Training on Nonviolence

The training is a shared and transformational educational learning process which involves mostly participatory exercises that elicit learning from participants’ insights and experiences.

It can be demanding and at times stressful, as this methodology pushes participants to take extra steps and share from a personal as well as from a professional level. The trainers facilitate the learning process, hold the emotional space and model a nonviolent approach to learning and transformation.

At the core of the training are the following contents:

• Nonviolence concepts and practices
• Conflict Transformation approaches
• Anti-Bias (Anti-Discrimination) practices
• Conflict Analysis tools
• Direct Nonviolent Action
• Nonviolent Communication practices
• Consensus Decision-Making
   

Optional elements (depending on needs and interests of participants):

• Dealing with the Past
• Dealing with Stress and Trauma
• Holistic Security
• Do No Harm approach

The participatory and experience-based training is focussed on the needs of the participants. The concrete contents and their scope will be decided with the participants at the start of the training. Exchange, reflection and practical exercises are paramount.

Spino Fante is an Anti-Bias and diversity management trainer and lives in South Africa. She has actively worked to promote values and human rights in South African schools and communities. Through the Anti-Racism and Training (ART) Network she facilitated Anti-Bias trainings in Germany and the Netherlands. She focuses on issues of inclusion, anti-discrimination and nonviolent conflict transformation.

Sachi Maniar 
is a social justice advocate and the founder of Ashiyana Foundation, a Mumbai-based non-profit working with at-risk children and youth. Sachi is also a trainer
and practitioner of restorative approaches and nonviolence and has been affiliated with several prestigious organisations, including Oxfam, Ashoka’s Youth Venture, UNICEF and Metta Center.

Peter Steudtner is a trainer in nonviolent conflict transformation and a photographer / filmmaker. His training focus lies on integrated security for peace, human and environmental rights activists and on the Do No Harm-approach. In order to sensitise and empower people he combines nonviolent action and artistic approaches.