Our first Facilitaion Training Course, offered in partnership with both Columbia University's Center for International Conflict Resolution and the University of San Francisco in January 2009, was co-designed and supervised by Ahmad Hijazi, a pre-eminent facilitator and the Director of the acclaimed School for Peace in Neve Shalom/Wahat Al-Salam, and Co-Senior Facilitators Ahmad Amara and Dror Post. This was the first time that a course utilizing the School for Peace's groundbreaking model of working with groups in conflict was offered in the United States. In January 2010 we are offering this course for the second consecutive year; Amara and Post will be co-teaching and co-facilitating this course as well.

COURSE SUMMARY:

The aim of this course is to train participants to work as facilitators of groups in conflict in top, middle, and grassroots level settings (i.e., Track One, Track Two, and Track Three). Using the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a case study, our comparative approach allows participants to deepen their understanding of conflicts worldwide. Because the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is one of the most widely studied conflicts in the 'western world', numerous different models of facilitation, intervention, and conflict resolution have been applied to it. As such, it is ideal for using as an example of best and worst practices. Applying this perspective, through this course students engage with both practical and theoretical models of working with groups in conflict. This gives participants the experience and knowledge to work with different groups in conflict as opposed to working with groups that deal exclusively with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

This course is highly interactive, integrating three distinct components:

(2) Theoretical knowledge: learning about various theoretical models of group facilitation, paying particular attention to models and challenges of working with participants involved in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

(3) Practical training: preparing students to begin facilitating groups in conflict as practitioners.  

The course encompasses more than 70 hours of in-class time and has a maximum of 18 students in each course. It is co-taught by an Israeli and a Palestinian, both of whom serve as Co-Senior Facilitators with Abraham's Vision, a conflict transformation education organization


DATES/LOCATION:

San Francisco: Monday through Friday, January 11th to the 22nd, 2010, at the University of San Francisco.

All students who are not currently enrolled at USF, whether registering for course credit or choosing to audit, need to complete this form.

COSTS:

University of San Francisco:
     - $2,450 (whether auditing or for 2 Academic Credits) 
     - $4,900 (for 4 Academic Credits)
 
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