Training | Practical Peace

Online training courses

My methodology is an engaging mix of different learning tools. This will be a stimulating and genuine interaction between practitioners in different parts of the world through real-time, interactive training by video-conference (Zoom) and interactive online tools.

You will learn through taking part in:

Facilitated reflection on real life professional experiences
Games and laughter!
Creative, art-based activities
Role-play and visualisations
Exploring case studies
Individual, pair and small group activities
Mini- projects and presentations
Practising new skills and tools and receiving encouragement and feedback from me and the rest of the group

It is a priority for me to create a supportive, warm and open atmosphere amongst participants. I will share with you what I know but you will also learn a great deal from each other.

Practical peace for me

Self-care and personal resilience

Practice mental and physical tools for nourishing your well-being in difficult circumstances. Build a do-able plan for making self-care a habit.

Interpersonal ease

*Running May 2022*

Learn simple tools based in non-violent communication that will enable you to treat yourself and others with more compassion.

Understanding where I am

Learn the basics of applied anthropology to enable you to live in another culture and work with people from many cultures with more ease and satisfaction from better undersanding their world-view.

Practical peace for my team

Ongoing team-building

Learn simple activities you can use on a regular basis with your team members to set up relationships of trust, mutual understanding, respect and cooperation, and to resolve small tensions smoothly so they don't get bigger and impact on team and project performance.

Overcoming conflict within a team or between teams

Learn and practice facilitating activities to use when staff members or teams are in conflict. These simple activities will enable you to support your team to overcome anger, build trust and cooperate better.

Basic psycho-social support for your staff team

*Running June 2022*

Learn simple art-based participatory activities for supporting the psycho-social well-being of your team. These tools are useful to use on an ongoing basis but may become even more important at moments of increased conflict and crisis.

Practical peace for working with community members

Storytelling as a tool for generating dialogue between people who are different

Learn simple tools you can integrate into project activities to enable constructive dialogue and empathy building between community members (e.g. men and women, children and adults, people of different group identities).

Mobilising local arts and culture to build social cohesion

Explore how to mobilise local traditions of song, dance, theatre and art as a means to engage with community members, enable attitude change and encourage social cohesion.

Using art and empathy to provide psycho-social support for community members

Explore and practice using a range of art-based techniques for enabling community members to express themselves and be heard by others. This approach creates a powerful healing space and is effective for any age and any level of literacy.