apprenticeship program

Between 2009 and 2011, a collective of peacebuilding students from Notre Dame's Kroc Institute and practitioners around the world participated in an Apprenticeship Program, which had the goal of promoting peace and dialogue by developing leadership capacity of conflict transformation practitioners. The Program sought to advance the health of reflective practitioners, attending to the acquisition of analytical and practical skills and cultivating quality of presence and clarity of place and purpose. One of the primary inquiries informing this initiative was: Where is the peacebuilding school that nurtures wholeness? Through whole group retreats and anchor group collaboration, participants explored numerous pathways of individual and collective practice in reflection, accompaniment, and global conflict transformation efforts.

Below is a collection of blog posts John Paul authored and shared as an anchor in the Apprenticeship Program, as well as personal reflections and a published chapter illuminating key learnings from the experience.