Activities list

This is a list of main forums and trainings, by region, facilitated internationally by Arlene and Jean-Claude Audergon, as well as a long-term project of forums in Croatia, co-led with Lane Arye, and organized by Udruga-Mi, UNHCR and other sources. The list alsoincludes World Work Seminars, organized by GPI Global Process Institute, and facilitated by a large team of Process Work colleagues of whom we were part. Various other CFOR Projects are included, some in collaboration with European Multicultural Center and ANNWIN Slovakia. For purposes of confidentiality, projects within various business, religious, and social service organizations are not listed.


CROATIA

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	1996 Osijek, ' Reconciliation and Community Building' Four day Seminar/Forum made up of diverse participants working with reconciliation and return in Croatia and Bosnia, dealing with charged war-related situations. Organized and funded by IRC, International Rescue Committee, facilitated by Drs. Arlene Audergon and Lane Arye
	1997 Split, “Social Turbulence, Minority Issues “ project, designed and implemented by Udruga Mi, in collaboration with different NGOs from war-affected areas, Arlene Audergon and Lane Arye and the Global Process Institute (GPI). The Open Society Institute (OSI) was a partner with Udruga Mi, offering financial support of the project. Facilitated by Drs. Arlene Audergon and Lane Arye
	1998- 2002, Ethnic reconciliation project 'Building Sustainable Community in the Aftermath of the War' Designed and implemented by Udruga Mi, in collaboration with Arlene Audergon and Lane Arye, Project has been implemented with the support of United Nations High Commission for Refugees UNHCR, Office of Transition Initiatives OTI, USAID, The Threshold Foundation, and OSCE. Forums and training among a diverse group of Serbs, Croats, Muslims and people of other ethnic groups, dealing with complex issues of return and reconciliation among refugees, returnees and displaced people, in a country- wide project covering all areas affected by the war in Croatia. Project also fostered communication between governmental and non-governmental organizations. The project included several large conflict resolution forums ( each for four days with 60-80 participants), regional meetings, a journal, plus intensive training sessions for a selected group of facilitators. The project reached approximately 300 hundred professionals and paraprofessionals from more than 35 NGOs, (both local and international), 12 regional Red Cross branches, 27 governmental organizations, and representatives of 6 local governments. Facilitated by Drs. Arlene Audergon and Lane Arye

The task of rebuilding the country, reconciliation and working through issues of justice and accountability are complicated and compounded by massive economic problems and personal and collective loss and trauma from the war. The tensions and problems in the country are mirrored in the group, due to the ethnic diversity of the participants and their war-related experiences. This allows the group to work deeply on the issues together. There has been extremely positive feedback for these forums. Participants state that forums impacted their work. Many have felt the forums to be transformative for their lives and work in the region and in regaining a belief in humanity that they had no longer felt possible. We often heard “If only these forums had happened before the war - Just imagine what might have happened.”

	Forums took place in the following towns in Croatia 1996 Osijek 1997 Split 1998 Split 1999 Stupicke Toplice 1999 Trogir 2000 Topusko 2000 Dubrovnik 2001 Supetar 2001 Nasice
	October 8, 2001 Vukovar, Croatia 30 participants gathered representing NGOs and community projects in Vukovar dealing with post-war issues and community building. Cooperatively organized by Udruga Mi and Vukovar Institute for Peace Research and Education, VIMIO. The forum was held at VIMIO and facilitated by Drs. Arlene Audergon and Lane Arye. Intense forum discussion revealed the state of actual 'apartheid' still operating in the region in aftermath of atrocities and trauma. Participants and organizers asked to continue this work. Follow up needed.
	November 2-6 2006, Split, Croatia -  Jean-Claude Audergon, Lane Arye and Arlene Audergon were asked by Udruga Mi and UNHCR ( project supported also by the Dutch Embassy) to return to Croatia to facilitate a three day forum with people from all regions of Croatia that had been hit hardest during the war and were dealing now with major difficulties in rebuildling community.The group gathered to focus on community building, and wanted to find ways to move forward - to deal with the past community trauma and the need for accountability, to be able to move forward. They also focused on relationships between governmental and non-governmental organizations, and between ethnic/ national groups.

GERMANY

1994-1997, Wuppertal, Diversity and Building Community - Many training seminars, plus special seminars with forum dialogue devoted concerning multicultural issues and xenophobia in Germany, including relationship to immigrants, and anti-Semitism, Facilitated by Jean-Claude Audergon and Arlene Audergon

GREECE, Eritrea

May 2002 - World Work 300 people from 35 countries gathered to work on multicultural issues, of refugees and gvnmt abuse, racism, gender issues, homophobia, and other social and political matters Facilitated by world work team. Included large and small group work and personal work and social awareness training groups.

