English language peace training will take place on the evenings of March 5th to March 7th 2013. This will be followed by sessions with Arabic translation on March 8th and 9th 2013. Both trainings will be held at Namaste on Budaiya Highway. The workshops are open to the public and free of charge. However, registration is essential as seating is limited.
“This crisis has tested us all, and compassion is the cornerstone of transforming the way we deal with social conflicts through understanding from the perspective of others—even if we don’t agree with them. We have brought Mary Anne to share her peace training as a way to transform conflicts, and help individuals cultivate and sustain compassion for each other— particularly in the face of adversity. Her trainings will also help participants humanize social situations, achieve inner and outer peace, and to heal anger, and reduce suffering within oneself and others explained,” BFRCD Founder and Chairman, Suhail Algosaibi, said.
“Attendees of the peace training will benefit from deep introspection, and the varied background of participants will add value in facilitating greater understanding among diverse groups,” Algosaibi, said.
“Compassion is one of the most frequently mentioned noble attributes of Allah (ar rahman). There is a hadith that says: You cannot be a true Muslim until you are kind among yourselves…Kindness is not that you sympathize with your companion, but kindness is that you think all men deserving of it,” Algosaibi said.
As a therapist, workshop facilitator, and instructor of the Bodhisattva Peace Institute and Chagdud Gonpa, Muller has conducted peace trainings for people from all backgrounds. She has developed and facilitated workshops for women who have survived violence and who seek empowerment and social inclusion, and she has also worked extensively with socially vulnerable youth. Having lived under the Pinochet regime’s military dictatorship in Chile, Muller has also participated in the creation of various volunteer groups in prisons and hospitals and at-risk women training centers.
Since 1991 Muller has served as the Executive Director of Foundacion Origen and Agro-ecological School of Pirque, both of which are dedicated to technical and sustainable education for at-risk and socially vulnerable youth, small farmers and teachers. She also recently established the School for Peace and Sustainable Education to train South American teachers and social leaders.
Muller is a distinguished leader in her field, and has been named an Ashoka Fellow (USA), a member of the Avina Foundation (Switzerland), and spoke at the Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship at Oxford University, United Kingdom in 2012