BEING DOST WITH ALL HUMANITY...

Dear All,

I have had two lovely Dosts: Evelin and Linda. I first met them in cyber world in 2004 through a common friend of us from Global leadership Forum in Istanbul. Evelin offered me to organize the 15th. Conference of her Network and I accepted it. Thus, I have become the General Coordinator and the Convenor of the "15. National Conference of Human DHS".

They are the leaders of the wonderful network: "Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies" (www.humiliationstudies.org). Through their life styles, their behaviours and feelings, and also very fruitful activities they are good role models for the world. After the 17. Annual Conference in New Zealand, deserved a good rest. Porf. Dr. Evelin G. Lindner, the president, is in the Dialogu House of Prof.Dr. Linda Hartling and her lovely husband Rick. If you look their photo, they seem to be enjoying their life. I must confess that my mind and my heart is with them in Portland, Oregon, USA. 

If you want to learn more about the Dunedin, New Zealand Conference, please visit our web page: www.humiliationstudies.org/whoweare/annualmeeting17.php. If you are curious about the first HumanDHS Dialogue Home in Oregon which was creayted by Linda and Rick in 2009 , see: www.humiliationstudies.org/intervention/dialoguehome.php !

I have various Dosts in different parts of the world. I feel myself as a "global person" as my British dost Prof.Dr. Richard Ennals say. I am thankful to all brothers and sister living in Turkey, USA, India, UK, Germany, Finland, Norway, South Africa, Nepal, Mauritius, Belarus, China,  Poland, Sri Lanka, Phillipines, Pakistan, Iran, Egypt and many many others from various countries. We are all ONE and we join hands to make the world a more peaceful planet. I love you all.....

Hayal Köksal

NEW ACADEMIC YEAR & ME...

Dear All, I start writing my Turkish blog on Blogger again. It is good. I was addressing my readers from the new Blogs I have had for a year under the names of;

https://hayalkoksal.wordpress.com and https://nonviolenceineducation.wordpress.com ). However, the Blog just in the middle of my werb page has had a very important and strategic importanve for me. I hope from then on without any restrictions I may write and be seen from then on.

I will write soon about the upcoming event with you soon concerning my course, seminars and projects. The month September is not a busy month for me however I need to make serious and detailed plans for the coming days. New year means new hopes for all. We realize the real, hidden meanings of losses after some time and we see that all the things seen as evil ones werre in fact for our goodness. That is why never lose yourself within the sea of hopelessness. If you mean "death" as "loss", you should also accept that truth as an unavoidable journey to the real "Home". Don't you think like this? Please try. Who has an endless life? In fact, you make your lovelies live when you remember of those old and lovely days with her or him. That means keeping her or his memory alive, not forgetting about or leaving behind forever.

We are going to 2002 UNESCO Peace Education Awardee City Montessori School, in Lucknow, India on 30th November-4th December 2011 to participate in the 14th ICSQCC as a group of Turkish academicians, teachers and students. In fact, that quality-focused journey is open to all parents, business leaders and NGO people. If you are interested in participating there, please keep in touch with me through my hayal@hayalkoksal.com account. Thus, you can learn the conditions of it.

I wish you a happy, healthy and fruitful academic year. With love and peace...

Hayal KÖKSAL

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New Term, New Students...

