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		<title>Benefits of BABA 6 Retreat in Beijing, China</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[When a group takes time out for gathering at a retreat, the whole should gain benefit, it supposed to be and hopefully yes. Any amount of time taken to get away and focus on good leadership and collaboration will bear fruit in the lives of individuals and the social life! With a whole world of needs and possibilities facing us, how do we decide what to give our life and energies to?]]></description>
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<p>By Kardison Lumban Batu, BEc, MSc</p>
<p>Lecturer of Polytechnic State of Pontianak, Business Administration</p>
<p>Westk Kalimantan</p>
<p>When a group takes time out for gathering at a retreat, the whole should gain benefit, it supposed to be and hopefully yes. Any amount of time taken to get away and focus on good leadership and collaboration will bear fruit in the lives of individuals and the social life! With a whole world of needs and possibilities facing us, how do we decide what to give our life and energies to? This retreat has always recognized that offered mutual benefit and contains social value for all of us to implement and apply that common good in Asia in our daily life and environment. From my perspective in the Retreats held in Beijing, our main objective is to eliminate all distractions from each and every barricade to allow the good deed work in a multitude of lives.</p>
<p>Here are a few things I&#8217;ve noticed and gained in the Retreat held in Beijing.</p>
<p>•    Renewed and refreshed, we are able to share the key truths that gave us a new perspective in Leadership, Networking, Cooperation, Caring, Social Life, and even Collaboration</p>
<p>•    Unity developed among us at the retreat spreads through the whole week as we return to fellowship and home.</p>
<p>•    Relationships at home are dealt with in a more positive and hopeful manner due to the chance to rest and find renewal in good relationship</p>
<p>•    Revived and restored teachers and leaders are better prepared to encourage and minister.</p>
<p>•    Developing deeper and more trusting relationships among us</p>
<p>•    Inspiring teammates to sprint to the finish on an important project for any purposes</p>
<p>•    Convincing each other on the ability and skill owning</p>
<p>•    Inspiring, encouraging all participants to become lifelong learners and agent of change.</p>
<p>•    Creating enthusiasm and negotiating during a difficult change</p>
<p>•    Negotiating a complex contract that benefits all sides</p>
<p>•    Nurturing a corporate culture that engenders loyalty and retention</p>
<p>•    Being Present not pretentious.</p>
<p>•    Reaching Out not looking down.</p>
<p>•    Understanding the role of the effective leader in an organization</p>
<p>•    Ability to assess our natural leadership style, and identify areas for development and improvement.</p>
<p>•    Learning how to make decisions to involve team members to a lesser or greater degree, depending on the circumstances of each situation.</p>
<p>•    Learning to communicate, delegate, and follow through effectively, to help the team deliver organization results and develop group capacities and strengths</p>
<p>Why should you go to retreat?</p>
<p>•    Leadership sharing. We have learnt on leadership by sharing the leadership skill since all the participants noticeable an enthusiastic person and available for future leader.</p>
<p>•    To get acquainted. Others benefit by gaining acquainted, the result of networking is always been fruitful.</p>
<p>•    To have Fun. It was a great moment and golden opportunity to have you all there and having fun as well.</p>
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<p>I do strongly believe that in our deepest heart that we have strong wish to have reunion again, please do not let us meet once in a life time. Hopefully we can encounter at the next BABA, meeting, seminar, workshop or even the summit of Asian Leader in the near future. Keep you all in my heart.</p>
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		<title>My Experience in BABA6</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before joining the BABA6 retreat program, I was a little bit worried and wondered how this retreat would be. Only one week to become better leaders to build a better Asia? How could it happen within one week? And so on, many questions came to my mind that time. However, those kinds of questions just disappeared when I first met my room mate Sadia]]></description>
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<p>By Pham Kim Ngoc (Ms), Helen Keller International Vietnam, Hanoi, Vietnam</p>
<p>Before joining the BABA6 retreat program, I was a little bit worried and wondered how this retreat would be. Only one week to become better leaders to build a better Asia? How could it happen within one week? And so on, many questions came to my mind that time.</p>
<p>However, those kinds of questions just disappeared when I first met my room mate Sadia, Pakistani who is very friendly and then the whole group of BABA participants. Everyone was so friendly that I did not think that we just first met for the first time and that we have been friends for a long time. I still remembered we were asked to draw portrait of the person of each other with one drawing without opening the eyes. It was so funny and everyone had his portrait at hand just within a second.</p>
