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National Advanced PTI-Training for Trainers |
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Past PTI Trainings and Events:
Kirkridge Peacemaker Training Institute, January 2004 Educate and Activate FOR Justice and Peace in Latin America!! Peacemaker Training Institute Workshop at the Protest to Close the SOA, November 2003: Drop Beats Not Bombs: The Power of Nonviolence Tour, October 2003:
The PTI is a dynamic program of the Fellowship of Reconciliation which introduces young people to nonviolence as a transformative lifestyle and powerful tool for social change. Participants will develop and strengthen a solid foundation in nonviolence and anti-racist analysis. The training also equips youth with:
Using interactive, popular education models, participants learn and teach social justice issues and strategies for creating positive social change. Topics including racism, anti-racist organizing, gender oppression, LGBTQ issues, economic inequality, privilege, and militarism are explored deeply, acknowledging the interpersonal roots and institutional manifestations of social injustice and social transformation. Skills taught include community building, direct action, and nonviolent campaign strategy and implementation. Each day will vary in specific activities, following a general structure of centering and reflection, communal meals, and three workshop sessions. This training is a prerequisite to FOR’s advanced youth action trainings. Participants Trainings are open to all people ages 17 - 25 including high school and college students, workers, and young people not employed or in school. Young people of color and others who do activism for survival, including GLBTQ, ESL/non-citizens, and working class youth, are encouraged to apply and give voice to the program. The basic PTI is an introduction to nonviolence, justice issues, and organizing for people new to the study and processes of nonviolent organizing, and also serves as a refresher for people who are experienced in personal/political activism. Local Basic PTIs range in size from 10 - 20 participants, National Basic PTIs generally have 18 - 30 participants, and Advanced PTIs are limited to a maximum of six participants. Facilitators Trainings are facilitated by a core training team of local PTI organizer, US FOR staff (National PTI’s), and experienced peace and justice activists from the Fellowship of Reconciliation and co-sponsoring organizations. An emphasis at local PTIs is placed on connecting participants to guest facilitators from the local/regional peace and justice community. Cost The fee for participation in a Basic PTI is $375 - $525, on a sliding scale based on ability to pay. Fees for the Advanced PTI and Local PTI can vary. Organizers work hard to ensure that everyone who wants to attend a PTI is able to attend. Organizers offer fundraising support in the form of sponsorship suggestions, local FOR group contacts, other organizational contacts, and help with any necessary documentation. Participants with connections to a school, church, or organization are asked to pay the full rate. Limited scholarship assistance is available for young people of color. Fees cover program, materials, food, housing and local transportation for the week. Participants must arrange their own transportation to the training site. Local Sponsorship Past participants have benefited from sponsorship. University student groups, campus ministry programs, local peace and justice groups, churches and community/ service organizations have all provided financial support to participants in the past, and have been strengthened by the skills and insights contributed by these individuals after completion of the program. Organizations are encouraged to consider sponsoring one or more members to a PTI and/or advanced PTI with an understanding that participants will return to their organization or community to help organize a PTI or other work with young adults. College Credit Students are often able to apply their experience toward an independent study for credit in many disciplines including anthropology, communications, conflict studies, peace studies, philosophy, religion, sociology, and others. Explore the possibility with your professors, advisors, career/internship coordinator or service-learning coordinator, and talk to us for suggestions and help.
1) Fill out the **ONLINE APPLICATION** 2) Download application and e-mail completed form as an attachment to pti@forusa.org with "PTI Application" in the subject line 3) Download and print application and mail completed form to: Peacemaker Training Institute Please be sure to indicate the dates and location of the PTI you are applying for. You are encouraged to attend the PTI closest to you if possible. If you are open to attending one of several PTIs, please indicate your first and second choices. Deadlines vary by training, approximately one month before PTI start date for basic PTIs. Some trainings offer early acceptance for early applicants in order to assist participants in setting work and travel schedules — please apply early if possible. E-mail pti@forusa.org or call Danae Davis at 651-647-4465 with questions.
Click to view Upcoming National Trainings National Advanced PTI The A-PTI is a low-cost, four-day weekend organizing training for PTI graduates and others who want to gain first-hand organizing experience as a local organizer with the Fellowship of Reconciliation. At the Advanced PTI Training for Trainers, 3 - 6 local organizers prepare to coordinate and facilitate a local peacemaker training institute with assistance from FOR staff. Local Organizers, who work on a small stipend for 4 - 6 months, are involved more intimately with FOR national community, and also invest more deeply in the issues of their own community. FOR is currently developing the A-PTI training into a specifically anti-racist organizing training to give both young people of color and young white people resources and experience doing peace and justice work in a way that is consistent with our desired end, thus putting means-to-end nonviolence into practice. Upcoming National Advanced PTI to be announced. The PEACEMAKER TRAINING INSTITUTE, a project of the FOR, is made possible through generous gifts from Adele Thomas, the New York Friends Group and the Kirkridge New Generation Fund. The FOR gratefully acknowledges their support. |
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