Justice and Peace Consulting

Justice and Peace Consulting (JPC) was founded
by CB Beal, M.Div.

CB is an educator, consultant, writer, facilitator, speaker, and storyteller who grew up on a small farm, went to college (where they were the fastest dishwasher and short order cook in the world) and seminary (where they once jumped upon the roof with one professor to see if other professors living below could hear the noise). CB was an educator and activist in Philadelphia in the 1980s, and a researcher and educator in western Massachusetts from the 1990s to the present. CB lives and works in a rehabilitated mill building where they photograph shadows thrown by the sun throughout the year. CB geeks-out talking to people about how they want to grow as a person or group.  CB is a neurodivergent, fat, genderqueer and queer, person identified as white and of the age of AARP keeps sending invitations.

Oh, you wanted professional credentials?

CB is an educator, consultant, speaker, writer, facilitator, and storyteller. They work primarily with progressive churches, private schools, and social service agencies. CB has a Master of Divinity degree from Union Theological Seminary in New York City, and a BA in elementary education from Eastern College, St. Davids, PA. CB was the 2019 recipient of the Unitarian Universalist Association’s Angus H. Maclean Award for Excellence in Religous Education.

What JPC can do for you:

• Address successes and challenges in identifying and attaining your vision of who you are and what you do.
• Help your organization gain a core understanding of what it means to preemptively protect children, youth, and vulnerable adults, and create practices and policies that will balance freedom with maximum safety.
• Guide and join with you or your group as you explore what Preemptive Radical Inclusion (PRI) means in your context and how you can use it as a framework for anti-bias/pro-justice leadership development.
  
• Explore short and long-term challenges and successes in being a justice-creating, radically inclusive organization.
• Support your organization through change management.
• Provide sexuality and consent education for all ages, stages, abilities, and bodies — for parents, youth, children, adults, and in-between.
  
• Provide specific direction in how your organization can be appropriately affirmative of gender creative, trans, and non-binary youth.
• Consult with you as an individual or small group to help attain the big-picture view of the places where you are stuck and offer concrete steps to move in the appropriate direction.

CB will bring their expertise as a broad generalist to you, and join with you; help you flesh out your needs and goals and move you further in the path of development you have chosen.

At day’s end, it’s not CB’s efforts alone that effect change; it is about mutual commitment and trust and the effort that clients put forth. Change and growth happen through hard work and relational magic; CB brings perspective and expertise, we all roll up our sleeves, and together we explore, grow, and build.

Contact CB at JusticeandPeaceConsulting AT gmail DOT com