HU 100 Round Drum Circle, Call to Action
2024-12-12 16:30 - 20:30, 2025-01-09 16:30 - 20:30, 2025-02-13 16:30 - 20:30, 2025-03-13 16:30 - 20:30, 2025-04-10 16:30 - 20:30, 2025-05-08 16:30 - 20:30, 2025-06-12 16:30 - 20:30, 2025-07-10 16:30 - 20:30 (America/New_York) and 2 more dates | Howard University School of Social Work MGC
HU Student Led 100 Round Drum Circle
CALL TO ACTION:
100 Round Drum Circle
Youth and Young Adult Led Intergenerational Restorative
Community Drum Circle.
We need to hear from the youth and young adults to define and bring forth understanding: Heal, Restore, Soul, and Community. Together with Elders and Community Leaders within and around the Howard University Community in Washington DC, this event encourages an intergenerational approach to increasing community cohesiveness to strengthen multigenerational relationships, help alleviate social isolation and work together to grow a stronger community.

Impact of Artificial Intelligence Dialogue Session
2025-07-26 16:00 - 17:00
Join the Impact of AI Dialogue To discuss
· How AI can prevent conflicts and violence
· Technological Impact Analysis & Ethical Consideration
· Identifying AI’s positive and negative societal influences

Embodied Nonviolence: 4-Session Somatic Coaching Group
2025-08-21 08:00 - 17:00, 2025-09-09 12:00 - 13:30 | Virtual Event
Tuesdays, September 9, 16, 23, and 30, 12:00pm – 1:30pm (ET)
ONLINE: Zoom link shared by Leah in a confirmation email a few days after registration.
(Contact Leah Landry: leah@leahlandryconsulting.com)

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In this small-group coaching series, we’ll deepen into the practices introduced in the info session and explore how somatics can support us in living our nonviolent commitments — not just in moments of ease, but especially in moments of pressure, conflict, and change. Together, we’ll build embodied skills that help us respond with more choice, care, and courage.
Each session will combine guided somatic practices, reflection, and group coaching to support your integration of nonviolence from the inside out.
Session 1: Grounding in Commitment
We’ll begin by identifying the values and commitments we want to embody — not just as ideas, but as felt experiences in the body. Through somatic centering, we’ll practice staying present, open, and grounded so we can act from alignment even when things get tough.
Session 2: Staying Centered in Change
Nonviolence calls us to meet the unknown with adaptability rather than reactivity. In this session, we’ll build the embodied capacity to stay rooted and connected in the midst of change, rather than shutting down or trying to control.
Session 3: Working with Pressure and Patterns
We often fall into automatic behaviors under stress — habits that can pull us out of our nonviolent commitments. This session explores what gets in the way when we’re under pressure and how to interrupt those patterns with more awareness, compassion, and skill.
Session 4: Building Capacity for the Long Haul
To sustain our nonviolent path, we need practices that help us recover, reconnect, and remember we’re not alone. This final session focuses on cultivating the inner and relational resources that allow us to stay engaged with care and integrity over time — even when it’s hard.

Recontextualizing Nonviolence
2025-09-07 13:00 - 15:00, 2025-09-14 13:00 - 15:00, 2025-09-21 13:00 - 15:00, 2025-09-28 13:00 - 15:00 | Virtual Event
Recontextualizing Nonviolence will offer 8 different topics. You do not have to take every session in order to engage with the material. There is an option to complete the 8-part workshop series as well that will earn you a certificate of completion. Please fill out this form for any of the topic dates, outlined below, you wish to attend. You only need to fill this form once.

The series is designed to interrogate and transform understandings of nonviolence. Violence is humankind’s oldest enemy. Before there was technology, race, gender, or even the concept of America, there was violence. Over time, violence has evolved to wear many faces, speak many languages, and infiltrate every system and structure around us. We are all victims and vestiges of this violence.

This series acknowledges and analyzes white supremacy as a primary vehicle for violence. White supremacy is not just an ideology; it is a regime, a culture, a religion, a framework, and a mechanism for harm. It shapes the ways we see ourselves, each other, our work, and the world we move through. This workshop series centers the belief that nonviolence must be just as adaptive, expansive, and powerful as the violence it seeks to resist.
Using lessons from Avatar: The Last Airbender, metaphors of vampirism and viruses, constructions inspired by The Wizard of Oz, and intersectional historical analysis, we will examine white supremacist violence across personal, relational, institutional, and societal dimensions to develop tools to intervene with care, accountability, and radical imagination. This is a space for critical reflection, community dialogue, and skill-building. We will challenge conceptions of nonviolence as solely being passive or quiet. Instead, we will explore nonviolence as confrontation, disruption, sacred rage, and collective healing.
We are all affected by white supremacy; thus, this workshop is for everyone.
If you are:

interested in social justice work
a scholar of race or anti-racism
interested in nonviolence work
an educator, organizer, artist, healer, or cultural worker
working in a nonprofit, corporation, community, or organization
unknowledgeable or uncomfortable with race, white supremacy, resistance, or violence
a curious mind interested in storytelling, metaphor, and pop culture as tools for resistance and liberation

This workshop is for you.

