One-Year Peace Activation
Certificate Training
Continuing Education Programme Overview & Curriculum
Who This Certification Serves
This training is grounded in conflict transformation: the applied practice of engaging conflict as a natural, information-rich process rather than a problem to eliminate, and of holding space for the people navigating it. Different rooms, different titles, the same underlying capacity: to remain present, regulated, and trustworthy when someone else's nervous system is not.
Most people who take on this kind of work already carry real training in psychology, coaching, or mediation practice. This programme builds directly on that foundation: it moves that training into live, embodied conflict-transformation practice — the applied layer where existing expertise becomes facilitation capacity under real pressure.
The Capacity This Builds
Most conflict-related training is built around technique: a script for de-escalation, a framework for structured dialogue, a set of phrases for reframing what's been said. Those tools matter, and most participants arrive already fluent in them. This programme works on the layer underneath that technique.
What actually gets tested in a real room is whether you can stay regulated while a client projects their history onto you, while a group fractures into open disagreement, while a conversation moves somewhere no framework prepared you for — all of it built the way any capacity is built: deliberately, in the body, over time.
This is also why the training treats conflict itself as a longer-horizon capacity. A single difficult conversation can be de-escalated. The capacity to hold hundreds of conversations like it, across years, without burning out or shutting down, has to be trained separately. That is the actual subject of this programme.
The facilitator's own nervous system and inner steadiness — that is what actually gets tested once the room is live.
Course Description
The Peace Activation Methodology is a one-year, three-phase certificate training in nervous-system-responsive facilitation and conflict transformation. It integrates five pillars — Conflict Transformation, Spiritual Psychology, Trauma-Responsive Leadership, Embodied Feminine Wisdom, and Somatic Integration — into a single applied framework, drawing on Polyvagal Theory, attachment theory, and the Spiritual Psychology curriculum of the University of Santa Monica.
Conflict transformation research is typically applied outward, toward conflict between other people. This training applies the same lens inward first: a practitioner's own unresolved history and internal patterns are treated as a conflict system worth engaging consciously, since the capacity to hold space for someone else's healing begins with this internal work.
Builds nervous-system regulation, embodied self-awareness, and self-observation as the personal foundation for facilitation work.
Applies that foundation relationally: designing regulation-aware dialogue, recognising projection and power dynamics, holding polarised groups.
Moves the work into supervised, real-world practice: an independent Sacred Yes Project, peer case consultation, and a graduation showcase.
Instruction is experiential and skills-based throughout: didactic teaching, somatic practice, live facilitation demonstration, small-group skill practice in triads, and supervised application in real contexts.
Course Objectives
Upon completion, participants will be able to:
Programme Format
Full Curriculum: Cohort 2, 2026–2027
Summer, Immersion & Graduation
Sacred Yes Project
A break from live classes — no sessions in July or August. Participants work on their Sacred Yes Projects independently, with Office Hours with Eva available whenever support is needed.
Peace Activation Immersion
A dedicated 7-day in-person experience: Embodied Facilitation Practice, Live Conflict & Dialogue Work, Nervous System Integration, Community-Based Learning, and Applied Peace Leadership. Not included in the 1-Year Certificate tuition.
Completion & Graduation
Sept 8 — Final Project Integration I: Sacred Yes Showcase.
Sept 15 — Final Project Integration II: Sacred Yes Showcase & Graduation Ceremony.
Total Continuing Education Contact Hours
| Segment | Hours |
|---|---|
| Phase 1: 9 sessions × 3 hrs | 27 hrs |
| Phase 2: 9 sessions × 3 hrs | 27 hrs |
| Phase 3 core: 9 sessions × 3 hrs | 27 hrs |
| Completion & Graduation: 2 sessions × 3 hrs* | 6 hrs |
| Confirmed subtotal | 87 hrs |
| Peace Activation Immersion: 7 days, daily hours not yet specified | TBD |
*The Immersion week alone could plausibly add another 20–50+ hours once its daily schedule is set.
Instructors
Eva Dalak
Eva Dalak is the founder of Peace Activation and the originator of this methodology, which she leads and teaches directly. She is a Palestinian woman and a citizen of Israel, bringing over 30 years of experience as a conflict transformation facilitator, peacebuilding trainer, and gender expert, having worked across 22 conflict-affected countries in Africa, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia with organisations including the World Bank, Search for Common Ground, the Austrian Centre for Peace, and UNSOS. She holds graduate degrees in international relations and diplomacy from the University of Paris I: Panthéon-Sorbonne, and a Master's degree in Spiritual Psychology from the University of Santa Monica — the foundation of the methodology's Spiritual Psychology pillar. She is also co-founder of One Whole Peace, an interfaith peacebuilding initiative bringing together Israeli and Palestinian communities.
Fabrice Renaudin
Fabrice Renaudin is co-founder of Peace Activation and leads the Somatic Integration pillar, woven throughout the full year of this training rather than taught as a separate add-on. A French holistic health facilitator based in Costa Rica, he brings more than 30 years of embodied practice across yoga, bodywork, breathwork, Tantra, and dance. He trained at the International Primal Training Center under Dr. Arthur Janov and Dr. France Janov and at the Institute of Psycho Structural Balance, and has studied with shamans and medicine women in Hawaii, France, and the United States. He is the founder of CORE Healing and of Casa Estrella, a retreat centre in Punta Uva, Costa Rica, where he offers retreats and one-to-one sessions grounded in his Love, Awareness, Wisdom framework.
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$9,000 for the year, with payment plans available · $6,300 employer-sponsored rate for L&D and corporate teams.