Gender Equity and Reconciliation International

South Africa Facilitator Training Module 1
2025-02-23 00:00 - 2025-02-28 23:59 (Africa/Johannesburg)
Gender Equity and Reconciliation International Professional Immersion and Facilitator Training Module 1, held in Cape Town, South Africa.

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Transforming Gender Relations - Oakland
2025-02-28 09:00 - 2025-03-02 18:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
This experiential three-day workshop creates a safe space for breakthroughs in individual transformation and community healing—by working skillfully with participants’ lived experiences in relation to gender and sexuality. Together, women and men of all sexual orientations enter into a deeper understanding and mutual appreciation of their own experience and journey, and also awaken greater compassion, empathy, and understanding of others’ gender-based experiences and challenges.

Participants will be guided through an interactive and highly experiential process that includes personal reflection, small group interaction, silent meditation, somatic exercises, experiential honoring, and council process to explore and transform sensitive issues relating to gender and sexuality. The consistent result is a deeply nourishing and liberating experience for all participants.

Contact: Garrett Evansgarrett@grworld.org+1-618-558-6560

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In-Person Introduction at U.N. CSW NGO Forum ~ Healing the Divide: Transformative Community Approaches to Gender Equity
2025-03-13 18:30 - 20:00 (America/New_York)
Church Center for the United Nations (CCUN)New York CityMarch 136:30 – 8:00pm

This event offers a practical experience of Gender Equity and Reconciliation International’s (GERI) methodology, which applies truth and reconciliation principles to gender and sexual injustice. Developed over 32 years and endorsed by Archbishop Desmond Tutu in 2013, GERI’s methodology addresses the root causes of patriarchy and gender-based violence.

Contact: Kara SaltersKara@grworld.org+1-303-588-7715

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In-Person Introduction ~ Walnut Creek, CA ~ Women and Men: Healing the Divide
2025-04-06 14:00 - 16:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
Walnut Creek, CaliforniaWith Unity Center of Walnut CreekApril 62:00 – 4:30pm

This event offers a practical experience of Gender Equity and Reconciliation International’s (GERI) methodology, which applies truth and reconciliation principles to gender and sexual injustice. Developed over 32 years and endorsed by Archbishop Desmond Tutu in 2013, GERI’s methodology has been implemented with thousands of participants on 6 continents.

Contact: Kara SaltersKara@grworld.org+1-303-588-7715

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Women and Men: Healing the Divide – Kisumu, Kenya
2025-04-09 00:00 - 2025-04-11 23:59 (Africa/Nairobi)
• April 9 – 11 in Kisumu, Kenya

This experiential three-day workshop creates a safe space for breakthroughs in individual transformation and community healing—by working skillfully with participants’ lived experiences in relation to gender and sexuality. Together, women and men of all sexual orientations enter into a deeper understanding and mutual appreciation of their own experience and journey, and also awaken greater compassion, empathy, and understanding of others’ gender-based experiences and challenges.

Participants will be guided through an interactive and highly experiential process that includes personal reflection, small group interaction, silent meditation, somatic exercises, experiential honoring, and council process to explore and transform sensitive issues relating to gender and sexuality. The consistent result is a deeply nourishing and liberating experience for all participants.

Contact: Garrett Evansgarrett@grworld.org+1-618-558-6560

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Women and Men: Healing the Divide – Busia, Kenya
2025-04-14 00:00 - 2025-04-16 23:59 (Africa/Nairobi)
• April 14 – 16 in Busia, Kenya

This experiential three-day workshop creates a safe space for breakthroughs in individual transformation and community healing—by working skillfully with participants’ lived experiences in relation to gender and sexuality. Together, women and men of all sexual orientations enter into a deeper understanding and mutual appreciation of their own experience and journey, and also awaken greater compassion, empathy, and understanding of others’ gender-based experiences and challenges.

Participants will be guided through an interactive and highly experiential process that includes personal reflection, small group interaction, silent meditation, somatic exercises, experiential honoring, and council process to explore and transform sensitive issues relating to gender and sexuality. The consistent result is a deeply nourishing and liberating experience for all participants.

