The
Forgiveness Education program
presently offers curricula for ages 3 to 14. The curricula are based
off the
understanding that forgiveness is a choice when people are faced with
an
injustice. The model of understanding we use proposes that forgiveness
is not
weak, but rather is a dignified and dignifying response to a
perpetration of
hurt. By deciding not to take revenge, and to treat the one who
perpetrated the
hurt as a human, an individual can discover a sense of meaning, and a
sense of
inviolable generosity from which to operate. This does not mean that
wrongdoing
is excused. Forgiveness must always be practiced in harmony and
conjunction
with justice, societal laws, self-protection and plain common sense.
Classrooms
who participate in Forgiveness Education examine topics and conduct
discussions
in a way that helps participants recognize their commonality with those
people
they may describe as "other" - "whether
the 'other' is a person of a different community,
religion,
ethnicity, culture, gender, or ability."
Through Forgiveness Education, people are aided in having a worldview
that is
enhancing of a sense of shared place, community and future.
Currently,
this website is being used by
students in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Belfast, Northern Ireland to
converse
safely and anonymously with one another about what they are learning in
their
Forgiveness Education programs. Thus, students and administrators are
the only
people granted access to enter this website. For more information about
Forgiveness Education, please go to forgiveness-institute.org (Note:
That
website is currently being restructured, but should be completed by
Summer
2011). If you have questions about Forgiveness Education or are
interested in
starting the program at your school, please contact Dr. Robert Enright
at rd.enright@yahoo.com
or Breanne Litts at
litts@wisc.edu.
If you are a student having trouble with this website, please inform
your
teacher to contact your Forgiveness Education Coordinator.
Forgiveness
Coordinator Contact
Information:
Belfast:
Becki Fulmer
Forgiveness
Education Programme Coordinator –
Belfast
Corrymeela
8 Upper
Crescent
Belfast
Northern
Ireland
BT7 1NT
bfulmer@corrymeela.org
+44 (0)28
9050 8084
Milwaukee:
Margaret
Rhody
Forgiveness
Education Coordinator – Milwaukee
forgivenesseducation@gmail.com
414-333-5998