So, how does GAIN work on achieving this goal?
- By encouraging its members to accomplish their ambitious, forward thinking peacebuilding work, by providing support and mentorship.
- By being a place for developing personal resilience, building on some of the key principles centered in IofC USA’s programs, such as inner listening and community transformation.
- By offering skill-building opportunities to allow alumni to flourish, ranging from peacebuilding tools to values-based leadership.
- By hosting a safe space for people to speak their truth, to be honest, and to learn from peers.
- By raising underrepresented voices and lifting up minority members, giving them a platform to share their expertise and command their own narrative.
The alumni share, learn, and develop practices of trustbuilding, peace activism, truth-telling, conflict transformation, trauma healing, and restorative justice. GAIN integrates multicultural, pluri-ethnic, inter-religious and gendered lenses in nurturing the diverse communities of learning and practice that the members of the network, as generators of change, develop in the countries and regional nodes where they live, work and contribute.
Ultimately, it gives talented, passionate individuals the tools to take their ideas and advance them into the transformation of social systems globally.
So, how do alumni work with the Trustbuilding Program (TBP)? And how can you get involved as an alumni or project team? We asked Ebony Walden and Jessie Sutherland, both alumni of IofC USA prgrammes.
