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Restorative Circle
Training
Learn together about compassionate responses to conflict in our communities in this 2-day training with international NVC trainer and Gandhi Institute Board member Duke Duchscherer.
May 5: 9am - 5pm & May 6: 10am - 5pm
This special training is based on donations (suggested $100-200) and there is a $15 registration fee.)
*A Restorative Circle is a community process for supporting those in conflict. It brings together the three parties to a conflict - those who have acted, those directly impacted and the wider community - within an intentional systemic context, to dialogue as equals. Participants invite each other and attend voluntarily. The dialogue process used is shared openly with all participants, and guided by a community member. The process ends when actions have been found that bring mutual benefit.
Restorative Circles are facilitated in 3 stages designed to identity the key factors in the conflict, reach agreements on next steps, and evaluate the results. As a circle form, they invite shared power, mutual understanding, self-responsibility and effective action.
Gang Awareness & Prevention Conference
Niagara Falls, NY
May 15 -17
Gandhi Institute director Kit Miller will be one of the speakers.
20 hours of instruction with focus on Awareness and Intervention
Topics include:
How to Empower Teens
Bullying in Schools
School Awareness Presentation
Community Programs that Work
Preventing youth violence in schools and communities
Gang Prevention & Intervention
Suppression Strategies & Tactics
For more information
Email: Krenning.Diane@jobcorps.org
Restorative
Rochester
Monthly Meeting
Thursday, May 17
@ 7:00-9:00pm
929 South Plymouth
Rochester, NY
Check out the Restorative Rochester website!
Introduction
to Nonviolence
At the New Gandhi House!
Saturday, May 19, 2012
10:00-4:30pm
929 South Plymouth
Rochester, NY
Donations gratefully accepted.
These workshops will introduce participants to the principles and practices of nonviolence through a variety of experiential activities.
- Learn about the power of Ahimsa
- Practice meditation
- Learn about the history of nonviolence
- Develop personal strategies to become more nonviolent
- Critically look at unjust systems in order to construct better ones
Register quickly because there is LIMITED SPACE!
Contact:annakristina.pfeifer@googlemail.com
Next Gandhi House Work Party is Sunday, May 20 (2-5 pm)
Come out for some purposeful fun!
 Photo by Vincent Tosto
GANDHI STUDY GROUP FORMING!
Do you want to get a deeper understanding of Gandhi's philosophy, his biography and thinkers who influenced him? Would you like to experiment with translating his work into the context we are in and envision how his work can inspire and guide us today in our communities?
A 'Gandhi Study Group' will start in the first week of May to support each other in deepening our understanding and knowledge about Mohandas Gandhi and explore together how this relates to our lives today. This is not a course but a peer-led group.
We will read one chapter or text per week and discuss it when we meet. We anticipate a minimum of 3 hours of preparation time each week. Additionally, we encourage everyone to pick one topic or book that you would like to become a specialist in and present it to the group in one of our sessions.
The group will run for 8 weeks on a Tuesday night from 7-9 pm at the new Gandhi house on 929 Plymouth Avenue South. There will be tea and coffee available.
To register please call Anna at 585-463-3266 or e-mail her
annakristina.pfeifer@gmail.com
THE HUMAN RACE
 The Gandhi Institute is trying to help get this project off the ground-want to help? Ready to join "The Human Race"? Ready or not, we have become one world, and one people. The global issues of our times, including peace, climate, resources and justice, simply cannot be addressed if we are divided. What competition has begun, cooperation must complete. We can no longer sit on the sidelines. We can no longer stand for past abuses. So we will RUN, together, for the future we want. Our project is called The Human Race. Strictly speaking, it is not a race at all, but a cooperative run-bike-drive around New York State to announce and celebrate the future we can have. We need people to help us plan The Human Race. Talk to us! Contact Hank Stone hstone@rochester.rr.com or Hooshmand Kalayeh: vr1weareone@gmail.com | 
