Reconciliation leaders offer hope for America's Challenges

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Reconciliation Leaders spoke in 2013 at the United Nations Development Programme Reconciliation Leaders for Sustainable Development .  Below, a picture of Reconciliation Leaders for Sustainable Development in training envisioning their dream for the earth's healing. Now, individual tutorials are offered online or in Worcester in person to customize each training.





Virginia brings a passion for the UN and the multilateral peace process that is contagious and engrossing. The exposure to diplomatic officials and NGO professionals offers an unbelievable degree of access into the functioning of the UN.  It is emotionally edifying and spiritually uplifting power-networking, and you'll never look at the UN the same way again. Great work is being done there and Virginia brings you into the heart of it." --The Rev. Dave Woessner, St. Michael's Episcopal Church

If we want to strengthen the UN, we have to go back to our own country and help it move from self-interest to working for the common good. After my  Life Review Process last year, I decided to bring all my resources to train Reconciliation leaders to help address the challenges in my own country, America.  I draw on 25 years experience as a master coach, facilitator, leadership trainer and spiritual guide certified in the Leadership Agility approach.

Here are some comments from people who became Reconciliation Leaders: Sarah and Sam spoke at the 2013 presentation at the United Nations
  • "Reconciliation Leadership has reaffirmed for me the importance of being an integrated human being and the strength and necessity of this integration for the practice of leadership"     Dr. Sarah Sayeed, Public Servant, New York 
  • "My parenting skills are based on my mission statement, the perspectives, tools and techniques of Reconciliation Leadership."  -Brooke Belcher Bishara, Reconciliation  Leader and Former 6th GradeTeacher, Bancroft School
  • "I was looking for an approach to reconciliation that is guided by spiritual sensitivity, and I found it in Virginia. That is why my meeting with her was not just a coincidence. I therefore have no doubt in my mind that Virginia's work of reconciliation will be heralded, one day, as a vital tool in addressing and transforming violent conflicts.        -Sam Onapa, Reconciliation Leader, Staff, African Union, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Ordinary people around the world are becoming Reconciliation Leaders--they make a difference in their families, their communities, their work life, nation and their world. Reconciliation Leaders have . . .
  • a large vision and implementation skills for family, community, national and international challenges
  • a sense of why mission statements matter
  • are practical idealists-- proactive eliciting the best out of a group
  • a personal relationship to the earth and understanding how to facilitate just, sustainable environments for ongoing challenges of economic and social development--from climate change, racism, gun control to immigration
  • mastered vocational and emotional intelligence competencies as part of four levels of competencies unique to Reconciliation Leadership: personal, interpersonal, systemic and global
  • seek to heal and advance the current model of leadership at the United Nations, the United States and the world.
 

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" We have much to learn from each other about how we have traveled and sometimes travailed through our life journeys. Virginia Swain's story of her own development through time as a leader, peacebuilder and compassionate human being will be inspiring and helpful to many.  Her sense of calling is very strong and rightly guided. 
 
I have been very interested in how Virginia's innovative approach to leadership and peacebuilding in highly stressful conflicts has risen from her life journey. The Reconciliation Leadership Certificate Program, The Peacebuilding Process of Reconciliation to Develop Political Will and the Global Mediation and Reconciliation Service are important contributions to the Global Movement for a Culture of Peace." -
 
The late Elise Boulding, Ph.D, Dartmouth College, Nobel Peace Prize Nominee, Author, Cultures of Peace: The Hidden Side of History and Building a Global Civic Culture: Education for an Interdependent World and fifty other books
 
Sincerely,

Virginia

Virginia Swain 
Founder and Director
Institute for Global Leadership
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