Creative Approaches to Conflict Transformation

Thematic Training for peace and conflict work

Creative Methods in Peacebuilding
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Information about the seminar

Trainer
Time frame
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Seminar type
In-Person Seminar
Seminar language
English
Early bird price
576.00€
Price
640.00€

   Registration Deadline

     25 February 2023

     Early Bird: When registering before 1 January 2023.

Who can register for this training?

The 4-day thematic training is 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.

Please be aware, that all costs for this training have to be paid by the participant (or their employer), including participation fees, costs for visa, travel expenses and accomodation. The Academy for Conflict Transformation is not able to grant scholarships or any other financial support.
 
Please make sure to clearly express your motivation and expectations for the training. Also, please share your experiences relevant to the topic. Otherwise your registration will not be processed.

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-mechanizing self and community, constructive rest, and connection to nature within and without) to open up individual and collective creativity. Throughout the week, participants will be invited to explore, cultivate and practice their individual creative resources and co-create a short session to facilitate for the group. In the early part of the week, we will explore role models and examples, but the primary focus will be cultivating our own creative resources.

  Further information

  Venue: Arbeitnehmer-Zentrum Königswinter (AZK), Johannes-Albers-Allee 3, Königswinter, Germany

  Price includes materials, lunch and coffee/tea

  Additional Costs: Costs for accommodation, additional meals and travel have to be additionally covered by the participants.

  This thematic training is part of our Full-time Course in Peace and Conflict Work. We have a few spots available for external participants.

Registration

Please register for this thematic training online via our website by 25 February 2023. 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 email and attach a scanned copy of your passport - we need this in case we would support you with an invitation letter.