Announcement of People Circles workshops for 2001

January 2, 2001

ANNOUNCEMENT OF PEOPLE CIRCLES WORKSHOPS FOR 2001

People Circles is happy to announce the following workshops to be 
held at the Highlander Research and Education Center in the coming 
year.

March 16-18 VOCATION, SERVICE AND SOCIAL JUSTICE  This learning 
circle workshop/retreat is for anyone interested in social change and 
social justice.  The focus of the retreat will be on how we can best 
bring together our work, our lives, our many responsibilities, and 
our own transformation as change agents.

May 25-27 LEADING LEARNING CIRCLES  This learning circle workshop is
for people who are working for social change and social justice and 
who want to become confident in designing and leading learning 
circles.

September 14-16 USING LEARNING CIRCLES IN CAMPUS COMMUNITY
PARTNERSHIPS  This learning circle workshop is for faculty, staff, 
students, community partners and funders who are working to create 
partnerships in the field of service learning and who want to explore 
how learning circles can be a useful approach to this work.

November 9-11 ADAPTING LEARNING CIRCLES FOR THE CLASSROOM AND OTHER 
FORMATS  This learning circle workshop is for anyone experienced in 
leading learning circles and wants to explore adapting the ideal 
three to four day residential retreat to another format.    These 
formats might include formats such as the classroom, student 
reflection sessions, meetings of faculty involved in service 
learning, meeting of community partners and the like.

WHERE: Highlander Research and Education Center
                     New Market, Tennessee  (35 miles from Knoxville)
WHO:    PEOPLE CIRCLES, INC. founders Nelda Pearson and John Wallace
People Circles is dedicated to using learning circles to nurture 
individual and social transformation to build a just society.
COSTS:  $250.00

We will be sending out detailed invitations to each of these 
workshops several weeks in advance of the workshop.

If you would like to reserve a place at a workshop, please send a 
check for $250 (with your name, return address, phone number and 
emiall address-and a clear indication of which date you are 
reserving) payable to People Circles, Inc.
Mail to: Nelda Pearson
                 6773 Circle Dr.
                 Radford, VA 24141

If you have questions, please get in touch with either Nelda Pearson 
(npearson@runet.edu, 540-831-5159) or John Wallace (walla003@umn.edu, 
612-624-5210).

Your deposit will be refundable up to one month before the workshop.

    FACILITATORS:

Nelda Pearson is a Professor of Sociology and Anthropology and Chair 
of the Race, Class, and Gender Studies Program at Radford University 
in Virginia. She has done community development work using learning 
circles with the farm women of Canada, the Inupiat of Arctic Alaska, 
and with several communities in Central Appalachia. She is one of the 
founders of Beans and Rice, Inc a community development corporation 
(see www.beansandrice.org).  She has had extensive post doctoral 
training in conflict resolution, mediation, prejudice reduction, and 
diversity training and has led workshops on these topics over the 
past ten years.  She is also extensively published in the area of 
community development, activism, and popular education/learning 
circles. She is the recipient of the Outstanding Volunteer award from 
the Virginia 2000 Governor's Volunteerism and Service Awards.  She is 
chair of the Invisible College.

John Wallace is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of 
Minnesota.  He has been deeply involved in the college student 
community service movement for more than twelve years.  He has served 
as chair of the Board of the Campus Outreach Opportunity League 
(COOL) and as a member of the Advisory Council of the Southern 
Community Partner's program.  He is founder of the Invisible College, 
a national group of educators who are taking leadership on their 
campuses and in their communities in linking student's service with 
the curriculum.  His current main community project is as part of a 
leadership team for a neighborhood learning and action center, the 
Jane Addams School for Democracy (see
  www.geocities.com/janeaddamsschool).  He has published extensively 
in the areas of philosophy of language and philosophy of education. 
He is the recipient of the 2000 Campus Compact Thomas Ehrlich Faculty 
Award for Service-Learning, the University of Minnesota 2000 Josie R. 
Johnson Human Rights and Social Justice Award and the Minnesota 
Campus Compact 2000 Sister Pat Kowalski Leadership Award.

John and Nelda have been among the leaders in establishing the 
learning circle concept as a cornerstone of the Invisible College and 
have designed and facilitated learning circles in a variety of 
settings over the past four years. They offer three retreats per year 
at Highlander.
-- 
John Wallace
Department of Philosophy
University of Minnesota
831 Heller Hall
271 19th Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55455-0310
(612) 624-5210
FAX (612) 626-8380
walla003@tc.umn.edu