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News update
In June 2012 Micheal Meegan will be
giving a series of readings from
the book of spiritual reflections “Take My Hand” a spiritual
journey.
These spiritual reflections written together with Sharon Wilknison,
“ Take My Hand” is the first volume of Spiritual Journey. Readings
will
take place London: 8th & 9th June, Stockholm; 12th June, Paris;
26th
June
Also, Michael will be reading from “All Will Be Well” and “Changing
The World” in Dublin on the 3rd of June. All of the titles will be
available online as e-books from July 2012.
If you wish to know any more about these lectures, please contact us
at info@michaelmeegan.com
Lectures on poverty and global health
Michael will be giving a series f lectures on the changes in
malnutrition patterns in nomadic communities in East Africa and a
review of advances in the treatment of diarrhoea in malnourished
children. These exciting developments include the innovations and
developments of solar disinfection of contaminated drinking water.
Since 1993, together with Prof David Morley, ICROSS had been
researching improved ways to fight diarrhoea in children living in
extreme poverty. For over 30 years, Michael has researched innovations
and low cost technologies that can create lasting changes in Africa.
More information on ICROSS projects fighting suffering and starvation
can be found on http://icrossinternational.org/
https://icrossinaction.com/donate2.html
If you wish to know any more about the lectures, please contact
us at
info@michaelmeegan.com
T M Elmore-Meegan B.Phil, M.Sc (Community Health) T.C.D, D.Med
HC NUI FRAMI
International Director ICROSS
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Michael Meegan has completed a series of workshops on Inward
Stillness in London and Paris.
This week there is a workshop on SILENCE AND ACTION in Ngong Kenya
In January 2012 there will be a ten day retreat in Ngong. We only have 26 places and there are 11 places left. 8 are contemplatives. We invite any interested in this contemplative experience to contact us between 8th- 16th December as we have limited availability.
Readings from ALL WILL BE WELL
There will be three evenings of reflection in Feb 2011 in London, Dublin and Paris
The theme of these evenings is:
"Awakening into Action, compassion as power."
"unless our awareness and insight bring love and real action, we are not truly awake. Our stillness should give birth to caring, doing , serving" Michael Meegan
The talks will be followed by a discussion segment and period of creative silence.
There are a limited number of places available
Please use the contacts section of this website for further information
Jan 18th 2011
Michael Meegan is giving two presentations in Ireland this week .
"ALL WILL BE WELL, reflections on compassion in a wounded world"
There are a limited number of places available for the Dublin talk .
The first is is Dublin on 19th January, the 2nd presentation is om 20th January in Belfast.
there will be time for reflections on ALL WILL BE WELL, CHANGING THE WORLD as well as readings from reflectons and spirtual journals.
For further information please contact Clare at info@michaelmeegan.com
Special offer for books by Michael Meegan ordered through this site
Together with eye books www.eye-books.com we are pleased to announce a special offer for friends and regular readers. We offering special discounts on pre orders of the Tribe of One. Other books by Michael Meegan ordered through this site published by eye books will receive a 10% discount until 31st January 2011.
The Tribe of One ( by Michael Meegan and Colin Meagle) will be launched in March 2011 in new York and London.
For details on offers please contact us at info@michaelmeegan.com
THE TRIBE OF ONE will be launched the USA in March 2011
Eye-Books publishes the latest work before Easter. The Tribe of one is available for pre-order through this site and through www.eye-books.com. Extracts from 'The Tribe of One' will be on the reflections page of this site updated weekly.
Michael Meegan and Colin Meagle put forward an idea that we are many different energies, many people in one. We have within us often conflicting forces and emotions that can confuse us or make us unhappy.
" Our energy is caught up in how we fill our minutes and hours. What are we doing to ourselves and why are we filling our lives with this fevered activity? We begin this exploration by identifying the places we invest our energy, time and presence."
Michael Meegan speaks this week in London on "energy
and healing in compasion" . As part of drawing together those interested
in a dynamic response to our hurting world please like us on http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/thetribeofone
Following the success of the last series of talks a limited
number of places are available for one day workshops .
Michael Meegan will share reflections and practical approaches.
" inner stillness and kindness"
The workshops will focus on awakening silence into our daily lives, developing
awareness and contemplation as well as sharing practical ideas on drawing our
energy into healing and compassion. Each talk will be followed by a series
of exercises and examples of applying the reflections in our daily lives.
The workshops will take place in September in Nairobi, London, Paris and Reading
, for more details about these talks in August and september please contact
us at info@michaelmeegan.com
Following the success of the last series of talks a limited number of places are available for one day workshops .
Michael Meegan will share reflections and practical approaches.
"inner stillness and kindness"
The workshops will focus on awakening silence into our daily lives, developing awareness and contemplation as well as sharing practical ideas on drawing our energy into healing and compassion. Each talk will be followed by a series of exercises and examples of applying the reflections in our daily lives.
