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Sustainable Community
Goal
Participants will learn to live more joyously to help sustain peaceful human existence on Earth. As a community, we will explore specific exercises that have proven to empower people toward nonviolent, intentional lifestyles that are locally appropriate.

Ideally 20 people for 2 days To find participants go door-to-door working out from the space where the workshop will be held. Invite everybody and get a specific yes or no response. Explain why you feel it's important for neighbors to discuss issues. Assure them we're not recruiting for any organization. Offer meals and let them know there will be only one opportunity to make a free will donation. Please read these organizing tips.
About $50 for supplies + room & board for facilitator and family + six meals for 20

Room Requirements
Quiet and comfortable
21 chairs & 5 long tables
Restroom
Arrangements for 3 meals each day
Okay to tape to walls - approx 125 sq ft of blank wall
Audio / Video  Equipment


Agenda            
- BREAKFAST -   
                                                                      Watch End of Suburbia
I.    Opening                                                                                                              15 min
    A.    Welcome
        1.     Acknowledge all are on Quest for Peace; Thanks for coming
        2.    Physical Orientation - Encourage Comfort
        3.    Verify Contact Info okay to distribute
        4.    Agenda, Rules, Parking Lot
    B.    Calling Ancestors                                                                                           30 min
        1.    Establish Sacred Space
        2.    Everyone may call someone, cue group
        3.    Group: "Be with us here now"
    C.    Why are we here?                                                                                           30 min
        1.    Brief overview of world problems
        2.    Establish connectivity between our actions and world problems
        3.    Go around on view of problems
II.      Analyzing Problems
    A.    Barometer                                                                                                       30 min
        1.    Does driving a car cause or solve problems?
        2.    Does my diet make a difference to the world?
        3.    Pose question raised by group. Add dimension to deepen analysis.
- BREAK -
                                                                                                                                    15 min
    B.    Anonymous Sharing                                                                                        90 min
        1.    Pass out cards, pens 
        2.    What is the root cause of problems?
        3.    Mix cards, redistribute and read
        4.    How do I support problems?
        5.    Mix cards, redistribute and read
    C.    Empathy for each others' experience of violence                                            30 min
        1.    Explain why & how to be present emotionally -humanity is the ultimate common ground
        2.    Find a partner & a place
        3.    Switch roles half way through
        4.    Reconvene and discuss
- LUNCH -
                                                                  Watch A Force More Powerful                    60 min
III.     Nonviolent Communication
    A.    Drawing the Discussion                                                                                      45 min
        1.    During break, set up tables & cover with paper, distribute scented pens
        2.    Explain & encourage all to draw
        3.    Discuss observations, emotions, needs and requests
        4.    Post drawings on walls while encouraging everybody to think of a challenging communication for role play.
    B.    NVC Triads                                                                                                       90 min
        1.    Divide into groups of three
        2.    Assign roles - initiator, respondent, observer
        3.    Rotate roles every 20 min.
        4.    Reconvene and assess
    C.    Conspiracy                                                                                                         10 min
- BREAK -
                                                                                                                                       30 min
IV.     Preparing for Action
    A.    Reflective Writing                                                                                              60 min
        1.     Distribute writing pads
        2.    How can I solve problems? What specific changes can I make in my life?
        3.    Imagine packing a knapsack for the rest of your life. What would you take?
V.    Closing Songs                                                                                                        30 min
- DINNER -
- Over Night -
- BREAKFAST -
Watch B4P
I.    Opening Review of Yesterday                                                                                 30 min
II.     Preparing for Action
    A.    Sticky Note Brainstorm                                                                                      90 min
        1.     Distribute Sticky pads
        2.    Review note pads
        3.    Post into categories - personal, community, national /global
        4.    Clump by similarity
- BREAK -
                                                                                                                                      15 min

    B.    Circle of Truths                                                                                                  90 min
        1.    Explain, count off into five groups of four
        2.    Give everyone a chance to be Young Recruit, Career Officer, Iraqi Civilian, & Member of Congress
        3.     Stay in groups through break, discuss potential actions
        4.    Report back to full group
    C.    Levitation                                                                                                           10 min
- LUNCH -
                                                                 Watch Nonviolent Peaceforce                       60 min
III.    Closing
    A.     Review Agenda, Clear Parking Lot, and Evaluate                                            90 min
    B.    Raise Funds                                                                                                        15 min
- BREAK -
                                                                                                                                       30 min

    C.    Distribute contact information with URLs                                                          20 min
    D.    Pitch DVDs, web sites, & Books                                                                       20 min
    E.    Kitchen Percussion Chant & Dance                                                                    20 min    
- DINNER -

Wall Charts
Agenda
Ground Rules
Parking Lot (blank)
Conflict Resolution Strategies on Needs Spectrum
Truth is so complex that equally valid observations often contradict.
Please don't do anything for me unless doing it makes your life better.

Materials               Price
20 Scented Pens                                     16.00
100 Index Cards                                       1.00
20 writing pads                                       22.50
Blue Tape                                                 1.75
Paper Roll 3' X 60' or blank easel pad      5.25
100 Sticky Notes                                       1.50
Candle                                                       2.00
5 Sheets of Character Cards  - from e-mail
25 Evaluation Forms - from e-mail             .
Video viewing system (laptop & projector)
Percussion Toys
Scarf
Chime or Cup Gong

Take Homes
Pens with URL
NP Flier
Bike4Peace DVD
A Force More Powerful
Nonviolent Communication by Marshall Rosenberg
Home Energy Diet by Paul Schekel
Extreme Simplicity

Bio / Promo
Vernon Huffman is a lifelong pacifist and student of conflict management. Twenty years ago, concern over the unsustainability of consumer society drove Vernon to explore voluntary simplicity. Studying indigenous cultures in the Pacific NW and Africa as well as appropriate technology have given him a good understanding of sensible community design, including passive solar, water conservation, and local diet. A published author and social activist, Vernon has lived without a car for over a decade and rode his bicycle across North America. Facilitating these workshops is the most effective way he can imagine investing his time.

Based on Fellowship of Reconciliation's Creating a Culture of Peace and the work of Marshall Rosenberg, this workshop is designed to engage a community in defining the biggest problems we face, determining our role in them, visualizing solutions, and taking action to make things better. Flexible enough to adapt to any world-view, each session of the workshop will significantly change the lives of twenty people, tightening their community in the search for sustainable peace.
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