Program areas
We offer a range of programs for women and men, and for people of all genders.
Every human being has a legitimate voice in the gender conversation. Everyone wins from dismantling a catastrophic system that harms everyone. Guided by the twin powers of truth and love, and supported by skillful facilitation, the GERI process creates safe forums to empower the unraveling of gender and sexual conditioning with alchemical depth and acumen, initiating a whole new culture of gender relations and beloved community.
THE GENDER EQUITY AND RECONCILIATION METHODOLOGY
• Creates safe forums to jointly confront dysfunctional gender and sexuality conditioning
• Facilitates skillful truth-telling, acknowledgment, and deep listening in relation to participants’ personal histories
• Fosters new levels of mutual awareness, sensitivity, and transformational healing across the genders
• Cultivates respectful and authentic dialogue on gender, sexuality, and various key intersectionalities
• Opens new ways and possibilities in gender relations, imbued with mutual appreciation, compassion, and trust
OUR SIGNATURE PROGRAM
Women and Men: Healing the Divide
A highly experiential program that brings together women and men of all sexual orientations to speak truth and jointly confront gender injustice. Convened both online and in person, this can be experienced in either live weekly sessions, or as a 3–5 day intensive.
By speaking truth to their challenges and aspirations, participants jointly renew hope for gender relations, and awaken new levels of mutual compassion, respect, and even reverence for one another.
SPECIALIZED APPLICATIONS
Adapting GERI across contexts
LGBTQ+: Healing Across the Gender Spectrum
Deep and meaningful conversations about what it has meant to be lesbian, gay, transgender, non-binary, or gender fluid.
BIPOC: Healing in Community
A space to safely share your stories as a person of color, and your experience as a woman, man, or person of any gender.
Viviendo en Armonía
Nuestro programa está diseñado con tu seguridad y transformación emocional, física y espiritual como prioridad.
Corporate Training
Programs in collaboration with schools, universities, prisons, religious institutions, and for members of parliament, corporations, foundations, and NGOs.
Introduction, Heart Circles & Facilitator Training
GERI Introduction
A free online 1-hour program that offers you a taste of our process and activities, and an opportunity to meet a few of our facilitators.
GERI Heart Circles
You’ve completed the GERI introductory course online or in person, and you’re ready for more.
Professional Immersion & Facilitator Training
Do you want to become a facilitator trained in transforming gender relations?
I was deeply moved and changed, and am profoundly grateful for the experience. So many clients in my psychiatric practice are depressed and traumatized by gender violence, as is our entire culture. The GERI vision is unique, and uniquely valuable to the world.
I have been looking for a long time to find a way to bring healing and reconciliation between women and men. This work is the answer. We need much more of this work.
OUR SIGNATURE PROGRAM
Women and Men: Healing the Divide
Are you called to join in community and to discover new pathways of healing and authentic harmony and connection between women, men, and people of all genders? Would you like to experience deeper, more intimate connections with your partner, family members, or colleagues?
Our course is structured with your emotional and psychological safety at the forefront. You will join like-minded women, men, and people of all genders to transform your gender and sexuality conditioning. Come experience the benefits of a program that has been developed over three decades, and conducted with nearly 30,000 people on six continents.
Our facilitators will guide you through an experiential process that will involve personal reflection, group discussion, and support you in unpacking and exploring sensitive issues of gender and sexuality.
SPECIALIZED PROGRAM
LGBTQ+: Healing Across the Gender Spectrum
You are warmly invited to join one of our LGBTQ+ courses and discover the power of deep listening and connecting deeply with others, and share about your experience related to your gender identity or expression, or sexual orientation.
“Gender” today includes not only masculine and feminine identities, but also a broad spectrum of non-binary identities and expressions, which are continuing to shift and evolve. Our LGBTQ+ courses are structured to embrace the full dynamic gender spectrum, with your emotional and psychological safety always at the forefront.
