We’ve come to the end of another heady, productive and weary strategic planning session for the APC‘s 2008 – 20012 Action Plan. This was held alongside staff and management meetings, as well as the first meeting of APC’s new Executive Board (elected by APC Council, Nov 2007) .

What we have here is one of the many pieces of butcher’s paper used to visualise program activities… here looked at the role an incubation space would play in relation to each program area, including management systems.

I’m always struck by the commitment APC management and staff make to these processes… our schedule was jam packed from dawn to dusk and often well into each night. The Ithala Reserve is an impressive environment to be working from, to be inspired by and to explore… if there was one thing I would have wanted more of, is time for reflection… something we offer little time for, but which is surely necessary as we move through indeed one of the more complex and challenging times of human history.