Kabhi "Alvida" Na Kehna !

Here is a poem contributed by Amit Basu, who attended the ALHP at the Monsoon Event:

You, walking, your footprints are
the road, and nothing else;
there is no road, walker,
you make the road by walking.
By walking you make the road
and when you look backward,
you see the path that you
never will step on again.
Walker , there is no road,
only wind-trails in the sea .

- Antonio Machado
"Proverbs and Tiny Songs" (1995)

ISABS Monsoon Event Comes to a Close at XIM, Bhubaneswar

Monsoon Event ended on Friday, Sept. 8, around 5.45 p.m. with a 'Closing Community' session. There were 52 participants (the original 42 + 10 more who joined the Special Lab. on 'Personal and Organisational Learning Processes (POLP)' on Sept. 6) and the 8 facilitators Kakoli, Sanjib, Paul, Snigdha, Pradeep, Rajeshwari, Vandana and Madhukar, who conducted POLP. This ISABS Community of 60 were all there till the last !

We will wait to hear from everybody about their experience, but oral feedback at the 'Closing Community' sounded pretty good ! Here are some pictures from the Event - the Party, the POLP small group, and the Closing Community.

A special thanks to DP Dash, Dean of Programmes, for his untiring efforts since June to make this Event possible and very successful !

Sanjib.

One big circle !

The POLP group (Personal and Organisational Learning Processes)

Party gets going on Sept. 7 evening

The Monsoon Event Has Started !

9.20 a.m. on Sept. 4, 2006 - a Red Letter Day for the Region as 42 participants and 7 facilitators assemble and begin interacting at the Management Development Centre of Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar, for the 'Opening Community' of the ISABS-XIMB Monsoon Event.

4 Basic Human Process Labs and 1 Advanced Lab are formed, and begin their meetings from 11 a.m. Fr. Edward McGrath, a Jesuit priest (in the smaller picture) who was a founder of ISABS in 1972 as well as a pioneer of management education at XLRI and XIM is there at the Opening Community and shares a few words of encouragement to inaugurate the Event.