FALL 2008

FORGIVENESS

TRAINING PROGRAM

 
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Faculty

Robert W. Plath has been the Executive Director of the Worldwide Forgiveness Alliance for the past 12 years. He has taught forgiveness at the Marin Services for Women, San Quentin Penitentiary and other institutions for over 30 years. He uses diverse experiential techniques to create the healing experience of forgiveness for oneself and others.

 

Jane Jennings RScP, has been teaching visual and verbal communication courses which include forgiveness for 30 years. She has worked with corporations, taught in hospitals, prisons and homeless shelters and with the disenfranchised. She is a licensed Religious Science Practitioner.

 

Eileen Barker is a well-known Bay Area mediator and trainer.  She mediates disputes involving family businesses, partnerships, and divorce and teaches classes on mediation and forgiveness at UC Berkeley School of Law, Sonoma State University and elsewhere.

 

Kimberly Weichel is Director of the Institute for Peacebuilding, and teaches and trains in communication, conflict resolution and forgiveness. She does projects with the United Nations, and has worked in peacebuilding in many countries.

 

Lori GraceMA (Psych) led our closing forgiveness meditation on Forgiveness Day. She has both studied and taught different forms of communication work for the last 15 years, including Compassionate Communication (NVC) for the last ten. She feels that her involvement in Compassionate Com-munication has greatly helped her expand profoundly her capacity to forgive by deepening her ability to empathize with both others and herself.

 

Scott Catamas has been both a teacher and student of Compassionate Communication for the last eight years and also credits Compassionate Communication as having helped him expand tremendously his capacity both to understand and forgive.

 

Will Chang teaches the Tao of Aloha, weaving the wisdom of the tao with the warmth of aloha into a path for earth island consciousness and personal transformation.

 

Worldwide Forgiveness Alliance

The Worldwide Forgiveness Alliance is a non-profit 501(c)3 tax-deductible organization whose mission is to evoke the healing spirit of Forgiveness worldwide.  To accomplish this far-reaching mission we have set the following goals: 

• To establish an International Forgiveness Day across the world by the year 2025.
• To bring the curative powers of forgiveness to the elderly, youth, women, men and children through classes, workshops and seminars.
• To promote the practice of forgiveness as a Life Skill and to develop curriculum, classes and workshops for children, youth and adults of all ages.

 

Forgiveness Training

There are two paths for Forgiveness Training. The first is the personal Forgiveness Process, where participants learn to forgive their own issues. After this initial training, those interested in becoming Forgiveness Counselors and/or Trainers can take further specialized training programs and classes.

 

Custom tailored Training Programs are available for schools, organizations, businesses or groups.

 

Counseling

Private sessions for individuals, family or groups are available with our experienced Forgiveness Counselors.

 

Speakers Bureau

Our list of Forgiveness speakers features many of the Heroes and Champions of Forgiveness that we have honored in the past 12 years in addition to our Faculty and other Forgiveness leaders.  A timely subject for all meetings, our speakers deliver powerful, empathetic and graceful talks.