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Friday, September 12, 2008

8:30am-10:00am

Activism/Social Change/Justice/Politics 

• Nonviolence in Prisons: NVC and Mindfulness Practice (1 of 2) – Freedom Project: Verne Garvie, Katie Talbott, Dow Gordon, Keith Brooks, Jay Jackson, Carol Battistoni (EMU Fir)
• The Challenge of Loving the Political Adversary – Joseph Newton (Esslinger 112)

 

Community and Education

• Community Circles: From Passion to Compassion (for Oneself and Others) – Bryn Hazell and Norman Pasewalk (Columbia 44)
  

• Cross Cultural Travel: the Art of Pilgramage, The Quest, and Citizen Diplomacy as Pathways to Nonviolence  – Dianne Brause (EMU Maple)

 

Experiential

• Martial Arts as a Way of Nonviolence: the Tao of the Shaolin – Judy Saltzman (East Lawn)

 

Health and Well-Being

• Deep Ahimsa Food Choices -  FinnPo (EMU Rogue)
  

• Improving Your Energy with Meditation and Self-Awareness in Professional Life – Samantha Keen & Danielle Kerr-Wilson (Gerlinger 302)
  

• Recovery from Violence Dependency - David Hazen (Straub 142)

 

Nonviolent Communication

• Spirituality and NVC  – Steve Allen Smith (Chapman 207)
  

• Starting with Yourself: Tools for Self-Empathy – Cathleen Straley (EMU Ben Linder)

 

Partnering, Parenting, and Family

• Parenting from Your Heart: Respecting Authentic Boundaries (1 of 3) – Kristin Krebs Collier (Esslinger 105)
  

• Parenting Without Anger – Dean Van Leuven (Esslinger 116)
  

• Pathways to Radiant Loving for Couples – Ruthann and Louis Carosio (Esslinger 107)
  

 

 

Friday, September 12, 2008

10:30am-Noon

Activism/Social Change/Justice/Politics 

• Beyond War: A Guide for Citizens  – Eileen & Phil Hanna, Martin Jones & Sally Marie (Straub 142)

• Circle of Scribes – Susan Cundiff and Aria Seligmann (EMU Rogue)

• Safer Communities – Prisoners to Peacemakers (2 of 2) – Freedom Project: Verne Garvie, Katie Talbott, Dow Gordon, Keith Brooks, Jay Jackson, Carol Battistoni (EMU Fir)
  

 

Community and Education

• Fabulous Planning for Fabulous Meetings – Tree Bressen (Esslinger 112)
  

• Nobel Peace Laureate Project's Education Program in Action – David Mandelblatt (Esslinger 116)
  

 

Experiential

• Creating Your Vision of Peace - Bev Hollander & Suz Aird (Gerlinger 302)
  

 

Health and Well-Being

• “Pro-Life” Minding our Unconscious Words and Actions - Heidi Huse & Angie McKewn (Gerlinger 301)
  

• Training the Brain Towards Nonviolence – Matthew Fleischman (EMU Oak)
  

 

Nonviolent Communication

• Communicating in Politically Polarized Situations – Bryn Hazell & Norman Pasewalk (Columbia 44)
  

• Intoducción a la Comunicación no Violenta – H. Holley Humphrey (EMU Maple)
  

• Using Songs and Humor in Sharing/Teaching NVC – Gary Baran (EMU Ben Linder)

 

Partnering, Parenting, and Family

• Integrating Intimacy and Sexuality - Karly Loveling (Esslinger 107)
  

• Parenting from Your Heart: Playing With Violence  (2 of 3)– Kristin Krebs Collier (Esslinger 105)
  

 

Sustainability and Economy

• Sustainability, Economy & Labor, Diverity & Equity – Steve Allen Smith (Chapman 207) 

• The Life Economy: Nonviolent Economics for People and a Planet that Matters – Jason Schreiner, Guy Prouty & Ravi Logan (Chapman 203) 

 

Friday, September 12, 2008

2:00pm-3:30pm

Activism/Social Change/Justice/Politics

• How Peaceful Women are Changing the World – Pam Garrison & Doe Tabor (Columbia 44)
  

• Know Your Rights in a Post 9-11 America – Lauren Regan (Esslinger 112)
  

• Nonviolence and Contemporary Struggles for Justice - Panel TBA (EMU Fir)
  

• The Big Picture Behind the Iraq Occupation – Community Alliance of Lane County: Daniel Goldrich, Bruce Bowers, Carol van Houten (Gerlinger 302)
  

 

Community and Education

• Creativity in the Balance  (1 of 2)– Bob Lieberman, MS, PMP (EMU Oak)
  

• Fostering a Climate of Cooperation in High School – Dennis Hoerner (Chapman 207)
  

• The Nobel Peace Laureate Project: Peace Path Monument - John Attig (Esslinger 116)
  

 

Health and Well-Being

• Make More Peace with Yourself through the Practice of Mindfulness – Barry Nobel (EMU Maple)
  

 

Nonviolent Communication

• Conflict Mediation and Nonviolent C communication (1 of 2) - Marshall Rosenberg
  

 

Partnering, Parenting, and Family

• Partnering, Parenting, and Family: Peace-Making Begins at the Dinner Table  - Steve Allen Smith (Esslinger 107)
  

• Parenting as Peacemaking – Minalee Saks, MS (Esslinger 105)
  

• Peace With Justice for LGBT Families – Bonnie Tinker and panel, Love Makes a Family, Inc (Columbia 150)
  

 

Spirituality

• An Interfaith, Intercultural Dialogue – Arun Narayan Toke, Thea Albright, Rayna Luvert, Bill Harris, Gordie Albi, Dr. Irwin Noparstak, and Jeanne Norris-Tenzin Chodron (Straub 142)
  

• How to Create a Sanctuary Garden for Peace – Forrest McDowell and Trisha Clark-McDowell (EMU Ben Linder)
  

Friday, September 12, 2008

400pm-5:30pm

Activism/Social Change/Justice/Politics

• Legal Observer Training – Lauren Regan (Esslinger 112)
  

• Our Nation's Checkbook: Who We Are and What We Care About – WAND: Susan Cundiff & Teri Gutierrez (Gerlinger 302)
  

• The Campaign to Establish a U.S. Department of Peace and Nonviolence– David Hazen (EMU Fir)
  

 

Community and Education

• Creativity in the Balance (2 of 2) – Bob Lieberman, MS, PMP (EMU Oak)
  

• Meeting Facilitation Challenges - Tree Bressen (Esslinger 116)
  

• Replacing Force with Consciousness: A Co-Evolutionary Dance Toward Nonviolent Social Systems – Peggy Holman & Tom Atlee (EMU Maple)
  

 

Experiential

• Using Songs and Satire as Nonviolent Tools to Protest Injustice and Promote Peace - Corvallis Raging Grannies (Columbia 150)
  

• Singing Alive  - Rob Tobias & Karly Loveling (EMU Ben Linder)
  

 

Health and Well-Being

• 'Tend and Befriend," not "fight or Flight": A Female Response to Stress – Marion McLean (Chapman 204)
  

 

Nonviolent Communication

• Conflict Mediation and Nonviolent Communication (2 of 2) - Marshall Rosenberg, PhD (EMU Ballroom)
  

 

Partnering, Parenting, and Family

• Parenting From Your Heart: Playing With Violence (3 of 3) = Kristin Krebs Collier (Esslinger 105)
  

 

Spirituality

• Interfaith Prayer Service – Siri Kaur Khalsa-Harrris and Harinder Kaur Khalsa (EMU Rogue)
  

• The Bhagavad Gita and Cosmic Ecology -  Sadhvi Chaitanya (Chapman 202)
  

 

Sustainability and Economy

• Eco-logical Culture Change – Jan Spencer (Gerlinger 301)
  

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Saturday, September 13, 2008

8:30am-10:00am

Community and Education

• Decalogue for Living Nonviolently (1 of 4)– Ken Preston-Pile (EMU Fir)
  

• Engaging Youth in Ancient Storytelling – Sherry Lady (EMU Ben Linder)
  

• The Camera Connection - Jill Cannefax (Esslinger 116)
  

 

Experiential

• Embracing the Shadow – Consu Tulsa, MA-ATR (Gerlinger 303)
  

• Facing Ourselves, Facing Each Other: Embodying Compassion and Creating Empathy  (1 of 2) – Dwight Pargee & Carol Delmonico (Columbia 45)
  

 

Health and Well-Being

• Befriending your Self-Critic – Ker Cleary (Esslinger 105)
  

• Emotional Intelligence  (1 of 2) – Dean Van Leuven (Chapman 204)
  

• Nonviolence as an Interior Process – Bonnie Greenwell, PhD (EMU Oak)
  

• Values in Healthcare: A Spiritual Approach Part 1: Creating Positive Work Experiences – Carmen Palmer,RN, MPH, Kala Iyengar (EMU Maple)
  

 

Nonviolent Communication

• NVC and Social Change (1 of 2) - Marshall Rosenberg PhD (EMU Ballroom)

• The Need for Belonging in Domestic Violence: The Role of Empathy and Nonviolent Communicationi in Restoring Belonging– Fred Sly & Joe Mitchell (Esslinger 112)
  

 

Partnering, Parenting, and Family

• Co-Parenting Workshop – Porshea Pendleton (Straub 142)
  

 

Spirituality

• Devotional Singing, Chanting and Meditation for Peace – Arun  Narayan Toke (Columbia 44)
  

• Opening Hearts and Minds: Using Verbal Nonviolence to Disarm the Culture Wars – Bonnie Tinker, and Rev. Cecil Charles Prescod, Love Makes a Family, Inc (Gerlinger 302)
  

• Peace as a Function of Being – Richard Blackstone (Columbia 150)

 

 

Saturday, September 13, 2008

10:30am-Noon

Activism/Social Change/Justice/Politics

• Nonviolent Action: Creative, Effective, Fun! – Bonnie Tinker, Stu Sugarman, Peg Morton (Columbia 150)
  

• Undoing Institutional Violence: An Inquiry into the Roots of Hierarchy, Violence, and Racism – David Berrian (Straub 142) 
  

 

Community and Education

• Building Community as a Way to Prevent Gun Violence to Children– Jennifer Knowlton (Columbia 44)
  

• Family Bridges - Puentes para Las Familias - Engaging Latino Families in School Life (EMU Rogue)
  

• Living in an Instant Society, an Opportunity to EnACT Change – Mary Ann MAx Fabry (Esslinger 105)
  

• Living Values: Creating Peace and Respect in Your Classroom – Mari Chen and Alice Glenn (EMU Oak)
  

• Pieces of the Truth: Overcoming Us Vs. Them Thinking and Doing (2 of 4) - Ken Preston-Pile (EMU Fir)

 

