"SIX STEPS OF CONFLICT RECONCILIATION -- KINGIAN NONVIOLENCE SONG"
Tune: "Keep Your Eyes on the Prize"


INTRO / ENDING
Kingian Nonviolence is all about relationships,
bringing healing, love, and justice for all.
Keep your eyes on the prize... hold on!
REFRAIN: Hold on, hold on... keep your eyes on the prize; hold on!

SUMMARY:
Six steps of Conflict Reconciliation --
Gather Information, Educate yourself and others,
Personal Commitment, Negotiation,
Direct Action, and Reconciliation
REFRAIN: Hold on, hold on... keep your eyes on the prize; hold on!

1 INFORMATION GATHERING
Information Gathering is a crucial first step
and it's what you need to solve the problem.
Doubt your first impression, suspend all judgments,
put all the facts in order to proceed.

2 EDUCATION
Use the facts to educate yourself and others
to know what each person wants and needs
Share what you've learned so that all understand,
so that cooler heads will prevail.

3 PERSONAL COMMITMENT
Now, are you really Personally Committed
for the long term, to solve the problem?
Make sure you're staying strong and centered,
Care for yourself -- Talk to a friend, take a walk!

4 NEGOTIATION
A "win-win" solution is Negotiation's goal,
where we listen to everyone, and all agree
to a solution where everyone's best interests
are truly addressed in the agreement reached.

5 DIRECT ACTION
If Negotiation doesn't work,
then use direct action ---
attacking problems, not people,
with the goal of justice for all.

6 RECONCILIATION
Restored relationships are the goal
for the Peaceful Community.
Reconciliation means working for forgiveness
and making things as right as possible.
REFRAIN: Hold on, hold on... keep your eyes on the prize; hold on!

ENDING
Kingian Nonviolence is all about relationships,
bringing healing, love, and justice for all.
Keep your eyes on the prize... hold on!
REFRAIN: Hold on, hold on... keep your eyes on the prize; hold on!


LYRICS by Linda K. Williams, with Robin Wildman, based on curriculum by Robin Wildman
Lyrics copyright 2022 by Linda K. Williams


THINK AND SHARE INVITATIONS
Think about the 6 Steps of Reconciliation of Kingian Nonviolence from the song:
* Which step is the easiest one for you to put into action in your own life, and why?
* Which step is the most difficult one for you to put into action in your own life, and why?
* What happened when you did your best to put one or more of the steps into action?
* How did you feel when you saw the difference it made in a difficult situation to put one or more steps into action?
* When did you see someone else putting the steps into action, and how did that change a difficult situation?




TO ENJOY THE ORIGINAL SONG "KEEP YOUR EYES ON THE PRIZE":
Sweet Honey in the Rock:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_tcZAqQUAg
Pete Seeger singing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdJh0F_vYs8


Please visit https://nonviolentschoolsri.org/kingian-nonviolence for information about efforts to use Kingian Nonviolence to create nonviolent schools, and please also visit their YouTube Channel at
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2-af6IMLwENsAks1DDSO_A