Over a May weekend in Stroudsburg, PA, participants in a 20-hour CCP basic training worked hard, laughed a lot, practiced skills, and analyzed the stages of building a nonviolent movement as well as how to ensure community solidarity to make it happen.
Here are the projects the break-out groups designed as part of the last module in the training:
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• Grow it, Eat it, Poop it (teaching young children nutrition through gardening, food preparation, and health lessons)
• De-escalation of Conflict – Dos and Don'ts (designing a program using jujitsu and other techniques)
• Letters of Hope to Prisoners (organizing a group for letter writing)
• Westend Feed the Homeless (creating a van delivery system for 200 in the rural area)
Host: St Alban’s, Albany, CA 
What happens? Creating a Culture of Peace provides a spiritually-grounded and interactive learning time for being peaceful, hopeful, people in a time of fear and violence -- a practical foundation in the principles, practices, and power of active nonviolence. You will gain new tools, energy and 
concrete plans for taking action on issues you choose. CCP is a 15 year old national network of peace trainings offered to Episcopal churches, seminaries and many other justice and peace organizations.
* $1000 grants for