Meetings and Conferences

At least once a year members of SDIA get together at conferences to learn from each other, develop their skills, strengthen the network and hold the annual general meeting of the Association. Also included in this section are reports from members who attend other international organisations meetings and conferences, excluding those linked to the UN.

2007.01 - SDIA Lewes Conference: A Report by Ridwan Kennedy

Posted in: Meetings and Conferences, Conference Reports
Director from SD Britain reports on the Lewes Conference:
From Thursday 25 January until Sunday 28 January forty members representing SD International and SD National bodies from various European countries, Norway and North America met in Lewes. All SD (Britain) Board members attended and Ridwan Kennedy gives his recollection of the meeting below.

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2007.01 - SDIA Lewes Conference: An Invitation to Transform the World

Posted in: Meetings and Conferences, Conference Reports
Solen Lees Gratiet from SD France reports on her impressions of the SDIA  Conference in Lewes, England, January 2007.

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2007.01 - SDIA Lewes Conference: Lewes is worth a visit!

Posted in: Meetings and Conferences, Conference Reports
Members from SD Germany report  on the  conference in Lewes, January 2007.

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2007.01 - SDIA Lewes Conference: Summary

Posted in: Conference Reports, Meetings and Conferences
A summary of the Susila Dharma meeting at Pelham House in Lewes from January 25 to January 28, 2007. For the full report, see Widening Our Footprint.

Download attachment(s): [ sdia_lewesConf_sdGermany-2007.pdf ] [ sdia_lewesConf_sGratiet-2007.pdf ] [ sdia_LewesConf_sGardiner-2007.pdf ] [ sdia_lewesConf_Kennedy-2007.pdf ] [ sdia_lewesConfSummary-2007.pdf ]


2007.01 - SDIA Lewes Conference: Widening Our Footprint

Posted in: Conference Reports, Meetings and Conferences
The report from SDIA’s members meeting in Lewes, England, January 2007 was attended primarily by SD National organizations from Europe and North America.

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2008.11 - Conference on Rebuilding Sustainable Communities for Children and their Families after Disasters Report

Posted in: Community Development, Meetings and Conferences
“…discussions centered around notions of resilience… It was not always clear what this meant or looked like. [As if] disaster events are in some way inevitable… and that the way to respond to disaster is to find a way to “bounce back.” There is an assumption that disasters, themselves, are politically neutral events.”

2009.07 - Susila Dharma in Our Daily Lives: A Workshop

Posted in: Development Issues, Meetings and Conferences
…a workshop at the Congress called “Sharing Our Acts of Caring:  Susila Dharma in Our Daily Lives”.  Attendees reported examples of their own personal volunteer work and discussed the significance of this work in their lives…