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<p>The following days came with the pechakucha presentations where everyone had to make one presentation of 10 slides with the limited time setting for 20 seconds per slide and we had to learn how to talk within this limit, it was also interesting though. It was great that we had chances to listen and interact with resource persons who have deep knowledge in many fields such as Johnson Paul, National Library Board, Singapore with the  &#8220;12 Angry Men: Transforming Opinions and Groupthink&#8221;; On Creative Hats by Edward de Bono an  &#8220;Think out of the box&#8221; idea; Mr.  Shuichi Ohno on &#8220;The Nippon Foundation and Its Work&#8221;; Prof Amitav Acharya; Dr Anupam Saraph: &#8220;Technology and Democracy: Lessons from the Recent General Elections in India&#8221;. We also had a chance to climb the Great Wall and experienced how Great it actually is.</p>
<p>The last night ended with the Takbeer night and everyone wore traditional clothes of his own country. It was interesting to see how diverse it is in Asian countries that we, the young future leaders need to preserve and develop them in appropriate ways.</p>
<p>Yet, the retreat would not be extremely successful without the presence of Maki Honda, the Fanatic four, facilitators, Mary and Peking university staff who made this retreat unforgettable.</p>
<p>Many things that we learnt from the participants and scholars during the retreat have been applied such as &#8220;Think out of the box&#8221; idea and this has been practiced right after the Retreat.</p>
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<p>After all, my questions and wonderings before the retreat were answered after the retreat finished. And the most important thing we have after this retreat is the networking that we hope we will build and develop it so that we can build a &#8220;better of yourself contributing to a better Asia.&#8221;</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[On July 23, 2009, I was informed that I was successful in my application to participate in the 6th BABA Retreat. Since then I had been looking forward to September 13 to meet other fellows whom I just knew by email. It took me three and half hours to fly from Kunming to Beijing. Though I've been to Beijing many times, I still couldn't help being excited.]]></description>
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<p><em>By Xueqiong Zhang<br />
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<p>On July 23, 2009, I was informed that I was successful in my application to participate in the 6<sup>th</sup> BABA Retreat. Since then I had been looking forward to September 13 to meet other fellows whom I just <em>knew</em> by email. It took me three and half hours to fly from Kunming to Beijing. Though I&#8217;ve been to Beijing many times, I still couldn&#8217;t help being excited.</p>
<p>It is well known that the Asia is the largest continents with the most population. The Asia is also the birthplace of the three major religions and three of the Four Ancient Civilizations. The Asia had been in the lead until the 19<sup>th</sup> century. However, the Asia as a whole fell behind in the modern maybe except Japan. Why? Unfortunately, after the World War Two the most countries in the Asia were lost in internal unrest and mutual conflicts. Compared to the EU the ASEAN built in 1967 is still a loose union. At the same time, because of the WWII and with the rising of China and India, there is short of trust among almost all the countries in the East Asia and the Southeast Asia. As for the Central Asia and the Middle East, it seems that the most countries there can&#8217;t pursue independent diplomacy. Regional cooperation in the Asia is still in the low level.</p>
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<p>The aim of the Retreat is very good. We participants are a new generation and most of us grew up during a relative peacetime. Maybe economic development, political democracy, social progress and equality occupy our mind more. The Retreat helps us be a responsible group for our community. I enjoyed the program and was especially encouraged by the introductions about the Retreat and the Nippon Foundation provided by M. Rajaretnam and Shuichi Ohno separately. Such organizations like IRC and Nippon Foundation are laying the foundation for building a better Asia. They are trying to rebuild the trust among countries by training future leaders. I also like the PPT shown by each of us. Yes, we are diverse but we can appreciate one another. The personal experience of Prof. Amitav Acharya is wonderful. He comes from Singapore (though he looks like an Indian from appearance) and married with a Chinese lady and now lives in the United States. When he communicated with us about <em>&#8220;Asia Past &amp; Present: An Asia View from Washington D.C.