peaceCENTER
Just as violence is a learned behavior, |
peaceCENTER
Just as violence is a learned behavior, |
2001 Skillshop Schedule March 30 & 31, April 1, 2001Prayer, Action & Community Involvement This skillshop explores and models the dynamic between prayer and action and community organizing. The peace CENTER has grown out of this effective paradigm and is on the leading edge of peace and justice work on an international scale for the 21st century. Sessions will be experiential and filled with replicable tools.
May 4-6, 2001 This skillshop explores interpersonal communication and mediation techniques, providing more effective ways to think about conflict. Participants will learn to view conflicts as creative possibilities, and through these different lenses and engage in its resolution. Reconciliation and transformation are key components of the learning experience. Specific areas to be explored: 1) interpersonal communication, 2) mediation skills 3) questioning techniques, 4) points of view, 5) internal environment, 5) individual change.
August 24-26, 2001 This skillshop explores the history of violence in America from the time of Columbus to the present day. Our legacy of violence critically impacts the direction of how we are going to frame the future.Opening new avenues and expanding awareness of our potential for peace can help us not to repeat history, but rather redirect our efforts toward a culture of nonviolence. Specific areas to be explored: 1) media contribution to violence, 2) the celebrity identification with violence, 3) language, the weapon of choice, 4) domestic/child abuse legislation, 5) racial/cultural differences.
October 19-21, 2001 This skillshop explores the possibilities available to peacemakers when their own passions are the focus of group interaction. Based on a simple model of group/community focus, individual declaration, open dialog, and freedom of choice, Open Space for Peacemakers develops the skill of valuing and honoring our own passions for making peace. Participants leave with a new model for group and organizational interaction and conference planning.
November 2-4, 2001 This skillshop explores the skills needed to engage in meaningful dialogue dealing with a variety of difficult topics. Example topics: 1) race / culture, 2) gang violence, 3) the death penalty, 4) homosexuality, 5) the criminal justice system, 6) water issues. A topic / Issue that has previously seemed like a destructive burden, can be reviewed, as people learn to see “old” problems through new eyes. The focus is not just on teaching new skills, but on new ways of thinking and analyzing, that make new skills necessary and useful. Participants will leave with their individualized plan of action to implement their safe space for dialogue in their own family, community, workplace, school, place of worship, etc. |
Skillshop Facilitators Rosalyn Falcon Collier: Wife, mother, grandmother and
retreat leader. M. Arts, Texas Tech University, St. Mary’s
University, Shalem Institute, Washington, DC. Educator,
mediator, member of the Academy of Family Mediators,
Co-Founder and Peacework Initiator of the peaceCENTER. Conducts transformative mediation training, coordinator of the Picture the Peaces and Peace is Possible events. PSA/COPRED Peace Educator of the Year 2000.
Laura Holck: Wife, mother, labyrinth engineer, life coach, systemic prophet, ordained Lutheran minister. M. Divinity, Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary. Susan Ives: Writer, webmaster, computer guru, reformed army public affairs officer. B.A, Drew University, Political Science. Kimble, Zetty and Brown: provide professional facilitation services designed to encourage and support the realization of our fullest human potential. For more information, see: http://awakening.net/OpenSpace.html  |
How to Register Skillshops will held at La Casa de Maria y Marta (602 Mission St.), a Mennonite Retreat Center in the heart of historic San Antonio specializing in urban service immersions. Meals and lodging are homey and communal.The compensation for the leadership and programmatic development of the skillshops is based on the concept of worthy wage. It will be up to you to determine the dollar value of the gifts of human resources at the conclusion of the skillshop, the worthy wage. Please make your Worthy Wage contribution to the peaceCENTER based on the value you received. The fixed costs of the weekend are meals and lodging ($50) and seed packet materials ($20). Commuters’ fixed costs are $40 (meals and materials.) $70 ($40 for commuters) reserves your space in the skillshop. $35 ($20 for commuters) will be refunded to you upon cancellation up to one week prior to the scheduled skillshop. To register, mail a check for $70 ($40 for commuters) to the peaceCENTER with your name, address, phone number and e-mail address. Please indicate the skillshop for which you are registering. Skillshops will begin with a light supper on Friday evening, 6:00 p.m. and conclude at 3:00 p.m. on Sunday. Bienvenidos! |
For further information contact: return to the peaceCENTER main page
peaceCENTER
P.O. Box 36, San Antonio, Texas 78291
(210) 224-HOPE or 224-4673 FAX (210) 222-1097
e-mail: moroneys@ix.netcom.com
Ann Helmke: Prayer, speaker, mother of two incredible daughters. M. Divinity, attended Lutheran Seminary
Program of the SW and the Gandhi
Institute for Nonviolence. Ordained Lutheran Minister, Co-Founder and Animating Director of the peaceCENTER. Co-ordinated the San Antonio Gang Peace Summit in ‘94, community-wide peace events in ‘95 & ‘96: Farewell to Violence and A New Generation of Peace. Recipient of the San Antonio Peacemaker of the Year 1995 and the San Antonio Imagineer of the Year 2000.