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Israel and Palestine
At the invitation of Women in the Center in Nazareth, La Casa de Maria associate director and Capacitar board member Juliet Spohn Twomey and Capacitar founder/director Pat Cane traveled to the Mideast for two weeks offering six workshops to over 150 women and men.
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In Israel participants included mental health professionals at Mashabim Trauma Center in Kiryat Shmona, greatly impacted by the bombings of last summer's second Lebanese war. Another workshop was for young women from Israel and Palestine who are leaders in the project, Creativity for Peace. Women in the Center hosted a wonderful gathering of Jewish, Christian and Muslim women, including 12 Arab childcare workers. For most of these women this was the first time they had ever been together, and they found deep connection learning the Capacitar practices for healing themselves, their families and communities |
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Barta'a Workshop
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Three different workshops were offered to Palestinian groups on the West Bank:
for a clinic in Barta'a, where there are very few health services for families; in Ramallah for a women's sewing cooperative; and in Jenin for a cooperative of village women who are trying to keep alive their handicrafts and traditions. Capacitar plans to return to Israel and Palestine in 2008 to continue offering workshops as well as to train teams in our methods and spirit.
Jenin Workshop |
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Jenin workshop |
Palestinian women
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Arabic and Hebrew translations of the Capacitar Emergency Kit are now available, thanks to Women in the Center leaders: Aura Hammer for the Hebrew translation and Asmahan Mansur for the Arabic translation.
Indonesia
Capacitar trainers Joan Condon and Nina Jusuf returned to Indonesia in June to continue formation of Capacitar teams and to offer care for caregivers and groups working with people affected by the earthquakes, tsunami and ongoing political violence.
Participants at one workshop included staff and volunteers of KOMNAS (National Commission for Violence Against Women) along with commissioners in charge of human development for the national police and the president of Indonesian Catholic women. Another caregivers workshop was hosted by Muhammadiyah—National Muslim Organization for young Women. Many of these women were university students who worked in children's crisis centers after the devastating earthquakes in May 2006.
Since trainings in October 2006 the Capacitar Indonesia teams have offered workshops throughout the islands in Bali, Aceh, Manado and Poso to a broad cross-section of participants including refugees, tsunami and earthquake victims, teachers, people with HIV/AIDS, medical professionals, social workers, fishermen and farmers from local villages.
The Capacitar Emergency Kit, translated by Nina Jusuf, is available in Indonesian.
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Indonesian Team
 Tai Chi durin gthe workshop
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East Timor
In July, East Timor was in political crisis, unable to form a government after parliamentary elections at the end of June. People feared widespread street violence and house burnings, a repeat of what happened in April 2006. Despite this, 35 people—teachers, police, youth outreach and church workers—came to the fourth session of the training of trainers held at a retreat center in the mountains above the capital, Dili. The training was arranged by the Timor Aid Capacitar team and facilitated by Capacitar trainer Joan Condon. In addition to Capacitar practices, the focus was on leadership, teamwork, conflict resolution and workshop facilitation skills. Participants also reported on work done between trainings in schools, homes and communities.
For more information on Capacitar in East Timor and Indonesia, read Joan's letter from the field.
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Between Capacitar International visits, the Timor Aid Capacitar team has provided workshops on basic practices to people in 7 districts in the country and follow-up workshops for those attending the training of trainers. During this visit, Joan and the Timor Aid team also offered a four-day training for 17 PRADET staff who work with victims of domestic violence and sexual abuse as well as those traumatized by political violence. Joan gave a one-day leadership workshop for 27 people including staff from Timor Aid, Redo Feto, a coalition of women’s organizations, and Fokuppers, a women’s group and co-facilitated a workshop for 45 men in the prison.
Capacitar practices are vital to the people of East Timor as they struggle to overcome the trauma of years of colonial rule and build a nation that provides education, stability, peace and work for its people. |
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Rwanda
It has only been a year since Capacitar started to work in Rwanda and already there is great growth in teams and outreach coordinated by Dr. Genevieve van Waesberghe, MMM, and Antoinete Gasibirege, SH. Currently the 56 men and women participating in the in-depth program are using Capacitar practices with thousands throughout the country. At the June training, the Capacitar Chartres-style labyrinth, made by Genemarie Beegan, RSM, nearly ten years ago, was offered to participants. This was the first time, to our knowledge, that a labyrinth has been used in Rwanda and it deeply touched everyone. One man said: "I found my center and deep peace after all the pain I have suffered in my life. I am not alone."
Generous friends from Toronto, Canada, have donated funds so that Sr. Genemarie can make a labyrinth for Capacitar Rwanda. This will be inaugurated and blessed at the January trainings in Butare and Cyangugu. |
Burundi: CaritasHabonimana
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Two of the Nicaraguan participants (above).
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Nicaragua
Mary Litell, OSF and Lynn Kapitan, Ph.D. co-facilitated a training in Spirituality and Leadership at Cantera, a Center for Popular Education based in Managua. The training included men and women from many parts of Nicaragua who are working with grassroots communities. The focus of the 3 days was on archetypes and the healing of Nicaraguan society through reclaiming the energy of cultural and universal archetypes.
A Capacitar dance retreat facilitated by Mary Litell, will again be offered at Cantera in December.
See calendar for dates. |
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