Experiential

• Facing Ourselves, Facing Each Other - Embodying Compassion and Creating Empathy (2 of 2)– Dwight Pargee and Carol Delmenico (Columbia 45)
  

• Interactive Theater- Abigail Leeder, Mark Roberts & Melanie Kundert (Gerlinger 302)

 

Health and Well-Being

• Emotional Intelligence: Implementing Emotional Skills Training in Our Educational System (2 of 2) – Dean Van Leuven (Chapman 204)
  

• Values in Healthcare - A Spiritual Approach Part 2: Meditation - Strengthening Human Core Values and Sustaining Non-Violent Workplaces – Carmen Palmer, RN, MPH, Kala Iyengar (EMU Maple)
  

 

Nonviolent Communication

• Empathic Listening for Parents and Teachers – H. Holley Humphrey (Chapman 207)
  

• NVC and Social Change (2 of 2) - Marshall Rosenberg, PhD (EMU Ballroom)
  

 

Partnering, Parenting, and Family

• Children Rising – Meleah Drews & Karla Snell (Chapman 202)
  

 

Spirituality

• Compassion and Harmlessness – Tony Cubito (Esslinger 112)
  

 

Saturday, September 13, 2008

2:00pm-3:30pm

Activism/Social Change/Justice/Politics

• Countering Military Recruitment – Carol van Houten (Esslinger 105)

• Developing More Effective Nonviolent Strategy and Action (3 of 4) - Ken Preston-Pile (Gerlinger 302)

• Nonviolent Conflict Intervention:  Providing Safety and Security Nonviolently – David Berrian (Straub 142)

• Teen Empowerment through Mediation and Alternative Dispute Resolution/ From Restorative Justice to Finding a Home – Jennifer Knowlton, JD (Columbia 44)
  

 

Community and Education

• How to Live in Peace: Five Practical Strategies at the Frontlines of Life – Forrest and Trisha McDowell (Esslinger 112)
  

• Images and Voices of Hope (1 of 2) – Veronica McHugh (EMU Fir)
  

• Living Values: Use of Emotional Landscape in Various Settings and Student Population - Mari Chen and Alice Glen (EMU Oak)
  

 

Experiential

• Compassion in my Life - Emerald Valley Playback Theater (EMU Ben Linder)

• Creating a Sound Environment for Inner and Outer Peace Part 1: Sound Environment Concepts - the Art and the Science (1 of 2) – Netti Garner (Gerlinger 301)

 

Health and Well-Being

• Herbal Medicine as Political Action – Sue Sierralupe (East Lawn)
  

 

Nonviolent Communication

• Speak Peace in a World of Conflict – an Introduction to Nonviolent Communication: Part I - Masrhall Rosenberg, PhD (EMU Ballroom)
  

 

Spirituality

• Gandhi’s Nonviolence as a Way of Life : Self Training for Transformative Activism- Veena Howard (EMU Rogue)

• Sharing the Sacred, Serving the World: Interfaith Cooperation for Peace, Justice and Healing - The Rev. Canon Charles P. Gibbs (EMU Maple)
  

 

Sustainability and Economy

• Gardening for Everyone - Charlotte Anthony (EMU Ampitheater)

 

Saturday, September 13, 2008

4:00pm-5:30pm

Activism/Social Change/Justice/Politics

• Beyond War: A Guide for Citizens - Eileen and Phil Hanna, Martin Jones and Sally Marie (EMU Maple)d
  

• Emotional Intelligence Training in the Workplace - Dean van Leuven (Esslinger 116)

• How to Build More Effective and Successful Nonviolent Movements - Ken Preston-Pile (Gerlinger 302)

• Peace, Safely, Justice, Youth, Diveristy and Equity – Steve Allen Smith (Esslinger 107)

• Circle the Women – Freedom from Patriarchy - Veronica Lassen (Columbia 44)
  

 

Community and Education

• Restorative Justice and Healing Dialogue - Ted Lewis (Chapman 202)

• Organizing for Peace and Cooperation – Krishna Singh Khalsa (Esslinger 105)

• Images and Voices of Hope (2 of 2)– Veronica McHugh (EMU Fir)
  

 

Experiential

• Tools for Being Present in Today's World - Lisa Stein & Kaseja Wilder (EMU Ben Linder)

• Film: Singing Revolution- David Zupan (Columbia 150)

• Creating a Sound Environment for Inner and Outer Peace Part 2: Bringing Chant into Everyday Life - the deeper experience -  Netti Garner (Gerlinger 301)
  

 

Health and Well-Being

• A Nonviolent Paradigm for Healing, Large and Small – Vip Short, DC (Columbia 45)

• Mental Health Court: A Compassionate and Viable Response to a Prominent Problem  – Roger Kalman (Chapman 204)
  

 

Nonviolent Communication

• Speak Peace in a World of Conflict – an Introduction to Nonviolent Communication: Part 2  Marshall Rosenberg (EMU Ballroom)
  

 

Partnering, Parenting, and Family

• Redirecting Children’s Behavior – Andrea Berl (Esslinger 112)

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DESCRIPTION OF WORKSHOP SESSIONS

(listed alphabetically by title)

A Nonviolent Paradigm for Healing, Large and Small -Vip Short, DC

Saturday, September 13, 4:00pm–5:30pm: Columbia 45

Materialism leads to dead ends when it comes to healing – whether on the scale of a single organism, or on the equally complex level of societies. Attempts at cures based on a materialistic worldview tend to equate healing with the obliteration of symptoms. This occurs in our dominant forms of medicine, as well as in the repeated choice of invasion and repression to “resolve” international disputes. The good news is that a paradigm of nonviolent medicine has always been at hand. This paradigm sees expressions of dis-ease as invaluable guideposts on the healing journey. An approach that values and utilizes all available truths (even/especially the unpleasant ones) in a nonjudgmental way provides breakthroughs into previously unseen conditions of long-lasting harmony. We will consider technologies for applying nonviolent medicine, ranging from Gandhi’s satyagraha (for the social organism) to classical homeopathy (for the individual; and a system which Gandhi strongly espoused).

An Interfaith Intercultural Dialogue -Arun Narayan Toké, Thea Albright, Rayna Luvert, Bill Harris, Gordie Albi, Dr. Irwin Noparstak, and Jeanne Norris-Tenzin Chodron  

Friday, September 12, 2:00pm–3:30pm: Straub 142

In 2002, we proposed that September 11th be observed as a National Day for Interfaith, Intercultural, and International Dialogue. The National Association for Multicultural Education adopted a resolution supporting the Day of Dialogue. Many cities in the United States have held interfaith and intercultural dialogues and/or prayer events on September 11th since 2002. In Eugene, the Lane Institute for Faith Education and Skipping Stones magazine have organized dialogue events in the previous years locally.  Because there is a limited opportunity for meaningful conversation on race relations, diversity issues, and interfaith topics in our nation, we believe that an ongoing interfaith, intercultural dialogue will help promote international understanding, peace education, cultural diversity, and nonviolence – the essential components of global human sustainability. During this dialogue, panelists will share their views on the challenges of interfaith work, nonviolence and nonviolent resistance, community building, and other social issues, and address questions from the floor.

Befriending Your Self-Critic -Ker Cleary, MA

Saturday, September 13, 8:30am–10:00am: Esslinger 105

Cultivating loving-kindness towards oneself is a revolutionary practice for shaping change in the world. We can only be as kind and understanding to others as we are to ourselves. If we want to practice nonviolence, it must begin within. Many of us have a critical voice in our heads that tells us we’re not good enough, we’re not doing it right, and we can never be truly loveable. We struggle to silence this voice, thus compounding the inner violence we do to ourselves. The key to healing this conflict within is not to kill the critic, but to understand and befriend it. In this workshop, we will explore the functions and guises of the critic voice, discover the inherent wisdom and value of this aspect of our selves, and learn a practice for working with it through loving-kindness, to bring us to a more deeply integrated and peaceful place.

Beyond War: A Guide For Citizens - Eileen and Phil Hanna, Martin Jones, Sally Marie

Friday, September 12, 10:30am–Noon: Straub 142

Saturday, September 13, 4:00pm–5:30pm: EMU Maple

Conflict is inevitable, but war is not. In this provocative, interactive workshop, we explore how a shift in thinking – and acting – can prevent or resolve conflicts, both personally and globally. We discuss Beyond War’s three foundational ideas: (1) war is obsolete; (2) we are one; and (3) the means are the ends in the making – and see how adherence to these will lead to peaceful solutions of disputes.  Systemic change cannot take place without personal change. By committing to resolve conflicts without violence, maintain an attitude of goodwill, and not pose as “enemies,” we develop our capacity to resolve conflicts. We will explore four strategies people and nations can employ to foster peace – with successful examples of each – and conclude with practical ways we each can help to build a world beyond war. You will come away from this workshop empowered with a renewed sense of hope for this embattled planet and for our humanity.

Building Community as a way to Prevent Gun Violence to Children - Jennifer Frenzer-Knowlton

Saturday, September 13, 10:30am–Noon: Columbia 44

This workshop teaches what ordinary citizens can do in their everyday lives to improve kids’ safety from gun violence at home and at school. Topics will include: Practical tips such as the ASK program for Adults and the Unload and Lock program for gun owners, and suggestions for normalizing balanced community and neighborhood relationships.  The Million Mom March of Lane County is part of a national network of 75 Chapters that work locally, yet stand together in their fight against gun violence and the devastation it causes. As part of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, MMM of LC holds a Mother’s Day march from the EWEB Plaza to the Owen Rose Garden in which 200-300 people participate. The MMM’s passion for improving safety and its roots in nonviolence and inclusivity make it a great organization to spearhead complicated dialogues about peace and violence in our society.

Children Rising -Meleah Drews, Karla Snell

Saturday, September 13, 10:30am–Noon: Chapman 202

Parents and educators often begin their work with children because of a love for children and a desire to teach. However, when children misbehave, it is easy to lose sight of our original inspiration. We hope to inspire adults to make a commitment to maintain mindful interactions with children, and reconnect with their initial enthusiasm. We encourage individuals to examine their values, to recognize ways in which they successfully demonstrate those values, and enhance this framework with new skills. We will discuss strategies for meeting children’s needs, including early intervention, active listening, problem solving, and restoring and maintaining relationships. We will share approaches to discipline that facilitate trust and safety, while nurturing values of respect, responsibility, and self-governance. The workshop will include a multi-media overview, handouts and small group projects.

Circle of Scribes - Aria Seligmann and Susan Cundiff

Friday, September 12, 10:30am–Noon: EMU Rogue

We teach people how to write opinion pieces/letters to the editor that move people away from violence and militarism.  We wish to move federal discretionary dollars from the military toward unmet human and environmental needs. WAND¹s mission is to empower women to act politically to move federal military spending toward unmet human and environmental needs.

