(prices differ slightly.)
More about CCP from its founder, Janet Chisholm:
Creating a Culture of Peace – Nonviolence Training for Personal and Social Change (CCP) is a program committed to the spirituality and practice of active nonviolence. It is intergenerational and community-based, with facilitators located across the country and available to local groups. During training, two facilitators help participants address fears which keep them from taking risks to make changes they desire in their daily lives and in the culture. Individuals gain self confidence, understanding and skills to actively and creatively address conflict, violence and injustice.
CCP facilitators guide participants through an exploration of five themes: Violence, Active Nonviolence, Successful Nonviolent Social Movements, Community-Building, and Action-Planning. Every group plans nonviolent projects. The optimum training allows for twenty contact hours, usually over a three-day weekend. It is designed as retreat with spiritual dimensions, although it does not reflect a particular faith tradition.
CCP training is highly participatory. In order to respect and draw upon the wisdom, knowledge, experience and stories of participants, CCP facilitators use a popular education approach to learning made famous by the Highlander School of Tennessee, which trained labor and civil rights leaders, and by Paulo Freire in Latin America. They also utilize a variety of media to be responsive to different learning styles: meditation and journaling, small group sharing and planning, brainstorming, role plays, exercises, presentations, video, drawing, movement and music. CCP emphasizes the importance of tapping our diverse spiritual resources, of working in community, and of living into a cycle of action-reflection-action-reflection.
National and regional organizations have adopted and promoted CCP: The Episcopal Peace Fellowship, Methodist Federation for Social Action, Veterans for Peace, Texas Conference of Churches, and Baltimore Presbytery. CCP is 4 ½ years old, and in that time has traveled to 38 states and offered training of trainers for 350 individuals. Today, CCP is based at Kirkridge. For more information and to arrange training, contact Janet Chisholm, program coordinator, who can provide consultation on budgeting and organizing and can provide a team of two facilitators.
*Creating a Culture of Peace (CCP) was established by Janet Chisholm,janetc@kirkridge.org 610-599-4606 formerly at FOR and now Peace Program Coordinator at Kirkridge Retreat and Conference Center .
The initial inspiration for the program came from the work of Pace e Bene.******************************************************************************
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