Upcoming Programs
GERI Introduction
Free online 1-hour program
You’re invited to join us for a free online 60-90 minute program that offers you a taste of our process and activities. You’ll have an opportunity to meet a few of our facilitators and ask questions about the GERI process.
Contact Garrett at garrett@grworld.org
Latin America Introduction to Gender Equity and Reconciliation International (GERI)
Sesión Introductoria
Gratis, en línea: 90 minutos.
Te invitamos a unirte a esta sesión gratis en línea durante 60 – 90 minutos que te permitirá conocer nuestro proceso y actividades así como a algunos de nuestros facilitadores.
Contact Silvia at silvia@grworld.org
Introduction to LGBTQ+
Healing across the gender spectrum
You’re invited to join us for a free online 60-90 minute program offering a taste of our process and activities. This session will guide you through an experiential process in an intimate LGBTQ+ space. You can meet a few of our facilitators and ask questions about the GERI process.
Register here:
March 29th
6pm SAST – 8 AM PST
April 9th
11am SAST / 9am GMT
April 12th
6pm SAS / 8am PST
Contact Tristan Johannes at tristan@grworld.org
Introduction to BIPOC Healing in Community
Contact Myra Kinds at kindsmyra@msn.com
Second Saturday Circle ~ Monthly Connections
Second Saturday of every month
April 12, May 10, June 14, . . .
9am Pacific Time, 75 minute sessions
Join us for GERI Monthly Connections, a space for the GERI community to come together and nurture meaningful connections. These monthly calls are designed for individuals who have previously completed an immersive GERI in-person workshop or a multi-week online course. Some sessions will be open calls to share about our lives and experiences, while others will focus on specific topics, offering opportunities for deeper exploration and dialogue.
We look forward to being together in these continued connections!
Contact: Kara Salter
kara@grworld.org
+1-303-588-7715
Professional Immersion and Facilitator Certification Training
Cape Town, South Africa
Module 1: February 23 – 28, 2025
Module 2: June 22 – 27, 2025
Module 3: October 12 – 17, 2025
Module 4: December 7 – 12, 2025
This training experience is designed to be an engaging, intimate, and an inspired journey of individual and collective transformation and learning. These modules of highly experiential learning and immersion support trainees in diving deeply and unpacking their own experience in relation to gender and sexuality, and also include teaching and experiential components related to trauma and healing, spirituality, ethics, the unique challenges of gender-related facilitation, responding to conflicts and crisis, and other topics. Training modules also include opportunities for trainees to gain hands-on facilitation experience with their peers, work together in role-plays, and hone their skills in responding to challenging and sometimes volatile gender situations, while also offering and receiving feedback from their peers and GERI Trainers.
GERI Online Course – Women and Men: Healing the Divide
ONLINE
Dates coming soon
This experiential 7-week course creates a safe space for breakthroughs in individual transformation and community healing—by working skilfully with participants’ lived experiences in relation to gender and sexuality. Together, women and men of all sexual orientations enter a deeper understanding and mutual appreciation of their own experience and journey, and awaken greater compassion, empathy, and understanding of others’ gender-based experiences and challenges.
Participants will be guided through an interactive and highly experiential process that includes personal reflection, small group interaction, silent meditation, somatic exercises, experiential honoring, and council process to explore and transform sensitive issues relating to gender and sexuality. The consistent result is a deeply nourishing and liberating experience for all participants.
Contact: Garrett Evans
garrett@grworld.org
+1-618-558-6560
Building Beloved Community Retreat: Pathways to Healing & Restoration Between Men & Women
Hybrid Program, Online 7.30 – 9.30 pm on 22nd and 29th April, 2025
Followed with in-person weekend of May 3-4
Boston, MA
Join us for a unique experience tailored for Christian communities that aims to bring healing and reconciliation between genders.
