The final few days at the butterfly garden went much the same as the first. John and I worked in tandem during the morning’s and the afternoon’s – lecturing and playing with the animators of the Butterfly Peace Garden. More…For four days we worked in the shade of the central pavilion, occasionally interrupted by pigeons, [...]

Greetings from Ngombo. Keylee and I leave tonight for Singapore and then to the United States. We have had a very successful time here. Our workshops have gone well and we have given applications for the Olympia program to four people. All are excellent candidates. We are particularly pleased with the success of ITTP’s approach, [...]

I am in Kampala at the Seattle Internet Cafe and have a view of Lake Victoria from here. There is Christian music playing in the background, since this is owned by Pilgrim, the organization I am working for.

 We have finished our work, but we are staying in Colombo to spend time with Paul Hogan – creative director of the Butterfly Garden in Batticaloa, and to decompress.  Batticaloa was wonderful. All the years of listening to John talk about it – how amazing the people are, how fantastic the program is, how magical [...]

Greetings from Batticaloa. The last several days have been interesting, to say the least. Our workshop with the group from our Galle workshop last year spent one and a half days with us in Negombo, where we reviewed much of what we did last year, discussed new challenges that have appeared since then, tried out [...]

Tuesday, March 28th, John and I were picked up at our hotel in Negombo by a driver for the Green Movement of Sri Lanka (GMSL). For a harrowing 6 hours we weaved our way 60 miles down to the GMSL office near Galle, the island’s southernmost city.

Keylee and I have finished our second workshop. The first was a one-day affair in Galle and the second was one and a half days in Negombo. We both feel that one-day workshops are not as successful as multi-day ones as it takes a day to get to know people, warm up, and get the [...]