Children flourish through artistic expression, so cutting budgets for art programmes undermines children’s development, as argued during the Quality of Childhood (QoC) session at the European Parliament, organized with the Alliance for Children European Network Group on 4 September 2018 and chaired by MEP Julie Ward. Ruth Churchill Dower from EarlyArts, UK, explained compellingly why […]
Children as Actors Transforming Society 2018: ‘Safe Together’ The CATS Forum 2018 (Children as Actors Transforming Society) was dedicated to creating safety in partnership, as way to address violence against children. The forum gathered almost 300 participants, of which about half were under 18 years old. The heart intention of this forum’s edition was to […]
The annual Lifelong Learning Platform (LLLP) event in Vienna was the usual vibrant interchange between 43 networks around formal, non-formal and informal education that together cover 50,000 institutions. The Learning for Well-being Foundation was invited to offer an energizing moment at the LLLP General Assembly, led by Daniel Kropf, that encouraged those present to make […]
On June 5th, 2018 another Quality of Childhood (QoC) session took place in the European Parliament in Brussels. The organizers as usual were the Alliance for Childhood European Network Group and the Learning for Well-being Foundation. This time a formal forum and a large audience was provided for Nancy Mannix of the Palix Foundation in Canada, for her experiences […]
Measuring the long-term social and economic value of investing in children,’ an event held on 7 June at Eurochild in collaboration with the Bertelsmann Foundation, further extended this discussion in the context of the Childonomics initiative that develops an economic model informed by the costs of different approaches to support children and families. Click here for […]
An event with this title was held at Eurochild on 6 June, 2018 co-organized by the Learning for Well-being Foundation. Nancy Mannix of the Palix Foundation offered her experience of transformative investment for children in Canada, as a springboard into discussion of related issues in European settings. Panels composed of speakers from […]
Helping young people finding a sense of purpose From 14 to 19 May, in Luxembourg, the L4WB Foundation, in partnership with the European Peer Training Organisation, led another seminar of the project “Bouge et Décroche ton Potentiel” (Move and Land your Potential). The project gives the opportunity to 4 groups of European young people who are […]
On 17 and 18 May, the European Commission’s Directorate General for Education, Sport, Youth and Culture organized a conference in Brussels on Inspiring Change: The governance of school education. The conference explored the key policy messages articulated by the ET 2020 Working Group (2016 to 2018) that included members of the Learning for Well-being Community. […]
Luís Manuel Pinto (Educational Programmes) from the L4WB Foundation completed last May a one-year advanced practitioner training in Social Presencing Theatre (SPT). Based on Theory U, this methodology combines movement and mindfulness to help make visible the inner dynamics of social systems. The competences acquired in the course will enable the L4WB Foundation to expand […]
From April 30 through May 3, 2018 a group of 13 practitioners from Europe and North America met in Kalamazoo, Michigan (U.S.A.) Representing a variety of disciplines and fields of interest, they came to learn together and reflect on the L4WB Foundation’s approach to core capacities for children and to help set strategic directions for […]
