Non-violence Training

[Joe Brummer]

Though I would share with you all, that I have been accepted to train as a "trainer" for Kingian non-violence training. Since my partner is currently unemployed, they are allowing me to do the trainng on a partial scholarship! I will do 5 weeks of training every Friday night and every Saturday to beome a trainer. Then I will be doing trainng of non-violence in schools from the third grade all the way to collage age students....I am very psyched to do this...It sounds like such an exciting chance to learn and to teach!

[Zerbie]

What a wonderful adventure! Bet you'll grow a lot from it. Not to mention what a service you'll be doing all those you train in future. Congratulations.

What group/institution offers this training? Do they have chapters all over? Or only in your area?

[SolInvictus]

Congrats Joe!!! Good luck & a blessed journey you are beginning.

[Jennifer5]

Congratulations!

Be sure to tell us how it all goes.

[Vanessa White]

Congratulations, Joe, and good luck to you in training to be a trainer. I, like Zerbie, would like to know the who, what, and where about the program. I do a lot of training in addition to my counselor job, and I love doing a blend of both. That type of training, if it were available or could be brought to our area somehow, would be totally awesome. Peace and blessings Vanessa

[Joe Brummer]

you can find out more about the training here:

http://www.nonviolenceinstitute.org/...er_now_fo.html

[Joe Brummer]

Well, this was weekend #2 of my Kinging non-violence training of trainers. The training was much more intense this weekend. Firday night was really focused on the letter from the Birmingham Jail, the 6 steps, and learning how the principles appply to the steps.

Saturday was even harder, we had an exam on the history on non-violent movements....no, I don't know if I passed, but I think I did okay. In a very unlike me event, I actually remembered all the dates of the non-violent movements of the civil rights movement. I am not so good with dates.

Saturday also brought tensions as we were asked to take modern issues, real issues and apply the steps to solving the conflicts. ANti-gay chrsitians is one of the groups projects, unions was another, and rights of convictied felons was another...1 counted off into groups and I was assigned to the group...how fitting.....talking about anti-gay christians. It was hard to apply the steps of non-violence to each detail. Especially step 6. Something for all of you to think about on your journey to the beloved community....what is reconciliation for us? When do we find it? What is the win-win solution into the beloved community where anti-gay christians can maintain their beliefs about gays, and gays can maintain justice?

I don't know the answer to this question, but it is one to think on.....

[BillPLed]

Hello Joe. I am wondering if there is a text that you are using in this training. I just ordered a workbook called Engage: Exploring Nonviolent Living. It is from the Pace e Bene Community. I know nothing about this community except that it seems to be Franciscan. I did a fairly through search of the net and came across this workbook. It seemed to be good from what I could tell. I work in an in-patient alcohol and drug abuse clinic and am working on creating a new lecture on "everyday non-violence." I ordered several other books as well (including Wink's Jesus and Non-Violence and a book by the Fellowship of Reconciliation). Anyway, I was just wondering what type of curriculum they were using in this training. I am glad you are keeping us informed about this training. It sounds great.

[Joe Brummer]

The training is based on the writings on Dr. King and Gandhi, but more King. I would reccomend reading stride to freedom from Dr. King, especially the section which you may find on line called "pilgrimage to non-violence"

I think the idea of everyday non-violence sounds great. I started to write something like that for my blog and have yet to finish it. I will at some point but time has been limited for me lately.

I don't know anything about that workbook, but I would be interested in it.

[Joe Brummer]

Okay day 2 of training was amazing. SO much philosophy on principles Dr. Kings gave us for non-violence. We also watch some PBS on the civil rights moving so we could understand what it means to suffer for a cause bigger than yourself. We talked much about the dream of a "beloved community". I so love this dream and belief.

Day 2 was long goining until 3PM from 9am. I was really wiped out by the end but feel I have learned so much in 2 days time.

We did some cool group work too where each group wrote questions about the priciples of non-violence and the other groups answered them. Very stimualting. Great way to exchange ideas.

I will update you more after my next few trainings.