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Sponsor a Mother Helps AIDS Orphans »

Out of her Participation in Landmark Education’s Team Management Leadership Program (TMLP), London native Jo Lawrence has formed a project to assist AIDS orphans in the Sweetwaters community in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. Titled ‘Sponsor a Mother’, the project works with Love is All You Need, a London based charity that impacts poverty and social conditions in South […]

Seattle Graduate Battles to End Fistula; Crippling Childbearing Injury »

Seattle native Heidi Breeze-Harris was two months pregnant when she began Landmark Education’s Self-Expression and Leadership Program. She had recently heard about fistula for the first time, and was thinking about starting a non-profit organization to combat the problem. It seemed to be a perfect fit for a project in the program. Little did she know what her project […]

Aboriginal Birthright Quilt an Australian SELP Project »

Seneka Cohen is a midwife and mother who while participating in the Landmark Education Self Expression and Leadership Program determined to make a difference in the exceptionally high mortality rate among Australian Aboriginal mothers and babies. She created The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Birthright Quilt.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQ6Mzs7CVHg

The Birthright Quilt is a national, community-based initiative to address […]

Landmark Self Expression and Leadership Project in New Dehli gives mothers a chance to share and learn from each other »

When Renu Sharma created a community project in the Self-Expression and Leadership Program, she wanted to provide an opportunity for mothers to share their experiences and learn from each other.
Here is a story from the East Dehli Plus.
Look at the world from the children’s point of view
’The most connected parent’ quiz will be held on […]

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 […]

Habitat For Humanity Home Furnished by Donations Raised by Two Landmark Education Participants »

Interior designers Suzanne Perrin and Denise Inskip-Seale created a project to beautify a Habitat for Humanity home using entirely donated material, labor and furnishings. The concept behind the project was simple. Many of the families that work with Habitat for Humanity in building a home, do not have the resources to furnish […]

Landmark Gradudate Creates Benefit Concert Where Kids Raise Money for Kids »

Young Band Members Raising Funds for Kids”
From the Grove Examiner, Calgary Alberta Canada
Six local kids - united by their passion for music - are looking beyond their individual and collective dreams for rock stardom, using their musical prowess to help needy kids their ages.
The Descendants - a local group of young musicians who have been […]

Landmark Graduate Scott Bedall Creates "Wellness Challenge" to Promote Healthy Habits For Kids »

When Scott Bedall began the Self Expression and Leadership Program he wanted to make a difference in the health of kids.
Kids take fitness in stride, and then some
From: Times Colonist, Victoria Canada
By: Jeff Bell
The collective energy of a bunch of eight- and nine-year-olds goes a long way.
At Cloverdale Traditional School (the name has officially […]