MeckMIN (Mecklenburg Metropolitan Interfaith Network) promotes interfaith collaboration to foster understanding, compassion and justice. We envision a community that lives by the highest values and core virtues of its rich faith traditions and respects the dignity of every person. 

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Your payment helps to support MeckMIN's work for interfaith understanding and cooperation. If the fees listed are not possible for you, please contact us! We want to work with you.

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CONFLICT TRANSFORMATION 

INTERACTIVE WORKSHOPS 

(45 minutes to Half Day)

 

Conflict Transformation is a simple, powerful approach that views conflict as natural, normal and even necessary in human interaction. It helps us to understand conflict and address it in ways that are healthy and healing. At its best, it unleashes the positive power of our inevitable conflicts to create lasting change and stronger relationships.

 

Introduction to Conflict Transformation (3 to 4 hours)

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Topics include: The Positive Potential of Conflict; Understanding Conflict Styles; Tools for Analyzing Conflict; Listening with Curious Questions; Understanding Mainstreams and Margins

​Cost: $1000 ($500 for current MeckMIN members)

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Many of the topics can also be offered as stand-along workshops including:

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Listening with Curious Questions: A Tool for Conflict Transformation (45 to 60 minutes)

Mainstreams and Margins: A Tool for Conflict Transformation (45 to 60 minutes)

Tools for Analyzing Conflict (45 to 60 minutes)

What’s Your Conflict Style and Why Does It Matter? (45 to 60 minutes)

Cost: $250 ($125 for current MeckMIN members)

 

How Do I Convince Them?

Skills and Mindsets for Effective Conversations When We Disagree (45 to 120 minutes)

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Topics Include:  Non-Binary Thinking; Compassion and Self Compassion; The Comfort Zone; Learning Conversations; Curious Questions; Positions vs. Feelings, Interests, & Culture

Cost: $250 ($125 for current MeckMIN members)

 

Talk: "A Quality of Relationship": A Theology of Transforming Conflict (20 to 30 minutes)

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This talk, which could also be offered as a sermon in a variety of faith contexts, offers an inspirational perspective on transforming conflict in the “lives we actually have.”

 

DEEPER CONVERSATIONS WORKSHOPS 

(45 minutes to Half Day)

 

A variety of tools that offer an experience of deeply authentic conversations. Participants often find this transformative. All are offered as short, interactive workshops or could be combined into a longer experience.

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100 Word Autobiography: A Tool for Deeper Conversations (45 to 60 minutes)

Curious Questions: A Tool for Deeper Conversations (45 to 60 minutes)

Photo Language: An Interactive Tool for Deep Group Conversation (can be used for a variety of topics) (45 to 60 minutes)

Cost: $250 ($125 for current MeckMIN members) – Prices negotiable for combining different elements

 

 

DIVERSITY and PLURALISM 

(45 minutes to Half Day)

 

Our panels are a wonderful opportunity to hear directly from representatives of the nine different faith traditions that make up MeckMIN. They deepen our ability to know and be known by our neighbors and are always well-received. 

 

Talk: Moving from Diversity to Pluralism (45 to 60 minutes)

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Interfaith Panel for the Workplace (45 to 60 minutes)

 

A one-hour panel with people of 4-5 different faiths sharing about work experiences -- what's been great, what could be better, specifics about what does or doesn't help create a sense of belonging that allows them to bring their best selves to work. Q and A is included. The target audience is anyone in the workplace including fellow employees, supervisors, and HR staff. 

Cost: $750 (or $1,000 with additional small group work) 

 

 

Interfaith Panel for Schools (45 to 60 minutes)

 

A one-hour panel of adults of 4-5 faiths sharing about experiences in school (their own and/or that of their children and grandchildren or members of their congregations) --  sharing what's been helpful, what could be better, and  specifics about what teachers and administrators can do to create a sense of belonging within classrooms and schools as a whole. Q and A is included. We have done this quite a few times, and it is always very well-received. The target audience is teachers and administrators. 

Cost: $500 (or $750 with additional small group work) - costs negotiable for schools

 

Young Adult Interfaith Panel (45 to 60 minutes)

 

Based on our very popular annual Youth Interfaith Panel, this is a one-hour panel of young adults (usually high school and college age students) of 4-5 faiths sharing everything from their favorite holidays to where they regularly experience misunderstanding and discrimination. This panel is a great way to sensitize young adults and those who work with them to the joys and challenges of particular religious communities and how we can ALL help to create places of welcome, understanding and belonging.

Cost: $750 (or $1,000 with additional small group work) – negotiable for schools

 

All panels can be offered as part of an interactive workshop of 2-3 hours -- prices negotiable

 

TAKING ACTION WORKSHOPS

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Originally designed for college students, these workshops are a good, basic introduction for those new or relatively new to effective active for the common good. They can be offered individually or combined into a half-day experience.

 

Activism 101: What’s my Role in Creating Change? (90-120 minutes)

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Movements for change are created and sustained by ordinary people who take action for the world they want to see. This interactive workshop will explore YOUR unique role -- how to find it and how to sustain it.

Cost: $300 ($200 for current MeckMIN members)

 

Social Change: Creating Movements that Create Change (90-120 minutes)

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We often talk about wanting "to change the world" -- what are the key components of successful movements that do just that? This workshop explores effective movements to create equality, justice and beloved community and what makes them work.

Cost: $300 ($200 for current MeckMIN members)

 

TRAUMA WORKSHOPS

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Trauma is both a cause of and a response to the discrimination and even violence experienced across lines of difference. These workshops are a good, basic introduction for those new to understanding trauma and addressing it in healing ways for ourselves and others.

 

Trauma Awareness and Resilience: Breaking Cycles of Harm

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Topics include: Types of Trauma; The Effects of Trauma; Victim/Survivor Cycle of Unhealed Trauma; Aggressor/Offender Cycle of Unhealed Trauma; Breaking the Cycle; Transformative Initiatives and Stories

​Timing: 3 to 4 hours

Cost: $1000 ($500 for current MeckMIN members)

A basic introduction can be offered in 90 minutes. Cost: $250 ($125 for current MeckMIN members)

 

Can also be offered as a full-day session or weekend retreat with additional topics. Price negotiable.

 

Racism: Trauma and Resilience

 

A short introduction to using the trauma model to understand and address race and racism in the US.

 

Topics include: Understanding Trauma and Types of Trauma; The Cycle of Violence of Unhealed Trauma; The US as a System of Unaddressed and Unhealed Trauma; The Hope Within our Current Moment; Breaking Cycles of Violence and Building Resilience; Stories of Resistance and Repair

Timing: 3 to 4 hours Cost: $1000 ($500 for current MeckMIN members)

A basic introduction can be offered in 90 minutes.

Cost: $250 ($125 for current MeckMIN members)

Can also be offered as a full-day session or weekend retreat with additional topics. Price negotiable.

a full-day session or weekend retreat with additional topics. Price negotiable.
 

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For more information on these training sessions or to discuss how they might be adapted for your congregation or organization, please contact MeckMIN Executive Director,

LeDayne McLeese Polaski at ledayne@meckmin.org or call 704-965-9241.

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