YPD Training Program
Religio-cultural Training and Resource Centre
Chiang Mai, Thailand
14 – 20 August, 2003
Model Daily Program
7.30 am: Breakfast
8.30am: English Practice: Small groups sharing to improve our English
9.30: 1st Session
10.30: Break
11.00: 2nd Session
12.30: Lunch
14.00: 3rd Session
15.30: Break
16.00: 4th Session: Knowledge Exchange: Sharing of skills and knowledge by participants
17.30: Spiritual Sharing:
18.00: Sport
19.00: Dinner
20.00: Cultural Activities
14 August: Introduction and Feedback from Exposure Program
Session 1: Introduction
Introduction to program and method
Practical issues
Session 2: Group Sharing of Exposure Experience
Session 3: Group Sharing of Exposure Experience
Session 4:
15 August: Young People’s Stories of Globalisation and Development
Session 1: Get to Know Group Dynamics
Session 2: Young People’s Stories
Refugees
Workers
Farmers
Students
Dalits
Session 3: Personal Sharing of Experience and Involvement
Session 4: Knowledge Exchange
16 August: Challenges of Globalisation and Development
Session 1: Reflection, Synthesis and Analysis
Session 2: Plenary discussion – Facilitator
Session 3: Sharing on Globalisation and Development
Session 4: Knowledge Exchange
17 August
Mass/spiritual activity
Doi Suthep
Elephant show, butterflies
Night bazaar
18 August: Building a Spirituality of Development
Session 1: Recap
Session 2: Religious and cultural values for development
Roundtable: Fr Nipote, Phra Paisan, Muslim
Session 3: Meditation – Introduction and personal contemplation
Session 4: Sharing of insights and reflection in small groups
19 August: Action for Development
Session 1: Action for Development Roundtable
Session 2: Thematic workshops: Solidarity savings, fair trade/cooperative, human rights, democracy, refugees, labor flexibility, food security….
Session 3: Plenary Action Proposals
Session 4: Knowledge Exchange
20 August: Local to Global Networking for Development
Session 1: Country workshops
Session 2: Plenary Action Proposals
Session 3: Conclusion and Closing
Session 4: Knowledge Exchange