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Zones of Peace International
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Imaging a World
Without War
A workshop sponsored by
Zones of Peace International Foundation and
Lutheran Peace Fellowship
April 12-14, 2002
Central Lutheran Church
1710 Eleventh Avenue, Seattle, WA USA
Imaging a World Without War is a workshop about vision and hope, especially relevant in the
current atmosphere of fear and discouragement.
We will engage in a formal process to develop an image of how a
sustainable and peaceful world of the future would look. Using a "backwards history"
process, we will identify what paradigm shifts and goals would have to be
achieved for that image to come into reality.
Participants will leave having clarified both institutional
changes and individual steps that can begin to create a world our grandchildren
would flourish in. This workshop
teaches a different process and way of planning for future events useful
everywhere. A very stimulating and
reinvigorating workshop!
Workshop Co-Leaders
Lynn Fitz-Hugh has fifteen years of experience in facilitating
conflict resolution and non-violence workshops. She founded the Peace Between People (PBP)
organization, was one of its board members and a lead facilitator until
1997. Lynn is one of 25 people trained
by the workshop originators, Elise Boulding and Warren Ziegler, to present this
workshop.
Assisting Lynn is Elizabeth
Heath. Elizabeth is a trained
multicultural mediator who was a lead facilitator for PBP, offering non-violent
conflict-resolution workshops in the Washington state prisons as well as the
community. She is a board member of the
Zones of Peace International Foundation.
Workshop Outline
Friday night
will be a time for workshop participants to meet, to be introduced to the
imagining process, to have time to connect with their individual image of the
world at peace and to share those images with the rest of the group. We will also have a process for bringing
people together into work-groups with which they will work for the rest of the
weekend.
Saturday morning, in our work-groups, we will focus on fleshing out our images and
really seeing in detail the various aspects of a future society, e.g.
education, agriculture, housing, finance, political, religious, etc.
After lunch,
we will take these images and begin the process of a “backwards history”. This is a process of going back from the
future, a step at a time, to the present and asking at each step ”what must
have happened first to allow this development?” This process is wonderfully freeing of current blocks and obstacles
that we may be aware of, but it does incorporate them as we move backwards.
Sunday afternoon, we will finish up anything that was left incomplete from Saturday
by identifying possible action steps and compelling personal images. In doing so, each participant should be able
to leave with a sense of the possible and practical steps she/he could take
towards the image seen. Overall,
participants report that the workshop is very reinvigorating and helpful for
their long-term focus on peace.
The Workshop Structure
The workshop will begin on Friday evening, April 12th,
and this first session will last three hours, from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. We will meet on Saturday, April 13th, from
9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. The last session will be on Sunday afternoon, April
14th, from 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Participants are expected to take care of their
own dinners before coming to the workshop Friday evening. For Saturday lunch, we will be having "stone
soup". This is a concept from a popular children's book. In the story, hungry soldiers passing
through a town start a "stone soup" and are able to persuade the
town’s people to each provide a "missing" ingredient. The result is a marvelous meal that feeds
the whole town and the soldiers. We are
not going to make a soup, but we invite you to look through your fridge or
cupboard and bring enjoyable lunch ingredients ─ perhaps bread, a can of tuna or a mayo
jar and butter. Someone can bring
juice, tea or coffee. The result is more interesting than bag lunching and is
simpler than a potluck. An additional
plus is that we get to share a meal together.
We would also like to ask you to bring some snack food on
Friday night. We will be putting these
out throughout the weekend, so that there will always be snacks available on
breaks. We thank you for your
contribution that will keep costs down for the weekend.
We are looking forward to co-imaging a World
Without War with you!
For more information, please contact Vana Jakic
either by phone at (253) 874-2619 or
by e-mail
at info@zopif.org.
To register,
please complete the following information and send it with your payment to Zones of Peace International Foundation,
4004 SW 328th Street, Federal Way, WA 98023.
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