Gender Reconciliation
The Power of Reconciliation Between Women and Men
Dates: October 23 – 24
Time: 8h00 – 17h00
Cost: R 2500 per participant, R 4000 for two participants, if you bring along a friend. Lunch and teas will be provided.
Venue: The Phaphama offices, Ipelegeng Community Centre, 1283 Phera and Khumalo Streets, White City Jabavu, Soweto
Limited bursaries are available. Please let us know if you would like to offer a sponsorship to a deserving participant. Discounted rates are available for group or organizational bookings of no less than 20 participants.
For your organization to benefit optimally from this work, it would be good to send two people, if possible a man and a woman, on this workshop.
Registration deadline: Please email for registration form no later than 13 March. We would appreciate payment on or before 20 March.
In order to build a space in which participants feel safe enough to enter into this deep work, it is important that you arrive on time and that you stay for the full duration of the workshop. Please arrive at 7h30 on the first day of the workshop for registration and tea.
Please talk to us if you wish to stay overnight in Soweto on the day of the workshop (or on the day before the workshop and on the day of the workshop), so as to reduce traveling time, costs and stress.
For more information about the workshop, please email or phone: Lindi Tshabalala at +27 632844085 or info@phaphama.org
Facilitators
The lead facilitators in a team of four (two men and two women) are Jabu Mashinini and Judy Connors, who have both served as co-directors of Phaphama Initiatives for the past twenty-two years. Both have postgraduate degrees in Conflict Resolution and Peace Studies and devote their attention to gender reconciliation, nonviolence training, community mediation and lifeskills materials’ development. Jabu is also a Certified Coach and Judy also runs Kundalini yoga classes and interspiritual retreats.