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SANIBLAKAS  FOUNDATION
PROGRAM THRUST FOR

HUMAN DEVELOPMENT & HARMONY

LIGHT-SHARE  
Lambat-Liwanag.

PROJECT TO BUILD A NETWORK OF CENTERS FOR EMPOWERING PARADIGMS

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ANNOUNCEMENT: MONTHLY SERIES OF PARADIGM-SPECIFIC CONFERENCES CONTINUES AUGUST 31, TO BE FOCUSED ON THAT DAY: "GENDER SENSITIVITY, EQUALITY AND HARMONY.'  click here. 

 

 

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Come, join us 

in gathering and sharing 

the empowering Light…

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       We are a network of light-gatherers and light-sharers, committed to help empower our fellow humans by freeing them from those divisive and self-limiting patterns of thinking and behavior. These old paradigms have gone unchallenged for centuries but we are now bringing them up for reexamination under the glaring light of reason and inspiration.

       We are the LAMBAT-LIWANAG Network of Centers for Empowering Paradigms. ‘Lambat’ is the Filipino word for network; and ‘Liwanag’ our word for Light.  This network, mainly academe-based, was con­vened by the synergism-oriented SanibLakas Foundation under its overarching program thrust for Human Development and Harmony (HDH).

Be with us in the way most suitable to your nature and capabilities, as we research, refine, discuss, validate, propagate and mainstream the paradigms of thought and behavior most helpful for the full flowering of the human potentials, for individual self-actualization and the continuing collective evolution of human civilization.  Dare to be pioneers with us in this wide-eyed quest deep into the yet uncharted waters of new millennium.   


 

 

 

    Mainly Academe-Based Network

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This network embraces research centers and equivalent entities in different universities and schools, mostly in Manila, with definite plans for nationwide expansion.  The five founding centers, all in the City of Manila, are:

·        Social Science Department, Philippine Normal University (PNU)

·        Social Research Center, University of Sto. Tomas (UST)

·        University Center for Research, Seminars and Conferences, Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila (PLM)

·        Manila Studies Program, University of the Philippines-Manila (UP-M)

·        Human Rights Office, Polytechnic University of the Philippines (PUP)

We have been joined by the research unit of the Philippine Science and Technology Center (PSTC, recently renamed as Sentro ng Agham Pilipino) in Baguio City and the Applied Cosmic Anthropology Program of the Asian Social Institute (ASI), even as efforts and processes are underway for us to be joined by equivalent entities within the Philippine Christian University (PCU), Letran College, and the College of Community Health Management and Development (CCHDM), Adamson University (AU), De La Salle University-College of St. Benilde  (DLSU-CSB), and the Ateneo de Manila University (AdMU). 

 For a much broader reach within and also beyond the Academe, we have started establishing close contacts with such wide groupings as the Education Network (E-Net) and Environment Education Network (EEN), Philippine Association of Schools, Colleges and Universities (PASCU), and the Catholic Education Association of the Philippines (CEAP), as well us with key officials of the Department of Education (Dep Ed), and the Commission on Higher Education (CHED). 

   


 

 

 

    The Empowering Paradigms

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1. Total Human Development and Harmony Through Synergism

2. Holistic Health Care and Medicine

     3. Deep Ecology and Harmony with Nature

 4. Sense of History and Sense of Mission

  5. Civics and Democratic Governance

  6. Culture as Community Creativity 

  7. Light-Seeking and Light-Sharing Education

8. Gender Sensitivity, Equality  & Harmony

  9. Reconstructive/Restorative Justice

 10. Associative Economics, Social Capital and Sustainable Development

 11. Synergetic Leadership and Organizations

12. Appropriate/Adaptive Technology.  

13. Mutual Enrichment of Families and Friendships.  

14. Human Dignity and Human Harmony: Human Rights and Peace 

15. Aesthetics Without Boundaries: ‘Art from the Heart’

 


 

 

 

    Participatory Tasks and Processes

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Participatory Processes

          The convening foundation envisions this entire effort to result in a social atmosphere most conducive to the enjoyment of dynamic human harmony. Such harmony does not preclude even heated debates, but such contentions of thought can be handled best with the overarching attitude of mutual respect the earnest quest for the Truth.  We have designed processes that would be consistent with such vision. The “Lambat-Liwanag” endeavor is therefore widely participatory in all its aspects.  What the foundation currently lacks in material resources is made up for by its consistent and creative application of the synergism principle in highly-consequential endeavors such as this one.

