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Reflective, action-based research -
Participants with leadership potential/roles in communities embark on journey of deep dialogue -
Uncovers the role of faith in cultivating positive relationships between people, and addressing divisions caused by faith -
Accredited and non-accredited training -
Group storytelling out of which relationships are built with the ‘same’ and the ‘other’ -
Spread the learning and deepened relationships from the core group process within participants’ local areas -
Single-identity programme, occurring as part of a parallel process across an interface/generation/locality/national identity divide -
Leading Ladies builds the capacity of women to step into their own leadership at their own level
Our Programmes
Re:Mapping
LOCAL INTERFACE INTERGROUP
This is an innovative IPC developed programme. It is a single-identity programme, occurring as part of a parallel process across an interface/generation/locality/national identity divide. This process is facilitated by artists/creative facilitators who help participants explore the stories of their own streets and neighbourhoods, with a view to nurturing curiosity in the participants about the other group’s engagement with the same topics. Parallel groups build up written exchanges with each other through this process, where differences and similarities are explored in a safe context. At the conclusion of the process, each group has an artistic record of how their own journey intersects with the journey of the parallel group. Re:Mapping is often a first, and a safe introduction into storytelling/personal narrative, and is a lead-in programme for more sustained and focused storytelling.
Feedback from this programme demonstrated that participants were more willing to engage where they had previously never done so. It developed a strong dynamic of nurturing curiosity and created a space for participants to gain a deeper understanding of how our communities impact on our emotional and communal narratives.
Through the opportunity of facilitation skills training, the participants continued their development process across activity strands to their involvement in the Core Group process – a key project that underpins the development of sustainable positive relations. This results in them being skilled change-makers within their own community at the end of the process.
Contact: Susan McEwen
