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Subud Youth International News Bulletin Isuue 2
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Sunday, June 09, 2002
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Click below for the news bulletin in full. Email us if you would like to be on our mailing address for Subud Youth news sent to you directly at syai@subud.org!
Subud Youth Assoc. International News Bulletin Issue #2
May 2002
TABLE OF CONTENTS
I. Introduction by Harfijah Chung
II. Bapak's Day
III. Big Gathering 2002 in England
IV. A Report from Italy Zone 3 Meeting V. Announcements
VI. Job postings
VII. Subud Youth Contacts
VIII. Living in Jerusalem by Sharifin
IX. Youth Kejiwaan Weekend in
Maryland, USA
X. Manuel's Report on Kalimantan and
Indonesia
Update: Subud USA gathering in Chicago scholarship money available!
We have just received word that Subud USA has received a grant to enable more youth to be able to come to the Subud USA National Congress July 3 - July 7, 2002 outside of Chicago. We will try to get more information and post it at subudlife.com. Or you can contact Melinda at the national office for more information, phone# 1 (425) 643 - 1904 or email at subudusa@subudusa.org.
I. Dear Brothers and Sisters,
You will find a variety of news from England, Italy, Israel, Indonesia, and the United States. I would like to acknowledge and thank all members that put forth so much "planning" effort to organize events and activities in the name of Subud. Your efforts are not overlooked, although many of us forget to say thank you.
I feel blessed to be witness to the all nighters young members endured in Jakarta to make a deadline for submitting a film to the Jakarta Film Festival. It was indeed a labor of love and commitment to a spontaneous, creative project! It was very exciting and the harmonious energy of their 'work' reminded me how the latihan penetrates such endeavors when it comes from the right place. Congratulations to Subud Youth in Jakarta, Indonesia.
I also have included a reflection by Sharifin Dickie, a young Austrian member, who is currently spending time as a volunteer in Jerusalem. He is doing archive work at Yad Vashem (the Holocaust institute). This is his chosen form of national service for Austria, which is recognised instead of going to the army, referred to as the Holocaust memorial service. It is required that he spends one year in such service. He mentioned to me in an email that any person spending real time here (Jerusalem) is forever changed and gains an awareness difficult to convey to others who have not "felt" being there. Sharifin has been a dear friend via email and the prayers and support we've sent each other long distance forever touch me. He has a very gifted soul and I think he also writes with impressive detail and honesty given the intensity and hardship that couples his experience. Thank you for being there Sharifin.
In my position I am sometimes asked, "So what's the Subud Youth plan - internationally, Harfijah?" Golly, how to answer besides the standard, "Well, follow our mission statement and objectives." But, really, what needs to happen to be a true organization representative of younger members globally?
1. Communication, feedback, I need to hear from more members: their thoughts, interests, stories, and wishes.
2. I need to hear what you're doing in your local group however small you may think it is.
3. I need to be invited places where our presence and input is needed.
4. My plan is to organize a large youth gathering at least 1 year before the next World Congress. For the first time I want every single youth rep/coordinator from every country to have a workshop where we experience our togetherness and plan out the next couple of years. It is essential that we spend time in person to harness our talents and goals.
Please contact me if you have any inspirations of how the above can become a reality. If you would like to offer any support via email, I welcome your input.
Syai@subud.org
Happy Reading. Cheers,
Harfijah Chung, Co-chair
II. Service for Bapak Day Ö June 22, 2002
Subud Youth Indonesia is promoting the idea of using Bapak's birthday, June 22, as a day of service. I am touched by this idea, plan to participate myself, and hope that the idea will spread to SYA around the world. The idea is simple, do good deeds on his birthday: clean your local Subud house, give food to the needy, volunteer at a retirement center, save your meal money to contribute to something. I think this idea emerged in Indonesia especially because many young people don't have the means to contribute money to Subud, but still want to manifest their latihans in the outer world, and they came up with this as a way that is open to everybody. It doesn't have to be flashy, just sincere. The point is that every one of us can do something real, and when better to do it than on Bapak's day, as a way of giving thanks for what we have received in Subud.
III. Planning to attend the BIG Gathering of 2002 in England!?
Here is what is currently in the works for you to look forward to:
? Disc golf - outdoor game set up as a course (like golf) but using baskets
and discs. Organised by the Dutch youth team.
? Juggling Workshops - outdoors again, using balls, sticks and eventually
fire-sticks. Several workshops will lead up to a performance. Organised by the
British team.
? Football coaching - daily sessions to improve your football skills. Not
just football but all kinds of fun skill games (unisex).
