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Around the Table: Creating Peace at the Advoz Annual Dinner

Nearly every day, Advoz brings youth and adults around tables to make transformative dialogue happen in our community and to help youth and adults add their voice and build tomorrow’s peaceable world.

A young man faces police for spraying illegal graffiti but makes things right in Advoz’s restorative dialogue, meeting and working with a professional artist who later mentors him in his career path. Advoz’s 2019 Around the Table Annual Dinner features the unique ways that youth and adults have created peace. From spraying graffiti, to studying graphic design, we can learn from the resilience and empowerment people experience in our face-to-face dialogue.

Join us for Advoz’s 2019 signature benefit event, Around the Table, an evening of learning, connecting and empowering our community’s reconciling potential. Treat yourself and your guests to a plated dinner at the Eden Resort, a fun live and silent auction and stories about Advoz’s work on the theme:

“Creating Peace”

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Join Advoz for an evening full of inspiration and support as we highlight the creativity and community connection that comes from face-to-face dialogue. Hear from a youth who started off illegally spray graffiti and eventually met his mentor where he found his creative voice as an artist. Become a sponsor now and ticket sales begin January 15th at www.AroundtheTable.org.

The event includes both live and silent auction, seated dinner and program.

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Over 38 years, thousands in the greater Lancaster community have experienced the power of dialogue in conflict resolution and restorative justice through Advoz and its parent organizations. From youth crime to families torn in conflict to cultural divisions, facilitated dialogue has provided hope, resolution and healing for young and old. You can join Advoz as a leader and sponsor to continue and expand this community-building work through the Around the Table event.

Made possible with this circle of support (and more to come):

Dialogue Dinner Sponsor

Community Sponsors

Restorative and Advocate Event Sponsors

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Patron Sponsors

Lancaster County Financial Group

Esbenshade Greenhouses

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Around the Table with Arun Gandhi – You Made It Possible

With a merger to celebrate, Advoz’s newly formed joint-event team knew it would be a big year. But when the dust settled on the record May 4^th event, all were amazed by the turnout of 525 attendees, 128 auction donations and 43 generous sponsors to celebrate the merger of the Center for Community Peacemaking and Conflict Resolution Services.

With more than 150 guests experiencing Advoz for the first time, there was an opportunity for everyone to “add voice” on the theme, Peace: The Next Generation with “table-talk” conversations (below) whose results were texted message to the MCs and highlighted, adding voices to the evening dialogue.

Table Talk with the Coutts family

Sponsors, bidders and donors all contributed to the final tally, raising $72,681, with proceeds benefiting Advoz mediation and restorative justice programs this summer.

43 businesses, organizations and patrons contributed to more than half of the cost of the event. Please take a moment to thank them when you see them in our community!

Thank you PNC Bank, our Dinner Dialogue Sponsor and Community Sponsors Benjamin Roberts and Gibbel Kraybill and Hess

Community Sponsors included Goods Disposal Service, Re-Uzit Shop of New Holland, Significa Benefit Services and Shumaker Plan-Design-Transform all made major contributions

Goods Disposal Service, Re-Uzit Shop of New Holland, Significa Benefit Services and Shumaker Plan-Design-Transform all made major contributions as Community Sponsors.

Thanks to Dale and Sadie High, HON Office Furniture, Landis Communities, Natural Awakenings, Shady Maple Smorgasbord and Sharp Shopper for your generous Restorative Sponsorship.

Advocate Sponsors included Barley Snyder, Bertz, Hess and Co. LLP, John W. Eby, Elizabethtown Center for Global Understanding and Peacemaking, Eastern Mennonite University Lancaster, Ephrata National Bank, EVERENCE Federal Credit Union, The Hess Agency, Lancaster Interchurch Peace Witness, Lancaster Life Employment Skills, Mennonite Central Committee, Moravian Manor, Ross Insurance Agency, Russel, Krafft and Gruber LLP, David and Heather Sperrry, Miles and Dawnell Yoder, and Zaepfel Law PC. THANK YOU!

And a big thanks to Facilitator and Patron Sponsors: Allegra Marketing | Print | Mail, Ana Ayala and Oscar Barbosa, Chris and Tabea Steinbeisser-Fitz, Compass Real Estate LLC, Gift CPA, Edward and Twila Miller, Oregon Dairy, PA Council of Mediators, Mila Pilz and Hazem Salem, Taylor Brand Group, Travel Time, Trout Ebersole and Groft.

The evening would not have been possible without the generous work by these key volunteers and partners donating their time and talents:

Meek Daye, chair
Susan Eberly and Alegre Concierge Services

Ana Ayala
Shaun Balani
Robin Baldwin
Rob Bomberger
Steve Bortner
Corey Faus
Chris Fitz
Jennifer Gallagher
Claudia Himes
Steve Kownacki, video
Mila Pilz
Rod Shumaker, staging
Dawnell Yoder

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What’s on Deck? Dialogue Trainings & Events this Spring

It is happening. The joining of two long-serving peace-building organizations is underway…and so much else. Together, the Center for Community Peacemaking and Conflict Resolution Services are offering more trainings, services and events this spring. So we’ll be rolling out quite a few bullet-updates, here’s the first: An intensive Restorative Justice & Practices training is on Friday, March 17, 9 am – 4 pm, geared especially for those working with young people. Prior restorative justice skills helpful but not required.

More on these and other events, go to: www.staging-advoz.kinsta.cloud/events

Mediation Training – Basic

April 6-8 and April 27-29, 2017 (Modules 1 & 2)

Learn and practice interpersonal communication and conflict resolution skills through presentations, group discussions and role plays.

Practice each step of the mediation process with discussion of topics like ethics. Participants practice their new skills by role playing three times as a mediator and one time as a disputant with outside role players.

Around the Table with Arun Gandhi

Thurs., May 4, 2017
5-8:30 pm
Spooky Nook Olympic Hall

Join us for a benefit dinner & reception “around the table” in a conversation with the grandson of Mohandas Gandhi, on Peace: The Next Generation and how we can build a culture of peace in Lancaster and beyond.

www.AroundtheTable.org