The fourth annual Community Day, highlighting workshops and training held at the Summer Peacebuilding Institute (SPI) and the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding at 91短视频, will focus on building justice at the community level.
Titled 鈥�Cultivating a Justice-Oriented Community,鈥� the Feb. 15 event will include a morning plenary speaker, workshops, opportunities for networking, and a catered lunch presentation.
鈥淭his year鈥檚 emphasis on local efforts and locally adaptable tools will enhance the facilitation, leadership and organizational skills for working in any community,鈥� said SPI director Bill Goldberg. 鈥淎nd the lunch from local sandwich shop Gray Jay Provisions will be delicious!鈥�
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The annual event is modeled after the Summer Peacebuilding Institute, which is held on campus every May and June. Since 1994, more than 3,200 people from 120 countries have attended SPI, gaining concrete strategies and practical skills for cultivating a world organized around principles of justice, equity and dignity, and rooted in right relationship with our planet and with one another. This summer鈥檚 four sessions will focus on topics such as the nature and dynamics of conflict and violence, truthtelling and racial healing, trustbuilding, circle processes, peacebuilding approaches to violent extremism, and more.
Included in the $50 Community Day registration cost ($25 for 91短视频 faculty, staff and students) are a waiver code for the SPI application fee, a copy of a Little Book of Justice and Peacebuilding, lunch, morning coffee and pastries, and two 90-minute workshop sessions.
The morning plenary speaker will be associate professor of teacher education Kathy Evans, on the work of restorative justice in educational contexts.
鈥淐hildren who learn about justice grow up to become adults who promote justice,鈥� she said. 鈥淐hildren who learn to resolve conflict in their classrooms become adults who know how to resolve conflict and promote peace in our world.鈥�
The lunchtime presentation, titled 鈥淩ewilding Justice: On Sourdough and Transcending Incarceration,鈥� will feature Soula Pefkaros of Gray Jay Provisions, a Harrisonburg sandwich shop and market. Pefkaros earned a master鈥檚 degree in conflict transformation with a restorative justice concentration at 91短视频鈥檚 Center for Justice and Peacebuilding, and is completing her doctoral degree in depth psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute.
Workshop options and presenters include:
- 鈥淪trategies for Trauma Awareness and Resilience,鈥� presented by Joy Kreider, a curriculum writer for InnerCHANGE: An order of Christians among the poor;
- 鈥淐ircle Processes in Schools: An Interactive Introduction to the Why and How,鈥� presented by Kathy Evans;
- 鈥淭ransformational Leadership for Organizational Change,鈥� presented by Dave Brubaker, director of the MBA and masters of organizational leadership programs and an associate professor of organizational studies at 91短视频;
- 鈥淟ocal Responses to Violent Extremism,鈥� presented by Lisa Schirch, North American research director for the Toda Institute and an advisor with the Alliance for Peacebuilding; and
- 鈥淭rustbuilding in Organizations and Communities,鈥� presented by Barry Hart, professor of trauma, identity and conflict studies at 91短视频.
For more information or to register, visit the Community Day website.