? European football tournament - join a team to represent one of Subud's Zone
3 European countries - Spain, Portugal, Italy, Britain, France, Holland, Ireland, and Belgium and play in the tournament (unisex).
? BIG 2002 Documentary Film Making- A small group of youth will be making a
documentary of the congress using SYA's new DVD camera. YOU can sign up to
join them one at a time 1. To learn how to use the camera 2. To film your
"little bit" of the documentary. No experience necessary.
? Portrait photography - you can have your portrait taken au natural, fantasy,
with friends . . . by SYA's very own photographers. We hope to make your
photos into a slide show with a musical soundtrack, which we could screen at the
end of congress. Your photos will be available for sale.
? Drama Workshops
* Performance Night - audition for the performance night, 3 hrs of
entertainment in the BIG Marquee on Thursday night. Music, comedy,
performance-almost anything goes but you must take part in the auditions in order to perform (auditions will be daily).
? Make-up Artistry workshops- run by a qualified make-up artist. Workshops in
photographic & special effects make-up.
? Art therapy - looking at talents and direction in one's life (Renee Flynn)
? Family excursions- pony trekking (must arrange your own transport),
Magna Centre - science gallery/museum (must arrange your own transport).
Indoor skateboarding/rollerblading park - excursion
? Batik sarong making workshop
? Susila Dharma & Subud Youth: How we can work together, find out about projects and
ways of being involved with fundraising & volunteering.
? Youth latihan & Testing sessions - explore questions and issues that relate
to being young and following your latihan.
Brianna Rose is still looking for facilitators to contribute to the following workshops:
? Drug Abuse Support workshops - talk to professionals about anything to do
with drug abuse & how it's affecting your life, ask questions, share stories with
others and look at ways of supporting each other.
? Careers & Talents workshops
Please email her if interested: BriannaHarvey@cs.com
IV. Italy Report on the Zone 3 Meeting By Brianna Rose
The zone 3 council meeting held in Tirrenia on the West coast of Italy was a first for me. The first time I've been part of the zone council and the first time that zone 3 has had a youth coordinator working together with a team of national youth coordinators. Because most of us had never met my focus for our 1.5 day intensive workshop was to get to know each other and the unique situations we each face working for Subud youth in our different countries. I had four simple objectives to meet over the course of our time together:
1. to gel as a team
2. for each individual to produce a realistic plan of action to begin to
carry out in their own country
3. to decide on a team event for 2002 in which all team members would
actively contribute to.
4. to effectively convey our result to the zone council on the last evening
of the meeting.
I was aware that the underlying theme in our work could only be the mission statement for SYAI that evolved from the Bali congress and my role was to simply guide the team in carrying out SYAI's aims and objectives in zone 3.
WHAT WE DID AND HOW WE DID IT!
What I did was take a management consultant with me! As a team we used different learning techniques to enquire, examine and re-frame each team members' experience, natural talent and unique situation. We then supported each person in producing a short-term plan of action that we were convinced was realistic.
It was surprising how time consuming and tiring this was, we really worked hard. After this was completed we spent some time testing with the International Helpers. We tested the significance of the Youth Co-ordinators role and what qualities each person brought to the team. We tested the significance of our team for Subud youth and how we could support each other. We tested what my role was as the zone 3 youth co-ordinator and how the team could support me and somewhere in there I received that if my team were all doing their jobs that would support me and it was the easiest job of all.
The testing session gave a sense of completion and content to all the practical work we'd been doing. We'd worked hard and I felt satisfied that we'd achieved something real.
THE RESULTS
Team members are as follows: Rhyana Blakely - Portugal, Maria Vesga - Spain, Matthew D'Haemer-Britain, Daphne Vonsee & Aisjah Sillem - Netherlands, Halina Bassi - Italy, Odette Michell -zone communications co-ordinator, Brianna Rose- zone youth co-ordinator.
Our team work produced 6 action plans for youth activities in the following countries between now and August 2002 and a brand new youth co-ordinator for Italy.
Portugal: Co-ordinator Rhyana's plans include Youth latihan & testing day, creative weekend at Bucelouse, and a youth newsletter.
Spain: Co-ordinator Maria, plans to establish contact with members in Spain and organise a joint gathering with Portuguese youth.
Netherlands: Daphne plans to build her team which has begun with Aisjah Sillem to join her and organise further youth events for Holland. Daphne has already organised events for the children and now Aisjah will concentrate on the teenagers.
Britain: Matthew is planning a latihan & testing day for youth and a hiking expedition later in the year.
