Encompass Mission Statement

Our story

Encompass came about thanks to the inspirational work of the Braden Family and Jun Hirst – Dan’ girlfriend. Daniel Braden was amongst the 202 people killed in the terrorist atrocity on Bali on October 12th 2002. He was blown apart by people who saw him as a Westerner and therefore, the enemy.

Jun and the Bradens concluded that while one group of people is able to dehumanise the faith or the culture of another, events like the one that killed Dan would go on happening.

They wanted to show that such indiscriminate killings could be prevented by opening the minds of young people to the value and humanity of the other.

And so Encompass was formed.

What we do

At Encompass we bring together young people from Indonesia, America, Israel, the Palestinian Territories and the UK and send them on Journeys of Understanding – a name we give to the residential programmes that we run in conjunction with Outward Bound® in safe, neutral environments.

Together participants take part in challenging activities, which build trust between natural enemies, as well as people who have simply never met before. Whilst on the programme, our specialist staff help them to talk about their experiences of conflict, cultural identity and tolerance and to leave the programme as ambassadors for a more peaceful and tolerant future.

Staying Connected

The participants are Encompass’s most important assets and when they complete a Journey of Understanding the Encompass team is there to help them to share their experience with the many more people they meet in their daily lives.

Participants have run reunions, spoken at schools and youth groups and participated in all aspects of the work of Encmpass. By encouraging participants to stay involved, we hope to grow friendships around the world and encourage them to speak up for tolerance and peaceful co-existence.

Encompass Blog

We like to think we are pretty modern here in the Encompass office so we decided it was about time we let you know what we get up to from time to time.

You can blog with us and read about our adventures at the following address;

http://encompasstrust.blogspot.com

Look forward to seeing you there

Who We Are

  • Dan

Staff
  • Eric Appleby
  • Alison Criddle
  • Erika Moisl

UK Trustees

  • Alexander K Braden
  • Amanda M Braden
  • Claire R Braden
  • Peter Meekings
  • Angus MacKirdy

Encompass Middle East

  • Amit Lavi
  • Ashraf Ashkar

Encompass Indonesia

  • Heroe Soeprapto
  • Bina Yuanita

US Trustees

  • Nicholas Braden
  • Edward Acker
  • Alexander K Braden
  • Claire R Braden
  • Kevin Merrigan
  • Jun Hirst

Interns

UK Office

7 Gee’s Court
London
W1U 1JG
info@encompasstrust.org
Tel: 00 44 (0)20 7493 9739