Nonviolence workshops for educational centres

Working in Teams - Playing the game representing values - Personal work tools: Peace experience

Workshops for educators:

An introduction to Nonviolence **

Violence and Nonviolence. Different types of violence in everyday life and in society.
Recognising violence in personal experience and how to resist and overcome it.

Workshops for teenagers:

Workshop 1A: *
Introduction to Nonviolence

Video “Growing Peace or Growing Destruction
Personal survey on nonviolence and sharing

Workshop 2A: *

The Golden Rule
Treat others the way you want to be treated.

Game. Individual work.
How would I like to be treated?  How do I treat others? Sharing.

Workshop 3A: *

From “I” to “We”

Screening of a short film.
Tour around the centre in groups, noting down situations of discrimination and violence.
Proposals for change.
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Creative day for Peace and Nonviolence. *

Artistic expression and symbolisation for Peace.

Contest of desires and commitments for peace and nonviolence: rap, drawings, murals…

Concrete proposals:

  • Production of flashmobs or micro-short films on non-violent conflict resolution.
  • Participation in the International Film Festival of Active Nonviolence FICNOVA.

Sports Day for Peace and Nonviolence *

Corporal expression and symbolisation for Peace: choreography and human symbols of peace and non-violence.

Workshops for parents or adults

Introduction to Nonviolence**

Violence and Nonviolence. Different types of violence in everyday life and in society.
Recognition of violence in personal experience and how to resist and overcome it.

Workshop 1:
Disarming psychological violence. **

Screening of a short film.
Intentionality in oneself and in others.
Inner centre. Basic registers.

Workshop 2:
Disarming moral violence. **

Short film screening.
Propaganda and Models.
Basic registers: Valid action, unity and contradiction.

Workshop 3:
Disarming sexual violence. **


Short film screening.
Reification and appropriation of intention.
Inner centre. Basic registers.

* Workshops based on the “World without Wars and without Violence” Integral Action Plan for Nonviolence. Contributed by “Foro Humanista de Educación”

** Workshops developed by FICNOVA.

Contact FICNOVA for information and programming: