Peace Activation Retreat
Join us for a powerful gathering of peacebuilders looking to cultivate tools of resilience and hope during the ongoing crisis in Palestine and Israel. We believe that together, we can transmute despair into action and grief into a vision for a better future for all.
This retreat will incorporate compassionate sharing, dancing, movement, and trauma work while also strengthening participants’ peacebuilding and leadership skills in these challenging and critical times. We’re inviting participants of all identities—including Israeli, Palestinian, and Jewish—along with peacebuilders from around the globe to join us for this nurturing, healing, and inspiring experience.
Program Summary
As part of ongoing efforts among various peace activist groups to address these challenges, and to strengthen peacebuilders’ capacity to take on leadership roles, we are organizing a 5-day retreat for Jewish, Israeli and Palestinian peacebuilders and peace activists in the diaspora and international peacebuilders who want to achieve greater reach and impact in promoting peaceful solutions. Eva Dalak and Cordula Reimann will lead the retreat, both experienced facilitators and conflict transformation experts who already work together with various peacebuilding groups. The retreat will take place 6-9 December 2024 at the Zen Rocks centre, beautifully situated by the sea in Mani, Greece, about 3 hours from Athens airport.
Activities and Engagement
We will organize ourselves in a flexible and highly participatory manner, which allows enough time for rest, self-reflection, one to each session, group work, and plenary discussions. Additionally, we offer meditation and movement practices.
Requirements of Participants
Experiences in peacebuilding, non-violent resistance, non-violent communication and /or trauma work. Coming with an open heart & mind and a sense of humor will help.
Meet the Facilitators
Eva Dalak
Eva Dalak is an accomplished Facilitator, Trainer, and Coach with 25 years of experience in conflict transformation and organizational change. Her career spans collaborations with international organizations like the United Nations, the European Union, and the World Bank. Eva’s passion lies in soul-based peacebuilding, emphasizing that peace emanates from within each individual.
Cordula Reimann
Dr. Cordula Reimann brings over 25 years of experience as a facilitator, mediator, trainer, and consultant, focusing on conflict sensitivity, peacebuilding, trauma, and gender. She has worked with grassroots movements, governmental and non-governmental organizations worldwide. Cordula’s expertise encompasses collective trauma, systemic conflict analysis, non-violent social change, and more.
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April 2024 Retreat at Zen Rocks
We gathered 10 individuals—peace activators, artists, Palestinians, Israelis, Palestinians and Jews from the diaspora, as well as international activists—for a powerful workshop retreat in Mani, Greece, centered on cultivating resilience, inner peace and transformation, and collective liberation strategies.
This 3-day retreat laid the groundwork for a network of mutual support and equipped participants with leadership skills and tools. It was held in a nurturing environment that created space for trauma work, compassionate processing, and meditation.
Photos from Zen Rocks
