Following a lecture on Maurice Island in December 2001 presented by UNESCO and the Mauritius Institute of Education (MIE), a local Association Vivre ses Valeurs has been created in La Reunion on the 5th of April 2002.

The 1st LVEP seminar took place in La Reunion from the 10th to 12th of May 2002. It was run by Mila Ramgoolam and Ms. Bindu Bauhadoor. Both were sent as delegates by the MIE. 22 participants attended: teachers, educators, psychologists, education counsellors, and parents.

The next meeting has been scheduled in La Reunion at the end of October 2002. There will be a two-day parenting program as well as a three-day educators? program.

Some other ideas have been shared:

to consolidate a local Indian Ocean network;

to create an interest and to train French speaking African countries in the next two years with an antenna on Values Education at UNESCO; and

to participate in the conference in Dakar in September.

Some of the benefits acquired and shared in the evaluation session follow.

• Optimism and learning conflict resolution.
  
• Listening, realizing, getting tools and methods, discovering one?s own values through experimentation, group synergy.
  
• To live one?s own values in order to be able to transmit them.
  
• To truly deepen the values that are the roots of humanity.

The group gathered together again and expressed their need to work on the age group Activities. The next session is scheduled in September.

Individual and collective commitments shared after the training:

Each one has individually decided to reflect, clarify, deepen and share their values in their day-to-day life and in their personal environment.

At a professional level, participants decided to adapt the exercises they had experimented with during the seminar to their classroom/school.

Participants highlighted the positive process and the tools and methods delivered by LVEP. They also appreciated working in groups and discovering and experimenting on their own in order to be able to transmit them. They had the feeling that they were deepening the group meeting.