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Geneva, Switzerland
mohamedfamily@bluewin.ch
Margaret is an experienced trainer now living in Geneva. She is from New Zealand, where she worked for the Asthma Society, the Human Rights Commission, the Ministry of Women's Affairs and Ministry of Health as a Policy Analyst. She has an MA and is the mother of two daughters aged 22 and 18. Her husband now works for UNEP in Geneva.
She bought The Virtues Guide in a book store in Canada in 1992 and because it made a difference in her own family she wanted to share it with others. She distributed The Virtues Guide for several years. In November 1994 Linda Kavelin Popov and Dr. Dan Popov came to New Zealand and ran the first training which Margaret organised and attended.
A group of people from that first training set up The Virtues Project Charitable Trust of NZ in 1995 . The Trust has organised the subsequent visits of the Popovs and promoted The Virtues Project widely. Margaret went on to run workshops in NZ and integrated the strategies into her other work. In a recent 5 year contract for Ministry of Foreign Affairs on women and development in Kiribati, The Virtues Project was used as a method for the reduction of domestic violence.
Margaret now works for an NGO in Geneva and began the first series of Virtues Project trainings in Europe from early 2002. She and Sue Ferguson have begun to work with virtues enthusiasts throughout Europe. She has done presentations and workshops on The Virtues Project to a number of audiences in NZ, India, Kiribati, London, Abingdon , Norwich, Holland and Geneva. Participants enjoy her humour, enthusiasm and her love of popular music.
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