Invitation to the Equal Dignity Group Launch Seminar

Betsy Kawamura, (e-mail: [email protected], tlf: 97 00 28 19) and Rune Kvist Olsen (Rune Kvist Olsen, e-mail: [email protected], tlf. 90 09 45 58) forwarded an invitation for the free launch seminar of the Equal Dignity Group.

Date: December 12, 2007, Time 12:00 to 16:00

Place: Norsk Taiji Center, Østre Elvebakke 1, 0182 Oslo, entrance vis a vis Elvebakken skole on the side-street of Haumannsgt.

The Equal Dignity Group has the pleasure in inviting you to our launch seminar where the vision of “The Equal Dignity Organization” (Den Likeverdige Organisasjonen) will be introduced and presented. The main goal and objective of this launch seminar is to create attention, awareness and consciousness about the application and implementation of The Equal Dignity Organizational Concept through sustainable institutional change in society.

Invitation:

The seminar will be processed in different sections where the pedagogical adaption is to pursue and establish participatory involvement through an integrated and interactive process. The different sections are as follows:

Section 1:

Presentation of the overall mission and strategy for the Equal Dignity Group.

Section 2:

The Equal Dignity Organizational model as a tool to prevent hostility, alienation and conflict by bringing in currently marginalized persons back to society as dignified and self-sufficient individual human beings. Conceptualization of The Equal Dignity Paradigm in the context of conflict resolution and potential applications for building new subjective relations through cooperative actions in institutional society settings.

Section 3:

The potential of application and implementation of the Equal Dignity Organizational Model in building and establishing new organizational models and enhancement of existing ones. Opportunities and challenges for currently marginalized persons in the Norwegian labour market. Target groups include children and youth from orphanages, survivors of gender based violence including trafficked-prostituted persons, previously incarcerated persons/released prisoners, asylum seekers, immigrants, drug dependent and institutionalized persons, persons of alternative sexual orientations, HIV+ persons and those displaced from political affiliation.

Section 4:

Conclusion and end of discussion. Future contribution by The Equal Dignity Organizational Concept. Plausible action plans in regaining equal dignity for stigmatized and marginalized persons in Norway. Promotion and communication of our vision and mission to various actual and potential participants (individuals and organizations) in Norway.

We hope you can attend our seminar and contribute toward the creation of an Equal Dignity Future for all persons in contemporary society.