Italy: Halina is planning a dinner party at the Subud house in Florence.
Odette Michell is launching the zone 3 youth website which will be linked to Subud Life (International youth web-site) and will have a page for each zone 3 country to post their upcoming events and reports. Odette is maintaining communication with all the youth co-ordinators & passing on information.
Brianna: I am here constantly for support and will be following up the youth co-ordinators events and co-ordinating the team project.
TEAM PROJECT
This year the team project is providing a youth programme for BIG in August in England.
Each youth co-ordinator will be contributing to the youth programme by bringing a workshop or event that represents youth in their countries. The youth programme for BIG 2002 will have a European flavour.
HOW WE FITTED INTO THE ZONE COUNCIL MEETING
Although we spent the majority of our time in Pisa working exclusively as a team, I felt it very important that we conveyed what we had been doing to the zone council. On the last evening the youth team did a short presentation to the council in which we tied them in knots (to represent where we had started in our meeting!) and then watched them untie themselves. Each youth co-ordinator stood up and spoke about their plans and then we invited questions.
We finished on a poignant note when Halimah Heaslip (young & funky kedjiwaan councilor from Ireland) thanked the "pioneers" of subud for bringing the latihan and the subud organisation into the hands of us younger members and assured them of our appreciation and sincere intention to work for Subud in the best way possible to ensure that we bring this great organisation into the hands of the next generation.
Comments from budget meeting by Hassanah:
The zone council voted an extra 1000 Euros on Saturday, during the budget discussion before the youth presentation on Sunday night. This was put forward by Michael Lloyd from Spain, but it was clear that many of the delegates already had this feeling, as people agreed to it immediately. Many expressed their belief in the importance and great need for SYA work, especially the chairs of Portugal, Britain as well as Michael. So yes, it was a result of the youth meeting in Pisa, but important to note that the national chairs and delegates were with us in our feelings, for the whole weekend, not just at the end.
CONCLUSION
I conclude with some comments given by the youth co-ordinators about this weekend:
"We need some more male youth co-ordinators" - Matthew D'Haemer
"It was something new for me....to take part in a Subud group and not just
'be there' as usual, what Harvey and Brianna did has been useful in getting
to know each other and to get organised for the job we will do"- Halina Bassi
"The weekend did so much for me, it felt good to see I was not alone and I
wasn't as disorganised as I thought I was"- Rhyana
"I'm still glowing happily from Italy and all the rad ideas we came up with
and how it's all going to work- I want to get started on it now!"- Odette
Michell.
We would like to say thank you to Harvey Peters for the useful tips,
perseverance, disc jockeying, art classes, dancing, untying of knots, commitment to our
team building, the zone council for increasing our budget to allow more of
us to meet again this year, and Hadrian Michell for the great pictures!
Love from the Zone 3 youth team: Brianna, Odette, Matthew, Rhyana, Maria,
Halina, Daphne & Aisjah.
P.S. We are not represented by France , Belgium or Ireland yet (although we
realise the latter two are very small) So if you are in any of these
countries and would like to find out more about the zone 3 youth team contact
Brianna at Briannaharvey@cs.com or Odette at Odettemichell@hotmail.com
Please go to the following websites for information or registration forms for upcoming events:
www.subudworldnews.com
www.subudbritain.org
www.subudlife.com
V. An announcement from Zone 4:
All are welcome to attend the "Holiday/Council Meeting" in Greece May 25-June 2.
A SICA Atelier, Enterprising and Social workshops, Greek dancing, latihan, testing, the sea and sunshine . . .
VI. JOB POSTINGS
Primary Teacher Needed in Jakarta. Looking for a certified teacher to teach English, Sociology, and Science for grades 1 and/or 2. Excellent Pay. Work with another Subud educator. Live in or near the Subud compound and have an experience abroad! Please email Salamah Dick for more information: sisal@cbn.net.id
VOLUNTEER WORK
Looking for an editor for grant writing to join the Subud Youth International Team. Benefits include unlimited inner and outer kudos for contributing to the future of Subud.
Looking for Youth Coordinators in Zones 1, 2, and 4.
Testing for new SYA chairs representing the U.S. will take place at their national congress over July 4 weekend. Please submit names of interested members to the national helpers.
