Mother Centers International Network for Empowerment

Dear friends,

This is the first report of a mobility within our project Mother Centers developing support structures for active volunteer involvement, supported by Grundvig and reported by Marieke van Geldermalsen - Jaeckel.

Dear friends,

Silent Night is fast approaching and here we are with our last portion of news in this year.
Merry, blessed, peaceful Christmas and a happy and healthy New Year!

Your mine

Dear friends,
the darkest month of the year, November, is here. Time for litting up candles to remember those who passed away. On 6.November 2011 it has been already two years since Monika Jaeckel, the author of Mother Centre idea and the co-funder of our network, crossed a bridge to the other side. Read below about two gatherings on the occasion of her biography launching in Berlin and Stuttgart.
November brings also time for reflexions, looking back and forward. In this sense we have asked several women from our member countries to answer two questions:
1.) what is mine for you? 2.) what are your wishes for mine for 2012?
The first series of the answers you will find in this issue.
Enjoy reading,
Your mine

Dear friends,

this issue focuses on a wonderful atmosphere in our centres when celebrating our II. International Mother Centres Day on 10th Oct.2011. I would like to thank all of you, putting your energy, time and enthusiasm into organising the events.
Lori Slepian from National Association of Mother centres (the USA) shares impression is her feed-back: “We mothers need to celebrate the work we do in bringing up humanity. If we do that motherwork mindfully, consciously, generation after generation, we will be able to influence the evolving development of humankind. I trust in the maternal force.I think it is a God given tool that, with mothers working together, can bring about a less violent world and a higher functioning humanity.“

Enjoy reading and colourful autumn!
Your mine

read more here: http://www.mine.cc/?q=node/83

The biography of Monika Jaeckel (1949 - 2009), mother of the Mother Centres idea and co-founder of the mine network, will be launched on 21-October-2011 at 6.p.m., at the offices of ROHNSTOCK BIOGRAFIEN in Berlin, Germany.

Their address and contact information is: ROHNSTOCK BIOGRAFIEN, Schönhauser Allee 12, 10119 Berlin.  Telefon: +49 (0)30 / 40 50 43 - 3; E-Mail: info@rohnstock-biografien.de

Further information can be found at the Monika Jaeckel website.

Dear friends in Mother Centres all around the world,

thousands of Mother Centres have opened their door again after holidays. I hope that your dreams and ideas how you can enrich your everyday life in your Mother Centres, matured and got more concrete shapes during the rest.