"Elders themselves have made the leap from one-sidedness to compassion … eldership grows in part from having experienced the issues yourself, having known yourself as both victim and oppressor.” Arnold Mindell, Founder of Process Oriented Psychology, Sitting in the Fire

Join us at the big room cic (Macclesfield/Cheshire) for this half day event facilitated by Milan Bijelić. Milan is a Process Oriented psychotherapist and facilitator affiliated with CFOR (Force for Change) London and Who is Your Neighbour - Sheffield. Milan brings first-hand experience of conflict resolution in Croatia and Rwanda. He will be joined (via zoom) by our five guest speakers who will be sharing their experience of eldership.

The subjects covered will include post-war reconciliation and community building (Innocent Musore, Rwanda); women in politics (Vassiliki Katrivanou, Greece); safe space dialogues and immigration (Tariq Bashir, Yorkshire/England); supporting wellbeing in the LGBT community (Ellis Beardsmore, Scotland); community development post-war and in conflict zones in East Europe (Tanja Radocaj, currently UNICEF Belarus) .

The big room cic organises events and workshops focused on bringing communities together by providing opportunities for greater understanding of what separates and divides us as individuals and community's; encouraging and supporting awareness of our own diversity and self-marginalisation; and developing the skills and psycho-spiritual maturity to facilitate conflict (within ourselves and with others) arising from difference and polarisation.

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The Eldership in the Community programme has been made possible thanks to the generosity of the Emergence Foundation