Global Action Plan International – our world view
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You never change things by fighting the existing reality.To change something, build a new modelthat makes the existing model obsolete
We choose to focus on solutions Buckminster Fuller| Image: Flickr.
If you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always got
Albert Einstein | Image: speedy-bradyWe focus on action
Start where you are, use what you have,do what you can
Arthur Ashe | Image: WikipediaWe focus on what is possible
Chinese proverb| Image: Wikipedia
To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, to be certain is to be ridiculouß
We believe everyone is a learner – and everyone is a teacher
Despair presumes it knows what will happen next
Rebecca Solnit| Image: FlickrWe expect the unexpected
Change happens when there is a reasonable balance between dissatisfaction and hope
Warren Ziegler | Image: babyinblue at deviantARTOur programs fan the flames of both dissatisfaction and hope
Eric Hoffer | Image: FlickrOur programs are designed to extract learning from experience
The place to improve the world is first in one’s own heart, head and hands, and then work outwards from there
Robert Pirsig | commons.wikimedia.comThe problems may be global and systemic, still change starts within each of us
We must all live together as brothers,or we will all perish together as fools
Martin Luther King Jr| Image: WikipediaWe believe in partnership and cooperation
Be the change that you want to see
Mahatma Gandhi | Image: FlickrOur programs support individual and collective change
We choose to focus on solutions
We focus on action
We focus on what is possible
We believe everyone is a learner – and everyone is a teacher
We expect the unexpected
Our programs fan the flames of both dissatisfaction and hope
Our programs are designed to extract learning from experience
The problems may be global and systemic, still change starts
within each of us
We believe in partnership and cooperation
Our programs support individual and collective change
GAP is about empowering people to live increasingly sustainably – at
home, at school and at work.Join us.
Global Action Plan International | globalactionplan.com | [email protected]