Australian Nonviolence Network Workshops

Conflict Resolution Workshop 
A two day workshop with Diana Pittock, from the evening of Friday 27 to
Sunday 29 August, 1993 (Within a week of the Commonground Tree-Working-Bee,
21st and 22nd August), at Commonground.  Cost: Between $30 and $70 on a
sliding scale depending on income and travel costs.

This workshop will use an experiential approach, to identify the causes of
conflict, to look at what helps and hinders resolution, to look at skills
needed in resolving conflict.

Diana Pittock has fifteen years experience in running workshops on conflict
resolution.  She trained in Australia and the United States with the Movement
For A New Society.  She runs courses at the Council for Adult Education,
TAFEs and in Universities educating teachers, social workers and other
community activists and workers.  She also educates mediators to mediate in
other people's disputes.

Debriefing Workshop
A two day workshop with Glen Alderson, from the evening of Friday 2nd to
Sunday 4th October, 1993, at Commonground.  Cost: Between $50 and $100 on a
sliding scale depending on income and travel costs.

Activists can easily get caught up in the action of what they are doing and
fail to address or deal with the feelings that this action raises.  This
workshop will look at how we can incorporate dealing with our feelings into
all our work.  The workshop will cover aspects of debriefing such as a large
scale organised debrief after a major action, ending campaigns and dealing
with global despair at a personal level.  There will be input, discussion,
and role-play with work on issues raised by the participants.

Glen Alderson works as part of the Commonground Collective running workshops
on a range of subjects related to small group effectiveness such as personal
empowerment, communication, dealing with conflict and organisational
evaluation and planning.

Personal Empowerment Workshop
A weekend workshop with Glen Alderson, from Friday 30th July (7pm) to Sunday
1st August (5.30 pm).  We will start with dinner together at 7pm.on Friday.

This workshop is about personal empowerment for social activists, and
maximising our potential to effect social  change.  To be our most effective
as social activists we need to be in touch with our strengths and to be the
most powerful people we can be.  However often we are not!  What stops us? 
This workshop will focus in depth on the blockages; old family messages and
internalised voices which carry society's messages.  We will use a variety of
drama, action methods, ritual and role play to explore and act upon these
blockages which stand in the way of us realising our fullest possible power
and potential. We will also celebrate our strengths and courage and have a
lot of fun together!  Please feel free to ring for more details: (057) 938257

Cost: $140 including accommodation and delicious vegetarian food, $90 part
time workers, $60 concession, $40 deposit payable with enrolment. (Costs are
somewhat negotiable).  Help would be appreciated on Friday to clean up and
get ready.

General Information
The workshops will be held at Commonground Co-operative in Seymour, 100
kilometres north of Melbourne.  We work in a mud brick octagon in a bush
setting. Maps will be sent on enrolment.  There is a good train service and
pickup can be arranged.

For people coming from interstate, ring us to discuss bartering your way
through the workshop(s) if money is a problem.  We also need non-participant
cooks to enable us to keep the prices as low as possible.  Some rewards will
be offered!!

Bring a pillow and sleeping bag or sheets and blankets, comfy clothes, toilet
gear and torch if you have one.

Please make cheques payable to the Nonviolence Resource Centre account number
54150 at the Goulburn Murray Credit Union, 72 Station St Seymour, VIC 3660.

Please ring Kate or Margaret, at Commonground (057) 93 8257, for more
information.