Description:"Do not remember the former things, or consider the things of old. I am about to do a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert." -Isaiah 43:18-19 ""Transformation": to change markedly the appearance, form, nature, function or condition; to convert. Transformation is all around us. From cellular biology, math, and linguistics, to the current lingo of education and corporate management. It is in the changing of the season as I look outside my study window. And in the painstaking and often painful process in which many Mennonites have been involved in recent years: creating a new denomination out of two. As one pundit quipped early on: when you try to blend two into one, you end up with at least three! "Transformation" is also a spiritual word. Those of us who work with peace and justice issues---all across the spectrum from international to neighborhood and family settings---are occasionally privileged to witness it: that sacred moment when the old makes way for new. Often it is as fragile as a pine seedling growing sideways out of a tiny cavity in a rocky mountainside; or a weed pushing up through a crack in an urban sidewalk. Occasionally it soars on eagles' wings over a wide landscape change. This manual is itself a parable of transformation---telling some of the change-story of MCS and of the broader mediation field. At the first MCS Summer Training Institute in 1985, we participants were each given a slim manila folder in which to collect the week's hand-outs. Copied on blue paper and pre-dating high-class wordprocessing and copying equipment, their somewhat ragged look is still precious to me---like the new teeth of a young child. Ron Kraybill's early distillation on paper of so many key concepts confirmed my own growth and invited me onward---both spiritually and intellectually. By the time I joined the staff in 1988, Dave Brubaker had organized 40..." [from foreword by Alice M. Price]We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Mediation and Facilitation Training Manual: Foundations and Skills for Constructive Conflict Transformation. To get started finding Mediation and Facilitation Training Manual: Foundations and Skills for Constructive Conflict Transformation, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
324
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
Mennonite Conciliation Services
Release
2003
ISBN
Mediation and Facilitation Training Manual: Foundations and Skills for Constructive Conflict Transformation
Description: "Do not remember the former things, or consider the things of old. I am about to do a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert." -Isaiah 43:18-19 ""Transformation": to change markedly the appearance, form, nature, function or condition; to convert. Transformation is all around us. From cellular biology, math, and linguistics, to the current lingo of education and corporate management. It is in the changing of the season as I look outside my study window. And in the painstaking and often painful process in which many Mennonites have been involved in recent years: creating a new denomination out of two. As one pundit quipped early on: when you try to blend two into one, you end up with at least three! "Transformation" is also a spiritual word. Those of us who work with peace and justice issues---all across the spectrum from international to neighborhood and family settings---are occasionally privileged to witness it: that sacred moment when the old makes way for new. Often it is as fragile as a pine seedling growing sideways out of a tiny cavity in a rocky mountainside; or a weed pushing up through a crack in an urban sidewalk. Occasionally it soars on eagles' wings over a wide landscape change. This manual is itself a parable of transformation---telling some of the change-story of MCS and of the broader mediation field. At the first MCS Summer Training Institute in 1985, we participants were each given a slim manila folder in which to collect the week's hand-outs. Copied on blue paper and pre-dating high-class wordprocessing and copying equipment, their somewhat ragged look is still precious to me---like the new teeth of a young child. Ron Kraybill's early distillation on paper of so many key concepts confirmed my own growth and invited me onward---both spiritually and intellectually. By the time I joined the staff in 1988, Dave Brubaker had organized 40..." [from foreword by Alice M. Price]We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Mediation and Facilitation Training Manual: Foundations and Skills for Constructive Conflict Transformation. To get started finding Mediation and Facilitation Training Manual: Foundations and Skills for Constructive Conflict Transformation, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.