Akoda and the Pluralistic Spiritual Centre of Neve Shalom Wahat al-Salam announce a weekend workshop: "Conflict transformation and peace-building"

with

Paula Green and Olivia Stokes Dreier

July 29-30, Neve Shalom Wahat al-Salam

This one and a half day workshop focuses on the interrelationship between inner and outer conflict transformation. We will explore participants deepest motivations for continuing to act for peace and social change despite seemingly intractable obstacles, and develop ways to manage the difficult feelings that arise.

The following themes will be covered: Friday afternoon: Acknowledging our grief, despair, burnout, and pain for our world.

Saturday morning: Tools for addressing inner and outer conflicts. Suturday afternoon: Restoring our strength and vitality; imaging our power.

Paula Green, Ed.D., Founder and Director of the Karuna Center for Peacebuilding, has extensive international experience in peace-building and conflict transformation, as an international consultant, facilitator and lecturer. She worked with many groups of Israelis and Palestinians from 1995-2000 in dialogue and training, both mono and bi-communal. As a psychologist, educator and consultant, Dr. Green brings to her work a synthesis of personal change, social responsibility and spiritual awareness. Dr. Green is also professor of Conflict Transformation at the School for International Training (SIT) in Brattleboro, Vermont, where she co-directs the Conflict Transformation Across Cultures - CONTACT program, a summer institute and graduate certificate program designed to strengthen and support the community-building, coexistence and conflict intervention efforts of peacebuilders from the United States and around the world. In addition to authoring numerous articles published internationally, Dr. Green co-edited the textbook, Psychology and Social Responsibility: Facing Global Challenges. She has been an active board member of several international peace organizations, including the International Fellowship of Reconciliation.

Olivia Stokes Dreier, M.P.A., M.S.W., Associate Director of the Karuna Center, has facilitated intercommunal dialogues and peace-building seminars in Bosnia, Macedonia, the Republic of Georgia, Rwanda, and Sri Lanka. She is the Director of the Graduate Certificate Program in Conflict Transformation at the School for International Training (SIT) in Brattleboro, Vermont. A clinical social worker with many years of experience in community mental health, Ms. Dreier also worked for two years with the Gandhian movement in rural India.

Workshop begins on Friday afternoon and ends on Saturday evening.

Workshop will be conducted in English.

Participation fees for partial coverage of costs: NIS 150 per person, not including accommodation and meals. According to the request of several activists, we have reduced the price to NIS 150. However, in order to stay within budget, we will need at least 30 paying participants. Please help us to publicize the workshop. Each participant is requested to bring a vegetarian dish for Friday potluck dinner and Saturday lunch. In addition, please bring snacks for refreshment breaks. Regarding accommodation in NSWAS, please contact Dorit only after July 17. Meanwhile, you can register with Ilan Luttenberg.

For further details and registration please contact:

Ilan Luttenberg, Tel: 052-2742134 ilan_lut -at- netvision.net.il Or Dorit Shippin, Tel: 02-9917432, 050-8505133 dorit -at- nswas.org (Between July 7-17 please register with Ilan.)