Learn About Paul’s Workshops

Paul invites you to contact him to discuss your community’s particular needs and work out a custom proposal to meet your goals, timetable, and financial situation.

We can put together a team of trainers on a range of issues, and we can also refer you to other qualified consultants as needed.

Each assignment is unique, with each agenda tailored to meet the needs of your group. With that in mind, here are some general workshop descriptions, along with related books available in Paul's Bookstore:

Boys Will Be Men:

Raising Our Sons for Courage, Caring, and Community

An interactive multicultural workshop for parents, teachers, counselors, school administrators, and youth workers who need tools for helping boys reject traditional male socialization and enter the community as active participants in the struggle for social justice and peace.

Wealth, Power, and Class:

Who Benefits, Who Pays, and Who Really Decides

Using interactive exercises, this workshop examines how power and wealth operate in the U.S., where each of us fits into this system, and how our daily work is affected by economics. We’ll learn how distractions keep us from understanding what is going on, and explore the role of the “buffer zone” in maintaining the current system. Discussions include how to be an ally across class lines, and helping people get together as well as to get ahead.

Men’s Work:

The Roots of Male Violence

Where does male violence come from? This training explores male socialization, social issues of power and violence, anger and control, male/male and male/female relationships, and basic techniques for working with men in diverse settings. Based on a series of books, videos, audio tapes, and workbooks, this training can be delivered in a single day, or expanded to cover additional material. Participating service providers practice new skills and obtain new resources for working more effectively and accountably with men learning to overcome violence.

Uprooting Racism:

How White People Can Work for Racial Justice

A highly interactive and participatory workshop looking at the intersection of race, gender, and class. Participants focus on the roots of institutional racism and white privilege, and how the work of uprooting racism remains central to eliminating male violence, and to rebuilding our divided communities. Exercises help the group explore interconnections among racial, economic, and gender-based violence, and provide practical guidelines on how to be an ally in the struggle for racial justice.

Young Men’s Work:

Stopping Violence and Building Community

Based on the successful Men’s Work series, this workshop enables adult youth workers to develop their understanding, skills, and tools to help young men stop violence against male peers, young women, and themselves. Exercises and discussions explore the roots of male violence, and help develop skills for supporting young men and interrupting violent behavior. Participants learn the complex interweaving of race, gender, class and sexual orientation in the lives of young men, and they connect with a support and strategy network for adult youth workers.

Making the Peace:

Helping Teens Stop Violence

This highly interactive workshop addresses the root causes of violence in young people’s lives, drawing connections between interpersonal and self-destructive violence and the larger social issues of race, class, gender and sexual orientation. Through role playing, exercises, and interactive discussion, the workshop equips participants to be stronger, more effective allies to adolescents and young adults. A core assumption of this program is found in the words of Martin Luther King, Jr.: “Violence is anything that denies human integrity, and leads to hopelessness and helplessness.”