Training Teachers

Through my internship organization, Dramatic Problem Solving, I have gotten involved with Centro de los Estudios Para la Paz, or CEPPA (the Center for Peace Studies). CEPPA does workshops with teachers, students and parents from the 50 most at-risk schools in the San Jose area. The trainings are similar to trainings run by the Alternatives to Violence Project. Last week I did my first training with CEPPA, and I will do another one on Friday, where I hope to act as a facilitator of the workshop. I thought you would appreciate seeing some pictures.

The workshop was held at a Boy Scout camp which was kind of weird because: 1). I'm disturbed that they have Boy Scouts in countries besides the US, and 2). All of the signs used the name "Guides" instead of "Girl Scouts".

But it was a beautiful place to be.

About 90 teachers from one school were attending this training. We did the training in three groups of 30. During one exercise we split our group into four small groups to brainstorm about "What is violence" and "What is nonviolence". Here are the pictures of the groups.

For some reason many people don't smile when you take their photo here. It makes them look pretty serious, but you can really tell that they have a lot of personality.