Connecting and fostering changemakers through Service Leadership for a strong and sustainable Southeast Asia

Our Mission

The Southeast Asian Service Leadership Network (SEALNet) is a non-profit organization that connects and fosters changemakers through service leadership for a strong and sustainable Southeast Asia.

SEALNet’s mission is to build and nurture a community of servant leaders who are committed to serve, equipped to lead, enterprising in action, and plugged into a network of like-hearted individuals. We strive to do this by delivering challenging and transformative programs that act as a medium for personal growth, social development, and intercultural connection.

Our Pillars

Central to the ethos of SEALNet is the belief that service and leadership go hand in hand. Extending across our entire network, this is the basis on which we carry out each and every one of our activities.

Service

The foremost motivation and goal for action, sparked from a genuine desire for social development and based on strong personal principle and ethics.

Leadership

The means to initiate action and create a change through a strong sense of direction, thorough understanding of team dynamics, responsibility, and resilience.

Our Core Values

Compassion

SEALNet encourages our participants to discover their heart to serve and pursue that calling with a genuine interest in others’ well-being, sympathy towards their hardships, and driven commitment to make a change for the better.

Growth

We seek to help each individual realize their own immense capacity and potential, kindle their hunger for learning, and develop in them an ardent desire to see others around them grow.

Connection

We bring people from different countries, cultures, and backgrounds together on the basis of their shared humanity, passion for social change and leadership orientation to create an interconnected network much stronger than the sum of its individuals.

Authenticity

SEALNet is a safe space where people can be sincere with themselves and with others, where they can find truth in their actions and ideologies, and where heartfelt, lifelong bonds are formed.

Our Motto

“Say yes before knowing how”

Each of our members defines the SEALNet spirit in their own vocabulary, but at the heart of its understanding is a compelling sense of humility and desire for growth.

It can oftentimes be intimidating to take on new opportunities or pursue aspirations out of uncertainty of one’s own ability. SEALNet strives to instill in our members an undefeatable spirit, intrepid ardor, willingness to seek help from others and grace in the face of failure, so that they may venture to challenge themselves and achieve the incredible. No matter the outcome, those who persist will learn from the experience and become a better person by Saying yes before knowing how.

The SEALNet Experience

Every summer, SEALNet brings together passionate youths from all corners of the globe to create a number of Service Leadership projects tackling specific social issues in Southeast Asia. Through these projects, participants gain practical leadership and organizational skills as they work hands-on to serve and to learn from the community.

SEALNet also organizes yearly Youth Leadership Summits, a platform to connect and grow the next generation of Servant Leaders with a focus on exploring the concept of Service Leadership.

To learn more, please visit Our Programmes or Joining SEALNet.

Our Model

The most fundamental nature of SEALNet’s existence is to serve as a network connecting Servant Leaders across borders, backgrounds and generations so that they may influence and learn from each other. SEALNet operates on a model of joint leadership and mentorship that acts to maintain the essence of this network and promote the emergent values of human connection. Learn more about how this works at Our Model.

Our Story

SEALNet was founded in 2004 as the Southeast Asian Leadership Network student group at Stanford University, with the aim to bring local and international Southeast Asian communities together to find ways that they could contribute to the region’s development. The students were mentored by working professionals from SALI – the Southeast Asian Leadership Initiative – a non-profit organization that shared their vision of a cohesive and vibrant Southeast Asia. In 2006, SALI and the SEALNet student group merged into one entity under the Southeast Asian Service Leadership Network name we now know today.

August 10th, 2019 marks 15 years since the idea for the organization was first conceived. Read our full journey so far at Our Story, or find out more about how we’re celebrating SEALNet’s 15th birthday.


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