Sunday 20, May 2012

Project Peacemakers' Annual Eco-Friendly Fundraising Dinner

Come enjoy delicious vegetarian dishes, a speaker and a silent auction on Wednesday April 21st at 6:30 at the United Church in Meadowood(1111 Dakota St.). Laura Rance, editor of the Manitoba Cooperator and Agriculture Columnist for the Winnipeg Free Press, will be the speaker for the evening.

Tickets: $10 (children $5) must be purchased ahead of time by contacting 775-8178 or info@projectpeacemakers.org.

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Canadian School of Peacebuilding

June 14 to July 2, 2010

The Canadian School of Peacebuilding will be offering a one-week course titled Our Contested Food System: Cultivating a Just Peace from June 14-18, 2010. The course is offered on the campus of Canadian Mennonite University in Winnipeg, Canada. To register, please visit our website www.cmu.ca/csop.

Course Description

Proposed solutions to the current food crisis emerge from particular ways of seeing the world, and are increasingly contested by farmers, academics, civil society organizations, consumers and citizens. This course will examine the current realities of our food system, mainstream prescriptions, and emerging discourses around local food systems, sustainable agriculture and food sovereignty/democracy, with the aim of understanding the worldviews that underpin them. It will pay particular attention to faith-based narratives and the possibilities they present for cultivating a just peace in what are being called “food wars”.

An interdisciplinary team including an agricultural scientist, a geographer, a theologian and a food activist will teach the course. Dialogue and participant engagement will play a critical role in the course learning.

Cathy Campbell, PhD Nutrition, M. Div

Martin Entz, PhD Crop Science

Kenton Lobe, MNRM (Interdisciplinary)

Ray VanderZaag, PhD Geography, MSc Agriculture
 

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Teens who Hurt: Effective Strategies for working with Troubled Adolescents

Winnipeg Narrative Presents:

Kenneth V. Hardy PhD

April 29-30 2010

For more information contact Mariana Sussi at 229-7720 or wnt@shaw.ca

To register on line go to www.winnipegnarrativetherapy.com
 

Kenneth Hardy, Ph.D., is the Director of the Eikenberg Institute for Relationships in New York City and Professor of Family Therapy at Syracuse University. Dr. Hardy is internationally known for his work in the area of family therapy and diversity. He is the former Director of the Center for Children, Families, & Trauma at the Ackerman Institute. He maintains a private practice specializing in work with traumatized and oppressed populations. Dr. Hardy is the author of many family therapy articles on trauma, oppression, and racism.

Adolescence is one of the most complex phases of the human development lifecycle. Under the best of circumstances, puberty, the elevated sense of significance assigned to peers, self-centeredness, and a generalized spirit of experimentation, exploration, and "testing of limits" make working with adolescents a challenging endeavor. This work is further complicated when the "normal developmental struggles" of adolescence are compounded by a myriad of emotional, behavioral, familial, and cultural challenges.

“In recent years the number of youth involved in gangs has increased dramatically, and where there are gangs there is violence, the reality is that gangs contribute greatly to the escalation in homicides, aggravated assaults, rapes and other forms of violence that adolescents commit.”

“In terms of violence directed inwardly the data are equally distressing. During the past 30 years the adolescent suicide rate has increased 300%. Self harm also includes a wide range of behaviors such as hitting or bruising oneself, cutting, burning, interfering with the healing wounds, excessive nail biting and hair pulling.”

This workshop will focus on providing strategies that teachers, counselors, and other human service providers can use in their work with youth who are troubled by circumstances that complicate the negotiation of the "normal developmental struggles" of adolescence. A framework for understanding adolescents who have membership in oppressed groups and who are prone toward angry, aggressive, and explosive behaviors will be presented. Specific strategies for enhancing effective assessment, engagement, and treatment with troubled adolescents will be provided. Special attention will be devoted to examining the critical intersection that often exists between violence, trauma and family impact, and the dynamics of socio-cultural oppression.

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