2 Hour Intro to Kingian Nonviolence

Posted by on February 25, 2025

Join On Earth Peace for Women's History Month at 4PM Eastern for a special introduction to Kingian Nonviolence. Mary Lou, JoanMay and Pam will communicate the core of the Kingian Nonviolence Legacy, grounding in stories and examples from their own lives and the broader Movement. In honor of Women's History Month, we will be incorporating stories and wisdom from the women of the civil rights movement, including Coretta Scott King, Fannie Lou Hamer, JoAnn Robinson, and more!

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This 2 Hour webinar covers:

The 4 pillars of Kingian Nonviolence
Initial introduction to the 6 Principles and 6 Steps - the “Will” and the “Skill” of Kingian Nonviolence.
The Social Dynamics of Kingian Nonviolence

This training will be co-facilitated by JoanMay T. Cordova, Mary Lou Finley, and Pam Smith.

Dr. JoanMay T. Cordova - With a doctorate from Harvard University, JoanMay’s Kingian nonviolence (KNV) work builds on decades of professionally teaching elementary through doctoral students plus experiences in teacher education. She recently coordinated the Human Security Institute at Silliman University in the Philippines and served as senior advisor to the 2021 KNV Team Asia/Pacific with participants from Australia, Hong Kong, India, and the Philippines. She's national president emerita of the Filipino American National Historical Society @FANHS_national and currently a board member of the Institute of Human Rights and Responsibilities (IHRR), working with love @ForCommunities. She's a co-editor -- with Matt Guynn, Dean Johnson, and Regina Shands-Stoltzfus -- of the textbook, "Resist, Organize, Transform: An introduction to nonviolence and activism," (Cognella Academic Press, 2020).

Mary Lou Finley served on the staff of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Chicago Project in the mid-1960s. She is a sociologist and Professor Emerita at Antioch University Seattle and has a lifelong commitment to social justice, working over the years on racial justice issues and poverty as well as environmental issues and more. She is the co-author with Bill Moyer and two others of Doing Democracy: The MAP Model for Organizing Social Movements, and the co-editor (with Bernard LaFayette Jr., James Ralph and Pam Smith) of The Chicago Freedom Movement: Martin Luther King, Jr. and Civil Rights Activism in the North (2016). She is a certified Kingian Nonviolence trainer and a co-founder of the Addie Wyatt Center for Nonviolence Training- Chicago.

Pam Smith is a historian and genealogist living in Portland, Oregon. Pam is co-founder and executive director of the Addie Wyatt Center for Nonviolence Training in Chicago. A long-time Chicago consultant for nonprofit organizations, her team conducted the feasibility study that set the stage for the Chicago Freedom School, now in its 17th year. Pam served as a senior press aide to Jesse Jackson in his 1988 presidential bid and to Barack Obama in his primary campaign for US Senate. She is coeditor of The Chicago Freedom Movement: Martin Luther King Jr. and Civil Rights Activism in the North.

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