The signature event of this Peace Warrior movement has been the 10-day intensive Training of Conflict Transformation Trainers. Dan Buttry, who conceived and initially developed the TCTT likes to refer to it as “the Grad School of the University of the Streets.”
Using experiential education methodologies developed by people’s movements around the world and interwoven with spiritual disciplines, the TCTT explores topics of conflict dynamics, conflict resolution, personal conflict styles, mediation, dealing with difference and diversity, power dynamics, nonviolent transforming initiatives, developing movements for constructive change, trauma and trauma healing, reconciliation, the principles, practices and tools of experiential education, and sustaining oneself spiritual for the long struggle. Extensive practice is woven into the training.
These are the TCTTs conducted so far, with over 300 graduates from over 50 countries:
2010 — Detroit, USA, facilitated by Dan Buttry with Daniel Hunter from Training for Change.
2011 — Detroit, USA, facilitated by Dan Buttry with Daniel Hunter and Ariel Bowering from Training for Change.
2012 — Chiang Mai, Thailand, facilitated by Dan Buttry with Erika Thorne from Training for Change.
2013 — Nyahururu, Kenya, co-facilitated by Dan and Sharon Buttry.
2014 — Ede, Nigeria, co-facilitated by Dan Buttry and Lance Muteyo.
2015 — Kiev, Ukraine, co-facilitated by Dan Buttry and Lance Muteyo.
2015 — Detroit, USA, co-facilitated by Dan Buttry and Kathleen Murphy with Betsy Raasch-Gilman from Training for Change.
2016 — Baguio, Philippines, co-facilitated by Dan & Sharon Buttry and Jec Dan Borlado.
2016 — Baguio, Philippines, co-facilitated by Dan & Sharon Buttry and Mylinda Baits.
2017 — Alexandria, Egypt, co-facilitated by Dan & Sharon Buttry and Manal El Tayar.
2017 — Mexico City, Mexico, co-facilitated by Dan Buttry, Mylinda Baits, and Ray Schellinger.
2018 — Santiago, Cuba, co-facilitated by Mylinda Baits, Ray Schellinger, Ernesto Jose Bazan, Adalia Gutierrez Lee, and Mercy Gonzalez-Barnes.
2018 — Kansas City, USA, co-facilitated by Dan & Sharon Buttry and Benjamin Kam Sian Muang with Erika Thorne from Training for Change.
2018–Nairobi, Kenya, co-facilitated by Dan & Sharon Buttry and Philip Kakungulu.
2022–Kansas City, USA, co-facilitated by Dan & Sharon Buttry and Stephanie Parham.
Future TCTTs will be posted on the Events page.
Here is a video/slideshow of the 1st 2016 Philippines TCTT. It will give you a feel for what these trainings are like.
TCTT photos are in the Photo Gallery, but here are a few to give you a feel:
