Join 75+ of the world’s top peacebuilders, social change agents, Indigenous elders, political leaders, scientists and spiritual mentors – all offering inspiration, skills training and practical solutions YOU can apply in your daily life, relationships, community and the world.
With a steady stream of news about unspeakable violence in war-torn areas to escalating reports of police brutality, we are reminded of the need to strengthen our capacity for outer and inner peace. It’s clear that it’s time we create a new story about peace.
We need a narrative that speaks to the human complexity of the inner spirit, to international relations, to dialogues across multiple sectors of society – including healing humanity’s relationship with the Earth. We need an understanding of peace broad enough to embrace the deep spiritual realms, along with the grounded – and at times even hard-nosed – practical actions that can transform difficult situations locally and globally.
However, for all of us who long for more peace and harmony in our lives and our world, some days, the challenges we face can feel daunting.
In these times, it’s common to feel overwhelmed by the inner conflicts within ourselves – not to mention the pain generated by clashes with family members, friends, co-workers… and even strangers. And when we hear about bullying in schools, the senseless violence in our neighborhoods and the overwhelming number of refugees displaced from war, it’s so easy to feel helpless and fall into despair.
It can be difficult to know where to turn to find the inspiration and guidance we need to heal the conflicts in our own hearts, in our relationships and in our larger world.
This is where The Summer of Peace comes in. The Shift Network has a deep commitment to global peace, which is why we’re offering this amazing series to you for FREE.
This monumental 3-month event features powerful insights and practical skillsfrom the world’s leading peacebuilders – so you’ll be empowered to co-create a life and a world where peace – instead of conflict – is the baseline.
Through The Summer of Peace, you’ll:
- Discover more personal ease, joy and well-being with practices to help youconnect more profoundly to the deep peace within yourself.
- Experience more harmonious and loving relationships with your family, friends, co-workers and community members.
- Be uplifted when you hear success stories from those on the front-lines of creating positive change in the most desperate areas on the planet.
- Receive deep wisdom for co-creating a new narrative of peace, and find effective methods for putting this vision into inspired action.
- Discover best practices for citizen engagement and conscious activismto help accelerate the shift to a world of peace!
As part of The Shift Network’s commitment to peace, we have also created the first virtual World Peace Library. The 2015 Summer of Peace programs will eventually become part of this FREE global resource.
You are invited to join us for a 90 minute coaching support call hosted by Sande Hart and Jon Ramer. Prepare for the 2015 Annual Games. Learn more about the Annual Games here.
Here’s the link to the Coaching Call taking place on Wednesday, July 29th at 9 AM PDT.
Here’s the Facebook Event to learn more.
Here’s the link to Register Your Team to Play.
This Year’s Campfire is BIGGER Than Ever
Urban Campfire is a unique and intimate gathering of women, where vulnerability, failure, tears, and laughter are celebrated.
It is our mission is to acquaint you with all the fiery, CRAVEtastic, adventurous, and beautiful parts of who you are. You have to know yourself before you can grow yourself, and at this year’s fire we are going to be doing both.
Take your seat, share your story with other like-minded women, and fill your connection craving over food, wine, and (of course) marshmallows. It is a ‘campfire’ after all.
This year, we’ve asked female thought-leaders and entrepreneurs from all over the country to share a story about a moment in their life when everything changed in a big way. In a TED style talk, they will be sharing these breakthrough stories, plus the most resonant advice they’ve received in their lives so far.
Five hundred women attended the very first Urban Campfire two years ago, and we feel sincerely grateful to the tight-nit and continuously expanding community that has grown out of that formative night.
Martin and I are learning together how to grow compassion and peace here and there
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Together with Chief Phil Lane Jr we will bring together decision and change-makers in a small circle.
Max. 12 persons.
Details will follow soon. Please ask for a detailed program. Contact: info@fourworldseurope.eu
The Mission:
To cleanup, build, paint, and landscape at your West Seattle Veterans Center which is home to American Legion Post #160.
The Why:
Legion volunteers have struggled for a few years to finish this remodel. With a generous donation from the West Seattle YMCA, Post #160 needs your help to finish the basement and paint the exterior for its 2nd Phase to be complete. 3rd Phase will be tackling the west wing of the building and turning it into an office space were veteran non-profits can set up shop and improve the lives of veterans, their families and the City of Seattle.
We need you to help make this happen. Come to work, meet new people and make a difference. It’s time to Report for Duty in your community!
Every day during the month of September, we’re posting a quote & image to remind each of us to cultivate inner peace. May it inspire you to pause and recollect that peace begins inside you. A breath in and a breath out…accessing the still space within where you remember who you truly are. Please join us, as together we send out ripples of peace: facebook, twitter, Instagram, Linked In, or Google+
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First gathering of FWE, to initiate the call of unprecedented unified action – with Brother Phil Lane Jr joining our communities – Embassy of the Earth, Netherlands Center of Indigenous People (NCIV) and Seven Generations together with Front Siwa Lima and Four Worlds Europe. Open to all relatives who want to connect.
Contact: info@fourworldseurope.nl
MY HAPPY PLACE ~ Yoga Class sponsoring Compassion Games
The whole month of Septemeber in Portland, OR + Seattle, WA Yoga Studios!!
All Levels – Pay-What-You-CAN
My Happy Place is an on-going community yoga project. These all-levels flowing vinyasa classes are offered by donation only (suggested 10). All proceeds go to support local organizations. Compassion Games International is the featured Good vibe KARMA organization all September in Portland, Oregon and Seattle, WA.
Lets challenge Seattle & Portland into a fun challenge. Where is the most compassionate yoga students… Seattle or Portland?? Report these stories at Compassion Games global report map!! Game on!! There are five weekly “My Happy Place” yoga classes available to bring compassion to your body, mind, and spirit!! A win win opportunity awaits you all month to dive deep into compassion for self & support the Compassion Games International sustainable future!!
-Accessible to students of all levels. New students welcome!
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Together with Brother Phil Lane Jr and Chudi Ukpabi, communications and governance consultant from Nigeria and Dorine van Norren, PhD researcher/diplomat (on video) we will have an exchange on Ubuntu values related to the wisdom available from all indigenous peoples.
An exchange on leadership and how to be inclusive in business.
Ubuntu centers around solidarity, reconciliation, restorative justice, collective leadership, empowerment and service delivery.
Afterwards you can join our Open World Cafe from 17.00pm. See next event.
Contact: info@fourworldseurope.nl
Limited seats available – max. 20 people.
RSVP and share with friends on facebook here
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Urban Tribes presents:
SHARING TRIBAL WISDOM FOR INSPIRING AND VITAL CITYLIFE
Urban Communities and Tribal Leaders. How do we use our local and indigenous wisdom?
More about this event see the website of http://www.urban-tribes.net/
Ticketing available via Urban Tribes.
Facebook Event HERE
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Earth Guardians (KIDS – 18yrs) The Hague calls ALL Dutch Earth Guardians to come TrashUre Hunt and to meet Chief Phil Lane Jr. at SCHEVINGEN!
in cooperation with www.trashurehunt.org
at FAST surfdorp http://fastthehague.com/nl/home
GIVING OUR VOICE – FOR THE NEXT 7 GENERATIONS
14:00 to 16:00 – Open Gathering
16:00 to 18:00 – Ceremony joined by Chief Phil Lane Jr.
Also see the website of TrashUre Hunt for more info.
We are hosting this event in Scheveningen.
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Together with Chief Phil Lane Jr we will explore and share on Connecting around Guiding Principles in Times of Change.
This event is hosted by the World Dialogue foundation
Contact: info@worlddialoguefoundation.org
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Bezoek aan Den Haag – City of Peace and Justice
We ontmoeten vertegenwoordigers van het Institute Social Studies (ISS), BuZa and HIVOS
11:00 – 12:00 Open Lecture at ISS
Kortenaerkade 12
Na afloop lopen we gezamenlijk naar het VREDESPALEIS voor bezoek van Brother Phil aan de Vredesvlam.
12.30 – 14:30 Open Lunch Meet-Up
Neem iets mee voor de Tafel des Overvloed (liefst vega, bio)
Locatie: Bij de VREDESVLAM naast de toegangshekken van het Vredespaleis Den Haag
Lunch graag meenemen om te delen bij het monument. mogelijkheid om wereldvredespad rond monument te lopen met een mooie intentie.
Together with Chief Phil Lane Jr we will bring together decision and change-makers in a small circle.
Max. 12 persons.
Details will follow soon. Please ask for a detailed program. Contact: info@fourworldseurope.eu
9/10-9/11 12th Annual International Conference on Human Trafficking See www.traffickingconference.com for details and required registration. Fee for most registrants. The UT Student Union, 2801 W Bancroft St, Toledo, OH 43606; Contact Sandy Sieben 419-530-5592 Social Justice Education/Awareness Event
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Chief Phil Lane Jr. will be joining the 3rd edition of the Peace Festival hosted by Centre Lothlorien, Foulain, France. http://www.lothlorienfestival.com/
“We are all indigenous to Mother Earth”
Participants from all over the world will share their vision on peace in ceremonies, workshops, music and personal interaction.
A festival for people who want to meet each other from the heart and want to share their search for inner peace. World peace starts with personal peace.
For full festival details see http://www.lothlorienfestival.com/
Chief Phil Lane Jr. will be joining the 3rd edition of the Peace Festival hosted by Centre Lothlorien, Foulain, France. http://www.lothlorienfestival.com/
“We are all indigenous to Mother Earth”
Participants from all over the world will share their vision on peace in ceremonies, workshops, music and personal interaction.
A festival for people who want to meet each other from the heart and want to share their search for inner peace. World peace starts with personal peace.
For full festival details see http://www.lothlorienfestival.com/
4-day seminar for women in the Louisville Jail Sept 10-13 (Th & Fr nights, 6-10, Sat 9am-10pm with 2 meal breaks, and Sun 8am-noon-ish)
For those of you who asked me to send this: We will be having a Freedom 101 4-day seminar for women in the Louisville Jail Sept 10-13 (Th & Fr nights, 6-10, Sat 9am-10pm with 2 meal breaks, and Sun 8am-noon-ish). You are all welcome to attend as students. I would need to get you screened beforehand, however. (You’d need to send a copy of State ID + SSN to our contact at the jail.) Let me know if interested! We have one “external student” so far and a max of 17 “internal” students, last I heard. It is an amazing experience and can be life-changing. (It was for me!) ================================================================================btw – please be sure you have THIS email for me in whatever lists you have.(Note the dash between “freedom” and “101” (dbulleit@freedom-101.org); some people have mistaken it for an underscore, as in freedom_101); I am missing too much important email from you!
Welcoming reception for fourteen women leaders from Benin, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Cote d’Ivoire, Haiti, Kenya, Madagascar, Mali, Nigeria, Republic of South Sudan, Togo, and the United Kingdom.; participants in the Dept. of State International Visitor Leadership Program; focusing on ‘Promoting Peace and Security’
[September 10 – 21 is Global Austin’s WELCOMING WEEK – a series of events throughout Austin that highlights the contributions of international visitors and immigrants to the community. These events will bring together foreign- and U.S.-born community members in a spirit of unity.
Welcoming Week, coincidentally, coincides with Peace Day Austin (9/11-9/21). Because the missions and interests of Global Austin and Peace Day Austin are comparable, several local organizations have come together to facilitate a city-wide celebration of the diversity that is Austin and the International Day of Peace. We are many organizations – with many activities and events.]
Join us for an interfaith prayer service in honor of the Day of World Prayer. Prayer vigil from 3:30- 6:00, circle at 7:00. Let us be One in prayers for peace and compassion.
We want you to join our co-opetition to make New York City a compassionate city! We’re challenging New Yorkers to challenge their bias by taking compassionate action within their communities. We’re not just talking about creating change, we’re taking action to make changes!
From September 11th to September 21st, we will provide you with a daily challenge to do one random act of kindness. These acts will range from simple acts to more engaging acts of kindness. You decide how you want to play. You will also have the opportunity to post your act of kindness on our Compassion Map.
From September 11th to 12th, we want to honor veterans and first responders.
We encourage families to participate and get started on the road to compassion.
Our goal is to transform how we as New Yorkers think about ourselves, others and our communities.
11 Days of Global Unity – 11 Ways to Change the World
Celebrating our 11th Anniversary in 2015!
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 WE – A global campaign of We, The World to unite and amplify the efforts of people, organizations and movements working for the common good www.WE.net 11 Days of Global Unity – 11 Ways to Transform Your World! September 11- 21, 2015 |
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 11DaysOfGlobalUnity.org 11 Campaigns For Change Promoted Globally Culminating on Sept. 21st the U.N. International Day of Peace 11 Days of Global Unity September 11-21 is a worldwide platform providing 11 Ways to Transform Our World. All agents of social change are invited to join in this global campaign for peace, justice, sustainability and transformation.Join the Extraordinary Partners and Allies of 11 Days of Global Unity! Register your group (it’s free) – Your Group’s Name, Link, Mission, Goals and Action Steps will automatically go up on our 11 Days Participation pages which we regularly promote to a global audience!
Become a Program Partner – Post your Events and Announcements from anywhere worldwide on our newly launched Global Unity Calendar. This Calendar is compatible with Google, Outlook, Apple and many other Calendars so you can easily Subscribe and add your group’s calendar events to the Global Unity Calendar!
Become an Outreach Partner – Provide outreach and promotion of 11 Days of Global Unity to your networks and followers and we will feature your work on our Partners & Allies pages and promote your group’s activities to our global audience. Reply to this message or click here!
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Deep Dialogues on Each of the 11 Themes of Change Featuring some of the most Visionary Thinkers
and Activists of our Time
When you register you can also participate in the Shift Network’s ongoing Summer of Peace Speaker Series. Speaker Schedule
Dialogues start each day at 1:00PM USA Eastern Time: Sept 11 Unity – Deepak Chopra
Sept 12 Interdependence – Indigenous Grandmother Agnes Pilgrim & Carole Hart Sept 13 Environment – Rhea Landig Sept 14 Economic Justice – Andrew Mazzone Sept 15 Health – Patch Adams Sept 16 Children & Youth – Cherine Badawi and Mariah Lin Sept 17 Women – Eve Ensler Sept 18 Human Rights – Jacqueline Murekatete Sept 19 Freedom – Rabbi Michael Lerner Sept 20 Disarmament – Helen Caldicott & Alice Slater Sept 21 Peace (the UN International Day of Peace) – Deborah Moldow & Ambassador Anwarul Chowdhury (Philip Hellmich, Co-Host with Rick Ulfik) Host and Moderator for each dialogue: Rick Ulfik (Founder of We, The World) (Note: Schedule is subject to change – please check 11daysofglobalunity.org for updated information.) Have a question you want to ask Deepak Chopra or one of the other Summit speakers? Click here! Click here to register – it’s FREE! To be a Co-Sponsor or an Affiliate of this 11 Days Summit reply to this message or click here! |
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Thank you!Rick Ulfik
Founder of We, The World and the WE Campaign at WE.net Your generous Donation will help us to continue and expand our coalition-building. |
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Aspiring Hands, Inc., 7066 Sandy Springs Rd, Maumee, Ohio 43537 419-290-5788. Contact Bryon Schaefer
Collection of Food or Clothing, Serving food – dinner, lunch, etc., Making packets or items for distribution to those in need, Deliveries to Cancer patients, Spending time with senior citizens.
From 9/11 through 9/21, Terrazas Branch Library (Austin Public Libraries) will feature an ongoing display of relevant books as well as a community bulletin board and a suggestion table where people can post their own experiences of peace, their hopes for peace, their feelings on and how to better practice and share compassion to bring peace to the world. The library will be decorated with outdoor signs to publicize Peace Day.
This event is part of the Peace Day Austin activities.
Benefit Concert hosted by Fourth Street Live
-$5.00 cover charge to support Operation Helping Heroes
Boy Scouts of America, Erie Shores Council, 5600 W. Sylvania Ave., Toledo www.erieshorescouncil.org
Contact Andrew Curran andrew.curran@scouting.org
Fundraiser, Collection of Food or Clothing
Place of worship, businesses, and everywhere people are encourage to collect donate cans of food and non-perishable food items. We are asking everyone to place a box in your foyer or common area and let the food roll in. We will arrange for the local food pantries/banks to come pick up it and make sure it gets to the tummies of our children, our hungry, our military families and veterans.
Sharing of Happiness Government Center, Erie and Jackson Contact Bob “Mr. Happy” Moyers 419-533-4191 Center Of Unconditional Love Community Building Event
9/11 – 9/21 Christ the King Church Hub of Love – 4100 Harvest Ln, Toledo, OH 43623. Contact Brian Smith 419-475-4348 multiple projects in one space
The documentary, Kindness is Contagious, will be the kick-off for Circles of Peace 2015: Compassionate Communities and the Compassion Games: Survival of the Kindest. Kindness Is Contagious is a feel-good documentary, narrated by Catherine Ryan Hyde, bestselling author of the book and film Pay It Forward. Kindness is Contagious is about being nice and the benefits of being nice. The film profiles cutting-edge scientists and best-selling authors, from Berkeley to Harvard and everywhere in between, as well as everyday people from all walks of life whose lives illustrate their incredible discovery: NICE GUYS FINISH FIRST! Guests will also be treated to exclusive showing of the trailer for the landmark series Belief that will air October 18-24 on OWN.