VII. Our Current Subud Youth International Team:
Harfijah Chung and Manuel Oliver Co-chairs
Simon Hubbard Tresurer
Stewart Website
Darmawan Febri Website
Marisa McClellan Communications
Meldan Heaslip Consultant
Brianna Rose Zone 3 Representative
Country Representatives:
COUNTRY NAME EMAIL
Australia Hamilton Fraval Hamboyfraval@hotmail.com
U.S. Patricia Snyder paticia_s@hotmail.com
Cuba Yoanka Perez Quintana (Louisa) mayivivi@yahoo.es
Cuba Danilo Cuik Perez (Luthfi)
Canada Eliana Roberts eliana@uvic.ca
Mexico Rasjidah Flores Torres rasjidah@hotmail.com
Chile Alberto Urrejola and Hermia Jalpa albertourrejola@hotmail.com
Ukraine Tolija Burchenko
Russia Committee Counselor
Rafael
rafych@yandex.ru
Switzerland Samuel Vouga svouga@vtx.ch
Austria Hana Ziesel
hanaziesel@nusurf.at
Spain Maria Vesga baemar@hotmail.com
Portugal Rhyana Blakeley rhyana_b@hotmail.com
Britain Matthew D'Haemer matthewdhaemer@hotmail.com
Britain - Communications Odette Michell Odettemichell@hotmail.com
The Netherlands-Daphne Vonsee and Laurens Benschop Sya@subud.nl
Italy Halina Bassi
India Valliamma Krishna Swamy
Indonesia Teguh Santosa mazcebi@yahoo.com
Hadiman, Kalimantan Rsp@rungansari.net
VIII. Jerusalem By Sharifin Dickie
I don't remember which day it was, as there were many like it. It was traumatic, but there have been many like it. I don't know exactly when this story started, nor why and where I came into it or where it is going. I don't even know why I bother talking about it. On that day I made an effort to walk up the hill and down again on the other side to go to the latihan in the beautiful German Colony of the city. I had overcome whatever it was that had paralyzed me and was glad to walk through such peaceful neighborhoods, passed whatever is left of the neighborhood cafe where I used to meet with friends after work or for breakfast on Friday mornings, passed the prime minister's residence next to the ruins of a blast that was intended to smack his face, through the streets and parks with the sweet smell of jasmine in the air.
I was on the bus that day heading home, when on the way down town it became apparent that there had been an attack. The driver continued on his route trusting that he would be lead off it by security forces as we approached the scene. Past the market the passengers emerge hoping to make it home by foot as quickly as possible through the mess and bewilderment. The streets are so different, sirens from all sides, but I know where to head and where my instincts will take me, this surreal scene is too familiar already. "Where are you going, all streets descending closed! Go home!" I push my way through the roadblock as I live that way. Whoever isn't running is standing and staring like trees that would like to move but have no where to go because that would disturb their purpose. People heading in all directions, making any direction seem like a dead end. But I am not thinking about directions, my legs walk automatically, only what happened to those two boys on the bus? They are no older than my little sister, seven or eight perhaps. I know where they live; I have seen them get off that bus with their mother waiting for them. When we left the bus, they stayed behind. Who took them away from that place, who will return them to their mother waiting for them at the bus stop. I keep walking, running, avoiding eye contact. A rioting crowd is beating someone, he's my age, I don't care anymore and it hurts. Police take him into custody to save him from the mob, our terror, our desperation and our helplessness in his eyes. Then I blank out drugged by the sirens surrounding me. My knees are weak, but my legs keep on walking until I reach home.
I spoke to my little sister on the phone the other night, telling her about Israel, about this miracle I have grown to love so much. And she stopped me and asked: "How did the nazis know who was a Jew?" I remember waking up in Vienna one day and realizing I was the only Jew around and I could not answer to her satisfaction. "And how do the Paleminians know who is a Jew?" How do I tell her that this is not a war of Jews against Arabs, but one of people loving this land to pieces? How do I explain to her that everything that happens in this world today, all good things as well as bad ones, definitely happen to Israel? How can I give assurance as her older brother, when I am just confused? And what happened to those boys I left behind on that bus? Finally I reached the school in which we rent two rooms. It's a small group and they are my family here. I forced a smile onto my lips, they know my story, and I needn't try to talk. Just to utter a sigh in relief that I could surrender it, and give thanks that there is still a very small space in this city for the latihan.
IX. Youth Kejiwaan
Weekend in Maryland (U.S.)
by Mathew Woodward
(woodward17@hotmail.com)
The idea came about when my folks told me how well a youth weekend that they planned last year went. We all gathered at the Alkaitis/Woodward House on the weekend of March 8-10.The schedule was loose to provide time for latihan, testing, lounging, and talking. Saturday and Sunday we all enjoyed 2-3 hours of latihan and personal/awareness testing.
