Men As Peacemakers

Peace Circle Training

Peace Circle Training - Part 1

Men as Peacemakers offers basic, three day Peace Circle Training biannually; once in July and once in January.

What is a Peace Circle?

The Peacemaking Circle is a process that brings together individuals who wish to engage in conflict resolution, healing, support, decision making or other activities in which honest communications, relationship development, and community building are core desired outcomes.

Circles offer an alternative to contemporary meeting processes that often rely on hierarchy, win-lose positioning, and victim/rescuer approaches to relationships and problem solving. Derived from aboriginal and native traditions, circles bring people together in a way that creates trust, respect, intimacy, good will, belonging, generosity, mutuality and reciprocity.

Circles strengthen relationships and build community. They do so through the process they use to deal with specific issues around which a peacemaking circle might be called. As they experience circles, participants begin to develop the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual habits of peacemaking. The circle process helps to shift old patterns in how individuals and communities interact, a shift that over time becomes reflected in interactions outside the circle.