Participants choose a five day period, or one day, between September 11 and September 21 on which they will only spend $3.96 a day on food. That is the amount a single person on welfare receives for food a day. Participants will be showing solidarity with people on welfare, while learning what it’s like to struggle to put adequate food on one’s table.
2. Participants are encouraged to calculate what they would normally spend per day on food and donate the difference – or more – to Winnipeg Harvest.
3. On Monday, September 21 at 11 a.m. at Winnipeg Harvest, all participants will be encouraged to attend a group discussion and share their experience. Following the discussion, all participants will be invited to tour Winnipeg Harvest facilities. Participants will be invited to share their experiences widely and continue working with Winnipeg Harvest to end the need for food banks. All participants will be advised of volunteering and donating opportunities.
4. Participants can email Janelle Duerksen at Janelle.duerksen@winnipegharvest.org for more information.
CommunityCare Clinics, 2150 South Byrne Road, Toledo, OH 43614. Contact Sally Itawi Serving food – dinner, lunch, etc., http://www.utcommunitycare.org/
Free Medical Clinic. The CommunityCare Clinic is a project of The University of Toledo College of Medicine
Fill the Bowl – have a PET FOOD drive to join your parish food pantry!
First Unitarian Church of Toledo Clothing / Hygiene Product Collection
Collection of gently used clothing and Hygiene Products will be donated to Tent City.
Knit Wits – knit & crochet hats, scarves & mittens for kids in need; monthly meeting and work at home
Food For Thought
316 Adams Street–Floor 2, Toledo, OH 43604 feedtoledo.org Contact Jill Bunge 419.972.0022
Serving food – dinner, lunch, etc., Making packets or items for distribution to those in need Friday Night Lunch Packing/Saturday Morning Distribution
Heroes Appreciation Week
Heroes in Action, Inc., 2429 S. Reynolds Road, Toledo, OH 43614, Contact Dawn Heisler 419 699 3439
Fundraiser, Serving food – dinner, lunch, etc., Military, Police & Military involved in educating 600 school children on doing right choices in life. Fun day as well with activities
Hindu Temple of Toledo Blood Drive, 4336 King Road, Sylvania, OH. 43560, Anant Dixit, anantadixit@yahoo.com, 419-843-4440 Blood donation for 9/11
United Way Winnipeg wishes to support the efforts of Doorways by collecting items for Home Starter Kits. Doorways works towards ending homelessness by using a ‘Housing First ‘approach to assist individuals to move from homelessness to independent/permanent housing. They coordinate an intake process for homeless individuals in partnership with five community organizations. The Home Starter Kits will help individuals with their transition out of homelessness.
Home Starter Kits will help support individuals as they transition into their first homes from homelessness. These kits will be comprised of various household items. We are requesting new and gently used donations of (but not limited to) the following:
– Toilet paper
– Dish soap
– Cleaning supplies
– Laundry baskets
– Tea towels
– Laundry detergent
– Brooms & dust pans
– Mops & mop pails
– Cutlery
– Alarm clock
– Pots
– Pans
– Shower curtain & rings
– Toilet cleaning brushes
– Garbage cans
– Garbage bags
– Toothbrushes & toothpaste
– Hand soap
– Can openers
– Spatulas
– Dryer sheets
– Kettles
– Toasters
– Cutting boards
Donations can be dropped off at United Way Winnipeg, 580 Main Street, Monday to Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Please keep items separate. The kits will be packaged at later date. If you have any questions, please contact Hillary Gair at United Way at 204-924-4273 or hgair@unitedwaywinnipeg.mb.ca
How were you affected by 9/11?…choose to respond in terms of:
-what are your memories and how were you affected that day?
-how has your life been changed/how have you been affected since that day?
-how has our country/the world been changed by that day?
Special focus on under-represented, minority, and special groups (e.g. muslims, fallen heroes)
SUBMIT TO: https://crowdsource.storymaps.esri.com/stories/compassion-report
Lutheran Social Services, 2149 Collingwood Blvd, Toledo
Contact Mark mhill@lssnwo.org
Collection of Food or Clothing, Volunteer Food Pantry
5-7am live TV coverage/early morning news, leaderboard info and upcoming dedications/ceremonies.
FREE donuts/coffee.
9-10am middle school-college volunteers remembrance walk down 4th street Live with Butler band.
10-11am students visit Metro Hall/Jefferson Square for 9/11 and Opening ceremonies, placement of remembrance flags.
12pm-1pm Memorial Event and LUNCH at Fourth Street Live!
Training for ChooseWell staff
4-6pm
Most Blessed Sacrament Parish, 2240 Castlewood Dr., Toledo, Contact Jill Fishman, Compassion Games,
Hub of Love – multiple projects in one space
Mustard Seed Outreach
5420 302nd Street, Toledo, OH 43611; Contact Lori Jarrell mustardseed302@hotmail.com
Collection of Food or Clothing
Principle Business Enterprises Associates Give Back 20189 Pine Lake Rd, Bowling Green, OH 43402 www.tranquilityproducts.com www.principlebusinessenterprises.com
contact Jane Curry 419.352.1551 ext. #223, Penny collection Shoe Collection for Save the Feet & Penny Collection for Cocoon Shelter
Quilts of Compassion PO Box 350296, Toledo, OH 43635, Janice Grimes Compassion In Action – Check out our Facebook Page!!! 419-708-9343 Making prayer quilts at multiple locations and delivering quilts to organizations and individuals throughout the community to “Bring Hope & Encouragement to the Hurting” to those we lovingly serve.
Rahab’s Heart, That Neighborhood Church, 1501 N. Ontario St. Toledo Ohio 43604. Contact Tina 419-344-6892 www.rahabsheart.com
Street Outreach; Hot Dinners; Drop-In Center Street Outreach;
Read for Literacy, Inc. 325 N. Michigan, Toledo, OH 43604, Contact Diana Bush, 419-242-7323
Literacy tutoring
9/11, 9/14-18, 9/21 The Claver House at St. Martin de Porres Parish 1119 W. Bancroft Street Toledo, OH 43606. Serving food – dinner, lunch, etc. Contact Gayle Vonderembse (419) 340-1738 A Hospitality Kitchen that serves food Monday-Friday every week of the year.
Toledo Community Outreach Days; Mobile Pantry The University Church, 4747 Hill Ave, Toledo, Megan Firestone-Bringe Serving food – dinner, lunch, etc., Community Garden Volunteering
Toledo Police Patrolman Association Canned Goods Drive Drop offs 1947 Franklin St, 525 N Erie St, 2301 Nebraska Ave, 2330 W. Sylvania
Contact Det. Mark Nelson 419-936-3831
Toledo Seagate Food Bank, 526 High Street, Toledo, OH 43609 https://www.facebook.com/pages/Toledo-Seagate-Food-Bank/106679977129 Contact Cheri Dennis 419-244-6996
Feed our neighbors in NorthWest Ohio Collection of Food or Clothing, Making packets or items for distribution to those in need
Tree Toledo Digs & Displays, 3156 Doyle Street & Various addresses around town, Toledo, OH 43608 Contact Bev Bingle urbanhermit@catholicweb.com, 419-360-1217
United Way of Greater Toledo, 424 Jackson St., Toledo, Oh 43604, Grace Martin, Various Group Volunteer Projects 419-254-4672
A food drive benefiting the Lorain County Community College (LCCC, LC3) food pantry will be held on the main campus. Boxes marked with bright blue Compassion Games Food Drive will be in every building by entrance ways.
For those of you who asked me to send this: We will be having a Freedom 101 4-day seminar for women in the Louisville Jail Sept 10-13 (Th & Fr nights, 6-10, Sat 9am-10pm with 2 meal breaks, and Sun 8am-noon-ish). You are all welcome to attend as students. I would need to get you screened beforehand, however. (You’d need to send a copy of State ID + SSN to our contact at the jail.) Let me know if interested! We have one “external student” so far and a max of 17 “internal” students, last I heard. It is an amazing experience and can be life-changing. (It was for me!) ================================================================================btw – please be sure you have THIS email for me in whatever lists you have.(Note the dash between “freedom” and “101” (dbulleit@freedom-101.org); some people have mistaken it for an underscore, as in freedom_101); I am missing too much important email from you!
Greater Toledo & NW Ohio are kicking off their games with action – cleanups in the Warehouse & Uptown Districts. Teams will use trash pickers, gloves, bags and compassionate elbow grease to spruce up two central city neighborhoods.
Mayor Greg Fischer, and the Flags4Vets Organization, cordially invite citizens of the Louisville area to participate in this solemn event to honor & remember those who lost their lives at The World Trade Center, The Pentagon, and those who were lost on Flight 93. Volunteers are needed to help place 2,977 U.S. Flags to honor those lost that day. Jefferson Street will be closed between 5th and 6th Streets, and 6th Street will be closed between Liberty and Jefferson and will be occupied by First Responder Vehicles.
Contact info: Fred Moore – Flags4Vets Moore@theusflag.com 502-931-0374
The Why:
This is Phase 1 of Post 2713’s building makeover. The focus will be on Painting the interior and exterior, cleanup around and inside the building, and brush removal around the parking area.
We will be doing this in partnership with the Hall’s current monthly occupants: Celtic Arts NW, Serenity Now AA, Fit4Mom and the Underground Theater.
The VFW is wishes to make the space more appealing to the community but they can’t do it without your help.
Come to work, meet new people and make a difference. It’s time to Report for Duty in your community!
In honor of National Service Day
The Mission:
To cleanup, paint, and landscape at Farewell-Roosevelt VFW Post 2713
The Why:
This is Phase 1 of Post 2713’s building makeover. The focus will be on Painting the interior and exterior, cleanup around and inside the building, and brush removal around the parking area.
We will be doing this in partnership with the Hall’s current monthly occupants: Celtic Arts NW, Serenity Now AA, Fit4Mom and the Underground Theater.
The VFW is wishes to make the space more appealing to the community but they can’t do it without your help.
Come to work, meet new people and make a difference. It’s time to Report for Duty in your community!
***We will also start preparing West Seattle Veterans Center for the 9/12 support event****
An Opening Ceremony for the Compassion Games honoring our first responders, reflecting on September 11th, and kicking off the Compassion Games on campus and in the community
The Torch Relay is set to mark the beginning of the Compassion Games on September 11th.
Take turns carrying the Compassion Games ‘torch’ down Victoria Street from 6th Avenue to 1st Avenue tomorrow at noon.
The Healers of the Valley will be thanking our first responders for ALL they do for us!!
Fourth Street Live! is hosting a benefit concert for Operation Helping Heroes. Great live music performances. Come honor all of our First Responders and Military Heroes and have a great time!
Fourth Street Live! is hosting a benefit concert for Operation Helping Heroes. Great live music performances. Come honor all of our First Responders and Military Heroes and have a great time!
Help celebrate Mexico’s Independence with free games, prizes, music & food! Everyone is welcome!
[September 10 – 21 is Global Austin’s WELCOMING WEEK – a series of events throughout Austin that highlights the contributions of international visitors and immigrants to the community. These events will bring together foreign- and U.S.-born community members in a spirit of unity.
Welcoming Week, coincidentally, coincides with Peace Day Austin (9/11-9/21). Because the missions and interests of Global Austin and Peace Day Austin are comparable, several local organizations have come together to facilitate a city-wide celebration of the diversity that is Austin and the International Day of Peace. We are many organizations – with many activities and events.]
To RSVP & Livestream from anywhere on the planet head to -Facebook Event Link-
2015 Annual Compassion Games Opening Ceremony
“Compassion Is Our Power-Source”
Friday, September 11th 6:00 – 9:00 PM
Livestream link to participate online:
At Seattle Center Armory Building
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We welcome you locally and globally to join us in our Opening Ceremony of The 2015 Annual Compassion Games, the largest compassion competition in the world!! Our intent is to move, inspire, and challenge you into conscious action in collective compassion during the 11 Days of Global Unity!
Intentions
What are the objectives?
- On the evening of 9/11, this event is the opening ceremonies for the 2015 annual Compassion Games.
- The evening event will honor the spirit of unity and compassion that arose in the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 attacks.
- The event will provide a positive, helpful way for people to remember and pay tribute to the 9/11 victims, and honor those that rose in service in response to the attacks.
- Compassion Games offer inspiring and creative ways to contribute to the community and will engage the community in playing in the games.
- We will experience and share on the report map compassionate actions taking place in the three dimensions of compassion for others, earth, and ourselves
- We will emphasize the King County Health Clinic and the campaign to eradicate veteran homelessness Operation: Welcome One Home
- We’re looking to sign up 10,000 new secret agents, recruit 150 new teams and serve 1 million people during the global games
We are also about to launch a new way to play that focuses on ending homelessness for veterans in partnership with the Mayor of Louisville and other cities around the country in support of the initiative called “Welcome One Home”. We will be introducing opportunities right here in the Salish Sea Region to play the games and shine your most compassionate self with various inspiring opportunities.
This Opening Ceremony will include a variety of vibrant compassion games activists icons, global activist, and performances that all share the secret ingredient of passion for The 2015 Annual Compassion Games!! Partner highlights of the night are KEXP, Seattle Center Free Clinic, LoveCityLove, Joel & Michelle Levey, Global Unity in Dance with Nia Seattle Teachers, Compassionate Action Network, Andy Smallman with Agents of Compassion, Compassionate Seattle, Seattle Stand Down, Rabbi Ted Falcon, Jamal Rahman, Grinning Yogi, Women of Wisdom, Operation One Home, Backbone Campaign, Honoring Beloved Community, and more!!
From the Voice of Lady Compassion:
There is a reality that is worth stepping into today. A sacred time and space that encourages you to rise and step forward into what matters inside you. A sacred world where all beings open their eyes to an inclusive sunlit new day. A container that knows your next move is precious…… your next breath is courageous……. the next hand you touch is held with gratitude….. the next words you speak do matter.
The morning sun reaches into every single heart on this planet reminding us that we are all members of the “International Kindness Team”.
Let’s honor this moment knowing this shared timeless truth: “Compassion is the antidote to the fear, disconnection, and isolation of our time.”
An inner genuine smile begins to blossom ripple waves of win-win -win-win- win over the planet’s suffering with this ancient door opening to remember a way of living where we all impact a better world.
In the silence of this day all eyes reach the sky discovering a vision written in the white clouds in all languages, “Compassion is our power source.” These words imprint an intention that moves us all into a unified action song of The Compassion Games. This invitation in the sky is what unites us in our hearts through The Annual Compassion Games for 11 days in Global Unity starting September 11th National Day of Service through September 21st International Day of Peace. The next hand you touch voice you hear tree you see is also playing with you. This day ignites a spark inside all hearts beating a common challenge to elevate caring actions. This participation starts within self into pure love and acceptance. This space invites you to celebrate the relationship with others around you and the connection to others across the globe in the next 11 days as your team. All 37 trillion cells in your body and 7.5 trillion people have the chance challenge this planet we call home with the largest compassion challenge ever. “When we play together everyone, everything, and the planet Earth wins.”
Join TRU to celebrate their 45th Anniversary with a jam packed night of fun, music and entertainment! This outdoor, family friendly event is FREE to attend and hosted by Steve Ayres from B100 Kamloops’ at Work Music Station!
Purchase dinner from one of the multiple food stations, or grab a beverage in the Beverage Garden.
Enjoy live music from Van Damsel, Anita Eccleston& Serious Dogs. Bring a blanket or a lawn chair to lounge in the grassy commons “music in the park” style!
Limited VIP seating available for Cariboo College, UCC, and Thompson Rivers University Alumni & Friends.
Children’s play area will have activities to make sure the kids are celebrating too, featuring a bouncy castle and face painter.
FREE parking on campus during the event.
Should you have any questions, feel free to contact AdvancementEvents@tru.ca.
Ripple Gatherings are taking place worldwide in select cities. These are a time when women gather to relax and receive gems of inspiration for them to Be, Create and Collaborate together in Harmony.
Wobeon Launches New 2015 Texas World Cultures Conference
2015 Sessions Explore Interplay of Music, Migration and Conflict
TICKETS: FREE ENTRY with rsvp at http://wobeonfest.com/tickets
AUSTIN, TX – WobeonFest, the Austin World Music and Jazz Fusion Festival, announced the addition of a new conference as a precursor to this year’s festival. The conference offers a new forum for the discussion of global cultural and economic issues. The conference will be held at Ironwood Hall, the same venue where the music festival will be held that weekend.
Ms Guneeta Singh Bhalla, Founder and Executive Director of the 1947 Partition Archive (http://1947PartitionArchive.org), will be a keynote speaker at the conference. The 1947 Partition Archive documents, preserves and shares eye witness accounts from all ethnic, religious and economic communities affected by the Partition of British India in 1947. Also presenting a keynote address is Ms Jenny Hoff (http://jennyhoff.com), Austin-based journalist and former KXAN Austin news anchor who has covered stories around the world. Ms Hoff recently returned to Austin after completing her MBA at the Berlin School of Creative Leadership.