Our facilitators will guide you through an experiential process in an intimate LGBTQ+ space, that will entail personal reflection, group interaction, experiential honoring, and focused exercises for unpacking and exploring sensitive issues of gender and sexuality.
In addition to the LGBTQ+ course, we also have another course specifically designed for “queer” people and “straight” people, to engage in deep truth-telling and foster deeper mutual understanding. This course provides a rare forum for healing and transcending differences across the gender spectrum in community.
For more information, contact our LGBTQ+ Project Lead, Tristan Johannes at tristan@grworld.org
Coming from an LGBTQ experience as a queer man, it's been very powerful to be with others — to unpack some of the issues that affect us and explore possibilities for reconciliation and peace between genders.
It was profound being in People of Color space. Seeing brown hands on both sides of me felt good… I felt safer to bring things up. It's easier to open my heart to men of color knowing you have been targeted by the isms.
SPECIALIZED PROGRAM
BIPOC: Healing in Community
Do you long for a space to safely share your stories as a person of color and your experience as a woman, man, or person of any gender?
Chart a new journey so your personal healing illuminates the path for future generations.
We invite you to join us in discovering the power that deep listening can have on helping you feel seen, heard and lifted up. This course is designed with a zone of non-judgment and intention to look at the life lived as “the other”.
Our course is structured with both your emotional and psychological safety at the forefront. We know the topics of race, gender and sexuality are rarely jointly discussed; they usually treated as separate matters. But this course acknowledges and holds space for it all. Your voice will not be perceived as a threat, and your passion will not be felt as anger.
For more information, contact our BIPOC Project Lead, Myra Kinds at kindsmyra@msn.com
EN ESPAÑOL
Viviendo en Armonía
¿Quieres tener la oportunidad de compartir tu experiencia e historia sobre género y sexualidad, tanto de tus desafíos como de tus profundas aspiraciones? ¿Anhelas estar con personas que estén tan preparadas como tú para descubrir una nueva libertad para reescribir las relaciones de género?
Nuestro programa está diseñado con tu seguridad y transformación emocional, física y espiritual como prioridad. Ese diseño permite compartir abiertamente tu propia experiencia, escuchar la verdad auténtica de lxs demás y apoyar la sinceridad y la apertura en tus relaciones cotidianas.
Nuestros facilitadores utilizan hábilmente una estructura que ha sido desarrollada y probada durante los últimos 30 años con decenas de miles de participantes. Tenemos la misión de curar las heridas de la injusticia de género y establecer una comunidad amada. ¿Te unirás a nosotros?
Póngase en contacto con Silvia en silvia@grworld.org para obtener más información
He tenido la grata sorpresa de encontrar empatía y pertenencia al compartir, me he sentido representada como mujer y he podido reconocer y honrar a los hombres de mi vida.
“This experience rises far above trainings because it embodies the very qualities our world needs most: empathetic listening, witnessing and honoring of people’s experiences; and doesn’t seek to talk at or to fix anyone.”
FOR ORGANIZATIONS
Corporate Training
Over the last three decades, Gender Equity and Reconciliation International (GERI) has offered programs in collaboration with schools, universities, prisons, religious institutions, for members of parliament, corporations, foundations, and NGOs.
GERI provides an experiential learning methodology combined with skillful facilitation in a group setting. Founded on principles of truth and reconciliation, the GERI methodology was explicitly endorsed by Archbishop Desmond Tutu in 2013.
For more information, contact info@grworld.org
STAYING CONNECTED
GERI Heart Circles
You’ve completed the GERI introductory course online or in-person and you’re ready for more. Welcome to GERI Heart Circles.
This is your opportunity to continue your inner work and commitment to transforming gender conditioning. You’ll go deeper with GERI community members in small, ongoing follow-up groups.
During the initial 12 sessions, two GERI facilitators will guide you and your group through the Heart Circle process designed to foster a safe and healing environment. You can bring your vulnerable and sensitive issues around gender and sexuality. Together we’ll foster a “beloved community of the heart” as you practice the GERI principles in your life.
For more information, contact info@grworld.org
