1. Empowering Women, Enhancing Empathy and Reducing Prejudice –This program includes courses and trainings for groups of mothers, students studying to be teachers, early childhood educators and kindergarten teachers. They learn to work through their fears and childhood hurts so they can create a loving, nurturing, accepting living environment for their own children, and the children they work with. They also learn to create a support network for their own growth and development. These courses have taken place over several years at Acco, Haifa, Tel Hai and are now been conducted at Mgrar College and at Women at the Center in Nazareth. We recently conducted a research which demonstrated the success of our multi-disciplinary educational model in achieving these goals.
2. Supporting and Healing Women Leaders The goal of this program is twofold, first to help Arab, Palestinian and Jewish women leaders who are working for women’s and children’s human rights, coexistence and peace in leading a more balanced life so they can continue and expand on their work without risk of burnout. And secondly, each of the women leaders is in the position to touch the lives and affect hundreds and perhaps thousands of people. We strongly believe that after going through our course they will be moved to utilize the skills in their everyday lives and with the support of the Beyond Words staff, run training seminars to empower many more women thus spreading the work further.
3. A Women’s Center in the Village of Barta’a – The village located in a no man’s land (neither Israel nor Palestine) and the villagers are cut off from their land as well as medical, education and municipal services and surrounded by checkpoints. The women’s center started by some facilitators who have gone through our program has been helping empower a group of women to work for their human rights and for peaceful solutions to the community’s problems.
4. Connecting through Expressive Arts -- Tuba and its neighbors - The Beduin town of Tuba is plagued by poverty, intimate violence and has the highest suicide rate in the entire country. This project, led by two of our facilitators is designed to help Arab and Jewish women connect to themselves and their own strength and to one another through movement and embroidery. By Making and then selling their creations the women are assisting in preserving this beautiful art form while feeling empowered both through the emotional support of a women's circle and through critically needed income and tools for becoming financially independent.
5. Young Women Leaders Training – is a program designed to train young Jewish and Palestinian women to become leaders in groups working for coexistence and Peace. The training is lead by two of our staff and is conducted in collaboration with the “Creativity for Peace” organization. The young leaders come from Israel, the West Bank and Gaza.
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