Supporting action - facilitating connection
thought on a thread met Clowns Without Borders
Thought on a thread met Clowns Without Borders in August 2006 in Ixopo, South Africa and instantly became friends!
From left to right – Liz, Alice and Jamie
From Trish’s journal – August and September 2006
‘I’ve now met the clowns. They would arrive each lunch time pale and exhausted (even under their clown make-up) having run yet another show at one of the local schools. We overlap in the afternoons when they run a workshop for the OVCs (Orphans and vulnerable children) at Woza Moya. I really appreciate and am impressed what they are doing’.
‘I spent time with the clowns after supper tonight telling them about thought on a thread. I was amazed to discover that Jamie and Liz are students at Spirit Rock are taught by Jack Kornfield! I told them about the core exercises that go with the threads and they immediately asked if they could use them with the children at the end of their workshops’
Since then Clowns without Borders have given out many hundreds of threads to children at workshops in South Africa and Lesotho – and now on their fundraising events in America, Canada and Europe. Next year mindfulness will form a central part of the way they plan to work with the children.
Jamie McLaren Lachman
Project Njabulo Director
Clowns Without Borders
www.clownswithoutborders.org
jamie@clownswithoutborders.org
US: +1 415 328 4578
South Africa: +27 76 384 9478
