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Mission to Cambodia: Beneficiaries of the EmPower project in Cambodia, 17-19 October 2022
Photo: UN Women/Ploy Phutpheng
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Mission to Cambodia: Beneficiaries of the EmPower project in Cambodia, 17-19 October 2022
Photo: UN Women/Ploy Phutpheng
Photo captured via Minolta MD W.Rokkor-X 24mm F/2.8 Lens and the bracketing method of photography on State Route 155, the Coulee Corridor National Scenic Byway. Grand Coulee Recreation Area. Upper Grand Coulee Region. Columbia Plateau Region. Grant County, Washington. Early May 2016.
Exposure Time: 1/320 sec. * ISO Speed: ISO-100 * Aperture: F/8 * Bracketing: +1 / -1
Mission to Cambodia: Beneficiaries of the EmPower project in Cambodia, 17-19 October 2022
Photo: UN Women/Ploy Phutpheng
Mission to Cambodia: Beneficiaries of the EmPower project in Cambodia, 17-19 October 2022
Photo: UN Women/Ploy Phutpheng
“Snakes and Ladders”-Resilience Guide
POWER OF UTTERANCE…
The children I work with have usually failed more times than they have succeeded. They usually have given up on adults and do not trust any system the adults want to use to “fix” them.
Now this also means 80% of these students have missed out on learning the sounds of the alphabet. If these sounds are not learned and mastered when young all other learning falls away into “no where land “ and we are left with a child in a state of hopelessness, or self-hate for being so stupid or dumb and in a lot of cases for the rest of their lives.
After working out what kind of dominate learner they are as well as exploring in safe ways, that suits each individual child’s needs, what sounds they do or do not know I then share with them that the sounds they are missing is the major reason they have struggled in all other areas of learning.
The relief on each child’s face when they hear they can find a way out of the horrid place of hopelessness and despair is beyond any human words but felt deep within the heart and soul.
I found a solution the children could take back into their classrooms to achieve continued advancements to get themselves up to par with other students which did not require me being with them.
What was missing in the majority of these children’s experiences was they were not getting opportunities to hear their own voices. The power of speech, utterance, hearing yourself speak, or singing, or chanting, or reading out loud is the only way the bridges in the brain can be built between eyes/feeling brain to the ears/thinking brain and doing/instinct brain. It is this foundational process of “hearing your own voice” that builds these bridges which is a critical element in learning at all other levels.
To achieve unity of inner systems these bridges need to be built and you are never too old to start to build them.
As the human brain grows and develops over thousands and thousands of years so does the growth and development of the super human power of speech, words, talking, utterance and language towards the capacities of contemplation, meditation, reflection, pondering and higher levels of conscious thinking. Out of these areas of growth comes comprehension, understanding and many more intellectual skills.
What you see in each individual human’s development of speech and brain growth patterns you also see the exact same growth and development patterns in the collective human race. What is in the Macro is the same pattern in the Micro.
These children taught me that the more they got to talk and share their ideas and thoughts with adults and the adults took the time to listen and respectively reflect back to the children accepting and genuine belief in the child the stronger the child’s abilities increased in their classrooms.
The more the children got to develop their language, vocabulary and communication skills while talking to the adults around them the stronger their reading, writing , thinking, reflection and pondering capacities also strengthen. The stronger their thinking and reflection skills developed the more their brains grew and developed. The communication skills are symbiotic with brain growth and development.
So does anyone know why most adults do not want to talk to children? What is so scary to most adults to find out how children see the world around them or find out how the child is feeling about the world around them? Why do parents work so hard to get their very young babies to talk and as soon as they have mastered the capacity to talk the parents no longer want to hear what they have to say and ask them to be quite?
Classroom teachers around the world set all sorts of amazing information in front of the children they are teaching and as soon as the children see and hear this information they immediately burst into speech with their friends sitting next to them with excitement and joy with what they have just learned and 90% of classroom teachers read this behaviour as being disrespectful and shut them all down immediately.
