The Engage Training Development Program is designed to prepare Engage Trainers to provide all Engage participants with:
- A safe environment to explore the vision, principles and methods of nonviolent living
- A process to investigate the dynamics of violence and of nonviolent power for personal and social transformation;
- An exploration of the history and dynamics of active nonviolence;
- An interactive process drawing on a variety of learning styles;
- A process that integrates mind, heart, body and spirit;
- A method that integrates personal, interpersonal and social-structural analysis and strategies;
- An invitation to form an ongoing reflection, action and support group; and
An opportunity to maximize the transformative experience of Engage.
To become a certified Engage Trainer, one must complete the ten month Engage Trainers Development Program from September 2007 through June 2008. This program includes the following components:
- Application process for admittance into the program. This includes mutual discernment between the prospective trainer and the Pace e Bene Engage Training Co-Coordinators
- Once accepted, she or he selects a Program Committee from members of the Engage Trainer Certification Committee. This committee will be in regular contact with the prospective trainer throughout the program.
- Completion of the following core requirements:
- Participation in the sequence of three Trainers Development Program Workshops (I, II, and III) held over the course of the year.
- Participation in study, action, and reflection between the three workshops. This includes:
- Using the Engage Training Resource Manual as a guide for personal study and research (this process may include a distance learning process via the Internet);
- Organizing and facilitating the Engage Study Program Series with a local group Regular communication with her or his Program Committee via email and phone participation in a specific nonviolence project or social movement;
- Co-leading (with one or more members of the Engage Training Team) one introductory Engage Workshop and one Engage Facilitator Training
- Commitment to becoming a part of the Engage Training Team once she or he has been certified, and a commitment to lead a specified number of Engage workshops and trainings over the following two years, unless otherwise modified;
- Assessment and approval by the Program Committee for certification;
- Formal certification granted at a year-end celebration and ceremony; and
- Agreeing to become an ongoing member of the Engage Training Team.
In consultation with the Program Committee, the Engage Training Student may augment these required components with additional elements as necessary or desired.
