Events List

Towards a Sustainable Culture of Peace:
Connecting to the Source in the Midst of Conflict

Event: Workshop Series: Towards a Sustainable Culture of Peace:
Connecting to the Source in the Midst of Conflict.
Facilitator: Lee Gershuny, Ph.D., Artistic Director of The Elements World Theatre.
Organiser: Jointly organized by the Edinburgh International Centre for Spirituality and Peace, EICSP, Scottish Charity SC038996, and, The Elements World Theatre, a company limited by guarantee and registered in Scotland No. 283766, Scottish Charity SC022072.
Venue: Quaker Meeting House, 7 Victoria Terrace, Edinburgh, EH1 2JL.

Event: Day Workshop:

Thursday 11 March 2010, Registration: 9.30am-10am. Workshop: 10am-4.30pm.
Venue: Meeting Room, Quaker Meeting House, 7 Victoria Terrace, Edinburgh, EH1 2JL.
Workshop Theme: Toward a Sustainable Culture of Peace: 
Connecting to the Source in the Midst of Conflict.

Event: 5 Evening Workshops:

Wednesday 7 April 2010, Registration: 6pm-6.30pm. Workshop: 6.30pm-9pm.
Venue: Hall, Quaker Meeting House, 7 Victoria Terrace, Edinburgh, EH1 2JL.
Workshop Theme: Choosing based on what’s most important to you in the moment

Wednesday 14 April 2010, Registration: 6pm-6.30pm. Workshop: 6.30pm-9pm.
Venue: Hall, Quaker Meeting House, 7 Victoria Terrace, Edinburgh, EH1 2JL.
Workshop Theme: Not knowing what to do or say

Wednesday 21 April 2010, Registration: 6pm-6.30pm. Workshop: 6.30pm-9pm.
Venue: Hall, Quaker Meeting House, 7 Victoria Terrace, Edinburgh, EH1 2JL.
Workshop Theme: Tapping inner sources of creativity, playfulness and wisdom

Wednesday 28 April 2010, Registration: 6pm-6.30pm. Workshop: 6.30pm-9pm.
Venue: Hall, Quaker Meeting House, 7 Victoria Terrace, Edinburgh, EH1 2JL.
Workshop Theme: Bearing Witness without interpretation, judgment or assumption

Wednesday 5 May 2010, Registration: 6pm-6.30pm. Workshop: 6.30pm-9pm.
Venue: Hall, Quaker Meeting House, 7 Victoria Terrace, Edinburgh, EH1 2JL.
Workshop Theme: Creating win/win solutions from moment to moment

Event Description:

The series starts with a full day workshop in order to introduce the tools and principles for making a culture of peace sustainable in our daily lives and provides opportunities to practice using them in interactive exercises. Each evening session following on from the day workshop will provide additional practice with these tools in different areas of your life:

1: Choosing based on what’s most important to you in the moment
2: Not knowing what to do or say
3: Tapping inner sources of creativity, playfulness and wisdom
4: Bearing Witness without interpretation, judgment or assumption
5:  Creating win/win solutions from moment to moment

The purpose of this workshop is to practice the most effective ways of making a culture of peace sustainable in our daily lives. Through a series of interactive exercises, we will practice some of the basic tools and principles enabling us to work effectively and creatively with conflict without using force, abuse or threat. These exercises provide opportunities to discover what works best for you and to develop confidence in:
 

1. clarifying your priorities in the moment and long term
2. making decisions based on what’s most important to you
3 being present/being peace
4. tapping inner sources of playfulness, wisdom and creativity

This experiential workshop series offers a supportive, non-judgmental environment with discussion, movement, sharing and interactive exercises in large and small groups. Our aim is to discover new insights and actions for making a culture of peace sustainable in our daily lives.

We highly recommend starting the series with your own journal.

Facilitator Biography:

Lee Gershuny, Ph.D., award-winning playwright in both the USA and UK, is also an internationally published poet and founder/Artistic Director of The Elements World Theatre Company.  She has developed new forms of theatre and facilitated creative development workshops with a diversity of participants in England, Germany, Mexico, Poland, Scotland and the USA including professional artists, youth, older people, primary school children, people with physical and learning difficulties, homeless people, survivors of physical and substance abuse, users of mental health services and refugees.

She is a founding member of the Research Society of Process-Oriented Psychology/UK and has designed and facilitated workshops in creative conflict facilitation in local, national and international festivals and conferences, including the Alternative G8 Summit (Edinburgh 2005), the SUBUD World Congress (Innsbruck, 2005) the World Youth Congress (Stirling 2005), Roars, not Whispers (Scottish Youth Parliament Leadership Training, 2008), International Civicus Youth Assembly (Glasgow 2008), and the MESP from 2004 to the present. 

Towards a Sustainable Culture of Peace Workshop Series Poster and Flyer


Cost and Booking:

On-Line Booking

Cost: £20/£15 (Concessions) for the Day Workshop.
Cost: £8/£6 (Concessions) for each Evening Workshop.
£50/£40 (Concessions) for the whole series of workshops. For a Registration Form:
Contact: Neill Walker, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , 0131 331 4469, www.eicsp.org