DDI Scholarships 2019 Bangkok Leadership Intensive

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We are raising money for the travel and lodging expensesfor our co-learners from Kenya, Iraq, Egypt, Ukraine and Russia who got full scholarships to participate in our Annual Global Leadership and Facilitation Intensive in Bangkok. Would you like to know what our learners bring and take from these Intensives? Click on READ MORE and watch amazing one minute presentations of last year’s recipients.

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Enjoy meeting our scholarship students describe their personal and professional learning at past intensives:

Meet Binafsh, from Kurdistan, Iraq. She is a university graduate in agriculture, now working as a news editor in World TV - a satellite channel in Duhok:

Binafsh: "I learned how to be courageous among people, and how to understand and accept other people as they are. Thankyou for the opportunity to speak about the ongoing genocide".

Meet Timoh Maina - comedian, businessman, and DDI student in Kenya:

Timo says: "It helped me to open up to what I feel and be more real .... now I use my real life story in my comedy."

Meet Sara Huang, working in the public sector in the Netherlands, in stakeholder engagement:

Sara writes: "What I learned professionally is how to create and hold a safe and brave space for conflict transformation."

Meet Desmond Smith, agricultural and bio-system engineering student at Kenya University, got scholarship to Cairo in 2018:

Desmond writes: "Personally, I got to meet great minds like Binafsh [featured above] who is fighting against [Yazidi] genocide in her community. Professionally, I got first hand experience working in a large group ... process, and able to see my weaknesses and my strengths".

And here below is Binafsh again, this time amongst fellow participants and students at a DDI seminar in Duhok, Kurdistan recently on "The Power of Facilitation":

Meet Husna Said [second from left]. Husna is from Nairobi, Kenya and a DDI East Africa co-ordinator. Husna won a scholarship to Kyiv in 2017.

Husna writes: " I came out with a positive attitude towards struggle and conflict, knowing that they are key roles that aid our development in the long run."

Here's Husna cooking in the heat, to the right of the speaker, at the international intensive in Kyiv:

Take a peek at our learning communities and around the world:

Duhok Iraq

Nairobi Kenya

Meet Barbara Rabinad Coll, group facilitator and therapist from Barcelona:

Barbara writes: "Learning to follow my spirit"

Cairo Egypt

Kyiv Ukraine

Duhok Iraq

Meet Flavia Wanja, practicing psychologist in Nairobi, part of the East Africa DDI co-ordinating team:

Flavia writes: "Important for me to learn to work on my emotions using inner work and body symptoms"

And here's Flavia in the centre, in the midst of a riveting interaction global group process in Kyiv Ukraine:

Kyiv Ukraine

Moscow, Russia

Here is Anna Burimova, a psychologist from Moscow - you can see her from the back in the group process above:

Cairo Egypt

Meet Imm Pachara from Bangkok, Thailand, standing centre back above in Cairo:

Kyiv Ukraine

Bangkok Thailand

Meet Nina Kitbumrung. who lives in Bangkok Thailand, and joined the Intensive in Cairo lat year as a scholarship student:

Nina writes: "I work at BioTherapy Asia Foundation as a therapist. I met diversity of people from around the world ... the feeling, the history, the trauma, the pain, the suffering, the fear and the hope together. I learned from Process Work that we all are connected, and that is the true healing for me".

Cairo

Meet Lynn Chalobon, paediatric dentist, and DDI coordinator in Thailand, hosting the 2019 Intensive:

Lynn writes: "Practicing conflict with people from all around the world is really powerful. I learned how much we humans depend on each other"

And.... We hope you enjoy this short film "Memories from Cairo" with DDI East Africa scholarship students 2018:

Emmanuel is founder of Mangarini Children's Centre and Organic Demonstration Farm. Eliud is a social entrepreneur supporting young people thought East Africa. Maryam works in IT administration in an insurance company. Flavia you met earlier, is a psychologist. Husna, you also met earlier works in Sales. Timoh is a businessman and comedian.