Dear All,
I have started my 36th year in 'teaching' profession. It seems easy to utter the number in a second; however that "36" has had many memories, experiences and Dosts accumulated in such a time duration. It is just like tomorrow for me.
I still cannot understand the rush of some collagues completing 20-25 years to get the retirement right. If I am healthy, I would like to work for many years. Each year has added a lot into my life richness. As I get older, I understand the value of teaching and being a member of educational family. The contribution of every single student to my learning is greate. They are the sources of my creativity, life energy and also the suns of my learning. They update me. If you notice in your heart that you even learn from a five-year-older; then, a new journey starts in your life. First, you get astonished and then you place a smile on your lips. It is just at that moment that you understand wisdom is not related to age. As the number of young wise people increases, a better, golden world approaches to the humanity.
Today I would like to share my lovely first day of the Spring Term at Boğaziçi University. I was away from my students last term, but this term has started with a magnificent first day there. While expecting 25 registered students, finding 58 candidate students made me very happy. The course is named as; "Nonviolence in Education". There is a page "Şiddetsiz ğitim/Nonviolence in Education" within facebook and also a Blog, called:
http://nonviolenceineducation.blogspot.com/2011/02/new-course-for-peace-nonviolence-in.html
During the course, we will try to analyse the main and root causes of various violence types and develop some strategies and projects to bring solutions.We will start from self and then move to home, school, business world and community. Our target subjects will be children, women, old people and the disabled. Teacher trainees must be aware of these issues before starting their profession as the young pioneers of education. This is what I can do as an expert of quality and peace. Thus, I believe we will contribute to the training of DIGNIFIED YOUNG LEADERS of the future world.
"ICT Seagulls Project" starts a very active term. This year there is a great interest to the project from the university circles. From Turkey, Bilgi University Circle is working on the disabled while Kingston University's "Qualitas Circle" is collaborationg with students for students. You can see their project broshure on the above left corner. Boğaziçi University circles are also drawing road maps to train dignified leaders. I wish "Good luck" to all of them.
My final book is about the school at home. Printing efforts go on while I am searching a financial source to publish it. My next book will be on the articles presented during the 15th Annual Conference of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies. The presented articles will be collected in a Conference Proceedings Book. We are planning to realize this with BUPERC (Boğaziçi Üniversitesi, Peace Education and Research Center)which was one of the partners of the above mentioned Conference on 28-30 April 2010.We believe there is a great need for such a book within the Dignity and Peace Resources.
I wish you good luck for the coming new week. We are all ONE.
Hayal Köksal

Term Holiday Ends...

My Dear Colleagues,
Spring Term is going to start tomorrow at Turkish schools. Universities will also be openning in one or two weeks' time. We will meet our dearest peers and students. If you ask me how I spent those past two weeks, I might say that; "Very fruitful!". I visited UK and gave a seminar at Kingston university to the Kingston ICT Seagulls including some dear colleagues and students. I am grateful to my dear friend Prof.Dr. Richard Ennals for providing me this opportunity. I believe it was fruitful not only for them but also me. Prof.Ennals shared my twp ppt presentation on the web page of his university after my departure.Melissa de Oliveira and SQC Qualitas colleagues gave a presentation to me, which I liked a lot. They have made great progress towards their final submission to ICT Seagulls project which is on the 1st of June. The panel of international judges includes Andrew Powell from the School of Education, Kingston University. I am very happy about it. That collaboration lasts in a very productive and joyful manner. When I read the following lines from Richard's mail to the e-group, I have felt very proudful:

"...Many thanks for attending the presentation by Prof Hayal Koksal on Wednesday... Prof Hayal Koksal has facilitated over 1500 SQCs around the world, at all levels of education, in the last decade. She, Chris Ford and I are board members of the World Council for Total Quality and Excellence in Education. Chris and I have been working together since 2006, and see exciting scope for development....Hayal has agreed to continue to work with us, and I am proposing that she should be appointed as a Visiting Fellow. I have added Hayal's two powerpoint presentations to Study Space..."

After my return I participated in a TEDX Reset conference which I found very interesting and beneficial. Nearly 20 speakers from various fields shared their wonderful experiences with the participants in an interactive and informal style. The program was shared with all the world audience through technology.

I read many books concerning my new course at my university under the title of: "Nonviolence in Education". I am very excited about the profile of the students who are going to elect my course. I am planning to conduct a very interactive and fruitful classroom atmosphere to design new projects and materials in that area.

ICT Seagulls Projects will go on during the Spring Term. 22 Project leaders must have given some part of their own precious time like Qualitas Circle of Kingston university. Now, I must say goodbye to all of you. However, please do not tkink that I stop thinking of you. Lots of love from sunny Istanbul.

Hayal KOKSAL

New Things to Say...

