with collection and dispersal of funds, payment of GST, office reception, communication and staff costs.
• Payment to Facilitators for their work.
• Payment of Facilitator incurred expenses.
• National marketing and promotional costs.
• A sponsorship fund for financially challenged individuals who show that they are serious about promoting and developing Living Values activity in Australia.

ACTION EIGHT:

ADMINISTRATION — Establishing a presence requires proper procedures and communication.

The present management and staff will manage all activities relating to LVE workshops and presentations utilizing existing communications, reservations systems, marketing, email news, participant administration, bookkeeping, reporting to ALIVE in Geneva, financial transactions.

A dedicated phone number is provided along with email address. These are answered by the staff as LIVING VALUES. A separate website address is used to handle national and state communication, news updates and dates of activities, blog for participants – www.livingvalues.com.au

ACTION NINE:

ESTABLISHING AN ASSOCIATION — By December 2011 we would envisage a formal structure allowing Associate status.

Initially the development of LVE in Australia will focus on building activity, facilitators and sites where LVE programs are in use. By being open to acquiring an existing unwanted foundation or charity structure we will be looking to establish a framework that will enable us the ability to fulfill requirements to apply for full Associate status.

ACTION TEN:

EVALUATING THE STATUS OF EXISTING SITES: Where and how much focus is required.

One of the priorities of the administration will be to find out where Values Education is being implemented in Schools and where Living Values Educational Programs can be offered. A survey is required to be conducted in conjunction with the Dept of Education initially in various States by which we will evaluate the extent to which Values Education is already being implemented in both State and Private schools and where we can offer assistance with LVE workshops.

FUNDING:

RECOGNISING THE VALUE OF REGULAR AND INTERACTIVE COMMUNICATION: Our direction will focus on:

• Create media news and in-house communication.
• Build interactive self help online workshops.
• Build community evening seminar program with video and presentation support materials.
• Promote and advertise through direct mail to our LVE participants, facilitators and support inquiries with brochure and prospectus.
• Build the database.

The overall objective is to expand the Living Values ‘family’ data base of participants, ‘site’ managers, interested parties to 5,000 by end of 2011.

Seek sponsorship partner for assistance per year for two years: Total sponsorship of $50,000

• The production of graphic design of the print materials cost of printing new materials.
  Year 1. $2,000. Year 2. $0
• The development of a professional media campaign which can be utilized on an ongoing basis.
  Year 1. $3,000. Year 2. $2,000
• Advertising and media promotion each year for two years
  Year 1 $25,000. Year 2. $28,000
• Management and Administration cost for two years
  Year 1. $20,000 Year 2. $20,000

SUMMARY:

Just as so much of the world is changing, we too are feeling the need to implement new avenues of activity, to offer our ability and be of service at a time when we would all have to admit that humanity is moving into largely uncharted territory as to how we can learn to live with one another recognising that our responsibility extends well beyond past boundaries of race, nationality, religion, parenting, wealth etc.,

Learning to live the International recognised standard of Living Values - Peace, Respect, Love, Cooperation, Happiness, Honesty, Humility, Responsibility, Simplicity, Tolerance, Freedom and Unity - in daily Australian life will change Australia into a new country – one that can lead the world in harmony.

National Co-ordinator, Living Values Australia.