Affiliated Organizations - Ways of Council

Affiliated organizations teach council, use council internally and in their programs.

Ancient Healing Ways

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Ancient Healing Ways aspires to bring to life age-old nature based practices that awaken connection with self, with others and the natural world, recognizing and honoring our ancestors, those who have gone before. It is dedicated to the transformation of consciousness through the land, the body and the pain, grief and love inside everyone and everything. Ancient Healing Ways seeks Read more...

Eschwege Institute – Germany

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The Eschwege Institute is a training centre, situated in the heart of Germany. It has three beautiful group rooms, including two round yurts and its own guest accommodation. Holger and Gesa Heiten, who are running this centre, are both council trainers and together with a faculty of international teachers, they offer workshops and trainings for the Council facilitator’s path, as Read more...

Tovanot, Center of Council Insight – Israel

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Tovanot is a council based organization. It was cofounded in 2003 by Galit and Shay Hanien council trainers and part of the leadership group of MH in Israel. Tovanot brings council into Organizational and private fields. In the business Organization section Shay has developed the “Spherical Communication” modal based on council to enhance leadership end communication skills and it works Read more...

School of Lost Borders – Big Pine, California

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The School of Lost Borders offers vision fasts and rites of passage training which cultivate self-trust, responsibility, and understanding about ones’ unique place within society and the natural world. Its programs provide guided opportunities, perspectives, teachings, and much needed self-reflection time in a non-judgmental yet challenging environment. The Nature of Council, and 8 day course is offered annually along with Read more...

Illuman – Alexandria, Louisiana

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Illuman is a not for profit organization for men who are simply interested in becoming better, more authentic men. We welcome all men to our work without regard for your ethnicity, class, education, sexual orientation, religion or any other characteristic that might make you feel excluded. Illuman understands Council as a communal contemplative practice. It affirms the importance of listening and Read more...

Upaya Zen Center – Santa Fe, New Mexico

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Upaya Zen Center is a Zen Buddhist practice, service, and training center. Our vision focuses on the integration of practice and social action, bringing together wisdom and compassion. Our mission is to provide a context for community practice, education in Buddhism and social service in the areas of death and dying, prison work, the environment, women’s rights, and peacework. It endeavors to Read more...

Uriel Council Training Center – Israel

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Uriel Center – training center for Council Facilitators, and council based workshops has been working to change the culture of listening and social discourse in Israel since 2001. The center is the located in Alone Abba, and has an extension in central Israel at the boarding school “The Green Village (Ha’Kfar Ha’Yarok).” Read more...

Zen Peacemakers Inc. – Montague, Massachusetts

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The Zen Peacemaker Order, a project operated by Zen Peacemakers Inc., is the international community of spiritual practitioners who follow the Zen Peacemakers’ teachings of the The Three Treasures, The Three Tenets, The Ten Practices and The Four Commitments. They underlie our commitment to broad-based inclusivity, service, multi-faith celebrations and communion, and to a lifelong peacemaking path that integrates work, Read more...