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Speaker @ Lunch — 17th September Day Reception & Welcome MC Grace Fines Sergeant Rotary Moment / Business slot 24/9 ** * NO ROTARY LUNCH TODAY. 1/10 Billy Pullen Khumbulani C Jill v d Marwitz Lindi Gillespie Chante Wright Andrew Binning 4 Way Test & Thought for Day *** Julia Gooden DUTIES FOR SEPTEMBER & OCTOBER 2015 INSIDE ISSUE Speaker @ Lunch 1 Member’s Matters 2 Thought for the Day 2 PSG Golf Day = Tuesday! 2 Dictionaries to Maranatha 2 BULLETIN 17 SEPTEMBER GUEST SPEAKER ON: BIRTHDAYS IN SEPTEMBER 24/9 NO LUNCH 1/10 Evelien Roeleven = Mediation & to thank us for Rotary’s help re Ilitha in Walmer Township 20 Linsley Pudney 21 Julia Gooden 23 Nancy Nhliziyo 4 14 Templeton & Pamella S. 16 Phil & Yvonne Gutsche 25 Tim & Hlubi H-Coleman 27 Andrew & Karen Binning 12 Yvonne Gutsche PARTNER BIRTHDAYS Shena Lamb is currently coordinator of Academic Literacies and Writing in the Centre for Teaching and Learning at NMMU. She has an MA in Conflict Management has been a facilitator of the Alterna- tives to Violence Project since 2005. This is where her passion lies! The Alternatives to Violence Project (AVP), is a non-profit educational corporation which began non- violence training in prisons in the USA in 1975. This prison training soon revealed that the violence in prisons is merely a distilled version of the violence in society and that nonviolence training is needed as much, or more, in the outside community. AVP has since spread to over 60 countries worldwide and is used in government corporations, NGOs, schools, universities, prisons, religious organisations and communities. The AVP training is a process of seeking and sharing, not of teaching. AVP believes that the answers to violence lie within each individual. For this reason the AVP training creates a ‘seeker-friendly’ environment which encourages participants to search within themselves for solutions, and its experience-based workshops develop people’s natural abilities to resolve conflicts without resorting to violence. AVP has five central pillars of affirmation, being communication, cooperation, commu- nity building and creative conflict resolution. It introduces methods for reaching con- sensus and building relationships of reciprocity, resolving conflicts rather than reacting to them, and learning communication skills that can de-escalate potentially violent and dangerous confrontations in any cultural environment. Workshops are geared to a vari- ous age levels and different community organisations supporting youth-at-risk. They do Basic training, Advanced, as well as training of facilitators. Two day work- shops are held and participants are limited to 20 people only, as the programme is par- ticipative in order to ensure learning takes place. They try to create a more enquiring interest than merely teaching participants. The key principles include expectation for a nonviolent path and to think before acting. The programme is an empowering one and the current structure is mostly volunteer based with a history of 40 years peace building. The key to the success of the programme is based on the ways in which it increases self-esteem, the capacity to negotiate, and resilience in people. ANNIVERSARIES
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Transcript of Friendly Word 551
Speaker @ Lunch — 17th September
Day
Reception & Welcome
MC
Grace
Fines Sergeant
Rotary Moment /Business slot
24/9 ** * NO ROTARY LUNCH TODAY.
1/10 Billy Pullen Khumbulani C
Jill v d Marwitz
Lindi Gillespie
Chante Wright
Andrew Binning
4 Way Test & Thought for Day
***
Julia Gooden
DUTIES FOR SEPTEMBER & OCTOBER 2015
INSIDE ISSUE
Speaker @ Lunch 1
Member’s Matters 2
Thought for the Day 2
PSG Golf Day = Tuesday! 2
Dictionaries to Maranatha 2
BULLETIN 17 SEPTEMBER
GUEST SPEAKER ON:
BIRTHDAYS IN SEPTEMBER
24/9 NO LUNCH
1/10 Evelien Roeleven = Mediation & to thank us for Rotary’s help re Ilitha in Walmer Township
20 Linsley Pudney 21 Julia Gooden 23 Nancy Nhliziyo
4
14 Templeton & Pamella S. 16 Phil & Yvonne Gutsche 25 Tim & Hlubi H-Coleman 27 Andrew & Karen Binning
12 Yvonne Gutsche
PARTNER BIRTHDAYS
Shena Lamb is currently coordinator of Academic Literacies and Writing in the Centre for Teaching and Learning at NMMU. She has an MA in Conflict Management has been a facilitator of the Alterna-tives to Violence Project since 2005. This is where her passion lies!