INDIA

Bombay/ Mumbai, World Work seminar, 300 people from 30 countries met for ten days. Themes included racism, caste issues, global economic disparity, men-women issues, aboriginal issues in Australia and New Zealand. Organized by Global Process Institute, GPI, and facilitated together with world work facilitation team

KOSOVO

	May 2001, Pristina
	May 2001, Mitrovice Two afternoon forums among staff teams in Pristina and Mitrovice. Organized by ADRA and Tanja Radocaj. Strong discussion focused on need for forums on trauma and accountability for community building to be possible as well as future reconciliation. Facilitated by Drs. Arlene Audergon and Lane Arye. Follow up requested by participants, who strongly voiced the need for such forums to be continued.

MACEDONIA

June 2000 Skopje, Macedonia, Training and Forum for all staff at IRC office, including ethnic Albanians and Macedonians. Organized by IRC, director Theresa Obradovich. Preventive conflict resolution work, with issues of minority rights and ethnic tensions in the region and among staff of Macedonian, Albanian and Roma ethnicity. Facilitated by Jean-Claude Audergon and Lane Arye

NORWWAY

October 2005  The first three day meeting of the Social Inclusion in Action Project met in Norway

POLAND

	1993 'East meets West' Conference, forum discussions on relationship between east and west European countries, as well as among the countries of the former Soviet bloc, and relationships between Czechs and Slovaks. Participants from Poland, Slovakia, Czech, Romania, Bulgaria, Switzerland, Germany, UK and more.
	1994 Warsaw, Conflict Resolution and Diversity Skills
	1995 til present Ongoing consultation and cooperation with colleagues in Poland, including training seminars
	2006  Social Inclusion in Action project, made up of 8 project partners form 6 countries (Lithuania,  Norway, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia,UK - May 2006, Meeting near Kracow

RUSSIA

1992 Moscow, 'Ethnic Conflict and Social Change', Jean-Claude Audergon, co-facilitator with team, in large conflict resolution conference in Moscow, following the collapse of communism.

SLOVAKIA

	May 1994 Stupava Slovakia, 'World Work' seminar, organized by Global Process Institute, GPI 300 participants from over 30 countries met for ten days of group interaction and training. Themes included: Balkan war, changes after the fall of Communism, east-west issues, men-women, racism, homophobia, Facilitated by team of World Work facilitators.
	1994-1997 Slovakia, Training Programme in Process Work, accredited by Slovak Psychotherapeutic Society. This three-year Training Programme included 40 students, in annual ten-day seminars, and several three-day seminars per year on all facets of Process Work and theoretical and practical exams. In addition to individual and relationship work, diversity training and conflict resolution skills were learned and practiced. Facilitated by Lane Aye, Jean-Claude Audergon, Arlene Audergon, Ivan Verny.
	1998-2002, Annual seminars on group facilitation, inner work for the facilitator, supervision, community forum facilitation
	2004, Multi-cultural project in Banska Bystica, Focusing on issues facing Roma and other minority group. Forum discussions revolved around issues facing Roma, Hungarian-Slovak conflicts, role of fundamentalism in Slovak society, Slovak identity as an ethnic/ national identity and as a multi-cultural society. Coordinated by ANNWIN, in partnership with CFOR and EMF. ANNWIN has contributed to several key issues towards developing democracy. From the work with young unemployed persons, Inner Circle project 1995-6, through facilitation of the NGO movement in Banská Bystrica (1996-7), to trainings for municipalities (2000-2001) , facilitated by Arlene and Jean-Claude Audergon.

SLOVENIA

2007  In May 2007, the Social Inclusion in Acion Project is hosted by our project partners in Slovenia

SOUTH AFRICA

1993 Johannesburg, Conflict Resolution training Facilitated by Jean-Claude Audergon and Arlene Audergon

SWITZERLAND

	1992 Stoos, World Work, 300 people from 30 countries . Some of the issues included: east-west relations in Europe, Kurdish refugees, racism, gender issues.
	2000, Zurich, Pilot Project: Interventions in Violence in Schools, Focused on awareness training of teachers, Facilitated by Jean-Claude Audergon
	2000, Training in conflict resolution and violence prevention, Team for Delinquent Youth, five weekends, facilitated by Jean-Claude Audergon
	2001, Pilot Project: Violence Prevention in Classroom and School areas, Seminar and follow up, facilitated by Jean-Claude Audergon and Timmy Myers