The Conference also includes several panel discussions exploring the interplay of art and migration. Participants include Vieux Farka Toure and Herbert Kinobe (renowned musicians from Mali and Uganda, respectively, who will perform later that weekend at the World Music festival), Ms Mouna Hashem (Executive Director of Watan USA that focuses on Syrian humanitarian issues), and noted members of Austin’s global music, academic and humanitarian communities. The conference is free and open to the public courtesy of Wobeon (RSVP required at http://WobeonFest.com/tickets).
For more information, please see http://wobeonfest.com/TexasWorldCulturesConference
About WOBEON:
WOBEON is an Austin-based music promotion and events company dedicated to the curation and discovery of global music and musicians. WOBEON operates WorldBeatOnline, a global music curation website, and produces WobeonFest and select other live music performances in the Austin area.
Compelling stories of compassion, including Rev. Kris Christensen, director of West Central Episcopal Mission serving the homeless in Spokane, Omy K, a survivor of the Rwandan genocide who has created a non-profit to help Rwandan street kids, and Naima Quarles-Burnley, president of the Spokane NAACP. Vibrant music by Omy K and Pamela Benton. Group compassion pledge and more!
11 Days of Service and Compassion – Oakland CA
Sep 11 to Sep 21
Community Beautification Project
Councilman Noel Gallo and community members invite you to join the Weekly Community Beautification event in District 5, Oakland. Community clean-ups promote safer and cleaner neighborhood by encouraging community members to take direct action to beautify our communities one block-at-time!
Saturday, September 12th
9am to 12pm
Location: St Jarlath Catholic Church; 2620 Pleasanton St., Oakland, CA 94602
Saturday, September 19th
9am to 12pm
Locartion: Meet at the corner of Fruitvale Ave and Alameda Ave.
Sept 12-13 15th Annual International Festival, Islamic Center of Greater Toledo, 25877 Scheider Rd,
Perrysburg, OH 43551 contact Emmett Kadri 419-697-7969, https://www.facebook.com/events/1606984879567894/
Diversity Event: Culture, Food, Clothing, Tours, Rides
Baha’is of Lucas County 5121 Brinthaven Road Sylvania, Ohio 43560 Contact John Krochmalny
Fundraiser Walk for Sunshine Financial Generosity
Start time for this work is at 9:00am. Hildegard House is Kentucky’s first and only comfort care home. We need everybody’s help to cleanup drywall dust, donation sorting, do painting, and more! The start time on this day will be from 9:00am until (not sure yet).
JOIN OUR SEATTLE SWIM!
Join us for our annual Seattle swim on beautiful Lake Washington on September 12, 2015! Don’t miss out on this fun and impactful event!
Swimmers can choose from a 1/2 mile, 1 mile, or 2 mile swims, along with a kid’s splash for children and their families. You also have the option of captaining a team, or volunteering at the swim.
Since its founding in 1987, Swim Across America (SAA) has continued to lead the way in the fight against cancer, which affects countless people worldwide every year. Since its inception in 2009, SAA Seattle has been running a successful event on Lake Wahington. The fundraising minimum for this event is $300, but of course we encourage you to set your own higher goals if you like! All proceeds from your local fundraising go directly towards the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, UW Medicine, and Seattle Children’s Hospital. Because of past years’ successes, there is now even a lab named after Swim Across America at the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance!
Joining this Facebook event does not register you for the swim! To become a part of our Seattle event in any way visit our website at www.swimacrossamerica.org/seattle2015
Register today to join our growing Swim Across America family of fathers, mothers, sons, daughters, Olympians, community members, and many more!
You don’t have to be a swimmer to volunteer at the Seattle, Lake Washington Swim or at the Moses Lake Swim. Volunteers are the backbone of Swim Across America Events and we need kayakers, boaters and lifeguards. Please register below to be a volunteer at the either of the swims, or contact either SAA, Seattle Event Director atdavid@swimacrossamerica.org
Register Today!: Click here to register as a volunteer for the Seattle Open Water Swim. Click here for the Moses Lake Swim. There you will have the option to select which kind of volunteer you would like to be. You are welcome to fundraise as well if you would like but you are not required to do so. We thank you for your help on event day!
Volunteer information at this link here
Toledo Botanical Garden/Toledo GROWs program, 900 Oneida Street, Toledo, OH 43608, Contact Yvonne Dubielak yvonne.dubielak@toledogarden.org, 419.720.8714, gardening volunteers Honey Harvest Dinner 9/12
Toledo Campus Ministry
www.toledocampusministry.org
2086 Brookdale Road, Toledo, OH 43606
Contact David Montgomery (419) 536-4865
Fundraiser, Neighborhood cleanup – Yard Work at the Ark, 9/12; Clean Your Streams, 9/19; CROP Walk, 9/20
We’ll walk from the National Guard Armory to Papa John’s Cardinal Stadium and participate in the Cards March with the UofL football team.
For those of you who asked me to send this: We will be having a Freedom 101 4-day seminar for women in the Louisville Jail Sept 10-13 (Th & Fr nights, 6-10, Sat 9am-10pm with 2 meal breaks, and Sun 8am-noon-ish). You are all welcome to attend as students. I would need to get you screened beforehand, however. (You’d need to send a copy of State ID + SSN to our contact at the jail.) Let me know if interested! We have one “external student” so far and a max of 17 “internal” students, last I heard. It is an amazing experience and can be life-changing. (It was for me!) ================================================================================btw – please be sure you have THIS email for me in whatever lists you have.(Note the dash between “freedom” and “101” (dbulleit@freedom-101.org); some people have mistaken it for an underscore, as in freedom_101); I am missing too much important email from you!
Louisville’s first and only comfort care home needs everybody’s help on September 9th from 9:00am-? There is lots of drywall dust, donation sorting, painting, and more that needs to get done!
Are you a registered non-profit organization who needs a team of hackers, designers or marketers to work on a special project for your organization?
Kamloops Innovation has an exciting opportunity that may help meet your needs!
United Way has partnered with Kamloops Innovation and RTOWN to host a creative hackfest. That means that a group of individuals will donate a day of their time to solve challenges that you are facing
Background:
The volunteers participating are young professionals within the creative field (e.g., writers, designers, illustrators, videographers, programmers, developers). During the event, one or more volunteers will donate 24 hours to completing the accepted ideas.
Even if you don’t have an idea for what you need, we encourage you to fill out the application and we will match you with an expert volunteer who will help you find a solution to your biggest challenge.
Details:
September 12, 2015 all-day
Kamloops Innovation – 348 Tranquille Road, Kamloops, BC V2B 3G6, Canada
Questions? Email amanda@kamloopsinnovation.ca
Team up with Austin Habitat for Humanity by participating in our All Faith Build! Austin Habitat welcomes the Interfaith Action of Central Texas (iACT) Hands on Housing members of any faith to join us in building a home, community, and hope. Faith communities are invited to a day of service on September 12 to kick off the build and celebrate the Austin faith network. 9AM – 4PM Magin Meadow Neighborhood. Contact for info: Becca Davis at bdavis@austinhabitat.org
Walk for Hope: “The Happiest Walk on Earth”
A compassion-themed 3-kilometer walk. Come visit the Tree of Forgiveness, the Garden of Kindness, paintings of inspiring quotes, and much more!
It’s transformative. It’s introspective. It’s Free! It’s our gift to you.
$7..00 for Parking
Parkinson SuperWalk is the largest national fundraising event for Parkinson Society Canada (PSC) and its regional partners. Approximately 14,000 people from coast-to-coast organize and take part in Parkinson SuperWalk. This year marks the 25th anniversary of this nationwide event.
Parkinson SuperWalk will take place on September 12 and 13, 2015 in 115 communities throughout Canada. Last year, with participation from supporters like you, we raised $2.9 million across Canada. Since 1990, we have raised more than $31 million for support services, research, advocacy and education.
Objective is to provide free weekly community meals, free produce market and social and cultural activities to low income earners, the homeless, and people living with mental and physical disabilities, in Kamloops. Also to encourage volunteerism and capacity building within communities of mental health, disabilities, homelessness, and low income earners.
Every Saturday dinner will be served at their new location St Vincent De Paul doors open at 10:30 am (coffee, snacks, social time) and meal served at 3:30pm.
This year, we are partnering with our friends at the Downtown Women’s Center (http://www.downtownwomenscenter.org/) and advocate to end homelessness for women.
This Master Class is courtesy of the international music exchange program between Austin’s Classical Music for the World and the Robert Schumann Konservatorium, Zwickau, Germany. ((Sponsoring Organization: Classical Music for the World)
[September 10 – 21 is Global Austin’s WELCOMING WEEK – a series of events throughout Austin that highlights the contributions of international visitors and immigrants to the community. These events will bring together foreign- and U.S.-born community members in a spirit of unity.
Welcoming Week, coincidentally, coincides with Peace Day Austin (9/11-9/21). Because the missions and interests of Global Austin and Peace Day Austin are comparable, several local organizations have come together to facilitate a city-wide celebration of the diversity that is Austin and the International Day of Peace. We are many organizations – with many activities and events.]
The September Concert features the music and dance of Austin’s sister cities:
Adelaide, Australia; Angers, France; Antalya, Turkey; Koblenz, Germany; Lima, Peru; Maseru, Lesotho; Oita, Japan; Old Orlu, Nigeria; Saltillo, Mexico; Taichung, Taiwan; Xishuangbanna, China. This 5th annual September Concert is a celebration of peace and humanity through music. The Austin Sister Cities Committees are “citizen diplomats” and volunteers, who foster friendly relations and understanding between the citizens of Austin and our sister cities around the world and promote Austin’s educational, cultural, and economic presence in the international community.This event is free and open to the public!
Born in 2002 as a small, local grassroots effort, the September Concert has grown to global proportion with a mission to promote global peace. There are now over 200 September Concerts across the world. (Sponsoring Organizations: The City of Austin, Austin Community College, Continuing Education-Global Learning Institute, Austin Sister Cities International and Sister Cities International).
[September 10 – 21 is Global Austin’s WELCOMING WEEK – a series of events throughout Austin that highlights the contributions of international visitors and immigrants to the community. These events will bring together foreign- and U.S.-born community members in a spirit of unity.
Welcoming Week, coincidentally, coincides with Peace Day Austin (9/11-9/21). Because the missions and interests of Global Austin and Peace Day Austin are comparable, several local organizations have come together to facilitate a city-wide celebration of the diversity that is Austin and the International Day of Peace. We are many organizations – with many activities and events.]
Share your ideas on how compassion is developed and nurtured. Discussion followed by art project to ground and sustain the ideas!
This solo piano concert is courtesy of the international music exchange program between Austin’s Classical Music for the World and the Robert Schumann Konservatorium, Zwickau, Germany. ((Sponsoring Organization: Classical Music for the World)
Wobeon Announces 3rd Annual Austin World Music Festival and Adds Jazz Fusion Festival!
Star Power Includes Billy Cobham Spectrum 40, Vieux Farka Toure and Scott Henderson Trio
TICKETS: http://wobeonfest.com/tickets2015
AUSTIN, TX – WOBEONFEST returns to Ironwood Hall in Downtown Austin this September, marking the third year of the homegrown festival with a global reach. In addition to the World Music Festival, the organizers have added a Jazz Fusion Festival to the 2-day gathering, which will feature drum legend Billy Cobham (of Mahavishnu Orchestra fame) and guitar great Scott Henderson on Sunday, September 13th. Malian guitarist Vieux Farka Toure, who is fondly referred to as the “Jimi Hendrix of the Sahara,” will headline the World Music Festival on Saturday, September 12th. Festival attendees can also participate in the pre-festival conference comprised of panel discussions and individual presentations specifically designed for internationally-minded Texans. Billy Cobham brings his Spectrum 40 quartet with jazz greats Dean Brown and Ric Fierabracci to the inaugural Jazz Fusion Festival. The band celebrates the music of Cobham’s first album and performs in the spirit of the rich 1970s Fusion era. Scott Henderson and his new trio with Travis Carlton and Alan Hertz will also be featured. Henderson is best known for his innovative work with fusion band Tribal Tech, and for his role with Joe Zawinul and The Zawinul Syndicate. Festival Founder Jakes Srinivasan speaks on the event’s new extension: “We are always looking at breaking new ground with the kind of music we curate. If you see the many, many shows and artists we’ve promoted and presented over the last 3 years, you’ll see that you can’t necessarily put these bands in neat boxes.”He elaborates, “All music is world music, as they say, and there’s a huge pool of great artists – even right here in our own backyard that are incredibly exciting to watch and hear, but for whatever reason don’t get the same share of voice or airplay as we think they deserve. World Music falls in that category, so does Jazz Fusion.” Jazz fusion is a progressive amalgamation of Rock and Jazz that blossomed in the ’70s and ’80s, and continues to have a tremendous global, yet simultaneously niche, following. Fans of legendary artists like Chick Corea, Miles Davis, and Weather Report continue to harbor their passion for jazz fusion even today. Of late, bands like Grammy®-winning Snarky Puppy are bringing new fans to this exciting genre. In 2014, Wobeon introduced Dallas-based jazz fusion band Funky Knuckles to festival fans and received great feedback. Producing separately-programmed days with single-day ticketing for each of the two genres allows both audience bases to get a full sampling of music closest to their interest. Local jazz guitarist Glenn Rexach, rising fusion stars Curious Android, and local group Collin Shook Quintet round out the lineup. Malian guitarist Vieux Farka Toure and his quintet headline the 3rd annual World Music Festival, the most prominent festival of its kind in the capital city. The son of the legendary Ali Farka Toure, Vieux brings a fiery electric rock and blues edge to his melodic dexterity. Also confirmed are Ugandan global fusion multi-instrumentalist Kinobe and Global Junction, local Afrobeat favorite Hard Proof, Eastern Soul diva Naga Valli and Brazilian-influenced outfit Mente Clara. Austin-based Atlas Maior returns to the festival and Bollywood dance troupe Agni the Dance Company. The SunRay Project will provide tunes for the World Music Festival after party. Wobeon has featured renowned artists from all corners of the world, from Angola to Morocco to Brooklyn, and from right here in Austin. Afropop queen Angelique Kidjo, Bermuda reggae sensation Collie Buddz, Electro-cumbia party starters Bomba Estereo, and big beat bhangra juggernauts Red Baraat have all performed at the gathering, along with local favorites like Atash, Bramaya, and Maracatu Texas. This festival is made possible in part by the generosity and support of organizations such as KUTX Radio Austin, the City of Austin Cultural Affairs Division of the Economic Development Department, Texas Folklife, Ironwood Hall and others.
Oaxaca, Arte y Movimiento Dancers/Edgar Yapez: Guest Speakers include: Consul de Mexico, Carlos Gonzalez Gutierrez, Teatro Espacio Agua Viva “Se vende una mula”, Hispanic Alliance for the Performing Arts Youth Classical Orquestra performs: Huapango Arribeno MusicalQuartet and Mariachi Las Coronelas Mexican National Anthem. (Sponsoring Organization: Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center).
[September 10 – 21 is Global Austin’s WELCOMING WEEK – a series of events throughout Austin that highlights the contributions of international visitors and immigrants to the community. These events will bring together foreign- and U.S.-born community members in a spirit of unity.
Welcoming Week, coincidentally, coincides with Peace Day Austin (9/11-9/21). Because the missions and interests of Global Austin and Peace Day Austin are comparable, several local organizations have come together to facilitate a city-wide celebration of the diversity that is Austin and the International Day of Peace. We are many organizations – with many activities and events.]
For those of you who asked me to send this: We will be having a Freedom 101 4-day seminar for women in the Louisville Jail Sept 10-13 (Th & Fr nights, 6-10, Sat 9am-10pm with 2 meal breaks, and Sun 8am-noon-ish). You are all welcome to attend as students. I would need to get you screened beforehand, however. (You’d need to send a copy of State ID + SSN to our contact at the jail.) Let me know if interested! We have one “external student” so far and a max of 17 “internal” students, last I heard. It is an amazing experience and can be life-changing. (It was for me!) ================================================================================btw – please be sure you have THIS email for me in whatever lists you have.(Note the dash between “freedom” and “101” (dbulleit@freedom-101.org); some people have mistaken it for an underscore, as in freedom_101); I am missing too much important email from you!
This will be both a 5k and a 1 mile fun run in honor of 9/11 and in order to raise funds for both veterans and first responders.
Richardson Interfaith Alliance, Helping Agencies Serving Richardson, Feeding Children Everywhere, and CompassonateDFW are partnering to bring over 180 volunteers together to package over 20,000 meals that will be distributed to local food banks and pantries and to a location in Zambia which feeds thousands of children daily.
As we initiate our main event, packaging over 20,000 meals with Feeding Children Everywhere, the sponsors of the event want to recognize and honor our Richardson Texas First Responders – Police, Firemen, Emergency Medical Services, and local Veterans. Our hope is that the Mayor of Richardson will be present to initiate the entire afternoon event and recognize our first responders.
Short presentation and sharing of stories followed by small group dialogues exploring the relationship between compassion for self and compassion for others
This Concert is courtesy of the international music exchange program between Austin’s Classical Music for the World and the Robert Schumann Konservatorium, Zwickau, Germany. ((Sponsoring Organization: Classical Music for the World).
