Fighting for the rights of the vulnerable in Haiti
DAI President Jane Overstreet and Senior Consultant Paul Borthwick (pictured below) in Haiti for a few days to lead practical training for over 300 pastors and leaders fighting for the rights of vulnerable women and children.
Building a peaceful future by using Strategic Management
Judith, a student in the Uganda 2016 Masters Degree in Organisational Leadership (MAOL) cohort, is the first child in her family to pursue a Master’s degree. She used leadership tools from the Strategic Management course to bring her clan together and to develop a peaceful plan for the clan’s future. Judith shares: “Before starting this […]
Aruna’s reflections on the DAI Spiritual Formation Course
As reported to her UK-recruited, DAI Masters Degree Associate Facilitator, here are some lovely reflections written by an MAOL student in South India who has really captured DAI’s vision for spiritual formation in her 5th Assignment summary of what she learned through the course. Aruna, pictured right with husband and fellow MAOL student Rajendra, writes: […]
Looking forwards whilst looking back…
Preparing to retire from his role as DAI UK’s CEO & Senior Consultant for Curriculum Development at the end of March, Colin Rye writes: “As I wonder what retirement will look like when I get there after Easter, I give thanks for more than 8 years of involvement with DAI in the UK and internationally. […]
Managing Conflict in Uganda
At the beginning of March, John Rogers was back in Uganda for another week-long Residency and with another group of students studying for the MA in Christian Organisational Leadership that DAI runs in partnership with Uganda Christian University. This time, John was facilitating the “Conflict” course – not one in how to create conflict – […]
Launching leadership training in Tanzania
Jairus Mutebe, DAI’s Ministry Centre Director in Uganda, crossed the border into Tanzania on 11th March to facilitate the first ever DAI Servant Leadership Workshop in Tanzania. A small group of 10 leaders took the Workshop, with participants coming from churches, business, the medical profession and the legal world. Commenting on their experience of the […]
What’s in a Wordle?
If you’ve ever wondered what DAI is all about then you’ll perhaps find this Wordle graphic interesting and revealing… Wordle* is a ‘toy’ for generating ‘word clouds’ from text that you provide and the clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the text. For our DAI Wordle, we submitted the text […]
A transformed leader transforms the lives of others
Agnes, from Uganda, who has benefitted from DAI’s Servant Leadership course, shared this story with researchers during the 2017 Impact Study: “While teaching at my school, there was a dull, quiet, withdrawn and disinterested pupil. One outgoing teacher told me not to bother with this pupil because all his efforts to help this pupil were […]
What impact does the Servant Leadership Course have?
The Study: In 2017, DAI partnered with Concentric Development, Inc. to evaluate the effectiveness of DAI’s Non-Formal Programme. Researchers compiled information from 250 Servant Leadership workshop participants from Togo, Uganda and India, using interviews, focus groups, story collection and online surveys. Participants from India took the course more than five years ago while participants from […]
8 new countries, 5 new Ministry Centres in 2017
DAI’s reach extended in 2017 with 8 new countries added to the previous 74 in which we have been operating served by a total of 31 Ministry Centres – 5 of which were new in 2017. New countries in 2017: Australia, Cambodia, Ethiopia, Laos, Malaysia, Tanzania and two countries in the Middle East (names withheld […]