Contact: Garrett Evansgarrett@grworld.org+1-618-558-6560

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Women and Men: Healing the Divide - Prague
2025-04-24 08:00 - 2025-04-26 17:00 (Europe/Prague)
This experiential four-day workshop creates a safe space for breakthroughs in individual transformation and community healing—by working skillfully with participants’ lived experiences in relation to gender and sexuality. Together, women and men of all sexual orientations enter into a deeper understanding and mutual appreciation of their own experience and journey, and also awaken greater compassion, empathy, and understanding of others’ gender-based experiences and challenges.

Participants will be guided through an interactive and highly experiential process that includes personal reflection, small group interaction, silent meditation, somatic exercises, experiential honoring, and council process to explore and transform sensitive issues relating to gender and sexuality. The consistent result is a deeply nourishing and liberating experience for all participants.

Contact: Garrett Evansgarrett@grworld.org+1-618-558-6560

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Women and Men: Healing the Divide - Spain
2025-05-09 00:00 - 2025-05-11 23:59, 2025-05-23 00:00 - 2025-05-25 23:59 (Europe/Madrid)
This experiential four-day workshop creates a safe space for breakthroughs in individual transformation and community healing—by working skillfully with participants’ lived experiences in relation to gender and sexuality. Together, women and men of all sexual orientations enter into a deeper understanding and mutual appreciation of their own experience and journey, and also awaken greater compassion, empathy, and understanding of others’ gender-based experiences and challenges.

Participants will be guided through an interactive and highly experiential process that includes personal reflection, small group interaction, silent meditation, somatic exercises, experiential honoring, and council process to explore and transform sensitive issues relating to gender and sexuality. The consistent result is a deeply nourishing and liberating experience for all participants.

Contact: Garrett Evansgarrett@grworld.org+1-618-558-6560

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The Holomovement Wave
2025-05-23 00:00 - 2025-05-26 23:59 (America/New_York)
We are honored to be partnering with:

The Holomovement Wave: Asheville, May 23 – 26, 2025!

Registration is now open for this inspiring gathering!

﻿We’re delighted to be introducing GERI at the conference, and to connect with other changemakers, build community, and share our work through panel discussions and an interactive workshop. Will Keepin will speak on a panel titled: Science and Spirituality on Common Ground –– and, our GERI team will be offering a session titled:

Reconciliation in Times of Polarization

Join us for spiritual growth, collective synergy and sharing of practical tools to ignite momentum for meaningful change.

The Holomovement Wave event is a transformative catalyst, empowering individuals and groups to align with higher consciousness and boldly co-create a thriving future for our planet.

EVENT FEE:

$535 USD per person — use the code GERI15 for 15% off!

Ticket includes entry to all workshops, special keynote evening sessions and networking events.

﻿Registration is now open, and we hope you can come and share this experience with an inspiring community of purpose-driven leaders, innovators, and changemakers.

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Healing Across the Gender Spectrum - Cape Town, South Africa (3 day workshop)
2025-07-09 00:00 - 2025-07-11 23:59 (Africa/Johannesburg)
Cape Town, South Africa

Three-day, in-person workshopJuly 9 – 11, 2025

This experiential three-day workshop creates a safe space for breakthroughs in individual transformation and community healing—by working skillfully with participants’ lived experiences in relation to gender and sexuality. Together, people of all genders and sexual orientations enter into a deeper understanding and mutual appreciation of their own experience and journey, and also awaken greater compassion, empathy, and understanding of others’ gender-based experiences and challenges.

Contact: Tristan Johannestristan@grworld.org

Private Event

A Call to Wholeness: The Alchemy of the Masculine & Feminine - California, USA (4-day workshop)
2025-09-11 18:30 - 2025-09-14 18:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
This experiential four-day workshop creates a safe space for breakthroughs in individual transformation and community healing—by working skillfully with participants’ lived experiences in relation to gender and sexuality. Together, women and men of all sexual orientations enter into a deeper understanding and mutual appreciation of their own experience and journey, and also awaken greater compassion, empathy, and understanding of others’ gender-based experiences and challenges.

