Golitsyna Ekaterina
“I want to thank you once again for organizing such wonderful event. I really missed help of competent people concerning the questions of enrollment before. Until today i had to collect fragmentary information from people who…
RecrearApply Kazan starts!
It looked like nothing special was happening – just another winter morning in Kazan, when I had to wake up 7 a.m. to go to work. Everything as usual: running late and no time for breakfast,…
ode to the discourse, the people, and the inspiration
Ok folks, time for me to go on a rant. I can’t promise I will follow one line of thought but bare with me. I sit now in our empty workshop room with flip charts scattered…
From Russia, With Love!
Hello Everyone! This is an exciting day as this evening will be the first session for Apply!Kazan, however, there is a very pressing issue to cover first. It is still surreal that I am sitting in…
Youth that are breaking the mold
I have to say it has been quite a privilege to be inBangladeshduring their victory day. I feel that I have been lucky enough to glimpse brilliantly colourful moments in their culture. Whether it was an…
Late night brainstorming
It is 3.40 am and we just turned the lights off. As for every incredible day, this morning seems a lifetime away. I am trying to use this blog entry to recollect my thoughts, which feel…
A tale of two organizational stories
There is something quite inspiring about meeting someone who has at one point walked in your shoes. It is remarkable not for the fact that you have done the same thing but rather that you have…
The royal Bangladeshi welcome
No red carpets or trumpets but rather a room full of 30 Bangladeshis aged 18-25 eagerly waiting our arrival. This to me the best reception of all because even after arriving an hour and a half…
Happy Holidays!
Recrear wishes you Happy Holidays! We hope you will enjoy our Holiday Greetings and project update below. If you like Recrear’s projects and would like to support them by making a donation please click here. This year…
Recrear’s Wish List!
Dear Friends and Supporters, This Holiday Season you can decide to support Recrear by donating some of the equipment we need for our projects. Below is a wish list of what we need for our upcoming…
OccupyNOLA vs. RecrearNOLA: A Difference in Priorities
The Arab Spring in conjunction with Occupy Wall Street and its associated spin-offs have made me a believer in the idea that we are looking at a period in history that is set to turn the…
Missing 328, Satsung and “the international van will be leaving in 3 minutes”…
I am supposed to be filling everyone in on my thoughts of RecrearMAGNIFY although I don’t know if a few words in the blog-o-sphere can sum up all of the emotions and knowledge gained in the…
Join us at the Recrear Magnify Final Gala!
Click to download our Final Gala Invitation! Welcome to Recrear International! We are currently hosting a conference for 14 young international leaders here in Ottawa with a close partnership with Carleton University and we are holding a…
Some Work and Fun from Week 2!
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Stepping out…
Tonight the Recrear team tried to MAGNIFY our skills by crashing the gen YOTT “Summer Ain’t over” networking event downtown Ottawa. This was something that not many of us had ever experienced before. As we all…
Pure Joy
What have my past two weeks been like? Pure joy. Let’s see…in the first week I learnt how to do yoga and meditate while at a beautiful retreat just out of Montreal, at the Art of…
Stepping off into the Pacific with Love! :)
So everyone. I just wanted to let you all know how difficult it was to leave all of you. As the plane was taking off, I was lucky enough to catch a glimpse of Dunton Tower…
Sad, yet happy
Do you know how often you start the sentence “Yes, but…”? I do it a lot! I wish I could say I used to do it a lot, and that my experience with Recrear, especially our…
Meet Our Week Two Speakers!
From August 8th-13th RecrearMagnify hosted a speaker series including over 20 speakers from 16 different organizations from Ottawa. Here’s a glimpse of some of those sessions! [slideshow]
Let’s put it all together- ready for Week 3!
My Recrear head is a Pandora box, and all the inputs that we received during the last two weeks have been feeding into it. The conference so far has provided me with the space to think…
Recrear Participacion Photo Essay
Recrear Participación is an interactive workshop providing young people with the tools to develop their ideas and passion into sustainable community projects. Recrear Participación was piloted between July 10th and July 25th, 2011 in two, separate, week-long workshops…
Living high and mightily with Recrear
As week two is coming to a close, I must say magnify just might be the perfect word to describe the change that I have seen within myself, my fellow conference delegates, and Recrear as a…
Vote on your favorite session
Week 2 has come to a close. Please give some feedback on the speaker series while it is still fresh in your mind. You can choose your top 3 sessions. You cannot vote twice. The poll…
On the road to knowledge.
Sometimes there are not words to describe the value of an experience. You don’t have to reinvent the wheel to create a non-profit. You may have to re-invent your funding methods every so often due to…
With $20,000 I would . . .
Kate Green from USC asks the Recrear Youth Ambassadors what types of projects they would produce with $20,000. Listen to everyone’s reply. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvnDuhgcPJU?hl=en&fs=1&w=425&h=349]
Добро пожаловать в Recrear!
“Ты не могла бы сегодня написать блог по-русски?” “Да…а зачем?” Действительно, зачем? Конечно, если я просто хорошо провожу отпуск, общаюсь с интересными, умными и целеустремленными людьми, трачу собственные деньги на весёлую жизнь, то нет особого смысла…
Magnifying the perspective
Week 2 – Day 3 – Social Enterprise This is my first blog post ever so I’ll try to be brief and concise. A few months ago I joined Recrear as one of the three conference…
In it to win it!!!
Session 1 for day 3 of week 2 for RecrearMagnify! Keenan Wellar, Co-founder of LiveWorkPlay is imparting wonderful wisdom on his experiences with building his charitable organization. LiveWorkPlay’s motto is “A good life for people with…
There is more to it than what you see…
It has been quite the first few days back to civilization. After the intense yet incredible week at the Art of Living Ashram and our three days of silence, it has been a bit of a shift…
Highlights from Week 1 at the International Art of Living Centre
Week One of the RecearMagnify conference was spent with the Art of Living Foundation doing team building exercises, stress management and personal empowerment through meditation and yoga. Here are some highlights from the week![slideshow]