On Earth Peace

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April 14: 2-Hour Intro to Kingian Nonviolence

Join us for an overview of Kingian Nonviolence Conflict Reconciliation at 5pm ET / 4pm CT / 2pm PT on April 14, 2025. Kingian Nonviolence is an approach to conflict and community leadership that offers values and methods useful for anyone who wants to use conflict constructively in your personal life, in group settings, or in community issues and building a reconciled world. 

This 2 Hour webinar covers:

• The 4 pillars of Kingian Nonviolence
  
• Initial introduction to the 6 Principles and 6 Steps – the “Will” and the “Skill” of Kingian Nonviolence.
  
• The Social Dynamics of Kingian Nonviolence  

This training will be co-facilitated by Hassan Clement and Pam Smith.

Hassan Clement first got involved with Kingian Nonviolence, not to change the world, but to change himself. Now, Hassan has a Language and Methodology to enact change and movement towards the Beloved Community. He is certified as a Level III Kingian Nonviolence trainer by Dr. Bernard LaFayette, Jr. and is a collective member of the Nonviolence Legacy Program. Hassan is working with the Amphi Neighborhood Association for tenant rights.

Pam Smith is a historian and genealogist living in Portland, Oregon. Pam is co-founder and executive director of the Addie Wyatt Center for Nonviolence Training in Chicago. A long-time Chicago consultant for nonprofit organizations, her team conducted the feasibility study that set the stage for the Chicago Freedom School, now in its 17th year. Pam served as a senior press aide to Jesse Jackson in his 1988 presidential bid and to Barack Obama in his primary campaign for US Senate. She is coeditor of The Chicago Freedom Movement: Martin Luther King Jr. and Civil Rights Activism in the North.

Meet others interested in Kingian Nonviolence, build Beloved Community, and connect with On Earth Peace’s Kingian Nonviolence Learning Action Community!

Note: You will be added to our Peacebuilder email list by registering for this event, if you do not wish to be on the list please email knv-training@onearthpeace.org

Note: You will be added to our Peacebuilder email list by registering for this event, if you do not wish to be on the list please email knv-training@onearthpeace.org

April 23: Kazu Haga: Fierce Vulnerability: Healing from Trauma, Emerging through Collapse

A Conversation with the Author Wednesday, April 23 @ 7 PM ET

In-Person: Homewood Friends Meeting, 3107 N. Charles Street, Baltimore 21218 AND Via Zoom

PLEASE REGISTER HERE  (for both in-person and Zoom participation)

In times of collapse, we need a movement that recognizes injustice as a reflection of collective trauma and embraces its role as a catalyst for collective healing through transformative action. We are living in a world where the depths of division, violence, and destruction can no longer be ignored. From political polarization leading to the erosion of the democratic process to the climate crisis continuing to perpetuate racial inequity, we need changes that heal harms at the personal and systemic levels.

Escalated forms of harm require an equally escalated response. Yet social movements often use tactics that have a tendency to escalate an  “us vs. them,” “right vs. wrong” worldview not conducive to healing.

In Fierce Vulnerability, activist and author Kazu Haga argues this binary worldview is at the heart of what is destroying our relationships and our planet and offers a new way to create healing by combining the time-honored lineage of nonviolent action with the sciences of trauma healing and the promises of spiritual practice. Fierce Vulnerability realizes we can’t “shut down” injustice any more than we can “shut down” trauma; if healing is our goal, we need social movements that center relationship.

About Kazu Haga

Kazu Haga is a trainer and practitioner of nonviolence and restorative justice, a core member of Building Belonging, the Ahimsa Collective and the Fierce Vulnerability Network, is a Jam facilitator and author of Healing Resistance: A Radically Different Response to Harm.

Consider reading the book before-hand.  

It is available for pre-order (coming out March 25th) at Parallax Press or from Snug Books or bookseller of your choice. 

April 26 & 27: Kingian Nonviolence Core Training

Come and join us during April and May for transformational weekends exploring Dr. King’s philosophy and methodology of nonviolence. This workshop has helped thousands of people in various social justice movements, prisons, schools and other communities understand the depth of the philosophy of nonviolence and conflict reconciliation. 

If you are a faith leader preaching and leading for justice and peace, an organizer working for social change, an activist working to reduce violence in your community, a youth worker/organizer, or just someone who wants to learn how to resolve their personal conflicts better, this workshop is for you! If you have attended a 2-Hour Intro to Kingian Nonviolence at On Earth Peace or come to any of our events, this is a perfect next step to deepen your Kingian practice!

Dates: The 16-hour training takes place over four days in a two-week period: Saturdays and Sundays in April (26 & 27) and May (3 & 4).

Click here to find the start time in your time zone!

Times for each training day: 1pm-5pm Pacific / 2pm-6pm Mountain / 3pm-7pm Central / 4pm-8pm Eastern

Content: 

• 4 Pillars of Kingian Nonviolence 
• Social Dynamics of Nonviolence 
• 6 Principles (the will) how to view and transform conflict
• 6 Steps (the skill) how to engage with conflict and organize a campaign
• Definitions of violence 
• Types and levels of conflict, and how they escalate and de-escalate
• Dialectical Thinking 
• Historical context of the Civil Rights Movement 

What to expect: Mini-presentations, small groups activities, large group conversation, multi-media/videos, opportunities for self-reflection and sharing. Homework will be assigned before and between sessions.