Dear Dosts,
I would like to start by wishing a very "Happy and Fruitful New Year!" to you. As we all know "feeling or creating awareness" is the very first step of all kinds of learning efforts. And education is not something among the walls of a school or any country; it is something global as a result of technology. Any TV program or competition is not only in one setting, if it gains popularity it is within the houses of every country in a short time.
If we have been impressed a lot with the various events of the world village through media and technology, I thought that they should also be the cures, the solutions of some problems. I have decided that "We should also share some good educational news and implementations" for the goodness of our future leaders. If we have similar problems in our schools, do the other countries have similar problems and what do they do to solve them? What kind of precations do they develop? Why do not we make use of technology, for instance my Blog to share them? From then on, I will try to collect some interesting educational news with you. They might be national or international. I am an online member of ASCD (Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development) and I will mainly make use of that web page. you can also visit there (www.ascd.org). I hope I will realize this dream and I hope you will also contribute to this small project of mine. :)

This year, we have started 8th International ICT Seagulls Project. Registration is mainly completed. Only some African and Asian school teams try to complete their registration due to their academic calendars.
The registered schools of this year are as follows:
- İzmir Işıkkent Primary School: "Seagulls Circle Touching the Future",
- Burdur Bahçelievler Primary School; "Peace People" and "Sports" Circles,
- İzmir Kemalpaşa Primary School;"Gentle Seagulls" and "10th Year Oldies" Circles,
- Çorlu Velimeşe Primary School;"Respective Seagulls Circle",
- Üsküdar Atatürk Primary School;"2. Graders Circle",
- Muğla Turgut Reis Anatolian High School; "S.O.S." and "Prestige" Circles,
- Sarıyer VKV High School; "Colourful" Circle,
- Bilgi University and TOFD (A Disabled NGO) collaborative "Knowledge" Circle,
- UK, Kingston University; "Qualitas" Circle,
- India, Glawor,Little Angels High School; "Human Dignity" Circle,
- India Rabbani School; "Manners" Circle,
- South Africa NYDT; "Tshwane School" Circle and
- A circle from Nepal.

This year, the amount of participating schools is low but the interest of quality experts from varous countries is great and this makes us prideful. It seems to me that the future of the project is getting brighter and our seagulls gain more international meaning. Our international Award ceremony will take place in CMS,Lucknow, India on 29 November-4 December with the great support of WCTQEE. Let me remind you to place this event into your own calendar.

Meanwhile, I would like to share the name of the judges with a great honour. Firstly, Turkish judges:
- Poet and International photographer Mr. Can akın,
- A very wellknown name from the Educational Journalism; Mrs. Figen Atalay,
- Boğaziçi University, Educational faculty Professor: Mrs.Zeynep Kızıltepe,
- Microsoft Türkiye, Project director; Ms. Projeler sorumlusu Arzu Kösereisoğlu and
- Our IT experts; Mr.Mehmet Gül and Mr.Mehmet Gündöner.
Our precious International judges are:
- USA, Johns Hopkins University- Prof.Dr.Syed Ali,
- SA,NYDT CEO-At Meyer,
- Nepal Tribhuvan University-Prof.Lekhnath Sharma Pathak
- UK,Kingston University- Prof.Dr.Andrew C. Powell.


This year, as you know,we will be studying with SQC/İmece Circles methodology and our main issues are:
1. Human Dignity;obstacles before it and solutions.
2. Fairplay is sports and problems-solutions.

I hope, you have a lovely year. With love and peace...
Hayal Köksal

New Year

DEAR DOSTS,
WE WISH YOU A VERY HAPPY, HEALTHY AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR.
LOVES FROM ISTANBUL,
HAYAL & SERVET KÖKSAL

Hayal Köksal will be signing her latest book!

DEAR DOSTS,
I AM SIGNING MY LATEST BOOK: "REMOVING DISABILITIES THROUGH EMPATHY" ON 3RD DECEMBER 2010 IN THE KABALCI BOOKSTORE AT İSTİNYE PARK.
THE BOOK INCLUDES 50 TRUE LIFE STORIES OF THE DISABLED PEOPLE. HOW & WHY ALL THESE STORIES COME TOGETHER?
- 20 STORIES WERE PREPARED BY THE MEMBERS OF THE TURKEY SPINAL-CORD PARALYTICS ASSOCIATION WITHIN THE ICT SEAGULLS PROJECT OF THAT NGO (http://www.bilisimcimartilar.com/en).
- 30 STUDENTS OF HAYAL KÖKSAL FROM BOGAZICI UNIVERSITY INTERVIEWED WITH 30 DISABLED PEOPLE AND LEARNED THEIR MOST IMPORTANT PROBLEMS. THEY PROPOSED SOLUTIONS FOR THEM THROUGH EMPATHY.

I KNOW YOU WILL LIKE THE PROJECT AND YOU WILL BE IMPRESSED A LOT WITH THE STORIES. LOTS OF LOVE,

HAYAL KOKSAL