Congratulations on your 5th Anniversary, Michelle, Nawang, Soni, and all involved in the Learning House Team!
Having first met you in July 2015, and visiting again in 2017, the incredible changes and achievements were evident between those occasions. Keeping up to date through your social media presence, the advancement continues.
“Our house is your home” is not just a statement. ‘Learning House’ is more than a house. More than a home. It is a community. It is a learning ecosystem. One that has a positive and powerful impact on anyone and everyone that has contact with those who are, or have been, part of the Learning House network.
It forms a space for people to mix, meet, learn, develop, understand. Each person receives a gift of the possibility of expanding their potential. Each gives a gift of mutual respect and support in expanding the potential of others.
Perhaps the most powerful element of the Learning House environment is the constant seeking of new ideas and opportunities and connecting them to further ideas, further opportunities. The training of Barista skills, for example. A simple form of earning potential that can be utilised anywhere in the world to support individuals when embarking on further studies. Combining the learning of very useful, pragmatic, life skills of manufacturing, marketing, business finance, with the subjects chosen for study.
Perhaps more importantly, through your own example, you provide a laboratory of opportunity, creativity, people skills, business skills that everyone can see, feel and experience. Because you are constantly learning and developing yourselves and putting that learning in to such pragmatic and effective use.
Reaching 5 years is a remarkable achievement in itself! You are probably in the top 1% globally of community entrepreneurial enterprises that have made it past 2 years. The ripples of your influence will continue to grow in the years and decades to come.
I look forward to reading the books, seeing the documentaries, made about Learning House in the future.
Wishing you all the very best for the next 5, 10, 20---50 years!
Rob Thomas