Before the new School of Dialogue educators start to lead their workshops, first they have to go through an intensive training process. In February and March 2015 three sets of training workshops, including a seven days long one, took place. During the meetings participants mastered their facilitating skills, learned the methods of Forum’s work, deepened their knowledge about the history and culture of the Polish Jews and Israel as well as ways of fighting prejudice.

The program included educational walking tours in former Warsaw Ghetto area, the Jewish Cemetery in Okopowa Street and following Jewish traces in Warsaw Praga district. Lectures and workshops were led by: Jolanta Żyndul (historian working in the Museum of the History of Polish Jews), Barbara Engelking (director of the Polish Center for Holocaust Research), Helena Datner (historian and sociologist from the Jewish Historical Institute), Mikołaj Grynberg (photographer and author focusing on issues connected to Holocaust), Rabbi Stas Wojciechowicz, and Konstanty Gebert (journalist, Jewish activist, founder of journal “Midrasz”), as well as the experienced Forum for Dialogue educators.