GSIPM

Interested in:

• Gaining new skills or knowledge?
• Enhancing already existing skills?
• Meeting people from more than 30 countries and sharing stories and experiences?

Then mark your calendars for SPI 2014! Course offerings and instructors for 2014 are now published online. This year SPI is offering several new courses at the frontiers of peacebuilding, including:

• Media for Societal Transformation, where you can learn to use video and social media to get your message out.
• Trauma-Sensitive Practice and Programming, to explore how to include trauma-sensitivity in all stages of emergency response and post-conflict recovery work.
• The Impact of Social Issues on Restorative Justice will look at the effects of race, class, gender, and culture on individual and community conflict and resilience.
• Peace by Design, where participants will discuss how the design of working spaces conveys a message that helps or hinders the work.
• Applied Playback Theatre for Conflict Transformation, to teach you how to be part of a team of actors that weaves together stories from the audience into a single narrative, while respecting and validating each individual story.
• Mindfulness teaches you to give full and non-judgmental attention in all situations and how to reflect on the similarities and differences between people in conflict that help or hurt situations.

The Summer Peacebuilding Institute (SPI) provides broad-based and specialized trainings that empower participants to contextualize the knowledge to their own situations. Learn more about yourself, others, and the world around you. Courses are open to people interested in integrating conflict transformation, peacebuilding, restorative justice, trauma awareness, and related fields into their own work and life.

The Summer Peacebuilding Institute (SPI) offers four 7-day sessions, each with several courses running simultaneously. An interactive approach is used in all courses. Participants will learn from the course instructor as well as other participants and are encouraged to reflect and to share from their own experiences in the “safe space” created by SPI.  Courses can be taken for professional training or graduate credit. Applications will be considered in order of arrival. For course curriculum, online application and costs, please click here.