PeoplesLab: Tools of Engagement Certificate
About this certificate:
BRDGES Academy is pleased to provide PeoplesLab: Tools of Engagement. This unique 20-hour certification is taught in eight 2.5 hours sessions weekly. It is designed to transform participants emotionally, physically and socially, both internally within the individual and interpersonally between people. Uniquely, it integrates somatic skills to explore memories, sensations and emotions held unconsciously within the body. The skills learned are designed to transform participants emotionally, physically and socially, thus generating expressions and actions to recognize and negotiate our differences.
Dorit Cypis
Born in Tel Aviv, Isreal, Dorit Cypis, artist, educator, mediator and social activator has long explored the question “who are we to one another”. Her artwork across performance, photography, and immersive media installation has been presented at cultural sites internationally. Dorit has developed civic programs building social change including Kulture Klub Collaborative, artists and home-less youth bridging survival and inspiration, North East Youth Council, Latinx youth responding to local social justice needs, and PeoplesLab, building peoples’ capacity to transform conflict into possibility. Dorit has published texts and designed college curriculum since 1983. Among her many awards are the Guggenheim Fellowship and a Rauschenberg Foundation award in 2014. She earned post-graduate degrees from California Institute for the Arts and Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution, Pepperdine University. Cypis was born in Israel, raised in Montreal, Canada, and lives in Los Angeles, CA.
The Spring Sessions (Basic + Application)
PeoplesLab: Tools of Engagement, Free Orientation
Thursday, April 18 @ 12:00 pm – 2:30 pm EST (USA)
Session 1: PeoplesLab Principles and Values; Transformational Social Justice; What is a Body?
Thursday, April 25 @ 12:00 pm – 2:30 pm EST (USA)
Session 2: Somatic Guided Attention; Dynamic Listening; Identity Inside and Out;
Thursday, May 2 @ 12:00 pm – 2:30 pm EST (USA)
Session 3: Somatic Guided Attention; Reactive/Responsive Behavior; Dynamic Listening;
Thursday, May 9 @ 12:00 pm – 2:30 pm EST (USA)
Session 4: Somatic Guided Attention; Capacities/Challenges; pairing and sharing;
Thursday, May 16 @ 12:00 pm – 2:30 pm EST (USA)
Session 5: Somatic Guided Attention; Overview/Conflict Engagement Principles + Tools; Application of Conflict Engagement Tools to direct conflict experience; Open Conversation
Thursday, May 23 @ 12:00 pm – 2:30 pm EST (USA)
Session 6: Somatic Guided Attention; Phase 1/Conflict Engagement Principles + Tools; Application Phase 1/Conflict Engagement Tools to direct conflict experience; Open Conversation
Thursday, May 30 @ 12:00 pm – 2:30 pm EST (USA)
Session 7: Somatic Guided Attention; Phase 2/ Conflict Engagement Principles + Tools; Application Phase 2/Conflict Engagement Tools to direct conflict experience; Open Conversation
Thursday, June 6 @ 12:00 pm – 2:30 pm EST (USA)
Session 8: Somatic Guided Attention; Phase 3/Conflict Engagement Principles + Tools; Application Phase 3/Conflict Engagement Tools to direct conflict experience; Open Conversation
Thursday, June 13 @ 12:00 pm – 2:30 pm EST (USA)
Advanced Practice - Building Community
This Session is To Be Planned Individually with Participants
The focus of Advanced Practice is on Spheres of Agency for transformational and sustainable social justice change: and the application of Tools of Engagement on social systemic conditions towards building sustainable and transformative community programs. Participants who have completed 8 sessions of Tools of Engagement: Basics + Applications will focus now on using the tools intentionally to teach others and to apply the tools to community projects they are building.
Group Sessions 2.5 hours + Independent Coaching hours.
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Who can take these courses?
Anyone involved in conflict or dispute resolution, including mediators, negotiators, coaches, human resource personnel, attorneys, paralegals, arbitrators, and counselors, as examples.
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