2018

Sri Lanka
  • Implementing the new strategic development plan with local nonviolence-based NGO, Peace and Community Action (PCA)
  • PCA staff training and coaching
  • Creating and developing new action research and new activities with PCA​.
  • ​Election violence and 'race riot' interventions
Working with Sagacious Youth Lead Consortium (SYLC), as general mentor, plus leading a training and coaching programme with the team in peace and reconciliation action projects.​
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  • Collaborating with Play for Peace, exploring developing a Sri Lanka programme.
Developing initiatives with an international body supporting social enterprises and reconciliation.

  • ​Supporting research and documenting of women's experiences of gender based violence and sexual violence in Northern Sri Lanka.
​Specialist facilitator with the Centre for Peace Building and Reconciliation (CPBR), on their Youth Passions for Peace programme.

​UK

  • Launched a new project and ran the first workshop on Equality, and Inclusion, Power and Privilege, London.
  • The above project evolved into The Otherness Lab and OpenEdge piloted three further workshops in three different locations.
  • OpenEdge hosted the Fringe Event of the NonViolent Communication International Intensive Training UK. This included an Otherness Lab and a Transition Lounge with international participants.
  • Guest lecturer, Applied Peace and Conflict Studies MA, University of Bradford. 
  • Exploratory seminars with Peace Studies students at the University of Bradford on the danger and power of personal storytelling in peace scholarship and practice.
  • Presentations at three events about the Stephen Lawrence legacy, contemporary racism and issues of identity, power and privilege, London.
  • Non-violent Personal Safety and Protection Training for Women,  London.
  • Supporting youth programmes lead by and for young black men in London: Exploring the impacts and legacy of institutional racism in todays youth violence.


​Recent Individual and Collective Learning and Development 
  • Sophie; Power and Privilege International Intensive Training with the Centre for Nonviolent Communication, USA. With Miki Kashtan, Roxy Manning, Sarah Peyton.
  • Sophie, Sarri, Ceri, Paul; From Conflict to Interdependence - The Neuroscience of relationship, UK. With Sarah Peyton.
  • Thaya, Paul, Sarri; Convergent Facilitation and The Art of Facilitation, Poland. With Miki Kashtan.
  • Sarri, Living and Integrating Full Embodiment (LIFE), Germany. With Robert Gonzales.
  • Sarri, Ceri; Radical Exploration of Inclusion, Power and Privilege, online, with Martha Lasley and Roxy Manning.
  • Thurka; NonViolent Communication International Intensive Training, Sri Lanka, with Dunia Hatagekimana, Sabine Geiger, Jim and Jori Manske.



Some of our past work


Settings include
war and post-war contexts
prisons
schools and pupil referral units
youth groups
​refugee communities
women’s groups and mens groups
religious and faith groups (various)
universities
state and non-state armed groups
​activist and change groups
community groups
local and international NGO's
police
academic conferences
festivals and gatherings
local government sector
business sector
eco communities 
at home, with family and our communities
UK, Europe, Middle East, Sri Lanka, Nepal, USA, Brazil, S.Africa, India

Types of work include
mediation (peer, needs-based, community, restorative, NVC) 
anger, trauma and grief work
teaching and facilitating
community and race relations
gender equality
personal coaching and support
organisational change and development
restorative justice
​Holacracy
individual and collaborative research and action research
Child Protection with Conflict Transformation 
national government policy review and consulting
independent advisor to Met. police and Home Office
​project design, delivery, monitoring, evaluations
​consultant with charities and NGO's
theatre and drama based workshops
restorative circles
hate crime intervention and prevention
​transitional justice
reconciliation and peace building
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