SPI EMU Workshops and Trainings
May 14 - 16, 2025
Short Courses on Conflict, Peace and Trauma
The World We Dream: Collective Visioning for Peace
The World We Dream: Collective Visioning for Peace is a 2.5-day immersive workshop
where participants will engage in somatic exercises, creative visioning, and collaborative
storytelling to imagine and co-create a just and peaceful future. Together, we will
surface deep-rooted dreams of justice, craft collective visions, and identify practical
steps to bring them to life. This workshop is for activists, educators, artists, and
changemakers ready to imagine, build, and step into a better future.
Practicing Conflict Transformation in Community
This training equips participants with essential skills and knowledge for effectively managing and resolving conflicts in a variety of community contexts. Drawing from restorative justice and conflict transformation practices, we will examine both harm and conflict as well as relationship building and collaborative solutions that transform conflict and harm into opportunities for growth. Through interactive exercises, participants will learn to facilitate processes that promote community well-being.
Climate STARR: Strategies for Climate Trauma, Action, Regeneration & Resilience
Climate STARR training takes you beyond the graphs and predictions, beyond saying that climate action is the antidote to anxiety and despair. In the Climate STARR: Strategies for Climate Trauma, Action, Regeneration, & Resilience training, we pause. Acknowledge our emotional reactions. Practice skills to transform and release them. Reflect. Explore radical resilience practices needed to embody a new consciousness. Envision the just, regenerative future we long for. Choose inner and outer actions that enliven and sustain us. Commit to joining with others to multiply our impact across expanding spheres of influence.
Addressing the Impacts and Trauma of Migration (AITM)
Migration presents challenges. Forced migration faced by many today - refugees, immigrants, asylum seekers and displaced persons - is especially challenging as they experience the stress, loss and pain of leaving home and integration into a new reality. Migration also impacts those left behind as well as the receiving communities. Furthermore, teachers, social workers, resettlement specialists, mental/physical health care workers, law enforcement and others serving displaced persons often experience indirect (or secondary) trauma. Addressing the Impact and Trauma of Migration (AITM) seminars and resources are for those who have experienced migration stressors and adversity directly or indirectly. Understanding the impact of migration and having tools to respond are key to the wellbeing of everyone. Instead of burnout, disillusionment and harmful coping practices, tools are available for both groups to address trauma, repair relationships and build resilience.
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