Circle the Women, Freedom From Patriarchy - Veronica Lassen

Saturday, September 13, 4:00pm–5:30pm: Columbia 44

With NVC consciousness and tools we will come together to mourn the effect of patriarchy on our personal lives and the effect it has on Mother Earth. Through silence, singing, circles and sharing we will explore ways to honor the sacred feminine, enabling us to embrace the power we hold for healing the world and for creating egalitarian cultures. Exploring together and listening deeply, we will hold the beauty of our needs, celebrate the support in our lives, and envision life changes that would enable us (and so the world) to truly flourish. Open to all who consider themselves to be women.

Communicating in Politically Polarized Situations - Bryn Hazell and Norman Pasewalk

Friday, September 12, 10:30am–Noon: Columbia 44

How can you talk to someone who has strongly held and differing views about war, immigration and other politically volatile topics without having those conversations escalate into either violent disagreement or smoldering silence?  Using the consciousness of Nonviolent Communication, attendees can practice role plays between individuals with strongly held and different viewpoints. Attendees will have the opportunity to view such a role play and then participate or see others oached through role plays. You will learn to speak your truth in a way that is more likely to be heard and to hear others in a way that is more likely to meet values for integrity and peace.

Community Circles: From Passion to Compassion (for Oneself and Others)  - Bryn Hazell and Norman Pasewalk

Friday, September 12, 8:30am–10:00am: Columbia 44

Join a Community Circle to explore our political passions and how they can contribute to peace or violence. Have the opportunity to hear and to share divergent viewpoints in a way that creates more understanding and connection rather than judgment and disconnection.  Community Circles are one way that individuals with diverse viewpoints can come together and discuss conflicts in a way that is more likely to lead to peaceful communities that can work together to solve common problems. Using the consciousness of Nonviolent Communication and guidelines created for these Community Circles, participants will have the opportunity to practice speaking and listening in a way that is more likely to lead to peaceful outcomes rather than to violent judgments and angry outcomes.  Practice now and then create your own circles in   ommunities that would benefit from this useful tool used to solve problems and create understanding.

Compassion and Harmlessness -Tony Cubito

Saturday, September 13, 10:30am–Noon: Esslinger 112

Lecture and Q&A: This presentation will focus on the understanding of the self (and the self of all) as consciousness and the development of positive thinking towards oneself and others. It will emphasize the importance of spirituality in everyday life, especially in terms of compassion and harmlessness in thought, word, and deed as a way of life.

Compassion in my Life -Emerald Valley Playback Theater

Saturday, September 13, 2:00pm–3:30pm: EMU Ben Linder

Playback Theater is an improvisational, interactive theater form that uses stories from the audience as its source material.  Life stories are told to a “conductor” and cast and enacted on the spot by a team of actors and a musician. In Playback Theater, our lives are celebrated and often changed through the magic of theater. Be they comic or tragic, our life stories are full of moments worth remembering and playing back. Using theatrical ingenuity and compassionate listening, the player will illuminate these moments with humor and grace. With the theme of this performance “Compassion in my Life,” we will ask the audience about experiences when someone treated them with compassion and times when they were compassionate to others. We will also seek out stories about difficult times where they would have liked more compassion.

Conflict Mediation and Nonviolent Communication -Marshall Rosenberg, PhD

Part 1:Friday, September 12, 2:00pm–3:30pm: EMU Ballroom

Part 2:Friday, September 12, 4:00pm–5:30pm: EMU Ballroom

Marshall will share some of his experiences in helping resolve conflicts with individuals and groups all over the world from warring tribes in Africa to inner-city gangs. He will describe the distinction between when you are invited to help, as opposed to doing so without an explicit invitation. How can you find ways to connect people so they can hear each others needs? Marshall is confident that once people hear each others needs, they can find a strategy to solve their conflict. He will outline structures you can use, regardless of whether you are helping individuals or groups.

Co-parenting Workshop - Porshea Pendleton

Saturday, September 13, 8:30am–10:00am: Straub 142

I teach a workshop to aid parents that are divorced or have never been married, the concept of co-parenting. In  oparenting the parents learn how to de-escalate angry interactions, learn reflective listing skills and how to build a business relationship. The parents will also learn the effects of conflict on their children and, most importantly, how to keep their children out of the middle of adult conflicts. I have worked with the Kinship Support Program in California providing the services of counseling, conflict resolution and parenting skills workshops to empower the student and their parents. I work from a Christian perspective for clients interested in this area of spiritual growth.

Countering Military Recruitment -Carol Van Houten

Saturday, September 13, 2:00pm–3:30pm: Esslinger 105

We live in a militarized culture where it is accepted and strongly defended that the public schools provide a trapped audience for military recruiters to use inflated propaganda to entice youth to join the military and be used to carry out corrupt foreign policy. Taking advantage of an enormous budget, recruiters prey on youth with fewer economic opportunities and sell them, based on anything the youth want to hear, on the most dangerous job they could ever choose and which they cannot leave for at least eight years. Learn the methods recruiters use to lure youth into joining the military, how our laws and schools support this access to minors, how to organize against it, and what nonviolent options are available to youth for jobs after high school or paying for college.

Creating a Sound Environment for Inner and Outer Peace - Part 1: Sound environment concepts – the art and the science - Netti Garner

Saturday, September 13, 2:00pm–3:30pm: Gerlinger 301

Chant is a simple and universally available method of practicing nonviolence which has been around since the dawn of humankind. The rhythmic repetition of sung sound creates community and illuminates one’s connection with all peoples, all beings, all of nature. This practice provides direct invitation to, and reminder of, a nonviolent way of life. A brief history of chant will be related, focusing on the concepts of resonance, vibration, and overtones. The impact of nonviolent and affirming language will be explored using chanting examples from a variety of cultures. One may join in the chant experience vocally and/or by sitting in the sung environment we will create.

Creating a Sound Environment for Inner and Outer Peace - Part 2: Bringing Chant into Everyday Life – the deeper experience - Netti Garner

Saturday, September 13, 4:00pm–5:30pm: Gerlinger 301

Chant as an everyday practice will be explored with suggestions for inclusion into one’s daily life. In ancient Greece, Pythagoras required the study of music before admission to his school of mathematics. Today, science continues to uncover the power of music, especially the power of vibration and resonance. From stress reduction to body healing, science validates the importance of musical vibration that the Ancients intuitively knew. When a chant is centered on a simple melody and repeated over and over, the mind quiets and the body responds at a vibrational level. The words used impact us personally, setting up a field of intention that penetrates our consciousness and expands across space and time. The concepts explored in Part 1 will be taken into a deeper experiential session. Attending part 1 will be add depth, but is not required to attend this session.

Creating Your Vision of Peace (a play-shop) - Bev Hollander, Suz Aird

Friday, 10:30am-Noon: Columbia 45

“Violence comes from the belief that other people cause our pain and therefore deserve punishment,” says Marshall Rosenberg. Within us, most of us carry enemy images of people or businesses we blame for all the woes of the world. We need ways to transform these beliefs into empowering thoughts and action. In this transformation, we can find the clarity needed to contribute more fully to world peace. This workshop is designed to give participants the opportunity to create an image of personal peace that stimulates self-exploration and self-acceptance. Presenters will lead a Guided Imagery  exercise that concludes with individuals creating and exploring their own personal collage. Paper images will be provided to cut and paste this collage.

Creativity in the Balance, Part I -Bob Lieberman MS,PMP

Friday, September 12, 2:00pm–3:30pm: EMU Oak

This is the first part of a two-session track offering a practical approach to understanding and encouraging creativity and open-mindedness in group enterprise. It portrays the human impulses to explore and to produce as polar opposites whose interplay in proper balance enables creativity, productivity, connection, and fulfillment. The impulse to produce is motivated by fear and practicality. The impulse to explore is motivated by trust and idealism. This first session presents the conceptual framework in a compelling manner, and makes the case that the impulse to produce is overdeveloped in Western culture. Participants will engage the topic with music, video, and hands-on creative activities.

Creativity In The Balance, Part II -Bob Lieberman MS, PMP

Friday, September 12, 4:00pm–5:30pm: EMU Oak

This is the second part of a two-session track. This session continues development of the ideas presented in the first session, with emphasis on practical application. Approaches and techniques are presented that can restore the immediate and long-term creative balance in a given setting. Creative process analysis and practical remediation are applied in a variety of different contexts, including project management, conflict resolution, relationships, and community organizations. Participants will engage the topic with visioning activities, small team debriefing, and large group discussion.

Cross-Cultural Travel: The Art of Pilgrimage, The Quest, and Citizen Diplomacy as Pathways to Nonviolence -Dianne G. Brause

Friday, September 12, 8:30am–10:00am: EMU Maple

There are ways of traveling, which tend to bring about spiritual, personal, and intercultural growth and understanding within the traveler and those s/he encounters along the path. Through this expansion of consciousness often comes an increased level of tolerance and appreciation for diversity of all kinds, which in turn may lead to an ethic of nonviolence both while being the guest, as well as being a more knowledgeable global citizen when the traveler returns home.  This workshop will illustrate ways of traveling as a practical lifestyle of nonviolence using stories from Dianne’s personal  experiences. Participants will break into small groups to share their experiences from their own travels as well as how these learnings increased their ability to live more nonviolently upon returning home. The small groups will report back a summary of their insights to the whole group.

Decalogue for Living Nonviolently -Ken Preston-Pile

Saturday, September 13, 8:30am–10:00am: EMU Fir

This workshop explores ten major aspects of embodying nonviolence as a way of life. We will use a creative process where participants reflect on the point(s) that most resonate with where they are on their nonviolence journey using creative materials, and then gather in small groups to share our reflections. Then we will re-gather in a large group to share insights and applications in that process.

Deep Ahimsa Food Choices -FinnPo

Friday, September 12, 8:30am–10:00am: EMU Rogue

Ahimsa foods are freely given, not taken. This excludes even the use of living plants. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin once said that our most agonizing spiritual dilemma is our necessity for food, with its seemingly unavoidable attachments to suffering. Yet, food violence doesn’t appear because of the other-creature-consuming appetite itself, but it appears in the oft and ill use of that appetite to placate our emotional plague. By pondering this I have come to believe that I may meet both my nutritional needs and alleviate the attendant suffering, if I also thoroughly and simultaneously fulfill my emotional needs non-consumptively, through intimacy and creativity. Thus, it seems that enhanced intimacy, spiritual creativity, and harmlessness are asked to join and rise together. Make love, not plows. I offer an hour of visionary imageplay toward making ahimsa food choices through spiritual intention and erotic intelligence.

Developing More Effective Nonviolent Strategy and Action -Ken Preston-Pile

Saturday, September 13, 2:00pm - 3:30pm: Gerlinger 302

In this workshop, participants will explore key processes to help groups undergoing nonviolent action and strategy become more successful. We will learn an important tool addressing the dynamics of nonviolent action, and have participants in small groups apply it to specific actions they are participating in.