The Alternatives to Violence Project (AVP), is a non-profit educational corporation which began non-violence training in prisons in the USA in 1975. This prison training soon revealed that the violence in
prisons is merely a distilled version of the violence in society and that nonviolence training is needed as much, or more, in the outside community. AVP has since spread to over 60 countries worldwide and is used in government corporations, NGOs, schools, universities, prisons, religious organisations and communities.
The AVP training is a process of seeking and sharing, not of teaching. AVP believes that the answers to violence lie within each individual. For this reason the AVP training creates a ‘seeker-friendly’ environment which encourages participants to search within themselves for solutions, and its experience-based workshops develop people’s natural abilities to resolve conflicts without resorting to violence.
AVP has five central pillars of affirmation, being communication, cooperation, commu-nity building and creative conflict resolution. It introduces methods for reaching con-sensus and building relationships of reciprocity, resolving conflicts rather than reacting to them, and learning communication skills that can de-escalate potentially violent and dangerous confrontations in any cultural environment. Workshops are geared to a vari-ous age levels and different community organisations supporting youth-at-risk.
They do Basic training, Advanced, as well as training of facilitators. Two day work-shops are held and participants are limited to 20 people only, as the programme is par-ticipative in order to ensure learning takes place. They try to create a more enquiring interest than merely teaching participants. The key principles include expectation for a nonviolent path and to think before acting. The programme is an empowering one and the current structure is mostly volunteer based with a history of 40 years peace building. The key to the success of the programme is based on the ways in which it increases self-esteem, the capacity to negotiate, and resilience in people.
ANNIVERSARIES
Venue: PE St Georges Club, 12 Bird Street. Tel: 041 585 1919 Day: Thursday - Time: 13.00 — 14.00 Website: www.rotaryportelizabeth.co.za
Bank Name: Standard Bank Account Name: PE Rotary Club Account Number: 080 280 870 Branch Code: 050417 Branch Name: Rink Street Reference:Your name + what for.
Bank Details
In Partnership with Rotary Club of Port Elizabeth Meetings
Rotary Club of Port Elizabeth Details
Issue 551 Page 2
Save the Date
President: Denise Pudney: [email protected] Secretary: Linsley Pudney: [email protected] Editors: Jill v d Marwitz & Denise Pudney: [email protected] General Enquiries: [email protected] Website: www.rotaryportelizabeth.co.za Twin Club: Rotary Club of Singer Island, Florida, USA www.singerislandrotary.org
Members’ Matters
S’bongile Tsiu quoted Agatha Christie: “The secret of getting ahead is getting started”
Thought for the Day
S’bongile Tsiu will be talking on Kingfisher FM on Thursday, the 1st October, shortly after 8am.
Leigh Deyzel (?) will be on Kingfisher FM on the 8th October.
The Ithemba Special Care Haven Bazaar is to be held 2nd October. If you still have items to give to Jill vd Marwitz or Regina Kasongo, please contact them.
Does anyone have any musical instruments to donate to the Boy’s Band that make such merry music at
Uncle Jumbo’s every year? Any instruments would be most gratefully received.
PSG Wealth’s Golf Day
to be held at the Wedgewood Golf & Country Estate
next Tuesday 29th September 2015.
Various members have been great at sourcing and donating ‘big ticket items’
which will be auctioned at the prize giving.
Still needed is a sponsorship for 10 bottles of wine.
Also a couple of bottles of Schnapps or Sherry etc for a ‘Rotary Wet Hole’,
and some Rotarians to man this hole.
Please see and take action on the attachment.
Maranatha Haven Rachel Rose, the bright and bubbly teacher / artist at Maranatha was very happy to receive 2 English Diction-aries from Rotary. It is easy to see the impact she has on the children in her care, as she uses their talents and brings out the best in them. Any contacts with roofing sheets? Some of the roofs there have more holes than metal in them!
