workshops
We have moved our workshops online for a self-paced training experience, available for educators, parents, and business and community leaders, with continuing education credit through the College of Education Professional Development for Educators program at Oregon State University.
Registration is now open for our newest online offering:
Navigating Non-Physical Needs, Trauma,
and the Tech Tsunami
Essential Questions
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What are our non-physical needs?
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How can we meet these needs in healthy ways?
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How does trauma get tangled in our non-physical needs?
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How do smart phones, social media, and even video games tap into our non-physical needs?
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How will emerging technologies like AI, AR, and VR likely impact our answers to all of these questions?
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In what ways will these technologies become major peace issues?
Learning Outcomes
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Recognize how our behavior is driven by our non-physical needs.
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Identify healthy and unhealthy ways to meet these needs.
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Understand how social media can be used to manipulate these needs.
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Learn some basics about the tech tsunami of AI, AR, and VR, where it came from, and where it’s likely to go.
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Explore the promise and peril of these new technologies in a landscape of unmet needs and trauma.
Registration
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Complete work at your own pace; 3-4 hrs/week with optional weekly Zoom check-ins scheduled Thursdays at 5PM Pacific.
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Enrollment fee of $300 includes digital workbook, certificate of completion, and professional development/continuing ed credits.
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Email joannpdeck@peaceliteracy.org for info about scholarships or how to donate to sponsor a teacher/scholar.
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Here's an informational flyer, please circulate widely!
Peace Literacy 1
Aggression: Its Causes, Anatomy, and Alternatives
Online | 5 Weeks | Self-Paced*
Registration Available Quarterly
In this same series, we also offer
* 5 online modules will be made available, one each week to complete at your own pace; the time commitment is approx. 3.5 hrs./week, including optional weekly synchronous Zoom check-ins.
The enrollment fee of $300 includes digital workbook, certificate of completion, as well as 20 professional development credits, or 2.0 continuing education credits.
Visit here for a free preview; and here to register.
Feedback from some of the participants earlier this year:
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“Already I am seeing things with a different perspective, especially as I work through my own aggression in my role as a parent and teacher….”
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“The lessons on cultivating calm in self and others felt proactive and practical. They could really save a relationship; a job; a life ...”
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The Peace Literacy online training “lit my world all the way up. My approach with my students is completely different now.”
During the pandemic we held numerous workshops over Zoom:
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Our 2021 Winter Workshop was a great success. We were all getting tired of Zoom, and the pandemic was wearing us down, but this group from 3 countries and 5 time zones came through, participating in 3 sessions of careful study, reflection, and practice. Onward!
In mid-October 2021 we had the privilege of spending three days in workshops with leaders of the Abrahamic Reunion—a dedicated group working in Israel and Palestine to help Jewish, Christian, and Muslim youth recognize their shared history and humanity in the figure of Abraham. They were particularly interested in the Peace Literacy curriculum on aggression that we present in virtual reality – they are looking for new tools to help with deradicalization and peacebuilding. The workshop went very well. We are now working with them to translate the Peace Literacy VR software into Arabic and Hebrew.
Here is a two-minute video we made showing their very positive response to the training:
Click here to read some of their powerful endorsements of the workshops.
2021 was packed with multi-day Peace Literacy workshops over Zoom for teachers, caregivers, and community members of the public Montessori community in Cleveland, OH; high school teachers and staff in Winnipeg; teachers and staff of the Realm Academy in LA; and multiple workshops with teachers in the alternative high school program in Orange County. Here's a photo from one day of a multi-day summer workshop we did with a team of staff from Goodwill of the Olympics and Rainier Region, in the Pacific Northwest.
In the summer of 2020 we offered two public workshops combining Zoom and Virtual Reality, attracting over 60 participants from over 8 countries.
For part of the workshops, we used avatars in a virtual reality world, in order to demonstrate our paradigm-shifting Spatio-Allegorical Pedagogy. Left, you can see Paul and Shari’s avatars, brandishing MLK’s “sword that heals,” with the motto, “Satyagraha” or “Truth Force,” emblazoned on it.
In the summer of 2019 we offered a public workshop in Corvallis, Oregon. We had participants from all over Oregon as well as Florida, California, and Washington. Check out these comments and photos!
To the right is a group shot with some of the 2019 Summer Workshop participants.
Earlier in 2019 we facilitated a 2-day community workshop in Minneapolis, with some of the participants pictured left. Participant Jeff Towle, Senior Cloud Security Solutions Architect at Intel had this to say:
“Paul K. Chappell doesn’t just want to hand out umbrellas during the thunderstorm. He wants to change the weather patterns.”
help sustain our work
We design and distribute Peace Literacy Curriculum. Free.
For every student in every school around the globe, from pre-school to college and beyond.
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Your donations help us to provide free Peace Literacy curriculum, to offer low-cost training in the effective use of the curriculum, and to expand our reach and impact in face-to-face, online, and virtual reality settings.
Your contribution will help sustain our work to spread Peace Literacy during a time when humanity needs it the most.
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