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Change can generate conflict, and conflict can generate change. This workshop will focus on conflict as a resource for positive nonviolent social change. Reading Peace Works is hosting this workshop as part of the 2008 Reading International Festival and is open to the general public. The venue is wheelchair accessible.

Venue: Central Reading

Workshop fee: donation to Reading Peace Works

For more information and bookings email Emanuela or Denise or phone 020 7663 1064.

The call to compassion and justice leads to a rejection of the cycle of violence, which diminishes and degrades. This requires us to develop the capacity to be nonviolent in our daily lives and relationships. This workshop will focus on the core essence of nonviolence, what it is, how it can arise to respond to violence, transform relationships and challenge systems of oppression and injustice.

Venue: Quaker Meeting House, Glasgow. Wheelchair accessible.

Fee: Suggested donation £10 

Bring a packed lunch.

Spaces limited, booking essential.

To register e-mail Alison or Denise or call 020 7663 1064.

This workshop will explore the meaning of feminism, nonviolence/violence and power. It aims to give a deeper understanding of how historic and contemporary campaigns for women's rights are grounded in a tradition of nonviolence. We will identify tools and practices that are readily at hand that we can use to strengthen women's rights campaigns.

Venue: Quaker Meeting House, Glasgow. Wheelchair accessible.

Fee: Suggested donation £10 

Spaces limited, booking essential.

To register e-mail Alison or Denise or call 020 7663 1064.

In 2009 Turning the Tide will run a year-long series of workshops about the power of nonviolence for social change for activists, campaigners and agitators.

There are two ways of participating: core group and one-day participants. Core group participation is for people interested and able to make a commitment to participating in all 11 workshops and actively contributing towards the goals of the course. One-day participants may sign up for sessions of interest to them. Spaces for year-long and one-day participation is llimited. Prior booking is essential.

People interested in the year-long course must submit an application form. For applications and further information contact Steve or Denise by email or phone 020 7663 1061/1064.

Dates and themes for the workshops are --

10 Jan -- Nonviolence: a dangerous idea (open to everyone)

14 Feb -- Playing with power 1: understanding the system (open to everyone)

14 March -- Playing with power 2: changing the system (open to everyone)

18 April --Campaigners do it together! How we can make change (open to everyone)

15, 16, 17 May -- Is everybody happy? Tools for effective group-work (weekend residential, core group only)

13 June -- Don't just sit there! Role and Techniques of direct action (open to everyone)

11 July -- D-I-Y day: self-organised by the group (core group only)

12 Sept -- The living revolution: building the alternative (open to everyone)

10 Oct -- Inner and outer: spirituality and social change (open to everyone)

Nov, 13, 14, 15 -- We can do that! Empowerment for social change (weekend residential, core group only)

12 Dec -- Celebrating nonviolence (open to everyone)

First in a series of year-long workshops in methods and practices of social change for activists. In this session we explore what nonviolence and violence are and the complexity of nonviolence, with the aim of understanding the history, traditions, practices and long legacy of nonviolence resistance and living and their application for contemporary social change movements.

Workshops are available as a year-long course or one-off workshops. Full course £250, one-day workshop £25; concessions available. Friends Meeting House, London. Venue is wheelchair accessible. Prior booking essential. Email Denise or Steve or phone 020 7663 1061/1064.

Second in a series of year-long workshops in methods and practices of social change for activists. In this session we explore our understanding of different types of power and disempowerment, with the aim of developing our skills to cultivate and nurture the transformative power of nonviolence for use in conflicts and shifting power in relationships.

Third in a series of year-long workshops in methods and practices of social change for activists. In this session we explore our understanding of how change happens and how to make the most effective use of analytic tools and social dynamics.

Workshops are available as a year-long course or one-off workshops. Full course £250, one-day workshop £25; concessions available. Friends Meeting House, London. Venue is wheelchair accessible. Prior booking essential. Email Denise or Steve or phone 020 7663 1061/1064.