Devotional Singing and Chanting -Arun Narayan Toké

Saturday, September 12, 8:30am- 10:00am: Columbia 44

In our world, it is essential that we find a peaceful centering for our mind to function well. A combination of chanting, devotional singing, and meditation are spiritual practices appropriate for starting a day. Participants in this session may join in simple devotional chants and quiet meditation to the extent they feel comfortable. While this chanting might have an Eastern Spiritual origin and influence, there will also be some interfaith flavor. Come prepared to lead a simple chant from your spiritual faith tradition, if you feel moved to. There will be several short meditation segments in between chanting. We will conclude the session with 108 repetitions of the Sanskrit mantra, Lokah Samastha Sukhinoh Bhvanthu (May All Beings be at Peace).

Eco-Logical Culture Change -Jan Spencer

Friday, September 12, 4:00pm–5:30pm: Gerlinger 301

Eco-logical culture change is about lifestyles, personal uplift, economics, and culture. It is about living closer to home and consciously moving towards a way of life that Planet Earth can sustain in peace.  The presentation will touch on global trends, international relations, home economics, human potential, community, and permaculture. Slides will illustrate existing examples of eco-culture change, and the narration will explain how they fit into real life application. The focus is on practical strategies people can make use of at home, in their neighborhoods, communities of faith, and where they live and work.

Embracing the Shadow -Consu Tolosa, MA-ATR

Saturday, September 13, 8:30am–10:00am: Gerlinger 303

Making peace with all of the aspects of ourselves is sometimes a great challenge. Nonviolent communication teaches us to honor the message of the jackal by listening with giraffe ears and looking at the gifts behind the words. We are often more adept and willing to show empathy to others but remain merciless to ourselves. This session is a non-violent art approach to integrating all aspects of ourselves. Through writing, discussion, and collage work, we will identify aspects of ourselves that need a nonviolent connection and integration with the rest of our identity. We will make a visual reminder of the gifts that those parts bring us, and express gratitude for their contributions. If nonviolence is to be a true way of life, authenticity and full acceptance of ourselves is key.

Emotional Intelligence: Part I -Dean Van Leuven

Saturday, September 13, 8:30am–10:00am: Chapman 204

Learn how to understand, control, and make changes in your own emotional process and belief system. We will discuss the value of and the process for learning how to take control of our own emotional choices. Learn how your brain functions and how you can change the process to create more effective responses. Learn how we can change from our usual judgmental way of thinking to a more positive problem-solving approach to life. When we learn how to take control of our emotions, we have the capacity to create the life we desire. Based on Dr. Dean’s book, Emotional Intelligence – Taking Control of Your Life. Presented in an interactive seminar format.

Emotional Intelligence Part II: Implementing Emotional Skills Training in Our Educational System -Dean Van Leuven

Saturday, September 13, 10:30am–Noon: Chapman 204

We have learned the intellectual skills that advance our society but do not yet possess the emotional skills necessary to  use our intellectual skills effectively. We have now reached the place in our intellectual education where we understand how our emotional system functions. We now possess the necessary understanding to be able to teach others how to optimize their life experience. We will discuss how emotional training can be implemented within the educational system. Based on Dr. Dean’s book Emotional Intelligence – Taking Control of Your Life. We will discuss the success in implementing this program in Nepal, and how we can apply those concepts in our own educational system. Presented in an interactive seminar format.

Emotional Intelligence Training in the Workplace -Dr. Dean Van Leuven

Saturday, September 13, 4:00pm–5:30pm: Esslinger 116

This program presents and discusses the training program based on Emotional Intelligence under development by the Oregon Center for Applied Science for creating more understanding and effective behavior patterns in the workplace. It is an eight-session, interactive internet training program for use by employees in the workplace. The program is based on Dr.Dean’s book, Emotional Intelligence – Taking Control of Your Life. The focus is on learning how to remove the emotional blocks that produce anger and emotional violence in the workplace, and replacing them with peaceful, effective, and harmonious response patterns. With this program, employees will be able to learn how to implement more effective emotional skills at any convenient time and place.

Empathic Listening for Parents and Teachers -H. Holley Humphrey

Saturday, September 13, 10:30am– Noon: Chapman 207

Tragically, as humans we are not specifically taught the HOW of how to get along; How to reach out to each other. How to empathically hear kids who are reaching out. As Dr. Marshall Rosenberg says, “People are hungry for empathy. They just don’t know how to ask for it.” Empathic Listening helps develop safe environments that are based on power-with instead of power-over; on nurturing connection instead of criticism or judgment. By learning to identify our children’s needs as well as our own, we will experience tools to build understanding, trust and honesty. We will practice skills to create a world in  which everyone’s needs matter. Using a balance of lecture, video, audience participation and hands-on activities, Holley brings alive the concepts of Nonviolent Communication

Engaging Youth in Ancient Storytelling -Sherry Lady

Saturday, September 13, 8:30am–10:00am: EMU Ben Linder

Ancient culture is full of ritual and storytelling. To the people of the past, these things revealed understandings about the world, expectations for behavior, community identity, and the foundation of belief for their religion. To understand how Nonviolence as a Way of Life can benefit one’s own community and the world, stories can offer a fresh way of looking at problems, concerns, or crisis through symbols, metaphor, and outcomes of peaceful resolution. Actively participating in storytelling through dialogue, movement, and music will lead to conclusions that support non-violence as the preferable  life-style choice for all ages and in all circumstances.

Facing Ourselves, Facing Each Other – Embodying Compassion and Creating Empathy, Part I -Dwight Pargee, MS, GCFP and Carol Delmonico, RN

Saturday, September 13, 8:30am–10:00am: Columbia 45

How can exploring the physical qualities of compassion make us better empathic listeners? Empathy is a state of awareness that we can cultivate within ourselves and awaken the possibility of enhanced communication and facilitating conflict resolution. In this workshop, we will use explorations in Compassionate Communication, Feldenkrais Method® Awareness Through Movement, and meditation to fully embody empathy. We will look at and sense the relationship between listening compassionately and “interoception” – the ability to read and interpret sensations arising from our own bodies. This is a fundamental feature in creating emotional awareness and is key to developing emotional resonance in relationships and communication. Compassionate Communication can help create relationships based on trust, empathy, and mutuality so that this natural resonance is more likely to take place. With this clear intention, the heartfelt connection is nurtured and sustained in relationships. http://www.pcoco.org, http://www.lifeintobalancecoaching.com

Facing Ourselves, Facing Each Other – Embodying Compassion and Creating Empathy, Part II -Dwight Pargee, MS, GCFP and Carol Delmonico, RN

Saturday, September 13, 10:30am–Noon: Columbia 45

(Since this is a continuation from the first session, we invite all to participate in both sessions.)  How can exploring the physical qualities of compassion make us more empathic listeners? In this workshop, we will use explorations in Compassionate Communication, Feldenkrais Method® Awareness Through Movement, and meditation to fully embody  empathy. We will look at and sense the relationship between listening compassionately and “interoception”– the ability to read and interpret sensations arising from our own bodies. This is a fundamental feature in creating emotional awareness and is key to developing emotional resonance in relationships and communication.  Compassionate Communication can help create relationships based on trust, empathy, and mutuality so that this natural resonance is more likely to take  place. With this clear intention, the heartfelt connection is nurtured and sustained in relationships. http://www.pcoco.org, http://www.lifeintobalancecoaching.com

Family Bridges – Puentes para Las Familias – Engaging Latino Families In School Life -Zehra F. Greenleaf

Saturday, September 13, 10:30am–Noon: Gerlinger 302

Now in its fourth year at Springfield’s Maple Elementary School, Family Bridges – Puentes para las Familias has become an effective program for engaging Latino parents in their children’s education, and integrating them into school life. As part of this program, Spanish-speaking parents receive literacy training and educational support to enable them to read bilingual books in classrooms, alongside their child’s teacher. The benefits of this program include: Exposure to a new language and culture for non-Spanish speaking students and teachers, a sense of pride for Latino youth, and a feeling of belonging for their parents. Come learn how to build a bridge of friendship and respect between people of differing cultures in your school or community setting.

Fostering a Climate of Cooperation in High School: Panel Discussion -Dennis Hoerner

Friday, September 12, 2:00pm–3:30pm: Chapman 207

This will be a moderated panel discussion, followed by a Question and Answer period. A teacher, a trustee, and three students will be on the panel. Wellsprings Friends School is an independent, non-profit alternative high school, founded in 1994. Our focus is on providing a culture of affirmation, a healing community, and creative learning possibilities.  Students come to us from a spectrum of diversity in academic interests and abilities, socioeconomic backgrounds, public high school experiences, and personal styles and tastes. Sixty students and a handful of adults – who also are a very diverse group – must interact with one another all day long in small spaces. We work hard to maintain a supportive community environment focused on nonviolent problem solving for any and all interpersonal issues that arise. We strive to offer teenagers a high school experience that is holistic and in Marshall Rosenberg’s lovely phrase, a “life-enhancing education.”

Gandhi’s Nonviolence as a Way of Life: Self Training for Transformative Activism -Veena Rani Howard

Saturday, September 13, 2:00pm–3:30pm: EMU Rogue

Mahatma Gandhi’s nonviolent methods for addressing social and political problem are paradigmatic and have been emulated by prominent leaders from Martin Luther King to Nelson Mandela. In spite of the popularity of Gandhi’s nonviolent strategies, Gandhi’s own definitions and applications of nonviolence are not fully understood. Gandhi’s nonviolent methods required systematic training to empower the soul—a regimen much more difficult than that required for training a soldier. For the purpose of acquiring the soul-force necessary to resist injustice and violence, Gandhi insisted upon spiritual  observances such as sensual control, poverty, non-hoarding, vegetarianism, simplicity, nonattachment, etc. However, these disciplines are so foreign to modern day politics and activism that when we study Gandhi we tend to ignore them. In this presentation I will examine the essential components of Gandhi’s method. Precisely what was his recipe? How  necessary is it to follow that recipe and utilize his ingredients in order to effectively implement nonviolence in solving current problems?

Gardening for everyone, cooperation produces more vegetables with less work. -Charlotte Anthony

Saturday, September 13, 2:00pm–3:30pm: EMU Amphitheatre

By supporting the soil microbes we can turn pottery type clay topsoil (and all the other types of soil in Eugene) into workable topsoil in the first year. We have completed over 300 gardens here in Eugene. We will sing the victory garden song and various Victory Garden associates will dramatize the living cooperation which produces our food. We live in a culture where competition dominates. This model makes the food growing simple, delightful and most of all nurturing to our soul. The players will be soil microbes, soil activator, amendments, garden tools, weeds, viruses, molds and humans. We also want to include the audience in an interactive discussion as part of our event.

