Notes on the Network
Last year a number of new initiatives contributed to widening the outreach of the work
with many new triangles being formed throughout the world.
At the beginning of the year, Triangles on-line was launched, which is a
Web-based initiative providing facilities for people of goodwill to register and form
triangles on our website. At the moment, there are over 110 people listed on the Triangles
Bulletin Board to link with others in forming triangles. Co-workers from over 25 countries
are using this service. Presently, this service is available only to English-speaking
co-workers. There are plans to expand it soon to Spanish-speaking co-workers, and other
language versions will follow in due course. We will keep you informed on developments.
Another feature of Triangles on-line enables people to share their thoughts
on Triangles for possible inclusion in the Triangles Bulletin and/or on the ‘Sharing
Group Thought’ page of our website. Also, the most recent and past editions of the
Bulletin in English can be viewed on the website. And, of course, co-workers are able to
register their triangles on-line.
For several years we have corresponded with a co-worker in Sri Lanka who has been
instrumental in developing Triangles there. A selection of Triangles and World Goodwill
literature have now been translated and printed in the Sinhala language. A growing number
of Triangles are registered each year from Sri Lankan co-workers.
Also, a co-worker in India is helping to expand the work there. Some of the basic items of
Triangles literature have been translated into Hindi and Gujarati. And three co-workers
in the Czech republic have also started to translate and distribute Triangles literature.
At the end of the year we sent out the first electronic Bulletin in English by e-mail to
those co-workers who asked to receive the Bulletin in this way. To date, over 160 people
receive the e-Bulletin and no doubt this number will increase.
In the last year or so, 5,000 Triangles leaflets have been sent out to individuals and
groups in Europe and Africa. It is encouraging that a number of new triangles have been
formed as a result of this initiative.
In the March edition of the Bulletin, we featured reports of Triangles meetings organised .
by groups around the world who linked up at the time of the three Triangles Seminars in
New York, Geneva and London at the end of last year. We recently learnt of another
Triangles meeting by a group in Nigeria—‘Benin Unit of Service.’ The
programme included
talks, discussion periods and group meditation. After the welcoming address, Mrs. Isoken
Ogboro talked about Triangles: An Emerging Pattern of Light and Goodwill. This was followed
by a talk on How to Form and Maintain Triangles by Francis Ugiagbe. The last talk, by
Nathaniel Ogboro, focused on Purpose and Co-operation in Triangles. The group reports:
“After the presentations there were discussions, a question and answer session….
The seminar experienced calm, love and very impressive interactive sessions.”
On World Invocation Day this year—14 June—the ‘South African Goodwill
Association’ organised a programme on Triangles. A presentation was given on the
Great Invocation and on Triangles as a method of service. The group comments: “After
a bring-and-share lunch we had our Full Moon meditation. We gave away free posters on
Goodwill is Love in Action and The Great Invocation, as well as back copies of Triangles.
The response was remarkable. Not one person left without forming a Triangle.”
Through the selfless work of the international team of translators, the quarterly Triangles
Bulletin is now published in twelve language editions: Danish, Dutch, English, French,
German, Greek, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Swedish. Their work
enables the note of Triangles to be heard by many language speakers throughout the world.
These are just some of the new and ongoing initiatives that we are pleased to share with
you. If you are involved in a project helping to focus the Triangles work in your area;
or, if you would like suggestions on how to help promote the work, please contact headquarters.
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