Engage: Exploring Nonviolent Living is a revision and expansion of Pace e Bene’s From Violence To Wholeness program. Here is what people have said about this process:
I’m very fired up after the one-day nonviolence workshop…and hope to do more with Pace e Bene.…I’ve been telling everyone I know about it and have surely become either a crushing bore or a bearer of hope.
LIA OLSON
First, it is inclusive. Because it is multi-disciplined, it recognizes that people learn in different ways. In this way, the curriculum has a way to reach everyone. Second, it provides a safe environment where relationships can be discovered. In safety, people are accepted and therefore are more willing to accept the differences between themselves and others. Third, FVTW asks that participants move from the philosophical to the practical, providing both tools and experiences that participants can use outside of the classroom environment.
DENISE TORRES
My weekend at the Pace e Bene retreat was rich and intimate. In a short period of time, I got to know a diverse group of people committed to healing themselves, their communities, and the world. Analytically, I knew I left the weekend with new tools and skills. When I co-facilitated a workshop one week later, however, I was struck by how much the training had helped me mature my perspectives about facilitation and deepened my confidence. In my opinion, there were three components of the training that I most drew from: sharing, diversity, and teamwork. …The retreat was only a few days. And I know I will draw from it for years to come.
BRYAN NEUBERG
In one short year since a few of us met the workbook on a retreat and determined to “bring it home” to others, the essential insights and opportunities of the program have become our own. Not only does “From Violence to Wholeness” enrich the vital small group of us who have become “sisters and brothers,” it also has led to events and plans for worship and mission that will shape our congregation and reach our larger community.
REV. JOHN AUER
The process has become integrated into my life and my understanding of relationships. It has helped me deepen my practice and being of who I am. It helped me begin a more articulated journey of what has always been in my consciousness. I always had certain values but not practiced ways of living those values out and being intentional about them.
EMILY LIN
This training helped me see and recognize the piece of truth that we all possess.
JOI MORTON-WILEY
The Pace e Bene facilitator retreat was a wonderful opportunity to gather together and discuss practical ways of healing the violence that plagues our communities, relationships, ecosystem and earth. Pace e Bene presents the most comprehensive approach to peace I have ever encountered, as it embraces the physical, spiritual and emotional elements of humanity torn in division. It further seeks to reconcile this division …This weekend revealed that while our world faces brokenness on many levels, it also holds the capacity to heal.
SHAHLA MOUSAVI
