Workshop A: Robin Moulds - Dialogue in the Muslim World: Peacebuilding and Conflict Mediation between Muslims, Jews and Christians

This workshop will focus on an urgent global issue of our times and resolving the ever-widening chasm between the Muslim world and the West. Drawing upon successful mediations and peaceful negotiations that Robin has facilitated in Pakistan, the United Arab Emirates, Kashmir, India, Cuba, England, and the USA; we will discuss paradigms of conflict resolution that are most applicable and adaptable to Muslim culture. We will learn cultural norms and communication styles across a variety of Muslim sects and ethnicities that de-escalate conflict. Robin will present case examples of her use of trauma de-briefing, EMDR, and mediation within mosques, refugee camps, disaster sites, border disputes, university campuses, and embassies. Lastly, we will learn from university students here and abroad who are forging their own movement of Jewish-Muslim-Christian dialogue groups that have changed the climate of cultural understanding on campuses globally.

Workshop B: Pat Clark - Why Truth and Reconciliation Commissions are Important to US Communities. In this workshop, Pat will cover why a Truth and Reconciliation Commission was sought in Greensboro, NC, the obstacles faced throughout the community, lessons learned by the commissioners and the community form international communities and how other US communities can benefit from this model.

Workshop A: Anie Kalayjian and Marian Weisberg - An Experiential Forgiveness Workshop
One-by-One, since its inception has been offering opportunities for dialogues between decedents of perpetrators as well as decedents of survivors. This workshop will be facilitated by Anie Kalayjian an Armenian descendent of Ottoman Turkish Genocide survivors, and Marian Weisberg, a Jewish descendent of Holocaust survivors. This workshop will address the challenges of practicing forgiveness. An analysis and overview of literature on forgiveness will be provided. Impact of forgiveness on general health and coping with trauma will be discussed. The experiential part of the workshop offers participants opportunities to examine unforgiving parts of themselves in response to mass trauma. Exercises will be offered that enhance group process and offer opportunities to share. At the end, participants will be led in a special meditation. To echo Bert Hellinger, 'peace begins in the soul,' and the focus of this workshop is to help the process of peace making.

Workshop B: David Blair - Karuna Center for Peacebuilding - Wounded Identity Workshop
The Karuna Center for Peacebuilding was founded in 1994 to address the
growing global challenge of ethnic, religious, and political conflict. In partnership with local and regional organizations, Karuna Center develops multi-year programs in conflict transformation, inter-communal dialogue and reconciliation. Since its' founding, Karuna Center has conducted programs in more than twenty countries around the world.

Breaking the Cycle of Revenge: Addressing the Wounds of Identity
This workshop will explore the traumatic impact of intergroup violence on individual and group identity. We will look at how those who are harmed and those who harm others are wounded in the process and at the role of their wounds in perpetuating violence. We will then explore the processes that enable people both individually and collectively not only to recover from the past but to use their experience to illuminate and build a more peaceful future. We will draw on Karuna Center's work in Rwanda, Bosnia, and elsewhere to illustrate our experiences of these transforming processes.

Robert Hilliard - Media and Genocide, from the Holocaust to Now
The Roles of the Media in Preventing/Abetting Genocide "Lack of Information = Lack of Meaningful Dialogue"
1. Hitler-Goebbels-Mussolini use of media.
2. World War II Holocaust: Who.Knew What When - Films, Radio, Newspapers, Magazines
3. Current and Recent Genocides a) Media Reporting/Positions/Impact

Workshop A: Poonam Tandon from Art of Living - Will lead the Thursday morning meditation and lead an experiential workshop entitled "Healing the Self."

Workshop B: Zella Brown and Marga Dieter - Storytelling Workshop. Many descendants of either side of our shared legacies find themselves bereft of everything but their stories. Zella Brown and Marga Dieter, One by One members, will demonstrate the way they have been presenting their stories in the last ten years to diverse audiences. Come to this workshop to sharpen your skills for accessing your personal story.

Workshop A: Christina Braidotti/Elisa Medina - Latin American Perspectives. Elisa Medina, member from Lima, Peru, has opened a One by One branch in her country, and will talk about the healing work she has initiated with family members of victims of the genocide there during the 1980s. Irene Jaievsky, former curator of the Museo del Holocausto in Buenos Aires, Argentina, will share her public speaking experiences there as well as the initial stages and future plans of Latin America's only Holocaust museum. Argentinian artist, Patricia Krasbuch, will explain how she links the two worlds, the one above and the one below,and the metaphorical qualities of her art works. In this way, she creates a dialogue between the painting and the observer.

Workshop B: Suzanne Schecker and Joyce Reilly - Psychological Affect of War on Children. We will explore the affect of war on the emotional, psychological and developmental needs of children in different conflicts and cultures. The workshop will offer participants an opportunity to share from own experience. Suzanne, who was born in a bomb shelter in Darmstadt, Germany in July 1944, will draw on her own childhood and the findings of her research on the psychological affects of the Holocaust on the second generation of Germans and Jews. Joyce will draw on her many years of work in intentional therapeutic communities with children who have special mental and emotional needs. We will look at the strengths that children draw upon, their resilience and their natural positivity. We will draw upon the child in each of us as we negotiate a path through the horrors of war with the light-filled eye of the child.....

Workshop A: Claudia von Alemann - Film - SHADOWS OF MEMORY (2000.) In an effort to reconcile an unsettling past, the filmmaker, her 84-year-old mother, and her 17-year-old daughter reunite in the small East German village from which their family fled to the West. The film reveals the point of view of an average German citizen, a housewife and mother of six, who believed in Hitler, but later radically changed her views. The mother's honesty and clarity provide unique insight into Hitler's mass appeal. In German with English subtitles. Discussion afterwards

Workshop B: Yitzhak Zieman, Holocaust Survivor, One by One Advisory Board Member, TCI (Theme-centered Interaction) Therapist - TCI arose from the experiences and knowledge of psychoanalysis, and under the influence of group therapies and experientialism. It was started by Ruth C. Cohn, and further developed by her and her colleagues in the USA and later in Europe. Yitzhak is one of her colleagues. Yitzhak's workshop, Improving Understanding between Germans and Jews through TCI (Theme-centered Interaction) - A Jewish Survivor's Psychological Work with Germans, will take place on Thursday.