[September 10 – 21 is Global Austin’s WELCOMING WEEK – a series of events throughout Austin that highlights the contributions of international visitors and immigrants to the community. These events will bring together foreign- and U.S.-born community members in a spirit of unity.
Welcoming Week, coincidentally, coincides with Peace Day Austin (9/11-9/21). Because the missions and interests of Global Austin and Peace Day Austin are comparable, several local organizations have come together to facilitate a city-wide celebration of the diversity that is Austin and the International Day of Peace. We are many organizations – with many activities and events.]
Wobeon Announces 3rd Annual Austin World Music Festival and Adds Jazz Fusion Festival!
Star Power Includes Billy Cobham Spectrum 40, Vieux Farka Toure and Scott Henderson Trio
TICKETS: http://wobeonfest.com/tickets2015
AUSTIN, TX – WOBEONFEST returns to Ironwood Hall in Downtown Austin this September, marking the third year of the homegrown festival with a global reach. In addition to the World Music Festival, the organizers have added a Jazz Fusion Festival to the 2-day gathering, which will feature drum legend Billy Cobham (of Mahavishnu Orchestra fame) and guitar great Scott Henderson on Sunday, September 13th. Malian guitarist Vieux Farka Toure, who is fondly referred to as the “Jimi Hendrix of the Sahara,” will headline the World Music Festival on Saturday, September 12th. Festival attendees can also participate in the pre-festival conference comprised of panel discussions and individual presentations specifically designed for internationally-minded Texans. Billy Cobham brings his Spectrum 40 quartet with jazz greats Dean Brown and Ric Fierabracci to the inaugural Jazz Fusion Festival. The band celebrates the music of Cobham’s first album and performs in the spirit of the rich 1970s Fusion era. Scott Henderson and his new trio with Travis Carlton and Alan Hertz will also be featured. Henderson is best known for his innovative work with fusion band Tribal Tech, and for his role with Joe Zawinul and The Zawinul Syndicate. Festival Founder Jakes Srinivasan speaks on the event’s new extension: “We are always looking at breaking new ground with the kind of music we curate. If you see the many, many shows and artists we’ve promoted and presented over the last 3 years, you’ll see that you can’t necessarily put these bands in neat boxes.”He elaborates, “All music is world music, as they say, and there’s a huge pool of great artists – even right here in our own backyard that are incredibly exciting to watch and hear, but for whatever reason don’t get the same share of voice or airplay as we think they deserve. World Music falls in that category, so does Jazz Fusion.” Jazz fusion is a progressive amalgamation of Rock and Jazz that blossomed in the ’70s and ’80s, and continues to have a tremendous global, yet simultaneously niche, following. Fans of legendary artists like Chick Corea, Miles Davis, and Weather Report continue to harbor their passion for jazz fusion even today. Of late, bands like Grammy®-winning Snarky Puppy are bringing new fans to this exciting genre. In 2014, Wobeon introduced Dallas-based jazz fusion band Funky Knuckles to festival fans and received great feedback. Producing separately-programmed days with single-day ticketing for each of the two genres allows both audience bases to get a full sampling of music closest to their interest. Local jazz guitarist Glenn Rexach, rising fusion stars Curious Android, and local group Collin Shook Quintet round out the lineup. Malian guitarist Vieux Farka Toure and his quintet headline the 3rd annual World Music Festival, the most prominent festival of its kind in the capital city. The son of the legendary Ali Farka Toure, Vieux brings a fiery electric rock and blues edge to his melodic dexterity. Also confirmed are Ugandan global fusion multi-instrumentalist Kinobe and Global Junction, local Afrobeat favorite Hard Proof, Eastern Soul diva Naga Valli and Brazilian-influenced outfit Mente Clara. Austin-based Atlas Maior returns to the festival and Bollywood dance troupe Agni the Dance Company. The SunRay Project will provide tunes for the World Music Festival after party. Wobeon has featured renowned artists from all corners of the world, from Angola to Morocco to Brooklyn, and from right here in Austin. Afropop queen Angelique Kidjo, Bermuda reggae sensation Collie Buddz, Electro-cumbia party starters Bomba Estereo, and big beat bhangra juggernauts Red Baraat have all performed at the gathering, along with local favorites like Atash, Bramaya, and Maracatu Texas. This festival is made possible in part by the generosity and support of organizations such as KUTX Radio Austin, the City of Austin Cultural Affairs Division of the Economic Development Department, Texas Folklife, Ironwood Hall and others.
This hot meal program serves a nutritious dinner at Kamloops United Church every Sunday afternoon year round and is mainly a volunteer driven program. The dinners are provided without charge
Boys & Girls Clubs of Toledo 2250 N. Detroit Ave. Toledo, OH 43606 Contact Shawna Woody Serving food – dinner, lunch, etc., Neighborhood cleanup, Hub of Love – multiple projects in one space
Friendly Center Help give Voice – Community lunches
Friendly Center Anne Smith 419-243-1289 http://www.friendly-center.org/
Serving food – dinner, lunch, etc.
The F Word: Stories of Forgiveness Exhibition is a thought provoking collection of arresting images and personal narratives exploring forgiveness in the face of atrocity.
The exhibition will be located at three locations around the city over the span of two weeks.
The Arthur V Mauro Centre at the University of Manitoba
Riddell Hall, at the University of Winnipeg (UW Link)
COST: Free
We will be making cards to honor our local veterans and currently serving members. Come say thanks by making a card or banner.
Join Peace Through Commerce at the Khabele + Strong Incubator for a multi-age interactive experience on how radical thinking and innovative approaches to building prosperity can help communities sustain peace. Our discussion will include how you are, or can become, a peace builder in your community.
Join us as we hear from Aqeela Sherrils, peace advocate, mediator and spirit-centered activist and you why compassion is so critically needed at all levels of our community.
Special Guest
Award winning spoken word artist
Deon Lucas
Powerful Dialogue
Community Powered Solutions
In the spirit of compassion and as “Team Compassionate California” we hope you will join us in playing the 2015 Compassion Games and bring a love offering of
non-perishable food for the local food pantry
yarn or material that we will donate to the Ca Women’s Institute prison in Chino. They are playing in the Games and making caps, scarves, blankets for homeless veterans, hospitals, women’s shelters and nursing homes.
In celebration of the International Day of Peace and Austin’s Poems for Peace Initiative, Usha Akella will read from her new book ‘The Rosary of Latitudes.’ In THE ROSARY OF LATITUDES, poet, author and playwright Usha Akella investigates her Indian identity with place and travel through poems, prose and photographs. While the beads on her rosary come from different latitudes in Europe, the Americas, Asia and Australia, she has found a way to combine them in a harmonious collection that flows like water and sings in many voices. As she travels from country to country, Akella explores a wide range of cultural and spiritual matters, including the paradoxical nature of identity and the many-layered process one must face to reconcile the splintered parts of one’s self. Just as Pablo Neruda and Walt Whitman explored travel and place, THE ROSARY OF LATITUDES shows readers how travel has shaped and informed Akella’s literary outlook on life through language, rhythm and landscape. This reading is part of the Peace Day Austin activities. (Presented by the Austin Community College Arts and Humanities Division and Co-sponsored by the Austin Community College Peace and Conflict Studies Center).
The film is about one of the biggest water restoration projects in North America, and the themes of the film are at the intersection of, and dilemmas arising from the following topics: natural resources management, specifically issues around water, development discourse, environment and sustainability, human rights, relationships between indigenous and non-indigenous communities, inter-generational conflict, and community activism.
You are invited to find out more about mediation available locally by talking to one of the mediators from Mediation Services during the lunch break. They would love to have a conversation with you about the mediation process, their services, or a conflict you have in your life.
www.ariverbetweenus.com
COST: Free. Seating is limited.
RSVP: Please confirm your particpation to alkakr436@gmail.com
Celebremos! Hispanic Heritage Month Opening Event. Free fair with booths, displays and informational tables.
Come de-stress with snacks, marble art, cornhole, hula hoops. other arts and crafts plus fun games.
UofL’s Get Healthy Now partnered w/KORU Institute
This facilitate event will focus on mindulfness exercises followed by some compassionate based dialogue in attempt to relate to the suffering of others in the world.
7 PM Start
Seating is limited
COST: Free
Starts at 7:00pm (The time frame above is frozen and not allowing us to make any changes. We are so sorry for the confusion)
Legal, human rights & media experts explore workplace equality for women and discuss needed change.
Panelists will include Marilou McPhedran, Director of the Institute for International Women’s Rights; Isha Khan, Legal Counsel, Manitoba Human Rights Commission; Shannon Sampert, Politics & Perspectives Editor, Winnipeg Free Press; and Kate Kehler, Executive Director, Social Planning Council. Host: Alka Kumar, Moderator: Judy Slivinski
COST: Pay as you can
Fiesta del Grito de Independencia takes place each year in Austin on the South Steps of the State Capitol. (Sponsoring Organizations: Fiesta de Independencia Foundation, the Consul General of Mexico, the City of Austin, Univision, the State Preservation Board, and the Mexican American Legislative Caucus).
This family oriented celebration is alcohol free and features Mexican and Tejano music, Folklorico Dancers, and food vendor booths. The highlight of the evening is the re-enactment of “El Grito”, by the Consul General of Mexico.
[September 10 – 21 is Global Austin’s WELCOMING WEEK – a series of events throughout Austin that highlights the contributions of international visitors and immigrants to the community. These events will bring together foreign- and U.S.-born community members in a spirit of unity.
Welcoming Week, coincidentally, coincides with Peace Day Austin (9/11-9/21). Because the missions and interests of Global Austin and Peace Day Austin are comparable, several local organizations have come together to facilitate a city-wide celebration of the diversity that is Austin and the International Day of Peace. We are many organizations – with many activities and events.]
Native – nonNative Talking Circle, focusing on building understanding between diverse peoples. We will share a potluck dinner and share perspectives on topics relevant to Native American.
Join us for a special Red Bench conversation as a part of Peace Day Austin! Topic: Peace
9/16, 9/17 FOCUS 2283 Ashland Ave, Toledo OH 43620, Contact Cindy Zawojski 419-244-2175 ext 119
Collection of Food or Clothing, Making packets or items for distribution to those in need – “Come and Get it!”
UofL Belknap Campus College of Business, Texas Roadhouse Conference Room (5 Wednesdays, week 2), presented by UofL’s Get Healthy Now
Anytime throughout the day post, Thank you to my neighbor(s)! Submit to https://crowdsource.storymaps.esri.com/stories/compassion-report
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Open all day
Meditation, 7-8 pm
9/16 Monroe Street Neighborhood Center Donation Wednesday, 3613 Monroe Street Toledo Ohio 43606. Contact Clara Petty
Collection of Food or Clothing
breakfast 7:30-9 am… at Downtown Marriott (address included). Seats at the ChooseWell table are still available. email Stephanie Barnett!
7:30-9am breakfast…seats at the ChooseWell table are still available!
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Compassionate Louisville Coordinating Circle Meeting
8th floor Art Space building!
UofL Belknap Campus College of Business, Texas Roadhouse Conference Room (5 Wednesdays, week 2), presented by UofL’s Get Healthy Now.
Meditation at the Interfaith center
Cherine Badawi and Mariah Lin Speak on the Subject of CHILDREN & YOUTH
September 16, 2015 at 1:00PM USA Eastern Time
Participate by computer or phone from anywhere worldwide!
and Activists of our Time
When you register you can also participate in the Shift Network’s ongoing Summer of Peace Speaker Series.
Dialogues start each day at 1:00PM USA Eastern Time:
Sept 11 Unity – Deepak Chopra
Sept 12 Interdependence – Indigenous Grandmother Agnes Pilgrim & Carole Hart
Sept 13 Environment – Rhea Landig
Sept 14 Economic Justice – Andrew Mazzone
Sept 15 Health – Patch Adams
Sept 16 Children & Youth – Cherine Badawi and Mariah Lin
Sept 17 Women – Eve Ensler
Sept 18 Human Rights – Jacqueline Murekatete
Sept 19 Freedom – Rabbi Michael Lerner
Sept 20 Disarmament – Helen Caldicott & Alice Slater
Sept 21 Peace (the UN International Day of Peace) – Deborah Moldow & Ambassador Anwarul Chowdhury (Philip Hellmich, Co-Host with Rick Ulfik)
Host and Moderator for each dialogue: Rick Ulfik (Founder of We, The World)
(Note: Schedule is subject to change – please check 11daysofglobalunity.org for updated information.)
Have a question you want to ask Deepak Chopra or one of the other Summit speakers? Click here!
Click here to register – it’s FREE!
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Coffee Mornings are an American tradition. Friends get together for a cup of coffee — or tea or juice — and tasty snacks. They share resources they have found, offer each other support, make new friendships
GlobalAustin Coffee Mornings always include a program. The topic for the 9/16/15 International Coffee Morning is “The Diversity that is Austin.” (Host and Sponsor: Global Austin).
[September 10 – 21 is Global Austin’s WELCOMING WEEK – a series of events throughout Austin that highlights the contributions of international visitors and immigrants to the community. These events will bring together foreign- and U.S.-born community members in a spirit of unity.
Welcoming Week, coincidentally, coincides with Peace Day Austin (9/11-9/21). Because the missions and interests of Global Austin and Peace Day Austin are comparable, several local organizations have come together to facilitate a city-wide celebration of the diversity that is Austin and the International Day of Peace. We are many organizations – with many activities and events.]
PRIVATE EVENT
For Rotarians and their guests
Nafiya Naso, a member and spokesperson for the Winnipeg Yazidis community, will speak about efforts to bring Yazadi refugees to Winnipeg. This religious and cultural group has been persecuted for their beliefs for hundreds of years and recently became prime targets of ISIS. Her topic will be “Save the Yazidis by Compassionate Action”.
Interns, Bonner Leaders, Volunteers and RFP Alumni meet weekly to plan upcoming RFP 3-part Thursday night programs for families experiencing homelessness.
Wai Wai Nu, human rights activist, peace advocate, lawyer, former political prisoner in Burma, and founder of two organizations fighting for justice and equality for women in Burma will speak on the issues facing the Rohingyan people, the current refugee crisis, and the future of democracy in Burma.
Wai Wai Nu, human rights activist, peace advocate, lawyer, former political prisoner in Burma, and founder of two organizations fighting for justice and equality for women in Burma will speak on the issues facing the Rohingyan people, the current refugee crisis, and the future of democracy in Burma.
Starts at 6:30pm (Sorry for the 4:30 time above. The event is frozen on that time. Sorry for the confusion)
“A River Between Us” depicts how 42 adversarial organizations came together to conserve the longest, most controversial river in America.
http://www.ariverbetweenus.com/
A brief talk on forgiveness, followed by a 20 minute meditation. All are invited to stay for tea after the meditation.
Doors open at 7 PM, the event will begin at 7:30 PM
(the incorrect time of 5pm above is frozen and can not be changed. The system is not working correctly. We are so sorry for the confusion)
Adrian Farrell was appointed as Ireland’s first Consul General in Texas in September 2014. Ireland’s new Consulate is only the second foreign diplomatic representation in Austin.
In his remarks Farrell will discuss Ireland’s strong historic ties with the United States, and how the establishment of the new Irish Consulate in Austin will further strengthen Ireland’s future relations with Texas. As Ireland celebrates the 60th anniversary of its membership of the United Nations, Farrell will also highlight Ireland’s key foreign policy priorities and its global diaspora. Event attendees will also hear about Ireland’s EU membership, current social and political developments in Ireland and why the Irish economy continues to grow at a faster rate than in any other EU state.
The event will take place at the new Ireland House Austin which was opened by Ireland’s Prime Minister Enda Kenny last March. (Host Organization Contact & Organizer: Ben Ramirez, VP, World Affairs Council of Austin).
[September 10 – 21 is Global Austin’s WELCOMING WEEK – a series of events throughout Austin that highlights the contributions of international visitors and immigrants to the community. These events will bring together foreign- and U.S.-born community members in a spirit of unity.
Welcoming Week, coincidentally, coincides with Peace Day Austin (9/11-9/21). Because the missions and interests of Global Austin and Peace Day Austin are comparable, several local organizations have come together to facilitate a city-wide celebration of the diversity that is Austin and the International Day of Peace. We are many organizations – with many activities and events.]
Ethics Café Presents: The Ethics of Sex
The Manitoba Association for Right & Liberties (MARL) presents the the Ethics Café: The Ethics of Sex. Join the discussion on difficult questions about sex and relationships. Hosted by Dr. Neil McArthur of the University of Manitoba and facilitated by MARL’s Human Rights Experts.
Doors at 6PM, Discussion begins at 7PM
http://marl.mb.ca
Limited Seating
COST: The discussion is open to everyone by donation to MARL
6 pm, compassion conversation
UofL HSC Campus 400 block of E.Gray Street
Farmer’s Market partner, UofL’s Get Healthy Now. 10:30-2:00pm
+ 12:30 – 12:50pm Take 20 Cook Once, Eat Twice w/Paula Kommor.
We will be distributing donuts to Lorain County Police and Fire Departs to thank them for all that they do for the county.
A 10 week community-engaged healing experience for Veterans (i will send our more info).
