We offer a wide range of exercises and do role plays. All this is interspersed with lively, sometimes even silly games. There is a good mix of thought and laughter in our courses. Sharing facilitation among several trainers is part of the programme and adds to the open variety within any course. A freshly trained trainer will work for some time with more experienced trainers.
All trainers work on a voluntary basis, getting only their expenses refunded.
Normally a course will take place over the weekend, Friday night until Sunday afternoon. The first Basic Workshop in Germany took place early 1994 and was facilitated by five trainers who had their own training in the U.S., Canada and Britain. Since PAG was jointly fostered by Nothelfergemeinschaft der Freunde an the Peace Committee of the German Quakers, most courses took place in the Friends meeting place in Bad Pyrmont, the center of the German Friends. Other courses were offered to prison workers, and prison volunteer workers. We also started a series of courses in Freiburg, in the south of Germany.