George Lakey
February 20-22, 2009    
Fri 6:30 p.m. dinner thru Sun lunch
Cost: $310  
EARLYBIRD: $35 off the total before January 20, 2009

Let’s face it: the sacrifice paradigm gets old if we want to be activists for the long run.  We need (and deserve) ways of working that get better results AND support abundant personal lives.  We’ll explore the HOW of this, with experiential exercises, probing questions, small groups, reflection and fun.
 
George Lakey has led 1,500 peace and strategy workshops on five continents, taught peace studies at colleges and universities, and authored seven classics on nonviolent social change, peace, and organizational development.  He has led activist organizations on local, state, national, and international levels; protested war; risked arrest; and provided protective accompaniment for threatened human rights activists.  In 1991 founded and then directed Training for Change, an organization famous for empowering NGOs and grassroots activists; it has trained over 15,000 participants in 650 workshops and worked in 20 countries. He currently teaches at Swarthmore College.

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Lakey's books include Powerful Peacemaking and Grassroots and Nonprofit Leadership: A Guide for Organizations in Changing Times.  His first book, A Manual for Direct Action, was a handbook for the civil rights movement of the '60s.  In 2003 he co-authored the most extensively researched training curriculum in the field of civilian peacekeeping: Opening Space for Democracy.

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