​Building Peaceful Community offers consultation, education and training to:
  • Facilitate workplace and community meetings and planning processes resulting in tangible, positive change;
  • Mentor and support managers and employees in public, nonprofit and private workplaces; and
  • Develop and implement effective strategies to prevent violence and child abuse and create respectful, healthy workplaces and communities.
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Founded by Donald Gault, Building Peaceful Community, brings over 30 years experience working in the Public Health field, including management of highly effective work teams and cutting edge initiatives to prevent violence and promote community health.
 
Contact Donald Gault at dosgault@gmail.com​. 
For his resume, click here.
​For his bio, click here.

Primary Prevention and Appreciative Inquiry

The work of Building Peaceful Community is built around the Public Health principle of Primary Prevention, creating environments that decrease the likelihood of violence and harm, and increase the likelihood of peaceful, healthy relationships.

Building Peaceful Community uses an Appreciative Inquiry approach to work toward what we seek (peace and health) rather than focusing solely on what we abhor (violence and illness).

Building Peaceful Community believes that all people have within them essential health, humanity, and the capacity for living in caring and loving relationships.
"Donald Gault is a whole-systems thinker. He moves beyond the surface of issues to find the root cause of our most pressing social problems.  He then inspires and leads both individuals and groups to co-create creative and sustainable solutions."  --Teddie M. Potter, PhD, MS, RN

RECENT PROJECTS

Summer 2018: 
Presenting on Convening and Leading Community Change Initiatives at 2018 Nonprofit Leadership Conference (MN Council of Nonprofits, St. Paul, MN) and Nonprofit Innovation Conference (University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire)
A Public Health Approach to Preventing
​Workplace Sexual Harassment: 
We are at a critical stage in better understanding, effectively addressing and preventing sexual harassment in the workplace and greater community. Donald Gault with Building Peaceful Community has developed a Public Health approach to preventing workplace sexual harassment, offering a vision, tools and new opportunities for successful prevention, with the goal of positive change toward healthier, more respectful work environments and experiences for all of us, now. Read the article and workshop and consultation description.
Workshops on Refreshing Your Workplace:
Customized 3-4 hour facilitated discussions to help your workgroup better understand one another's strengths and work more effectively toward common goals
Teaching and learning from children how to be "ambassadors of kindness." StarTribune, Nov. 2, 2017.
New articles:  Philando Castile, Justine Damond, and Justice; One Year After the Death of Philando Castile

Videos on creating healthier, more peaceful families, communities and workplaces -- developed in partnership with the University of Minnesota Katherine Densford International Center for Nursing Leadership.
Op Ed publication: Castile tragedy offers an opportunity for healing, Minneapolis StarTribune