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How to Help - Become a Path Guide
We use a unique and simple writing process that utilizes a writing technique to reveal common ground. This approach is evidence-based and supported by a body of research called Expressive Writing.* To view The Converged Path facilitation process as a PDF click here. This research shows that even brief periods of writing can have amazing effects on thought and goal clarification and can even help in ways that are not fully understood by science. We find that even people who hate to write can utilize our process with great success. Third party intervention between differing groups usually involves compromise, a giving up of something by both parties. The Convergence Project is not about compromise. It’s about finding common ground, the area on which both parties already agree. The Converged Path as lead by Path Guides identifies the common ground that exists and helps the groups to find a common ground project that makes both groups stronger while making their greater community stronger as well. Meet some of our Path Guides
How our Process is Different Our process is quite different from the typical volunteer experience where a volunteer shows up at a particular location to work on a pre-determined project. Our Path Guides direct the process themselves by looking at the needs of their own community and then by identifying dissimilar groups that could benefit from finding common ground together. Because much of the work is unstructured, Path Guides must be self-starters who are capable of bringing the factors together that are necessary to create this process. Once the groups that will partner together have been established, Path Guides lead the groups through our facilitated process. We provide detailed guidance in the form of our Path Guide Training Manual to assist in this process. Individuals wishing to become a Path Guide for their community may download and fill out an application. Path Guide Application in Word format, or Path Guide Application in PDF format. To view our Path Guide Training Manual as a PDF click here. Return the comleted application by FAX, mail or email. The Convergence Project 719.539.4193 fax E-mail: info@theconvergenceproject.org
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Path Guides
"I have just recently moved to a new community and I don't know very many people. There are also lots of kids here and a new recycling program. I am hoping to include young people in a project, and something that will beautify an otherwise homely place! I haven't really identified "factions" but hope to emphasize the project more than the group identity anyway."
"Too often, service projects are fleeting, focusing solely on an act, and forgetting the people involved. The Convergence Project recognizes that it is the individuals who make up a community. To me, The Convergence Project (TCP) represents a personal step toward my alma mater’s unofficial motto, "In the Nation's Service and in the Service of All Nations," by allowing me to not only impact a community (through a service project), but more importantly, to impact the individuals within the community by compelling them to recognize the similarities amongst themselves instead of focusing on the differences. Through this interaction, we strive to have a lasting impact on both the physical community and the individuals that shape the community.
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"Everyday I am reminded of how divisive our culture is-- politics, economics, spiritual beliefs. When people can get together as people, not left and right, for or against, but as just people, then perhaps we can find the humanity in each other. And in discovering that humanity, we move forward and make a change.”