Educators for Nonviolence 2008

Join us for the Third Annual Educators for Nonviolence Conference!

July 18-19, Bishop O’Dowd High School, Oakland, CA

Teaching Hope: The Nonviolent Classroom Featuring Michael Nagler, Rachel McNair, Azim Khamisa, Joseph Marshall and many others.

• Curricula and practical tools for teaching nonviolence in the classroom • Working with traumatized children • Nonviolent communication • Classroom management • Teaching about nonviolent peace movements around the world

Workshops from Pace e Bene, Institute of Noetic Sciences, Fellowship of Reconciliation, Nonviolent Communication.

(UPDATE) Students: $20, General Admission: $75 (Scholarships available). EFNV is a project of the Metta Center for Nonviolence Education.

For more information or to register go here or call Deborah Kory 510-292-8136.

More info after the jump.


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Teaching Hope: The Nonviolent Classroom
July 18-19, Bishop O’Dowd High School, Oakland, CA

Our Mission
To make the teaching and living of nonviolence part of mainstream education.

Join us
Open to anyone who shares the vision: creating alternatives to violence in our schools and lives.

Educators for Nonviolence
Register at: http://www.efnv.org/efnv/en/conference2008.jsp
Contact us at: info@mettacenter.org
Attn: the Metta Center, 2330 Durant Avenue, 2nd Floor, Berkeley, CA 94704
Phone: 510-548-5550
FAX: 510-548-5558

Topics we will address:
What is nonviolence?, How can it help you have a more peaceful classroom?, How can you teach — and model — it to your students?, How can you start a peace studies program at your school? and many more.

Featuring: Friday evening and Saturday day-long conference • Keynote speakers • Workshops • Tabling Fair • Curricula and practical tools for classrooms will be distributed • Networking and Action Planning

Speakers include
Dr. Michael Nagler
Michael Nagler is founder of the Metta Center and Professor emeritus of Classics and Comparative Literature at UC, Berkeley, where founded the Peace and Conflict Studies Program. He is the author several books, including America Without Violence and The Search for a Nonviolent Future which won the 2002 American Book Award and is used in courses and reading groups around the country.

Azim Khamisa
Following the loss of his only son Tariq in 1995 to a senseless, gang-related murder, Azim chose the path of forgiveness and compassion rather than revenge and bitterness. He subsequently created the Tariq Khamisa Foundation . He is author of From Murder to Forgiveness and his message of forgiveness has reached millions all over the world.

Workshops will include:
•Nonviolent approaches to classroom management• Teaching about world conflicts and peaceful options• Practical Tools for Teaching Nonviolence•Teaching “Gandhi” the movie• ‘Worldview Literacy’ and much more…

(Note: Schedule was updated 7/14/08 at 6:00pm)
Current Program Schedule:
FRIDAY, JULY 18
6-6:30pm Registration, Tabling, Snacks
6:30-7:30 Welcome and Intro to Conference
7:30-8:30 Michael Nagler-Intro to Nonviolence and viewing and discussion of “The Nonviolent
Moment”
8:30pm Close evening

SATURDAY, JULY 19
9-10am Registration, Tabling, Continental Breakfast
10-11 Ken Preston, Pace e Bene: Constructive Program in the classroom and the world
11-noon Workshop: Nonviolent Communication in the Classroom

12-1pm Lunch

1-2 Azim Khamisa
2-2:45 Lorin Peters—Gandhi: Teaching with the Film
2:45-3 Coffee/Tea break
3-4 John Lindsay-Poland—Teaching About World Conflicts
4-5 Marilyn Schlitz (IONS)—Worldview Literacy: Seeing the World Whole

You can download the .pdf resources of the conference here (also known as “the binder”).