we build everyday peacemaking skills
Peaceable is not a single state but an ongoing and everyday process that requires daily attention. With us, you can build the mindset and skills to become an effective everyday peacemaker.
Peaceable guides experiential self-development through immersive training and mobile micro-learning, offers leading-edge insights, and builds connections between conflict transformation innovators, designers, technologists, artists, and peacemaking practitioners and thinkers.
Together, we cultivate, discover and promote new ways for individuals, organisations and communities to co-exist with differences.
WHY PEACEABle
Top-down attempts at conflict transformation and societal cohesion don’t seem to be working. How can divided communities reconcile and rebuild, when differences and grievances that escalated in the first place have not evaporated and may re-ignite?
We approach conflict differently. From the bottom up, and from the inside out.
We equip individuals and groups with a better understanding of themselves and others. We inspire them to believe that they can make a difference with practical skills for navigating differences, strengthening relationships and working across divides.
Our work brings together deep experience in relational and emotional intelligence, conflict and change management, technology innovation, design and the arts. Interdisciplinary collaboration is at the core of all we do.
From this perspective, peace is a verb, an ability to learn. Those who learn, enable peace around them, not once but every moment. This is how a situation can become peaceable.
Peace is a capability. Anyone can learn it.
breaking through
We are all affected by the cycle of violence in the current global atmosphere, whether we’re caught up in actual violent conflicts or not. Our new reality of rapidly advancing technologies, climate and economic pressures, and social fragmentation impact us all. Lost hope and powerlessness can lead us to pull inwards, away from what is difficult, away from what is different from us.
It seems impossible, and even so, we believe the cycle of conflict can be broken and even transformed.
From facilitated workshops and individualised learning to custom-designed interactive experiences at any scale, Peaceable offers a range of ways to support individuals and groups in developing new mindsets and skills to connect and collaborate across differences.
tailored workshops
Fast, fun and interactive, our workshops and facilitated sessions are shaped to the needs of your group to develop a peaceable ethos.
Develop skills to value conflicting views and work collaboratively by drawing on participants’ experiences to encourage reflection, new insights and moving to action.
We work with groups of all sizes, from small teams to entire organisations.
Recent workshops we have run include:
Mediation principles for building cohesion
Inclusive facilitation techniques
From conflict to communication
Rapid prototyping for peaceable solutions
Future scenario building for sustainable peace.
On-the-go learning
Grab a little piece of learning where you can. For individuals, we offer a series of short courses you can access and complete in your own time, focussed on the topics you would like to explore further.
Contact us to get the full list of micro-courses currently available, including those listed below:
You and conflict – understanding your inner responses and impact on any conflict you’re involved in
Understanding conflict – normalising non-violent conflict as full of potential when approached correctly
Holding the space – practical techniques to use in challenging discussions and situations.
Process design
What can spark your ability to take action?
We work with you to create spaces where tough conversations can happen, whether in communities, workspaces or on-the-ground conflicts. By combining the insights from working with the arts and technology, we spark the imagination in a different ways.
We approach space-making as an act of co-creation, with a creative mindset, building on whatever emerges in the room. Whether it’s an intimate group setting, a conference breakout session, or a multi-day experience, Peaceable facilitates interactions that enable powerful breakthroughs.
Peaceable spaces are ones where people feel confident enough to challenge their own certainties, and where diverse views can be brought together and forged into new thinking and approaches.