25 March 2025 - 3:00 pm PDT and 27 March 2025 - 5:00 am PDT
This workshop aims to provide members of the network with an introduction to interfaith engagement, what it is, how to do it and how to strengthen interfaith collaboration within their organization to deepen and support their work and participation in the URI network.
8 April 2025 - 3:00 pm PDT and 10 April 2025 - 4:00 am PDT
Building on the Intro to Interfaith Engagement, this workshop will introduce a starter toolkit of key facilitation and design skills to support interfaith organizing and collective efforts to advance specific changes in our communities.
22 April 2025 - 3: 00 pm PDT and 24 April 2025 - 4:00 am PDT
Preventing violence may seem overwhelming or even impossible.
This introductory workshop will help you connect with your own capacity to intervene to prevent violence, to realize the power of the “third side” to generate new possibilities beyond violence, and to identify a diversity of partners who can help reduce violence and sustain transformative interventions amidst cycles of violence.
13 May 2025 - 3:00 pm PDT and 15 May 2025 - 4:00 am PDT
The health approach to violence prevention focuses on anticipating and preventing violence before it happens and changing the beliefs and behaviours that support or lead to violence.
This workshop will introduce the basic elements of the health approach with examples and sharing of experiences across different contexts.
27 May 2025 - 3:00 pm PDT and 29 May 2025 - 4:00 am PDT
Being prepared to navigate differences with curiosity and embracing difficult conversations are central practices to interfaith collaboration and moving through conflict with creativity.
This workshop is an introduction to key personal and interpersonal practices to deepen participants’ mindfulness of their personal and cultural habits around conflicts, and to be prepared with a toolkit to move through difficult conversations with creativity.