&#8221;</em> I asked him: what does it mean about the Asia rising and what roles should Japan, India and China during the process? As the only superpower, whether or not the United States want the Asia to rise. In my opinion, the Asia rising means every country in the Asia develops and no one will be left behind. It also means the most population in the world can enjoy freedom, equality and prosperity. In a word, the Asia rising means a better Asia in the future. During the process Japan, India and China should play the roles just as Germany, Britain and France play in the EU. The United States can&#8217;t stop the Asia rising no matter it likes or not. The methods that the Retreat adopted were good, too. I was impressed by the film <em>&#8220;12 Angry Men: Transforming Opinions and Groupthink&#8221;</em> and the PPT about <em>Analyzing Opportunities: Value Innovation,</em> provided by Johnson Paul. Fantastic Four is another surprise. What they do not only make us relax, but also help us practice teamwork and leadership. Facilitators, especially Akira Uchimura and Rina Shahriyani Shahrullah, showed a good example how a leader is. From September 20, most of us began departing Beijing one by one. After that, Akira has been busy in building a network for us. I love May Kanniga very much. She is considerate indeed.</p>
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<p>Of course, I&#8217;d like to make some suggestions on the Retreat.</p>
<p>&#8211;No participants came from the Central Asia and the Middle East. I noticed there are no Sylff Institutions in the Central Asia. Maybe when the Tokyo Foundation extends a global reach in the future, the Central Asia can be considered. There are three Sylff institutions in the Middle East. No person from there applied for the Retreat or no one succeed in application?</p>
<p>&#8211;Whether or not Keynote Speakers and Resource Persons from other places besides the Asia can be invited, such as the Europe (EU), even the Africa, the Oceania and so on. It&#8217;s the era of globalization, to build a better Asia the Asia needs learn from other places and know how they think about the Asia rising. Maybe scholars from the Sylff institutions in other continents can be chosen in the future.</p>
<p>&#8211;I think we stayed in the room more and go out to contact with the local people less. However, the latter will help us enhance our perceptual knowledge about what we were learning.</p>
<p>&#8211;The mother tongues of the most of participants are not English (except India and maybe Pakistan). I have to admit honestly that I hardly catch the whole ideas of some speeches. Yes, I must practice more in my listening English. However, if these speeches could be provided more slowly and clearly the effects of learning would be better.</p>
<p>These suggestions are for reference only. I just want the Retreat to become better and better.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Better Asia: Future Leaders Dialogue is a retreat program by the Nippon foundation for its Alumni members. Over the last few decades the NFG had built an outstanding record of private philanthropy which has to date supported and implemented a variety of people exchange and human resources development projects all over the world. The almost 30,000 alumni across the globe therefore represent a vast and diverse pool of talent and potential ]]></description>
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<p>By Mohammad Afzal Hossain Akand</p>
<p>On the beginning of my writing I want say I am grateful to Ajit Kumar Barua, Chairperson, Bangladesh Scholarship Council for bringing  me  in a global community,  Shawrabh Kumar Barua, President ,BSC Alumni Society, to help me as much as a man can &amp; All BSC officials specially Jamal Bhai to be with me in all matters related to BSC.</p>
<p>A Better Asia: Future Leaders Dialogue is a retreat program by the Nippon foundation for its Alumni members. Over the last few decades the NFG had built an outstanding record of private philanthropy which has to date supported and implemented a variety of people exchange and human resources development projects all over the world. The almost 30,000 alumni across the globe therefore represent a vast and diverse pool of talent and potential</p>
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<p>Building a Better Asia is a theme of Nippon Foundation. This theme has four key elements as shared prosperity, Common Security, Ecological Balance and Human Security.</p>
<p>The first element is shared prosperity. Economic growth is critical to Asia&#8217;s security and well-being. But it must be shared. The region must ensure that no country and sub region is left behind, or turns out to be a loser in globalization. The benefits of growth must be distributed evenly, both within and between nations. The task of eliminating poverty and depravation in all parts of Asia should be urgent.</p>
<p>The second is common security. A regional capacity for peacekeeping and peace building and humanitarian operations must be developed with the consent and active participation of all the countries.</p>
<p>Third element is ecological balance. Environment is truly the common heritage of mankind and the region. Environmental stress respects no national boundaries. Asia faces severe challenges to its environment. Rapid economic growth and rising energy consumption in Asia&#8217;s major economic players .So it should be balanced also.</p>