Herbal Medicine as Personal Action -Sue Sierralupe

Saturday, September 13, 2:00pm–3:30pm: East Lawn

Take back the power over your own body! This hands-on workshop is a guided journey through the world of herbal medicine. As pharmaceutical companies dig deeper into the lives and pocketbooks of our community, the freedom natural medicine offers is a viable lifeline. We will learn a brief international history of botanical medicine, and then delve into current use in America today. Sue will display how to make and use simple yet effective herbals from items harvested from the wild, the grocery store, and our own backyards. Each student will have an opportunity to sample herbs for themselves.

How to Build More Effective and Successful Nonviolent Movements -Ken Preston-Pile

Saturday, September 13, 4:00pm–5:30pm: Gerlinger 302

This workshop will explore the Eight Stages of Nonviolence Social Movements, based on the work of the late activist, Bill Moyer, who analyzed hundreds of social movements and discovered that they went through similar stages.Understanding what’s effective and what the pitfalls are will help us be more successful in our social movements. We will also examine the different roles people play in social movements, and what’s important about each.

How to Create a Sanctuary Garden for Peace -Forrest McDowell and Tricia Clark-McDowell

Friday, September 12, 2:00pm–3:30pm: EMU Ben Linder

The concept of sanctuary entails a perceived sense of safety, security, and comfort, i.e. the opportunity to relax, explore, reflect, and simply “be” removed from worldly issues or obligations. The reverent creation of a garden as a place of sanctuary supports nonviolent living. The seven design elements of a sanctuary garden can evoke Wonder and Celebration for nature, Healing and Regeneration of one’s bodymindspirit, and an overall sense of Peace within oneself, for nature, and others. This beautiful and practical slide presentation gives a wealth of ideas from many who have chosen to live peacefully and nonviolently with nature in their own yard and garden.

How to Live in Peace: Five Practical Strategies at the Frontlines of Life -Forrest McDowell and Tricia Clark-McDowell

Saturday, September 13, 2:00pm–3:30pm: Esslinger 112

This practical workshop presents five components of Peace used as a way to daily monitor one’s efforts to sustain a nonviolent and reverent lifestyle. Using the word PEACE as an acronym, participants will have the opportunity to create personal worksheets/guidelines to both reflect and create practical strategies for peace in daily life. Each participant will receive a PEACE card.

Images and Voices of Hope -Veronica McHugh

Part I: Saturday, September 13, 2:00pm–3:30pm: EMU Fir

Part II: Saturday, September 13, 4:00pm–5:30pm: EMU Fir

Images & Voices of Hope (IVOH) is a worldwide movement dedicated to strengthening the role of the media as agents of positive change. At this time, when the world is between stories, our purpose is to expand awareness of the daily choices we make that raise public trust, generate constructive meaning and nonviolent solutions, and amplify human hope, thus enhancing humanity’s capacity for life-promoting action. IVOH was launched in New York City in 1999 to look at the impact of public image making and public story telling on societies all over the world. Since then we have held over 50 conversations involving journalists and media makers in cities from Johannesburg to Moscow and Santiago to Vancouver.  Our discussion in Eugene will use Appreciative Inquiry questions to spark a strength-based dialogue on the work of journalists and others in media– the role of media in the world and your own sense of personal mission in your work at this time.

Improving your Energy with Meditation and Self-awareness in Professional Life -Samantha Keen, Danielle Kerr-Wilson

Friday, September 12, 8:30am–10:00am: Gerlinger 302

Vital Switch seminar for stress management and burnout prevention offers a detailed explanation of why people get stressed in modern life. This seminar also offers explanation of steps that help to change the patterns of tension and pressure through bringing more awareness into daily life. We help people to understand how they can improve their vitality through practical exercises to deepen awareness of themselves. This workshop explains how the work of awareness and techniques of meditation can improve people's quality of life, their well being and their performance at work. We also offer some explanation of how empathy and intuition can be systematically developed with some simple steps. All of this comes from the principles of meditation.

Integrating Intimacy and Sexuality -Karly Loveling

Friday, September 12, 10:30am–Noon: Esslinger 107

In contrast to a world of explicitly violent images/experiences often linked with sexuality (and emotionally violent ideas about what successful sex is), I am creating space to connect sexuality with intimacy, and to learn tools for integrating his connection into a way of being. In my play shop we will be enriched by sharing authentic connection, communicating from the heart, connecting with our bodies, and expanding our ideas about the connections between sex, intimacy, healing, and spirituality. I will guide experiential exercises and share breath-work for grounding and for enhancing pleasure and moving emotions. None of the exercises will be sexually explicit. In the spirit of non-violence, participants will always be at choice ab - out engaging in exercises or group sharing.

Interactive Theater -Abigail Leeder, Mark Roberts, Melanie Kundert

Saturday, September 13, 10:30am–Noon: EMU Ben Linder

This workshop will explore theater forms and games for use in creating and deepening connection within community groups and/or the general public. Playback Theater and other improvisational forms will be taught and practiced by the participants. These forms will be linked to key definitions found in Nonviolent Communication, such as feelings and needs.

Interfaith Prayer Service -Siri Kaur Khalsa-Harris and Harinder Kaur Khalsa

Friday, September 12, 4pm–4:30pm: EMU Rogue

The Interfaith Prayer Service is a way in which different faith communities can connect and understand each other. This workshop will cover the history of these services, focusing on how and why it has been able to sustain itself for more than six years. Participants will also explore how to keep an organization going, bringing in the best of diversity while letting politics, preaching, performing, or debating be saved for another place. This understanding, participating, and growing organization is a model that can move the world forward in Peace. Please join the presenters to explore the steps going from talk to action. We are willing to share our experiences as well as listening and learning from yours.

Introduccion a la Comunicacion no Violenta -H. Holley Humphrey

Friday, September 12, 10:30am–Noon: EMU Maple

Using visually and graphically alive lecture, some small group discussion and hands-on practice, we will introduce some basic concepts of Nonviolent Communication as they apply to your personal everyday world. The focus is on Empathy and Compassion and learning practical skills to assist in getting needs heard for belonging, understanding, inclusion and respect. A portion of this will be a power point presentation created in Spanish by Nadia Lepe of Guadalajara, with invited dialogue in Spanish as much as my knowledge of Spanish permits. (Holley has studied as a foreign student at UNAM in Mexico City and the University of Madrid and will be accompanied by a native Spanish speaker.)

Living in an Instant Society: An Opportunity to enACT Change -Mary Ann “MAx” Fabry

Saturday, September 13, 10:30am–Noon: Esslinger 105

“ACT” is an acronym for “Awareness, Communication, Transition.” The focus of this presentation is to help people (1) recognize that we live in an “instant society” (“I want it now!”), the expectations and implications associated with this type of society (a dominant isolated society vs. a unified world society); (2) societal effects as an “instant society” (“just tell me what I need to know”), and (3) strategies for individuals to ACT with nonviolent integrity (speaking your truth from the heart). The projected outcomes of this presentation are: (1) to understand the subtle individual psychological disturbances resulting in an “instant” social structure; (2) to imply how this may impact us as individuals in a very complex world system; and (3) to empower people as individuals to learn techniques to ACT on a nonviolent level.

Living Values: Creating Peace and Respect in Your Classroom -Living Values Education Program: Mari Chin and Alice Glenn

Saturday, September 13, 10:30am–Noon: EMU Oak

Please join us to learn about Living Values Education Program, a comprehensive values education program. This innovative global program, offers training, a practical methodology, and a wide variety of experiential values activities to educators to help them provide the opportunity for children and young adults to explore and develop universal values. The presenter will share information about LVE’s theoretical model, the breadth of the program internationally, as well as time for reflection and a Living Values Education activity.  Educators implementing LVEP report positive changes in teacher-student relationships and in student-student relationships both inside and outside the classroom. Educators note an increase in respect, caring, cooperation, motivation, and the ability to solve peer conflicts on the part of the students. Aggressive behaviors decline as positive social skills and respect increase. LVEP helps educators create safe, caring, values-based atmospheres for quality learning.

Living Values: Use of Emotional Landscape in Various Settings and Student Population -Living Values Education Program: Mari Chin and Alice Glenn

Saturday, September 13, 2:00pm–3:30pm: EMU Oak

Please join us to learn about Living Values Education Program (LVEP), and the use of Emotional Landscape. The presenters will share their experiences in their use with regular and special education students including the autism inclusion program. They will also explore other potential uses in other settings and student populations. LVEP helps educators create safe, caring, values-based atmospheres for quality learning. Educators and students using Emotional Landscape report  increased awareness and understanding of their own emotions and are better able to use the power of emotion to enhance the quality of their day. Students learn self- regulation, and decreased anger outbursts improves the class climate for learning.

Make More Peace with Yourself through the Practice of Mindfulness -Barry Nobel

Friday, September 12, 2:00pm–3:30pm: EMU Maple

The practice of mindfulness develops the calm and alert state of awareness that enables us to see more clearly and act more effectively. This experiential workshop will also provide practical instruction, theoretical underpinnings, and scientific support for developing your mindfulness practice. We will also compare mindfulness and self-empathy to promote nonviolent conflict resolution in the family.

Martial Arts as a Way of Non-violence: The Tao of the Shaolin -Judy Saltzman, PhD, Sensei Dahrla King

Friday, September 12, 8:30am–10:00am: East Lawn

Many who are ignorant of the martial arts think that it is practiced as a violent method of self -defense or settling problems. Others believe that only Aikido and Tai Chi Chuan are non-violent, and that all the rest, such as karate and  jujitsu are violent. However, all the martial arts, true to their classical origins and properly taught, seek a way of peace and harmony through discipline and respect for others. By becoming trained and strong, it will be shown that one can be less likely to seek a violent solution. This workshop will examine how the Shaolin managed to reconcile their Buddhist philosophy with their need for self defense, and how they integrated the Yin/Yang movements of hard and soft, flowing and striking into the art of Kenpo. Black belt instructors will demonstrate and teach basic forms and self-defense techniques and invite others to share and participate.

Meeting Facilitation Challenges -Tree Bressen

Friday, September 12, 4:00pm–5:30pm: Esslinger 116

Did you facilitate the monthly meeting only to freeze like a deer in headlights when a conflict came up or someone blocked inappropriately? This is the workshop for you! This highly interactive workshop will focus on roleplays,practice, and Q&A for dealing with facilitation challenges.

