In the course of the decades, the workshop developed a variety of seminars, trainings and, finally, training and training. In addition to the continuous accompaniment of the ecology, anti-atomic and peace movement, the workshop was also active in changing intensity in the women's and men's movement, in the anti-racism movement (Trainings in Civil Courage) and the movement for war service and total refusal against all war services.

To date, the peace movement is at the centre of most activities. With the Gulf War in 1990, the Yugoslavia and Kosovo war and the increasing xenophobic attacks in Germany in the 1990s, the topic of civil and constructive conflict processing and mediation (depositing in conflicts) also came to the agenda. In everyday themes, forms of sexism and militarized masculinity, non-profit decision-making (consens), non-violent communication and constructive forms of cooperation in groups were the focus. With the theme of mediation and the diverse applications in everyday life and in politics, the workshop provided pioneering work.

All these topics were and are concerned with the creative connection between non-violent everyday trade and political confrontation in public space, including the form of action "Boykott", which the workshop had taken up early.

Since the end of the 1990s, longer-term qualifications have been offered. The first in-house training "From the Barbary of Violence to the Culture of Violence" [Note below] included aspects of the philosophy of nonviolence as well as the theory and practice of nonviolence action. In this time, first concepts for movement workers and civil conflict resolution specialists were also created. Employees of the workshop were involved in the preparation of the curriculum of training for peace professionals, today's civil peace service. Courses for a basic qualification in non-violent conflict processing followed on behalf of the Ev. Landeskirche in Bavaria and for several years in the Ev. Landeskirche in Württemberg.

Three basic training courses are currently offered by the workshop:
"Mediation", "Moderation and Consensus" and the campaign qualification "CampaPeace".

Note: Barberei is a racist term. It means in ancient Greek and Sanskrit in some "foreign people" or "people who do not speak Greek" and has already served in antiquity to assign people to a supposedly lower level of culture. It is also criticized that with the term, only violence that comes from non-white is described, while violence that was practised by whites in colonialism, Holocaust etc. is not described with this word.

The workshop was involved, among other things, in nonviolent actions against the second Gulf War, in war tax refusal, in action trainings for the anti-AKW resistance from Gorleben to Gundremmingen to Neckarwestheim, in civil disobedience in the anti-Genmais movement, in training and blockages against Castor-Transporte, in protests against the G8

With their campaign team, the workshop was constantly assisting political groups and initiatives and trade unions in developing nonviolent campaigns. Campaigns in which the workshop participated were, for example, the Landmine campaign "Daimler Mine Stoppen!", with which the large group Daimler was moved to exit from the mine production, a Siemensboycott due to the participation in the construction of AKWs and the demand for social minimum standards at the Schlecker drugstore chain.

Today, the workshop is engaged in the campaigns "Action Rising – Stops the arms trade!", "Free from school for the Bundeswehr – Learning for Peace", "Free from nuclear weapons." Civil solutions for Syria".

The workshop of this pacifist peace organization has been connected and is active there ever since its cooperation in the founding of the Federal for Social Defense. In addition, she has been working for many years in the nationwide "Cooperation for Peace" and in the AGDF, the Action Community Service for Peace. At the "Zentrum Frieden" during the German Evangelical Church Day 2015 in Stuttgart, the workshop was working with the coordination team.

The Ev. Landeskirche in Baden was a permanent supporter of the workshop. Workshop members engaged in the Forum Friedensethik have contributed to pacifist positions within the Ev. Landeskirche in Baden and they cooperate in the peace-sense-thical consultation process.

In their first years, the workshop has given important and practical impetus to the issues of consensus, sexism in political groups and boycott. Christoph Besemer's book "Mediation – Mediation in Conflicts" was published for the first time in 1993 and became the recognized foundation for mediation. In 2009 it was reworked and complemented by the title "Mediation. The art of mediation in conflicts". It is still one of the most important publications on conflict processing by mediation.

Two more unique books have been published by the workshop:
In 2004, "Konsens – Handbook on non-violent decision-making" was published by Bernd Sahler et al., with basic articles and practical instructions on consensus finding in groups. In 2007, the workshop published the collection book "Gewaltfrei gegen Hitler? – Violent Resistance against National Socialism and its Meaning for Today", according to an idea by Christoph Besemer, with contributions from various authors in and outside the workshop.

Already in 1999, Christoph Besemer first announced the Pat-Patfoort model for the uprooting of violence under the title "To understand and solve conflicts" in German-speaking countries. In 2008, the workshop, in cooperation with the Reconciliation Association, has the work written by Pat Pat Patfoort himself, "To defend without attacking. The power of freedom of violence" published in German.

In 2013, Renate Wanie and Ulrich Schmitthenner published the "Graphbook for non-violent and constructive conflict management". Finally, Christoph Besemer et al. published the "Political Mediation" handbook in 2014, primarily for civil society groups.