This content was created by Doug Noll. This content was uploaded by Doug Noll. This is a YouTube video titled "Testimonials: What People Are Saying About Doug Noll’s Training and Teaching" (uploaded 2025-11-29) containing multiple short testimonial remarks from participants — including Wilton Kirway Jr. (senior minister), Peggy Cooper, and several others — describing the impact of Doug Noll’s training. Speakers praise skills such as connection, relationship-building, affect labeling, and conflict-resolution drawn from Doug’s original work (including work in prisons), and report outcomes like improved communication, calmer classrooms, safer interactions, and transformative personal change.
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My name is Wilton Kirway Jr. I am the senior minister of the Whitney Avenue Church of Christ, and I consider myself a peacemaker. My biggest takeaway from what I learned from Doug in this program is connection and relationship, that just by listening to people, you are connecting to the heart. And when you connect to the heart, you establish that relationship, and that relationship brings healing.
Doug was not bringing something that was a reworking of someone else's work. It just seemed really original, and it, it, it wasn't just some ideas that Doug came up with. The fact of, of what I saw with his work with the prisons, just thought, okay, I need to talk to this guy because this is, um, seems rather revolutionary.
My name is Peggy Cooper, and I have been for, for 12 years now, I have been working with people who find themselves in high-conflict situations And I myself have always been an extreme avoider of high-conflict situations. I have found that I am now fearless in facing people who might confront me. I've found myself very much more able to deal with just the things that come up in my life.
Now that I have this skill set, I have better better relationships, better communication. I feel more calm, confident, and I think that that then ripples into everything that I do. So in many ways, it's really helped every aspect of my life because now if I'm upset, if I'm triggered, I can validate an affect label myself. If I'm with friends, family, colleagues, and something happens, I can validate them. So it's really improved, I would say, every area of my life.
And the number of kids that I see on a daily basis in school and can bring them down to calm and to more peace and more problem solving and then be able to return to their original classrooms and be more productive. It's, it's life-changing for them too.
In the face of any sort of strife, it's— we all feel really insecure and awkward, and— or most of us— and uncomfortable and really unsafe. Learning this skill, it's so empowering because you can be more aware of how you're feeling. Then you get to hold a safe space for someone else. Which then also really protects you. It really is a game changer for making people feel safe.
Me, I think it shook Lindsay, but I gotta say that in this moment of survival, if we didn't have your tools and we didn't utilize affect labeling, there would've been a murder. She'd have killed me or I'd have killed her.
