Reconciliation Leadership Certificate Program
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The Reconciliation Leadership™ Certificate Program is offered to emerging and seasoned leaders called to create a just, multiethnic, intercultural sustainable peace — in the community, institution, national or global setting of their choice. Reconciliation Leaders are practical idealists trained to reconcile any challenge in family, group, organization, community or global conflict.
Emerging and seasoned leaders will be introduced to a unique competency model that links personal, interpersonal, group/systemic and global leadership skills to ensure respect for human rights, peaceful settlement of disputes for greater ecological integrity, economic and social well being. The methodology offers competency development to integrate leaders values, skills and experience — to build on one's mission, interpersonal and relational competences to group/team and global competencies. Successful graduates of the program will be eligible to apply to be part of a Global Mediation and Reconciliation Service. For more information about Reconciliation Leadership, click here.
The Basic Reconciliation Leadership Certificate Program
The Practice of Reconciliation Leadership: This course will highlight and appropriate your uniqueness and special gifts as a Reconciliation Leader. Reflection time is provided for new knowledge, tools and techniques where values, gifts, talents and conflict management tools will be explored. Leadership arises from personal integrity, mission and skill building for career and life empowerment. Mission-Focused Leaders are focused, effective, and a desire to empower their followers while leading a balanced, fulfilled life. 10 hours
Writing a Personal Mission Statement: Individual work, scheduled at participants’ convenience. An individualized process and framework offered for emerging and seasoned leaders to become aware of core gifts and talents and form a one-sentence mission statement to articulate how one can make a difference in the world. 10 hours
New Perspectives on Stress, Conflict and Diversity: An introduction to the interpersonal skills of Mission-Focused Leadership: Gain new tools to address feelings and emotions -especially stress, conflict, self-defeating and culturally insensitive behaviors - in personally restorative and life-giving ways. 10 hours
Designing and Implementing Interventions for Community, Institutional and Global Change: Leadership and Conflict Management Strategies for Local and Global Challenges. The Leader learns how to introduce and sustain change in a resistant system using theoretical and practical skills to create peaceful, ethical, just, humane, culturally sensitive, and sustainable structures and frameworks. The course offers experiential learning as a way to integrate conceptual learning, engenders a cross-sectoral approach to intervening in crises. 15 hours (individual)
Reconciliation Leadership Coaching: Coaching to integrate the teachings, skills and leader’s vocational calling into one’s life, work and relationships throughout the program. 10 hours
Work, Purpose, Place and Peace: In understanding the work of a reconciler as a distinct vocation, it is important (to enable and encourage harmony and peace amongst those we seek to bring together from estrangement) that we ourselves comprehend at a profound level the distinct ways in which we are gifted as individuals. We must appreciate the full nature of our purpose through the ownership, appreciation and application of our core values, skills, talents, and special calling. (group only)
Sustainability and Global Citizenship Aspects of Reconciliation Leadership: The purpose of this course is to cultivate a personal relationship to the earth and its resources as well as be exposed to the concepts and practice of global citizenship. 10 hours
Reconciliation of Polarities: Personal and Interpersonal relationship skills will be learned through exercises that enable the participants to experience alternative methods of working with disparate views and belief systems leading to the development of a perspective which recognizes the essential value and inherent dignity of each human being as a basis for human rights. (group only)
The United Nations and the Harmonization of Nations: An Evolving Process Accelerated by the Financial, Climate Change, Global Food and Development Emergencies? ," UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon said, "This is one of the triple crises that I have termed — climate change, development emergencies, and global food crisis.” A history of the formation of the United Nations will be given as well as how its strengths and limitations contribute and deter this body from its goal to deal with the triple crises of climate change, development emergencies and the global food and financial crises. How Article 1.4 of the United Nations Charter: “to be a Centre for harmonizing the actions of nations” is needed now for the global problematique. 10 hours
Reconciliation Leaders and Global Frameworks. Further instruction in the practice of Reconciliation Leadership will be given with case studies to heal the cycle of violence from a larger perspective than victim or perpetrator. 10 hours
Practicum: The participant leader chooses an application of her/his learning, mission statement and special calling to a reconciliation project at the community, institutional, national or global level for the at the convenience of Virginia Swain, mentor, and the leader. The leader will apply their mission statement and all the learning thus far to a reconciliation intervention to create a harmonious, multiethnic community, institution, national or global project November-December-January 2009-2010. 10 hours
Presentations and Certificate Ceremony: A group retreat for participant presentations of their practica as well as a Certificate Ceremony to honor participant’s achievements and prepare for being a part of a Global Mediation and Reconciliation Service.
To make reservations for courses or for more information, please contact Virginia Swain at 508-753-4172 508-245-6843 , or vswain@global-leader.org.
Reconciliation Leadership is a service of the Institute for Global Leadership and the Community Resource and Renewal Center - Personal, Professional and Organizational Renewal in Tiverton, RI.
