Category: Training


No-More-War Seminar calls for you

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September 20, 2011

Hey there,

the application form for the new seminar in November is finally finished and you can download the Call for participants and the application form by clicking on your preferred format (pdf, odt, doc).

You can find the details of the seminar in this post as well:

Forget fists, forge voices – the power of nonviolence

The No-More-War team warmly invites you to our second topic based seminar:
“Forget fists, forge voices – the power of nonviolence” from the 12th to 18th of November 2011 in Helmarshausen, Germany, financially supported by the Youth in Action programme of the European Union. View full article »

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Lead Peace – done

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May 10, 2011

The ‘Lead Peace’ – seminar in Stockholm over Easter was very refreshing and interesting. For those of you who would have liked to go but were not able to (there were lots at least three times more applications than places), here a short report about topics and some pictures:

First a short summary again of the cycle creating the four steps in practicing nonviolent communication – which was shortly introduced in the seminar again and practiced during the whole training:

1. Observation

Concentrate on specific behaviours instead of inferring what others intend. Be as specific as possible and only relate to what you observed oposed to judgements and evaluations. Judgements and evaluations can easily block your empathy and the empathy of others (instead it is more likely they will hear criticism) if not handled with care and awareness. View full article »

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NMW Camp-Coordinator Seminar – few places availlable

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April 17, 2011

While having participants from Algeria, Sri Lanka, Serbia, Italy, Austria, Germany, Ukraine, Great Britain and Croatia – we still have a few places left for our second round of participants selection (due at the start of May) – so if you are interested and have not had the time to apply yet – find the details here: http://www.no-more-war.net/2011/03/04/seminar-for-no-more-war/

If you have need for Visa and thus need an answer as soon as possible – please get in contact with John Myers from SCI Germany as soon as possible, as time is short for those buereaucratic processes.

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Seminar for no-more-war

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March 4, 2011

Hi all,

the call for participants is finally ready for the May-seminar about camp coordination with specific focus on no-more-war study parts and networking.

You can download the call for participants with all the important informations to know about the seminar by clicking on the following link:

NMW-Coordinator and Networking Call for Participants.

If after reading that you want to apply for the training, the application forms can be downloaded as

openDocument odt (free standard for exchangable documents, used e.g. by LibreOffice and OpenOffice)

and

Microsoft Document doc (used by Microsoft Office).

See the call for participants, how to best apply and how we will proceed selecting participants :)

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Cultural violence – one of its many faces

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January 18, 2011

Okay, one short post – next week finally comes a longer one again – then on the wonderful topic of moral courage :)

For now, I want you to concentrate on faces – at least shortly – maybe your own but can be someone elses – now, do you think that something would look better if something was different? No, yes, maybe?

A lot of people would say yes. One reason for that – you guessed correctly, cultural violence – the ever visible pictures of people we label beautiful change our perception of ourselfs and others as well. There is a whole industry around that topic, from software for beautifying faces to completely rebuilding human anatomy from scratch (okay, missing some parts here and there)… View full article »

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‘Lead peace’ seminar over Easter in Stockholm

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January 8, 2011

The SCI branch in Sweden has organized again a wonderful seminar dealing with nonviolent communication – this year with a special focus on group leading (but also for people who did not participate in the seminar last year). This seminar is going to be under the no-more-war umbrella of SCI (and not only because I am going to participate ;) but because it fits well into the international strategic plan and our own aims :D ). The no-more-war team is still working on creating an even more awesome toolkit and other helpful stuff for no-more-war actions in 2011!

There is still about 20 places free so if you do not have a really good reason to avoid this seminar, I suggest you better write an application :D

Here the details from the facebook call for participants:

“There is no way to peace – peace is the way, they say.

So what is peace and how do we “do” peace – as human beings and – as we will focus on during this training – as leaders?

How do we for example help a group to reach their goals? How can we support the group to handle conflicts? How do we manage our inner judgements at the same time as we are present with the group? How do we take care of our fears around leading and being a leader?
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Gender binary, violence for everybody

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December 13, 2010

Topic of this week is something I have not written before about, so it is high time, an article is presented to you on this one. This week I am writing about on of the most widely used categories for human people -

Gender

It is usually thought of to come in two variants. Each human being is either man or woman. This is called gender binary and means, that there exist exactly two categories for gender – Female and Male – and that everybody is supposed to be one or the other.

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Pictures from Albania

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November 25, 2010

Here a small collection of pictures from the seminar in Albania for you all to enjoy :)

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Time for a report on Albania :)

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November 23, 2010

The seminar in Albania ended a few weeks ago and I have finally found the time to report on its progress – much more detailed minutes are also already in preparation, as the no-more-war team continues to work as well towards 2011 ;)

But for once, back into the past! daily program

About 20 people from Albania, Austria, Croatia, Finland, Germany, Macedonia, Spain, and Switzerland met in Durres KONICA MINOLTA DIGITAL CAMERA  for about a week to learn and exchange about nonviolence, develop project ideas for 2011 and generally get to know Albania and enjoy the time together in pure SCI spirit.

Goran and Georg, the main trainers met in advance with the preparation-team, lots of supportive people from Projekte Vullnetare Nderkombetare, the local IMG_8756  SCI organisation in Tirana to prepare last minute stuff and draft the detailed program for the week. And then basically the training already begun, situated in a hotel directly at the beach of Durres, sunshine filling all the days :)

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No-More-War Seminar Albania looking for participants

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September 29, 2010

Hey all, we made a call several weeks to the SCI networks and branches and have received already some applications – we have still a few more places :D

The seminar will take place from 24th to 29th in Durres, Albania.

We are still looking for two people each from Finland and Austria – and for one each from Switzerland, Germany and Spain. If you are from one if these countries and would like to apply – contact the Albanian host PVN directly at info@pvnalbania.org

If you are active in SCI but live in some other country and really would like to participate, get in contact with SCI Austria office@sci.or.at and they can check if it is possible for you to come as well.

Please download the application: NMW Application form Seminar Albania, fill them in and then send them to Ola at PVN Albania or to the SCI people in Austria via the above mail addresses.

Here again is the full ‘Call for participants’: NMW Call4participants

Can’t wait for it to start – we just had a team meeting in Amsterdam to adjust the programme and look at the progress / also to work on a short movie and clips about the no-more-war workcamps this year :) More on that in the coming weeks!

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