MLK From Strength to Love: Building Peaceful Community Relationships
This course is for those who work in communities of conflict, either from within its own coalitions or from external conflict. In order to achieve the goals of justice and peace for disempowered communities, learn skills to maintain integrity when negotiating compromise. Connect to experienced experts in conflict resolution, intersectionality, and building healthy communities. Participants will do a lot of their work in live online small groups.
Online
$150
8 sessions in 4 weeks (M/W)
“This is not a drama with only one actor. More precisely it is the chronicle of 50,000 Negros who took to heart the principles of non-violence, who learned to fight for their rights with the weapon of love, and who, in the process, acquired a new estimation of the own human worth.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
from “Strides toward Freedom”
Understanding Spiritual Dilemmas
Understand how spiritual dilemmas present and how they intersect with and are continued by socio-cultural constructs
Discovering Best Practices for Inclusion
Learn, practice, and develop best practices for leaders to build organizations that address their inclusion in their organizations and communities
Gaining Strategic Awareness
Grow in systemic awareness for strategic planning and decision-making for faith communities
What is so difficult about being in a relationship?
- Topic overview
- Shared agreements/ground rules
- Introduction of thought leaders and participants
Projects that practice dissonance and divergence
- Northern Ireland (40 minutes)
- Being in community (40 Minutes)
- Ecumenical Hunger Project (40 minutes)
Organizations 101 / trauma, truth, stigma, & harm reduction
Lab: Negotiation and peace
- Scenarios of inclusion and empowerment
- Implicit conflict resolution
Central Topics
- Peace theory and negotiation
- Introduction of the 11-question framework
Lab: Frameworks
- Policing, a case study
- Group framework development
Strategy and structures for real change
- Policing, a case study
- Group framework development
What is missing from the toolbox and where do I get the answers
- Commenting on questions and presentations from chatter
Thought Leaders
Rev. Byron Bland
Retired Associate Director of the Stanford Center on Conflict and Negotiation and a research associate at CDDRL
Stanford, CA
Nevida Butler
Former CEO of Ecumenical Hunger Project
East Palo Alto, CA
Dr. J. Goosby Smith
Associate Professor of Management, Associate Professor of Leadership, Assistant Provost for Diversity
Charleston, SC
Reggie Lyles
Retired Police Captain
Novato, CA
Rev. Dr. Valerie Miles-Tribble
Associate Professor of Ministerial Leadership & Practical Theology
Berkeley, CA
Brandan Robertson
Pastor of Mission Gathering Church
San Diego, CA
Requirements
Hardware Requirements
This course can be taken on either a microphone and video enabled PC or Mac device, including tablets, and smartphones.
Software Requirements
PC: Windows XP or later.
Mac: OS X Snow Leopard 10.6 or later.
Browser: The latest version of Safari, Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox are preferred.
Zoom: Click here to download Zoom
Salesforce: Free and downloadable on your mobile device’s App Store. Also accessible via your chosen internet browser via salesforce.com
Software must be installed and fully operational before the course begins.
Other
Email capabilities and access to a personal email account.
