Archive for September, 2007

Hearts of Fire: Helping fight Homelessness Through Art and Music »

Bob Ballard is a musician who lives in Ojai California.  He is the creator of a project called Hearts of Fire that is dedicated shifing the public perception of homeless people.  Several years ago while taking a program with Landmark Education he was struck by his personal reaction to being around homeless people.  He did not […]

Cherish Our Children International: A Landmark Forum Graduate Project That Has Been Making A Difference since 1993 »

A Charity started by a Landmark Education Graduate in 1993 is still going strong nearly 15 years later
Cherish Our Children International http://www.cherishourchildren.org/ is dedicated to making a difference for the worlds most needy and vulnerable children. Around the world natural disasters, civil strife, war, and genocide have had a devastating impact on millions of children. […]

Self Expression and Leadership Project in India uses outdoor education and adventure sport to contribute to people with dissabilities »

Indian Landmark Forum Graduate Mahalakshmi Viswanathans has created a project to help bring adventure sports and outdoor education to people with disabilities.
Here is an article about the project from the Deccan Herald in Bangalore India.

Giving wings to their dreams
Mahalakshmi Viswanathans purpose of setting up Wings was an attempt to give differently-abled people a chance to […]

Landmark Forum Leader Joe Dimaggio Interviewed re: Parent- Adult Child Relationships »

Landmark Forum Leader Joe Dimaggio was recently interviewed in an article about relationships between Parents and Adult Children
From The Record:
Dad: Offspring find the relationship can be complicated
By ABIGAIL LEICHMAN
STAFF WRITER Vivian Scott Chew is very much like her father: proud, ambitious, fearless, smart. She inherited his distinctive hazel eyes, too. It was those eyes that […]

Walking Dogs to raise funds for Johanesburg Paediatric Hospital »

Eileen MacEochiadh has been a guide at Florence Court House for 6 years. On a recent visit to South Africa to see her son, she was moved by the work being done at the Sisulu Paediatric Cardiac Centre for Africa. Currently participating in the Landmark Self-Expression and Leadership Program, she got permission […]

Wounded Veterans Enjoy Surfing: Operation Amped Launched by Landmark Education Graduates »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbZce97LkKA

 
Landmark Education graduates in the Team Management Leadership program in Los Angeles watched as thousands of American soldiers returned from Iraq with permanent disabilities and knew they wanted to do something. The way Tom Tapp saw it, these soldiers were defending our freedom, yet to the thousands of those who returned without limbs lost in […]

StepUp Foundation Started by Ryll Bergin via the Landmark Education Self Expression and Leadership Program. »

StepUP Foundation- “If it is possible, it is possible for me, it’s just a matter of how!”
Australian Business Woman Ryll Bergin has always wanted to make a difference in lives of teenagers. As a business professional, she wanted to inspire teenagers to go for their dreams. According to Ryll, it wasn’t […]

Sing Your Hearts Out!! Giving Peace a Chance »

Graham Smedley has created a project in the Landmark Self Expression and Leadership Program with the goal of getting people to sing John Lennon’s give peace a chance before football games. This unusual idea has been getting some attention in his home town of Swindon England.
Sing your hearts out
By Matt Jackson
Graham Smedley who wants […]