Welcome to the Launch Event

Join us at the big room cic (Macclesfield/Cheshire) for this half day event facilitated by Milan Bijelić.

Milan is a facilitator affiliated with CFOR (Force for Change) and brings first-hand experience of conflict resolution in Croatia and Rwanda. He will be joined (via zoom) by our five guest speakers who will be sharing their experience of eldership.

The subjects covered will include reconciliation and community building (Innocent Musore - Rwanda), women in politics (Vassiliki Katrivanou - Greece), safe space dialogues and immigration (Tariq Bashire - UK), supporting wellbeing in the LGBT community (Ellis Beardsmore - Scotland), post-war reconciliation and community building (Tanja Radocaj - Belarus).

There will be an opportunity to ask questions and meet those who have signed-up to the 9 month programme and hear about the local community projects they will be working on over the course of the programme. These include:

• the cross fertilisation of different approaches to addiction recovery,
• supporting young people torn between their British identity and their religious and ethnic identity,
• facilitating conversation between teachers and parents,
• encouraging neuro-diverse approaches within mainstream academic research,
• engaging communities in ‘here-and-now community issues’ by combining politics with live theatre.

The opening event can be attended virtually or in person.  

Book your free ticket on eventbrite.