Developed over 30 years and conducted with thousands of participants across six continents, the Gender Equity and Reconciliation International (GERI) process applies the principles of Truth and Reconciliation (pioneered by Archbishop Desmond Tutu in South Africa) to open new pathways to healing, respect, emotional intimacy, and collaboration between the genders.
Experience a fresh approach to healing and reconciliation work between genders, building trust and compassionate communication through a skillful combination of interactive activities, spiritual practice, & transformative group process.
Contact: Kara Salter
kara@grworld.org
+1-303-588-7715
GERI B.I.P.O.C Online Course
ONLINE
Over 7 Saturdays
March 15 – April 26, 2025
Gender Equity & Reconciliation in an intimate Black, Indigenous & People of Color space.
This experiential 7-week course creates a safe space for breakthroughs in individual transformation and community healing—by working skilfully with participants’ lived experiences in relation to gender and sexuality. Together, women and men of all sexual orientations enter a deeper understanding and mutual appreciation of their own experience and journey, and awaken greater compassion, empathy, and understanding of others’ gender-based experiences and challenges.
Participants will be guided through an interactive and highly experiential process that includes personal reflection, small group interaction, silent meditation, somatic exercises, experiential honoring, and council process to explore and transform sensitive issues relating to gender and sexuality. The consistent result is a deeply nourishing and liberating experience for all participants.
Contact: Myra Kinds
kindsmyra@gmail.com
+1-774-219-9756
In-Person Introduction
Women and Men: Healing the Divide
Walnut Creek, California
With Unity Center of Walnut Creek
April 6
2:00 – 4:30pm
This event offers a practical experience of Gender Equity and Reconciliation International’s (GERI) methodology, which applies truth and reconciliation principles to gender and sexual injustice. Developed over 32 years and endorsed by Archbishop Desmond Tutu in 2013, GERI’s methodology has been implemented with thousands of participants on 6 continents.
Contact: Kara Salters
Kara@grworld.org
+1-303-588-7715
Women and Men: Healing the Divide – Kenya
Two separete three-day workshops
• April 9 – 11 in Kisumu
• April 14 – 16 in Busia
These experiential three-day workshops creates a safe space for breakthroughs in individual transformation and community healing—by working skillfully with participants’ lived experiences in relation to gender and sexuality. Together, women and men of all sexual orientations enter into a deeper understanding and mutual appreciation of their own experience and journey, and also awaken greater compassion, empathy, and understanding of others’ gender-based experiences and challenges.
Participants will be guided through an interactive and highly experiential process that includes personal reflection, small group interaction, silent meditation, somatic exercises, experiential honoring, and council process to explore and transform sensitive issues relating to gender and sexuality. The consistent result is a deeply nourishing and liberating experience for all participants.
Contact: Garrett Evans
garrett@grworld.org
+1-618-558-6560
GERI for LGBTQ+ Healing Across the Gender Spectrum
ONLINE
Over 7 Saturdays
May 3 – June 14, 2025
Do you want an opportunity in safe space to have deep and meaningful conversations about what it has meant to be lesbian, gay, transgender, queer, or non-binary?
This experiential 7-week course creates a safe space for breakthroughs in individual transformation and community healing—by working skilfully with participants’ lived experiences in relation to gender and sexuality, in an intimate LGBTQ+ space.
Our facilitators will guide you through an experiential process in an intimate LGBTQ+ space, that will entail personal reflection, group interaction, experiential honoring, and focused exercises for unpacking and exploring sensitive issues of gender and sexuality.
Contact: Tristan Johannes
tristan@grworld.org
+27 62 800 9595
Women and Men: Healing the Divide – Prague
Four-day in-person workshop
April 24 – 27
Prague, Czech Republic
This experiential four-day workshop creates a safe space for breakthroughs in individual transformation and community healing—by working skillfully with participants’ lived experiences in relation to gender and sexuality. Together, women and men of all sexual orientations enter into a deeper understanding and mutual appreciation of their own experience and journey, and also awaken greater compassion, empathy, and understanding of others’ gender-based experiences and challenges.
