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About Taming the Wolf Institute
When conflict touches a family, parish, school, workplace, or community, Taming the Wolf Institute offers a way to work through it without leaving spiritual life at the door. Based in McKinney, Texas, the nonprofit has helped people and faith communities prevent, manage, and resolve disputes since 2011 through mediation, consultation, training, and educational resources. Your support helps make faith-based tools for reconciliation available to people and institutions navigating conflict, including people who do not follow a faith tradition.
Taming the Wolf Institute brings Franciscan spirituality into contemporary conflict resolution, treating conflict as an opportunity for spiritual growth and reconciliation. Its work reaches beyond mediation into clergy education, parish and school consultation, publications, webinars, podcasts, and anti-bullying materials for primary schools.
Programs
The concrete work this nonprofit runs. Each program may later become a fundable project.
Faith-based mediation
Mediation that integrates Franciscan spirituality with contemporary conflict resolution techniques to help parties negotiate agreements and restore relationships.
Conflict resolution consultation
Consultation for individuals, parishes, schools, and other organizations on conflict prevention protocols and dispute resolution.
Peacemaking education and training
Books, publications, presentations, tutorials, speakers, workshops, and training on faith-based mediation, peacemaking, conflict resolution, and spiritual direction.
Spiritual direction during conflict resolution
Spiritual direction intended to nurture spiritual transformation during the conflict resolution process.
Pastors' and Evangelists' Corner
A gathering for clergy to discuss, study, explore, and share faith-based approaches to peacemaking.
Combat Bullying
An anti-bullying campaign for participating primary schools that provides Face of Francis posters and teacher guides with dispute resolution techniques.
How to Make Peace: Forty Short Video Reflections
A series of short video reflections on peacemaking in the tradition of Saint Francis of Assisi.
Peace in the Parish webinar course
An eight-episode webinar course in faith-based reconciliation, with downloadable presentations and resources.
Peace Be With You podcast
A podcast exploring mediation, pastoral counseling, and spiritual direction.
Peacemaking publications
Books and manuals that provide faith-based tools for preventing, managing, and resolving conflict, including Taming the Wolf: Peace through Faith and The Secrets of Peacemaking.
About this work
Mission
To hasten the arrival of the Peace of Christ in the spirit of St. Francis of Assisi by delivering faith-based conflict resolution lessons, spiritual direction during conflict resolution, and assistance to faith-based institutions designing effective conflict resolution systems.
Who they serve
People involved in personal, family, workplace, community, legal, parish, school, and other conflicts; faith communities and institutions; clergy, pastors, evangelists, seminarians, educators, and people seeking faith-based approaches to reconciliation. The mediation approach is also available to people who do not follow a faith tradition.
How your donation helps
- Promoting peacemaking tools and techniques
- Delivering peacemaking services
- Training another peacemaker
- Supporting individual projects or the overall mission
Need help?
How someone in need can access Taming the Wolf Institute’s services.
People seeking mediation or consultation can call (469) 400-9376, email support@tamingthewolf.com, or use the mediation consultation form. The Institute offers mediation for individuals and groups, consultation for parties preparing for mediation, and guidance for parishes, schools, and other organizations developing conflict prevention protocols.
Stories
The people behind the work.
In their words
“Making Peace, One Heart at a Time.”
“For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there I am in the midst of them.” (Mt 18:20)
Ways to help
Concrete needs and volunteer roles Taming the Wolf Institute has shared.
Volunteer opportunities
- Become educated in mediation and peacemaking.
- Attend workshops and training sessions to practice mediation and peacemaking skills.
- Assist friends, family, and colleagues by applying conflict resolution skills.
- Share peacemaking skills and knowledge informally or formally, especially within a faith community.
- Participate in research on new conflict management approaches.
Recognition & press
Partners & funders
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about this nonprofit and how its work happens.
How does Taming the Wolf's mediation approach differ from conventional mediation?
It brings Franciscan spirituality and faith-based insight into modern conflict resolution. The approach treats conflict as a possible opening for spiritual growth and reconciliation.
Who can use the Institute's mediation services?
Individuals and groups can use the service for legal, family, workplace, parish, school, and other disputes. You do not need to share a faith tradition, though the approach may be especially fitting for people with a mutual interest in faith.
What types of consultation does the Institute provide?
The Institute works with people preparing for mediation, as well as parishes, schools, and other organizations looking to put conflict-prevention protocols in place.
What educational resources does the Institute offer?
Resources include books, manuals, presentations, workshops, tutorials, the eight-episode Peace in the Parish webinar course, a podcast, and forty short video reflections on peacemaking.
How can a school participate in the anti-bullying campaign?
A primary school can contact the Institute to sponsor a Face of Francis anti-bullying campaign. Participating schools receive anti-bullying posters and teacher guides with concrete dispute-resolution techniques.
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