Global Effectiveness Trainning

Some links we like are listed below. Certainly, it's not a comprehensive list. We welcome suggestions for additional links.

Leadership and Management, Training and Consulting

http://www.apm.co.th
APM is a leading human capital management and organizational development consulting company in Thailand. Their mission is to help people in organizations develop and maximize their potential. APM publishes Asian Business Strategy and Street Intelligence. See www.apmforum.com under Books and Media.

www.camelot-usa.com
Camelot-USA is an organization that teaches the fundamentals of PCA to clients in organizations. GET Associate Katy Meadows is its president. Some other GET staff have participated in Camelot Leadership Training and/or have worked for Camelot as trainers and consultants.

http://www.creativityatwork.com/index.htm
A rich resource for developing personal creativity and organizational innovation in the workplace.

http://www.gordontraining.com
Gordon Training International (GTI) is a world-renowned human relations training organization. It's mission is to provide people worldwide with the communication and conflict resolution skills necessary for creating effective and lasting relationships in the workplace, in families, and in schools. For many years GTI has offered Parent Effectiveness Training, Teacher Effectiveness Training and Leadership Effectiveness Training. They are excellent training programs that have no affiliation with Global Effectiveness Training.

http://www.leadertoleader.org
The home site of the Leader to Leader Institute, founded by Peter Drucker. Mission: To strengthen the leadership of the social sector. It has a huge number of links to resources related to Non-profits and NGOs.

www.trendscope.net
TrendScope is the flagship publication of The Archigos Project, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping emerging leaders to lead. It is a monthly electronic magazine that highlights cutting-edge management practices in short, punchy briefings, and includes discussion forums for readers to share reactions to the case studies and related ideas.

Social Sector Organizations

http://www.developmentgateway.org
"Where worlds of knowledge meet."
The Development Gateway is a wonderful interactive site for information on sustainable development and poverty reduction, and a space for communities to share experiences on development efforts. The Gateway offers:

AiDA - The largest online source of information on development projects worldwide

dgMarket - An electronic procurement market with more than 30,000 tender notices

Topic Pages - Comprehensive resources on a variety of key development topics

Country Gateways - Links to a growing network of country initiatives worldwide

http://www.interaction.org
InterAction is the largest alliance of U.S.-based international development and humanitarian non-governmental organizations. With more than 160 members operating in every developing country, they work to overcome poverty, exclusion and suffering by advancing social justice and basic dignity for all.

http://www5f.biglobe.ne.jp/~yamakaz
CHODR-Center for Human and Organizational Development Resource in Japan.
GET Associate Kazuo Yamashita is developing CHODR. The Center provides resources for enhancing human and organizational development in families, corporations and other forms of organizations. This web site is primarily written by in Japanese.

www.techsoup.org THE technology place for non-profits. Donated products and a huge amount of resources.

http://www.whatworks.org
Vision: to create a new space within the nonprofit sector where nonprofit practitioners, funders, new economy investors and academics can share and analyze information to improve the effectiveness of mission-driven services. This new space, a nonprofit meta-sector, will provide an online conduit for knowledge transfer and networking, and be a catalyst for excellence within the nonprofit community.

Education

http://rethinkingschools.org
A grassroots organization founded in the USA in 1986, Rethinking Schools has grown into a nationally prominent publisher of educational materials, with subscribers in all 50 states, all 10 Canadian provinces, and many other countries. It's firmly committed to equity and to the vision that public education is central to the creation of a humane, caring, multiracial democracy.

http://www.edchange.org
Provides resources for educators, students, and activists to explore and discuss multicultural education; facilitate opportunities for educators to work toward self-awareness and development; and provide forums for educators to interact and collaborate toward a critical, transformative approach to multicultural education.

http://www.tolerance.org Tolerance.org is a principal online destination for people interested in dismantling bigotry and creating, in hate's stead, communities that value diversity. If you want to know how to transform yourself, your home, your school, your workplace or your community, Tolerance.org is a place to start - and continue - the journey.

http://www.playmountain.org
Play Mountain Place (PMP), Institute for Humanistic Education & Parenting, was founded in 1949 in Los Angeles. It has been influenced by Carl Rogers. It focuses on facilitating children's self motivated learning and developing methods of Humanistic Education. GET Associate, Kazuo Yamashita, says, "I worked there as an intern teacher from 1988 to 1990. I learned a lot of valuable things from this school."

Person-Centered Associations, Organizations and Resources:

http://www.adpca.org Association for the Development of the Person Centered Approach. An American based organization that publishes a quarterly journal and holds an annual PCA oriented meeting.

http://aiecp.bib.uia.mx/aiecp
International Archives of the Person Centered Approach probably has the best selection PCA Papers in languages other than English.

www.centerfortheperson.org
Web site of the Center for Studies of the Person (CSP). CSP is the parent organization of Global Effectiveness Training. Carl Rogers and some of his associates incorporated CSP in 1968 as an alternative to traditional research and educational institutions.

www.pajarogroup.com
The Pajaro Group is an international group of PCA practitioners in organizations that meets in different countries every 6 months.

http://www.pca-online.net/index-pcanet.htm
Perhaps the best international site for PCA links and resources in English.

PERSON-CENTERED-RICH HOMEPAGES:
Natalie Rogers:      http://www.nrogers.com
Allan Turner:         http://www.allanturner.co.uk
Matthew Ryan:      http://world.std.com/~mbr2

Books, Media and References

www.apmforum.com
The Asia Pacific Management Forum's Asian Business Strategy and Street Intelligence online magazine provides a unique strategic view of Asian trends by providing exclusive analysis and research articles, on-the-street columns, and targeted links to other sources. It is intended for business strategy, international marketing, research, media, strategic management professionals, CEOs and top managers who have responsibility for Asian operations or marketing.

www.global-production.com
Global-production.com provides comparative information on the potential and performance of emerging economies as locations for global production and sourcing.

www.mindgardenmedia.com/cr.html
This new CD is a remarkable new resource for students, teachers, libraries, professionals and historians. It provides fast, cross-referenced access to Rogers' writings in chronological and thematic formats. It helps teachers organize and print course materials, and provides students with a research/study tool of chronological excerpts from Rogers'16 books that illustrate the development of his theories, practice and personal reflections. It includes the most exhaustive bibliography to date, as well as 120 photographs spanning his lifetime, award-winning, vintage video footage of counseling sessions and encounter groups, sections of his never before published China Diary written at age 20, and courtship/love letters to his wife, Helen.

www.pccs-books.co.uk
Site dedicated to excellence in person-centered counseling and psychotherapy books and journals.

http://www.nationmaster.com
NationMaster.com is a massive central data source and a handy way to graphically compare nations. Using a convenient form, you can generate maps and graphs with ease on all kinds of statistics. And you can select exactly which countries you want to include.

www.sagepub.com
Sage Publications is the publisher of the best seller "Person Centred Counselling in Action" and other excellent person-centered titles.

www.thebristlecone.com
The Bristlecone web site houses issues of the Camelot-USA PCA Bristlecone newsletter. GET Associate Katy Meadows is the Bristlecone's editor.

Healthcare

www.physicianpatient.org
Web site of The American Academy on Physician and Patient (AAPP). AAPP has been cited in The Infography as one of the most excellent sources of information about the subject of "Physician-Patient Communication."

Just for Fun

www.cartoonbank.com
Cartoons from all back issues of The New Yorker magazine, and more!

www.whichbook.net
A new, fun and intuitive way to select 'a good read.'