We are a group of educators from
Our
partnership consists on the basis of three years of experience working together
on peace education.
The group
consists of Jewish, Moslem and Christian teachers.
We believe
that religion and different culture can and should be a source of the solution
for conflicts that exist in the region and beyond.
Our work
consists on promoting peace, through interfaith dialogue and cross-cultural
Education & study between teachers and students.
Our will is
to enlarge our circle of educators with other participants from conflicted
countries.
If you
believe in our philosophy and you match the following criteria, we want to invite you to our next Dealing with conflict's Seminar.
Dealing with Conflicts seminar
The best
way to get people to understand their own behavior is often to take them out of
their habitual context and put them onto safe, neutral territory. Once away
from their familiar props, they can start to think anew.
This partnership
of peace educators took this approach to work on the conflicted situation and
reality they have in their home-country, bringing themselves together to learn
in aim to understand each other and themselves.
The last October we organized the first stage on
the Dealing with conflicts seminar.
The seminar took place in
Educators from
The programmed was varied, interspersing intense
debate with light relief.
The serious business was conducted through
role-play exercises, presentations by each national group to the others, and
discussions in the whole group and among each national group separately.
The success of the seminar was not only down to the
beautiful setting and the imaginative and carefully balanced program, which
left enough free time for the participants to get to know each other
personally.
Philosophy of the seminar.
Dealing
with conflict seminar is based on the story little prince.
The seminar
is being based on the experiences of experts, who base their work on bridging,
especially in the educational field.
During the
seminar, each individual and group take the place of the conflicted side and
alternately the mediator.
The bridge,
which every participant crosses, is composed of three stages.
During the
three stages, we use many kinds of techniques for self-therapy. These
techniques give us the right instruments for dealing with anger, frustration,
helplessness, and luck of faith and other feelings that paralyze our creativity
and ability of bringing our students and ourselves to a constructive process of
growing.
First stage:
Little
Prince observing through the holes of the box:
In this phase the participant will be asked to
go into a process of inner contemplation, in aim of distinguishing between his
personal conflicts, which are the same conflicts we deal within everyday of our
lives.
Second stage:
Little
prince speaks to the pilot:
In
this phase the participant will be asked to go into a process of drawing nearer
to his partner and understand his conflicts and dilemmas.
Third stage:
Little prince role between the worlds:
In this
phase the participant will be asked to go into a process of understanding other
nation's, society's and religion's conflicts.
In the end
of the seminar, each participant will be able to lead a team of
students/educators in his own country, which will work on peace education
during the next scholar year.
Basic principles and goals:
(1) Listen, learn and share ourselves and
knowledge.
(2) Leave
behind the propaganda we are all taught and we all hear.
(3) Enrich one each other by sharing information and experiences.
(4)
Sensitivity shares the painful things.
(5) Share
skills and experiences in how to build respect and friendship.
(6) Talk to
people as individuals and see them as individuals.
(7) Admit
we can be wrong
It is very important to highlight that
our work is based on love, faith, mutual respect, seriousness but also lots of
fun.