A Volunteers Expo will be held at the Byron Community Centre. Volunteer organisations will be showcased, and new volunteers matched to their needs. There are over 80 volunteer organisations in the area.
Farmers Market will partner with UofL’s Get Healthy Now to provide the community with fresh fruits and vegetables!
Support the annual United Way campaign kickoff breakfast!
Hotel Louisville, Resilient Families Project Offices, 2nd Floor.
– campus collection of non-perishables for Dare To Care
Supporting Paws w Purpose VA Pet Assist Program
Free, noon-day concert by an in-demand Austin classical guitarist.
[September 10 – 21 is Global Austin’s WELCOMING WEEK – a series of events throughout Austin that highlights the contributions of international visitors and immigrants to the community. These events will bring together foreign- and U.S.-born community members in a spirit of unity.
Welcoming Week, coincidentally, coincides with Peace Day Austin (9/11-9/21). Because the missions and interests of Global Austin and Peace Day Austin are comparable, several local organizations have come together to facilitate a city-wide celebration of the diversity that is Austin and the International Day of Peace. We are many organizations – with many activities and events.]
Campus Collection of non-perishables for Dare To Care
PROCLAMATION HONORING WELCOMING WEEK AND PEACE DAY AUSTIN
City Council Meeting, Austin City Hall
Having conversations of different ways we can be more compassionate towards our peers and our community.
Hotel Louisville Chapel, main floor
The Resilient Families Project provides educational experiences to strengthen families and promote resilience and wellness for children and parents experiencing homelessness. This project and its programs serve the residents of Wayside Christian Mission’s Hotel Louisville and Wayside Christian Mission’s Emergency Homeless Shelter. The Resilient Families Project (RFP) was established as a partnership of faculty from the University of Louisville’s Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences and staff at Wayside Christian Mission. We gratefully acknowledge support from the University of Louisville’s Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences and the University of Louisville’s Ideas to Action (i2A) Program and the Office of Community Engagement.
Our three programs take place from 6-8:30pm every Thursday at Hotel Louisville, and serve more than 100 family members. These programs aim to promote: (1) healthy attachment relations, (2) a sense of community / belonging, (3) interactive reading, and (4) school readiness (and readiness for the world!) in children and families.
(1) The Resilient Family Program (developed and led by Dr. Lora Haynes) is offered from 6-7pm on Thursdays, and provides a structured learning forum for children and parents to strengthen interactive reading, and engage in shared learning activities. The evidence-based practice of dialogic reading is employed, and carefully selected children’s storybooks are read aloud as a platform for promoting literacy and motivation toward reading, as well as sensitive, healthy interactions and positive attachment between caregivers and children. It is, furthermore, our mission to promote a strong sense of family (family matters!) and community caring (Compassionate Louisville! http://www.louisvilleky.gov/CompassionateCity/). It is our ultimate goal to improve school readiness (and readiness for the world) in these children and their families. Positive messages of resilience, mindfulness and compassion are conveyed in this community/family hour through a steady schedule of reading, music/singing, and dance/movement. We often have guest speakers from the Louisville community and from non-profit agencies who present their mission and needs to our families so that those in attendance are routinely asked to consider “how can I help?” and give back to the community. More than 100 parents and children attend and more than 18 University of Louisville students and 4 Hotel Louisville staff assist in the program.
(2) The Resilient Child/Adolescent Program (developed and led by Dr. Lora Haynes) is offered from 7-8:30pm on Thursdays, provides age-appropriate learning and enrichment activities including art, reading, homework and tutoring, music and dance, aimed at further promoting school-readiness and social/emotional skills. Typically more than 50 children attend. About 60% of children are under the age of five. More than 35 University of Louisville students and 3 Hotel Louisville staff assist in the program.
(3) The Resilient Parent Program (led by Dr. Lora Haynes and Valerie Mansfield, developed by Dr. Barbara Burns) is offered from 7-8:30pm on Thursdays and provides an empirically-validated strengths-based program focused on resilience and compassion, communication skills, and child management skills. Didactic material, discussion and reflection are enhanced by games, and crafts that underscore parenting strengths to promote strong and healthy parent-child relationships, child health and wellness. Interactive discussions on such topics as self-care and handling stress, discipline, self-esteem, building support networks, child development, compassionate listening, and communicating effectively. Typically 40-50 parents participate, and 7 University of Louisville students and 2 Hotel Louisville staff assist in the program.
You are invited to our traditional “Turkish Coffee Night”
Come and enjoy authentic Turkish coffee, refreshments and friendly conversation.
The Correct start time is 7:00pm (The system is not allowing us to change to correct time. We are sorry for the confusion)
You are invited to join the South Sudanese women, hear their story and respond to it. We hope that you will leave with renewed confidence that a culture of peace is possible – and a necessity for life on earth.
Where we gather to discuss the resilient families project and different ways it benefits the community
The Women of Compassion Collaborative invites you to connect!
We leverage the power of women in compassionate action to address our state’s most pressing social needs for women, families and our communities. We do this by aligning and supporting social good projects that preserve and foster the fundamental principles of universal justice,respect, and well being
And every other Friday… Chop-n-chat (5:30-7 pm)
Volunteers needed!
Time is to be announced.
Be kind day also known as Pay it Forward day/random acts of kindness. Hold open a door for someone, smile at people, say hello, say thank you and you’re welcome. If you can afford to, pay for someone’s lunch, dinner, or coffee. Start a chain reaction! Do a random act of kindness. We are doing it on our campus and hoping the community will too. We will have a board to post these acts on hearts in the College Center and it can be weather you did it, saw, it, or was the recipient of it. Be kind!
Elementary school children will be bringing their peace messages to the CMHR followed by a peace walk.
UpTown PARK(ing) Day, UpTown Association 1501-1201 Adams Street Toledo, OH 43604 http://www.uptowntoledo.org/#!parking-day/c1dgc Contact Jessica
Community Building Event
Dann and Joji Pantoja, International Partnership Witness Workers with Mennonite Church Canada, will discuss the role of Christian churches in the peace negotiations between the Moro Islamic Liberation Front and the Government of the Philippines.
http://www.cmu.ca/
Cates Ford Oien Epp, Barristers & Solicitors will team up with the United Way for a Day of Caring at a local community garden.
MultiFaith Council Women’s Group will help make sandwiches for Food for Thought, 316 Adams St., Toledo, OH 43604 Contact Barb Krochmalny 419-583-7553 Sandwiches are distributed to the needy
You are invited to a FREE Block Party at Brock Park on September 18!
We will be having:
DUNK TANK
JOUSTING
BUNGEE RUN
INFLATABLE OBSTACLE COURSE
BARBECUE
COTTON CANDY
HENNA
BALLOON ANIMALS
FACE PAINTING
and more!
Also, don’t forget to join us for an OUTDOOR MOVIE at 8pm.
For more information, contact office@gcchurch.ca.
Viva Mexico!
Celebrating Mexican Independence – featuring dances from the states of Sinaloa, Nuevo Leon, Oaxaca, Veracruz and Jalisco (Sponsor: Austin High School’s Ballet Folklorico).
[September 10 – 21 is Global Austin’s WELCOMING WEEK – a series of events throughout Austin that highlights the contributions of international visitors and immigrants to the community. These events will bring together foreign- and U.S.-born community members in a spirit of unity.
Welcoming Week, coincidentally, coincides with Peace Day Austin (9/11-9/21). Because the missions and interests of Global Austin and Peace Day Austin are comparable, several local organizations have come together to facilitate a city-wide celebration of the diversity that is Austin and the International Day of Peace. We are many organizations – with many activities and events.]
Get set for a magical evening of music and poetry as award-winning Austin poets and performers take to the stage to share their poems for peace. Featuring Janelle Buchanan, Katherine Catmull, Robert Faires, Carrie Fountain and Kurt Heinzelman — and directed by Robert Faires.
Then come into the Gallery for an Open Mic, Open Minds reception hosted by Laura Esparza and featuring YOU! Bring your poems to share. Just in case you forget, we’ll have some poems on hand for you to select.
Enjoy music, lovely libations and finger foods — along with your poems — at the reception. (Sponsor: SICA (Subud International Cultural Association) SICA is an international nonprofit organization headquartered in Austin, Texas. Its mission is to advance and celebrate activities that emerge from the development and expression of one’s inner gifts or talents. SICA envisions a vibrant human culture that enriches and enlivens the human spirit and broadens our understanding of others.)
This event is part of the Peace Day Austin activities.
Ellen Jackson Ovarian Cancer Walk presented by Buckeye CableSystem http://ovarianconnection.org
Contact Gini Steinke 419.866.6622 Fundraiser: Eleanor N. Dana Cancer Center 1325 Dana Drive, Toledo, OH 43614
Registration begins at 8:00am; Opening Ceremonies start at 9:30am; Walk begins at 10:00am
Submit to https://crowdsource.storymaps.esri.com/stories/compassion-report
9/19 NWO Apraxia Support Family fun Day / Awareness Walk Toledo Zoo located at 2 Hippo Way Toledo Ohio 43609 www.nwoapraxiasupport.org Contact Marisa DeLancey, 419-376-8736
19th Annual Clean Your Streams Contact Ava Slotnick 419-874-0727; register http://www.partnersforcleanstreams.org/2015-cys/register; You MUST register by Sept 9
Neighborhood cleanup, 7 kickoff locations for 50 river side cleanups around the Toledo area.
Sylvania United Church of Christ Clean Your Streams Contact Kathy Tashima kathy@sylvaniaucc.org
cleaning Sylvania streams. Register by Sept. 9
-8:30a Registration
-9am Opening Ceremonies
-9am – 10am Walk/Run 1 or 3 miles
-9am – 12pm Wellness Fair and Family-Friendly Activities
9/19, 9a – noon Compassion Games: Land Restoration Project Metroparks of the Toledo Area , Wildwood Preserve Metropark 5100 West Central Avenue , Toledo, OH 43615 Contact Trish Hausknecht to register for this event., 419-407-9703
Citizenship Day ABLE Offices in Downtown Toledo, 525 Jefferson Ave Toledo OH 43604. information session on becoming a U.S. citizen Citizenship Day information session. Contact Brittany Ford, 419.213.4539
Partners: Advocates for Basic Legal Equality (ABLE), Welcome Toledo-Lucas County, Adelante, Water for Ishmael
Come explore, experience and BE with how compassion for others and for self is the springboard to peace…to BEing the peace that you seek. Facilitated by San Antonio peaceCENTER co-founders Rosalyn Falcon Collier and Rev. Ann Helmke.
Come out and help restore the Bolsa Chica Mesa. Wear long pants, closed toed shoes, and be prepared to get dirty. You may be weeding, watering, picking up trash or planting. What ever you do you will be helping the Bolsa Chica Ecosystem.
Volunteer for the Kamloops Rotary Food Drive and make sure you leave your food donations in a visible spot for the drivers on September 19th.
Come explore, experience and BE with how compassion for others and for self is the springboard to peace…to being the peace that you seek.
Facilitated by two wise women, the founders of the San Antonio Peace Center, Rosalyn Falcon Collier and Rev. Ann Helmke.
Now in its 16th year, the Kamloops Children’s Arts Festival is a fun-filled, creative day of artistic, musical and theatrical activities and performances for children ages 2 to 12. The entire day is FREE for children and their families.
How does it work?
Children and their families may drop in at any time from 11am to 4pm to take part in the day-long festivities. The Kamloops Arts Council enlists artists and non-profit groups to facilitate interactive workshops in visual art, dance, music, theatre and more. Musicians, storytellers, actors and dancers – both professional headliners and local groups – take to the stage. Workshops include “rock school,” henna art, hip hop dance, printmaking, clay sculpture, theatre games, button-making, magic wand-making, and much more.
Associated with the Canadian Owners and Pilots Association we offer youth between the ages of 8-17 yrs an opportunity to experience flight in a typical general aviation aircraft.
Objective is to provide free weekly community meals, free produce market and social and cultural activities to low income earners, the homeless, and people living with mental and physical disabilities, in Kamloops. Also to encourage volunteerism and capacity building within communities of mental health, disabilities, homelessness, and low income earners.
Every Saturday dinner will be served at their new location, St. Vincent De Paul, doors open at 10:30am (coffee, snacks, social time) and meal served at 3:30pm.
Friends of MAN UP and Compassion Games: Here is the flyer for the Compassion Games Street Summit 4 to be held at Cole’s Place on Saturday, Sept 19th 5-7 pm.
2:00 PM – Peace Potluck Picnic: Bring the family, make origami cranes and be part of the global (Peace Crane Project). Write a poem/prose/song and perform it at 4pm.
6:30 PM – Open Mic night at the Ground Floor on the subject of peace and inclusion
7:30 PM – Concert by The Therapy Sisters
This hot meal program serves a nutritious dinner at Kamloops United Church every Sunday afternoon year round and is mainly a volunteer driven program. The dinners are provided without charge
9/20 Toledo-Area Ministries CROP Hunger Walk, 2801 W. Bancroft St., UT Lot 13 Toledo, OH 43606 Kathy Tashima 419-882-0048 Hunger Walk
Thank you to my significant other or favorite peeps! Submit to https://crowdsource.storymaps.esri.com/stories/compassion-report
Can submit during this day at ANY time.
Join us for the 20th anniversary of the Scotiabank MS Bike- Thompson River Ride on September 20th, 2015. Celebrate the legacy of this event with us- as we reminisce with Alumni participants, celebrate the advances made in MS research, and welcome newcomers – that we may soon see an end to MS.
Start your day with a tasty continental breakfast, and gear up for gorgeous views as you ride alongside the North Thompson River. Relax at our Point of Interest stops as you soak in beauty, serenity, and excellent company. We are proud to have Privato Vineyard and Winery join us again as a Point of Interest. This year we are happy to be able to offer a 91km “Ultra” ride to the McLure Ferry turn-around for experienced riders. After your ride, enjoy a delicious lunch while the Top Team Spirit, Top Fundraiser, and more prizes are awarded…. It could be you!
This ride is fully supported with meals, snacks, and beverages provided, rider emergency support, and more. Become a fundraising VIP and be treated to exclusive perks!
The only thing that can make this event any better is doing it with friends. Click Start a Team or Join a Team to ride with your friends, family, or coworkers for an exponentially more exciting experience.
The Scotiabank MS Bike -Thompson River Ride raises crucial funds for the MS Society of Canada, Kamloops and Area Chapter. All funds raised go towards finding the cause and a cure for multiple sclerosis, as well as funding community-based programs that help local people affected by MS to have a better quality of life.
What are you waiting for? Sign up NOW!
2015 Registration Fees:
Early Bird Until February 20th – $20 Regular Cyclist, $40 Ultra Cyclist
February 21st-July 19th – $30 Regular Cyclist, $50 Ultra Cyclist
July 20th – September 20th – $40 Regular Cyclist, $60 Ultra Cyclist
This year is the 50th anniversary of the Unity-and-Diversity World Council (UDC) and the 70th anniversary of the United Nations. UDC was born during International Cooperation Year 1965, which was the highlight of the United Nations 70th anniversary. Peace Sunday Festival is being convened by the Unity-and-Diversity World Council in cooperation with Agape International Spiritual Center. In addition, there are numerous sponsors and co-sponsors.
This year’s events find much of our world in turmoil and unease. We hope that this Festival will provide inspiration, courage, and valuable tools for us to aid in the building of a sustainable peace on earth.
The theme of this year’s event is: “BUILDING A PEACEFUL WORLD”
The 14th Annual Volkswagon Turtle River Race is on Sunday September 20, 2015
Races start at the Yacht Club and finish at Pioneer Park
Terry Lowe and staff at Volkswagen of Kamloops are proud to announce that this year’s VW Turtle River Race proceeds will go to Western Canada Theatre of Kamloops.
Tickets will be on sale until 12:00 Noon, September 20th and are only $10 each!
The vigil for international peace is a transformational grassroots effort dedicated to promoting peace through participation in music, art, poetry, dance and prayer. Our vision is to heal and bridge our lives and communities, to achieve alignment, and recognize the oneness in all.
The Vigil for International Peace and Ecology was inspired by the United Nations’ Resolution 55/282 designating September 21st of each year as an “International Day of Peace”. a full day dedicated to global ceasefire and non- violence. The original International resolution was passed by the United Nations General Assembly in 1981 in resolution 36/67.
Riverside Park – Meet at Bandshell
Registration: 9am, Run Start: 10am, Event Close: 12:30pm
Only 3.5km, 7km & 10.5km (3 x 3.5km); Suitable for bikes, wheelchairs/strollers, NOT suitable for rollerblades. NO dogs allowed.
Join us as we do our part to help plant 50,000 trees nationwide during TD Tree Days. Locally, volunteers will plant 300 trees at Tournament Capital Park (5375 Yellowhead Highway, Kamloops) on Sunday, September 20. The event will run from 10:00AM – 1:00PM. Volunteers should bring a refillable water bottle, and wear weather-appropriate attire and closed-toed shoes. To register for TD Tree Days in Kamloops, or to learn more, visit tdtreedays.com. #TDTreeDays
9th ANNUAL PEACE WALK – ONE VILLAGE PROJECT
Hosted by Amala Foundation
In celebration of the International Day of Peace. we will are inviting various peoples and communities in Austin to unite, connect and walk in solidarity from the Capitol Building to Huston-Tillotson College, Schedule:
10:30am: Meet at the Texas State Capitol WEST LAWN (1110 Congress Ave.) gate on Colorado St. (between 12th & 13th St.)