Why and when did adults create such a false reality of what children are doing was evil and wrong and disrespectful to the teacher?
Children need to put into words immediately what they have just learned so they can hear their thoughts out loud to build bridges of learning across to their other brains and learning styles.
As teachers are given more and more of what communities and parents used to be responsible for in the education and training of children the children are falling further and further behind in their language, social, emotional and spiritual strengths. Let’s be honest here humanity; teachers have to be given the slack here and community and parents need to take back responsibilities.
As I have been observing this process and trying to understand what the children are actually doing I learned from the children that it does not matter how many times they hear the teacher or others say words or sounds it is the child’s own voice being heard by their own ear that builds the bridges in the brain between the different brains and connects the collective learning development of the child.
Let me put that another way. For the human brains to connect and then be able to unify into one collective learning system each individual brain requires to hear their own voice speaking, sounds, speaking out loud for the bridges between each different brain; thinking/hearing, seeing/feeling and doing/instinct brain to work to their collective optimum.
I explain to the children if they want to learn to read or spell, or write they have to say the sounds out load for their own ears to hear their own voice and this is what builds the bridges from their eyes to their ears to their action brains.
Every time I explain this to a child I see them breath as they understand how they can now achieve instead of failing (every child is hungry to learn).. All children are looking for answers to how to empower themselves and stop being dependant on others and to achieve success instead of continuing to fail.
The other level to the power of utterance is when a story is not shared, when a child goes unheard that story, trauma, memory will just keep playing out or within over and over again in the thinking brain until someone stops long enough for the child to share and for someone to actually listen and acknowledge they have heard them. The amount of adults of all ages I have sat with as they share stories they have carried all their lives that have blocked their own development has been a tragedy in its self.
When that person was given the opportunity to share their story regardless of age they then are free to move forward and grow up all other social, emotional and spiritual selves. Working with children has far more value than waiting until they reach older age to clear these blockages.
Every child on this planet needs to have adults give them time to express their own thoughts and feelings and have reflected back to them they have been heard and are valued. Then the natural continuum of maturity can be freed to advance all of humanity forward and not just a lucky few.
Womens works at a brick field on the eve of International Women's Day at Haroa village in West Bengal, India.
Mission to Cambodia: Beneficiaries of the EmPower project in Cambodia, 17-19 October 2022
Photo: UN Women/Ploy Phutpheng
You can do anything if you put your mind to it.
Up.Down.Left.Right.Forward.Backward
You own it. Make it so.
Isn't that the truth? I would like to think that is one of the tenets implied within this very colorful mural I found in Victoria BC. I love the vividness, symmetry, and variety. Super!
It's the weekend! Make it whatever you want. Just make it grand!
— at Victoria Youth Empowerment Society, Victoria BC
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President Bill Clinton visits the CDI farm in Lugalo Village, Iringa Region, Tanzania, where he meets Wazia Chawala, a smallholder farmer, a mother of seven, and a lead farmer with the Clinton Development Initiative (CDI) in Tanzania.
Photo Credit: Max W. Orenstein / Clinton Foundation
I just returned home from a trip to Nepal, volunteering with the Empower Nepali Girls Foundation. This organization provides scholarships and mentoring for girls in Nepal whose families can’t afford to keep them in school. These girls are at risk to be sold into sex slavery, forced into early marriage or abandoned as orphans. By providing them with an education, they have the opportunity to ultimately pursue careers. The foundation has had great success, and I was honored to go and meet these girls, teachers and schools.
This little girl is one of the youngest scholarship recipients in a very underprivileged area outside Kathmandu. She was very shy when she came out to meet us. One of our volunteers, Tamy, was there to reassure her and give her school supplies.
just one of those days when you actually take a look around you. the vastness of the sky; an insignificant tree holding its ground. clouds, hovering like genies just released from their magic lamps...
good cloud days.
