group helpers and committee should have monthly meetings
B. THE NEED FOR THE RIGHT LATIHAN SPACE
4) The WSA to initiate a handbook to guide groups in buying, managing and
using their Subud house to include such points as:
- how to rent out your Subud House,
- the Subud House as an activity centre,
- the need and management of a social area in the house,
- guidelines and success stories concerning how Subud groups have interfaced
with the local community
5) This handbook can be supplemented with:
- teams of experts to advise on how to buy and manage a Subud House as a
resource for local groups
- an information base on the world wide situation re Subud premises
6) Recommendation: Subud national bodies to identity specific local groups
willing and able to buy their own Subud house ( ie to set national objectives
or targets for the forthcoming period) and to help those groups financially
nationally, zonally and internationally to acquire part of the necessary
funding.
C. THE NEED FOR GOOD HELPERS
7) WSA to produce a helper’s handbook or checklist to guide helpers in the
more outward aspects of their work
(like talking with applicants..)
8) The WSA to encourage more kejiwaan days or workshops, with the
recommendation that these not be focused exclusively on testing problems, but
also on sharing understanding through discussion.
9) Proposal; to change the name ‘helper’
10) Proposal: all helpers should have a limited term of office like
chairpersons
11)Alternative proposal: all helpers should test on a regular and periodic
basis (eg every two years) whether to become inactive or not
12) WSA to produce an applicants booklet and a new members’ kit
13) Recommendation:
- Applicants meetings should sometimes be attended by the committee, sometimes
by members, sometimes by helpers from other groups.
- Helpers should refrain from giving talks to applicants
- Helpers groups should consider ‘buddying’ - specific helpers being more close
to specific applicants
- Helpers can do special latihans with new members (say once a month)
14) WSA to strengthen the helpers infrastructure by more frequent and better
coordinated visits between groups and countries and by national and
international helpers.
D. THE NEED TO BE OPEN TO THE OUTSIDE
15) WSC to improve the existing WSA web site for content and internet links to
other web-sites, and to register "subud.org". The WSA should use the web as
public source of information about Subud.
16) WSA to develop and produce materials to explain Subud to the public, for
use internationally
17) WSA to check the cult check-list on the world wide web in order to
demonstrate that Subud does not satisfy the criteria for being a religious
cult
18) Recommendation: Groups can
- have open days and events of quality open to the public
- test to self-evaluate their attitude and action towards making Subud more open
- use their Subud house as a space for the local community
- place books in public libraries
19) General recommendation: there is a middle path between propaganda and
hiding Subud
20) The WSA can help countries which have political problems regarding being
completely open about Subud
E. THE NEED FOR A NORMAL FAMILY LIFE
21) SYAI to promote young people having an active role in the organization and
forums for younger members in the countries.
22) WSA and SYAI to publicize inter-generational issues and information about
Subud for young people
23) Recommendation: Group helpers be aware of the need for special latihan
times for members with families
F. THE NEED TO CONNECT TO SUBUD BEYOND THE GROUP
24) WSA to promote or publish:
- group twinning between countries
- an up-to-date international publication on the internet
- a colour magazine or year book for the WSA to be circulated to all individual
members free of charge once a year
- a new member packet
- a youth stop-over directory
25) Recommendation:
isolated members should be attached to a group for purposes like being on a
mailing list, receiving notice of meetings and publications and isolated
members who do not have a national committee should receive information
directly from ISC.
26) WSA to publish important international publications in at least four
languages: French, Spanish, Indonesia and Russian
G. THE PERSONAL NEED FOR RESULTS
27) WSA to publish information for Subud members about success stories in all
aspects of Subud
H. THE NEED FOR ACTIVITIES
28) The WSA can help groups engage the community around the Subud House, in an
appropriate way given the skills of the group
29) The WSA can help groups and committees set goals and priorities so as to
work together on meaningful activities which answer needs.
I. THE NEED FOR ENTERPRISE
30) WSA can facilitate and prepare the ground for an entrepreneurial culture
by:
- the formation of SES support groups
- micro-credit training
- programs to help and train unemployed Subud members
- workshops to find creativity and meaning in work
- by using ISC and the census as an information centre
31) WSA can help Subud members better understand the real meaning of ‘enterprise’ :
- to include all forms of work, and not just businesses
- to include ‘Energising yourself based on your talent’
- to include the harmonious working of the inner and outer
32) SYAI and SESI to develop a mentorship program for young people
33) SESI has proposed to develop a commercial web site on enterprise
J. CONNECTING TO WIDER NEEDS
34) WSA can support social development programs and cultural and youth
programs by establishing a working group of experts who help programs improve
their project proposals and find the right funding agencies around the world
35) WSA can promote workshops for interested experts to provide idea
incubators in various fields ( eg. education, economics, town planning)
36) WSA can promote the invitation of experts, who are Subud members, to give
lectures, conferences and workshops in different countries
37) The WSA can work with other NGOs and Governmental agencies to develop
programs which answer needs;
when required to state a position ( for instance at UN meetings) on a
sensitive issue, testing is possible