• Mike Yarrow Peace Fellowship: Core Training- NV Leadership Development

    To be a good organizer one must develop your leadership potential and learn to “walk the walk” as well as “talk the talk”. In this first section of the Core Training we start with looking at ourselves and how we relate to others. Topics include intersectionality and oppression; “calling out”; community building; how to be a good ally; dealing with conflict; and more.

  • Mike Yarrow Peace Fellowship: Core Training- NV Leadership Development

    To be a good organizer one must develop your leadership potential and learn to “walk the walk” as well as “talk the talk”. In this first section of the Core Training we start with looking at ourselves and how we relate to others. Topics include intersectionality and oppression; “calling out”; community building; how to be a good ally; dealing with conflict; and more.

  • Mike Yarrow Peace Fellowship: Core Training- NV Leadership Development

    To be a good organizer one must develop your leadership potential and learn to “walk the walk” as well as “talk the talk”. In this first section of the Core Training we start with looking at ourselves and how we relate to others. Topics include intersectionality and oppression; “calling out”; community building; how to be a good ally; dealing with conflict; and more.

  • Mike Yarrow Peace Fellowship: Core Training- Intro to Kingian Nonviolence

    Mike Yarrow Peace Fellows will receive 10 hours of training in Kingian Nonviolence that introduces participants to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s philosophy and strategies of nonviolence. Peace Fellows will meet and learn from experienced nonviolence activists and trainers, including 1) Sherri Bevel, co-founder of the Addie Wyatt Center for Nonviolence Training in Chicago and daughter of James Bevel and Diane Nash, 2 of King’s key leadership circle, and 2) Mary Lou Finley, 1 of the 3 MYPF Co-Directors, who worked with King in Chicago in the Chicago Freedom Movement of the mid-1960s, the subject of her recent book.

  • Mike Yarrow Peace Fellowship: Core Training- Intro to Kingian Nonviolence

    Mike Yarrow Peace Fellows will receive 10 hours of training in Kingian Nonviolence that introduces participants to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s philosophy and strategies of nonviolence. Peace Fellows will meet and learn from experienced nonviolence activists and trainers, including 1) Sherri Bevel, co-founder of the Addie Wyatt Center for Nonviolence Training in Chicago and daughter of James Bevel and Diane Nash, 2 of King’s key leadership circle, and 2) Mary Lou Finley, 1 of the 3 MYPF Co-Directors, who worked with King in Chicago in the Chicago Freedom Movement of the mid-1960s, the subject of her recent book.

  • Mike Yarrow Peace Fellowship: Core Training- Intro to Kingian Nonviolence

    Mike Yarrow Peace Fellows will receive 10 hours of training in Kingian Nonviolence that introduces participants to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s philosophy and strategies of nonviolence. Peace Fellows will meet and learn from experienced nonviolence activists and trainers, including 1) Sherri Bevel, co-founder of the Addie Wyatt Center for Nonviolence Training in Chicago and daughter of James Bevel and Diane Nash, 2 of King’s key leadership circle, and 2) Mary Lou Finley, 1 of the 3 MYPF Co-Directors, who worked with King in Chicago in the Chicago Freedom Movement of the mid-1960s, the subject of her recent book.

  • Seabeck 2016: Whidbey Island FOR Part of a Greater “Beloved Community”

    July 2, 2016 Friends, I am writing this evening from Seabeck, WA, where I am attending a conference of the Fellowship of Reconciliation where we are also celebrating the venerable international organization’s 100th anniversary. FOR was initially founded in the fall of 1915 by a German and an Englishman at the outset of WWI as they vowed on a handshake that “no matter what happens, nothing is changed between us” and refused to be enemies. The FOR is best known for its persevering commitment to nonviolence, efforts at reconciliation, and opposition to racism, militarism and war. The Whidbey Island Fellowship of Reconciliation, which we founded on Whidbey in 2010, is a subchapter of the Western Washington FOR, which is a…