Alfred resident Dr. Nadine Hoover, educator and international consultant, will present “Conscience, Peace, and Healing: Always Local, Always Global” at the Alfred State College New Horizons Forum on Wednesday, Nov. 16, in the Allegany Room of Central Dining Hall from 7-8:30 p.m. The presentation is open to the public free of charge.
Hoover directs the Conscience Studio which helps people and communities design and document widely tested and locally applicable actions for the establishment of peace. For more than 20 years she has led Friends Peace Teams to Indonesia. Steeped in the local language and culture, Hoover has conducted training programs in conscience, nonviolence, healing, and developmental play in post-war areas of Indonesia with people from all sides of conflict, victims and perpetrators alike. She also works throughout the United States and the world and has just returned from a project in Guatemala.
In 2001, Hoover became a licensed massage therapist. In her clinical practice in Alfred, she treats people, relieving their pain and trauma. Hoover appreciates how her Alfred practice provides her with financial and community stability thus dramatically increasing the productivity and independence of her other work.
Hoover’s peace activities grow out of people-to-people relationships worldwide, primarily with western New Yorkers and Indonesians. As a massage therapist and a Chidokwan Karate-do instructor at the Alfred Martial Arts Dojo, Nadine stays connected to her local community, practicing the belief that coming to know other people in the world helps us to know ourselves better.
Hoover holds a doctoral degree from Florida State University in international development and education and an undergraduate degree from Friends World College in political economy and communication. She is the author most recently of Trauma Healing, an advanced workshop manual that grew out of her many years of training people in the deeper personal and social dimensions of nonviolence.
The New Horizons Forum, sponsored by the School of Arts and Sciences at Alfred State, showcases current scholarly, creative, and public service work by faculty, students, professional staff, community members, and invited guests. It is guided by a campus-wide team of advisers whose goal is to enrich the intellectual life of the institution.