National & Regional Capacitar Gatherings

Regional Conference of Central America

Regional Conference of Central America

Capacitar organizes national and regional gatherings to strengthen networking and outreach. The gatherings are open to people who have participated in Capacitar trainings, who are using the practices in their daily lives, and who are multiplying the work in their profession or with their families and communities.

The goals of the gatherings are to:

• Promote networking and collaboration on local, national and regional levels
• Share experiences of how Capacitar is being used with groups
• Provide information and new training for teams and individuals in areas of interest
  and need
• Share resources and expertise among participants
• Encourage leadership and collaboration among participants in planning for future growth and development.

National Gathering for US and Border Communities

Capacitar held three regional gatherings (1998, 2000, 2001) in Central America attended by people from six countries (Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Belize, Mexico, and the United States). The first U.S. National Gathering was held in 2004 in San Diego, California, with 55 participants from 8 states and Mexican border communities of Texas and California.

Capacitar International Gatherings

Capacitar's 20th Anniversary Global Celebration 2008

20th Anniversary Global Celebration - July 20-23, 2008

Capacitar celebrated 20 years of solidarity and global outreach in July 2008 with a conference at La Casa de Maria in Santa Barbara.  Eighty-five men and women representing Capacitar teams from 20 countries participated. The three-day gathering involved workshops and presentations from teams, cultural exchange, rituals, music, dance and an evening presentation open to the larger community. Twenty-five of the participants also visited Northern California for learning and exchange, as well as presentations in Santa Cruz, Monterey and San Francisco.   

2006 International Gathering at Sophia Center

In 2006 Capacitar convened its first international gathering as part of the Sophia Center Summer Institute: Cosmology of Health, at Holy Names University in Oakland, CA. Twenty-two team members and board members from seven countries were represented: ”Tanzania, Argentina, Ireland, Guatemala, Indonesia, Texas/Mexico, and from 5 states in the U.S. Participants shared what they were doing in their respective countries and regions. Six members were part of a panel for the Capacitar keynote and described their healing work at the grassroots in their countries.