Resumés
GOAL:
To promote conflict resolution skills and creative problem solving
in families, schools and communities.
PROFESSIONAL SKILLS AND WORK EXPERIENCE:
Peer mediation trainer and coordinator
Mediation: parent/youth, small claims, victim/offender.
Tutoring and teaching people of all ages, toddlers through senior
citizens
Meeting facilitation and group process
Director of Phoenix Farm Learning Center
Providing training and facilitation services for peer mediation programs
in elementary, middle and high schools.
Coordinating parent/youth mediations, including trainings and support
for mediators, and intakes for families.
Coordinating development of peacemaking circles in schools and the
wider community.
Kate has mediated over 750 disputes in 19 years, including family
mediations, small claims court, and victim/offender cases involving
juveniles.
Facilitating a restorative justice study group.
Facilitating concensus decision-making.
Working as a teacher/tutor for home schoolers, coordinating youth
programs for infants through high school, conducting workshops and
trainings on a variety of topics for elementary children through elderly
adults.
EDUCATION AND TRAINING:
Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo Michigan; majoring in sociology
Aquinas College, Grand Rapids Michigan: BA in education and teacher
certificate, 1977; postgraduate education courses.
Lesley University, Cambridge Massachusetts: MA in curriculum and instruction
with a specialty in peaceable schools, 2007.
Institute for Therapeutic Touch: 18-month course; certified in Therapeutic
Touch, June 1985
Friends Mediation Service: 35-hour training in basic mediation skills,
spring 1988.
Cheshire Mediation: 35-hour training in parent/youth mediation skills
and issues, fall 1996.
Other workshops taken have included ones on parenting, peer counseling,
pastoral counseling, family dynamics and training facilitation.
COMMUNITY SERVICE:
Preschool and high school program assistant at Quaker gatherings
Board member of National Coalition of Alternative Community Schools,
Chair for three years, Vice Chair for one year
Active member of Monadnock Friends Meeting and other Quaker meetings
since 1968, holding many committee and officer positions in local,
regional and national organizations
Volunteer mediator for Cheshire Mediation Service, 1996-1999
Clerk (Chair) of Northwest Quarterly Meeting of Friends
Coordinator for a MicroCredit NH loan and support group
Cheshire County representative for Small and Beginner Farmers of New
Hampshire
PUBLICATIONS:
Who Does What When, recordkeeping for homeschoolers Holt Associates,
1978
Building Blocks for Mathematics, Holt Associates, 1981.
Should I Teach my Kids at Home? Holt Associates, 1982.
Youth involvement in a constructivist approach to an anti-bullying
campaign, Master’s Thesis, 2006.
Additional articles on homeschooling, parenting, mediation
and responses of a church community to sexual assault published in
Mothering Magazine, Friendly Woman and Friends Journal.
SKILLS:
Group process and facilitation, mediation, career and educational
counseling, tutoring all major subject areas, parenting education,
peer and parent/youth mediation training and writing.
REFERENCES: To be furnished upon request.
MEMBERSHIPS:
National Association of Community Mediators
New Hampshire Conflict Resolution Association
National Coalition of Alternative Community Schools
Small and Beginner Farmers of New Hampshire
MicroCredit NH
