Training and Facilitation

Peace in Praxis specializes in training design with an emphasis on developing individual and organizational capacity to communicate effectively across differences. All trainings are learner-centered and emphasize experiential learning as well as practical applications.

Community-Based Training

Our trainings for community leaders and organizations aim to strengthen participants’ capacity to lead effectively.

Selected Topics:

• Managing Community Conflict

• Facilitating Intergroup Dialogue

• Designing Youth-Centered Dialogues

• Strategic Design and Implementation

• Youth Leadership Skills in Practice

• Understanding and Managing Toxic Polarization

Pedagogy Training

Pedagogy trainings emphasize the range of choices an educator or trainer makes when both designing and implementing a learning engagement.

Selected Topics:

• Designing and Facilitating Learner-Centered Trainings

• Understanding Learning Outcomes

• Integrating Adult Learning Principles

Facilitation Skills and Training-of-Trainer Programs

Trainings on facilitation skills include general skills, e.g., empathic listening, tracking conversations, naming dynamics in the room, and skills specific to a particular facilitation setting, such as intergroup dialogue.

Additionally, we implement training-of-trainer (ToT) programs and we train organizations to design and deliver ToT programs. All facilitation skills and ToT programs include micro-facilitation in which participants facilitate a component of a training or other process. Extended ToT programs include ongoing coaching and mentoring in a staged process, ensuring participants are confident and ready to facilitate/co-facilitate on their own.

Selected Topics:

• Facilitation Skills for Complex Environments

• Facilitation Skills for Dialogue

• Facilitating Meetings

• Designing a Training-of-Trainers Program