Mental Health Court: A Compassionate and Viable Response to a Prominent Problem -Roger KalmanSaturday, September 13, 4:00pm–5:30pm: Chapman 204

Mental Health Court is a new concept in criminal justice that responds to the problem of a class of crimes which are the result of untreated mental illness. Untreated mental illness presents a significant problem in jails and prisons. Mental Health Court provides a sane alternative to the traditional system of punishment as a deterrent. Offenders are offered compassionate mental health treatment in lieu of sanctions and criminal convictions. Jails and prisons are spared the problems associated with mentally ill inmates, which they are ill equipped to manage appropriately. Law enforcement and the courts are spared the expense and frustration of persistent repeat offenders due to mental illness. Ultimately tax dollars are saved and the public is safer. Mental Health Court is morally correct and reduces pain and suffering. It’s thenext step toward a more harmonious society that appropriately respond to the needs of it citizens.

Nonviolence as an Interior Process - Bonnie Greenwell, PhD

Saturday, September 13, 8:30am–10:00am: EMU Oak

We cannot effectively bring peace to the world until we find it in ourselves. The world reflects the millions of minds within it, so every mind that reflects peace contributes to the well-being of the whole. Non-dual teachings, based on ancient  spiritual traditions, point to a universal source, a stillness and awareness that is at the core of all human experience. Awakening to this Self or Source is a possibility that transcends all religions and all divisions, putting us in touch with that within us, which is universal and whole, accepting and wise, compassionate and peaceful. After a brief  discussion of the non-dual perspective, we will explore the experience of embodied meditation for the purpose of discovering this natural state of peace that lies beneath the activity of the conditioned mind, and is present in every moment.

Nonviolence in Prisons – NVC and Mindfulness Practice -Panelists: Verne Garvie, Katie Talbott, Dow Gordon, Keith Brooks, Jay Jackson, Carol Battistoni

Friday, September 12, 8:30am–10:00am: EMU Fir

Beginning with the first NVC prison program in 1999, Freedom Project now works in five prisons in Washington State.  We offer trainings in Nonviolent Communication (NVC) and mindfulness practice. Freedom Project’s panel of returnees

(former prisoners), staff, and prison volunteers will dialog with participants around what their programs mean to

prisoners, prison workers, and successful re-entry. Following brief intros on NVC and mindfulness practice, the panelists

will encourage and invite all questions from workshop participants regarding prison, prison work, prisoner re-entry, and

what their work looks like where the rubber hits the road. You may have questions like, “What’s it like volunteering in

prisons?” or “Why do you work in prisons?” You may want to know what it’s really like being in a prison for years, or

wish to ask, “Did you learn anything in prison?” Bring it on, and we’ll kick it around.

Non-violent Action: Creative, Effective, Fun - Bonnie Tinker, Stu Sugarman, Peg Morton

Saturday 10:30am–Noon: Columbia 150

This panel will present personal stories about their experiences with creative, Direct Non-Violent Action. The stories will

include the Black Arm Band Case (Tinker v Des Moines) that established students rights to freedom of speech, crossing

the boundaries, arrest and imprisonment at the School of the Americas, sitting in at Oregon Congressional offices during

the past two years, the bloody handprint demonstrations at a recruiting office (cleared by one jury no charges filed in

second annual protest), and naked bike riders. A member of the National Lawyers Guild will discuss legal strategies for

staying on the street and out of jail. Participants will join in a discussion of what makes direct actions nonviolent,

effective and fun.

Nonviolent Conflict Intervention: Providing Safety and Security Nonviolently -David Berrian

Saturday, September 13, 2:00pm–3:30pm: Straub 142

Everyone has a deep need for safety and security for themselves, their family, and their community. We will meet that

need by any means necessary. Unfortunately, that usually means by the ways we’ve been taught – that is, with violence.

This workshop will look at practical ways we can provide safety and security to one another nonviolently. We will learn

from the examples of the Nonviolent Peaceforce and the Michigan Peace Teams about strategies of nonviolent conflict

intervention and how those might apply within our own communities.

Nonviolent Film Fest -David Zupan

Saturday, September 12, 4:00pm–5:30pm: Columbia 150

Films TBA – check the insert for updated details

NVC and Social Change -Marshall Rosenberg, PhD

Part 1: Saturday, September 12, 8:30am–10:00am: EMU Ballroom

Part 2: Saturday, September 12, 10:30am–Noon: EMU Ballroom

Marshall will focus on using the tools of Nonviolent Communication to engage in the kinds of actions and conversations

that can lead to social transformations which produce life-serving systems. The presentation may include discussion of

the “domination system structures” and the inter-connections between educational systems, psychological systems,

financial and theological systems. How can we transform the current systems into more life-serving structures? What

kind of changes would you like to see? How can you initiate dialogues that inspire these changes? What support systems

will you need?

Opening Hearts and Minds: Using Verbal Nonviolence to Disarm the Culture Wars -Bonnie Tinker and Rev. Cecil Charles Prescod, Love Makes A Family, Inc.

Saturday, September 13, 8:30am–10:00am: Gerlinger 302

Opening Hearts and Minds, and the “LARA” method it teaches, uses Gandhi’s principles of nonviolent direct action to

turn verbal confrontations into opportunities for dialog. It was first developed during the 1992 anti-gay campaign as a way

to shift the public dialog about LGBT issues from outright verbal warfare to a constructive dialog that helped defeat ballot

measure 9. Since then, the method has been applied in a number of settings and with a variety of issues. Workshop

participants will leave with a new skill to help them engage productively on the political level and on the personal level

with those who have strongly opposing opinions. Beyond teaching a technique, this workshop offers a direct path to

unilateral verbal disarmament as a way of living.

Organizing For Peace and Co-Operation -Krishna Singh Khalsa

Saturday, September 13, 4:00pm–5:30pm: Esslinger 105

Many people seem unaware of an embedded conflict of interest in our official leadership culture (the "Rule of Robert")

that subconsciously guides or influences almost every organizational experience we've known. So, unfortunately,

"democratic" organizations generally remain inherently undemocratic. We'll offer a corrections of process and group

design whereby organizations can fulfill first the agreed upon purposes of membership, rather than prioritize the

management agendas of leadership.

This experience will offer design perspectives for co-operative projects and organizations, where leadership involves

"service toward" rather than "power over." Conflicts groups can be recognized, welcomed and engaged as doorway

opportunities for creative, peaceful evolution, provided there is a willingness to become neutral minded. We'll explore

skills and practices for leadership, communication and meeting process that will enable "reflective pathfinding" for shared

decision making evolving evolving clear agreements via group process. This model has been used successfully and

consistently by longstanding peace based communities over several hundred years.

Our Nation’s Checkbook: Who We Are and What We Care About -Oregon Women¹s Action for New Directions (WAND): Susan Cundiff, Teri Gutierrez

Friday, September 12, 4:00pm–5:30pm: Gerlinger 302

Gloria Steinem once said that the federal budget is a statement of our nation’s moral character. Nations, like people,

spend money on the things they care about. With the Pentagon spending well over a billion dollars a day, the likelihood

of using military solutions to resolve conflict increases. This workshop engages participants in a lively, hands-on look at

budget priorities, military spending and opportunities to work together for change. This informative presentation is lively

and engaging, building toward constructive dialogue about how we can work together for change. Oregon WAND is a

national organization that empowers women to act politically to reduce militarism and violence, and redirect excessive

military resources toward human and environmental needs.

Parenting as Peacemaking - Minalee Saks, M.S.

Friday, September 12, 2:00pm–3:30pm: Esslinger 105

This training will present our work with families here and abroad. Our material is being used in 44 states and 10 foreign

countries. It focuses on the prevention of violence in families by encouraging and supporting parents, teaching nonviolent

ways of communication and discipline, and creating a good relationship between parent and child. We help parents

understand the world through their children’s eyes. Recent research in infant brain development has supported the

importance of a secure, trustworthy, nonviolent beginning for children. Children who are nurtured grow up to practice

caring towards others. This presentation will cover our work in Ukraine and Romania, where our curriculum is being used

to reduce child abandonment and domestic abuse, and our Spanish speaking groups in United States. We will discuss what

we have learned when working across cultures and community highlighting the universal principles and ideas that we

have found reach all parents.

Parenting From Your Heart: Bringing Our Values for Peace to Parenting -Kristin Krebs Collier

Friday, September 12, 10:30am–Noon: Esslinger 105

Our children are so important to us, yet sometimes we struggle to parent in ways we feel truly good about. Participating in

this parenting workshop, you will explore how to:

• Understand the needs behind your children’s behavior.

• Hold everyone’s needs as dear (including your own).

• Discover a quality of connection that will sustain your family through life’s challenges.

• Contribute to peace by raising children who can make peace.

Parenting Nonviolently models and applies the power of compassion in a way that deeply touches the next generation,

moving us all to more peaceful and compassionate living, now and in the future.

Parenting From Your Heart: Playing with Violence -Kristin Krebs Collier

Friday, September 12, 4:00pm–5:30pm: Esslinger 105

How do we peacefully embrace the child who points a toy gun at us and fires? Come explore the hot topic of violence in

play with other parents and care providers. This workshop offers empathy, exercises to bring us into a closer

understanding of what our children experience in their play, and a brainstorm of strategies that will lead us toward

compassion and offer our children alternatives to violent play without judgment for their choices. How do we assure that

everyone’s needs are expressed, understood and included in the partnership strategies? And how can we do this without

talking to exhaustion?

Parenting From Your Heart: Respecting Authentic Boundaries -Kristin Krebs Collier

Friday, September 12, 8:30am–10:00am: Esslinger 105

Offering our children support and guidance can be difficult without clear boundaries around what will meet our needs and

theirs. This workshop will focus on discussion of the external boundaries that define our current parenting paradigm and

how to shift towards those “boundaries” that take their roots in feelings and needs. We will also explore the celebrations

and challenges of parenting in partnership with our children, fully compassionate for them and ourselves.

Parenting Without Anger -Dean Van Leuven

Friday, September 12, 8:30am–10:00am: Esslinger 116

Teach your children to love the world and to take control of their lives. Learn how to create a loving relationship with

your children. Our children learn the behavior we model for them. Learn the skills to parent without anger. Learn how the

love and consequences method of teaching your children will work for you. Learn how to communicate more effectively

and lovingly with your children. Learn how to create a loving and friendly relationship with your children. Learn how to

teach your child how to discover and become the person they want to be. Based on Dr. Dean’s book, Parenting Without

Anger.

Partnering– Parenting and Family: Peace-Making Begins at the Dinner Table -Steve Allen Smith

Friday, September 12, 8:30am–10:00am: Esslinger 107

How do we achieve the joy of mutual contribution—meeting everyone’s needs, parents, partners and children? How do

we become partners, making joint and mutual decision rather than competing to see whose choice will prevail? Or

making decisions by allocating who controls what area of our shared living?

Pathways to Radiant Loving for Couples -Ruthanne & Louis Carosio

Friday, September 12, 8:30am–10:00am: Esslinger 107

Relating to our partners in a deep and meaningful way is integral to Nonviolence as a Way of Life. When couples find

connection and satisfaction within their relationship, they relate to their entire life in a more peaceful manner. This

breakout session will be a fun-filled exploration of love, open hearts, and sweet connection. Laughter, music and simple

exercises will bring participants closer, and help them create more harmony and joy at home.

