The EFNV Summer Conference and Teacher Training
- was held -
July 21st and 22nd, 2006

NONVIOLENCE IN OUR CLASSROOMS, IN OUR LIVES
Conference for Teachers at U.C. Berkeley

Nonviolence is an inspiring subject rarely if ever mined for its educational value.  This conference offered teachers proven methodologies for conducting a less troubled classroom such as training students in the techniques and skills of creative conflict resolution.  It also presented valuable resources for teaching the basic principles and history of nonviolence as a subject within California Standards through biography, history and other avenues.

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EFNV is a sponsored project of METTA and a partner project of the Dalai Lama Foundation - METTA Center is the fiscal sponsor and is handling all of the financial arrangements for this conference.

Friday July 21st, 7:00pm to 9:30pm—Dwinelle Hall

• Introduction by Dr. Michael Nagler, Professor Emeritus, Founder of Peace and Conflict Studies at UC Berkeley; Author of The Search for a Nonviolent Future
• Film, “The Nonviolent Moment”

Saturday July 22nd, 8:00am to 6:00pm–Dwinelle Hall

• Morning Session: The Nonviolent Classroom

  Presentations included Jonathan Kathrein representing Future Leaders for Peace, and Lynda Work of Bay Area Nonviolent Communication.

• Afternoon Session: Nonviolence in the Curriculum

Workshops with members of Educators for Nonviolence specific to grade level, lessons, courses, materials, strategies, and standards.   Also, Pace e Bene's “Engage!” curriculum. And The Dalai Lama Foundation's The Missing Peace middle-school and high-school curriculum.