          The participatory nature of the processes is ensured both by the very mission of the convening body (promotion of synergism and building of actual synergies) and the multilateral character of the Network Council. 

         At present, this Council is composed of:

Dr. Noemi Alindogan-Medina  (chairperson, Social Sciences Dept., PNU)  Network Council Chairperson

Prof. Enrique D. Torres (head, Human Rights Office, PUP),  Network Council Vice Chairperson

Dr. Ernesto R. Gonzales (head, Social Research Center, UST), Network Secretary-General

Dr. Romeo M. Barrios (head, University Center for Research, PLM), Network Council Member

Prof. Bernard Karganilla (director, Manila Studies Program, UPM), Network Council Member

Dr. Mina Ramirez. (president, ASI; director, ACAP), Network Council Member

Engr. Faustino Mendoza Jr. (president, SAP, Baguio), Network Council Member

Prof. Ed Aurelio C. Reyes  (ASI;  president, SanibLakas Foundation), Network Convenor (non-voting)

          When the number of voting members of the Council shall have reached ten, these members shall elect from among themselves an Executive Committee to continue meeting monthly on behalf of the full Council which shall then schedule quarterly meetings. Our predisposition is to inform, invite and involve all interested and relevant entities, and the actual breadth of participation at any given time is constricted only by the limitations in our resources.  We started with centers in only five schools in February 2001, and our paradigm titles and bullet points have elicited much interest among many and much wider circles both within the academe and among civil society organizations.  Proper invitation processes as well as discussions in the decision-making bodies of entities already invited are both going on.

          Every step of the way, from paradigm refinement to paradigm package completion and popularization, the efforts have been designed to be multilateral.  Each participating entity is to have access to the complete resource holdings from the research efforts of all, through the Internet and through hard copies in the “Lambat-Liwanag Empowering Paradigms Special Shelf” in its own library

 

Light-Seeking and Light-Sharing Tasks on These Paradigms

 

a. Collation of Existing Literature on the Paradigms and their Counterparts

b. Generation of New Literature for the Empowering Paradigms

c. Development of Mechanisms for the Sharing of All Holdings

d. Effective Public Promotion of the Empowering Paradigms

Mechanics for the Lambat-Liwanag Network

a. Needed Machinery for the Network

  b. Start-up Machinery


 

 

 

    Lambat-Liwanag Conferences

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General Conference

The first Lambat-Liwanag general conference on the Empowering Paradigms was held at the Central Library Bldg. of the University of Sto. Tomas, on the whole day of Friday, October 26, where the most of the Empowering Paradigms were discussed in simultaneous workshops by about 50 participants mostly from academic institutions or entities. Convened jointly by Lambat-Liwanag, Saniblakas and UST-SRC, the Conference passed resolutions approving in principle the paradigms discussed, as presented above, with some suggested additions and clarifications.  This Conference was  documented (click here). 

Paradigm-Specific Conferences

In December 2001, Lambat-Liwanag convened jointly with PUP-HRO a special conference on Human Dignity and Harmony: Human Rights and Peace, intending it to be the first of the series of paradigm-specific conferences. However, this was found to be lacking in preparation and in many aspects could not be considered as having met the required rigors of such conferences. Still, the conference was very significant due to the context of urgency for peace advocacy in the wake of bombings in the United States, and due to the lessons it yielded. 

The Network is now set to convene a monthly series of paradigm-specific conferences, each to have a principal paper presentor and a secondary paper presentor, both from the Academe; a set of three reactors, preferably including at least one from the Academe; an open forum; and an afternoon workshop period and a plenary session for synthesis and for the passing of Conference resolutions, one of which would formalize and commission a paradigm-specific working group.  Except for the first two and the one scheduled for December, all these paradigm-specific whole-day conferences are to be held on  the penultimate Saturday of the month.  

