ACTIVE PEACEBUILDING TRAINING PROGRAM

2010 - 2011

Don’t just read the news –

make the news!

Learn how to be an effective social activist and help to shape the future!

What do YOU want to see change?

A CULTURE OF PEACE?

ACTION FOR GREEN ENERGY?

HOUSING FOR ALL?

Get the bigger picture.

Hot organizing tips!

YOU WILL LEARN:

• How to work with others more effectively, through improved communication
• How to develop a nonviolent action campaign
• Skills for speaking out, engaging allies, and using new technologies
• Apply YOUR creativity to making change happen.

‘Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. Indeed it's the only thing that ever has’

            -Margaret Mead:

COMMUNICATION

IN ACTION

Developing effective strategies for interpersonal and group communication

   Exploring your style

   Active listening

   Raising concerns

   Resolving conflicts

   Facilitating group meetings

TRAINER: Lyn Adamson

Fall Series:  Thursdays

Oct 21 – Nov 25 6:30 – 9:30

NONVIOLENCE IN ACTION

Finding our inspiration in the strength and Successes of Applied Nonviolence

Spirit of nonviolence in our     lives

   Challenges to nonviolence

   Tools for nonviolent action

   Power of nonviolence:

    success stories

   Strategies for campaign    building – case studies

TRAINER: Lyn Adamson

Fall Series:

Mondays/Wednesdays

October 4 – Nov 1

(no class Oct. 11, Oct 18)

Winter Series:

Thursdays 6:30-9:30pm

January 21 – February 25

Location of Training:

Friends House, 60 Lowther Ave.

2 bl. n of Bloor (1 bl east of St. George)

St. George TTC (Bedford exit)

ACTIVISM IN ACTION

Developing the practical skills for effective activism

   Self care

   Human rights framework

   Using the media

   Gaining support for your     cause

   Speaking and writing

   Using technology

TRAINERS: Lyn Adamson, Angela Bischoff, and guests

Winter 2011

Thursdays 6:30-9:30pm

Series One:

March 17 – April 22

Series Two: April 29 – June 2

Limit of 12 participants per workshop

MAKE YOUR VOICE COUNT!  REGISTER TODAY!

For more info contact

Lyn Adamson

416-731-6605/416-596-7328

OR peaceworks@primus.ca

www.web.net/~tmm/

FEES:

$180 per six session series

$160 EARLY REGISTRATION

(10 days in advance)

A $25 deposit will save your spot (If cost is a barrier please inquire about a subsidy)

REGISTER BY MAIL:

Make deposit cheque payable to “Toronto Monthly Meeting” (memo: peaceworks)

 60 Lowther Ave. Toronto M5R 1C7

RESOURCE LIBRARY

Books and videos will be available for loan to workshop participants,

HAVE WORKSHOPS WILL

TRAVEL

We will design workshops in nonviolence, communication and conflict resolution for your community or organization. Contact Lyn Adamson at peaceworks@primus.ca

COORDINATOR

Lyn Adamson, Coordinator of Peaceworks, is an experienced trainer in conflict resolution and peace-building. Lyn has co-organized many non-profit and cooperative initiatives, and is active for the causes of peace, ecology, and human rights. Lyn is a Quaker, a mother of two, and an avid cyclist.  She is a member of the board of Greenspiration, Voice of Women for Peace, the Department of Peace Initiative and Nonviolent Peaceforce Canada.

Your support is welcome

 

Donations  in support of the PeaceWorks program

may be sent to:

TORONTO MONTHLY MEETING

60 LOWTHER AVE

TORONT0

M5R 1C7

earmarked  for Peace Works or

Released Friend Lyn Adamson

Your donation will help to support program development and fund subsidized spaces.

WHY IS FRIENDS HOUSE

HOSTING THIS TRAINING?

For more than 350 years Quakers (Friends) have opposed war. “We utterly deny all outward wars and strife and fightings with outward weapons, for any end, or under any pretence whatsoever” (Peace Testimony, 1660)

Friends believe that more can be

accomplished by appealing to the capacity for love and goodness in ourselves and in others, than can be accomplished by threats of punishment or by retaliation.

We must turn instead to nonviolent strategies to influence those with whom we are in conflict.

SPECIAL EVENTS

Will take place to mark the following:

September 21, International Day of Peace

October 2nd    Gandhi’s Birthday,

December 10

International Human Rights Day

January 15     

Martin Luther King Day

March 8          

International Women’s Day

May 8 Mother’s Day for Peace

May 24 International Women’s Disarmament Day

For information on upcoming events and actions subscribe to Peace Corner News, an e-bulletin, at peaceworks@primus.ca

PARTNER ORGANIZATIONS

Canadian Voice of Women

For Peace, Greenspiration and

Nonviolent Peaceforce Canada

(Vowpeace.org, greenspiration.org

npcanada.org)

    PeaceWorks

ACTIVE PEACEBUILDING

TRAINING SERIES

September 2010

to April 2011

COMMUNICATION

NONVIOLENCE 

SKILLS FOR SOCIAL CHANGE

‘Peace is not merely a distant       goal that we seek but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

 Martin Luther King