Participants will be guided through an interactive and highly experiential process that includes personal reflection, small group interaction, silent meditation, somatic exercises, experiential honoring, and council process to explore and transform sensitive issues relating to gender and sexuality. The consistent result is a deeply nourishing and liberating experience for all participants.
Contact: Garrett Evans
garrett@grworld.org
+1-618-558-6560
Women and Men: Healing the Divide – Germany
Four-day in-person workshop
May 1 – 4
Berlin, Germany
This experiential four-day workshop creates a safe space for breakthroughs in individual transformation and community healing—by working skillfully with participants’ lived experiences in relation to gender and sexuality. Together, women and men of all sexual orientations enter into a deeper understanding and mutual appreciation of their own experience and journey, and also awaken greater compassion, empathy, and understanding of others’ gender-based experiences and challenges.
Participants will be guided through an interactive and highly experiential process that includes personal reflection, small group interaction, silent meditation, somatic exercises, experiential honoring, and council process to explore and transform sensitive issues relating to gender and sexuality. The consistent result is a deeply nourishing and liberating experience for all participants.
Contact: Garrett Evans
garrett@grworld.org
+1-618-558-6560
Women and Men: Healing the Divide – Spain
Three separate three-day workshop options:
• May 9 – 11 in Barcelona
• May 16 – 18 in Mallorca
• May 23 – 25 in Barcelona
These experiential three-day workshops creates a safe space for breakthroughs in individual transformation and community healing—by working skillfully with participants’ lived experiences in relation to gender and sexuality. Together, women and men of all sexual orientations enter into a deeper understanding and mutual appreciation of their own experience and journey, and also awaken greater compassion, empathy, and understanding of others’ gender-based experiences and challenges.
Participants will be guided through an interactive and highly experiential process that includes personal reflection, small group interaction, silent meditation, somatic exercises, experiential honoring, and council process to explore and transform sensitive issues relating to gender and sexuality. The consistent result is a deeply nourishing and liberating experience for all participants.
Contact: Garrett Evans
garrett@grworld.org
+1-618-558-6560
Women and Men: Healing the Divide – Houston, TX
Four-day in-person workshop
Houston, TX
October 2 – 5, 2025
This special workshop includes a day of Grof® Breathwork to support new layers of healing and the transformative process.
The process creates a safe space for breakthroughs in individual transformation and community healing—by working skillfully with participants’ lived experiences in relation to gender and sexuality. Together, women and men of all sexual orientations enter into a deeper understanding and mutual appreciation of their own experience and journey, and also awaken greater compassion, empathy, and understanding of others’ gender-based experiences and challenges.
Participants will be guided through an interactive and highly experiential process that includes personal reflection, small group interaction, silent meditation, somatic exercises, experiential honoring, and council process to explore and transform sensitive issues relating to gender and sexuality. The consistent result is a deeply nourishing and liberating experience for all participants.
Contact: Kara Salters
Kara@grworld.org
+1-303-588-7715
Women and Men: Healing the Divide – Perth, Australia
Four-day in-person workshop
Perth, Australia
Dates to be announced
This experiential four-day workshop creates a safe space for
breakthroughs in individual transformation and community healing—by
working skillfully with participants’ lived experiences in relation to
gender and sexuality. Together, women and men of all sexual orientations
enter into a deeper understanding and mutual appreciation of their own
experience and journey, and also awaken greater compassion, empathy, and
understanding of others’ gender-based experiences and challenges.
Participants will be guided through an interactive and highly
experiential process that includes personal reflection, small group
interaction, silent meditation, somatic exercises, experiential
honoring, and council process to explore and transform sensitive issues
relating to gender and sexuality. The consistent result is a deeply
nourishing and liberating experience for all participants.
Contact: Kara Salters
Kara@grworld.org
+1-303-588-7715