Participants will be guided through an interactive and highly experiential process that includes personal reflection, small group interaction, silent meditation, somatic exercises, experiential honoring, and council process to explore and transform sensitive issues relating to gender and sexuality. The consistent result is a deeply nourishing and liberating experience for all participants.

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Women and Men: Healing the Divide - Cape Town, South Africa (3-day workshop)
2025-09-15 00:00 - 2025-09-17 23:59 (Africa/Johannesburg)
In partnership with the Chrysalis Academy

Three-day, in-person workshopSeptember 15-17, 2025

This experiential three-day workshop creates a safe space for breakthroughs in individual transformation and community healing—by working skillfully with participants’ lived experiences in relation to gender and sexuality. Together, women and men of all sexual orientations enter into a deeper understanding and mutual appreciation of their own experience and journey, and also awaken greater compassion, empathy, and understanding of others’ gender-based experiences and challenges.

Contact: Garrett EvansGarrett@grworld.orgWhatsApp: +1-618-558-6560

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GERI at the 2025 AFRICA REGIONAL FAITH AND GENDER JUSTICE CONFERENCE
2025-09-17 00:00 - 2025-09-19 23:59 (America/Los_Angeles)
September 17–19, 2025

St. Paul’s University, Nairobi, Kenya

We’re excited to share that Gender Equity and Reconciliation International (GERI) will be:

Presenting on the plenary stage

Hosting a special breakout session:

Building Beloved Community: Pathways to Healing & Restoration between Women and Men

This participatory session offers a unique, interactive experience of the GERI process—a methodology developed over 33 years and engaged by tens of thousands of participants across six continents. Endorsed by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, GERI applies principles of Truth and Reconciliation to the healing of gender relations, opening pathways of dignity, renewal, and restored partnership.

This marks the 5th historic Pan-African Faith and Gender Justice Conference, regionally hosted by IFAGE, creating safe spaces for key decision-makers to engage in continued dialogue and conversations on gender justice issues.

A Call to Wholeness: A Sacred Journey of Healing between Masculine and Feminine – Houston, TX, USA (4-day workshop)
2025-10-10 00:00 - 2025-10-13 23:59 (America/Chicago)
Four-day in-person workshopHouston, TXOctober 10-13, 2025

The process creates a safe space for breakthroughs in individual transformation and community healing—by working skillfully with participants’ lived experiences in relation to gender and sexuality. Together, women and men of all sexual orientations enter into a deeper understanding and mutual appreciation of their own experience and journey, and also awaken greater compassion, empathy, and understanding of others’ gender-based experiences and challenges.

Participants will be guided through an interactive and highly experiential process that includes personal reflection, small group interaction, silent meditation, somatic exercises, experiential honoring, and council process to explore and transform sensitive issues relating to gender and sexuality. The consistent result is a deeply nourishing and liberating experience for all participants.

This special workshop also includes a day of Grof® Breathwork to deepen and enrich the inner and outer alchemy of reconciliation.

Contact: Kara SalterKara@grworld.org+1-303-588-7715

Registration

Boston workshop for Christian communities (online + in-person)
2025-12-01 18:00 - 2025-12-06 21:00 (America/New_York)
Boston Workshop for Christian Communities –

Pathways of Grace: Healing and Renewal between Men & Women

Join us for this interactive, experiential hybrid online/in-person Boston workshop with Gender Equity and Reconciliation International (GERI), specifically focused for Christian communities.

Workshop Details:

This will be held with an online session, December 1st and in-person sessions on December 4, 5, and 6.

Dec 1: 6 – 8.30 pm ONLINE (ET)

Dec 4: 5.30 – 9 pm In-Person (ET)

Dec 5: 4 – 9 pm In-Person (ET)

Dec 6: 9 am – 9 pm In-Person (ET)

About Gender Equity & Reconciliation International (GERI):

Developed over 30 years and conducted with thousands of participants across six continents, the GERI process draws on principles of Truth and Reconciliation pioneered by Archbishop Desmond Tutu. It invites a profound process of healing divisions across humanity.