<p>Fourth element is human security. Unlike state or national security, human security focuses on the safety and dignity of the individual. Human security includes freedom from fear as well as freedom from want. Ensuring human security requires protecting human rights through national and international action.</p>
<p>Ensuring these four key elements BABA Retreat program is designed on three main goals. They are as below:</p>
<p>First, it hopes to bring together alumni of Nippon Foundation Group with leadership potential to discuss issues of contemporary relevance and importance.</p>
<p>Second, it seeks to strengthen the networks among these alumni.</p>
<p>Third, it endeavors to encourage Nippon Foundation Group alumni to work together for the benefit of their collective communities.</p>
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<p>The third goal integrates the four key elements as &#8220;shared prosperity, Common Security, Ecological Balance and Human Security&#8221; of BABA. This is the way How The Nippon Foundation Think a Better Asia..</p>
<p>Now I am going to describe the retreat patterns and their probable outcome.</p>
<p>The retreat program was Sixth in number. It started 13th September and ended on the 20th September, 2009.The Nippon Foundation, Asian Dialogue Society and Peking University was the organizers. Global Exchange Centre of Peking University was the Meeting Venue .19 participants among 14 countries of Asia were present as the future leader of Asia. I was the only one participant from Bangladesh. This retreat program seems to be a think tank for the betterism of whole Asia.</p>
<p>Format of the retreat was split into four main categories. They were lectures, leadership activities, group discussions and organic study tours. The lectures set the tone for the retreat, by bringing up important contemporary issues and sharing the vast and interesting of the distinguished resource persons. There were various management-style leadership activities to impart a philosophy of leadership to the retreat participants. In what was termed an &#8220;open session,&#8221; retreat participants were made to come up with topics and trends to be discussed. Discussions were led by participants with the help of the resource persons and facilitators. Each night the resource persons were engaged in a long open conversation, where participants were encouraged to ask them about their leadership and life experiences. Study tours to get a sense of the hyper-local environment are arranged for the participants.</p>
<p>On The retreat, there was an emphasis on digital communication, in the form of audio, internet and video. Social media and various other web-based technologies were harnessed to get a discussion going before the retreat, and to ensure that it continues long into the future.</p>
<p>We had eleven Interactive sessions, several discussions, leadership planning, teamwork and Leadership session, and Group presentation how to build a better Asia.</p>
<p>There was a very good session by Mr. Shuichi Ohno, Executive Director, The Nippon Foundation on The Nippon Foundation and Its Work.</p>
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<p>Mr. M. Rajaretnam, Program Director, Building A Better Asia: young Leaders Retreat, have several speeches which were very important for us to grow and mindset in Building A Better Asia He was the core person of this program</p>
<p>Mr. T Ogata, President, Nippon Foundation was another core person on that retreat program.</p>
<p>The session of Value Innovation by Johnson Paul, Deputy Director, National Library Board, Singapore was very interesting because we learned the mechanism how to make an idea into a project.</p>
<p>The session of Dr. William Sabandar on Cyclone Nargis Disaster Management gave us a true learning about Disaster Management which will help all the participants of Asia because we have frequent flood, cyclone, tsunami and earthquake.</p>
<p>The Session s of Anupam Saraph on Habits of Effective Leaders made us frequent with the habits of world leaders as Mahatma Gandhi, George Washington, Nelson Mandela,Mau se Tong, Sheikh Mujib and other global leaders.</p>
<p>The session of Professor Goodman on Education &amp; Leadership was also very good because he discovered the linkage of education &amp; leadership on the session.</p>
<p>Each of the sessions we learned how a leader behaves, how they think, how they work. We also knew about the influencing power of leaders, Using of thinking hats to influence others.</p>
<p>Most of the sessions and conversations we talked about the common things that we can share and the common goal we can target to achieve. Every time we were busy for the betterment of Asian countries. We planned how to work, how to integrate a plan and how to make the Betterism for Asian countries.</p>
<p>We tried our best for making a common strategy for the equal development in common goods of Asian Countries and sharing the knowledge base for the countries.</p>