Rohingya refugee women attending baking classes in Malaysia. ICMC works with community-based organizations to run small projects aimed at empowering refugee women and preventing sexual and gender-based violence within the Burmese and Rohingya communities.
© ICMC / Nathalie Perroud
Foto's Kirsten van Sant
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Uit de uitnodiging:
Ambassadeurs van het ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken zijn ieder uur van de dag ergens in de wereld actief voor Nederlanders en Nederland, laten hun stem horen en oefenen invloed uit op internationaal niveau. Zij houden zich bezig met thema’s als veiligheid, duurzaamheid, economische groeikansen en diversiteit & inclusiviteit.
Met dit WOMEN EMPOWERMENT EVENT in het Amsterdamse Pulitzer Hotel slaan we de brug tussen twee werelden; die van vrouwelijke ambassadeurs en die van vrouwen met invloed in de maatschappij en media. We bespreken relevante maatschappelijke thema’s op internationaal niveau met bijbehorende stellingen. Er zijn drie hoofdthema’s en twee sprekers per thema.
Jouw tafelgenoten ondernemen, schrijven, acteren of regisseren en bereiken een publiek dat zij in beweging kunnen brengen. Het zijn vrouwen met een stem die gehoord wordt en waarmee ze effect kunnen bereiken in de media en in hun eigen netwerk. Door onze krachten te bundelen kunnen wij een voorbeeldfunctie innemen en invloed uitoefenen op de nieuwe generatie vrouwen op internationaal niveau.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry delivers remarks at the launch event for U.S. Global Strategy to Empower Adolescent Girls, at the Department of State in Washington, D.C., on March 15, 2016. [State Department Photo/Public Domain]
Empowerment is a sculpture in the centre of Lincoln.
Designed by the artist Stephen Broadbent and completed in 2002, the sculpture spans the River Witham in Lincoln's City Square. It takes the form of two aluminium-and-steel human figures reaching to each other across the water. The design is intended to echo the shape of turbine blades, in recognition of Lincoln's industrial heritage.
At 16 metres tall, Empowerment is the largest sculpture in Lincolnshire.
Formerly known as Y-me, the Walk to Empower event is held in Grant Park every Mother's Day. Find out more here walk.networkofstrength.org/Page.aspx?pid=845
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Now for the bitter part of the bussiness. I was at a couple of bussiness meetings last week, and after at a couple of events that have to do with marketing and publicity. It is so hard and sad to realize that, mostly, the only place that women take in this bussiness is being the pair of tits that sell stuff. One of the meetings was hosted and leaded by a very smart and nice woman. The rest of us women in that meeting, except for me, were product pushers and only product pushers. You could tell from the start: super blonde (not meaning to offend), super short skirts, super long nails, super done makeup. One of them even had a brassier-shaped purse. (??!!!) The woman leader and me, you could tell we were there for bussiness: all dressed in black, bussiness meeting code. At first I told myself, dont judge, they probably also have something to do with interesting stuff, marketing, or publicity of some sort. But along the meeting they made the stupidest, dumbest questions ever.. dont even get me started. So this means 85% of the women present there were there for their bodies, not their minds. As opposed to 100% of the guys were there for, lets say, thinking purposes. (As well as to enjoy the cleavages on the girls there).
Not to mention the way all the models looked at me when i went in the room: scared/astonished, assuming that i was there for the same reason as them, and how i didnt have the body for it. Their faces said it all.
Then the other night. My husband was vjing at this bar, and he shares a little cabin with another (guy) vj and 3 other guys who work lights and more stuff. First girl to appear: me, assisting and learning a bit about my hubbys vj skills. Rest of girls? Dancers, almost naked. Come on.. why oh why cant us girls get involved into technology from time to time? Is it so hard? I mean, I have perfect examples here on flickr about great women photographers, empowered, hard working. But what about the real world? Are we really just about our tits and how we move our asses while the guys do the work?
urrrrgsshhhhhhhhhhh