Dialogue for Peaceful Change (DPC) is a methodology used globally, that creates a setting and provides a pathway for overcoming division. DPC is not the goal but the instrument in a process which seeks to build the creative and practical skills of peaceful change. It’s about facilitating the road to solutions found and agreed by the people caught in negative conflict patterns.

• DPC can be used in both micro and macro conflict settings. Conflicts differ in scale and contexts, with similar patterns.

• DPC facilitators learn to analyze a conflict situation and know when meditation is applicable. DPC skills can also be applied in situations where formal mediation is not appropriate or possible.

• DPC is an efficiency tool for any work place. It can prevent conflict and gives tools to overcome division.

• DPC empowers community members in their communication with each other and with agencies, government, etc.

In this intensive five-day training, we will look at why conflicts resurface time and time again and learn the specific steps needed to bring both parties to a place of transformation - so that they can live and work without violence. The DPC approach fully recognizes that conflicts in today’s global community frequently include tensions that have an inter-religious and inter-cultural basis.  Trainers from Northern Ireland (who helped create the process) and from the U.S. will guide your development.

The fee for Dialogue for Peaceful Change is $395 per person. This includes all materials, 5 nights double-occupancy lodging, all meals and snacks. Some partial scholarships are available. Because of the nature of Dialogue for Peaceful Change it is important that everyone stay on campus during the entire event. No commuters.
For more information and to register online at http://www.spiritinthedesert.org/web-content/programs.html or call 480.488.5218