Conscious Conflict: An Introduction to Kingian Nonviolence

While most people think of marches, boycotts, and sit-ins when they think of nonviolence, few people realize that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. practiced a philosophy and strategy for engaging in conflict consciously with a vision of a society in which we all act in good faith for the good of everyone, collaboratively attacking the conditions that allow for injustices to occur and proliferate. This practice can be used to solve conflicts with friends, family, and coworkers, as well as with the social institutions that organize and shape our lives.

In this two hour workshop, we invite participants to bring with them a specific conflict which has resisted their attempts to resolve the situation. Together, we’ll share our struggles and investigate how a few simple tools from Kingian Nonviolence can create new perspectives and possibilities.

Learning Objective Participants Can Expect From This Event

• Participants will become familiar with the Four Types of Conflict, understanding that the simple act of analyzing a conflict can shift the brain from an emotional reaction to a more logical reaction.
• Participants will analyze a conflict in their own life using the Three Levels of Conflict and gain an understanding of how to respond differently to conflicts at the different levels.
• Participants will understand the Elements of Conflict, and how Kingian Nonviolence rearranges these elements to transform a situation.

Who is This Workshop Appropriate For?

• This workshop is appropriate for anyone eighteen or older who has a desire to solve the conflicts in their own life and to support others in the process of solving their conflicts.

How May This Workshop Impact Your Practice?

• Practices are comprised of relationships with other people, and conflict is inevitable in all relationships. This workshop will equip participants with the tools to better understand conflicts when they arise and enable them to resolve these conflicts in a positive way. When working with clients who are troubled by conflicts, participants will have tools that have the potential to transform the conflict itself, creating an empowering, virtuous cycle in which conflict gradually becomes an invitation to stronger, better relationships.

RECORDING 

This event will be recorded and you can use the ticket function to pre-purchase the recording before the event. This will be useful for colleagues who are not able to attend the event live and also for those who attend the event live and want to watch it again.

ZOOM 

This event will be hosted on the Zoom meeting platform where we will use our cameras and microphones to interact with each other as a group.

SELF-SELECT FEE

The self-select fee is a radical inclusion policy to open learning for all colleagues. The guide price for this event is £20.00, however, we appreciate that income varies greatly in different locations and circumstances. Please contribute what you can to help us maintain inclusive professional training.

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Jill Harris

Jill Harris is a writer and teacher from Middletown, Connecticut who has studied and written about Kingian Nonviolence for more than thirty years. She received her undergraduate degree from Mount Holyoke College and attended the UMass Amherst MFA in Creative Writing Program. As part of her research for Resurrection City, a screenplay about the nonviolence movement in Antioquia, Colombia, she became a certified Kingian Nonviolence Trainer by Dr. Bernard Lafayette, Jr., a close associate of Dr. King’s. She and her husband, Jim, have raised four children together.

Luis Botero

Luis Botero has lived in Medellin, Colombia for most of his life. After receiving a BS degree in Industrial Engineering from the National University of Colombia, he attended Iowa State University in order to simultaneously earn his Masters Degree and become fluent in English. After receiving his degrees, he worked in the private sector as a General Manager for more than twenty years while he and his wife, Maria, raised their four children.

Living in Medellin, which was known as the “Murder Capital of the World,” motivated him to seek a practical and effective path to a more peaceful world. In the summer of 2000, he traveled to the University of Rhode Island and became certified as a Nonviolence Trainer. A year later, the Governor of the Province of Antioquia, Colombia, appointed him to the position of Nonviolence Advisor to the Governor of Antioquia, a position which he held for the next six years. In 2013, the Mayor of Medellin appointed him to a three year term as the Nonviolence Advisor to the Mayor of Medellin.

Luis has facilitated more than a hundred introductory workshops on the philosophy and practice of nonviolence all around the world in Colombia, the United States, Jamaica, Mexico, Palestine, South Africa, Nigeria, Ecuador, and Peru.

In 2023 he received the highest honor given to honor a citizen of Medellin for their contributions to the community, the Juan del Corral Order of Merit, Gold Grade.