2 Hour Intro to Kingian Nonviolence

Join us for an overview of Kingian Nonviolence Conflict Reconciliation at 5:00pm ET / 4:00pm CT / 2:00pm PT on March 26th, 2026. Kingian Nonviolence is an approach to conflict and community leadership that offers values and methods useful for anyone who wants to use conflict constructively in your personal life, in group settings, or in community issues and building a reconciled world. 

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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 Pam Smith and Mary Lou Finley:

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.

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. 

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