Janana Summer Encounter

Jul. 31st through Aug. 9th, 2010, Brummana High School

 

Janana Summer Encounter

Jul. 31st - Aug. 9th, 2010, Brummana High School

Since 2002, Janana Encounter has become a major regional forum for exchange, networking, and development of skills in working with children, youth, and communities, challenged with difficult circumstances.

Over 120 community workers, cultural activists, ngos animators, and librarians from the Arab world and pioneering experiences from around the world, come together for ten days in the idyllic grounds of Brummana High School, in the wooded mountains overlooking Beirut.

Major areas of concern:

-       Integral learning

-      Conflict transformation and childhood free of violence

-      Women support groups

-      Enhancing active participation and decision making

-      Creative arts in healing

-      Community and environmental health

-      The creative expression fields of: drama, music, movement, multi-media, storytelling, bookmaking, paper and recycling arts, puppets, masks, street spectacles, … etc

-      Yoga and Meditation.

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