Participants will explore a range of responses to conflict and violence, understand how emotions give us information about our needs, and practice deescalating tense situations using the CLARA method and the 5D’s of Bystander Intervention.

Participants will explore some of the principles of Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr., practice taking different perspectives and increasing one’s empathic abilities, examine Constructive Programs and building a nonviolent vision for the future and become aware of the Soul Force we all have inside us.

Participants will work to understand power and the different types of power, learn about the history of nonviolence in social movements, and dissect the four components of Strategic Nonviolence.