Who is Involved in Gentle Teaching? A spirit of gentleness should begin at home and spread out to the community into schools, work places, social service agencies, churches, and beyond. Gentle Teaching is not for any particular group. All who support individuals who are marginalized are asked to deepen and broaden a spirit of gentleness. • Parents and families who are in a quandary as to how to help their children, • Teachers in classrooms who are having a hard time helping children and adolescents with life-stories filled with violence, harm to self, and meaninglessness, • Care givers in institutions who are trying to find non-violent ways to deal with impersonal systems, • Care givers in community homes who want to create feelings of companionship and community, • Care givers in shelters for the homeless, jails and prisons who want to bring a spirit of gentleness where it seems impossible to find, • Program administrators who want to implement a management style that establishes a culture of life, and • Policy-makers and legislators who want to initiate creative laws and ways to support marginalized people with dignity and respect.