The events happening since the 7th of October have deeply challenged the peace community in the Middle East. The severe pain and the growing polarization have had a dramatic impact on activists in the region, and making our work much more difficult. Despite the horrible violence and the indescribable pain and grief we experience, we continue to believe education, community building and nonviolent resistance are a powerful answer to working towards ending the violence and oppression and to achieving justice, freedom and dignity for all.
Following October 7, public spaces in the occupied West Bank have ceased hosting joint events, making SATYAM Centre currently the ONLY space in the whole of Israel & the occupied West Bank that hosts events & workshops accessible for Palestinians (except from Gaza), Israeli citizens, and internationals without requiring permits.
As a necessity, and an antidote to the accelerating polarization and separation, we understood it’s time to open a safe new physical home, a sane place, for the existing and emerging peace community to keep coming together, rest, heal, resource, learn, support and inspire each other to continue doing their important work.
Since its opening in the beginning of March 2024, Satyam offer retreats and workshops, including trauma work and grief ceremonies, offering emotional support to our community, as well (re)establishing connection and (re)establishing trust. But our center is more than a refuge; Satyam is a center for workshops, events, and multicultural meetings.
You can find among our activities nonviolent communication (NVC), restorative justice, and nonviolent resistance. We are exploring our social power structures and equipping ourselves with the tools to reimagine and rebuild these structures.
Our work is about cultivating compassion. We operate in a society so deeply shaped by dehumanization, that we no longer remember how to see the other beyond judgments and fears. We are here to change it.
We are united in the belief that the solution to the conflict in our land will come through peaceful means, rather than violent actions. Understanding that the new reality for this land will not come from our governments, but from ordinary people taking seemingly small actions – this time it is on us.
Through transformative content, hope, strength, resilience and the wisdom of collective power, we foster consciousness transformation and drive social change.