Peter Perkins, Partner

Peter Perkins has been applying Dialogue Education in his work with a wide range of organizations, individuals, and topics since 1985. Peter was personally mentored by Dr. Jane Vella, and in 1994, he became one of the first people to teach the Learning to Listen, Learning to Teach course independently of Jane.

As a Senior Associate of GLP, Peter facilitates all of our core Dialogue Education courses. He excels at creating innovative, learning designs and facilitation experiences for higher education, small business, state-wide coalitions, and community based organizations.

Peter's areas of expertise include:

• Government Human Services and Education
• Adolescent development training
• Clinical substance abuse treatment and prevention training
• One-on-one supervision and supervisor training
• Organizational development

His clients have included:

• State of Vermont Agency of Human Services and Department of Education
• California Women Infant Chid (WIC) Program
• New England Network for Child, Youth and Family Services
• American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA)
• United Animal Nations
• Woodbury College
• University of Vermont (UVM)
• Catholic Relief Services (CRS)
• Habitat for Humanity
• Rounder Records
• Green Mountain Environmental
• Russian Community Environmental Training Resource
• the New Orleans Job Initiative (NOJI)

Peter's other work includes the facilitation of adolescent learning, and holistic adolescent development emphasizing spiritual growth. Peter started the first Prevention and Community Development Program in the USA at Woodbury College of Montpelier, Vermont.

Peter holds an M.A. in Human Development from the Fielding Institute, and a B.A. in Sociology from Lakeland College in Wisconsin. He has continued his learning through professional development studies in popular education, group dynamics, substance abuse prevention and counselling, and grant writing. He is the author of a chapter in Dr. Vella's Dialogue Education at Work: Case Studies, (2003, Jossey Bass) that described his experience in applying Dialogue Education with an environmental coalition in Russia. He has also written two nationally recognized substance abuse prevention programs for Youth, and contributed to works on adolescent spiritual development. In 2004, he as awarded a Prevention Pioneer Award.

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