Activities
Activities
Leadership Core Groups
Our leadership core groups bring together the most influential leaders of the most radically opposing factions inside Israeli society.
We run one of these groups per year with an average of 14 participants. During the past 10 years over 100 highly influential leaders in Israel have taken part in this process. These workshops have yielded multiple results based on collaborations and partnerships formed between participants.
Facilitator Training
Facilitator training courses and further in-service training to develop for Israeli, Israeli Arab and Palestinian facilitators. The graduates of these programs go on to facilitate “Sia’h Shalom community groups” with leaders of their own communities with our support and supervision.
Some of Sia’h Shalom’s staff and participants take personal and professional risks to be involved in our work. We have intentionally obscured the faces and refrained from listing the names of participants and of some staff in order to protect them.
Shared Society Community Groups
These groups build as inclusive a network as possible of influential men and women who are local community leaders from conflicting backgrounds (in terms of identity and ideology) building their commitment to work together toward achieving peace inside their shared society.
Cross-border Community Groups
These groups bring together Israeli and Palestinian community leaders. Participants in these workshops are graduates of internal shared society Sia’h Shalom processes which sets a new standard for the depth of cross-border peace dialogue.
Scholarships and publications
This aspect of Sia’h Shalom works to cultivate and develop new innovative thinking about peace drawing especially on ideas inspired by religious thought and Jewish spiritualism. We work with scholars and thinkers as well and give scholarships to students and religious leaders to publish fresh ideas. Through these publications we seek to introduce Sia’h Shalom’s ideas to the academic community and deepen the conversation about peace in Israeli society.
Work with the International Community
Bet Sia’h Shalom
This new program will run for one full day a week for four semesters. Each year we will introduce a new cohort of 12-14 participants and each cohort will be dedicated to a different theme. The program will be divided up into four parts:
a. Bet Midrash Limud Hashalom – This element of the program will be dedicated to in-depth text study, research, discussion, and group dynamics and will focus on the deep insights and ideas related to peace and peacemaking that are embedded in Jewish texts.
b. Facilitator Training – Participants will receive training in the group dynamic techniques of Sia’h Shalom’s facilitation method.
c. Bet Midrash Ruach Hashalom – This element of the program will be dedicated to exploring the teachings and practices embedded in the Jewish tradition that nurture spiritual growth, meditation, openness of heart and peacefulness.
d. Public events forum – in conjunction with Mishkenot Sha’ananim the Bet Sia’h Shalom will organize public events that share the experiences and insights of Sia’h Shalom with the public. These events will involve past participants in Sia’h Shalom groups (many of whom are extremely prominent public figures) and group dynamic experiences.
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