The workshops will take place in September in Nairobi, London, Paris and Reading.
For more details about these talks in August and september please contact
us at
info@michaelmeegan.com
This week Michael Meegan opens the Africa Awakes exhibition
in Nairobi. He will talk on the scale of poverty mong the Maasai and how we
can all make a life transforming difference through our actions .
The Africa awakes exhibition raises awareness and support for AIDS and drought
projects in Africa and needs your help. If you can help no matter how small
your donation , please donate on www.newworldinternational.org
Your support is urgently needed.
" Every day we are faced with a simple choice, in fact lots of little choices. We are given the power to change the World in many ways. Smetimes the change we can bring may be only a kind word, a smile , a genture. It might be the smallest act of warmth. It can also be a life changing act of help. Every day we are faced with these opportunities to create a kinder more beautiful World, a place of compassion, of goodness, of kindness"
Together with Ronan Conroy, Michael has contributed to a
new book compiled by Catherine Conlan. SONAS. In his contribution to this collection
of reflections by Irish writers , Michael Meegan has written a meditation about
how we can all become, become more loving, more giving, more compassionate.
SONAS is available on line and is an important and powerful reminder of what
matters.
About SONAS
"This is a book that has been long overdue in Ireland. It is a collection of thoughts and insights from some of Irelands lights. It comes at a time of shadows. In a time when many people are confused and uncertain, these voices offer something to everyone. In a World that has become cynical and doubtful, these thoughts awaken, rekindle something forgotten.
At a time when Ireland is a little lost, this important book
offers a direction. It has a quiet simplicity and honesty in its wisdom. The
reflections are from many perspectives, borne of many lives and experiences
across every spectrum of creativity and life. If you read
one book this year, this would be a really good choice."
SONAS is available through any of the following links http://www.whsmith.co.uk/CatalogAndSearch/
ProductDetails.aspx?productID=9780340993170
http://www.booksunlimited.ie/Author/Catherine-Conlon.htm
Michael has been giving a series of talks on poverty in Europe. He has been talking on Global health and children's rights in UK and on safe water in Dublin at the Royal College of Surgeons.
In Cambodia Sharon Wilkinson and Michael
gave readings of TAKE MY HAND.
Between 11th -14th November there will be a workshop in Kenya on " inner Stillness,
finding the light within". This series of contemplative reflections is part
of a series of retreats aimed at helping people to find their inner harmony
and centre. It follows the practical examples shared in CHANGING
THE WORLD.
This workshop focuses on contemplation in action and healing through compassion.
It applies the insights shared in ALL
WILL BE WELL and CHANGING THE WORLD.
For details about these workshops and upcoming events please contact us at info@michaelmeegan.com
We are sad to announce the death of our friend and colleague, Professor David Morley CBE
Our dear friend David Morley has died .He was 86 . His great life inspired many health programmes across the World. We have worked with Professor David Morley since 1978 and he was closely involved in our rural health programmes in Tanzania and Kenya. Professor David Morley was a long time friend and published a number of studies with us over a period of twenty years. The International Director Michael Meegan Shared David’s special address to mark his 80th birthday. In May , only weeks before he died we were still developing new improved designs for our fly traps in the reduction of Trachoma.
David Morley was one of the most influential figures
in International health for decades. His pioneering work has changed the
landscape of primary health care and Maternal child health. Writing of David
in ALL WILL BE WELL , Michael Meegan described him as “ gentle, passionate, his staying point was “how
can I help” . He moved mountains to provide support, he has selfless,
utterly driven by a desire to improve health care for mothers and children.
The ICROSS projects that have served communities for decades were built firmly
on the ground of David Morley’s wisdom and experience. In our work on
child survival and growth monitoring together we advocated David’s passion “ putting
the mother at the centre of the Childs health and giving her ownership” David
was the first Professor of Tropical
Child health and one of the architects of grassroots community based health
care. His close involvement over the decades in ICROSS was a continued source
of wisdom and quiet determination. His work lives on in all of our health projects,
not least in the many innovations and inventions.
In the words of a colleague, Tony Costelloe, a bit about why he was so special...
“It is impossible to pay full tribute to David’s influence and achievements: a pioneer in under-five epidemiology, in applying the principles of primary care to mothers and children, in respecting the role of mothers as primary providers, in describing growth problems and growth monitoring in developing countries, in driving forward the key components of the child survival revolution led by UNICEF, James Grant and Jon Rohde, in setting up the breastfeeding policy and practice course with Felicity Savage King and colleagues at the UCL Institute for Child Health, in establishing diploma and masters courses in tropical child health with Zef Ebrahim and Hermione Lovel, doing the same for disability with Pam Zinkin, developing the brilliant concept of Teaching Aids at Low Cost, establishing Child-to-Child, in inspiring a whole generation of paediatricians, public health doctors, nutritionists, nurses, administrators, teachers, journalists and managers, and in developing simple aids to promote child care in the poorest communities. David received the CBE and the James Spence medal of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, but his real reward is the affection in which he was held by countless primary care workers around the world, and the millions of adults today who, without knowing it, owe their lives to his work. David was also warm, friendly, funny, a shrewd and irrepressible advocate, and always encouraging. We shall miss him greatly.”
