Integrative Learning International, Inc. is an international training and consulting firm with 22 years of cutting edge and transformational experience in alternative learning strategies in Asia and North America. Using a comprehensive and contemporary learning system that is holistic and results oriented, IL is committed to providing both the means and the end to an organization's performance enhancement requirements.

The term "integrative learning" was coined by Mr. Jerry Perez de Tagle, the founding President of IL International Incorporated. This refers to a learner focused and ‘genius-activating’ methodology that creates measurable and transformational results with individuals and organizations and is now being used in 200 colleges and universities in the US as advocated by Carnegie Foundation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrative_learning. It was pioneered in Syracuse University, New York in 1986 and gave birth to IL International a year later. It was then brought to Asia and further refined here.

IL International’s approach will utilize high performing team principles and approaches in the training. We will be able to do this with much confidence since the members of the IL Training Team are advocates and active practitioners of these approaches in their various involvements both in the private and public sectors. The approach will be characterized by powerful learning tools and frameworks such as:.

• Integrative Learning An instructional design and delivery approach that will have participants fully engaged in practical and breakthrough learning that sticks. This is a holistic approach of engaging the body, mind, heart, and the spirit of participants.
  
• Transformational Model: See-Be-Do-Have Participants are led to discover possibilities (See), establish the will and find the way to go beyond their limits (Be), learn and practice the necessary skills (Do), until they achieve their intended results (Have). This means that participants will gain the ability to adapt to changing environments, embrace paradigm shifts, create radical breakthroughs in productivity and at the same time achieve fun and fulfilment in the workplace.
  

Philippines' Expats Help Economy Beat Expectations
by:JAMES HOOKWAY

The Philippines' economy grew faster last year than many analysts expected, in a stark exception to global trends, as strong remittance flows from about eight million Filipino expatriates helped prop up consumer spending and the broader economy.

The country's gross domestic product grew by 4.6% in 2008, the Philippines' National Statistical Coordination Board announced Thursday. That's less than its 7.2% growth in 2007, but more than the 4% many economists predicted. In the fourth quarter, GDP grew 1% from the third quarter, avoiding the contractions afflicting some other Asian economies.