The Art and Craft of Teaching Peace in OS

[Melinda Salazar]

Dear Friends,
Two high school colleagues are planning to host a second Teaching Peace 
conference on April 1, 2006 in New Hampshire, this time using OS and 
WC.  New Hampshire is a backwater where no one has heard of OS (and 
apologies to those on this list who may live in NH), so we and our 
participants are in a transitional stage of shifting paradigms.  For a 
traditional conference, this is the time when we would be securing 
presenters/workshop leaders, in otherwords, communicating with the 
"experts."  As we move forward to announce the conference to the 
general public, we have several questions.

1.  How do we market the conference to a public who generally does not 
know who OS is and who might be looking for the big name/keynote 
speaker and workshop leaders? That is, a traditional conference would 
list speakers and workshops to draw participants.  Last year, we 
offered 5 workshop tracks.  Since we don't know who is coming yet this 
year, how can we advertise the conference? Should we plant some 
conveners in our participant group who have offered sessions at the 
previous conference?

2.  How do we get those "experts" to attend and to see themselves as 
participants who both have something to offer and gain from the 
experience?

Thanks,
Melinda Salazar and Kay Morgan
Oyster River High School
Durham, NH

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