Some graphic facilitation at the plenary.
Savings Group Summit was a wonderful meeting- world cafe, debates, under the mango tree storytelling. We had practitioners from Africa, Asia, Latin America, Europe and North America.
I think the biggest divide or tension in our community is the question of scale. Broaden vs. deepen access? Are these at odds or mutually reinforcing?
Before it breaks
even before it
begins with the
ache of sky, its
low belly drum roll. Powder
blue holding its own
against barrelling grey.
Could be a rumble, baby.
Air muck-thick, bloated. The
weight of stout in champagne
sink in the spray
whiff of dirt.
Who knows but I trust
this heft.
Spit and
silence rock the
tender trees,
could take this
anywhere dripping green.
Almost water but well
before the floods
on the dewy
lip of riot.
Peter Taylor (IDRC formerly IDS, University of Sussex) and I just finished an article on the transformative potential of arts in learning and social change. It draws on examples of poetry, creative writing and experiences of innovative practice shared by adult educators through an e-forum from Africa, Asia-Pacific, Europe and North America. The paper provides a conceptual frame to explore tensions in adult learning between the mytho-poetic and the critical-rational, and between the individual and the collective. It will be published in the Journal of Adult and Contiuing Education in October.Contact me if you'd like a copy.
From February to May, I facilitated a 15-week distance (online) course on community-based microfinance for the Coady Institute with co-facilitators from India and Zimbabwe. Savings group practitioners stayed in their organizations and communities while deepening their practice. The course used a hands-on, peer-exchange, participatory learning format including field-based assignments.
We had participants from Egypt, Kenya, Tanzania, Vietnam, Sri Lanka, the Sudan, India and Guyana. Join us next February. Bursaries are available for field practitioners from the Global South.
http://coady.stfx.ca/education/distance/momf/
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