Peace as a Function of Being -Richard D. Blackstone

Saturday, September 13, 8:30am–10:00am: Columbia 150

Peace as a function of being stems from the idea that our beingness creates our doingness. If we want to see peace in the

world, we must first and foremost be peace ourselves. If you choose to be peaceful, you will do peaceful things in your

life, which includes non-violent living. The foundation of this talk has to do with the inherent belief system of Western

society that tells us that we are all separate from each other, which is a fear-based belief system. The idea of true peace

and non-violence is not possible within a belief system based in fear and separation. It must come from a shift in your

paradigm about life from one of fear and separation to one of love and oneness: A shift in your beingness. As Gandhi told

us, “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.”

Peace, Safety, Justice, Youth, Diversity & Equity - Steve Allen Smith

Saturday, September 12, 4:00pm–5:30pm: Esslinger 107

Given the diversity of human nature, aging and maturation, how do we accomplish peace, safety and justice? The

transition from child to adult, mid-life to end life are traditionally difficult. How can we create a community that supports

everyone in contributing and successfully transitioning through life’s youth, growth, maturation and ending? What are the

needs conceptions existing in community institutions and what needs conceptions will allow everyone’s needs to be met

through – families, churches, schools, legal businesses, illegal businesses and our government and justice systems?

Peace with Justice for LGBT Families -Bonnie Tinker and panel, Love Makes A Family, Inc.

Friday, September 12, 2:00pm–3:30pm: Columbia 150

This panel will present personal stories from several perspectives about the challenges of living in a same-sex couple, with

same-sex parents, or in a bi or trans family. Panelists will talk about the ways that social customs and laws perpetuate

violence against their families, and how we can work to nonviolently bring about the changes we need to live in peace.

We will also talk about both the progress and inadequacy of domestic partnership laws. If the right wing succeeds in

getting an anti-gay measure on the ballot, panelists will directly address that issue. A significant amount of time will be

given to group questions and discussion.

Pieces of the Truth: Overcoming Us vs. Them Thinking and Doing -Ken Preston-Pile

Saturday, September 13, 10:30am–Noon: EMU Fir

This workshop explores some experiences and principles of nonviolence, such as transforming us vs. them thinking and

doing. These principles are explored through a dynamic, interactive role-play exercise. By embodying several positions on

an issue, participants discover nonviolence tools such as active listening, empathy, and compassion. By assuming different

roles, participants discover how each person has a piece of the truth and the untruth. Followed by a debrief process

including learning and applications. Workshop ends with analysis of key Gandhian nonviolence principles.

Planning for Fabulous Meetings -Tree Bressen

Friday, September 12, 10:30am–Noon: Esslinger 112

If your meetings have 20+ people sitting in full group discussion for 2 hours or longer, you are missing out. Learn why to

consider different formats and what some of your options are. We’ll also cover other pointers on how to do effective

agenda planning, such as rigorous realism, advance thinking about the goal of each item, screening for what to include in

your meetings vs what to do ‘offline’, choosing an order that follows people’s natural energy, and more. Advance

planning, while often overlooked, is probably the easiest place to make high-leverage changes to your meetings, because

simple changes can lead to big improvements.

“Pro-life”? Minding our Unconscious Words and Actions -Drs. Heidi Huse and Angie MacKewn

Friday, September 12, 10:30am–Noon: Columbia 45

Words and labels have a powerful impact on our attitudes, cognitions and subsequent actions. For example, what image

does “hunting” bring to mind? A noble, almost sacred, American tradition? Or the violence perpetrated against animals?

The label “pro-life” can generate not only heated debate but violence; yet what possibilities does a “pro-life” ethic offer?

What might a holistic, “pro-life” ethic actually look like? When we speak of war “casualties,” “capital punishment,” or

“euthanasia,” what are we ultimately implying, endorsing, or justifying? What if we tag these actions with notions of

“goodness” or “responsibility”: do such qualifiers mitigate any resulting “necessary” violence? We hope to generate

productive discussion on how to alter attitudes and increase attention to our words in order to foster a more life-affirming

impact on our world.

Replacing Force with Consciousness: A Co-Evolutionary Dance Toward Nonviolent Social Systems -Peggy Holman, Tom Atlee

Friday, September 12, 4:00pm–5:30pm: EMU Maple

Join this interactive session about how the challenge of nonviolence in crises can stimulate new dimensions of individual

and collective consciousness, the evolution of caring and compassion, and an emerging vision of humanity’s conscious

evolution toward increasingly conscious social systems. Evolution loves elegance. It favors living systems that use

energy and opportunity well. Violence wastes energy and opportunity. Successful nonviolence requires increasing

awareness, intelligence, imagination, empathy, choice, and wisdom. As we understand more deeply who or what we are

dealing with, we act more co-creatively, with less force. As we notice and work with the aliveness and possibilities in and

around us, we become agents of evolving consciousness. In this session, we’ll note manifestations of this trend toward

conscious co-creativity as an emerging possibility, in which co-creative conversations and self-organizing websites,

permaculture and biomimicry, Gandhian nonviolence and transpartisan democracy, and other manifestations of

nonviolence are simply the way social systems work.

Recovery from Violence Dependency -David Hazen

Friday, September 12, 8:30am–10:00am: Straub 142

Violence is a self-inflicted cultural story, a behavioral disease, and a public health problem of massive proportions. A

holistic understanding of repeated cycles of violence and a vision of life without violence can empower an entire culture

to recover. The process of returning to health uses outer, transitory goals such as the establishment of a Department of

Peace. Ultimately, it moves us through inner, personal layers of grief and despair into forgiveness, hope, civic

responsibility, and true security.

Redirecting Children’s Behavior -Andrea Berl

Saturday, September 13, 4:00pm–5:30pm: Esslinger 112

Why do children misbehave? All behavior is communication. This workshop is based on the study and theories of Dr.

Rudolph Dreikurs, PhD, who wrote the widely acclaimed book, Children: The Challenge. Dreikurs maintains that all

behavior is communication. He goes on to prove that misbehavior is one way for children to communicate that their

emotional needs are not being met. In this workshop you will learn how to diagnose the misbehaviors of undue attention,

power, revenge, and inadequacy, and how to effectively and respectively respond or redirect these commonly used

misbehaviors. Additionally, learn ways to prevent misbehavior by understanding the emotional needs of an individual no

matter what size they are and learn how to maintain healthy communication in your relationships with children. Dreikurs

believes that when an individual’s emotional needs are being met, then there is no need for them to misbehave.

Restorative Justice and Healing Dialogue -Ted Lewis

Saturday, September 13, 4:00pm–5:30pm:Chapman 202

While all crime is some form of violence against others, triggering a negative contagious effect throughout the

community, restorative justice models that bring offenders and victims together for constructive conversation can reverse

this effect and bring about a positive contagion for all involved. Come and learn the basic principles and practices of

restorative justice along with the history of the movement. Learn how non-violent communication processes, guided by

third-parties with training, can help rebuild bridges between people who have been separated by harmful situations and

mistrust. Case narratives from Lane County involving both youth and adult offenders will be shared. Our time will also

consider how restorative justice can enrich our own interpersonal relationships, as we might initiate reconciliation through

genuine apology and empathy-building.

Safer Communities – Prisoners to Peacemakers -Panelists: Verne Garvie, Katie Talbott, Dow Gordon, Keith Brooks, Jay Jackson, Carol Battistoni

Friday, September 12, 10:30am–Noon: EMU Fir

A Freedom Project panel consisting of former prisoners, prison volunteers, staff, and board members dialog with

participants about the synergetic effects of sharing Nonviolent Communication (NVC) and mindfulness practice with

prisoners, former prisoners, and our larger community. After a brief intro of NVC and mindfulness synergy, we will open

the floor to dialog and questions from participants. We are committed to inclusiveness and believe in shared growth and

learning.

As an organization, Freedom Project dreams of a world where every human being has an equal place at the human

table. Freedom Project offers concrete skills of nonviolence leading to reconciliation with ourselves, our loved ones, and

our communities. Our work addresses the healing of relationships ruptured by violence and the forging of community

founded on genuine safety through connection. Panelists will explore with participants how our work affects prisoners,

families, and our community, and how our work leads to safer communities.

Sharing the Sacred, Serving the World: Interfaith Cooperation for Peace, Justice, and Healing -The Rev. Canon Charles P. Gibbs

Saturday, September 13, 2:00pm–3:30pm: EMU Maple

This interactive workshop will explore innovative practices that have fueled the creation of the United Religions Initiative,

a global grassroots interfaith community active in sixty-seven countries. Participants will explore inner and outer

dimensions of interfaith cooperation to end religiously motivated violence and to create cultures of peace, justice, and

healing for the Earth and all living beings.

Singing Alive -Rob Tobias & Karly Loveling

Friday, September 12, 4:00pm–5:30pm: EMU Ben Linder

Rob Tobias and Karly Loveling will lead participants in group singing. Combining the activity of singing together with

the lyrical content of the songs totally models a way we can come together in promotion of peace / non violence. Singing

also brings us joyfully in the present moment. Songs include Rob’s “Power of Love” & “Be that Change” and Laurence

Cole’s “We are One Heart”, “Humbly we Walk Here” & “Tower of Strength”. Both Rob and Karly met the inspirational

Laurence Cole at last year’s Singing Alive event and will also be leading some of his songs.

Speak Peace in a World of Conflict—An Introduction to Nonviolent Communication -Marshall Rosenberg, PhD

Part 1:Saturday, September 12, 2:00pm–3:30pm: EMU Ballroom

Part 2:Saturday, September 12, 4:00pm–5:30pm: EMU Ballroom

Marshall will talk about how each of us can contribute to peace in the world, regardless of what others are doing or

saying. He will describe how we can move away from “power over” relationships and create “power with” the people in

our lives.

Spirituality and NVC -Steve Allen Smith

Friday, September 12, 8:30am–10:00am: Chapman 207

This will be a discussion of the spirituality within NVC and underneath NVC. It will ask, What is the energy within

NVC, within Jackal and Giraffe? What authority sources NVC consciousness or where does one look for guidance? What

is the spiritual structure underneath NVC consciousness? It will describe the energy and experience essential to

successfully speaking NVC and living within NVC consciousness. The discussion will take the direction of the interests

of those participating.

