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Award Winning Book Tug of War- Peace Through Understanding Conflict
About Us: The Trainers
Jean Webster-Doyle, AEPT, MTT is a peace educator, and founder of the Atrium Society. Ms. Webster-Doyle was the co-founder of the Atrium School and the Rainy Mountain Outdoor Education School. She has traveled worldwide educating people about the causes of conflict in the conditioned way we think and has co-created numerous books and programs on the subject. Ms Webster-Doyle was educated at Sarah Lawrence College, New York University and the University of Madrid. She is a Master Teacher and Trainer in Youth Peace Literacy. She is also a Yoga teacher and the creator of Metamorphosis Training Seminars and Harmonious Mind Yoga. She was a teacher of Prenatal Therapy for mentally handicapped children and the Creator and Editor of the Taking Time Newsletter about understanding the conditioned mind.
Terrence Webster-Doyle, Ph.D., AEPT is Founder and Director of three independent schools and has taught at the secondary, community college, and university levels in Education, India Studies, Psychology, and Philosophy. He has worked in Juvenile Delinquency Prevention and has developed counseling programs for Youth-At-Risk. Dr. Webster-Doyle has earned a Masters Degree in Psychology, and a doctorate degree in Health and Human Services. He has a lifetime secondary and community college teaching credential. He also has been awarded a 6th degree black belt in The Art of Karate, and has studied and taught the martial arts for over 45 years. Dr. Webster-Doyle has also produced numerous conferences and workshops on New Directions in Education. He was the Founder and Director of Martial Arts for Peace Association, Director of the Atrium Society, and Co-director of the Atrium School whose intent is to explore psychological conditioning. A prolific writer Dr. Webster-Doyle has produced 54 internationally acclaimed award winning peace education books and curricula.
Marvin Garbeh Davis, ACPE was born on March 10, 1973, in the Liberian Agricultural Company (LAC) Plantations Hospital, Grand Bassa County. Liberia. He was employed by Center for Law and Human Rights in Liberia where he worked as an editor for the Human Rights Review, a weekly paper that reported human rights abuses in the country. Mr. Davis worked as the Secretary General of the Association of Liberians in Gambia where he had to flee from Liberia during the 14 year civil there under the threat of death. Among many things Mr. Davis has done he has been an elementary school teacher, coordinator of the Peace Pal Club at the SOS Children’s Youth Village and Secretary General of the Association of Liberian Refugees, taught “Education for Peace,” using Atrium Society-donated peace books and curriculums, to more than 40 young children in The Gambia. He has an AA degree in Accounting and a BA in History/English. Mr. Davis is an Atrium Certified Peace Educator trained by the Atrium Society USA. He is currently Founder and Director of the Common Ground Society Peace School, a non-profit peace organization in Buchanan, Liberia.
Tim Lane has worked as a School Counselor for 16 years at Jericho Elementary School in Jericho, VT. During these years he has designed and implemented behavior interventions for individual students as well for entire classrooms. Tim has trained in Dr. Webster-Doyle’s Martial Arts for Peace programs and is a certified Martial Arts for Peace instructor attaining a 3rd degree black belt. He has also used the Youth Peace Literacy education for peace bully programs for many years in the state of Vermont. As Martial Arts for Peace instructor and School Counselor, Tim teaches all students an understanding of conflict and strategies to resolve conflict non-violently.