Three DPC-trainings in the European region!

No changes without tensions
Looking for a better world requires important changes
Conflicts are natural - violence is not.
These are some of the learning's you get during the training in 'mediative dialogue'. This training, under the heading of the program "Dialogue for Peaceful Change" (DPC) has been developed in recent years. In 2007 three trainings will be given in Europe.

What is DPC?
DPC is an ecumenical project, dealing with a systematic approach of conflicts. As a result of the ongoing development in this project, we now have a Training of Facilitators (ToF) as well as a Training of Trainers (ToT). In the ToF we offer an intense and very practical training for people which normally have to deal with changes in their work or lives. Changes are always related to a certain level of conflict. The changes occur in personal lives as well in professional circumstances. DPC offers ways to deal with these changes and conflicts in a very adequate way. The ToF is a training during five full days, guided by two experienced trainers for a group of max. 16 participants.

Three Trainings of Facilitators
We are happy to invite you for one of the following three DPC-trainings for facilitators:
· 3 September - 9 September 2007: Corrymeela, Ballycastle, No. Ireland. Corrymeela has quite a reputation in dealing with conflicts. It has developed it's experience and competence during the struggle within Northern Ireland in the last decades. Corrymeela is an ecumenical centre of reconciliation for local, national and international groups. The training will be given by Mrs. Rachel Craig, working at Corrymeela and dealing with conflicts in the family- and community-level of the No. Irish society, and Mrs. Ingeberte Uitslag, working at Stichting Oikos, the Netherlands. She applies the methodology in her work as neighbourhood-counselling as well as in her work regarding development aid and the public awareness in that field. Ingeberte is a member of the DPC-Coordination team.

Participation in this training costs € 475 - the most expensive one of the three. The advantage for several people will be: lower travel costs to No. Ireland. For further information as well as for application for this training - please contact Mr. David Price at Corrymeela (tel. + 44 28 20762626, david.price@corrymeela.org).

· 30 September - 6 October 2007: Home of Hope, Brasov, Romania. Home of Hope has a history of more than 15 years and deals with questions in society. It's a protestant centre with open eyes for processes in society as a whole. Heavy changes have occurred and will occur in this country. Home of Hope participates and reflects on it as well. That's why the centre is well equipped to host a ToF for people from Romania as well as from foreign countries. The training will be given, again, by two trainers. The first is Mr. Colin Craig, director of Tides Training in No. Ireland. He has a long experience in dealing with trainings regarding conflicts. He got his experience, among others, during his work as director of Corrymeela. Colin is also member of the DPC-Coordination team. The second trainer isn't appointed yet.

Participation in this training costs € 275; the travel costs have to be paid by participants themselves. For further information as well as for application for this training, please contact Mrs. Kate Zoltani, (tel. +40 (268) 421244, zoltanikatalin@yahoo.com).

· 4 November - 10 November 2007: Valamo Lay Academy, Valomo, Finland. Valamo Lay Academy is an orthodox centre, which deals with questions and challenges within and outside the Orthodox Church of Finland. The Orthodox Church faces changes in society as well in the church itself. How to deal with them in a proper way, avoiding too heavy conflicts? This is one of the reasons to have a ToF in this centre. The training will be given by Mrs. Liza Kelly, working at Tides Training in No. Ireland, and Mr. Jaap van der Sar, working at Stichting Oikos, the Netherlands. Liza Kelly applies the DPC-methodology in her daily work as trainer and/or mediator, dealing with different target groups in No. Ireland, like the police, civil servants. Jaap van der Sar is one of the founders of the DP-project. He applies the methods in his work, for instance in real conflicts as well as in cooperation between about 50 NGO's in the Netherlands. He is also member of the DPC-Coordination team.

Participation in this training costs € 275; the travel costs have to be paid by participants themselves. For further information as well as for application for this training, please contact Mrs. Sirpa Koriala (tel. +358-50-5660809, sirpa.koriala@valamo.fi).

The prices of the training include board and lodging as well as the Hand-Out-Book for each trainee. In addition to that the costs for the trainers team and their preparations. The present trainings can be offered for these relatively low prices, due to a grant, which we have got through the EU Programme for Peace and Reconciliation in Northern Ireland, worked out through the Community Relations Council (CRC) in Belfast.

For general information about the DPC-project, please contact
the coordinator DPC-project
Jaap van der Sar
P.O. Box 19170
NL - 3501 DD Utrecht
tel + 31 (0)30 2361500
email jvdsar@stichtingoikos.nl