<p>Finally we made a common projection of the participants on Building a Better Asia which is the strategy made by us for Building A Better Asia. Each of the participants gave their own target and strategy to achieve the goals and finally we integrated the goals by making an integrated target oriented strategy in a common platform which will lead us to our dream Building a better Asia through Building the common Good in Asia.</p>
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<p>I want to thank The Nippon Foundation for doing better things for Asian people, Mr Rajaretnam for being a think tank for a Better Asia, Miss Vicky Honda For International Networking to make the dream Successful, Mary Kanniga for helping us in all the possible ways, Akira and Rina for being the Great Two Facilitators, My Friends i.e. all participants of the retreat programs in the retreat program for sharing their knowledge and feelings, All of the resource Persons for directing us in a creative way , Fantastic Four ,Yang Ying and Jessica from Peking University for guide us in all matters.</p>
<p>Finally I want to give my Salute to Ajit Kumar Barua, Chairperson, Bangladesh Scholarship Council &amp; the Nippon Foundation for supporting the meritorious students of Bangladesh through Bangladesh Scholarship Council. And I promise that I will try my best to work with BSC and TNF. All other alumni of BSC and TNF should try their best to work with the organization for Building a Better Asia, The Dream of all Asian People</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s work…Lets think Out of the Box. For the Betterism of Asia.</p>
<p style="text-align: right">Mohammad Afzal Hossain Akand</p>
<p style="text-align: right">Assistant Director, Bangladesh Bank, Head Office,  Dhaka</p>
<p style="text-align: right">Email:roney0009(at)gmail.com</p>
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		<title>Why leadership is necessary in Asia</title>
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<p>Report of BABA 6 Retreat in Beijing, China</p>
<p>By Ryuhei Sano</p>
<p>Asia-Pacific Development Center on Disability</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Reconfirmation: Why Asian young leaders?<br />
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<p>When it comes to the significance of BABA6, mainly three perspectives have been identified from my point of view. The first is &#8220;interdisciplinary approach&#8221;. Changes are normally brought about by network which consists of people with unique backgrounds. The second is &#8220;knowledge creation process&#8221;. It must be good for young leaders to get together and explore new initiatives by utilizing their potentiality. The third is &#8220;needs&#8221;. Social issues in this era have been beyond national borders, and we need to respond collectively.</p>
<p>For clarification, the following points should be considered why BABA is a timely approach: 1) jet engine which enables long distance travel shorter in Asia, 2) internet communication which enables information exchange quicker, reproducible, and multiple connections, 3) international banking system which enables finance move from state control to global free market system, 4) high level microprocessor which enables storage and manipulation of data in different Asian cultural aspects.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Lessons learned<br />
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<p>Young leaders&#8217; communication explained why Building A Better Asia should be organized. Good outcomes were such as strengthening human interaction; association between young leaders; making initial steps to promote economic and social development collectively as neighbors; and respecting particular culture in the diversity of Asia. Various sessions and follow-up conversations demonstrated the emergence of an information society in Asia, based on technologies enabling messages to flow through national boundaries, and creating a variety of new regional cultures.</p>
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<p>Interactive sessions helped socialization among young leaders. It was necessary for all to go through this stage as the first step towards the integration of different perspectives that each participant had. Even though it was not always easy for participants to have good communication for collaborative activities, each leader must have learned Asia as a potential global leader through regional cooperation.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Suggestion<br />
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<p>In the future, leaders should have more opportunities to interact with one another based on new findings of this gathering. It will give positive impacts on human development issues that we need to work in Asia.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before going to BABA 6, I had many expectations about this retreat, as I wondered how after a 1-week long retreat we could improve our leadership skills and most importantly, how 19 people from different countries, meeting for the 1st time, were going to be able to build a strong network to work together for the betterment of Asia?]]></description>
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<p>Tamy Yamamoto M.D.</p>
<p>Master student of Community and Global Health</p>
<p>Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo</p>