The first eight of these have been definitively scheduled to be held as follows:

June 29, 2002 / PNU:

Light-Seeking, Light-Sharing Education 

(Paradigm 7)

July 27, 2002 / UPM:

Sense of History and Sense of Mission 

(Paradigm 4)

August 31, 2002 / PUP: 

Gender Sensitivity, Equality and Harmony

(Paradigm 8)

September 21, 2002 / UST:

Deep Ecology and Harmony With Nature

(Paradigm 3)

October 19, 2002 / c/o SAP:

Associative Economics, Social Capital and Sustainable Development 

(Paradigm 10)

November 23, 2002 / ASI

Culture and Community Creativity

(Paradigm 6)

December 14, 2002 / PLM:

Aesthetics Without Boundaries: 'Art From the Heart' 

(Paradigm 15)

January 18, 2003: 

Total and Integrated Human Development Through Synergism

(Paradigm 1)

 


 

 

 

    Convenor: SanibLakas Foundation

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Separately, many people have discerned the value of human development for harmony and through harmony, through complementation, through teamwork and the profound bonding strength of love. They were not all aware of the word “synergism,” and all its exciting nuances, but they have actually been strongly committed to pursue it as their way of life. All of them have separately resolved to pursue life-long missions that somehow contribute, in their respective humble ways, to such a grand goal of attaining human harmony.  And each has been doing precisely that from day to day, despite the many distractive and divisive factors they have to deal with in the struggle for survival.

SanibLakas seeks out such people by initiating and sustaining activities for synergy-building in various areas of human concern. After discovering them to have already adopted “synergism” in essence as their way of life, SanibLakas invites them to apply for membership, and upon validation of their credentials, swears them in as members.  SanibLakas Foundation not only works to make them work together, SanibLakas is the organization that facilitates and formalizes the synergy among them. 

SanibLakas turns them into “human magnets” with a combined field of influence (“magnetic field”) to align more and more people with the harmonizing spirit of love and peace, away from the divisive, even hateful, tendencies of competitive living under the hypnotic control of global greed. 

SanibLakas helps its members, and all the people in their respective “magnetic fields” of influence to adopt frames of minds or paradigms that result in human liberation, growth and harmony.  Consistent with such empowering paradigms, this organization cherishes each of them as “human gold,” and the synergies built among them as its main resource, its greatest treasure, that enables the Foundation to do more and more work.

The current dominant paradigms in society would tend to make people value funds more than anything else and tempt organizations to engage in endless fundraising before they can feel they are ready to start really working.  In contrast, SanibLakas has had many ongoing programs and projects powered almost exclusively by the synergy of committed human hours and creativity of our “human gold.”  Metallic gold we would always gladly welcome if given, but synergism-oriented as we are, the Foundation cannot rely on it.

The Foundation’s mission is spelled out in its twin tasks: (1) promote the synergism principle, and (2) build actual synergies all around.  Work in each and every SanibLakas program, project or activity carries this prime mandate.

In promoting the principle, all SanibLakas members are required to undergo, free-of-charge, the basic course on synergism which includes its integrated application in the field of work each member chooses to concentrate in, as well as an advanced course for applying the synergism  principle in one’s own lifepath-setting, continuing growth and harmony-building work. Those members who have an advanced level of familiarity with the principle are being developed for seminar-development and actual work as “learning facilitators.”

A conscious part of this promotion and popularization work is the coining of many new words in Filipino that start with the “sanib-“ prefix to name many of its programs, organizations and even day-to-day activities. The main approach of the Foundation in promoting the principle and everything else that it does is to build, expand and consolidate teamwork all around.

And in building synergies, the Foundation has initially chosen a number of key areas of human concern where either all people are actual stakeholders (like environment protection, health and aesthetics) or where synergism is supposed to be at its very essence (cooperativism).  The overarching program thrusts are (1) Human Development and Harmony (HDH), and (2) Integrated Empowerment for Social and Economic Upliftment (IESEU):

 

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