Francis Laleman

Resourceful Exformation

George Supreeth

In this small collection of essays covering learning design, teaching, facilitation, and coaching for individual and organizational development & growth, Francis Laleman makes a case for something new and fresh altogether. This is not a manual, not a textbook, not a do-book. Rather, expect a series of transformative thoughts and exciting possibilities - for trainers, facilitators, (agile) coaches and assorted HR professionals. Following up on ideas first introduced by the Japanese designer Kenya Hara, Francis brings the concept of ex-formation to the world of adult learning and organizations, merging it with ideas taken from Rabindranath Tagore, Herman Teirlinck, Paulo Freire, Augusto Boal and many more – thus transforming Kenya Hara's communication method by making things unknown into a social, artistic and educational movement, a model approach of exploration, discovery and learning, uniquely adapted to the field of HRD, or, as Francis would rather see it, the development of resourcefulness in human beings. Francis Laleman was first a teacher of Sanskrit, the classical language of India, before he moved to social work, experimenting with non-conventional means of education among the destitute and the downtrodden – in urban slums, and on the paddy fields with landless farmers. Much of his educational philosophy and approach was shaped in grassroots communities, before he turned to applying his work in HRD environments, in companies and organizations, from the early 1990s onwards. For more than 40 years now, Francis has been a husband and a father, an educator, a teacher, a train-the-trainer, a workshop facilitator, a painter and a writer. When he isn’t traveling the world doing workshops and creative ateliers, you are most likely to find him in the lushness of an English garden – or perhaps in a Japanese monastery.

some thoughts on the development of resourcefulness in humans

resourceful exformation

Dieter Taillieu

Winand M. Callewaert

Excellent bibliographical work about Allama Muhammad Iqbal in the Arabic scripts (Urdu, Persian, Arabic and so on) has been published by the Iqbal Academy, Lahore. Our publication covers only what appeared in the Roman script: English, German, French, Dutch, Italian, Polish, Czech, Portuguese, Swedish, Finnish, Turkish, and Russian. Many books have some kind of bibliographical list, and we have tried to include all that material in the present publication. With the generous support of the Ministry of Education, Government of Pakistan, the Iqbal Foundation Europe at the KULeuven, Belgium, has endeavoured to combine meticulous and patient work in libraries with the most modern search on internet. The result is an impressive tribute to Iqbal and to the research about him: 2500 entries, the latest entry dated 1998 (A. Schimmel). Even if many superfluous or repetitive articles may have been published, a researcher should look at even small contributions: they may contain valuable information and rare insights. The databank we compiled at the university of Leuven is composed of material taken from published works and from the on-line services of the major university libraries. From this it appeared that hundreds of scholars and authors have contributed to the immense databank about Iqbal. The highest number of contributions is by Annemarie Schimmel, S.A. Vahid and B.A. Dar, followed by A. Bausani, K.A. Waheed, A.J. Arberry and so many others.

Francis Laleman

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