{"id":131,"date":"2010-08-10T12:57:41","date_gmt":"2010-08-10T12:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/womenforpeaceandjustice.wordpress.com\/"},"modified":"2015-11-04T05:36:56","modified_gmt":"2015-11-04T05:36:56","slug":"buddhist-peacebuilding","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/womenforpeaceandjustice.org\/thai\/courses-we-offer\/buddhist-peacebuilding\/","title":{"rendered":"Buddhist Peacebuilding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IWP has organized four Engaged Buddhist Peacebuilding and Social Development Course for Women Activists in South and Southeast Asia.\u00a0 The course is designed for women activists who are active in community organizations and NGOs and would like to integrate engaged Buddhist teachings into their community work and deepen their own personal mindfulness practice.\u00a0 The course is three weeks long and participants are expected to implement action plans based on their learning upon return to their home communities.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\">Course Objectives:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Help      grassroots women activists from Buddhist communities to link the      philosophies and practices of active non-violence, peace building and      justice in their community organizing work<\/p>\n<p>* Understand      and analyze structural violence particularly on the issues of gender,      violence against women, political and racial oppression.<\/p>\n<p>* Help      participants <em>unlearn<\/em> harmful notions on karma at the personal and      structural levels and relearn more empowering interpretations with the      teaching tools to work with their community on this issue.<\/p>\n<p>* Develop      achievable and realistic plans of actions that participants will undertake      upon return to their communities; and provide necessary follow-up support      for effective implementation.<\/p>\n<p>* Establish      a network of Asian grassroots women activists in the region who are      committed to cultivating spiritual practice as a foundation for their      feminist activism.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\"><em>Course content<br \/>\n<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Learning the main Buddhist teachings, primarily the Four Noble Truths and the eightfold noble paths to analyze different social problems such as women&#8217;s oppression, poverty, gender- based violence conflict at different levels (personal, community and global) and use them a guide for solutions.<\/li>\n<li>Deconstructing and challenging Buddhist misinterpretations such as the notion of karma that are promoting and sustaining oppression and violence particularly on women and issue of gender and diversity.<\/li>\n<li>Using the Four Abiding Abodes (Loving Kindness, Compassion, Joy and Equanimity) as guidance for action on building peaceful and healthy relationships and community.<\/li>\n<li>The intersections of Buddhist and Feminist analysis and practice<\/li>\n<li>Feminist counseling. Learning the principles and skills combining feminism and Buddhism for counseling to trauma survivors.<\/li>\n<li>Exploration of the philosophy and teachings of non violent action, peace, and conflict resolution.<\/li>\n<li>Environmental sustainability and social development<\/li>\n<li>Challenging ourselves as activists &#8212; how to create balance to avoid burnout, and how to be driven by compassion and joy instead of anger and despair.<\/li>\n<li>Daily Mindfulness practice and meditation.<\/li>\n<li>Community work.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Core Skills for Participants<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We have identified core skills that we expect participants can develop or foster through the curriculum which integrates personal mindfulness practice, concepts for social change and community building.\u00a0 These skills support participants\u2019 process of personal transformation leading to take action for social change.\u00a0 These core skills include:<\/p>\n<p>* Building peace within: working with fear, stress, despair, and anger<\/p>\n<p>*\u00a0 Cultivating mindfulness, awareness, and inner peace<\/p>\n<p>* Mindful\/deep listening and \u00a0feminist counseling skills<\/p>\n<p>*\u00a0 Collective, power sharing leadership for social change<\/p>\n<p>*\u00a0 Non-violent action for social change, conflict transformation and peace building<\/p>\n<p>*\u00a0 Giving and receiving constructive feedback<\/p>\n<p>*\u00a0 analytical skills for addressing social issues<\/p>\n<p>*\u00a0 Diversity and anti-oppression work (understanding privilege and power)\/working across differences<\/p>\n<p>*\u00a0 Stress reduction, dealing with anger and despair.<\/p>\n<p>*\u00a0 Inner transformation work<\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Participants:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The three week training workshop is designed for grassroots women activists from the South and Southeast Asia region.\u00a0 IWP has been working with local partners in: Burma, Sri Lanka, Thailand, India (Ladakh and Dalit communities).\u00a0 Alumni and local partner organizations help us in disseminating the information about the course and in the selection of participants, as effective networking and organizing after the course is an essential component of the program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IWP has organized four Engaged Buddhist Peacebuilding and Social Development Course for Women Activists in South and Southeast Asia.\u00a0 The course is designed for women activists who are active in community organizations and NGOs and would like to integrate engaged Buddhist teachings into their community work and deepen their own [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":78,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-fullwidth.php","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-131","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P6V1Xl-27","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenforpeaceandjustice.org\/thai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenforpeaceandjustice.org\/thai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenforpeaceandjustice.org\/thai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenforpeaceandjustice.org\/thai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenforpeaceandjustice.org\/thai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/womenforpeaceandjustice.org\/thai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":951,"href":"https:\/\/womenforpeaceandjustice.org\/thai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/131\/revisions\/951"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenforpeaceandjustice.org\/thai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/78"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenforpeaceandjustice.org\/thai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}