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CALLING ALL NATIONAL/GROUP SES REPS AROUND THE WORLD We need your contact details to help spread the news. I was talking to the Chair of Subud Indonesia and he was amazed that two people (myself and my co-chair Hammond Peek) could complete the task of representing SESI in 80 countries. We...

Last summer in Freiburg, 19 projects received monies from the $100,000 Project Fund. Some of them are now reporting back (the schedule is different fo each project), as we have been posting here. Just today, we heard from Aliça Bryson Haynes, who submitted a request to purchase a kiln and a slab roller. She received $5900 from the fund for the kiln. She writes: "My ceramics business, RARA Studio, is going extremely well! I have got the kiln and it's already saving a huge amount of time and money!"

SESI Co-chairs, Hammond Peek and Gaye Thavisin, write: Subud Enterprise Services International (SESI) – our vision and goals for the next 4 years 2018-2022 Vision: To improve the financial strength of our Subud organisation over the 4 years of our term. Goals: 1. To actively support new and existing Subud enterprises and projects with advice, mentoring, funding, promotion and follow-up.

SESI Co-chairs, Hammond Peek and Gaye Thavisin, write: The Subud Enterprise Services International (SESI) Project Fund idea was first launched at the Basara Youth Gathering in Kalimantan, late 2015, early 2016, and distributed $10,000 among approximately 10 projects. Following this positive experience, the former SESI team organised the very successful, exciting...

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...

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...