Facilitation Skills Workshop
In these workshop will focus on practicing basic facilitation skills using interventions when disruption is happening in a meeting.
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Who should attend this workshop?
Organizers, activists, community leaders, teachers, and anyone who wants to practice their meeting interventions skills.
Date: Thursday, June 19
Time: 6p.m. – 8p.m. Please, be on time.
Location: 450 Mulberry St. Memphis TN 38103, Links Education Center – National Civil Rights Museum. Wheelchair accessible.
Cost: $20-$45 Sliding scale. Limited to the first 12 people who register.
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Registration online or by phone is required to attend.
Some scholarships may be available.
Donations for workshop scholarships gratefully accepted!
For more information call 901-725-4990,
email to gio@midsouthpeace.org
In this training we will focus on practicing the basic skills for nonviolent peacemaking and violence de-escalation; and experience the transforming power of nonviolence for oneself and society.
Light breakfast and vegetarian lunch provided!
Major components of this Basic Training: Stories of empowerment, from one-on-one conflict situations to small and large peace teams, in domestic situations (such as dealing with neighborhood gangs, hate groups, etc.) and international sites (West Bank, US/Mexico border, etc.);
- The theoretical and spiritual (the interconnectedness of all beings and the earth) basis of nonviolence;
- Understanding the roots of violence;
- Theory and practice of communication skills: Active Listening, “I” messages; and the CLARA technique
- Theory and practice of consensus decision making;
- Theory of public witnessing and direct action;
- Mechanisms for social change;
- Cultural and racial sensitivity;
- Skills for deescalating potentially-violent situations.
Who should attend this Nonviolence Skills Training?
Organizers, activists, community leaders and anyone who is open to learning about the power & efficacy of nonviolence. Limited for the first 30 people who register.
Where: 450 Mulberry St. Memphis TN 38103. Links Education Center, National Civil Rights Museum. Wheelchair accessible.
When: Saturday, June 28, 9am – 5pm
Light breakfast and vegetarian lunch provided!
****** No partial attendance allowed******
Cost: FREE
All participants should plan to make the entire scheduled training session so that we successfully build continuity and community. In other words, please arrive on time and plan on staying for the full training.
To register please call 901-725-4990, or email to gio@midsouthpeace.org
Training provided by the Meta Peace Team • Brought to you by Mid-South Peace and Justice Center.
G.O.T. Power, a Mid-South Peace and Justice Center’s training program, is committed to building our community’s capacity through building skills in grassroots organizing, providing support to people doing community work and offering anti-oppression and liberation education.