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Honeycutt and Mother Earth Moms Host First Santa Ana Green Earth Festival »

Moms for Mother Earth, an organization recently created by Landmark Forum graduate Zen Honeycutt in her Self-Expression and Leadership program, held its first event on March 15th: a Green Earth Festival in Santa Ana, California. The event was held in the beautiful Santiago Park and nature reserve, and was attended by over 400 people, including Santa […]

Young People Show the Way on How to Look After the Environment Through Landmark Education SELP Project »

Alison McDuff, a participant in Landmark Education’s Self-Expression and Leadership Programme, has been living in the North Dublin seaside town of Skerries for several years. Skerries harbour is a major landing port for Dublin Bay prawns and in season is a hive of activity. A large colony of grey seals resides in and around the […]

Landmark Forum Graduate Project: Bringing Green Groups Together »

people who knew Ariane Delafosse before she took the Landmark Forum last year would tell you that she would be the last person to do any kind of community project. “I was a complete introvert,” she recalls. “I had no interest in my community at all.”
In the Landmark Advanced Course, she decided that she wanted […]

Landmark Education Graduates Discover Their Hearts in the Amazon; Make a Difference with Pachamama Alliance »

Be careful what you wish for, says Landmark Graduate David Usner. It might come true. By any measure, David and his wife Pat were extremely successful people. They lived in a huge, beautiful house in Philadelphia where Pat was vice president of a prominent hospital. Eventually, she quit this job and became extremely successful as […]

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 […]

Gerald Schwartz Working to Resolve Northern California Water Disputes »

Gerald Schwartz is a Landmark Education Graduate and leads introductions to The Landmark Forum.  He has also been a farmer in California’s Central Valley for most of his life and was recently appointed to be the Central Valley Regional Liaison on water issues.  The history of water rights in California is fraught with lawsuits, animosity […]

Art Meets Nature in a Landmark Education Self-Expression and Leadership Project »

When high school art teacher Sheri Focke had a Japanese Ceramic artist speak to her students she had no idea that it would lead her on a journey into the woods.  
As participant in the Landmark Self Expression and Leadership Program, she had an assignment to create a project that made a difference in her community. 
As […]

Can You Take a Shower in a Minute? An SELP Project Addresses Australia’s Historic Drought »

Can you shower in 1 minute?
 
This was the challenge that Chadstone resident, Vikki Mount set herself, when she received her water usage bill in January and was not happy with the amount of water she was using in managing her home.  Vikki made some calculations, set herself a target and commenced changing the way […]