The Melissa Institute Violence Prevention Online Course
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June 15, 2020Understanding the roots of violence and promoting reconciliation, healing, and positive bystandership
Join us on Friday, June 19th from 11am-12pm for an online course about ways to promote reconciliation, healing, and positive bystandership by renowned psychologist Dr. Ervin Staub.
This course is offered at no cost, with a suggested donation of $25-100 to support our work to prevent violence and promote safer communities.
When:
Friday, June 19, 2020
11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
About:
This course addresses two primary questions: What leads to hostility and violence against other people, especially by groups against other groups? And how can we prevent violence and promote peaceful relations between groups and individuals?
The sources of harm include difficult life conditions that are present today in the United States such as: economic decline including rising unemployment, great social changes due in part to the pandemic, political turmoil, and problematic leadership. A further source of harm is the devaluation of some group(s), especially when these groups are perceived as dangerous to oneself or as morally bad. These devaluations can lead to destructive ideologies, which say we are better off without some other group.
As harming others begins, without powerful inhibitors, there is an evolution. The passivity of bystanders allows harmdoing to unfold. Ways to prevent violence, and promote positive relations, include:
- Understanding the roots of violence, which can activate bystanders (Example: Dr. Staub's work in Rwanda on healing and reconciliation after the genocide).
- Understanding avenues to improve relations between groups, with agents capable to take action on such understanding (Example: Dr. Staub's work in Amsterdam in collaboration with the city government, after violence in the city between ethnic Dutch and Muslim Dutch).
- Training, which Dr. Staub did with police officers (as well as students in schools) to intervene when fellow officers begin to engage in doing unnecessary harm (Successful examples are Dr. Staub's work with police in New Orleans and in schools).
This talk will be applied to current circumstances in the U.S., including the impact of the coronavirus, the demonstrations against police violence, and the role of leadership. Dr. Staub will also cover the socialization of children and altruism born of suffering as an avenue to promote caring, helping and active bystandership.
Presenter:
Ervin Staub, Ph.D., is Professor Emeritus and Founding Director of the doctoral program in the Psychology of Peace and Violence at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. In addition, he taught at Harvard. He is past President of the International Society for Political Psychology and of the Society for the Study of Peace, Conflict and Violence. His last two books are the award winning Overcoming Evil: Genocide, Violent Conflict and Terrorism, 2011 and The Roots of Goodness and Resistance to Evil: Inclusive caring, moral courage, altruism born of suffering, active bystandership and heroism, 2015. He engaged with varied “real world” projects, including work with teachers/schools and parents to promote altruism in children, projects in Rwanda, Burundi and the Congo to promote reconciliation, in Amsterdam to promote positive Dutch-Muslims relations, and training of police to develop active bystandership by officers to stop other officers from doing unnecessary harm, and of students to stop harmful actions by fellow students.
Learning Objectives:
Upon completion of this conference, participants will be able to:
- Learn about the influences that lead to violence, how hostility and violence evolve progressively and the development of active bystandership.
- Develop processes and activities that contribute to healing and reconciliation after group violence as well as reconciliation between individuals.
- Implement interventions to socialize children and train adults to become active bystanders to be agents of change in their communities, promote peace and prevent violence.
CEs provided by Baptist Health South Florida for 1 Credit Hour for Psychologists, Nurses and Physicians. CEs for LCSW, LMHC & LMFT provided by Jewish Community Services of South Florida:
Register in advance for this meeting:
Registration is closed. For more information, please email us at info@melissainstitute.org
If you are requesting CEUs, you must also register here:
Donations encouraged $25-100
PSYCHOLOGISTS: This continuing education activity has been approved for 1 hour of general Continuing Psychological Education credit for psychologists CE Broker Course #20-702935. Baptist Health South Florida CE Broker Provider #50-182.
FLORIDA BOARD OF CLINICAL SOCIAL WORK, MARRIAGE AND FAMILY THERAPY AND MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELING: Jewish Community Services of South Florida (JCS) has been approved by the Florida Board of Psychology and the Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy and Mental Health Counseling to sponsor 1 continuing education credit for mental health professionals.
NURSES: This continuing education activity has been approved for 1 credit for Nursing and Nurse Practitioners. Baptist Health South Florida CE Broker Provider #50-182.
PHYSICIANS: This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essentials and Standards of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint Providership of Baptist Health South Florida and The Melissa Institute for Violence Prevention and Treatment. Baptist Health South Florida is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Baptist Health South Florida designates this live activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. This activity has been approved for 1 credit hour, CE Broker Course #20-702935, by the Florida Boards of Medicine, Osteopathic Medicine, and Psychology (1 hour).
Ervin Staub, Ph.D., indicated that neither he nor his spouse/partner has relevant financial relationships with commercial interest companies, and he will not include off-label or unapproved product usage in his presentation or discussion.
Other non-faculty contributors and others involved in the planning, development, and editing/review of the content have no relevant financial relationships to disclose.