<p>Participating in the BABA 6 retreat was an incredible experience and it has been the best opportunity I have ever had to share, interact and learn with people from different countries, cultures and backgrounds.</p>
<p>Before going to BABA 6, I had many expectations about this retreat, as I wondered how after a 1-week long retreat we could improve our leadership skills and most importantly, how 19 people from different countries, meeting for the 1st time, were going to be able to build a strong network to work together for the betterment of Asia? After the 1st few days of the retreat, I saw how it could be possible. As our BABA 6 family grew closer together, I was certain that this bond was going to last for long time after the retreat was over.</p>
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<p>During the retreat we had many activities, each one with its own purpose. Starting with the ice-breaking activities, lead by the Fantastic 4, which helped us to feel comfortable sharing our thoughts and feeling as a family working together towards a common goal. The presentations by the resource persons, gave us the tools to become better persons and leaders. Being able to learn from their experiences and their advices was an extraordinary opportunity. The activities lead by the Facilitators (Incredible 2), especially the Pecha Kucha Morning, was an enriching experience where we could learn what each of the participants does in their own country and how each of us is already a young leader in his/her own field/area.</p>
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<p>I found very interesting one of the last activities we did, which was &#8220;Creating a better Me&#8221;. After learning from the resource persons about leadership and the characteristics leaders should have, in this activity we had to make introspection and come up with ways to improve ourselves as persons and as future leaders. After it we had to share it with other people, and also ask for their advice on how to improve. Although it could had seem a difficult task, the trust and friendship developed during the retreat, made this activity easy and enlightening; getting good advices which I plan to work on.</p>
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<p>Finally, I would like to thank all the people involved in this program, for giving me the opportunity to participate and for making it an inspiring and unforgettable experience. In this retreat, I not only learned about leadership, other cultures and countries, but also about myself. I hope our BABA 6 family can meet again in the near future and that through our friendship and network, we are able to work together to build a better Asia.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was first recommended by one of my senior friends to apply for the participation in the BABA retreat program, I was not sure what I will gain from and how I will get engaged with this one week get-away. I was somehow convinced that this program was designed to help building the leadership skills and I therefore applied for this program.]]></description>
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<p>By Vanthana Nolintha, BBusCom, MEcon</p>
<p>Researcher, National Economic Research Institute (NERI)</p>
<p>Vientiane, Lao PDR.</p>
<p>When I was first recommended by one of my senior friends to apply for the participation in the BABA retreat program, I was not sure what I will gain from and how I will get engaged with this one week get-away. I was somehow convinced that this program was designed to help building the leadership skills and I therefore applied for this program. After being one of BABA families, I realize that the decision to join this wonderful program has been one of my best decisions I have made in my life. I will next try to put some of my key thoughts about this program in the remaining of this page.</p>
<p>BABA 6 helps connect me with many other young leaders who share the same passion of the betterment of Asia. One of the most interesting features of this program is the opportunity to meet with many different individuals from all walks of life. Each participant, in my opinion, is the true leader in the respective field who has contributed in his or her own way to make Asia and the world a better place. This network will allow a more productive relationship and cooperation on various aspects in the future.</p>
<p>BABA 6 makes me realize that even one person can make a positive change to this world. Throughout the retreat, I was given opportunity to meet, listen to and interact with various resource persons from different fields. Most of them are successful leaders of the world who, in many cases, start making a difference from themselves and later involve others to join with them to create positive changes.</p>
<p>BABA 6 re-confirms my belief that people can be different but we can live and share with each other. Many participants are very much different in terms of cultural, academic, professional, political and religious background. We however manage to break the ice, big thanks to FANTASTIC 4 and our facilitators, and establish a very strong bond which has proved to last even after the retreat. I believe if others in the wider community share this belief, we will not see many of the terrible problems in many parts of the world where people hate each other just because they are different.</p>