10:30am-12 pm: Village Talking Circle
12-1 pm: Art making and lunch
1-3pm: Peace Walk starting at the Texas State Capitol, ending at Huston-Tillotson and Closing Circle.
Come out a walk in Peace to Honor The International Day of Peace 9-21 & 911 Day of Service. This is a non political or religious event. The idea is to have community walk together in community and friendship. All are welcome. The event is presented by the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Ethics.
Location Link Is here:
https://www.google.com/maps/@34.2645575,-118.5231514,3a,75y,280.92h,72.25t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1syH4MP3_7oao5tj3IgwFLWQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
(THIS IS A PRIVATE EVENT)
From The Golden Rule to the Golden Reality Comes A Family Day Filled With Opportunities To Show and Experience Kindness!
2:00PM GAMES AND INSPIRATION STATIONS
3:30PM CLOSING CEREMONY
Children’s Compassion Procession and Torch Lighting
Featuring, Special Musical Guest, Nimo Patel, Sharing Stories and Song
International Peace Day and / MultiFaith Annual Harvest Festival,
Park Church, 1456 Harvard Blvd, Toledo, OH 43614. Prayers for Peace at the Peace Pole. Displays and music in the gym. Shared potluck harvest themed food. Bring mug for soup. We provide beverages, tableware, and hearty soups. Festival concludes Compassion Games.
Join us for a panel discussion of homelessness in our community and the solutions we can work toward together. Panelists will make brief presentations and then field questions from the audience.
PANELISTS:
- Mark Putnam – Director, Committee to End Homelessness/King County
- Tim Harris – Founding Director of Real Change
- Rick Reynolds – Executive Director of Night Watch
- Sharon Lee – Executive Director of the Low Income Housing Institute
- Lisa Gustaveson – Seattle University- Faith & Family Homelessness Project
The moderator will be David Bloom, Director Emeritus of the Interfaith Task Force on Homelessness.
We will affirm our commitment to continuing our compassionate efforts beyond the Compassion Games by gathering to celebrate our efforts over the 11 days. We will assemble care kits for the homeless which will be distributed locally to the homeless, including homeless vets. We’ll follow the service project with a celebratory potluck dinner.
Collective Global Meditation & Silent Disco Squad & Social Action
ABOUT THE WORLD PEACE WEEKEND
Please join us September 19th-21st for the World Peace Weekend. Hundreds of organizations are hosting marches, musical celebrations, & meditations around the world.
There will be a Global Synchronized Inner-Peace Broadcast at 5:00 pm PST / 12:00 Midnight GMT on September 19th hosted by BeThePeace. Then, on Sunday September 20th, there will be a wave of live events at 12:00 Noon in your time zone. We invite you to organize a meditation, prayer, or ceremony in your native tradition. Millions of us around the world will focus on creating a foundation of inner peace as the first step towards World Peace.
On Monday, September 21st, we invite you to take peace into the world. Forgive someone in your life, bring peace into your workplace, or organize a peace project. You choose how you want to create peace into the world.
We’re here to support you. Sign up to our mailing list and you will receive guidance and resources for organizing an event in your city or individual action steps you can take to create more peace in your life and on our planet.
Together, as one human family, we will accomplish peace on earth. It may take a generation but we now have the tools, the knowledge, and the will to make it happen. One step at a time. We will accomplish our goal.
We appreciate you joining us on this mission. Please let us know how we can support you.
– The Unify Team
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During these turbulent times we are coming together as one through conscious motion to celebrate and embody the Peace we have and the Peace we are striving towards.
As part of Unify.org’s World Peace Weekend, we are co-creating a Global Peace Dance Party in streets around the world on September 21st, the International Day of Peace!
Distribute recommended readings on PEACE
• 5 – 7am Live TV coverage / early morning news, announcements RE Pot Luck DINNER @NEChristian, leaderboard info and dedications / ceremonies
• FREE Donuts and Coffee (TBA)
10am PRESS CONFERENCE plus announcements RE Pot Luck DINNER @NEChristian, leaderboard info and dedications / ceremonies
Music, Food, Interactive Art, Compassion Games, Prizes, Exhibitors and the documentary screening “Beyond The Divide, War, Peace and the Courage To Find Common Ground”
Step in for Peace by making a commitment to tell people you won’t tolerate violence and you’ll 3:00 do your part to make this the safest campus around.
Bring a bagged lunch to the downtown library to learn about “Raising Financially Fit Kids”. Lisa Rogers from the Credit Counselling Society will be presenting a free workshop where parents will learn some easy to implement techniques to teach their kids about savings, giving, and spending. 12-1pm.
Peace Day Austin and Global Austin Welcoming Week
Press Conference and Reception
Austin City Hall
4 PM
Mayor Adler, City of Austin dignitaries as well as Conusul General of Mexico, Consul General of Ireland will recognize and honor both the value of International Peace Day as well as the value of our international visitors and immigrant communities and what they bring to the City . The different participating organizations will also be acknowledged and thanked. Music by Conspirare Children’s Choir, Akins HS Choir. Reception follows.
LaMont Johnson and experts on the backlog of rape kits in Kentucky and renewed efforts to bring justice and healing to survivors.
https://www.facebook.com/events/802243329884973/
The Journey of Global Peace in dance and celebrate “Global Compassion in Action” as we take the global peace dance on the rainbow streets of Broadway!!
7:30 – The Global Dance Party comes back to Cal Anderson Park!! Where we will find a sacred circle of embodied community in connection to peace & joy together!
8:00 Candle reflection ceremony to honor closing ceremony of The Annual Compassion Games September 11 – 21st, reflection on global silent disco for peace.
8:30 – Future collective actions of peace for self, others, and the Earth!!
Let’s celebrate the International Day of Peace + Closing Ceremony of 11 Days of Global Unity Annual Compassion Games together!!
More questions, more help, more co creation, more bright colorful ways to show up and be more of you please feel free to contact coordinator,
Compassion Games International Unicorn,
Sommer Joy Albertsen sommer@compassiongames.org
www.compassiongames.org
www.silentdiscosquad.com
www.unify.org
www.thecravecompany.com
The keynote speaker will be Pardeep Kaleka, speaker, activist, and founder of Serve2Unite. Kaleka is the eldest son of Satwant Singh Kaleka-the president of the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin, who was gunned down during the attacks on the Sikh Temple on August 5, 012. Kaleka grew up in Milwaukee and graduated from Marquette University. He is a certified teacher and a former police officer for the city of Milwaukee. In addition, Rev. Tony Larsen, pastor of Olympia Brown Unitarian Universalist Church will speak. Larsen is the catalyst for the candlelight vigils following acts of violence in our community. Included will be inspiring music by local artists and Compassion Stories from several Vietnam Veterans.
Center for Non-Profit Excellence
11:30 AM
Step in for Peace by making a commitment to tell people you won’t tolerate violence and you’ll 6:00 do your part to make this the safest campus around.
Students will share experiences from the 50th anniversary of the Selma Civil Rights March, a “Truth Telling Project” in Ferguson, and the annual White Privilege Conference in Louisville.
@UofL’s Get Healthy Now, 601 Presidents Blvd, Louisville 40217
UofL Health Science Campus, Nursing School / K-Wing Room 2017 (Weekly Sept 9-25th)
UofL’s Get Healthy Now
Community treasure Eileen Blanton of Louisville’s Peace Education program is conducting the peacemaking processes workshop for student engagement.
www.SowersOfJusticeNetwork.org
Save-the-date for our Building the Beloved Community Gala on Saturday, September 26th from 5-9 PM at The Westin Seattle! Save-the-date cards hit mailboxes this week. You can purchase tickets at the Early Bird Price of $120 here or find out more information at www.belovedcommunitygala.org.
Extended compassion talk. 11:00 am
UofL Health Science Campus, Nursing School / K-Wing Room 2017 (Weekly Sept 9-25th)
UofL’s Get Healthy Now
12:00-12:30pm
Big four bridge waterfront park
from 11:00am – 5:00 pm
**Come join Wednesday “Big Magic” Nights at Compassion Games Heart Quarters**
This class has been inspired deeply from Elizabeth Gilbert’s recent book Big Magic. Every word has been jumping off the page nourishing my heart. The lovely field of this book has guidied me to curating creative spaces and teach Nia again!
I desire to bring sacred circle together to embody “Big Magic” in incisive dance and authentic conversation!
7:00 The Nia Dance Begins (Mix of Dance, Healing, Martial Arts inspired class)
8:00 Big Magic Sacred Circle Sharing Begins
9:00 Reflection and Closing
What do you need?
*To be through the first chapter of the EPIC book
Big Magic: Link here to find it on Elizabeth Gilberts Site:
http://www.elizabethgilbert.com/
(Nothing is mandatory just suggested )
*Wear clothes that make you feel wonderful (stretchy fun yoga like clothes)
*Bring $20 for self or $30 for 2 (if you bring a friend)
I look forward to sharing this magical conscious community journey with you and yes Elizabeth Gilbert is invited too!
Love & Divine Light,
Sommer Albertsen
Compassion Games: Survival of the Kindest Unicorn
Brown Belt Nia Teacher
Energy Brilliance Now Center Healer
Any questions please feel free to contact me:
sommer@compassiongames.org
425-891-7264
1:00pm- 4:00pm
UofL Health Science Campus, Nursing School / K-Wing Room 2017 (Weekly Sept 9-25th)
UofL’s Get Healthy Now
(Paula)
Wednesday November 11 from 12:00-12:30pm
With over 120 practitioners we provide a great variety of: natural health, alternative medicine, energy-field, nutritional information and many more.
UofL Health Science Campus, Nursing School / K-Wing Room 2017 (Weekly Sept 9-25th)
UofL’s Get Healthy Now
(Paula)
Wednesday, November 25- 12:00pm-12:30 pm
All Players & Teams of The Giving Games are invited to participate in this event!
An amazing opportunity to be in high purpose! This is exciting!
REGISTER AT
amplifield.com
For the last several days there have been conversations with colleagues around the world about how to utilize the coherence capabilities of a new mobile and web app called “The Amplifield” to generate a global field of resonance, compassion and support for the upcoming COP21 climate change conference starting in Paris next week.
This incredible group of people (including a French government official) are very interested in how to support the global delegates who will make some very important decisions regarding how we deal with climate change on Planet Earth over the coming decades.
You are invited; Starting at exactly 8am PST this coming Sunday (11/29) Nicolas Beriot, France’s minister on the effects of climate change, will set a vibrational tone, and collective intention, for how this conference will go.
You heard that CORRECTLY— a government official is very much involved in making this all happen! Nicolas truly sees the benefit of using “The Amplifield” as a frequency support mechanism to aid this climate conference.
Our beloved visionary Barbara Marx Hubbard will guide participants around the world in a synchronized meditation to support the opening of the climate conference.
This is an unprecedented event and opportunity!
Please join us at The Amplifield this coming Sunday at 8am PST / 4 pm GMT
TIME ZONE CONVERTER
Our plan is to empower a global audience for the entire 2 weeks of the COP21 conference. We will register our support and intentions into the app throughout the climate conference so please know that this Sunday event is just the inaugural ‘kick off’.
There will also be amazing guest facilitators at The Amplifield during these two weeks to support the effort.
Let’s do this together!!!
REGISTER AT:
Amplifield.com
and stay tuned for more details!
A PLANETARY AWAKENING IN LOVE IS HAPPENING NOW.
Play With Generosity and Celebrate Giving!
The Giving Games: Youth and Schools Play it Forward are an 11 day global challenge to inspire, develop, and celebrate our shared humanity through acts of generosity and compassion. Beginning on December 1st – a day known as Giving Tuesday – and going through December 11th, the Giving Games are played globally between youth, educators, and mentors to foster safe and fulfilling places of learning, helping the next generation develop into happy, compassionate, creative, and resilient members of our world!
The Giving Games start the Tuesday after Thanksgiving. The Giving Games are a way to explore new ways to be generous with others, ourselves, and the Earth. Let’s play the Compassion Games with generosity and celebrate giving!
Wednesday December 2nd | 11:00am – 11:45am PST
Compassion Games International is honored to present the first DAILY BLAB LIVE with the world. We will be bringing the latest Giving Games news, highlighted stories of the day, team points on scoreboard, and just in EPIC reports. The Giving Games Coordinator Sommer Albertsen and Team Organizer Marie Roker- Jones will be co hosting daily Blabs available to share between all the organizers around the world about reporting, playing, and sharing your experience of The Giving Games Dec. 1st-11th 11am PST!! This is a wonderful face to face LIVE conversation tool to deepen relationships, support others live, and bring meaning to the collective experience shared with the world. This platform is another example of how we will be amplifying your actions and Team to Team celebrating. We hope to see there sharing your Giving Games journey with us! Youth and schools across the planet playing together and bringing giving in action alive!!
“The more people play the more people win”
– Quoted by Founder of Compassion Games International & Compassionate Cities Movement, Jon Ramer
This is for #ListenParis2015 Team and Individuals playing The Giving Games can also play by giving to the planet from Dec
4. When sharing pictures and vides use #ListenParis2015 and#EarthToParis to join the global conversation.
5. Enjoy the event!
How it Works:
LISTEN is a 24-hour global silent disco – the music starts at 5pm (Paris time) December 5th and goes until 5pm (Paris time) December 6th. No matter where you are in the world you’ll be hearing the same music at the same time!
Why LISTEN?
Paris COP21 Climate Talks are quickly approaching. We are unifying around the world showing global unity so that the leaders negotiating at the Paris COP21 event will see our movement and LISTEN to our voice of readiness to move towards a 100% a renewable future.
We cannot wait to celebrate our sustainable future by dancing around the world!
Saturday December 5th | 11:00AM PST – 11:45AM PST
Compassion Games International is honored to present the first DAILY BLAB LIVE with the world. We will be bringing the latest Giving Games news, highlighted stories of the day, team points on scoreboard, and just in EPIC reports. The Giving Games Coordinator Sommer Albertsen and Team Organizer Marie Roker- Jones will be co hosting daily Blabs available to share between all the organizers around the world about reporting, playing, and sharing your experience of The Giving Games Dec. 1st-11th 11am PST!! This is a wonderful face to face LIVE conversation tool to deepen relationships, support others live, and bring meaning to the collective experience shared with the world. This platform is another example of how we will be amplifying your actions and Team to Team celebrating. We hope to see there sharing your Giving Games journey with us! Youth and schools across the planet playing together and bringing giving in action alive!!
Saturday December 6th 11:00AM PST – Monday December 7th 11:00AM PST
All agents of compassion join us on a 24 Hour activated conversation on a journey around the world – Blab Marathon
We already have a powerful lineup of Giving Activist to Co Host sharing from all over the world who are also playing The Giving Games! This face to face live conversation will be shared with the world on Blab. We are excited to be supported by Blab headquarters as well with this special global event for voices of giving to shine even brighter.
This is a way to play The Giving Games – Giving your time. Giving your voice, Giving listening, Giving together!!
Lineup Includes:
Marie Roker-Jones – from Raising Great Men
Ilya Lyashevsky – from WeShelter
Sommer Albertsen – from Compassion Games International
Jon Ramer – Founder of Compassion Games International & Compassionate City Movement
We still have room in the 24 hours for YOU to co host with us to help travel around the world sharing GIVING, COMPASSION, GENEROSITY, PEACE, LOVE!! Please share your actions your doing with The Giving Games and ideas for 2016 too!!
Tuesday December 8th | 10:00AM PST – 10:45 PST
Compassion Games International is honored to present the first DAILY BLAB LIVE with the world. We will be bringing the latest Giving Games news, highlighted stories of the day, team points on scoreboard, and just in EPIC reports. The Giving Games Coordinator Sommer Albertsen and Team Organizer Marie Roker- Jones will be co hosting daily Blabs available to share between all the organizers around the world about reporting, playing, and sharing your experience of The Giving Games Dec. 1st-11th 11am PST!! This is a wonderful face to face LIVE conversation tool to deepen relationships, support others live, and bring meaning to the collective experience shared with the world. This platform is another example of how we will be amplifying your actions and Team to Team celebrating. We hope to see there sharing your Giving Games journey with us! Youth and schools across the planet playing together and bringing giving in action alive!!
Students will thank teachers in a variety of ways over the four-day period.
MLK Day of Service 2016 Fruitvale – At Lazear Elementary, EPIC Middle School and Oakland Animal Shelter
Coordinator: Victoria Herrera
Date of Project: January 16 and 18, 9:00AM to 1:00PM
Location: – Lazear Elementary School – 824 29th Ave, Oakland
Project: At Lazear Elementary, EPIC Middle School and Oakland Animal Shelter
Join us to beautify 3 community sites with planter boxes, graffiti abatement through mural painting, and making our community welcoming. Planter boxes will help the schools provide outdoor activities for their students, while murals will beautify the area and deter graffiti. We are excited to give Oakland Animal Shelter a makeover with pet friendly art, as well as any other improvements to the facility
Great event for adults, students and families (Kids need to be accompanied by parents)
REMEMBER: All projects are taking place rain or shine! Please wear sturdy shoes, bring a water bottle and garden gloves.
