Youth Programs

'Kingian Nonviolence Program' NOW OFFERED AT LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL

Leaps and Bounds has partnered with the Van Dyke Public Schools to offer this program at Lincoln High School.

Facilitated by Kezia Curtis, the classes are held in ten week cycles, meeting 4 mornings a week, 50 minutes

each session as part of the daily school schedule.

For additional information, please contact Kezia Curtis at 586-759-3895or email at KeziaC@leapsnbounds.org.

Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. It is a weapon unique in history, which cuts without wounding, and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals. - Martin Luther King Jr.

This past summer, Kezia Curtis, Leaps and Bounds Family Services Youth Program Coordinator, participated in the International Nonviolence Summer Institute Center for Nonviolence & Peace Studies at the University of Rhode Island.

The training engaged participants from all around the world for two weeks. All involved were submerged in Kingian Nonviolence, learning types/levels of conflict, Principle and Steps of Kingian nonviolence, 4 major Nonviolent Campaigns, Social Justice Models of Change, and reading Pilgrimage to Nonviolence, Letter from the Birmingham Jail, Transformed Nonconformist, and Tough Mind Tender Heart.

The core principles of Kingian Nonviolence alters your way of thinking in teaching you to be courageous, to be positive/nonviolent in mind and body, keep your goals in line with the community you want to have, and to remember that justice always prevails. When conflict does arise through Kingian nonviolence students have the skills to identify, de-escalate and solve conflict at its root. In doing so creating a win-win solution for all parties involved.

The Center for Nonviolence & Peace Studies at the University of Rhode Island was founded by Dr. Bernard LaFayette Jr. Ed.D to support a community that would engage in teaching, research, and service related to conflict reconciliation. They are proud to offer trainings in Kingian Nonviolence - the nonviolent principles and strategic steps for creating nonviolent social change developed from the teachings of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Through education and training that seeks to institutionalize and internationalize nonviolence as a process that promotes the establishment of a global beloved community. Specifically, the center engages in activities and projects that fosters mutual understanding among people, in which nonviolent processes are used to reconcile conflicts and to build peaceful, sustainable, and inclusive communities that promote human, and economic and social justice for all.

The links below provide additional information about Kingian Nonviolence: