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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
Susan McEwen
Susan is originally from Belfast. She studied Social and Educational Psychology at the University of Kent in Canterbury and is a qualified as a mediator with Mediation Northern Ireland, and as a trainer with Dialogue for Peaceful Change. She was awarded a Postgraduate Certificate by UNESCO for work undertaken on “Developing a Shared Society” and also studied at Edgehill Methodist College to become a lay preacher.
Susan became a member of the Corrymeela Community in 2000 while working for Dundonald Methodist Church where where she had developed a program supporting young mothers from the local neighbourhood.
In 1994 she joined the staff at Corrymeela where she had responsibility for a project developing capacity within Interface areas. It was in the context of this project that she developed a resource called ‘Outside In’ which explores the use of story telling as a means of developing relationships between those from communities who traditionally see the other as the enemy rather than the neighbour.
In September 2008 she was appointed as a coordinator with the Irish Peace Centres with the focus of her work still primarily in working at a local level in Interface areas both in the traditional sense and the new emerging interfaces between the host and new communities.
