Close the SOA & Challenge Unjust Foreign Policy:
Engage Nonviolence Workshops

Pace e Bene Nonviolence Service is partnering with School of the Americas Watch to offer workshops to colleges, universities, high schools, church groups, and other community groups across the United States. These workshops will explore nonviolence and nonviolent action in the context of the issue of the SOA and students’, individuals’ and groups’ role in the movement to close it. This training is excellent preparation for your group as you anticipate attending the annual protest in Fort Benning on Nov. 17-18.

The Engage Workshop

The Engage workshop engages participants in a dynamic, experiential, interactive process, introducing students to the vision, spirituality and tools of transformative nonviolence.

Engage also:

opens up space for you to explore your experiences of violence and creative ways that you can transform these situations.

invites you to delve deeply into nonviolence as a spiritual discipline, a way of life, and a powerful force that can help to create a more just and peaceful society.

offers tools that you can use in your everyday lives, in your communities, and in movements for nonviolent social change, especially in the movement to close the SOA and challenge unjust foreign policy.

Some Schools/Groups we’ve recently worked with include:

- C.O.O.L. Idealist National Conference 2006, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN

- School of Americas Watch 2005

- Jesuit University Students Together in Concerned Empowerment, Loyola University, Chicago

- University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA

- Pax Christi USA: National Assembly and Young Adult Forum

- Regis College, Denver, CO

- Marquette Univ., Milwaukee, WI

Logistics and fees

Groups can organize and host a workshop in their own school/community, or attend a workshop hosted by another school/community in their local or regional area. Workshops can vary in length in order to meet different needs and interests of the host group.

In addition to the fees listed below, the hosting group covers travel and lodging expenses for the two facilitators. Lodging can be home stay. If necessary, we are open to negotiating the fees listed.

One Day Workshop (Fee: ,000)

Weekend Workshop (Fee: ,500)

For more information, or to schedule a workshop or training, contact Lindsay Martin at lindsay@paceebene.org or Ryan Hall at ryanhall@paceebene.org, 510-268-8765