Gentle Teaching has had fruitful outcomes because we have honored and respected each place and its particular culture. Gentle Teaching International and its web page has been a strong instrument in sharing a general direction across the world and our many projects from Japan to Belgium, Holland to Puerto Rico, Portugal to Canada, and on and on. We do not want any external control anywhere; yet, it would be helpful if each culture were to to report and share its uniqueness and how each culture operationalizes its movement on helping strangers and enemies, the poor and forgotten, and the disabled and enabled. This is not to control. It is not to place any one nation over another. Its intent and purpose would be to share.

Gentle Teaching International is a simple way of bringing us together and disseminating and sharing information. This needs to be strengthened and broadened. We must set a strong example through on-going dialog that requires respect and patience. We should encourage national and local Gentle Teaching movements with similar direction-setting, never implying that one way is better than the other. I would encourage each local or national entity to develop an information sharing approach and also utilize GTI as a way to help set up a web page at no cost and as an international information gathering point.