The Opening the Heart Workshop         

 PEACEMAKER TRAINING BOSTON
2024-2025

A collaboration with MIT's Educational Justice Institute,
and partners Brave Behind Bars,
and Odessa Health 

In October 2024 The Opening the Heart Workshop and partners began regular trainings for young pre-release, violent offenders in Boston, in order to help them learn to serve their community as peacemakers and leaders. 

The training is working in tandem with the MIT course "Non Violence As A Way of Life", which is currently being offered to the incarcerated students.

The training aims to help the students remember or learn what a state of peace feels like, both inside themselves, and with others.

This baseline will be the foundation for cultivating  beliefs, attitudes, skills and behavior which can help students learn to create more peace in their environment while they volunteer with our partners in thecommunity
upon re-entry.