Facilitators intros and workshop outlines - Forum 10

Skills Build Workshop A
Ecological Footprinting in Your Classroom: Ecological footprinting is a dramatic way of showing how much nature we need to “fund” our lifestyles. The idea is simple but lends itself to a wealth of ideas that can not only be used in environmental education classes, but also in English-language classes in which teachers may be looking to spice things up a little. Participants will (1) have the opportunity to create materials to suit their own particular teaching situations, (2) find themselves stimulated and shocked in equal measure, and (3) even get to play with bits of string.

Facilitator - Trevor Ballance, Educator and Textbook Developer, Josai International University, Chiba.
Trevor belongs to the department of International Exchange where he teaches courses on NGO activism and the NGO-business relationship. He is also a member of the university's NGO-NPO Support Center, which aims to both support local NGOs and provide opportunities for students to become more fully involved with them. He has been a member of Amnesty International for most of his life, involved in letter writing campaigns and event organizing, as well as, during his time in Japan, doing voluntary work for JUCEE, The Institute of Cultural Affairs (ICA), Bridge Asia Japan (BAJ), and The Asia Foundation. Trevor has a Masters in TESOL and is currently working on a MA in NGOs and Sustainable Development. He is the author of "It's Your World...Get Involved: Reading and Talking About NGOs". Trevor spends some of his free time in Ho Chi Minh City at a school for blind Vietnamese where he helps students practice their English, joins them in their music making and, (while mangling the Vietnamese language), marvels at the students' enthusiasm for everything in life.

Skills Build Workshop B
Motvating and Retaining Volunteers - After reviewing the volunteer management cycle and problems many groups face we will discuss tips for keeping volunteers involved. Groups will review cases studies of difficult situations and discuss how we can address such problems. Everyone will come away with useful links, worksheets and ideas for things they can start doing right away.

Facilitator - Sarajean Rossitto - PSC Convener, Nonprofit NGO Consultant
http://people-for-social-change-forum.blogspot.com/
Sarajean is an activist committed to progressive social change and is currently a Tokyo-based nonprofit NGO consultant. Her current projects focus on three areas: Skills development (doing courses and trainings for JICA, Temple University Japan, The Japan Foundation, The Japan Foundation for AIDS Prevention) and linking organizations (the Asia Foundation CSR seminar series, Morgan Stanley Community programming development). She is the Tokyo representative for a number of US-Japan nonprofit projects and spent close to 4 years coordinating bilateral exchange of community-based nonprofit professionals between the US and Japan for Japan-US Community Exchange (JUCEE).