"Many thanks to HawaH and One Common Unity for supporting our first annual Raw Life Retreat! I hope this heart-felt contribution supports the amazing work you are doing."
--Ashley & Deep Green Wellness

“Before this project I really didn’t think much of what I said to people because I’m the typed of person if I have something to say I’m going to say it. In other words, I don’t hold anything back. But now I realize that there’s a certain way to say what you feel and not be rude about it. I think of words like this, “Each word has an emotion attached that’s why we should always watch what we say.”
--Calvin Smith (A NU View youth participant, 2007)

“One Common Unity has been a great inspiration to the diversity of students at Wilson Senior High School in Washington, DC. Their teachings and commitment have created and molded our Peace Program and provided an opportunity for our students to realize their responsibility to one another and the planet. Keep up the great work OCU!”
--Dr. Stephen Tarason, Former Principal, Woodrow Wilson Senior High School

Retreats and Training Institutes

Retreats and Training Institutes

OCU for the past 4 years has provided D.C. residents with a chance to further their education at the beautiful Abram’s Creek Retreat and Campground in West Virginia while enjoying a full program of OCU trainings and workshops. REJUVENATION is a retreat meant for those who want an enriching experience, desire skills that will improve the quality of their life, and meet new people who are on a similar journey.

The retreats include:

  • Wholesome vegetarian meals
  • Morning & evening yoga, breathing and meditation classes
  • Community bonfires
  • Drum circles
  • Music therapy
  • Swimming
  • Fire spinning
  • Sweat lodge ceremonies
  • Water balloon tosses
  • Hiking
  • Thai massage
  • Reiki
  • Poetry
  • Workshops in self discovery & raw foods

 

Freedom Schools National Training

Every summer, 8 – 11 One Common Unity trainers help prepare Children’s Defense Fund teachers by providing them with hands on and theory based approaches to Innovative Peace Education techniques in the classroom. Yearly, our diverse training team is galvanized and assembled at the Alex Haley Farm in Tennessee. Over the course of 7 - 10 days, One Common Unity trainers facilitate over 80 workshops that expose approximately 1,300 Freedom School teachers to the principles of Peace Education in the classroom. Some of these workshops and trainings include: The Pedagogy of Peace, Nonviolent Communication, Integrative Conflict Transformation, Forgiveness and Compassion, and Music Therapy.

“The CDF Freedom Schools program provides critical summer and after-school enrichment through a model curriculum that supports children and families around five essential components: high quality academic enrichment, parent and family involvement, civic engagement and social action, inter-generational leadership development, and nutrition, health and mental health.”

The CDF Freedom School sites offer a unique vision of education, rooted in the cultural traditions of literacy, service, and advocacy.

The five essential components of successful CDF Freedom Schools program are:

  • High Quality Academic Enrichment
  • Parent and Family Involvement
  • Civic Engagement and Social Action
  • Inter-generational Leadership Development
  • Nutrition, Health and Mental Health

Through our work with the Children’s Defense Fund, One Common Unity has emerged into the field of staff development, team-building, innovative peace education trainings and health and wellness. If your non-profit organization, company, business, school, or hospital is interested in having an OCU training team come to you, please contact us directly.

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