What to expect in a workshop designed for Christian communities:

Using the GERI process, our journey will explore the often-muted attitudes, fears, shame, and brokenness within patriarchal society. Through this exploration, we begin to reclaim the mutual harmony, respect, and collaboration intended for men and women as God’s image bearers.

At the same time, the GERI facilitation team will gently help you set aside daily demands so that we can create a safe space for attentive listening. In this setting, we begin to unravel the truth of our gendered experiences. As a result, compassion and understanding deepen, and tangible pathways emerge that reimagine gender relations and move toward forgiveness, healing, and restored relationships.

Ultimately, this unique Boston workshop invites Christian communities into a new form of spiritual healing and reconciliation. Together, we will build trust and connection through interactive activities, spiritual practice, and transformative group process.

For more information, email Michele Breene, michelebreene@gmail.com

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TOGETHER WE HEAL - RESILIENCE WORKSHOPS
2026-02-27 00:00 - 2026-02-28 23:59 (Africa/Johannesburg)
A resilience-building exchange between GERI, Genderworks, Chrysalis Academy & the Pocket Project

Cape Town, South Africa

This 3-part in-person workshop is a collaborative exploration into what it means to build cultures of resilience within our communities and around the world.

Listening & Community Wisdom

Fri, 27 February: 11:00-13:30Pincushion Hall at Chrysalis Academy in Tokai

A listening-centred gathering honouring the healing and resilience work already alive in our communities.

Presentation & Community DialogueFri, 27 February: 18:00-20:30Erin Hall in Rondebosch

An evening gathering offering a presentation on the Pocket Project’s resilience work, followed by dialogue and shared inquiry.

Experiential Learning & PracticeSat, 28 February: 10:30-13:30Venue to be confirmed depending on numbers

A workshop and sharing for those who wish to explore the work more deeply with practices from the Resilience Program & Global Social Witnessing.

Contact: Desireé Englishdesiree@grworld.org

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Register for 6pm workshop on February 27

Healing the Divide: Transformative Community Approaches to Gender Equity - New York City, NY
2026-03-16 14:30 - 16:00 (America/New_York)
In-Person at the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women NGO Forum

New York City, New York

Monday, 16 March 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm, EDT

This event offers a practical experience of Gender Equity and Reconciliation International’s (GERI) methodology, which applies truth and reconciliation principles to gender and sexual injustice. Developed over 33 years and endorsed by Archbishop Desmond Tutu in 2013, GERI is a powerful methodology for achieving gender equality and eliminating violence. GERI collaborates with partner organizations including Loretto at the UN in New York, and the US Bahai Community to embrace a broad range of social, political, and cultural contexts. This has produced fresh hope and inspiration for authentic gender reconciliation among thousands of participants across all genders and diverse cultures.

Contact: Garrett Evansgarrett@grworld.org+1-618-558-6560

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The Alchemy of Reconciliation: Awakening to the Mystery of Love between Masculine and Feminine - Grand Rapids, MI
2026-04-09 00:00 - 2026-04-12 23:59 (America/Chicago)
Grand Rapids, MI

Four-day, in-person workshopApril 9 – 12, 2026

How can we begin to remember the real secrets of love between feminine and masculine, in a world so lost in the story of discord and division?

We start by making a place for the truth. Not the false light of our collective ideologies, but the real, more personal, intimate truth, of our own heartbreak. Women and men of all sexual orientations, coming together in the pursuit of truth and reconciliation, making a sacred space for one another, to lay down the burden of their sorrows, and walk—together—in a new way, rooted in dignity, reverence, and wonder.

Join us, April 9 – 12 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, for a 4-day immersion into this experience we call Gender Equity and Reconciliation International (GERI). Our facilitation team will guide you through an interactive and highly experiential process that includes personal reflection, small group interaction, silent meditation, yoga, breathwork, experiential honoring, and council process to explore and transform sensitive issues relating to gender and sexuality. The consistent result is a deeply nourishing and liberating experience for all participants.

Contact: Garrett Evansgarrett@grworld.org+1-618-558-6560

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Body of Joy: Ecstatic Spirituality through Breath, Yoga, Art, and Dance - Tavira, Portugal
2026-06-05 00:00 - 2026-06-10 23:59 (Europe/Lisbon)
Four-day, in-person workshop June 5 – 10, 2026 Near Tavira, Portugal

“If enlightenment does not take place in the body, it does not take place at all.”

— Yeshe Tsogyal, 8th-century Tibetan Buddhist master, consort of Padmasambhava, and one of the most venerated figures in Vajrayana Buddhism.

Much of spirituality—East and West—rightly focuses on “up and out” practices, awakening the higher chakras to deepen compassion, spiritual insight, and wisdom. These are called “generation stage” practices in Tibetan Buddhism. As spiritual development advances, it becomes important to also include practices that are “down and in,” to awaken all the subtle energy centers in the human body, which then becomes a living microcosm of the larger cosmos.

This retreat focuses on natural embodied practices, drawn from eastern and western traditions, that awaken the spiritual energy and vitality of the entire human body— which leads to experiencing daily life as living in a “body of joy.”

Drawing on dance, breathwork, art, yoga, movement, and diverse spiritual disciplines, join us as we reclaim our natural human birthright.

Contact: Garrett Evansgarrett@grworld.org+1-618-558-6560

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Women and Men Healing the Divide - Bangalore, India
2026-06-25 00:00 - 2026-06-27 23:59 (Asia/Kolkata)
Private workshop June 25 – 27, 2026 Bangalore, India

The process creates a safe space for breakthroughs in individual transformation and community healing—by working skillfully with participants’ lived experiences in relation to gender and sexuality. Together, women and men of all sexual orientations enter into a deeper understanding and mutual appreciation of their own experience and journey, and also awaken greater compassion, empathy, and understanding of others’ gender-based experiences and challenges.

Participants will be guided through an interactive and highly experiential process that includes personal reflection, small group interaction, silent meditation, somatic exercises, experiential honoring, and council process to explore and transform sensitive issues relating to gender and sexuality. The consistent result is a deeply nourishing and liberating experience for all participants.

Contact: Garrett Evansgarrett@grworld.org+1-618-558-6560

Private Workshop

Healing Together: Reconciling the Masculine and the Feminine
2026-08-13 08:00 - 2026-08-14 17:00 (Africa/Johannesburg)
TWO-DAY IN-PERSON WORKSHOP

Healing Together: Reconciling the Masculine and the Feminine

Date & Time:
August 13
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8:00 am
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August 14
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5:00 pm
LOCATION:Cape Town, South Africa
CONTACT:Desiree Englishdesiree@grworld.org+27 79 038 6382

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GERI and Genderworks, a locally based non-profit organization, are proud to collaboratively offer this workshop as part of the 2026 Artscape Women’s Humanity Festival. The GERI program is an experiential process that brings together men and women, and people of all sexual orientations and identities, to speak their truth and collectively confront gender injustice. Participants are invited to listen deeply to each other, speak their truth and collectively examine their social conditioning. In this way, they develop a mutual understanding of their social conditioning that leads to renewed hope for gender relations, and awakens new levels of mutual compassion, respect and understanding.
The GERI methodology is highly adaptable and has been applied within various contexts, such as universities, faith-based organisations and civil society. Across all these contexts, GERI deepens trust, renews hope and cultivates healthy and respectful relationships. The methodology is summarized in Martin Luther King Jr’s declaration “that injustice and corruption will never be transformed by keeping them hidden, but only by bringing them out into the light, and confronting them with the power of love”.
Facilitation Team
Desireé English
GERI Director of Training

Laurie Gaum
GERI Trainer

Thuli Mbete
GERI Facilitator

Earl Mentor
GERI Intern Facilitator

Mercy Musyoka
GERI Intern Facilitator
August 13
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8:00 am
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August 14
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5:00 pm
Join us

