Training & Workshops

Are the people you serve caught in cultural, political, or theological divides—and you’re unsure how to help them move toward understanding and healing?
Do you wish your congregation or organization had a shared language and set of practices to deal with conflict more courageously?
Have you sensed that peacemaking is central to following Jesus, but you’ve never been trained in how to live it out in everyday leadership?
Are you aware of the growing divides in your organization or community yet lack the tools to mend them?
Are you searching for a framework that can help you mediate difficult conversations and lead through change without burning out or giving in?

Training & Workshops

Building Skills

Global Immersion trainings and workshops are designed to equip organizations, congregations, and teams with practical tools for peacemaking and conflict transformation.

Through interactive, community-based workshops and intensive trainings, participants learn to navigate division, cultivate reconciliation, and mediate conflict with wisdom and courage — together.

Rather than offering open-registration workshops at this time, we partner with organizations who want to bring these trainings to their own communities. If you’re interested in hosting a training for your team, congregation, or group, we’d love to connect!

Jer Swigart has the ability to bring both hope and practical techniques that will motivate more effective engagement in today's fractured social contexts.

This training helped me develop conflict resolution skills that I can actually use in my work. The focus on open communication and real-life practice made it super engaging and effective. I’d recommend it to anyone wanting to boost their teamwork and communication skills!

Engaging in the DPC training gave me immediately useful skills of seeing and understanding conflict anew. By the end of the week, I was renewed in relationships, knit into a community of committed healers, and equipped to make peaceful change in my context.

Dialogue for Peaceful Change training offers a map for navigating the complex and ever changing terrain of human conflict. The embodied training creates space for culture, biology and human instincts for survival to be in conversation with practical and effective tools of conflict mediation. It invites practitioners to enter into the flow of creative human problem-solving.

DpC provides a practical, human centered approach to conflict mediation. Additionally, DpC brings a comprehensive and powerful lens through which to locate, understand and bring peaceful alternatives for humans to engage with one another. The training itself offers a transformative opportunity to engage mind and body to a more robust and hope-filled way of being and seeing oneself and the world.

Everyday Peacemaking Workshop

In a time of deepening theological and ideological divides, many long to mend divided relationships in their families, congregations, workplaces, and neighborhoods—but few know how. This one-day interactive workshop serves as a primer and catalyst for faith-based peacemaking in individual and congregational life.

What you’ll explore:

Jesus’ teachings on peacemaking and reconciliation
The Four Practices of Everyday Peacemaking
Habits of interior formation for sustainability
Resources for continued learning and practice
Strategies for building peacemaking momentum in your community

Dialogue for Peaceful Change Certification

A four-day intensive training designed to equip leaders with practical conflict transformation tools.

Born out of ‘The Troubles’ in Northern Ireland, DpC is a world-renowned method of conflict mediation that is both practical and highly effective. It is immediately applicable to interpersonal and institutional conflict.

What you’ll gain:

A deeper understanding of conflict and how culture and biology shape our responses
Lenses and models for assessing, analyzing, and mitigating conflict
Certification in a six-step method for mediating conflict

This training is ideal for leaders navigating complex conflicts in their organizations, institutions, or congregations.

De-Escalation Training

Practicing Nonviolent Presence

This training is designed for those seeking practical tools to engage conflict with compassion, courage, and clarity. Participants will leave equipped with a simple, repeatable framework for de-escalating tension, strengthening trust, and transforming conflict into an opportunity for growth.

Objectives:

Cultivate a Beloved Mindset: Embrace the truth that I am beloved, and so are you—and let words and actions reflect this.
Develop Nonviolent Habits: Learn to approach tension with gentleness, clarity, and humanity.
Strengthen Self-Regulation: Build practical tools to remain calm, grounded, and compassionate under pressure.
Deepen Listening & Validation: Practice hearing beneath words to the values and stories that shape behavior.
Respond with Wisdom: Offer understanding that de-escalates conflict and opens space for transformation.