WELCOME TO EPCC’S ALL-NEW

Core Training

Tools, Strategies and Concepts for Peaceful Classrooms and Communities | 24 Hour Certificate

Increase Your Impact

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Build the Culture

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Get the Tools

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Create Peaceful Classrooms

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Strengthen Communities

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Create the Future

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Increase Your Impact ★ Build the Culture ★ Get the Tools ★ Create Peaceful Classrooms ★ Strengthen Communities ★ Create the Future ★

Experiencing These Common Challenges in Your Work with Children?

  • Challenging Behaviors & Conflict

    Looking for practical tools to manage challenging behaviors and conflicts between children? Unsure how to respond when children express bias, exclusion, or bullying?

  • Teacher Burnout & Disconnection

    Feeling overwhelmed or like you’re in it alone? Find resources and strategies to build community, strengthen support, and sustain your work with children and families.

  • Teacher & Team Relationships

    Navigating conflict between teachers and administrators? Experiencing tension, communication challenges, or difficulties within your teaching team affecting collaboration?

  • Partnerships with Families

    Finding it difficult to build strong family partnerships? Navigating upset families, disengagement, competing expectations, or conflicts with families, school leadership, and your expertise?

EPCC’s Core Training provides practical tools and strategies to help you navigate these challenges and build more peaceful, inclusive communities.

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Be Empowered to Make an Impact

EPCC’s Core Training is a 24-hour, comprehensive introduction to practical peace tools designed specifically for adults who work with children.

Who we support to make an impact

  • Childcare and early childhood professionals

  • Preschool and K–12 educators

  • After-school and youth program staff

  • Coaches and recreation leaders

  • Children’s Librarians

  • Everyone working with children, youth, and families who wants to lead with intention, equity, and care

This training is more than strategies—it builds a shared language and a trusted learning community that helps those who work with children foster belonging, connection, and resilience in the spaces where children learn and grow.

Practical Peace Tools Through Hands-On Learning

Participants engage with hands-on tools and concepts that can be immediately applied in classrooms and child focused programs, including:

  • Conflict management/resolution

  • Problem solving

  • Cooperation and collaboration for children and adults

  • The role of professional ethics

  • Program–family partnership practices

  • Identifying and removing roadblocks to communication

  • Boundary setting for educators

  • Cooperative games and community-building activities

  • Community resource sharing

  • The EPCC Anti-Bias Power Ladder

  • The EPCC Leanne Dorish Healing Path

  • And much more

What You Gain from Core Training

  • Over 25 peace tools with instructions and over 30 peace-building strategies in a 130 page manual

  • Peace Glossary

  • 15+ Professional resources for support and additional learning

  • Cooperative games with documented instructions

Flexible Training Options

The EPCC Core Training is available in multiple formats to meet the needs of individuals and organizations:

  • 4 Day intensives

  • Multi-session series

  • Synchronous online delivery

Core Training Structure

The training is organized around four central mooring threads, or key issues, that ground all EPCC work:

  • Communication

  • Power

  • Diversity

  • The EPCC Framework for Peace

These themes are explored across four interconnected settings:

  • Community

  • Education

  • Family

  • Self

PARTNER WITH EPCC

Bring EPCC Core Training to Your School or Organization

Customized partnership designed for schools, districts, nonprofits, and educational organizations seeking practical peacebuilding tools and lasting cultural change.

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“The Core Training was engaging, practical, and highly relevant to our School Readiness programs. Our staff left feeling confident and equipped with strategies they can immediately implement to better support our students and families. We truly value this impactful professional development experience.”

— Sandra Zamora‑Franco

“These educators have studied and thought so deeply about peace education. It’s not only an elevating experience, it’s practical information and tools to go home with and make our own worlds more peaceful and inspiring.”

— Shira Coleman