Thematic Training for peace and conflict work
Who can register for this training?
The 4-day thematic trainingis offered to practitioners of peace and conflict work, those who intend to work in the field, and those interested in the use of creative approaches to conflict transformation.
Content
The training aims at providing a space where participants can broaden their perspectives on conflict and tap into their own creativity, vulnerability, confidence, and power, to develop their capacities for creative modes of conflict transformation.
Objectives
- Explore examples of creative approaches, methods and tools to conflict transformation – for example theatre for living, embodiment, arts and sports approaches, Liberating Structures
- Explore inner resources, cultivate creative energies, and name cultural and colonial taboos and complexities that prevent us from accessing and implementing creative approaches.
- Identify how each one may engage daily self-care and collective care practices to encourage re-generating creativity.
- Explore, practice, and test the diverse approaches to peacebuilding work and develop ideas on how to apply creative approaches in the participant´s field of work
Key Topics
- Attunement: explore examples of creative approaches, methods and tools
- Identify creativity within; confront and release what contrains us
- Share and expand the circle:Apply the learning in self and in teams
Methodology
The training will use different interaction formats (expressive arts and embodiment, circle processes, games and exercises for de-mechanizingself and community, constructive rest, and connection to nature within and without)to open up individual and collective creativity. Throughout the week, participants will be invitedto explore, cultivate and practice their individual creative resources and co-create a short sessionto facilitate for the group. In the early part of the week, we will explore role models andexamples, but the primary focus will be cultivating our own creative resources.
Further information
This thematic training is part of our Full-time Course in Peace and Conflict Work. We have a few spots available for external participants.
Venue: Arbeitnehmer-Zentrum Königswinter (AZK), Johannes-Albers-Allee 3, Königswinter, Germany
How to register
Please register online via our website at https://www.forumzfd-akademie.de/en/course/creative-approaches-conflict-transformation. We will then contact you for the next steps. Please note that the number of available spaces per training is limited, and registrations are reviewed on a rolling basis. Early registration is highly encouraged.
Visa: Participants from outside the EU will need a visa to enter Germany. We can generally support the visa process with a formal invitation letter from our side. Be advised that it takes a significant amount of time to get the visa processed, so be sure to start the process at the latest 6 weeks before the training start. Please make sure you are eligible and check the specific requirements and usual timeline for processing with your local German embassy. The responsibility for obtaining the visa lies with each of the participants themselves.
If you will need a visa to enter Germany, please send the contact persons (below) a notice through e-mail and attach a scanned copy of your passport - we need this in case we would support you with an invitation letter.
In case of questions or concerns, please contact our team at akademie@forumZFD.de