What is conflict?
Conflict is not only something that exists "out there." We also struggle with conflict amongst each other, in our groups, and at home. How can we address these internal and external challenges collectively and overcome antagonism in ways that reflect our visions for a just world?
MESA sin fronteras presents a series of participatory workshops that explore various creative techniques in understanding, addressing, and resolving situations of conflict together as a community.
MESA sin fronteras presents a series of participatory workshops that explore various creative techniques in understanding, addressing, and resolving situations of conflict together as a community.
Four Week Basic Introductory Course to
Aikido Principles
Wednesdays: May 11, 18, 25 and June 1st
7:30 to 9:00 PM
Facilitator: Pasqualino Colombaro
Location: At New England Aikikai, 2000 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge (near T @ Porter Square)
Donation: $20 per class donation suggested. No one will be turned away for lack of funds.
Full Workshop Description
Kingian Nonviolence Reconciliation Course
2-Day, Certified Course
Full Workshop Description; En Español
Facilitator: Ruth K. Henry, Certified Trainer, working with
Lengua de Mi Barrio and University of Cartagena
Co-facilitators: Jonathan Lewis, Certified Senior Trainer,
and Laura Baracaldo
2-Day Certified Course on 2 Possible Tracks (10am-7pm):
Track 1: Sunday, Aug. 7th at La Casa de la Cultura + Sunday, Aug.14th at encuentro 5,
OR
Track 2: Saturday, Aug.13th + Sunday Aug. 14th (both at encuentro 5)
$50 for Registration with Discount; $65 At-Door (Please Register Here)
Brief Course Description: In this introductory course, participants will receive an overview of the life, work, and teachings of Dr. Martin Luther King and will explore how his philosophy of nonviolence can be and has been applied in diverse settings across the globe to confront injustice and build towards beloved community. By learning and analyzing Dr. King’s Six Principles of Nonviolence as well as his six step methodology, students will become familiar with a viable, practical, and historically effective map for how to create lasting social change through nonviolent direct action and dig deep below conflicts to find true reconciliation. They will also be introduced to conflict dynamics, types, levels, and strategies for reconciliation. They will learn the salient points of major Civil Rights campaigns and reflect on the ingredients which made them successful. Social models for comprehensive change, such as Hausser’s Top-Down Bottom-Up and Aggression-Conciliation models, will serve as a further framework for understanding the complex relationships between groups of people across a given community and how to navigate through them towards justice. Using a variety of interactive techniques, participants will also reflect together on how to apply these teachings in our current environments.
Full Workshop Description; En Español
Facilitator: Ruth K. Henry, Certified Trainer, working with
Lengua de Mi Barrio and University of Cartagena
Co-facilitators: Jonathan Lewis, Certified Senior Trainer,
and Laura Baracaldo
2-Day Certified Course on 2 Possible Tracks (10am-7pm):
Track 1: Sunday, Aug. 7th at La Casa de la Cultura + Sunday, Aug.14th at encuentro 5,
OR
Track 2: Saturday, Aug.13th + Sunday Aug. 14th (both at encuentro 5)
$50 for Registration with Discount; $65 At-Door (Please Register Here)
Brief Course Description: In this introductory course, participants will receive an overview of the life, work, and teachings of Dr. Martin Luther King and will explore how his philosophy of nonviolence can be and has been applied in diverse settings across the globe to confront injustice and build towards beloved community. By learning and analyzing Dr. King’s Six Principles of Nonviolence as well as his six step methodology, students will become familiar with a viable, practical, and historically effective map for how to create lasting social change through nonviolent direct action and dig deep below conflicts to find true reconciliation. They will also be introduced to conflict dynamics, types, levels, and strategies for reconciliation. They will learn the salient points of major Civil Rights campaigns and reflect on the ingredients which made them successful. Social models for comprehensive change, such as Hausser’s Top-Down Bottom-Up and Aggression-Conciliation models, will serve as a further framework for understanding the complex relationships between groups of people across a given community and how to navigate through them towards justice. Using a variety of interactive techniques, participants will also reflect together on how to apply these teachings in our current environments.
Theater of the Oppressed Techniques
June 25-26
Location: encuentro 5
Facilitator Gail A. Burton, Emerson College
$50 Full Weekend
Full Workshop Description
REGISTER HERE!
Based on the interactive techniques developed by Augusto Boal, Brazilian theater activist, this workshop will engage participants to enact real situations of oppression and conflict they are experiencing in their lives, while learning how to unpack the emotional and institutional aspects of the scenarios. Groups will apply various techniques of the Theater of the Oppressed repertoire as the community discovers collective envisionings of how to best handle and resolve the situation of conflict. A highly participatory living-in-the-body interaction. No previous experience necessary.
Celebrating e5's
5th Anniversary!
encuentro 5
33 Harrison Avenue
5th Floor
Boston, MA 02111
Close to Chinatown, Downtown Crossing, and Boylston T stops
www.encuentro5.org
