About Us: The DIRECTORS

Jean Webster-Doyle, APET, MAPTT is a peace educator, and founder and President of the Atrium Society. Ms. Webster-Doyle was educated at the University of Madrid, New York University and Sarah Lawrence College. She has traveled worldwide educating people about the causes of conflict in the conditioned way we think and has co-created numerous books and programs on the subject. She is a Master Teacher and Trainer in Youth Peace Literacy and Martial Art for Peace Mental Self-Defense. Ms. Webster-Doyle is also a Yoga teacher and the creator of Metamorphosis Training Seminars and Harmonious Mind Yoga. She was a teacher of Prenatal Therapy for mentally handicapped children and the Creator and Editor of the Taking Time Newsletter about understanding the conditioned mind. She was also the Director of the Rainy Mountain Outdoor Education School and Co-Director of the Atrium School, a unique educational environment based on the necessity to understand psychological, prejudicial conditioned thinking as the basis for an intelligent life.

Terrence Webster-Doyle, Ph.D., MA, AEPT, MAPTT a Conflict Prevention Educator is the foremost authority on the Bully/Victim Cycle from the "playground to the battlefield." He was the founder and director of three alternative schools and has taught at the secondary, community college, and university levels in Education, India Studies, Psychology, and Philosophy. He has worked in Juvenile Delinquency Prevention and has developed counseling programs for Youth-At-Risk. Dr. Webster-Doyle also has been awarded a 6th degree black belt in The Art of Karate, and has studied and taught the martial arts for over 50 years. He has also produced numerous conferences titled The Child in Changing Times and workshops on New Directions in Education.

Dr. Webster-Doyle is a prolific writer having written over 50 internationally acclaimed, award winning literary works for young people and adults that focus on the issue of achieving peace through understanding what prevents it - conditioned thinking. He has won the prestigious Benjamin Franklin award nine times along with numerous other outstanding accolades for his work in the peace education field.

Dr. Webster-Doyle's understanding on the nature and structure of conditioned thinking in creating conflict is based on the initial insights of Quantum Physicist Dr. David Bohm, a colleague of Albert Einstein, formerly of Princeton University. A recent outcome of this relationship of creating literary works based on understanding the root causes of violence in conditioned thinking has helped over 5000 Liberian children of war to understand and resolve conflict peacefully.

Dr. Webster-Doyle's books are archived at the University of Connecticut, University of Southern Mississippi and Swarthmore College. They are also on permanent display at the International Museum of Peace and Solidarity in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, the Commonwealth of Independent States and at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, Hiroshima Japan.

Marvin Garbeh Davis, Ph.D., MA, APET a distinguished Liberian peace educator has a Doctorate of Philosophy Honoris Causa in Educational Leadership and Peace, Diplomacy and International Relations and a Masters Degree in Human Services. He is the Atrium Society Director of Peace Education for West Africa and is the author of the internationally acclaimed book Brave New Child - Liberating the Children of Liberia and the World based on his peace educating work with Liberian children of war.

Prior to his peace work in Liberia, Dr. Davis was a refugee in Gambia for seven years, where he studied online and began teaching the Youth Peace Literacy programs to young people there. A human rights journalist, editor, poet and teacher, Dr. Davis established the Common Ground Society in Buchanan Town, Grand Bassa County, where he also founded their first after school peace education school in 2005.

Dr. Davis is now located in Monrovia, where over 5,000 Liberian youths have been introduced to the Youth Peace Literacy programs due to his efforts helping them to understand the root cause of violence so they can free themselves from their prejudicial, conditioned thinking that created the Liberian 15 year civil war. Dr. Davis is also a certified teacher/trainer for the Atrium Society - Youth Peace Literacy programs.