Starting with Yourself: Tools for Self-Empathy -Cathleen E. Straley

Friday, September 12, 8:30am–10:00am: EMU Ben Linder

In his book, Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life, Marshall Rosenberg says, “The most important use of NVC

may be in developing self-compassion.” In our efforts to change the world and to make a difference, we often live from

the outside in and wonder why we are unable to find peace. The judgments that we have and the things we tell ourselves

are often the barriers to creating and sustaining life-affirming relationships. In this workshop/training you will be given

tools to help you transform your judgments into gifts that will awaken your feelings and needs. We will explore how to

create healing self-connection that will open you up to more authentic relationships.

Sustainability, Economy & Labor, Diversity & Equity -Steve Allen Smith

Friday, September 12, 10:30am–Noon: Chapman 207

What are the needs awarenesses built into the existing structures and designs of the world economy, corporations,

countries, banking, governments, communities, families and individuals? What are the needs awarenesses essential to

having sustainability as a planet, continent, country, state, community, family and individual? How do we all together get

from here to sustainability? Is equity an essential part of that journey?

Teaching A Culture of Peace -Louis Silverstein

Friday, September 12, 8:30am–10:00am: Esslinger 116

The human story is a story of love, compassion, kindness, justice, beauty, and redemption. It is also a story of violence,

neglect, indifference, injustice, ugliness, and cruelty. Teaching in an open-admissions urban-based arts and

communication college as well as at the elementary and high school levels has provided me with the opportunity and

challenge to reach out to audiences whose beliefs and ways of being often conflict with a peace-centered life. Drawing

upon what I have learned about teaching and learning peace in a world made up of hearts of darkness is what my

presentation will be centered on. Utilizing a lecture/interactive format, we will journey into the realms of mind, body,

heart, and spirit as each relates to: Don’t tell me what you believe. Tell me what you do each day, and you will know what

you believe.

Teen Empowerment through Mediation and Alternative Dispute Resolution - From Restorative Justice to Finding a Home - Jennifer Frenzer-Knowlton

Saturday, September 13, 2:00pm–3:30pm: Columbia 44

My aim is to expand access to the use of mediation as a tool for nonviolent problem solving by facilitating a panel

discussion and exercises around: Providing opportunities for youth to experiment with mediation as a life tool; Listening

to youth talk about the areas of their lives where mediation could be useful and of value to them; Discussing as a group

how mediation is being used in the community and ways it could be expanded.

Teamwork for Children (www.teamworkforchildren.org) is developing a community project concerning foster teens

using mediation to improve their quality of life. Teamwork started as a permanency mediation firm whose founder was a

pioneer in the field of open adoption. After several years of leading regional projects in the field of adoptions, Teamwork

is returning to its local roots and creating local partnerships and collaborations for designing programs and implementing

innovations in family permanency and foster care.

“Tend and Befriend,” not “Fight or Flight”: A Female Response to Stress - Marion Toepke McLean

Friday, September 12, 4:00pm–5:30pm: Chapman 204

Studies of reactions to stress focus on the “fight or flight” response, mediated by the hormone adrenaline. Psychological

studies with human or animal subjects have largely been conducted on males. Sociological studies have focused more on

women.

In 2000, researchers at the University of California in Los Angeles published an exhaustive review and analysis of

research on response to stress. When research on females, both human and animal, was separated out, something new was

found. Mediated by the hormone oxytocin, females respond to stress by tending to children and other vulnerable

individuals and gathering together in social networking, the “tend and befriend” response.

The “tend and befriend” research has implications for a nonviolent society. The male and female responses to stress

are complementary. Nonviolent responses are enhanced by simple techniques. Knowledge of the oxytocin response,

which also occurs in males, suggests strategies to promote nonviolence, both personally and globally.

The Bhagavad Gita and Cosmic Ecology - Sadhvi Chaitanya

Friday, September 12, 4:00pm–5:30pm: Chapman 202

The Gita says that one’s awareness should not fall short of recognizing the cause of this universe, the force, because of

which, all life forms and matter are possible. Everything that we need in order to live is given – there is air, food, water,

and a body-mind-sense complex manifested to live in this particular environment. Understanding this we are aware that

the whole cosmos is an environment that protects us, and thus we are beholden to protect it. And that environment

includes human beings. If we take the time to understand that we are non-separate from everything, we cannot but help

live peacefully, without harming anything. For it is this very understanding, this knowledge of who we are, that teaches us

compassion.

The Big Picture Behind the Iraq Occupation: Toward a Foreign Policy We Need - Community Alliance of Lane County: Daniel Goldrich, Bruce Bowers, Carol Van Houten

Friday, September 12, 2:00pm–3:30pm: Gerlinger 302

The Iraq War diverts us from facing the major challenges confronting us. How to resolve the Iraq War models an

international and regional cooperative strategy for conflict-resolution, replacing unilateral militarism, now ineffective and

counterproductive. We illustrate this by focusing on global conflict – and endless war – over increasingly scarce, crucial

natural resources, especially in the Middle Eastern/Central Asian region. The Big Picture challenges are global warming

and peak oil, briefly described. Effective policy responses centered on re-localization for sustainability are illustrated at

levels ranging from local to national to global. Strengthened international institutions necessary to peaceful problemresolution

are outlined. The choice is now unavoidable: Endless war, or cooperative effort to create sustainability via relocalization.

The latter choice depends on, and rewards us with, stronger communities – a key vision. We invite dialog on

this. Which world for our grandchildren?

The Camera Connection - Jill Cannefax

Saturday, September 13, 8:30am–10:00am: Esslinger 116

Camera Connection was developed by Jill Cannefax as a way to bring non-violent communication and skills into the

classroom. Using digital portrait photography as the platform, students (grades 3-12) not only learn how to take beautiful

portraits of each other, but how to create an atmosphere of respect, trust and safety. Skills stressed in class are respect,

listening skills, teamwork, and encouragement of one another, non-judgment, creating safety, and personal responsibility,

both as the photographer and as the subject of the photograph.

The Campaign to Establish a U.S. Department of Peace and Nonviolence - David Hazen and Mary Moffat

Friday, September 12, 4:00pm–5:30pm: EMU Fir

History, mission, and strategies of The Peace Alliance lobbying and the campaign for a U.S. Department of Peace and

Nonviolence will be described and questions answered. There is currently a bill to create a cabinet-level Department of

Peace and Nonviolence before the U.S. House of Representatives (HR 808). This landmark measure will augment our

current problem-solving options, providing practical, nonviolent solutions to the problems of domestic and international

conflict. Domestically, the Department of Peace will develop policies and allocate resources to effectively reduce the

levels of domestic and gang violence, child abuse, and various other forms of societal discord. Internationally, the

Department will advise the President and Congress on the most sophisticated ideas and techniques regarding peacecreation

among nations.

The Challenge of Loving the Political Adversary - Joseph Newton

Friday, September 12th, 8:30am–10:00am: Esslinger 112

The challenge will be a straightforward one: Traditions of nonviolent activism are rooted in the concept that love is more

powerful than violence. In order to advocate for nonviolent solutions, we must be able to demonstrate this principle by

finding love for our own adversaries.

The case in point in this group exercise will be the challenge of loving George Walker Bush and/or those associated

with him. Introductions will be brief, and participants will be asked to look at ways to bring a loving perspective into our

activism.

In order to facilitate discussion and ensure that ideas are recorded, persons who would be willing to either facilitate

their table discussion or take notes will be asked to identify themselves at the start of the workshop. The presenter will

compile and summarize all input, and distribute a report to participants.

The Life Economy: Nonviolent Economics for People and a Planet that Matters - The PROUT Institute: Jason Schreiner, Guy Prouty, Ravi Logan

Friday, September 12, 10:30am–Noon: Chapman 203

This panel will introduce the basic features of a truly sustainable, cooperative, and just economic system, or life economy,

in which respect for life, a spirit of service, and commitment to peace and equity are intrinsic to the structure of economic

institutions and motivate daily economic activity. Focus will be given to the fundamental values and principles that

ground a life economy, the balanced enterprise system and cooperative planning process that sustain a life economy, and

strategies for actualizing a life economy at the personal and local levels. Participants will walk away empowered with a

new vision and sense of hope that there are genuine, nonviolent solutions to the current globalized system of economic

disparity, social violence, and environmental destruction.

The Need for Belonging in Domestic Violence: The Role of Empathy and Nonviolent Communication in Restoring Belonging -Fred Sly & Joe Mitchell

Saturday, September 13, 8:30am–10:00am: Esslinger 112

Violence affects our communities, schools, workplaces, and indeed,

all areas of our lives. When violence is examined the unmet need for

belonging emerges as one fundamental motivation. Empathy skills and practice

serve to increase and enhance a sense of belonging, which in turn can reduce

and possibly eliminate family and other forms of violence, and inspire those

acting violently to imagine peaceful alternatives. In this workshop several

role/plays will be offered that demonstrate how the belief in non-belonging

contributes to violence. The role of empathy in promoting a sense of

belonging will be discussed and demonstrated, and the contribution of

Nonviolent Communication (NVC) in providing a simple and accessible empathy

form will be experienced in a group exercise.

The Nobel Peace Laureate Project: Peace Path Monument - John Attig, President, Nobel Peace Laureate Project

Friday, September 12, 2:00pm–3:30pm: Esslinger 116

Our education program seeks to inspire others to work for peace by providing teaching materials for use in elementary,

middle school, and high school respectively. The content focus is on the deeds of the twenty-three American recipients of

the Nobel Peace Prize as examples of peacemaking, preventing wars, and creating conditions that reduce the causes of

war. While these Americans are heroes for peace, they often are not pure pacifists. Our materials intend to examine

critically their contributions to the ending and prevention of the violence of war. A sample lesson will be taught by an

experienced classroom teacher at the conference.

The Nobel Peace Laureate Project’s Education Program in Action - The Nobel Peace Laureate Project: David Mandelblatt

Friday, September 12, 10:30am– Noon: Esslinger 116

In this workshop we will use curriculum designed by the Nobel Peace Laureate Project for use with high school, middle

school, and elementary school students. This will be a hands-on program designed for use in classrooms or programs for

adults. The 90 minutes will move quickly for all! Discussion, debate (friendly, of course), controversy, and ethical

considerations will all be included in the scope of the workshop. In addition to this free educational program, The Nobel

Peace Laureate Project is planning to build a public monument to all American winners of the Nobel Peace Prize. This

will be the only such monument in the United States. http://www.nobelpeacelaureates.org/index.shtml

Tools for Being Present in Today’s World - Heart of Now: Lisa Stein and Kaseja Wilder

Saturday, September 13, 4:00pm–5:30pm: EMU Ben Linder

We offer experiential exercises to support people toward a fuller awareness of themselves and the essential connection to

others. When we feel connected to ourselves and other people, we can interact through love and respect. We also

introduce concepts regarding how people think about and perceive the world that supports being fully alive and in the

present moment; which, in turn, supports us treating ourselves and others with dignity and curiosity rather than judgment.

Training the Brain Towards Nonviolence - Matthew Fleischman, PhD</