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<p>Finally, I&#8217;d like to use this opportunity to thank everyone who makes this wonderful program possible and let me be part of BABA families. For my BABA 6 families, I thank every one of you from my heart for making my BABA 6 experience a fruitful and joyful one. By meeting and connecting with you, I discover another part in me that want to do something &#8220;out of the box&#8221; for the betterment of myself, my family, my society and the world at large. I believe we all will meet in many more occasions in the years to come. Let the end of the retreat mark the beginning of our life long relationship and join our hands for the betterment of Asia and the world.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[    I came to Beijing one afternoon in early Sept, where BABA 6 Retreat was organized from Sept 13 to 20, 2009. The weather was perfect and I was totally relaxed without any depression or pressures at all. I did attend similar workshops and retreats before, each time, I was so tired and worried as I had tried to fulfill what I was supposed to do. This time was completely different,]]></description>
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<p>(Sept 13 – 20, 2009)</p>
<p>I came to Beijing one afternoon in early Sept, where BABA 6 Retreat was organized from Sept 13 to 20, 2009. The weather was perfect and I was totally relaxed without any depression or pressures at all. I did attend similar workshops and retreats before, each time, I was so tired and worried as I had tried to fulfill what I was supposed to do. This time was completely different, I did not have to be responsible for anything, except, I was requested to prepare one presentation from home to share with everyone at the retreat. So interesting, because that was the first time to experience of <a href="http://www.pecha-kucha.org/what">Pecha Kucha presentation style</a>, the topic was free of choice. I was supposed to present in ten slides to convey my ideas to the audiences with twenty seconds for each slide and not more than twenty words in each slide. My first thinking is that, it may be a bit tough for me as I am used to talking a lot whenever I have a chance to present and I thought that 200 seconds of presentation is just enough for my introduction only.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center">Pecha Kucha – style presentations</p>
<p>I have a habit, it is so much job orientation, that I always look forward to clear objectives set up at the beginning of each workshop or retreat and then review if those objectives are able to be achieved at the end. When Mr. Raja, on the first day, announced the retreat was for getting to know one another and building network for later on, I was so released. However, when I got more involved in later days I realized that I got a lot, more than my expectations. So what were the most significant things I gained for myself then?</p>
<p>First, a part from getting to know one another and building network, I did change a bit about my styles of a leader. I was so much Asian traditional orientation; never dared to step out of old box of thinking and not so much initiative as well.</p>
<p>Second, I was having so many privileges to be updated and shared with different perspectives from global speakers at the retreat on different international hot topics. Those topics are not new to all of us, but the motivations were that we realized our potentials of real leaders in this world, specifically in our Asia and our extended hands for sharing, discussing and solving international problems are inevitable with our full great honors. From those different perspectives, I feel like I have more encouragements and empowerments to work toward my communities and people living around me.</p>
<p>Third, I did learn valuable skills from Fantastic Four and Amazing Two, their approaching and mobilizing methods are what young leaders should learn for themselves. Amazingly, not only skills but also meanings brought to us throughout various games they facilitated, all were so meaningful. One of their games reminded me that it is not always good if a leader keeps chasing new things or new promotions but sometimes leaders should know where and when to stop for a while on their journeys, look back what have been done and value what leaders got and achieved . Diversity of designed activities was also one of special points need learning; interactions with different people, indoor and outdoor activities gave participants a sense of close cooperation, critical thinking and problem solving. Which, of course, urged and nurtured our common vision and bonding toward a betterment of ourselves and of an Asia.</p>
<p style="text-align: center"><img src="http://www.buildingabetterasia.com/baba/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/111509_1453_TranQuangTu3.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center"><strong>One of the exercises with the Fantastic Four<br />