The Teacxhing Aids at Low cost web site , one of Davids far reaching ideas said simply .
"David was a visionary who cared passionately about sick children in countries across the world. He inspired so many of us and will be greatly missed. We will continue the work he began through TALC - as his legacy to health workers everywhere."
David’s Funeral is 14th July 09 and ICROSS at the appropriate time in collaboration with other long term friends and colleagues including Clare Hanbury , will remember David appropriately.
Royal College of Surgeons Charter Day Lecture 16th February 2009
Royal College of Surgeons Charter Day Lecture, Feb 12th 2009
Leo Halpenny ( Braun) Dr Davida De La Harpe, Consultant in Public Health and international advisor to ICROSS Kenya, Dr Michael Meegan, International Director ICROSS Kenya, and Mr Ken Mealy, Royal Academy (Surgical Section)
In February 2009 Michael Meegan gave three talks
on poverty.
The first was the Charter day Braun lecture at the Royal College of Surgeons
in Dublin together with the Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland on Global
health. 12th Feb 09. This lecture focused on many influences driving extreme
poverty, the challenges of hunger as well as the changing world. The
second lecture in London on 15th Feb 09 discussed the ways we can all help
fight poverty and be ambassadors of hope. The third presentation in Ngong Kenya 23rd
Feb 09 entitled " compassion and passion, serving others usefully".
In March, the first of two workshops will be held in Kenya. " Tenebo, the path
to sharing" will be held on 12th March . Tenebo is the Maasai word
for "together"
Book launch- 100 Ways to Change
Together
with Ronan Conroy and Manuel Scrima, Michael Meegan is about to launch
100 ways to change , a series of inspirations.
This book is the first in the "100 ways" series.
Available through www.eye-books.com and www.amazon.co.uk advance
orders are now being taken.
More information on http://www.eye-books.com/index_imprints.asp
ICROSS Awareness and Advocacy Campaign
In a series of articles we are examining key issues effecting global poverty. ___________________________________________________________________ Changing the World Changing the world , the sequel of All will be well, was launched in London this week. ___________________________________________________________________ A limited numbered edition of "Take my Hand " is available by order through this site Order book What people say about TAKE MY HAND Dearest sharon and mike, EXHIBITIONS "Terre D’Africa" An exhibition sharing our work will open in Rome in April 07 www.manuelscrima.com with other exhibitions in Milan and London in the Summer. Is another series of exhibitions that will explore the wonder of Africa and Asia , we will be opening the first of these UK exhibitions in April 07. One artist journey; for full story please visit: http://www.sadiqahamad.com/the_awakening/icross.htm 2006 © Photography by Sadiq ___________________________________________________________________
In the first of a series of articles we explore changes in political and economic forces on the African Continent.
Dr Michael Meegan writing in AFRO, discusses critical changes that will have far reaching impact on the poor.
ICROSS has already launched a series of awareness campaigns and will be focusing on Maternal child health and
child survival in a new campaign starting in October. AFRO examines in depth issues facing Africa and challenges
our assumptions and ideas about poverty and its cycles.
Tha magazine cover is from Africa Awakes exhibition by Manuel Scrima.
Afro is a magazine intending to realise a utopia: restoring a picture of Africa and its inhabitants.
Read the full article here:
Shifts in Power, Africa in a rapidly changing power shift of global dynamics.
www.icross.ie/docs/afro4.pdf
Over 160 colleagues , friends and public health professionals attended the launch.
Dan Hiscocks , CEO of eye-books spoke at the launch , our largest to date.
Changing the World is a book that explores how each of us has a role to play in changing the
world around us. It explores the potential and the resources we have to make a better world here and now.
While All be well focused on the power of gentleness and compassion from an African perspctive, Changing the World focuses
on other opportunities to create tomorrow.Many people say they want to make a difference in the world, but they don't know how.
Changing the world, step by step offers examples of how real people have made real differences on all levels, global, local and personal.
It reminds us to see the joy and love in every moment of every day. And that making a difference is something everyone can do.
You can start changing the world simply by buying this book. The profits will go directly to help AIDS orphans in Africa.
Your first step in making a difference.
Representatives from development organisations, sexual health work and human rights
were present as well as authors and the arts world.Film makers and producers were also at
the launch discussing a new innovative idea for using film in educating western audiences about
poverty is in planning stages.
