Programs Offered
The Social Leadership Course is offered annually from June to December and is packaged in a monthly modular form in a series of ten modules that allows the participants more flexibility to select and stay for a shorter or longer period.
The modules are:
- Module 1: Participatory organizational and project management (June)
- Module 2: Sustainable agriculture (July)
- Module 3: Cooperative-ism and Cooperatives (August)
- Module 4: Project monitoring and evaluation (September)
- Module 5: Volunteer program development and management (September)
- Module 6: Peace building approaches to development (October)
- Module 7: Responsible and independent journalism (October)
- Module 8: Micro/Small enterprise development, business planning and microfinance (November)
- Module 9: Socioeconomic and environmental issues and interventions addressing urbanization in developing countries (November)
- Module 10: Development action plan (December)
The SEARSOLIN program has always been deliberately integrated and generalist, believing in training the whole person to enable her/him to be at the service of all, through the blending of value courses and social sciences as well as management and practical skills. SEARSOLIN focuses on the 'head' (theory/thinking), the 'heart' (values/loving), and the 'hands' (practical/doing). The pedagogy is more "hands-on" than strictly academic. The community live-in training of several months provides a unique experience and rich socio-cultural dynamics during which the international participants develop fellowship, camaraderie and leadership values and skills.
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