Haha - one of my biggest learning curves so far has been to learn all the new acronyms. I now have sympathy for newbies coming into medical-speak.
Anyway, the GBPF (Global Breastfeeding Partners Forum) was an exciting 3 days of presentations and workshops. It was like no conference I've ever attended before - this 'conference' had different goals. Most conferences are just to impart knowledge, whereas the Forum had plenary sessions addressing certain themes (sharing knowledge), followed by targeted workshops for the audience to discuss how the knowledge could be applied or disseminated. What was very interesting though was the participants came from 36 countries, so the perspectives were often illuminating to my limited world experience. Note takers were assigned to each session to record the comments ... you'll see why soon.
It wasn't ALL work and no play. There were some wonderful dance and mime presentations ... and the WABA Secretariat did the WABA Crawl - I hope someone has put it up on Youtube... it was fun.
After the GBPF was a day of the GBPM (Global Breastfeeding Partners Meeting). Now of course you'll all know that WABA has 5 Core Partners (LLLI, IBFAN, ABM, Wellstart and of course ILCA). This meeting was for them and the Regional Representatives. Apart from the usual reporting stuff, the ideas and actions from the previous workshops was presented and these were then categorised and prioritised according to importance and ability to achieve given the resources at hand.
It was a very interesting process for me, and one that I feel was very effective.
After this was a day off!! My feet felt wonderful after the reflexologist had done his thing and the masseuse, who does traditional Malay massage, gave me strict instructions on how to stop the tension and knots she had such trouble getting rid of in my neck and shoulders (basically, keep away from computers!! if only!)
Got to finish for today, but will add more tomorrow .. and some pics.
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