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28/10/2026

Counseling appears in no teaching contract. No teaching career avoids it.

Thirty-eight educators from five institutions spent three days in Batticaloa this month on exactly that: counseling skills on day one, healing through drama and movement on day two, trauma-informed practice and resilience on day three.

It built on Healing to Empower, the program these same institutions went through last year. The aim this time was to develop those skills further, from mentoring toward real counseling competence.
A single workshop teaches a technique. Going back teaches a practice.
Our thanks to everyone who gave three days of energy and dedication to this work.

24/10/2026

Where does learning actually happen?

At our faculty development program in Pakistan, Dr. Hope Antone walked faculty through four kinds of learning space, using a framework drawn from the educator David Thornburg.

The campfire, where information is passed on. The watering hole, where people talk with one another. The cave, where a person thinks alone. And life, where any of it is finally tested.

Most institutions are good at one or two of these. Dr. Antone asked the room, "How do we keep all four alive when so much of our teaching has moved onto screens?"

Which of the four is the most difficult to protect at your institution?

21/10/2026

Almost every faculty member in the room was already using AI in their teaching. Almost none of them had institutional support for it.

At our faculty development program in Pakistan this month, Christian Aung asked sixty faculty what they were actually doing with AI, and what was getting in their way. Most were working with free tools. The obstacles they named first were data privacy, uneven access, and academic integrity.

They are not resistant. They are unsupported, and they know exactly what they are missing.

16/10/2026

Care is often treated as the soft part of teaching, the part you get to once the real work is done.

Opening our first faculty development program in Pakistan this month, United Board President Pareena Gupta Lawrence put it the other way around. "Care is not weak or sentimental. It is strategic and faithful."

Her argument is a practical one. Students give their best where they feel respected. Safety is what frees them to speak, to try, and to get things wrong in front of one another. And creativity tends to appear where people feel valued enough to risk being wrong.

13/10/2026

Sixty faculty. Fourteen institutions. Our first faculty development program in Pakistan.

"Teaching with a Difference" brought everyone together at the University of Central Punjab in Lahore this week, with the Pakistan Institute of Human Rights and the social enterprise Rizq, and with United Board faculty joining by video: four days together on what it means to educate the mind, body, heart and spirit.

President Pareena Gupta Lawrence put it to participants plainly: faculty are leaders and changemakers who shape thousands of students over a career, and education must mean more than passing on knowledge at a time when machines can pass it on faster.

Among them, Ms. Sarah Hamid, who runs a community school for girls, and Dr. Asma Shahid Kazi, who chairs a department of teacher education and is building community engagement into its curriculum.

Thank you to our partners, and to every participant for their time, energy and dedication.

10/10/2026

The Indonesian Itinerary | Stop 9 of 9 — Surabaya (13–14 September)

Our Indonesian itinerary closed at Petra Christian University in Surabaya, beginning with a dinner hosted by Rector Dr. Rolly Intan, his Vice Rectors and the Director of the Office of Advancement.

The next morning, after a campus tour, Dr. Pareena Gupta Lawrence addressed Petra's Monday service, speaking on Christian excellence and urging students and staff to be persistent, to take courage, and to believe in leading change. We saw top-notch medicine and dentistry laboratories and high-end classrooms, heard from alumni over lunch, and closed with four parallel workshops led by our team members.

Nine stops, one week, and one clear takeaway: face-to-face still matters. Thank you, Indonesia — and thank you to every colleague, alumnus and student who made room for us.

09/10/2026

The Indonesian Itinerary | Stop 8 of 9 — Salatiga (12 September)

Satya Wacana Christian University (SWCU) received our team with a warm welcome from the Rector and senior leadership — and with a history that runs alongside our own.

With 19,000 students, SWCU is moving on several fronts at once: COIL (collaborative online international learning ) programs, a Master's in AI, and a notably meaningful Center for the Study of Religions and Christian–Muslim Relations. Ideas came quickly. The Rector, an entrepreneur herself, spoke openly about both her challenges and her ventures — the kind of candor that makes collaboration possible.

Shared history, shared ambition.

One stop remains: Surabaya.

08/10/2026

The Indonesian Itinerary | Stop 7 of 9 — A Visit of Remembrance (11 September)

Later that day in Semarang, our team was received at the home of our late trustee, Dr. Budi Widianarko, who died on February 7 at the age of 63.

President Dr. Pareena Gupta Lawrence presented the Citation of Appreciation to his wife, Imevianty Lim, and family — offered with love and respect, in gratitude for his dedicated service from 2020 until his passing.

An environmental scientist, professor and former rector of Soegijapranata Catholic University, Budi gave the United Board scholarly rigour, institutional wisdom and spiritual depth. His family spoke of the life behind that service, and we listened.

He once said everyone has two professions — teacher and farmer — because whenever we share knowledge or help something grow, we contribute to the flourishing of our world. We carry that with us.

Tomorrow, the itinerary continues inland to Salatiga.

07/10/2026

The Indonesian Itinerary | Stop 6 of 9 — Semarang (11 September)

In Semarang, Rector Dr. Robertus and the senior leadership of Soegijapranata Catholic University (SCU) welcomed our team for a full day with faculty, alumni and students.

We came to understand SCU's context and its innovative work, and to introduce our organization and latest program offerings. But the most instructive hour was with the students. Their views on academics, teaching methods and preparation for real life did not always match the views in the faculty room — and that gap is exactly what makes the conversation worth having.

Insightful, engaging, and quietly challenging.

Later that day, in the same city, a quieter visit — and a promise kept.

06/10/2026

The Indonesian Itinerary | Stop 5 of 9 — Alumni Reunion (10 September)

Forty-one alumni from across Indonesia came together for our Indonesian alumni reunion — and the range in the room was remarkable.

Our earliest United Board Fellow, from 2012. Senior alumnae of the Whole Person Education Academy. Participants from our other programs. More than 10 grant recipients. Twenty-one United Board Fellows in all.

Some had not seen each other in years; some were meeting for the first time and discovering shared work. Memories, laughter, and a genuine promise to keep building with the United Board.

A network is not a list of names. It is an evening like this one.

Next, the itinerary moves north to Semarang.

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