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From the Desk of Regional

Coordinator East

Khirod Pattnaik

Regional Meetings

In all there were 9 Regional meetings between January and November.

Each of the meetings featured some social time and a presentation on an ABS theme. The
themes and presenters were;

1. Incomplete Loops and its problems in the Here & Now – Sukhvinder Sircar
2. No presentation
3. Self Esteem and Integrating younger selves – Subhashree Chander

4. Understanding Interpersonal processes – Rashmi Saxena
5. Finding Mental Peace in the times of Covid

6. Exploring Partnership processes – Kakoli Saha
7. Pandemic Reflections – Sukhvinder Sircar

8. Revisiting my T group Experience – Rashmi Saxena
9. Organising your time and Space – Bhanumurthy Kota

Events

The Region helped in marketing the two ECHO lab events in January and August 2021. Data
on participants is awaited.
The Region also organised an in-person event at Kolkata (Kolkata 21). The last in-person event
by the Region was in September 2019 and this event came after a gap of more than 2 years.

Kolkata 21 had 16 BLHP participants and 3 ALHP participants. There were 3 labs one of which
was a combined BLHP/ALHP lab. Several of the regular client organisations had decided not
to send participants to outside programmes and getting participants became a very difficult
task. In the end we managed to develop an almost completely new client base. Ultimately, we
got 10 participants from Corporate sector, 7 from Non Profit sector and 2 Individuals. Only 2
were from a client that had sent participants earlier.

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