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EBBF Weekend in Acuto – Living Values

EBBF takes you on a weekend journey to help make you a pioneer.

• “starting from the foundations of our values, getting to know them, increasing our awareness of them,
• hearing the experiences of people who have released these values in their offices,
• we will then work with them on solutions, ideas and guides that will help us make a meaningful difference in our work environment.”

Like-minded individuals with the same desire to find new ways to make our values work in organizations come together in the beautiful medieval town of Acuto, perched on the Italian hills in the Province of Rome.

Enjoy a weekend of Italian food, warm hospitality in the company of like-minded individuals who are also looking for ways to apply their values to become pioneers in creating a new holistic world order.

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CT 2008 Round-Up: Pictures and Presentations

To show our appreciation for the fantastic 2008 conference, we have a little something for you! The presentations from the main sessions and the wonderful work of our official photographers.

Complete collection of CT 2008 Pictures:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ct08/

Following is a list of materials from our latest Changing Times session. They are made available here on the blog for download as PDF Files.

Mr. Ian Semple

• Texts used during his talk on The World Order of Baha’u'llah
• Texts used during his talk on The International Council and the Universal House of Justice
• Texts used during his talk on Independence and Obedience
• Workshop on Huququllah – The Importance of a Universal Standard

Ms. Kit Bigelow

• PPT to External Affairs 101
• PPT to Persecution Today
• PPT to Reflections on a Baha’i Identity

Mr. David Henderson

• PPT to Media: A Tool for Effective Leaders
• PPT to Understanding the Power of the Web
• PPT to Communicating Messages that are Heard

Dr. Friedo Zölzer

• Workshop on Freedom of Speech in the Baha’i Community

Mr. Geoff Cameron

• Workshop on the Denial of Higher Education

4600 of Frankfurt

Frankfurt was buzzing with 4600 Central-European Baha’is from eleven countries. While International Counsellors Joany Lincoln and Steven Birkland clearly set out the goals for us, we devised strategy after strategy to meet them. No less than twelve pledges to raise Clusters throughout our countries to Intensive Programmes of Growth by Ridvan 2009 were made as a result of our active workshops.

Among the pledges was the Pristina cluster around the capital of Kosovo. With a fierceful army of only 25 Baha’i friends, they set out to raise their cluster from a C to an A level in under three months (and will welcome pioneers). There were one hundred friends of the Faith among the 4600 participants. Eight of them declared their Faith on the weekend, three of them on the bus on their way back to France.

Looking forward to hearing from the other cluster workshops and their results in the months to come!

Photo Credit: Mona Reyhani

Opening Video to London Conference

This is the video that opened the London Conference for more than 3000 Baha’is from Northern Europe. Madrid and Frankfurt are coming up soon!

CT welcomes Mr. Afshin

No one (really, no one) has ever welcomed Mr. Afshin (India) like Changing Times 08 did.

Bollywood Intro:

Thank you to our brilliant MC’s who have raised the standard for all times.

3000 at London Conference

(bl) This has been an enthralling and inspiring day. Great talks by International Teaching Centre members – Counsellors Stephen Birkland and Uransaikhan Baatar – representing the Universal House of Justice. Workshops to study messages from the Universal House of Justice. Some wonderful stories of how the various elements of the core activities – prayer, study, education of children, training of junior youth – work in practice in various advanced clusters.

About 3,000 Baha’is of all ages (babies, children, junior youth, youth, adults) and many ethnicities and nationalities filled the Business Design Centre in London. The countries represented at the conference are: Denmark (including the Faroe Islands), Finland, Greenland, Iceland, Republic of Ireland, Norway, Sweden, United Kingdom.

The conference is about raising our eyes to the horizon, inspiring us with the Universal House of Justice’s vision for the Baha’i world, and planning action to take in the next few months and, indeed, for the near future.

Source: Barnabas Quotidianus (Barney Leith)

Stick with the Jojos

This is an advert created at Changing Times 2008 for the snack bar.

Music by Andy Grammer; produced by Amy Lim and Ryan Lash.

7th Changing Times Session

The 7th Changing Times session just finished. Once again it was a success and like its previous years it was unique and full of energy.

The presenters, each an expert in their field shared their professional expertise as well as personal stories. The diversity of the participants was the highest it has even been with over 42 countries represented. The program was educational, inspiring and filled with many humorous and moving moments. Professional contacts were made and more importantly many new friendships were found.

All in all it was a great week with lots of energy and enthusiasm. Here is a short collage of pictures that tries to capture the spirit of the week.