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Learn effective, non-violent ways to resolve disputes and differences through dialog, collaboration and mediation to individuals, families, organizations and communities.  Increase your understanding of the healing aspect of restorative justice philosophy and practices.

1. August 02.08, Peace-It-Together Pittsburgh TM

  • Topic: Intergenerational Communication - Are We Listening? 
  • Guest: Mary M. Regnier, Visionary, Futurist, Founder, Brilliant Living.
  • Mary will discuss the four generations that are in Corporate America today: Traditionalists, Baby-Boomers, Gen Xer's, and Millennials and how they can collaborate and get the job done with each generation feeling fulfilled. 

2. February 20.09, WellWoman Radio Retreat TM

  • Topic: White Privilege
  • Guest: Tim Wise, Anti-racist author and Activist
  • Guest Co-Host: Mary Jo Harwood, Associate Director of Programs and Services, CVVC.
  • Tim Wise has been called "one of the most brilliant, articulate, and courageous critics of white privilege in the nation."  Wise is the author of many books and essays, including, White Like Me, Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son, Affirmative Action: Racial Preferences in Black and White, Speaking Treason Fluently: Anti-Racist Reflections from an Angry White Male, and Between Barack and a Hard Place: Race and Whiteness in the Age of Obama. 

3. March 21.09, Peace-It-Together Pittsburgh TM

  • Topic: Standing for Peace
  • Guest: Nan Waller Burnett, MA, Member, Mediators Beyond Boarders, and Mediator.
  • Guest Co-Host: Martha Hardy, CVVC
  • Nan Waller Burnett, MA is a high conflict mediator and has served in over 1,300 cases.  She is an experiential psychotherapist, specializing in marital therapy, divorce mediation, crisis management, PTSD, and critical incident debriefings. She will discuss the benefits of mediation and her unique approach to resolving conflicts.

4. December 13.08, Peace-It-Together Pittsburgh TM

  • Topic: Co-parenting 101
  • Guest: Deesha & Mike Philyaw, Parents
  • In the wake of their divorce and despite the problems that ended their marriage, Mike and Deesha have managed to establish a successful, congenial co-parenting relationship which allows their children to thrive and which causes those who know them to ask, “How in the world do you do it?” They’ll answer that question and more, plus talk about their website www.coparenting101.org 

5. March 26.09, Peace-It-Together Pittsburgh TM

  • Topic: Mediation Beyond Borders
  • Guest: Prabha Sankaranarayan, M.S., Developmental Specialist and Mediator.
  • Prabha will discuss her recent journey through several African countries where she served as a mediator for Mediation Beyond Borders, an organization whose core value is to find the common threads that bind us all.

6. May 26.07, Peace-It-Together Pittsburgh TM

  • Topic: Conflict Resolution
  • Guest: Dyane Rue & Hope Ismonga
  • Ms. Rue talks about her work at Pittsburgh Mediation Center around conflict resolution and Hope informs us about some of the peace building and conflict resolution challenges in her native land, Batswana, Africa

7. June 02.07, Peace-It-Together Pittsburgh TM

  • Topic: Restorative Justice
  • Guest: Elizabeth Beck, PhD, author, In the Shadow of Death: Restorative Justice and Death Row Families.
  • Dr Beck addresses a long ignored part of the impact of the death penalty: the families of those charged, convicted and executed