Pace e Bene

The Foundational Engage Workshops

The Engage One-Day Workshop
This workshop introduces participants to the vision and tools of nonviolent change in our lives and our world. This workshop’s engaging process integrates stories, small group reflection and role-plays. Thousands of people have taken this workshop in the US and around the world.

The Engage Three-Day Intensive
In this workshop, participants are introduced to the dynamics of violence, nonviolent living, tools for communicating more nonviolently, nonviolent community, social change, and nonviolent action by experiencing most of the material in the Engage Study Program. This intensive provides an in-depth experience of the Engage process in a short amount of time.

Other Engage Workshops

The Engage Study Group Facilitator Training
The Engage Study Program is Pace e Bene’s twelve-part study program to discover and deepen the power of creative nonviolence for personal and social change.  The three-day Engage Study Group Facilitator Training introduces participants to Engage and prepares  them to lead this process for their group, community or organization.
Prerequisite: The Engage Three-Day Intensive.

Awakening Soulforce: A Pace e Bene Graduate Retreat
“Soulforce is the force which is born of truth and love, or nonviolence.” – Gandhi. Soulforce is the power within us that is the root of our being and our connection to the divine. Creative nonviolence is Soulforce in action.  This three-day workshop evokes and practices this unifying power for engaging the crises and opportunities of our time. Together we explore the inner and outer dimensions of the personal, interpersonal and social journey of creative nonviolence today.
Prerequisite: previous Pace e Bene training, course, or Training for Trainers Program.

The Depths of Nonviolent Action
Creative nonviolence is love in action and the love that does justice.  How do we deepen and embody this power of love in the midst of the struggle for social change?  The three-day Depths of Nonviolent Action Workshop offers powerful ways to ground our steps for change in the vision, principles, and practices of determined and unifying love; explores how nonviolent action is both resistance to injustice and an opening for constructing a new world; and provides tools to create nonviolent action as a form of powerful conflict transformation for healing and change.
Prerequisite: previous Pace e Bene training, course, or Training for Trainers Program.

Practicing Nonviolence in Our Everyday Life
In this one-day workshop, participants learn and practice concrete communication and nonviolence skills that can be used in daily life with partners, family, and colleagues. Workshop includes: practicing a four-step communication process and individual and group role-plays to practice dealing with simulated and real conflicts.

Transforming Us vs. Them Thought and Action
Participants explore ways to transform the deeply ingrained polarizing dynamic of “Us vs. Them” that is experienced in our culture and in our everyday life. Transforming Us vs. Them is fundamental to nonviolence practice. Workshop includes: in-group/out-group exercise; creative exploration of nonviolent alternatives; exercise that illuminates how each of us possesses a piece of the truth; and practicing communication tools that nurture “we” thinking.

Nonviolent Action Training
In this workshop, participants learn practical tools for taking public nonviolent action for peace and justice. Workshop includes: presentation and application of the dynamics of nonviolent action; process for clarifying action goals and strategies; exploration of hops and fears; and planning and role-playing nonviolent action using Pace e Bene’s nonviolent action checklist.

Building Movements for a Nonviolent World
In this workshop participants analyze how social movements can succeed in achieving social change. Participants will explore ways to create successful movement strategies. Designed especially for members of social movements and related organizations. Workshop includes: Applying the “eight stages of successful nonviolent social movements” model; exploring the different roles people play in social movements; examining how social movements access power; and exploring how to build a comprehensive nonviolent strategy for social change.