Preventing Gun Violence, A Public Health and Community Safety Approach
2025-09-09 10:00 - 11:30 | Portsmouth Welcome Center, 206 High Street, Portsmouth, V, 23701, United States
This will be a symposium featuring Josh Horwitz, JD, Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions. It will be held at the Police Welcome Center in Portsmouth, VA. It is open to local officials; public health and healthcare professionals; CVI workers; education and faith leaders; parents and family.

Introduction to Active Bystander Intervention
2025-09-13 13:00 - 16:00 | Virtual Event
Sponsored by DC Peace Team: www.dcpeaceteam.org
Saturday September 13th 1-4pm (ET)
Location: Virtual Zoom (see link in confirmation message after completing the form)

Contact: Sal, sal.corbin@yahoo.com

This training focuses on effective skills for assessing, de-escalating, and diffusing a harmful or inappropriate behavior (bullying, harassment, physical violence) in public actions and ordinary daily situations in our community. It provides participants with the tools they need to quickly recognize when they are bystanders, evaluate the consequences for everyone involved, and take action. Our training sessions promote nonviolent, safe alternative approaches for defusing harmful situations and engaging with the aggressor and those subject to harmful acts.
This is an interactive, participatory, beginner’s workshop designed for those that may have none or little prior studies of bystander intervention.

Facilitator:

Sal Corbin worked for 15 years in academia as a Psychology Professor before transitioning to nonprofit work. He has done workforce development training and program management as a Training Coordinator for the Maryland Harm Reduction Institute with the Behavioral Health System of Baltimore. He is now Board Chair and Facilitator for the DC Peace Team in bystander intervention, community safety, restorative justice and trauma informed care. His vision is to help others build and maintain healthy relationships with conflict transformation as the primary focus. He holds degrees in Clinical (M.S.) and Educational (PhD) Psychology.

AI Training
2025-09-17 18:00 - 20:00 | Virtual Event
Register Here

Restored Sisterhood Circle
2025-09-18 20:00 - 21:00, 2025-10-02 20:00 - 21:00 | Alabama
Insightful discussions that bring understanding to emotionally complex relationships.

Peace circle
2025-10-01 | Ibeju-Lekki Senior high school Ibeju-Lekki Lagos State, Ibeju-Lekki Senior High School, Ibeju-Lekki, Lagos, 100001, Nigeria
We will be having two community high schools coming together in one of the schools in Ibeju-Lekki, Lagos, Nigeria to have on UNDERSTANDING HOW TO ADAPT ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOR POSITIVE CHANGE IN SCHOOL ENVIRONMENT

The Protection of Womanhood
2025-10-03 19:00 - 20:00 | Alabama
In partnership with Black Women for Positive Change and A Bridge 2 Light, the Brothers of the 13th International District of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc. invite you, your family, friends, and colleagues to join us in launching the 14th Annual Month of Nonviolence. We will be hosting a powerful virtual presentation titled “The Protection of Womanhood”

The Language of Partner Abuse: Are We Actively Listening?
2025-10-04 13:00 - 16:00 | Virtual Event
Facilitated and Sponsored by the DC Peace Team
Date: Sat. October 4th, 1:00am-4:00pm ET
Location: ONLINE (Zoom link provided after registration and about 24 hrs. before the session)**
For questions contact Sal Corbin at sal.corbin@yahoo.com
Effective partner communication is essential to long-term success, happiness, and satisfaction in relationships. Chapman’s Five Love Languages has been a model for understanding the language of our significant other. This session reveals the psychological foundations for unhealthy communication which can challenge people’s sense of safety and security in the world and compromise their identity which informs their relationship choices. Abuse or neglect towards partners can be one of these outcomes. We will focus on language preferences that intentionally or unintentionally cause harm through manipulation, deceit, or control. Alternate ways of effectively communication will be visited and demonstrated.
Objectives:
1) Awareness – raise awareness of effective communication
2) Insight – Review typical communication styles that produce harm
3) Skills – learn how to support families/friends/colleagues/neighbors that are in abusive relations
4) Provide resources for partner violence situations

7 Days of Prayer for the Month of Nonviolence, Families and Understanding AI
2025-10-05 19:30 - 20:30, 2025-10-06 19:30 - 20:30, 2025-10-07 19:30 - 20:30, 2025-10-08 19:30 - 20:30, 2025-10-09 19:30 - 20:30 | Virtual Event
JOIN THE 7 Days of Prayer for the Month of Nonviolence, Families and Understanding AI
VIRTUAL EVENT
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89707580167?pwd=[REDACTED]
