Evening Session: Introduction to Globalization

The PTI focuses on helping young people develop an analysis for addressing social justice issues within the context of nonviolence theory and practice. The agenda for a PTI can vary but the core curriculum is based around topics such as racism, sexism, gender and sexuality, militarism and the Prison Industrial Complex.

To get a glimpse of what a week at a Peacemaker Training Institute looks like, check out the schedule from the Kirkridge PTI that took place in January, 2006:

Day 1: Tuesday January 3

5:50 p.m. — 6:00 Welcome!
6:00 — 7:00 Dinner

Evening Session: Welcome, Introductions and Agenda Overview

Day 2: Wednesday Jan. 4

8:00 – 8:30 Breakfast
8:45 — 9:15 Centering and Reflection

Morning session: Introduction to Nonviolence Theory and Practice

• Nonviolence Grid Activity
• Reading: “If We Listen Well”
• Working Definitions of Nonviolence

12:15 — 1:00 Lunch
1:00 — 2:00 Freetime

Afternoon Session: Introduction to Organizing

• Role Play: Understanding the Relations of Power
• Video: A Force More Powerful
• History of Nonviolent Social Movements/ Nonviolence Timeline

6:00-7:00 Dinner

• Conflict Line Exercise
• Large Group Discussion on globalization and economic systems.
• Video: Life and Debt

Freetime/ Big Booty Game

Day 3: Thursday, July 5

8:00 – 8:30 Breakfast
8:45 – 9:15 Centering and Reflection

• Forced to Choose Exercise
• Readings: “Working for Peace” by Thich Naht Hahn and “Requiem for the Champ” by June Jordan
• The 3 “I’s” of Oppression
• Case Study: Coalition of Imokolee Workers/ Taco Bell Boycott Slide Show and Video

12:15-1:00 Lunch—Oxfam Hunger Banquet
1:00-2:00 Freetime

Afternoon Session: Racism

• Quotes on Racism
• Word association- “Racism” and “White Supremacy”
• History of Racism in the United States
• Spoken Word Piece: Excuse Me America
• White Allies Caucus and People of Color Caucus

6:00-7:00 Dinner

• Color of Fear Video
• Large Group Discussion

Day 4: Friday January 6

8:30- 9:00 Breakfast
9:15-9:30 Centering & Reflection

• Choosing an Issue
• Building a Strategy using the Midwest Academy Strategy Chart

12:15-1:00 Lunch (maybe discuss food justice after lunch?)
1:00- 2:00 Free Time

Afternoon Session: Gender and Transgender Identity

• Gender Profile Exercise & Discussion
• Transgender Definitions and Terminology
• Role Plays: Issues of Oppression for Transgender People
• Video: Venus Boyz

6:00-7:00 Dinner

• Freewriting Exercise
• Sexism Fishbowls/ Discussion

Day 5: Saturday Jan. 7

9:15-9:45 Breakfast
10:00-10:15 Centering & Reflection

12:30-1:30 Lunch/ Food Justice
1:30-2:30 Freetime

• Guest Speaker – Virginia Wilber, I Will Not Kill Campaign
• Guest Speaker – Cesar Maxit, Artist and Anarchist
• Using Art at Protests and for political purposes
• Group projects on visual art, dance & movements, spoken word and music

6:00-7:00 Dinner

Evening Session: Presentation of Art and Activism Project and Cultural Sharing

Day 6: Sunday Jan 8

10:00-11:30 Optional Yoga Class
11:30-12:30 Brunch

• LGBT Youth and Oppression Exercise
• Small Group Breakout for Discussion
• Reading: “Is Gay Marriage Racist?”

6:00-7:00 Dinner

• Playback Theater Role Plays
• Reading: “To Hell With Good Intentions”
• Large Group Discussion
  

Day 7: Monday Jan 9

8:30-9:00 Breakfast
9:15-9:30 Centering & Reflection

• Truth Telling
• Visualizing a Nonviolent World
• Reading: Loving Your Enemies
• Forgiveness Exercise

• True Majority Exercise
• Guest Speakers: Pat Clark, Executive Director of the FOR & Rima Veseley Flad of ICARE, New York

Day 8: Tuesday Jan 10

8:00-8:30 Breakfast
8:45-9:15 Centering and Reflection

Morning Session: Closing and Evaluations

Afternoon: Goodbyes

Fellowship of Reconciliation
Peacemaker Training Institute
1050 Selby Ave. St. Paul, MN 55104
Phone: 651.647.4465 E-mail: pti@forusa.org

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.