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A team of graduates located both
in the Philippines and the US had their
dream come true by having The First Landmark
Forum in the Philippines on
Friday, May 17, 2002.
The evening session was an
expression of freedom, possibility and
accomplishment. We had 160 guests and there
would been more if it hadn't
been for the 7-hour power outage and blackout
in Manila that happened the
day of the Evening Session. The trains
stopped and it became an excuse for
some graduates and guests for not getting to
the Evening Session. There were
many shares about being
"unreasonable" to get there that evening.
One of the best acknowledgments of Landmark's education and methodology
came from a man who stood up at the end of
Sunday night. He was in his 60's - a mature and wise educator and trainer.
He said, "In 1776, the
Declaration of Independence was created by
the United States. In 1898,
almost 125 years later, the Philippines
declared their own independence.” He
shared that at the turn of the century, the
US government sent 1000 teachers
by boat to the Philippines. They were
called the Thomasites after the name
of the ship they came over in.
They were known as teachers who walked and lived amongst the people. The
Thomasites taught English and produced the
second largest English speaking
country outside the US. They produced a
very high level system of
education for the Filipino people, and it
was reputed to be the best school
system in the world outside of the US.
In 1946, the US withdrew their
support of the Philippines. Many, many Filipino people felt abandoned by
the US. This man said, “The US left
us when we needed them the most. We, the Filipino people, were just on
the threshold of creating our
own future with the US efforts in getting the
country educated.”
He said that the Landmark Forum completed the work of the Thomasites and
that he was forever grateful to me as Landmark Education - for its education, technology and
methodology.
What I, as the Landmark Forum Leader, was struck by the most was the
Filipino people's commitment to their
country. I have never seen such a
commitment and concern. There are 10 million
people in Manila and 80 million
people in the Philippines. There are many
things that don't work in the
country, and there is a strong pretense of
resignation and cynicism
towards any solutions to their problems from
outsiders.
But, in spite of all that doesn't work, these recent graduates stood
committed to their people
and country. One after another stood up
after getting and generating the
world of Possibility and spoke their
commitment to their country. They
wouldn't stop expressing the possibilities
they said for themselves and their
country. If you were in the room, you
could not help yourself from
being moved to tears in the face of who they
were being.
It started with the Filipino graduate team who constantly gave up their
petty concerns, make-wrongs, confusion, incompetencies, and resignation for
the greater good of the people. The
team would constantly get off it for
their people and their country's possible future.
I am left with the courage of our graduates
and how, when faced with something
worthy of giving it all up for, they do.
Our graduates are heroes and
extraordinary human beings. I am left
"enrolled" in who the Filipino
graduates have been to make a difference with
their own country and I will
do for them and the recent graduates whatever
I can do to support them in
building a future of Transformation,
Possibility and Enrollment in the
Philippines. The next Landmark Forum
in Manila will be on Aug 15, 16, 17, 19, 2008.
Thank you to all the Landmark Forum graduates
for your commitment,
your hard work, and the intention you
provide. Who you are is the
clearing for Landmark Forums to show up
throughout Asia.
Jerome Downes
June
20, 2002
The Special Evening in
Manila
and Landmark Forum Leader Jerome
Downes.
Jerome Downes is a much beloved and a
senior Landmark Forum Leader who led The First Landmark Forum in
Manila, the Philippines,
on May 17 to May 21, 2002.
On April 3 to April 5, 2002, Jerome Downes was in Manila and led The First
Special Evenings About the Landmark Forum for the Philippines audience at the
Ateneo de Manila University, at the Astoria Plaza Hotel and at many other
venues. On June 14 Jerome Downes led a Special Evening at the Oakwood Premier
and on June 15, 2002, a Special One Day Seminar for the graduates in Makati, the
Landmark
Education Assisting Training in Manila, as well as many other following events and courses.
These days and evenings with Jerome Downes were the source of many personal breakthroughs and accomplishments in many
lives. They were also historic milestones in the
realization of many people's dream of having the benefits of the Landmark Forum
be available in Manila, Philippines and the world.
The Filippino Landmark Forum graduates communities in
Manila, Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York City and elsewhere join the rest of the
global community for transformation to acknowledge Landmark Forum Leader Jerome
Downes for his awesome and inspiring leadership and his essential contribution
to the transformation of the Philippines and Asia.
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Asia 2003:
Landmark Education's Biggest Opportunity
 Yamada
san shared how Jerome Downes led a breakthrough event "A
New Start" in Tokyo, Japan, January
2003.
Approximately 150
people take part in each Landmark Forum. The Landmark Forum is conducted
in a workshop setting in a college or university auditorium, hotel
conference room, or one of our meeting facilities in major urban areas.
The program is held in a room most often set up in a classroom type of
format. Each day begins at 9:00 AM and ends about midnight. Breaks are
approximately every three hours, and there is a 90-minute meal break each
day.
The men and women
who lead it, The Landmark
Forum Faculty, are extensively trained senior program
directors of Landmark Education. They conduct Landmark
Education’s programs on a regular basis in more than 90 locations in the
United States and Canada, the Middle
East, Asia, Australia, Africa and Europe.
The training program which qualifies them to lead The Landmark
Forum includes three to seven years of full-time, rigorous and specialized
study, preparation and practice.
Jerome Downes is one
the most senior of the Landmark Forum Leaders, as well as the Landmark
Education’s Executive accountable for Japan
and Asia. He is well known
to and loved by many Landmark Forum graduates all over the world for
the profound difference he makes.
The
Second
Landmark Forum in Manila
Read articles about the benefits of the Landmark Forum in the words of its
graduates at the List
of Possibility.
Ed
Bañaga and
The Third
Landmark
Forum in Manila
Find out relevant information from the websites of Landmark Education at Links
to Possibility.
Father Gregg
Bañaga
shared about his
participation to bring the Landmark Forum to Manila at
Landmark
Education's Grads In Action Worldwide
Acknowledgement
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