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We offer a range of courses for women and men, and for people of all genders. Our facilitators come from all around the world and are trained to lead you in discussions based in compassion, honesty, and truth.

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

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?

We invite you to experience the illuminating power of MeToo to WeTogether. Our course is structured with both 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 30 years, 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. 

If not now, when? If not you, then who? 

“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.” 
Peter Rutter, MD, Jungian psychiatrist, author of Sex in the Forbidden Zone and Understanding Sexual Harassment

A series of free intro events are also available, click below to see all upcoming programs

As a member of the BIPOC 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.

“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.”

Come experience the benefits of a GERI course developed over 30 years, reaching over 6 continents, and conducted with over 25,000 people. And as a result, creating even more pathways for communities to be at the table.

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. This design allows for open sharing and engagement in an intimate BIPOC space, which helps to build trust and openness in your everyday relationships.

Experiential Introduction: GERI for BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) – Healing in Community

For more information, contact: Myra Kinds at kindsmyra@msn.com

Do you want an opportunity to have deep and meaningful conversations about what it has meant to be lesbian, gay, transgender, non-binary, or gender fluid? 

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.

“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.”
Rev. Laurie Gaum, Minister and LGBTQ Activist, South Africa

¿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?

“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. . . “

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.

A través de este proceso GERI, lxs participantes informan sobre una nueva libertad del pasado y una liberación interna del corazón, a medida que reconocemos nuestra experiencia compartida y la humanidad común, y despertamos una esperanza renovada de un futuro seguro y sanado.

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?

“Me encanta ser parte de GERI porque me escucharon y me escuché. Me sentí confiado en abrir mi corazón, y otros confiaron en mí para contar sus vivencias, que atesoro en mi corazón esto y me llena de gratitud. . . “
“Varias mujeres lograron deshacerse de algunos prejuicios que las estaban dañando y varios hombres lograron recuperar su autoestima como hombres. . .”

Póngase en contacto con Silvia en Silvia@GRworld.org para obtener más información.

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. 

You’re invited to join us for a free online 1-hour program that offers you a taste of our process and activities. You’ll have an opportunity to meet a few of our facilitators and ask questions about the GERI process.

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 your 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.

Contact Garrett at Garrett@GRworld.org for more details on upcoming Heart Circles.

GERI 2021 In-Person Training Cohort – South Africa
GERI 2021 Online Facilitator Training Cohort with trainees from 8 countries

Do you want to become a facilitator trained in transforming gender relations?

We welcome you to apply for our Professional Immersion & Facilitator Training. This engaging and intimate journey is designed with your personal transformation and learning in mind.

  • Learn from our dynamic & diverse team of international trainers
  • Enter into this inspired journey of individual and collective transformation and learning
  • Join other leaders like yourself in this cutting-edge training that transforms gender oppression into beloved community
  • Become a facilitator of this pioneering work and implement it within your own communities or professional network

The structure of this professional training consists of multiple training modules conducted over 6 – 12 months. This phase is followed by a practical field internship program for those who go on to become a Certified Facilitator of the GERI program.

For more details, contact: Training@GRworld.org

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