Restorative Approaches to Aging Bodies: Yours, Mine, Others' hosted by DC Peace Team
Saturday, May 3, 2025 (10:00 AM - 12:00 PM) (EDT)
Description
Facilitated and Sponsored by the DC Peace Team
Objectives:Through restorative practices, participants will share the harm and successes experienced related to our aging bodies, identify our needs and clarify the steps we can take to meet those needs.
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Facilitator(s):
Martha Cooper comes to the DC Peace Team with an extensive international background, a keen interest in the non-violent resolution of conflict, and aging. She has earned an MS in Conflict Analysis and Resolution from George Mason University. Her interest in conflict resolution around aging blossomed 12 years ago when she took an elder mediation class. In the years that followed she cared for her mother, served on the Fairfax Area Commission on Aging and learned more about the complexities of aging. Since early 2022, she has been offering restorative practice training with a family and aging focus with the DC Peace Team. Here, participants create an open space to share stories and discover healing. Her past experience also includes teaching listening skills, particularly in church settings, and training middle and high school students at Peace Summits for Fairfax County Public Schools. Martha believes engaging in restorative practices around aging within a community is essential to healing.
Gail Stallings (she/her) is a retired special education teacher and resource specialist, with a focus on sensory deficits. She currently clerks the Gainesville Quakers Social Justice Outreach Committee, and facilitates Cultural Orientation Sessions for the Greater Gainesville International Center Refugee Resettlement Agency. Her longstanding commitment to human rights, peace building, and nonviolent communication, have included facilitating workshops, threshing sessions, worship sharing, and healing circles in addition to having conversations across political differences with the United Vision Project, and working with election protection. Gail is a dedicated member of the Restorative Justice family of the DC Peace Team, and began co-facilitating in early 2024. She was led to facilitate this workshop in response to experiences with aging family and friends and a strong commitment to transforming conflict and building community.
Payment is requested on a sliding scale of $40-$75 to support our work and help us better serve the community. And participation matters to us! You are enthusiastically welcomed to join even if you are unable to give money at this time.
After completing the registration, please submit payment today-- https://ssl.charityweb.net/dcpeaceteam/training.htm; or checks can be written out to DC Peace Team and mailed to Eli McCarthy, 7305 Baylor Ave. College Park, MD 20740.
This training is provided by the DC Peace Team, which empowers ordinary civilians to increasingly serve their communities particularly as nonviolent peacekeepers, and by extension as peacemakers and peacebuilders. The DC Peace Team lives this mission by deploying unarmed civilian protection and accompaniment units, providing training in various nonviolent skills, and facilitating dialogues and restorative justice approaches.
For more information about the DC Peace Team, please visit our website at www.dcpeaceteam.org
Sliding scale $40-$75
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