The fine line between confidence and closed-mindedness
August 27, 2024
Anniversary of global adoption of UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: No backtracking on solemn commitments to human rights and reconciliation
September 13, 2024
In the face of major conflicts and challenges that polarize us, research reveals something surprising: you have more power thank you think.
Discover your power and the unexpected ways you can use it. Learn how to transform destructive conflicts.
What is effective in transforming bitter conflicts? How can you talk to someone who believes strange or disturbing things? What about power imbalances? These issues and so much more will be covered in simple and practical ways.
You’ll be joining people from around the world for a free online workshop series to hone your listening, communication, and creativity. Together let’s build up our peace skills!
What’s involved in these free online trainings?
Each week you’ll do a short reading from the award-winning book Are We Done Fighting? Building Understanding in a World of Hate and Division. Then you’ll get on a Zoom call to do activities and learn together with your facilitators and other participants in your group.
A lot of common sense approaches to building understanding across divides—disagreements at work, in families, across political lines—don’t work. That can leave you feeling discouraged and powerless.
This book, full of carefully collected stories and practical tips about what does work, is here to help you!
How often do these conflict transformation workshops run?
The workshop series has run 19 times with around 300 people taking part. It’s offered based on demand. As soon as enough people are registered for one of the two time slots, the series gets scheduled to start.
Add your name to the waitlist now.
Leading figures in peacebuilding and human rights promotion are calling this book “a joy,” “exceptionally valuable and timely,” “a much needed antidote against the risk of depression and despair,” and “enabling, practical, and clear-minded.”
Who can join?
The book and the workshop series are designed for a general audience. They’re relevant and open to everyone and you are not expected to be a Quaker or be interested in Quakerism or religion to attend.
As long as you’re serious about improving your communication skills and getting more comfortable transforming conflicts, these sessions are for you!
The sessions require your active participation. Each session is 90 minutes long and each week builds on the previous week, so you’re expected to participate in the full series.
Put your peace skills into action
Drawing from the book, this free workshop series will help you develop skills that you can use in all aspects of your life.
“The book and the course itself was FAR MORE than I had anticipated. The facilitators were knowledgeable, sensitive, and supportive. I am sad it is over…. It was so wonderful.”—workshop participant (from anonymous feedback survey)
“I thought it would be a more intellectual exercise, which I was open to. Instead it turned out to be a more emotional, deeper experience than that.”—workshop participant (from anonymous feedback survey)
The results are in—people find these workshops deeply practical.
Feedback on our anonymous surveys is clear: people enjoy and recommend this series. Workshop participants tell us all sorts of stories of how they’re benefitting from the skills they sharpened. They feel empowered to transform conflicts and build understanding.
“The sessions were such an important motivator for me, and confidence building.”—workshop participant (from anonymous feedback survey)
“I really felt a sense of connection and care for each other in the group.”—workshop participant (from anonymous feedback survey)
“Get ready to think in new ways with respect to conflict.”—workshop participant (from anonymous feedback survey)
“My attitudes changed. Be open to that happening to you.”—workshop participant (from anonymous feedback survey)
Get a free chapter of the book
Still unsure if this is right for you? Have a look at the chapter we read together in week four. It discusses how complicated it is to know what to believe, and how beliefs contribute to conflicts. Download the chapter for free. Feel free to get in touch with any questions.
Register
Simply fill in the form below to express interest in joining the next time the series is offered. We’ll be in touch as soon as enough people are signed up and the series is scheduled to begin.
If the form below isn’t working for you, or if you have any questions or ideas to discuss, please contact us.
Get your copy of Are We Done Fighting? available in paperback, ebook, and audiobook.