VerylVeryl on March 15th, 2013

Currently a Program Associate at iLEAP, i have had the honors to not only learn various leaderships skills and personal development strategies, but have equally participated in the organizations’ various programs that boasts diverse cultural experiences and innovative projects. The latest trip brought me down to the East Coast, to attend a two week UN [...]

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Karen Faith Villaprudente (IF'11, Philippines)Karen Faith Villaprudente (IF'11, Philippines) on March 4th, 2012

The Finisher’s Medal my friend and running-mate Su gave me after my first 5K race in Snoqualmie Ridge last year. It was my Philippine-side 41st birthday, the day I ran. The next day, I celebrated my birthday again with four birthday cakes and with people from all over the world. It was a good year, 2011. [...]

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Karen Faith Villaprudente (IF'11, Philippines)Karen Faith Villaprudente (IF'11, Philippines) on February 18th, 2012

So how’s my life been after Seattle and iLEAP? Hectic. That’s what it has been like, hectic. Lately I find myself referring to my organizer slash appointment book everytime I need to do something or if someone asks if I have any free time. My life is in that appointment book. (It’s a little black [...]

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Vane Siliezar (IF'11, Honduras)Vane Siliezar (IF'11, Honduras) on November 14th, 2011

“Fear evaporates when we understand that our life stories the history of the world were written by the same hand”  Paulo Coelho I have been involved with several fellowships since a I had 25 years old, but iLEAP is totally different. I’m in Seattle, a Magic city, with amazing people who have a strong commitment [...]

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Karen Faith Villaprudente (IF'11, Philippines)Karen Faith Villaprudente (IF'11, Philippines) on November 9th, 2011

I had been thinking about some of the conversations I had with Izumi in yesterday’s interview and one of the things she asked was: What does iLEAP mean to you? I responded that iLEAP had been a space for me to grow. Thinking more about that this morning, I reflected that iLEAP created the space [...]

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Susana Barrera (IF'11, El Salvador)Susana Barrera (IF'11, El Salvador) on October 29th, 2011

The challenge for follow-up to iLEAP Several weeks of training have passed about how to achieve transformations from “the inside,” and in a personal manner to impact different realities in the world. We are ten social leaders, the majority women, training in different techniques of leadership, and at the same time strengthening our values. Now [...]

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Danny Samandingke (IF'11, Papua New Guinea)Danny Samandingke (IF'11, Papua New Guinea) on October 26th, 2011

The different styles of leadership role we as individually or collectively demonstrate at different levels, is a very special gift that one can give in the name of leadership across many aspects of life. To name a few for the sake of discussion, leadership in social/private/non-private entripreneurship, governmental sectors, public and private sectors, corporate or [...]

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Danny Samandingke (IF'11, Papua New Guinea)Danny Samandingke (IF'11, Papua New Guinea) on October 24th, 2011

Time is a resources, and the way “time” which would appear for someone at any onetime in response to the question, what is time? may provoke varied responses, and for some the responses I guess would be like, the position of the earth during its orbit against the sun at that instant. Ironically, time for [...]

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Patricia González (IF'11, Dominican Republic)Patricia González (IF'11, Dominican Republic) on October 23rd, 2011

““Intent is not a thought, or an object, or a wish. Intent is what can make a man succeed when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated. It operates in spite of the warrior’s indulgence. Intent is what makes him invulnerable.””  Carlos Castanedas In one of the session with iLEAP I learned that intentions [...]

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iLEAPiLEAP on October 2nd, 2010

thank you for your service to iLEAP!

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