Peacemaker Workshops

Exploring peace and conflict and building skills to deal with conflict

Peacemaker Course

Engaging and interactive workshops that take people deeply into a broad and stimulating exploration of conflict and peace. Develop skills for nurturing personal peace, developing peaceful relationships and building peaceful communities.

This exploration leads to greater group cohesion and social and emotional intelligence and the development of particular skills such as conflict resolution, dealing with difficult discussions and learning how to make change happen peacefully.

Groups can choose to focus on particular areas and skill development. So for example you may be a community group or work team wanting a half day on exploring how conflict happens and strategies for dealing with it, or a parenting group wanting to look at managing difficult emotions and discussions, or you may be a youth group wanting to look at all these areas and build skills for life: at home, at work and in the community.

Personal Peace Includes

Identity
Self esteem
Recognising and managing difficult emotions
Anger Management
Strategies for self calming

Peaceful Relationships

Building healthy relationships
Understanding how conflict grows and escalates
Strategies for conflict resolution
Active listening skills

Peaceful Communities

How to handle difficult discussions
How to deal with conflict as a community
How to make change happen

Restorative Approaches

Help resolving conflicts in groups using restorative approach, a peaceful approach to conflict that seeks to address everyone’s needs by offering processes that encourage dialogue, reparation and healing.

Conflicts are inevitable. Sometimes we need help resolving them and building the relationships that have been affected by the conflict. We can offer a restorative approach to help communities repair the relationships and harm that can be caused by conflict.

Accredited by the Restorative Justice Council, our practitioners can work with you to address conflicts thet are affecting the group.

Restorative Approach offers:

An opportunity to tell your story
A chance to explain how you have been impacted
A safe, caring and respectful place to share your story
Involvement and support through a problem-solving approach
Conflict resolution and a chance to repair relationships
A better understanding of the incident and its impacts
An opportunity to take responsibility for one’s actions
Meaningful outcomes and an opportunity for closure

Positive Women Positive Peace

A course for women seeking peace within themselves, in their relationships and in their community

This course is designed for groups of women who may be experiencing challenges in their lives, and want to find ways of developing the knowledge and skills of peace in a supportive group setting. The course aims to build skills and confidence; improve health and wellbeing; build social networks. Courses funded by the Heart of England Tampon Tax have been run at Anawim, a hub for women in Balsall Heath, Birmingham, and have been well received.

The courses are 12 weeks long [2 hours per week] and shorter courses can be offered. The sessions are conducted in a circle and are structured to allow opportunities to get to know each other, to actively listen to one another, to learn new skills and to affirm one another.

The sessions include exploration of:

Peace
Anger
Needs
Feelings
Conflict
Shame
Violence
Making change happen

Being part of a group has been very special and rewarding. It has made me have the confidence to speak out and say what’s on my mind. I feel so much more positive in myself and about the universe.
Course Participant

I was thrilled when Jackie and Helen asked me to be a facilitator for the group after completing the first course. They not only taught me leadership, they discussed many topics after the group.
Course Participant

When I first came to the Positive Women, Positive Peace course, Jackie and Helen made me feel so welcome that all my nerves dissipated. I instantly felt things were going to change within me for the better.
Course Participant

I just can’t believe how much it’s impacted on how I deal with things now and I feel like I deal with things a lot better than I used to.
Course Participant

After completing the course, I felt a change in me and no longer felt as much anger as I used to.
Course participant

I especially liked learning about negative and positive peace, and seeing the bigger picture. How the system really affects everyone.
Course Participant

I’ve just felt at home here and, do you know what, it’s the only course I’ve loved waking up to.
Course Participant

The way that you’ve structured the sessions has been kind and relaxed but also informative. I feel that I’ve learnt a lot. It’s been intense at times but obviously it’s challenging our belief systems.
Course Participant

Positive Women, Positive Peace has totally changed my view. I no longer find any violence acceptable and have a 0 tolerance level to it.
Course Participant

What's involved?

Peacemakers in the Community

This is a typical pathway a group might take…

A group gets in touch

You might be experiencing conflict within your group and want a safe way to understand and talk about what’s going on.Or, you might think that ways to talk about peace (and conflict) might be interesting and beneficial to your group.

We have a chat

We’ll come to you and find out more about you and what you’d like…probably over a cup of tea.We’ll talk through areas of focus such as Personal Peace, Peaceful relationships and Peaceful Communities.