The next book 100 ways to change the world with Ronan Conroy has a 100 images created by Manuel Scrima
www.manuelscrima.com
Colin Meagle is working with NWI and film producers on an exciting new project to be unveiled later this year.
He is also working on Tribe of one with Michael Meegan, a new concept in approaching how we live and think.
Changing the World is available through www.amazon.co.uk or www.eye-books.com
Take my hand is a collection of spiritual reflections written by Michael Meegan and Sharon Wilkinson
wow. delighted to receive yesterday TAKE MY HAND.
i cannot wait to convey my
deepest appreciation for this beautiful book , what a conversation and
dialogue. this mystical transparency is uplifting. more
power to your spiritual wings.
Dr Lancy Lobo
"Awakening "
The Directors of the Michael Meegan Foundation UK will be in Africa from early February to late March 2007 working with local communities identifying new programmes and partnerships building on Mikes 27 years experience in Africa.
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TALKS
Feb 8th 2011
Readings from ALL WILL BE WELL
There will be three evenings of reflection in Feb 2011 in London, Dublin and Paris
The theme of these evenings is:
"Awakening into Action, compassion as power."
"unless our awareness and insight bring love and real action, we are not truly awake. Our stillness should give birth to caring, doing , serving" Michael Meegan
The talks will be followed by a discussion segment and period of creative silence.
There are a limited number of places available
Please use the contacts section of this website for further information
Dec 15th 2010
Michael Meegan has been holding a series of contemplative workshops in November . This month he will give a series of talks on stillness . We are hoping to podcast these talks and make them available through YouTube and Facebook .
The theme of the January series of talks will be related to the forthcoming book , "the tribe of one " with Colin Meagle.
Michael Meegan will give a talk and a reading from all will be well on 3rd December in London and on 8th December in Nairobi.
Michael Meegan will be talking at a series of workshops throughout january on compassion in action.
Following the success of our last series of presentations we are in the process of planning seminars in Canada, France, Uk, USA and India. Theae will coincide with the release of "the tribe of one".
We apologize that we cannot always reply to all email enquiries immediately , our team will respond to all enquiries as soon as we can .
There are still some places left for the series of meditations on
Gentleness grief and understanding loss
10th , 14th December
Ngong , Kenya
Details please contact Maria at
info@michaelmeegan.com
Nov 30th 2009
Michael Meegan is in London this week giving a lecture “The
changing face of the AIDS Epidemic in Africa”. Next week Michael will
be in Tampere, Finland where he will give a series of talks on “Providing
health care in areas of extreme poverty”. The seminar includes discussions
on equality in Development, community ownership and the importance of community
ownership.
In Mid December Michael will give a lecture in Cambodia on the importance of
compassion and gentleness.
Between 18-20th December there will be a three day workshop on stillness. This will be held in Ngong, Kenya.
Nov 10th 2009
Michael has been giving a series of talks on poverty in Europe. He has been talking on Global health and children's rights in UK and on safe water in Dublin at the Royal College of Surgeons.
In Cambodia Sharon Wilkinson and Michael gave readings of TAKE
MY HAND.
Between 11th -14th November there will be a workshop in Kenya on " inner Stillness,
finding the light within". This series of contemplative reflections is part
of a series of retreats aimed at helping people to find their inner harmony
and centre. It follows the practical examples shared in CHANGING
THE WORLD.
This workshop focuses on contemplation in action and healing through compassion.
It applies the insights shared in ALL
WILL BE WELL and CHANGING THE WORLD.
For details about these workshops and upcoming events please contact us at info@michaelmeegan.com
GLOBAL HEALTH
Twenty years of SODIS in Kenya.
International
Research Colloquium of the Network to promote
Household Water Treatment and Safe Storage (HWTS),
Houston lecture theatre
Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin 21st September 2009
Mike Meegan: Speaking In February 2009
Royal College of Surgeons Charter
Day Lecture, Feb 12th 2009
Leo Halpenny ( Braun), Dr Davida De La Harpe, Consultant
in Public Health, Dr Michael Meegan and Mr Ken Mealy, Royal Academy (Surgical
Section)
In February 2009 Michael Meegan gave three talks on
poverty.
The first was the Charter day Braun lecture at the Royal College of Surgeons
in Dublin together with the Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland on Global
health. 12th Feb 09. This lecture focused on many influences driving extreme
poverty, the challenges of hunger as well as the changing world. The
second lecture in London on 15th Feb 09 discussed the ways we can all help
fight poverty and be ambassadors of hope. The third presentation in Ngong Kenya 23rd
Feb 09 entitled " compassion and passion, serving others usefully".
In March, the first of two workshops will be held in Kenya. " Tenebo, the path
to sharing" will be held on 12th March . Tenebo is the Maasai word for "together"
For details please contact: sadiq@michaelmeegan.com | info@michaelmeegan.com