Week-long Courses

Industrial Areas Foundation Regional Training:

Next Course: Leadership Skills for Community Organization

Dates: January 14 – 18, 2013

Times: Monday 11:00am – 5:00 pm; T, W, Th 9:00am – 5:00pm; Friday 9:00am – 3:00pm

Instructors: Mr. Michael Stanley and Mr. Michael Gecan

This course will assist participants to develop their power and leadership skills. Students will learn how to develop any congregation or voluntary organization through engaging in the fundamentals of community organizing. The course is led by the Industrial Areas Foundation, a group with an outstanding record in effecting social change.

Drew Theological School Fee Schedule:

For students, this training is listed as CSOC 482: Leadership Skills for Community Organization (3-credits). Registration will open in mid-April. Registration deadline is January 10, 2013. 3  CEU’s available. For more information or to register, contact Nancy Vander Veen, Director of Lifelong Learning at nvanderveen@drew.edu or 973-408-3084.

Justpeace Center for Mediation and Conflict Transformation Training

Next Course: to be announced: Engage Conflict Well: The Spirit and Art of Conflict Transformation

This course will explore the theology, theory and practice of faith-based conflict transformation. Students will look first to how theology and spiritual life prepares them for engaging others, including attitude toward conflict, skill development (listening, speaking, use of the imagination and the craft of forgiveness), formation as a peacebuilder, and the development of a constructive understanding of their role. They then will see how theology and spiritual life inform their engagement of those in conflict. The class will practice one form of facilitation, the circle process, which will include an exploration of the role of ritual, the importance of relational covenants, appreciative inquiry and the art of asking questions, interest-based mediation and restorative justice.

Drew Theological School Fee Schedule:

NOTE: This course is not scheduled at this time, but information will be available on this webpage as it becomes available.

For students, this course is listed as CHSC 482: Topics in Church and Society - Just Peace (3-credits).To register as a Community Fellow, visit: our Community Fellows website. For more information, contact Nancy VanderVeen, Director of Lifelong Learning at nvanderveen@drew.edu or 973-408-3084.