For information: e-mail sfpbayarea@gmail.com
Peralta Hacienda Historic Park – Beautifying the Park
Coordinator: Itzel Diaz
Date of Project: January 18, 9:00AM to 1:00PM
Location: 2465 34th Ave., Oakland, CA, 94601
Project: park and school beautification,
REMEMBER: All projects are taking place rain or shine! Please wear sturdy shoes, bring a water bottle and garden gloves. And a rain coat if needed! Go to mlk.gov to sign up
For information: e-mail sfpbayarea@gmail.com
Madison Park Academy & Sobrante Park Project – Serving the School and Community
Coordinator: Bill Richie 510-472-8911
Date of Project: January 18, 8:30AM to 2:00PM
Location: 400 Capistrano Dr. , Oakland CA 94603
Project: park and school beautification, helping seniors home, planting and beautifying Edes Ave,
Arroyo Viejo Park – Park restoration project
Coordinator: Dwayne Aikens Jr.
Date of Project: January 18, 8:00AM to 12:00PM
Location: – 7701 Krause Ave Oakland, CA 94605
Project: Litter pick up, Creek restoration and clean up, Painting and graffiti abatement, Laying of mulch
REMEMBER: All projects are taking place rain or shine! Please wear sturdy shoes, bring a water bottle and garden gloves. And a rain coat if needed! Go to mlk.gov to sign up
For information: e-mail sfpbayarea@gmail.com
MLK Day of Service Oakland 2016
Chinatown – Clean up the Neighborhood
Coordinator: Jessica Chen
Date of Project: January 18, 9:00AM to 12:00PM
Location: – Chinatown TBA, Oakland
Project: Neighborhood clean up
REMEMBER: All projects are taking place rain or shine! Please wear sturdy shoes, bring a water bottle and garden gloves. And a rain coat if needed! Go to mlk.gov to sign up
For information: e-mail sfpbayarea@gmail.com
Life Academy of Health and Bio Science – Serving the School and Community
Coordinator: Sabaa Shoraka
Date of Project: January 18, 9:00AM to 1:00PM
Location: – Meet at Peralta Hacienda Park (2465 34th Avenue – Oakland, CA, 94601)
Project: park and school beautification,
REMEMBER: All projects are taking place rain or shine! Please wear sturdy shoes, bring a water bottle and garden gloves. And a rain coat if needed! Go to mlk.gov to sign up
For information: e-mail sfpbayarea@gmail.com
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR REGIONAL SHORELINE – On January 18, 2016, the Park District will be celebrating its 8th Annual Day of Service that continues Dr. Martin Luther King Junior’s vision to improve lives, bridge social barriers and move our nation closer together to the beloved community. Volunteers will assist staff in restoration work and invasive plant removal in order to support and care for wildlife and their natural habitats. Volunteers will also be participating in the restoration of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Grove and Damon Marsh.
We welcome children to participate, but ask that those under 16 are accompanied by one chaperone for every 20 kids.
Day of Program:
— 8:30am – Check In / Registration Opens
— 9:00am – Program Begins
— Noon – Program Ends
Wear comfortable, weather-appropriate clothes and closed-toed shores. To cut down on the use of plastic, please bring a refillable water bottle and bucket to pick up litter. For more information, email volunteers@ebparks.org. Heavy rain cancels the event.
Registration Required: you may register groups up to 100 people online or by calling Reservations at 1-888-327-2757, Option 2.
Driving Directions from I-880 in Oakland
MLK, Jr. Damon Marsh
Take the 66th Avenue exit. At 66th Avenue, turn west towards the bay. 66th Avenue ends at Oakport Street. Turn right onto Oakport Street and drive about a quarter mile following the MLK Day Cleanup directional signs. The signs will direct you to turn left onto a dirt road to reach the parking area.
MLK, Jr. Memorial Grove: From I-880 in Oakland, take the Hegenberger Rd. exit and drive on Hegenberger Rd. toward the airport (west). Turn right on Doolittle Dr. (.75 miles) and right on Swan Way (next light). Drive 200ft and on the left side is the entrance to Arrowhead Marsh and MLK Grove is the first parking lot on your left.
Morcom Rose Garden – Beautifying the Garden
Coordinator: Jane Bicek
Date of Project: January 18, 9:00AM to 12:00PM
Location: 700 Jean Street. Oakland
Project: Beautifying the Gardens, weeding, mulching, pruning, composting
REMEMBER: All projects are taking place rain or shine! Please wear sturdy shoes, bring a water bottle and garden gloves. And a rain coat if needed! Go to mlk.gov to sign up
For information: e-mail sfpbayarea@gmail.com
Peralta Hacienda Historic Park – Beautifying the Park
Coordinator: Itzel Diaz
Date of Project: January 18, 9:00AM to 1:00PM
Location: 2465 34th Avenue – Oakland, CA, 94601
Project: park and school beautification,
The Lakeside Park at Lake Merritt – Beautifying the Lake and Gardens
Coordinator: Tora Rocha
Date of Project: January 18, 8:30AM to 3:00PM
Location: 666 Bellevue Ave. Oakland
Project: Beautifying Lakeside Park and the Gardens, path remediation, weeding, mulching
February 1st is the beginning of World Interfaith Harmony Week: Febraury 1st – February 7th
http://compassiongames.org/world-interfaith-harmony-week/ Individuals and Teams are participating in reporting actions of peace, interfaith, compassion, and pure love in action together. You as well can still sign up to be an Agent of Compassion as well Individually or leading a Team.
The Opening Ceremonies will be joining into this global collective action of meditation and peaceful prayer with friends in Syria. There will be a live Syria Prayer Vigil happening this day gathering with people from around the world together with Unify & James Twyman.
“We will be holding the Isness of peace. This is the time to be fully empowered. Only love is real!” – James Twyman
James will be risking his life to witness to the reality of peace. Will you commit to join him and many others from around the world for fifteen minutes when he is in Syria? YOU ARE SO VERY NEEDED!
To Listen to this guided meditation with the world 8AM PST here at this link: https://jt208.infusionsoft.com/app/form/default-campaign-form15
HELP US SPREAD THE WORD. This wave of prayer will only be effective if it is supported by massive numbers of people. Please send this email to EVERYONE YOU KNOW. The more people who forward this to their own email lists, the quicker we will have the momentum we need. With Unify and James Twyman we gather with all on planet Earth Interfaith Harmony in action!
Report your interfaith, peace, and compassion in action for 7 days with us on the Global Compassion Report Map: https://crowdsource.storymaps.esri.com/stories/compassion-report
www.unify.org
What is the World Interfaith Harmony Week Coopetition?
The World Interfaith Harmony Week Coopetition is a 7 day global challenge to promote acts of peace, collaboration and tolerancebetween people of all faith, spiritual, and humanistic traditions. Beginning on February 1st and going through February 7th, individuals and teams will use the spirit of coopetition to inspire acts collaborative acts of service to give back to their communities and strengthen mutual respect, understanding, and harmony between people of all backgrounds.
The Harmony Week Coopetition is an incredible opportunity for any organization, group, congregation, place of worship or interfaith community to play in the Games in the spirit of a growing global unity and respect for all members of the human family. By using the innate desire of playfulness that exists within us all, the competitive altruism of the Games inspire and catalyze people to strive together for the greater good of compassion and service for others, ourselves, and the world.
The World Interfaith Harmony Week was first proposed at the UN General Assembly on September 23, 2010 by H.M. King Abdullah II of Jordan. Just under a month later, on October 20, 2010, it was unanimously adopted by the UN and henceforth the first week of February will be observed as a World Interfaith Harmony Week. Compassion Games is proud to present the World Interfaith Harmony Week Coopetition.
We invite Individual Players and Team Organizers to Sign Up for the World Interfaith Harmony Week Coopetition to bring the reality of peace to our world!
You can sign up to play here as an individual and also a team!
Love Wins!
Mon., Feb. 1, 10 a.m. ET/7 a.m. PT: Karin Miller,
Karin is Vice President and General Counsel of a major entertainment industry consortium. Active in the mind, body and spirit communities for over ten years, Miller served as pro bono counsel to Marianne Williamson for the formation of the Peace Alliance and as an Advisory Board Member to the Alliance for a New Humanity, chaired by Deepak Chopra.
Karin founded Our New Evolution (ONE) to connect and empower people and projects that are aligned with Global Values—the heart of Karin’s new book, “Global Values: A New Paradigm for a New World.” Read the introduction to Karen’s book and visit www.OurNewEvolution.org to learn more.
[REGISTER HERE] For this Charter For Compassion Second Speaker Series Talk
Tue., Feb. 2, 12 p.m. ET/ 9 a.m. PT: Imam Jamal Rahman, Rev. Don Mackenzie, Rabbi Ted Falcon, “The Interfaith Amigos.”
The Interfaith Amigos started working together after 9/11. Since then, they have brought their unique blend of spiritual wisdom and humor to audiences in the US, Canada, Israel-Palestine and Japan. Their first book, Getting to the Heart of Interfaith (Skylight Paths, 2009), brought the Interfaith Amigos international attention with coverage from the New York Times, CBS News, the BBC and various NPR programs. Karen Armstrong calls their “exuberant and courageous” second book, Religion Gone Astray: What We Found at the Heart of Interfaith (Skylight Paths, 2011), “an inspiration and example for all of us in these sadly polarized times.”
Charter For Compassion Speaker Series Presents
Wed., Feb. 3, 12 p.m. ET/9 a.m. PT: Marie Roker-Jones, Louisa Hext, Aleasa Word
Marie Roker-Jones and Louisa Hext are cofounders of #CompassionConvos: a compassion movement challenging our own bias. It’s a call to action bringing people together to create individual and systemic change. Roker-Jones is also the founder of http://raisinggreatmen.com/, an effort to raise boys to be men of character. Hext is the North American representative of The Forgiveness Project, and can be reached though http://consultantshext.com/
Aleasa Word is an internationally certified professional life coach, editor at the Good Men Project, small business consultant and author specializing in helping people develop the second chapter of their lives professionally and personally. Details on her site Chapter 2 Living.
Thur., Feb. 4, 12 p.m. ET/9 a.m. PT: John Esposito
John Esposito is American professor of International Affairs and Islamic Studies at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. Esposito is Founding Director of the Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding in the Walsh School of Foreign Service.Previously, he was Loyola Professor of Middle East Studies, College of the Holy Cross. He is the author of over 45 books. Esposito’s interviews and articles with newspapers, magazines, and the media in the U.S., Europe, Asia, and the Middle East: The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Economist, The Guardian, The Times of London, CNN, ABC Nightline, CBS, NBC, and the BBC. John is a major contributor to the Charter’s Islamophobia Guide Book.
[Last December 12 Hour Blab Recording with many luminaries from all over the world recording here]
What does World Interfaith Harmony in action look like? What choices could we make today that empower the golden rule? How could we be harmonious with compassion and love with the world?? How does collective impact happen?
This Conversation on BLAB LIVE is about World Interfaith Harmony Week happening right now Feb 1-7th. There are Agents of Compassion focusing on this around the world sharing on Global Report Map.
We have a few feature speakers Jon Ramer from Team Compassion Games: Survival of the Kindest, Edwina Cowell from Team Spiritual Playdate, Amanda Cook from Play For Peace and more surprise champions of compassion!
Blab is the latest social media platform with face to face, chat box, Twiiter + Facebook connection, and support hearts a click away on what moves you on the screen. Let us celebrate and amplify together the vibration of compassion.
You can reserve your spot and join the converation at this link:https://blab.im/compassiongames-compassioninaction-world-interfaith-harmony-week-in-action
Friday, Feb 5, 7 am PT; Desperate Times Call for Compassionate Action.
Join Reham Hamoui and others who are working with refugees arriving in Europe and America. Rehab is Syrian-born American currently residing in Seattle, WA. She has worked on humanitarian issues for 5 years in several capacities including the coordination of medical missions, political advocacy, and community outreach. She is now the Director of Communications for Salaam Cultural Museum, a NGO focused on providing humanitarian aid to Syrian refugees within the MENA region and Greece.
Please help us spread the word!
RSVP on Heart Sisters Facebook Event
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In the U.S. and possibly global climate where hostility toward Muslims and contagious backlash against Sikhs and others in religious attire is on the increase, we Seattle area women of faith sought compassionate responses to implement.
This is a message on a card one of the women in the circle sent to Seattle area mosques on a particularly meaningful day for Muslims this December. Others have visited mosques armed with notes of support and gifts.
In solidarity with Muslims around the world and to some extent, the generous givers who will show their support, we invite you to a concerted moment of solidarity on
February 5, 2016, Friday, at 1 PM PST
to send a prayer, an email, a note, or a gift to one or more mosques in your area. The moment of simultaneous show of support certainly would be indicative of our message of solidarity and perhaps can serve as a bond among all who send such message of fellowship around the globe.
Please let Guo Cheen (TheCompassionNetwork@gmail.com) know if any mosque or Muslim association you reach out to is open for several local women from different religious communities to be in dialogue with interested Muslim women. So that together, we learn to build bridges for times of needed solidarity among us.
Then report your action on the Compassion Report Map
Compassion 4 Anaphylaxis is a virtual event supporting Love Remembers Day a global effort to raise awareness about the life threatening aspect of food allergies, insect bites and medication allergies. Each year many lives are lost and LRD’s founder coordinates support for families from the food allergic community as well as personal support when needed. This event also speaks to the legacy left with families who continue work to raise awareness after the loss of their loved one and the inspiration they provide to others to continue the fight for a cure.
Starting March 19th 4AM PST – 10PM PST
Join us for this FREE online event as we celebrate a full day of innovation, inspiration and synergistic co-creation with United Earth Festival 2016!
This festival is designed to catalyse a chain of events that United Earth will be hosting throughout 2016 to synergise global change agents and empower greater levels of co-creation and collaboration. United Earth intends to act as a planetary meeting ground and ‘universal docking station’ where individuals and groups can share their diverse wealth of knowledge, ideas, visions, skills, tools and resources on one common platform.
Due to the unprecedented duration of this Global Solutions Festival you are invited to choose which 6-hour period suits your schedule – and we hope you will choose all 3!!
The entire event will be recorded for future viewing and dissemination.
Part One Registration: 4AM PST – 10AM PST:
http://myaccount.maestroconference.com/conference/register/38QY5OPA3G4KAN3
Part Two Registration: 10AM PST – 4PM PST
http://myaccount.maestroconference.com/conference/register/3JBING1A1V9WXT6I
Part Three Registration: 4PM PST – 10PM PST
(Includes Compassion Games Founder Jon Ramer and Phil Lane Jr will be speaking. Plus including Uplift Connect/ UnifyWater Global Meditation)
http://myaccount.maestroconference.com/conference/register/MS27M4K5Z7SBXWA
The three 6 hour Maestro conference calls is kindly being made available by our partner Charter for Compassion.
Amplify this Earth Festival with the next stepts of action for our precious Earth by signing up for Love This Place! Serve The Earth Week Coopetition April 16-24th is a 9 day global challenge to inspire acts of love, service, and compassion toward our Mother Earth and all life!
http://compassiongames.org/serve-the-earth-week/
Partners for this Earth Festival Weekend:
Noomap, The Hague Center, Gaia Education, Charter for Compassion, SOSA, Tamera, Hello, I Am Awake, Escola da Natureza Piracanga, The Four Worlds International Institute
On April 13-15, 2016, nearly 1,000 top innovators from more than 60 countries will come together for the Skoll World Forum in Oxford, England for three days of debate, discussion, networking, and design to accelerate entrepreneurial solutions to the world’s most pressing problems.
Will be available LIVE Streaming : http://skoll.org/live/
Join the Conversation Online. Check out the Forum Live page at skoll.org/live for videos, photos, and conversations as they happen in real time. The live-streamed coverage begins at 10:00am GMT +1 on April 13, 2016.
Use the conference hashtag #skollwf to share what you’re seeing and hearing on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Follow @skollfoundation on Twitter for year-round conversations and news.
We have just learned that Tenzin Gyatso, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, is now unable to join us in person at the 2016 Skoll World Forum. This year, we recognize His Holiness, who will receive the Skoll Global Treasure Award for his efforts as an advocate for peace, universal responsibility, and compassion.
We send good wishes to His Holiness and hope to welcome him to a future Skoll World Forum.
Introduction of the event: https://youtu.be/pVTOJN9tKmY
Join the conversation on social media #skollwf
Love This Place! Serve the Earth Week! is a 9 day global challenge to inspire acts of love, service, and compassion toward our Mother Earth and all life. Beginning on April 16th and continuing through April 24th, Serve the Earth Week includes Earth Day, an annual event to support environmental protection as well as Give-A-Day: Mayor’s Week of Service started by Mayor Greg Fischer of Louisville. Serve the Earth Week is played globally between youth, educators, cities, neighborhoods, interfaith groups, environmental organizations and Indigenous communities to develop regenerative social and environmental practices that cultivate an awareness of life’s interconnectivity, and the human responsibility to protect and restore the Earth for untold generations of life to come.
