Congregations & Admissions Ceremonies - some BIG pictures

The whole commonwealth of IMCA comes together each year, somewhere around the globe, in full professional and academic dress and regalia, to honour the year’s action learning successes by its Associates and to welcome new Faculty Members. A host of special accolades for Outstanding Graduates of the Year have also been donated.

Congregations began in the gardens of Hill House in 1983 and moved on over the years to the home of the Duke of Bedford at Woburn Abbey, to an old palace of King Henry VIII at Weybridge, to Queensland’s Gold Coast, to Vila in Vanuatu, to Rotterdam Amsterdam Buckingham and Toronto, to Windsor Castle’s grounds at Anugraha thrice, to the gardens of Wintoun House near Edinburgh, to The Queen Elizabeth Conference Centre in Westminster twice, Kuala Lumpur twice, to the Examination Halls of Oxford University, twice to Helsinki … and with Cape Town and Cambridge scheduled for 2004 and 2005.

When a considerable number of graduates simply cannot make the Congregation or in the emerging number of Corporate Universities with whom IMCA now works, a local Admissions Ceremony is offered such as seen here for Singapore, Hong Kong and Macau. But the major Congregation remains the Mecca for all who possible can be there. It is a magnificent an colourful celebration of action learning, and of IMCA. Over the past two decades an estimated £4 million has been invested by graduates and their families to be at ‘their’ IMCA Congregation as they fly across the globe to share and compare what has been accomplished. Graduates from more than 70 nations, programmes delivered in 46 countries, more than 50 000 managers who have shared with IMCA the benefits of action learning to develop their professionalism and their careers.

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