For more information, please contact Roberta Heydenberk at heydenberk@lehigh.edu
"Every story in the Chicken Soup for a Better World is a vision of peace for our future. Here is my challenge to you as you read this book: open your minds and listen with your heart. You can make a difference." - Mohammed Ali
For more information on the Heydenberks' conflict resolution-based children's book When I Get Angry, click here.
"Students who learn how to manage their anger in their youth will reap lifelong rewards. When I Get Angry gives students the skills they need to manage their anger in a peaceful and successful way" - Jane Nase, M.Ed., School Counselor
As an adjunct professor at Lehigh University, Roberta has taught multicultural education; she currently teaches conflict resolution education courses. Roberta has decades of service in conflict resolution program research and curriculum design and has served as the Research Coordinator for The Peace Center in suburban Philadelphia, among other nonprofit organizations. Warren is a faculty member at Lehigh University where he teaches language arts and conflict resolution courses. Warren has taught in elementary through adult levels in public and alternative education programs and he has over a decade of work in school-based conflict resolution.
The Heydenberks are recipients of numerous awards for their research and writing. They have served on national and international peace education boards. The Heydenberks are trained in varied school-based mediation models and Roberta is a certified workplace mediation trainer. Both Heydenberks are trained in dialogue models. The Heydenberks are the authors of A Powerful Peace: The Integrative Thinking Classroom, Allyn & Bacon, 2000, a children’s conflict resolution book, and numerous scholarly articles.
Mr. Perry, Mira Nakashima, and Drs. Heydenberk