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Pathways of Grace: Healing and Reconciliation Between Women and Men
2026-08-25 08:45 - 2026-08-28 16:30 (Africa/Nairobi)
FOUR-DAY IN-PERSON WORKSHOP

Pathways of Grace: Healing and Reconciliation Between Women and Men

Date & Time:
August 25
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August 28

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LOCATION:Nairobi, Kenya
CONTACT:Garrett Evansgarrett@grworld.org+1 618 558 6560 (Whatsapp)

August 25
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August 28
Join us

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Gender Equity and Reconciliation Workshop: Healing the Gender Divides
2026-09-21 09:00 - 2026-09-23 16:00 (Europe/Lisbon)
THREE-DAY IN-PERSON WORKSHOP

Gender Equity and Reconciliation Workshop: Healing the Gender Divides

Date & Time:
September 21
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9:00 am
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September 23
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4:00 pm
LOCATION:Tavira, Portugal
CONTACT:Antonia Porter

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Gender Equity and Reconciliation International (GERI) is holding a powerful, experiential workshop on transforming gender relations from 21-23 September at its centre near Tavira, southern Portugal. Using the unique approach of Gender Equity and Reconciliation (GER), this three-day workshop will bring together participants including from the fields of peacebuilding and mediation.
The GER approach is groundbreaking and participatory: it creates a platform for the sharing of personal stories and gender journeys among participants to transform the very roots of patriarchy in a way that reaches far beyond an ordinary workshop. The process provides a rare forum to jointly confront the personal, social, historical, and cross-cultural origins of gender oppression and exploitation, and to reach mutual healing and understanding. Men are strongly encouraged and welcomed into Gender Equity and Reconciliation work, which involves no “male-bashing”, but instead inspires men to take part joyfully in dismantling patriarchy in society, for the benefit of all humans. All sexual orientations and gender identities are welcome.
Participants will be invited to share stories and participate in other experiential activities within a carefully-facilitated environment. This process delivers insights that contribute directly to shifting gender relations. New relational skills and a culture of deep respect and integrity between the genders are fostered, fuelled by heightened mutual awareness of the gender conditioning experienced in our societies.

Awakening the Reverence Between Us: A Journey of Healing Between Masculine & Feminine
2026-10-15 18:00 - 2026-10-18 18:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
THREE-DAY IN-PERSON WORKSHOP

Awakening the Reverence Between Us: A Journey of Healing Between Masculine & Feminine

Date & Time:
October 15
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6:00 pm
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October 18
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6:30 pm
LOCATION:Grass Valley, California
CONTACT:Garrett Evans <Garrett@grworld.org>+1 618 558 6560

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This workshop creates a safe space for breakthroughs in individual transformation and community healing, by working skillfully with participants’ lived experiences in relation to gender and sexuality. Together, women and men of all sexual orientations enter into a deeper understanding and mutual appreciation of their own experience and journey, and awaken greater compassion, empathy, and understanding of others’ gender-based experiences and challenges.
Participants are guided through an interactive and highly experiential process that includes personal reflection, small group interaction, silent meditation, somatic exercises, experiential honoring, and council process. The consistent result is a deeply nourishing and liberating experience for all participants.

Module 1 - GERI Immersion and Facilitator Training
2026-11-09 09:00 - 2026-11-14 17:00 (Europe/Lisbon)
SIX-DAY TRAINING MODULE

Module 1 – GERI Immersion and Facilitator Training

Date & Time:
November 9
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November 14
LOCATION:Tavira, Portugal CONTACT:Garrett EvansGarrett@grworld.org

Training Details and Application

This training is for people ready to do their own deep work, and to help others do theirs. It draws therapists and counselors, spiritual and religious leaders, educators, activists, students, coaches, mediators, and community leaders, from all walks of life, all faiths, and all cultural backgrounds.
You might be drawn to this if you feel called to heal the divide between the genders, if you want to bring gender-healing work to your own community, or if you simply sense that this is the next step in your own personal journey
November 9
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November 14
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Training Details and Application
