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16 Dec The Venezuela Food Project

Last year, Henrietta Haines of California learnt about the dire circumstances of the Subud members in Venezuela - due to the crisis the country has fallen into, they were literally close to starving. She launched the Venzuela Food Project that initially focussed on sending them relief food. As she wrote...

04 Dec Enterprise in the Service of Humanity

Former Subud member Sahlan Diver's first novel, The Secret Resort Of Nostalgia, shortlisted for the international Yeovil Literary Festival 2017, has now been published. The novel makes a number of references to Subud, though not by name, and the key idea promoted in the book, the idea of enterprise in...

14 Oct Co-oplink

At World Congress, Irwan Wyllie of NSW, Australia, presented the Cooperlink project to the SESI $100,000 Fund on behalf of Mursalin New, who was unable to come to Freiburg. The project was awarded $4924

14 Oct Appeal to Subud Enterprises and entrepreneurs for support to the WSA 2019 Budget

One of the aims for our new SESI team is to make every effort to encourage members in the area of enterprise, to take action to express the guidance, talent and graces received through their years of doing latihan. ‘Putting the latihan into practice’, as Bapak used to say.

17 Sep 19 Projects Received Funding

During World Congress, on August 5^th, twenty projects out of the original 49 were chosen as finalists for the $100,000 Project Fund submission process. These finalists had the opportunity to present themselves and their project ideas for a second time; this time, however, they were on the larger stage of the Subud Village Auditorium, in front of the jury and a full crowd of Subud members.

17 Sep SESI 2014 TO 2018 – Hadrian Fraval writes

SESI was given a mandate at the 2014 Puebla Congress, which is on record, and was a continuation of the previous SESI to encourage Subud members to increase their activity in Enterprise. Previously the focus had been to establish large Enterprises which could fund WSA. During our term we had...

14 Sep SESI Awards for Humanitarian Work

Bapak suggested that in Subud, our social and humanitarian work should be funded by profit-making enterprises run by Subud members. So the relationship between Enterprise and Social work has always been key to achieving results for our fellow human beings.

09 May Opportunities for Entrepreneurs and Enterprises at the 2018 World Congress

SESI Chair Hadrian Fraval outlines how to get involved and to present your enterprise at Freiburg – including some excellent display opportunities for those interested. SESI activities will feature significantly in the upcoming 2018 Subud World Congress program – be sure not to miss some of our accomplished entrepreneurs speaking in...

09 May The $100,000 Projects Fund

Get ready to pitch your enterprise or not-for-profit project at Congress. Projects associated with any of the wings are welcome. By Osanna Vaughn.

09 May Simple Ways to be a Contributor Towards an Enterprising World Congress

Believe in the importance of enterprise? Hadrian outlines six simple ways how you could make a difference in Freiburg. Most of us go along to a World Congress hoping to enjoy the latihans, to catch up with old friends and to make some new ones. Every Congress takes an enormous amount...