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Hello organizers and Affinity Groups!

We hope you have had a wonderful year and can join us on finishing it in collaboration and celebration! You are invited to reflect with us on the Affinity Group Process and learn from one another in our December Leadership Development Session! As OEP, we wanted to check in with you on your journey, give you a chance to share with us where you’ve gone or where you’ve gotten stuck, and if there is any support we can provide in the coming year. We are dedicated to helping you build the capacity needed to fulfill the goals in your 90 day plans. Join us on the 20th of December at 5pm ET for a leadership development session, where we will be exploring the use of Tuckman's stages of group development, setting S.M.A.R.T goals, and how they apply to KNV principles in your own organizing.

For any further information please feel free to reach out to Anesu Makufa @[email protected]

You are invited to join us at the free nonviolence workshop

Living the Nonviolent Life

Sunday, January 7, 1-5pm PT

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At the workshop we will gain a foundation in Kingian Nonviolence

and be guided in responding with our families and friends to the violent messages and occurrences in daily life.

You may register for virtual attendance over Zoom at Eventbrite Living the Nonviolent Life, nonviolence workshop

OR

Register for the in-person event in Oregon with this form:

https://forms.gle/Nzu6JGi6s3FFbhsq6 or by emailing [email protected]

Donations gratefully accepted.

OEP Day of Celebration 2024

Saturday, February 3, 2024

On Earth Peace is hosting a Day of Celebration on Saturday, February 3 to highlight our work as we celebrate our 50th Anniversary.  This kick-off event includes an evening keynote lecture "Growing Community in Faith, Resistance, Reconciliation, and Just Peacemaking" by Dr. Dean Johnson (location in central Pennsylvania TBD with online streaming).

The virtual day-long celebration will include activities from each of our program areas.  You are invited to come and go as your schedule allows.  This is a fundraising event for On Earth Peace- tickets are available.

The day includes:

• Spiritual Gathering/Worship
• Current program sessions
• Kingian Nonviolence Training
• Meet & Greet
• Cooking Class/Art Class/Storyscape
• OEP 50 Year Memories
• Keynote with Dr. Dean Johnson (in person in central Pennsylvania and streamed online)

We look forward to being together for the day!

About our speaker:

Dean Johnson is Professor of Philosophy at  West Chester University. An interdisciplinary activist scholar Johnson teaches courses in Peace Studies, Religious Studies, and Women's and Gender Studies. His research interests include: religion and social change, race critical theory, critical whiteness studies, gender critical theory, nonviolent activism, community organizing, conflict transformation, and critical pedagogies. As an activist and scholar, Johnson is a consultant for nonviolent campaigns and initiatives. He provides workshops and trainings in the areas of nonviolent direct action, community organizing, and (with his partner Melissa Bennett) anti-oppression, queer solidarity, and anti-racism.

He is Membership Chair (as well as a founding board member) of the Peace and Justice Studies Association and a member of the Association of Pennsylvania State College and University Faculties. Johnson is an advisory board member and former chair of the SpiritHouse Project and a former advisory council member of PATHWAYS Theological Education, USA.

Prior to his work at West Chester University, Johnson was Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Director of International and Global Studies at Defiance College.  Johnson also served as assistant Professor of Peace, Justice and Conflict Studies at Goshen College (Ind.). While at Goshen College he served as Assistant to the Academic Dean and Special Assistant to the Provost. Johnson was director of the Goshen College Plowshares Peace Studies Project working in collaboration with Manchester University and Earlham College.

The first instructor to teach a peace studies course at Anderson University, he has also lectured in peace studies at Purdue University- Richmond, Ind., the Brethren Academy for Ministerial Leadership at Bethany Seminary and the Indianapolis Peace Institute. He also served as co-assistant pastor for a year at the Richmond Church of the Brethren (Ind.).

Johnson grew up in LaGrange, Ind. After graduating from Manchester University, he earned a master’s degree in theology with an emphasis in peace studies from Bethany Theological Seminary, Richmond, Ind. Johnson is a graduate of the religious and theological studies program where he focused in religion and social change at the Iliff School of Theology and the University of Denver.