Julia Hurd, our Zone 7 representative, was kind to come Saturday and speak briefly about her new role. She provided contact lists, at our request, and informed us of areas, national and international, that would benefit from our involvement and energy (feel free to contact me for more info). The evening was a blast as we piled into three cars and headed to a local Greek Ramsey restaurant for some great food. It was a time for many of us to reconnect, and it provided those new to Subud and the area a chance to know and feel the bond of our regional family.
I was overjoyed when Ahmad, a brother from Indonesia, who is staying in Boston -
he flew in at last minute (we sampled his wonderful cooking, too!) There was a bed for each person, and the contributions from everyone covered food and enabled those folks on tighter budgets to come (thank you!).
Thanks to all that enriched our house and lives; the Ramsey 's for their basement to do
latihan; the local helpers; my fellow organizers; my folks; and God Almighty for seasoning the weekend with good weather, laughter, and latihan. Keep your eyes open
for our next gathering!
Mathew Woodward is a member of Subud Washington DC
X. From Manuel about Kalimantan and Indonesia
I recently returned to the United States after several months in Indonesia. I had a great time, as I always do in Indonesia but it was also a difficult visit. There have been well over a thousand people opened in Indonesia the last few years, many of them young people, and there is much of that spirit and enthusiasm that new members bring to Subud. There is also a tradition of stratification in Indonesia, and that stratification continues to affect people's feelings, the feeling of having to always ask permission before moving. Also, Indonesia continues to suffer through uncertain economic times, and therefore worry about money winds up playing a greater role then we would like in the social dynamics. Helpers issues and feelings of excessive advice also are becoming more visible concerns. But mostly, youth means enterprise, gatherings, and activity there. The following is a little rundown of some of the things going on in Indonesia and related to Subud Youth.
This June, as many of you know, there will be an international gathering in Kalimantan. Information about this gathering can be reached by contacting rsp@palangkaraya.wasantara.net.id or by going to their web site at rungansari.net. SYAI has funded a cafÈ at the eco-village to be run by local Subud Youth. We hope that this eco-youth cafe will provide an affordable place for all to eat, provide temporary employment and a sense of stake for local youth, and leave some seed money for the youth group there after the gathering. Bernard, who many of the Yes Quest folks know, will take time off of his job in June to supervise SYA activities for the gathering. He hopes that there will be a lot of international folks coming and that there will be a desire to gather together, play sports, take a piece of the gathering agenda and have a good ole time.
One feature of this gathering will be three night "parties", one of which is the official dedication of the eco-village. The eco-village was built thanks to a grant from GHF and from other sizable donations to be a youth base camp in Kalimantan. It is a beautiful place, nestled back in the forest with the best views on Rungan Sari. Right now it is being managed by RSP. It remains to be seen whether Subud Youth are interested in grabbing this as the asset it was intended to be and using the place to it's full potential. That means assuming responsibility for the yearly costs which will probably run about $3000 US. I hope that anyone who has been there already or anyone who is going in June will weigh in on this issue. Does Subud Youth want to have its own facilities? Can we look after facilities without it becoming a burden?
Another aspect in the works is the future of a program teaching English to the children in the local communities there. The local residents have expressed that their number one request from Subud is to teach their children English. We have been going at this in fits and starts. I really should do a full write up about all the activity to date. But the bottom line is that 1) we need to find a full time Indonesian teacher who is bi-lingual to give the program continuity, 2) we need to secure a permanent place for the program and teaching materials and right now we think that Hanafi's House in Sei Gohong is the most suitable location, and 3) we need to start and take advantage of the goodwill that has already been created in the community through the efforts of Teguh Santosa and Rheta Bournazos.
Of course Kalimantan is only a small piece of Subud Indonesia. Another of the exciting things going on is the film which the Jakarta Youth made for the Jakarta film festival. They had no training, they had no money, but they worked their tails off and were able to raise money to make an original drama/comedy with original music. The greatest part for me was seeing how they were able to act first and then have the money follow, many people helped with donations after seeing the amazing work and co-operation that was happening. This has energized the group to do more ambitious fundraisers and projects, deciding first what they want to do and then figuring out how to do it. Inspiring! Any one heading to Jakarta this summer should ask to see the filmÖ though it might help if you are able to speak Indonesian.
The Jakarta area youths have also taken an active interest in the "children's village", a kind of Subud run foster home near Bapak's grave in West Java. They raised money earlier this year and we are all thinking about ways that our greater Youth community can help these kids to have some training for when they leave the home and have to earn their way.
Many of you also doubtless read on subudlife.com about the charity program for victims of the Jakarta floods. Floods in Jakarta - Response by Subud Youth
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