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Training for Trainers: Intro. to Active Bystander Intervention

January 4, 2025 @ 10:00 am - 1:00 pm EST
$60 – $120
Sponsored by DC Peace Team: www.dcpeaceteam.org
Saturday, January 4th, 10am-1pm
ONLINE: Zoom link emailed to you about 24 hrs. before the session
(Contact Sal: sal.corbin@yahoo.com)*This is for those who have taken the Introduction to Bystander Intervention training or something equivalent and seek to become facilitators of that training. At future dates and for selected participants who want to become DC Peace Team trainers, we will provide opportunities to shadow and co-facilitate after this training for trainers is completed.

An active bystander training teaches effective skills for assessing, de-escalating, and diffusing a problematic situation, such as intimidation, harassment, abuse, physical violence, etc. Active bystander training focuses on a bystander observing a problematic situation and determining if and how to intervene. This is distinct from self-assertion training that teaches how to de-escalate and diffuse unwanted attention when you are being harassed or attacked. An active bystander is someone who not only witnesses a situation, but takes steps to speak up or step in to keep a situation from escalating or to disrupt a problematic situation.

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Payment is requested on a sliding scale. Please consider $60-$120 to help us continue this work and better serve the community. If you can only contribute a lower amount, that is ok. Any other financial assistance needs, contact Eli above.

Please submit payment today–  https://ssl.charityweb.net/dcpeaceteam/training.htm; or checks can be written out to DC Peace Team and mailed to Eli McCarthy, 7305 Baylor Ave. College Park, MD 20740.

Facilitators:

Sal Corbin worked for 15 years in academia as a Psychology Professor before transitioning to nonprofit work with reentry, homelessness, and substance use recovery. He has done workforce development training and program management and built the Restorative Justice program with the DC Peace Team and is the Training Coordinator for the Behavioral Health System of Baltimore. His vision is to build and maintain healthy relationships with conflict transformation as the primary focus. His extensive background in leadership facilitation supports his efforts to keep showing up and sharing. He holds degrees in Clinical (M.S.) and Educational (PhD) Psychology.
Eli McCarthy (he/him) has led numerous trainings in nonviolent communication, unarmed civilian protection, and bystander intervention. He also helps facilitate the deployments of DCPT’s unarmed civilian protection units. He is a professor at Georgetown University, where he teaches in the Justice and Peace Studies Program.  His most recent book is titled A Just Peace Ethic: Building Sustainable Peace and Breaking Cycles of Violence (2020). In 2012, Eli published Becoming Nonviolent Peacemakers: A Virtue Ethic for Catholic Social Teaching and U.S. Policy. He has been formed by multiple trips to Haiti, where he worked with people living in poverty, working with people experiencing homelessness in Boston and Washington, DC, monitoring the Palestinian Elections in 2006 with the Nonviolent Peaceforce, and leading strategic nonviolent resistance campaigns.

Details

  • Date: January 4, 2025
  • Time:
    10:00 am - 1:00 pm EST
  • Cost: $60 – $120

Venue