5th Intercontinental/International Gathering of Wilderness Guides
September 17 - 23, 2012, Ukraine
Dear friends,
So, this is the year of the 5th Intercontinental/International Gathering of Wilderness Guides!
We as many of you are waiting for this event. Waiting with the hope to see old and new friends, feel warmth of hugs and happiness of time together. Waiting in order to meet with differences and create something new in these meetings. New forms, ideas and approaches. Waiting for the support of the faith in what we all do. Waiting in order to summarize, to aware where we are and to form plans and hopes for the future. Together with our big community of guides from all over the world.
We would like with this letter to give you some more information about Gathering program and logistic.
About registration and registration fee
Please, if you plan to be on Gathering – register in advance. That will help us to plan logistic more effectively.
Because of difficulties of money transfer and huge taxes here we would like to ask you to use the following procedure of prepayment. Please send 100$ of the deposit through the Western Union to:
Kateryna Mikolayivna Babenko, Kiev, Ukraine
This will help us to prepay what is necessary for the Gathering organizing and will give the information about the quantity of the participants. The other part of money, please, bring cash to the Gathering.
If you have questions about place, transfer, registration, donation, etc, please, write us. This will help us to make the information more clear and structured.
You can see the place of the Gathering and the way here on the Google map:
About the program
The program now is almost ready. For planning your trip we would like to inform you that we plan opening ceremony start September 17 at 3pm. And we plan closing ceremony finish September 23 at 11am.
And we need some of your help.
1. We still have several places at the scheduled workshops panel. We invite everybody who feels ready to share with the community their ideas, knowledge and experience. Thanks for those who have already send us the theme of the workshop.
2. We plan to organize meetings with Ukrainian teenagers. It will be in the middle of the Gathering only for those who would like to do that. We will visit them in schools. So, we invite people who would like to provide some practices with children in any forms to write us. It can be 2-3 hours meetings, unfortunately, most likely indoor (but may be in the school yard). It can be good point to present rites of passages to the teenagers of our country. Waiting for your responses if you want to do thatJ
3. We would like to give you more information about pre Gathering Renewal fast for guides with Keith Killburn. See in attached file detailed information about it.
4. If you are interested in some special pre- or post Gathering event – please, write us and we will try to do our best to organize it. If you would like to propose your event before or after Gathering – please, write us and we will inform the community.
Shuttles from Budapest
For now we think about following possibilities for shuttles from Budapest.
September 16 – shuttles near 12am and in the evening.
September 17 – shuttle near 8 am.
September 23 – shuttles at 12am and in the evening.
If you have difficulties with such schedule – please, contact us.
About donations and scholarships
We would like to ask those who can to donate at least 50$ (more is also possibleJ) to the scholarship fund. The scholarship program will help elders and youngers to participate in the richness and beauty of this gathering and transfer their knowledge and spirit to the gathering and carry our collective love and beauty back to their programs in the many countries which will be represented. Please, support those who are willing to make the effort and may not otherwise have the resources to attend. Please, if you are at all able to contribute even a small amount, it would be greatly appreciated.
Please, if you decide that you can’t participate think if you can donate some money to support our colleagues who need that help and would like to participate.
If you live in Europe you can send your donation to:
Account owner : Arbeitskreis Initiation und Prozessbegleitung e.V.
Bank name : Sparkasse Werra / Meissner / Germany
BLZ (kind of identification number of the bank): 522 500 30
Account nr. : 63701
SWIFT-BIC. Code: HELADEF1ESW
If you like to send donations directly to us, you can use Western Union system. We chose this way because of several difficulties with bank system in Ukraine. Please, send it to Kateryna Mikolayivna Babenko, Kiev, Ukraine. And then inform us that you did donation. All this money will be used for the scholarship providing.
The due date is 1 April 2012. Please, if you would like to apply – do it as soon as possible. Those who already sent the application do not need to send the renewed form again.
Waiting for you at the Gathering in Ukraine!
Love and light,
Kateryna and Georgiy