Location: Virtual Zoom (see link in confirmation message after completing the form)
Contact: Sal, sal.corbin@yahoo.com
This training focuses on effective skills for assessing, de-escalating, and diffusing a harmful or inappropriate behavior (bullying, harassment, physical violence) in public actions and ordinary daily situations in our community. It provides participants with the tools they need to quickly recognize when they are bystanders, evaluate the consequences for everyone involved, and take action. Our training sessions promote nonviolent, safe alternative approaches for defusing harmful situations and engaging with the aggressor and those subject to harmful acts.
This is an interactive, participatory, beginner’s workshop designed for those that may have none or little prior studies of bystander intervention.
Facilitator:
Sal Corbin worked for 15 years in academia as a Psychology
Professor before transitioning to nonprofit work. He has done workforce
development training and program management as a Training Coordinator for the
Maryland Harm Reduction Institute with the Behavioral Health System of
Baltimore. He is now Board Chair and Facilitator for the DC Peace Team in
bystander intervention, community safety, restorative justice and trauma
informed care. His vision is to help others build and maintain healthy
relationships with conflict transformation as the primary focus. He holds
degrees in Clinical (M.S.) and Educational (PhD) Psychology.