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<p>Coming back to the meaning of this retreat; young leader with common good in Asia, yes, your leaders&#8217; styles, your thoughts and your perspectives toward a better Asia may be different from mine. However, Baba 6 was a forum for such different leaders and different ideas from different countries in Asia to share and merge into one common vision. Moving forwards to one common vision of a betterment in Asia in the future, of which, efforts to build a better Asia may not possible for one individual but it is highly possible if a strong network with enthusiasm to share and act toward a betterment of Asia from all Asian families, especially, all BABA families. On the top of what had been going on in one week in Beijing, I have to say that the retreat really opened a new door to me. That door is not going from one room to another but it is a door outreaching my mind to a new world, where I have a network of fabulous international friends but importantly, I am empowered and motivated toward my next steps in my life. As a member of Baba 6, I also dedicate myself to a better Asia by trying my best to fulfill by current job of a development worker; working with the poor and vulnerable people to improve their lives. I believe that suffering from poverty and illiteracy are the main reasons affecting to a betterment Asia.</p>
<p><strong><em>Tran Quang Tuan, Vietnam, Personal Reflection on BABA 6<br />
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Please comment below on how to construct this paragraph about building a Better Asia,
our conjoined vision of the Better Asia we will stand for and care for.
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<p>Dear Fellows,</p>
<p>Please comment below on how to construct this paragraph about building a Better Asia,</p>
<p>our conjoined vision of the Better Asia we will stand for and care for.</p>
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In fact, in terms of discussion about the vision of betterment of individuals, we, as the leaders of ASIA, make wonderful discussions toward to focus on clear vision inclusively.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">8:30 Interractive session11</span></strong></p>
<p>Resource Person: Dr.Anupam Saraph</p>
<p>Habit of Effective leaders</p>
<p>- What are the habits which leaders display that cause them to emerge as leader?</p>
<p>- What are the attitudes that make a difference to their success?</p>
<p>- Exercise: Learning habits, Unlearning habits/Music habits</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;Taking a coffee break in order to refresh&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;</p>
<p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">11:00 Group Work for Final Presentation</span></strong></p>
<p>Works toward for final presentation and lap up of yesterday section.</p>
<p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">12:30 Lunch<br />
</span></strong>Taking a Last Lunch together inside of campus for getting the energy.</p>
<p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">14:00 Development of Common Vision and Strategy</span></strong></p>
<p>Resource Persons: Fantastic Four (Ayako, Setsu, Shu &amp; Chie)</p>
<p>Fantastic Four kindly gave the BABA retreat06 members the time for works toward for final presentation</p>
<p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">18:30 Dinner &amp; Takbeer Night led by Rina</span></strong></p>
<p>Taking a Sweet Last Dinner together, then Ms. Rina organized Takbeer night to feel the Last day of Ramadan as feast.</p>
<p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Today’s keywords &amp; key phrases:</span></strong></p>
<p>7 habits as leader: Visioning, Initiative, Inclusive, Openness, Clarity, Focus, Persistency= Practice these 7 habits, What is the betterment of individuals?<br />
What is a better of ASIA?</p>
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<p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Personal Impressions and Opinions</span></strong></p>
<p><a href="http://www.buildingabetterasia.com/baba/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/clip_image007.jpg"><img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; margin-left: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-right: 0px" title="clip_image007" src="http://www.buildingabetterasia.com/baba/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/clip_image007_thumb.jpg" border="0" alt="clip_image007" hspace="12" width="225" height="170" align="left" /></a>Today, mainly we are discussing about what the betterment of ASIA, as well as the vision of betterment of individuals</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.buildingabetterasia.com/baba/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/clip_image0026.jpg"><img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; margin-left: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-right: 0px" title="clip_image002" src="http://www.buildingabetterasia.com/baba/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/clip_image002_thumb2.jpg" border="0" alt="clip_image002" hspace="12" width="225" height="170" align="left" /></a>In fact, in terms of discussion about the vision of betterment of individuals, we, as the leaders of ASIA, make wonderful discussions toward to focus on clear vision inclusively.</p>
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