Nieuws:
Future Leaders ondersteunen Powakka

Geplaatst op: vrijdag 23 januari 2009

In de nieuwe Torarica Royal Ballroom presenteerden 4 gemengde  teams van Nederlandse en Surinaamse`Future Leaders` hun visie en plannen in het belang van het dorp Powakka.




Publication from Cor`s Personal Weblog in English:
In the Ballroom of the Torarica Royal Hotel in Paramaribo 4 mixed teams of `Future Leaders` (the future Mandela`s and Obama`s ?) presented their vision, ideas and more detailed plans in the interest of the Powakka Village in Surinam.

Each team was a balanced mixture of both dutch and surinam students who worked close together during the last two weeks in Surinam.

Better Future
The total programme  -with a strong focus on `social entrepreneurship`- has been developed by Better Future in Culemborg in The Netherlands on behalf of one of their major clients: Fortis.

Some quotes of Better Future:

"Our Goal is Our Name
Allow us to share our passion: we coach and connect leaders in business and society. Sustainable leadership is the speciality on our menu. Being an engaged leader, you not only contribute substantially to your own development, but you also improve the well-being of your organisation, and you augment the life of others, the world we live in. In short, a contribution to a better future. Business aspects are a leading motive, for sure, but real inspiration goes much deeper. To live a meaningful life, and to direct your strengths and qualities to issues that really make a difference, that`s what it’s all about.

Social Entrepreneurship
The appeal of a better world is universal. A balanced global community, equal opportunity for everyone, respect for life, clean environment, poverty and diseases eradicated: the hopes and wishes of people worldwide. However, a better society does not come about by itself. Industry, business, and commerce can make a difference. Or rather should make a difference. We coach and connect leaders in both business and society. Better Future helps companies translate their corporate social responsibility into practical terms. We make social entrepreneurship your business, connecting company results with social initiative. There are countless opportunities to find inspiration and to develop new competencies within your organisation. A better world as a direct result of social entrepreneurship."

Pictures
On Friday, 23-01-2009 the pictures have been made by the Better Future team.
Thanks to Linn Zebeda and Marieke of the Better Future Team, in Surinam directed by Managing Partners Marije Adriaansens and Michel Barth, I am happy to present a selection of pictures.

Dutch Business Leaders
Untill their ultimate presentation these groups have been supported and coached by dutch `Business Leaders`. This group has visited our `Landgoed Groot Mariënbosch` on last sunny Sunday, 18 January 2009. If you are interested please sail to "Publications" and to the concerning pictures in "Photography". On that same fertile sunday we had a dinner in `Cosa Nostra` with this group as well. If you still are interested, please read my dutch languaged epigram of that same special night in `Cosa Nostra`...

Focus in the interest of Powakka Village
The main subjects covered in the Ballroom of the Torarica Royal Hotel were:

• sports
• tourism (in Powakka; TOPO)
  
• women & culture

I was overwhelmed by the passion and the enthousiam of each team.

But as everyone was talking about the Powakka people without involving them (in the audience !) directly within their individual presentations my associate and Managing Partner of `Landgoed Groot Mariënbosch`, Marije van Zomeren had following open question: "How do the Powakka people in this audience feel themselves about these new plans, made by the `Future Leaders`?". Fortunately the answers, given by several inhabitants of the Powakka Village on the floor (!) were very encouraging.

ThinkTank session about TOPO on `Landgoed Groot Mariënbosch`
After the presentation of the topic `tourism` I had a special gesture in mind for the concerning team of `Future Leaders`. After visiting the Powakka Village myself on a certain moment the total team of `Future Leaders` will be invited by us to stay one day on our `Landgoed Groot Mariënbosch` to discuss -within a special workshop or ThinkTank session- with Marije van Zomeren and with me further details of the proposed integrated step-by-step business plan to increase and realise sustainable tourism opportunties in the interest of the Powakka people.

Besides, for me there will be an other reason to visit Powakka as well:

Shamanism in Powakka... and in Kwamalasamutu a couple of months ago
Between the presentations in the Ballroom, Marije van Zomeren and I had the opportunity to have a short chat with the female `Sjamaan` of Powakka. In short we had some mutual indigenous feeilings and the three of us felt a growing strong positive energy flow. She invited me in person to visit her in her home outside the Powakka Village in the forest to share more of this kind of feelings.

At the end of all presentations the `Sjamaan` really surprised me to stand up in the audience and giving me as her personal gift a special cashew fruit. She told me lateron that she had received a strong message from `above` early this morning to bring that cashew fruit from Powakka to Paramaribo to give it to some -untill that very special moment- unknown person. She had a kind of recognition with me. And the other way around. A life time experience... again, because:

I felt the same kind of emotions (and feelings of reincarnation) as I felt a couple of months ago in Kwamalasamutu near the Brazilian border in the Amazones. On that very special moment the Granman of several Trio Tribes of in total 3.000 people shared the same kind of feelings with me and gave my surinam Awarak-friend Sirano Toscanni Zalman and me special amulets. Spontaneously I gave the Granman in return my original amulet with one of my personal totems: the eagle in gold, originally made by the Chorotega Tribe, located in the very past on Hacienda la Esperanza in Costa Rica (if interested go to my personal `eagle view` pictures, made from a hangglider, called... Eagle).

The Chorotega`s were former descendants from the Maya`s. For me that really was a life time experience deep in the virgin rainforests of Kwamalasamutu...

I wrote a couple of days before about that special and surprising ceremony. If you are curious about this special spiritual subject, sail to "Tribute to Sirano... and to the concerning "Photography"