UNITED KINGDOM

	1989- current Numerous trainings and group process around issues of diversity, concerning ethnic and cultural diversity, gender, sexual orientation, etc, for RSPOPUK, Research Society for Process Oriented Psychology
	2006  Social Inclusion in Action Project, supported by SOCRATES GRUNDTWIG with project partners from six European countries. We had the third meeting in the UK, organized by European Multi-cultural Foundaton
	2006  Participation on panel, for Psychotherapists for Social Responsibility conference, together with Renos Papdopolous, Gabriel Rifkind and David Ervine.
	UK Evening Forums: June 2006  Home and Refuge: Evening forum on issues of asylum and migration in Stratford, East London, facilitated with Anup Karia and Olufemi Hughes
	UK Evening Forums: November 2006, The Middle East: Echoes in Us: Friends House, Brighton, facilitated with Olufemi Hughes and Stanya Studentova
	UK Evening Forums: February 27 2007, The Middle East: Deepening the Dialogue, Brighthelm Center, Brighton
	2002 Mountain Path Mountain Peak: Mini Intensive in Conflict Resolution, Intensive training, on methods of conflict resolution and forum facilitation, facilitated by Arlene and Jean-Claude Audergon, RSPOPUK
	2003 Mountain Path Mountain Peak: Mini Intensive in Conflict Resolution Eight day training intensive for people interested in conflict resolution for fields of mediation, social services, organizational development, etc.
	1990-2001 Project in Process Work and Mental health, Princess Royal Hospital, Four-day seminars annually or twice a year over eleven years, for mental health patients, families, and mental health professionals, regarding the application of Process Work methods to mental health and dialogue between patients, practitioners and family. The following forums evolved out of the Process Work and Mental Health project 2000 Hayward's Heath, The Princess Royal Hospital, 'Community Mental Health Forum', Forum included 75 participants, including patients in mental health care, family, professionals, administrators, from the Sussex area, as well as others interested from the UK, organized by Dr. William Fulford, Alison Flynn, Sheila McClelland of Princess Royal Hospital, along with their team. 2001 Haywards Heath, The Princess Royal Hospital, 'Community Mental Health Forum' included approximately 75 participants, including people who need mental health care, some dealing with acute psychiatric diagnosis, family, professionals, administrators, and community organizations from the Sussex area as well as others interested from the UK and internationally. Organized by Dr. William Fulford, Alison Flynn, Sheila McClelland of the Princess Royal Hospital, along with their team. 2002 Melton, 'Community and Mental Health Forum', organized by The People's Forum, Lorraine Anning, Dr. Rosemary Shinkwin, in collaboration with Arlene and Jean-Claude Audergon. 150 participants actively participated in discussing and processing community mental health issues, including those who are in mental health care, carers, family, professionals, mental health administration, and community organizations dealing with housing, police, etc. This forum has activated continued meetings and follow up. 2002 October, Norwich, Full day forum for the interested staff of the Mental HealthTrust in Norwich - 120 participants, sponsored by the Trust, organized by members of the Trust, facilitated by Arlene and Jean-Claude Audergon 2003 Follow up forums in Norwich with group representing management/board/professionals/ and those using mental health services

USA

	1991 Oregon, World Work, 300 people from 30 countries gathered for ten days to work on issues of racism, gender, homophobia, Native American issues and other social and political matters. Facilitated by world work team. Included large and small group work.
	1993 Oregon, World Work 300 people from 30 countries gathered to work on racism, Aboriginal and Native American issues, global human rights issues, gender, homophobia, and other social and political matters. Facilitated by world work team. Included large and small group work.
	1993 YES Project, Forum discussion among young people in gangs, with Jean-Claude and Arlene Audergon, and David Crittendon
	1993 Compton, Ca. (Los Angeles), Power, Privilege and Prejudice 250 Participants in three day conference and forum on diversity issues in Los Angeles, organized by Arlene and Jean-Claude Audergon. Participants included a very diverse group of African Americans, Latin Americans, Asian Americans and European Americans. Facilitated by John Johnson, Gladys Johnson, Army Mindell, Amy Mindell, David Jones, Jean-Claude Audergon and Arlene Audergon
	1994, Redlands University, Large Forum for University students on issues of diversity and racism, with Arlene and Jean-Claude Audergon, and David Jones
	1994 Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Diversity and Racism A seminar and forum on issues of racism and ethnic diversity, attending by a diverse group of 50 participants. Facilitated by John Johnson, Gladys Johnson, Arlene Audergon, and Jean-Claude Audergon This group included a very diverse group of people from the fields of education, social work, psychology, as well as a group of African American high-school students.
	1995 Los Angeles, Training forum on Anti-Semitism Facilitated by Jean-Claude and Arlene Audergon
	1995, 1996 Oregon, World Work seminars, 300 people from 30 countries gathered to work on multicultural issues, racism, gender issues, homophobia, and other social and political matters Facilitated by world work team. Included large and small group work.
	1996 Los Angeles, Diversity Training, Facilitated by Jean-Claude and Arlene Audergon
	2000 Washington D.C., Howard University, World Work Seminar World Work Seminar 300 participants from 30 countries, held at Howard University, a historic African American University, organized by Global Process Institute, GPI, for ten days. Themes included: racism, global economy, men-women issues, and homophobia. Facilitated together with 'World Work' facilitation team
	2004 Oregon, World Work Seminar - Conflict Resolution and modeling the world we want - World Work Seminar 300 participants from 30 countries, held on the Oregon Coast in Lincoln City on March 2 - 11 2004 and organized by Global Process Institute, GPI. Facilitated together with 'World Work' facilitation team