Love This Place! is grounded in appreciation and respect of one’s local bioregion, honoring Indigenous leadership and practices in how best to care for Mother Earth while acknowledging our human place in the web of life. Love This Place! Serve the Earth Week is a way to explore how we can be compassionate toward the Earth, and act in way to discover compassion for ourselves, each other, and all members of the Earth Community.
Why Play in Love This Place! Serve the Earth Week?
Mother Earth needs our love! And we need Mother Earth!
Since it is the Earth’s land, water, and clean air that we totally depend upon for our sustenance, well-being, and future, the decision to act compassionately toward our Mother Earth is as natural as breathing. This “Green Compassion” is calling us to live in unprecedented, unified action to change the narrative of our current story to one of justice, sustainability, and love for one another, all beings, and this place we call home.
Mobilized compassionate action to Protect and Restore the Sacredness of Mother Earth is the ultimate act of compassion, for its benefits reach far beyond our individual selves to all living beings. The youngest among us, and our future generations, are looking to us – their ancestors! – to care for the Earth lovingly so that it can support and sustain their lives as well.
Let’s play together and bring compassion to life for Mother Earth!
Saturday, April 16, 9 am – 10 am PST: Screening of “How Do Humans Heal a World?” with Barbara Kaufmann, Walking Moon Studios, and Sommer Albertsen, Compassion Games Internation.
Sommer and Barbara will discuss grief and how we can process our feelings about what is happening to our planet in ways that are healthy, motivating and inspirational so we can move past it and go about the work of stewardship for the Earth.
On Earth Day last year artist and writer Barbara’s Art Brainchild, Walking Moon Studios, released the film “How Do Human’s Heal a World?” produced for the Charter for Compassion International. Now in its second and HD edition.
This film came out of conversations with people that began in Barbara’s Charter for Compassion booth at the Midwest Renewable Energy Association Fair and has continued in subsequent gatherings. Her medical arts background alerted her to a pattern that emerged when she initiated conversation about the stewardship of Planet Earth. Every person she spoke to was exhibiting some stage of grief which accompanies the process of dying; many were frozen and feeling helpless in their inhabited melancholy. The film is designed to embrace that all-too-human sadness, validate it, thaw the energy frozen in its helplessness or hopelessness, discover the love that actually fuels it, and transform it into fierce compassion and inspiration.
Sommer Albertsen teaches healing through movement and dance as a wellness coach and teacher of Nia. A member of the Leadership Team for Compassion Games International, she is passionate about creating connections and partnerships that allow for people to find their highest human expression through movement and cooperative games that highlight human brilliance through cooperation in movement with survival of the kindest, not the fittest. Sommer sees movement as medicine and has put together some exercises that will help us move through our grief and reach for that inner brilliance so that we can employ it in healing our planet.
Sommer’s video of 3 tools to remedy stress: HERE
”One Wordsmith” Barbara Kaufmann “writes to simply change the world.” www.onewordsmith.com Writer, author, artist, filmmaker, impresario, minister, healer, and spiritual advisor—trained conventionally with a Business Degree in Management, Nursing Diploma, and in seminary as an ordained minister while training unconventionally with gurus, Sufis and shaman in alternative healing, Spiritual Emergency, Interspecies Communication and Shamanism, she dreams out loud of “a more humane narrative on the planet.”
Barbara’s Film about the Earth: HERE
Lifelong global and local activist, leader and citizen diplomat, she believes fiercely in the power of “Story,” communication, connection and agency—especially through the arts. An award winning author she’s written for the Huffington Post, magazines, organizations and is the founder and steward of “Words and Violence” Project compendium on bullying (including the planet) now in its 4th edition. An original member and officer with Sister Cities’ Russian-American partnerships that begun during the cold war and nuclear arms race, she wrote and administrated the grant that built the infrastructure for the decommissioning of weapons of mass destruction in her sister city region in Russia. She is a staffer, writer and contributor to the Charter for Compassion International.
Sommer Joy Albertsen is a member of the Leadership Team as Compassion Games International Relations Coach & Artistic Outreach Director. She is passionate about bringing together complementary partnerships, creating connections between people and organizations who are committed to a kinder, more just and sustainable world. She has a Bachelors Degree from Western Washington University in Therapeutic Recreation which she continues to amplify with new programming skills and working with individuals’ plans for quality of life and well being. She is a natural leader in advocating for women and girl’s empowerment, people with various disabilities, elders, social justice and environmental issues. Her business, Island Joy Wellness, includes her work with Compassion Games, as an Energy Brilliance Healer, and Brown Belt Nia Teacher, where she employs her knowledge and experience to support both individuals, and communities around the world in aligning with their highest calling.www.compassiongames.org www.islandjoywellness.com
Earth Week Speaker Series is April 16th – 22nd presented by: The Charter for Compassion & Compassion Games International: http://www.charterforcompassion.org/index.php/environment-reports-and-documents/earth-day-speaker-series-and-presentations-2016
“This Changes Everything” a film by Naomi Klein
[Trailer Here]
The program page for the Earth Week Film Special film is:
This Changes Everything
Genre: Documentary,
MPAA Rating: PG
Duration: 90 minutes
Release Date: 2015
Director: Avi Lewis
All around the world, people are hosting screenings of this powerful new film in living rooms, libraries, and independent theaters. Our hope is that this film will be a conversation starter and an organizing tool for campaigners, organizers and community groups worldwide.
Filmed over 211 shoot days in nine countries and five continents over four years, This Changes Everything is an epic attempt to re-imagine the vast challenge of climate change.
Directed by Avi Lewis, and inspired by Naomi Klein’s international non-fiction bestseller This Changes Everything, the film presents seven powerful portraits of communities on the front lines, from Montana’s Powder River Basin to the Alberta Tar Sands, from the coast of South India to Beijing and beyond.
Interwoven with these stories of struggle is Klein’s narration, connecting the carbon in the air with the economic system that put it there. Throughout the film, Klein builds to her most controversial and exciting idea: that we can seize the existential crisis of climate change to transform our failed economic system into something radically better.
You can report your actions in your communities by playing Love This Place! Serve The Earth Week April 16-24th:
http://compassiongames.org/serve-the-earth-week/ with Teams around the world amplifying compassion for the Earth together!
Then report your actions on the Global Compassion Report Map: https://crowdsource.storymaps.esri.com/stories/compassion-report
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Sunday, April 17, 9am – 10am PDT: 
Climate, Compassion and Community Building: Sustainability with Justice with Paloma Pavel and Carl Anthony.
Climate, Compassion and Community Building: Sustainability with Justice with Paloma Pavel and Carl Anthony
Climate change is a critical moment within our lifetime. Yet, the global breakdown of economy, environment and equity is also an unparalleled opportunity for a reimagining of our purpose on the planet and a comprehensive coming home to our place in the Universe. The Breakthrough Communities team offers this interactive dialogue and workshop to better understand how to approach climate justice from a place of compassion to transform ourselves, our communities, and the planet.
Carl Anthony’s upcoming book and accompanying short film, The Earth, the City and the Hidden Narrative of Race places an African American narrative in the context of deep time and climate crisis- from the Big Bang to Hurricane Katrina. Carl illustrates how this Big History framework is key to transforming the dominant narrative of race and providing new pathways for the Great Work of our time.
Dr. Paloma Pavel provides case studies from Breakthrough Communities’ work with coalitions, documented in the forthcoming publication Climate Justice: Frontline Stories from Groundbreaking Coalitions in California. These stories of social innovation apply tools for regional coalition-building in vulnerable communities across lines of race, place, and class, in response to global warming.
You can find Paloma and Carl at: www.earthhousecenter.org.
Earth Week Speaker Series is April 16th – 22nd presented by: The Charter for Compassion & Compassion Games International: http://www.charterforcompassion.org/index.php/environment-reports-and-documents/earth-day-speaker-series-and-presentations-2016
Monday, April 18, 9 am – 10 am PDT: Love this Place, Serve the Earth: Collaboration is Necessary for the Earth with Jon Ramer and Joey Crotty
Jon Ramer, First first follower, Compassion Games International, will be showcasing LIVE a new song for Mother Earth. Jon says that “since it is the Earth’s land, water, and clean air that we totally depend upon for our sustenance, well-being, and future, the decision to act compassionately toward our Mother Earth is as natural as breathing.” He adds that “‘Green Compassion’ is calling us to live in unprecedented, unified action to change the narrative of our current story to one of justice, sustainability, and love for one another, all beings, and this place we call home.”
Joining Jon is Joey Crotty, a storyteller, writer and rogue techy supporting the Compassion Games. Joey utilizes his talents as a hopeless storyteller and writer, creative strategist, and rogue techy to elevate the evolutionary capacity of consciousness and compassion in the world. Joey is an undergraduate researcher and co-founder of the Consciousness Club at the University of Washington – Bothell. He is a major organizer toward the creation of the Center for Education and Research in Consciousness (CERC), the first consciousness program of its kind at a public university. Joey enjoys spontaneous song-making, belly laughter, all of nature, and learning from the wisdom of little ones to get out there and play like his life depended on it.
Love This Place! Serve The Earth Week Sign up HERE
A brief inspiring video about why Compassion Games began HERE
Information about all 7 Earth Week Speaker Series April 16th – 22nd:
Tuesday, April 19, 9 am – 10 am PDT: Practicing Green Compassion: Can We Re-Green the World in One Generation? with Marc Barasch
“A compassionate civilization is not a utopian fantasy; it’s an evolutionary imperative.” Marc Barasch, Green World’s founder says that environmental activism and sustainability is not enough; we have to implement holistic solutions for regeneration that aren’t competitive but include everybody and treat people and planet as an inseparable unity. From here on, it’s going to mean survival not of the fittest but of the kindest. Come and explore with Marc, how to re-green the world.
Marc Barasch is the author of the acclaimed bestseller, The Compassionate Life which was the inspiration for the film “I Am,” in which he co-starred with Nobel Prize-winner Reverend Desmond Tutu, biologist David Suzuki, and poet Coleman Barks. Marc founded Green World Campaign www.greenworld.org which calls for a global movement to “re-green the world in one generation.” The campaign: plants millions of trees on degraded land on three continents; regenerates degraded land, creates rural employment and food security, and helps communities on the front lines of climate change to thrive. Marc’s newly founded Green World Ventures is mobilizing hundreds of thousands of farmers in Nigeria to farm superfood moringa trees using eco-agriculture to restore the economy and ecology of some of the world’s poorest places. His Green World Charterwww.greenworldcharter.org engages with faith traditions to renew the Tree of Life; Former editor of culture-shifting national magazines like Psychology Today, Natural Health, and New Age Journal; Marc created TV specials for TBS and the Discovery Channel seen by billions. Author of landmark books on healing and wholeness (The Healing Path; Remarkable Recovery; Healing Dreams,) Marc is a long-time Buddhist meditator and persistent catalyst for change. http://ow.ly/vwT7T. You can reach Marc at Green World Ventures Ltd: www.greenworld.org; Green World Charter: email: marc@greenworld.org.
Details about all Earth Week Speaker Series HERE presented by Compassion Games International & Charter For Compassion
Wednesday, April 20, 9 am PDT: “The Science of Climate Change” with Dr. David Poister.
Although the techniques used by scientists to measure and predict the effects of climate change are complex, the fundamental physical and chemical processes that cause these changes are quite understandable. This presentation will explain these processes to give participants without a scientific background a basic understanding of climate change science.
David Poister is a Professor of Chemistry and Environmental Science at St. Norbert College in Green Bay, Wisconsin where he has taught since 1995. He received his B.S. in Chemistry from St. Francis College in Loretto, Pennsylvania and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Water Chemistry from the University of Wisconsin – Madison. An environmental chemist with research interests in biogeochemistry and the chemical ecology of aquatic systems, his current research focuses on chemical interactions between algae growing in Wisconsin’s Fox River. In addition to his scientific work, David is interested in exploring how the dialogue between science and religion can be used to understand and advance the human condition. David and his wife Sara have four children and live in De Pere, Wisconsin. http://www.snc.edu/academics/faculty/david.poister.html.
Earth Week Speaker Series April 16th -22nd Details HERE presented by Compassion Games International & Charter For Compassion
Webinar Thursday, April 21, 9 am – 10 am PDT: Shifts in the Culture around Climate with Sarah van Gelder of Yes! Magazine and George Price of the University of Montana.
Sarah has studied communities and individuals who are exploring ways to build bridges to a future based on hope and unified action—and is writing a book based on a recent project called the Edge of Change Road Trip http://edgeofchange.yesmagazine.org/about/. As part of discussion, we’ll learn about key places where the debate over climate change has shifted into resilient action, and explore how people are helping to move themselves and their communities toward collective action.
George Price, a professor at the University of Montana, teaches African American and Native American Studies, runs a permaculture farm on the Flathead Reservation outside Missoula. George has been very active in climate change resistance and fossil fuel resistance.
Earth Week Speaker Series April 16th – 22nd details HERE Presented by Compassion Games International and Charter for Compassion
Jane Goodall, British primatologist, ethologist, anthropologist, and UN Messenger of Peace. She is the founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and the Roots & Shoots program, and has worked extensively on conservation and animal welfare issues.
Chief Phil Lane Jr., Ihanktowan Dakota and Chickasaw Nations, and Chairman of the Four Worlds International Institute. During the past 45 years, he has worked with Indigenous peoples from North, Central and South America, Micronesia, South East Asia, India, Hawaii and Africa.
Rex Weyler was a director of the original Greenpeace Foundation and a co-founder of Greenpeace International in 1979. Weyler was a photographer and reporter on the early Greenpeace whale and seal campaigns, and has written one of the best and most comprehensive histories of the organization.
Xiuhtezcatl, Youth Director of Earth Guardians is a young Indigenous change agent, environmental activist, public speaker, and eco-hip hop artist. youth around the world. He received the 2013 United States Community Service Award from President Obama and was the youngest of 24 national changemakers chosen to serve on the President’s youth council.
Earth Week Speaker Series April 16th – 22nd details HERE presented by Compassion Games International & Charter for Compassion
Looking for a way to play Love This Place Serve The Earth Week in your community?
Why don’t you get involved with this Flashmob raising awareness of Climate Change & Compassion for Planet Earth action is needed now around the world! Compassion Games and Seattle, Washington 350.org Chapter is teaming up to bring this wonderful way to share you care for Planet Earth through DANCE!
Right now, people read the news and get depressed or wonder if they can really make a difference in global issues like climate change. If no action is taken, what’s predictable is people feeling guilty then too busy to do anything about it, and they do nothing. What’s possible with a flash mob for climate change is to engage citizens in a fun, light way that not only brings awareness but inspires a call to action.
Here are the simple steps to organize this flashmob with your community:
1. To sign up to play Love This Place Serve The Earth Week Coopetition with a Team (suggestion to make the name of your team the location you are on the planet) [HERE] this gets you signed up as an individual, then a screen pops up with red box to “Sign up You Team”, click on the box and you will need to fill out a brief form about your team, then the form will ask to confirm your email, go to your email and click confirm when you get an email from Compassion Games.
2. You will then in the next 24 hours receive a welcome email that looks like this: http://bit.ly/1LRUWZC With all sorts of great resources to get a Team rallying up for Earth Week.
3. Begin to gather a group of like minded caring individuals that want to be apart of this Flashmob with you. You can invite them to play Love This Place with you. You can send them the videos below to practice the dance routine alone or gather group together for a practice or two. Then your ready!
4. It could be helpful to also make a Facebook event for a practice and also for performance to get people interested to join. The bigger the group the more fun and powerful it will be for you and your audience. You will still surprise the audience. Here is an example of Seattle, WA Team Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/172298319809319/ Your welcome to also use the picture too:)
5. When picking a public location it is always best to ask the location owners for permission first. Have a loud music speaker system so all can hear the music. Another suggestion is to contact your local already happening Earth Day Events to see if you could do the flashmob there. Public Parks and City Centers where there lots of people are great spaces!
6. After you have completed your incredible flashmob or Flashmobs report your expereince on the Global Compassion Report Map: https://crowdsource.storymaps.esri.com/stories/compassion-report The deadline for all reports will be April 28th! You can add videos and pictures in your reports and share with the world!
If you have any questions you can email me at sommer@compassiongames.org
7. See Below for all the Flashmob resources you need:
How to engage: Learn the Dance!! Share the youtube link with the first dance rehearsal to practice with friends–it’s a great workout for a cause! Then just come and join us day of:
There are already Flashmobs scheduled in Seattle, Bellingham, Tacoma Washington. There are a few more happening
Whole dance with all dancers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbf0ZiqZ5jU
Choreography facing choreographer to Uptown Funk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9FlIXWqMfU
Recording Video of “Big Oil Funk” Singers Aji & Adonis from Shellno Rally also includes another song & inspirational words: https://youtu.be/5N_UYMl5HSU
Flash mob vision explained:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nT_pWcwV25Y
First Flash Mob Performance at Greenlake!!
https://youtu.be/aslbfQHkzQI
Thank you 350Seattle.org Artful Activism workgroup for partnering on this global vision for Earth Week Climate Change Flashmobs happening around the world!! May it be so!!
An online summit of compassionate, authentic healers, speakers, authors, & teachers that share how they found their power, claimed their place on this earth and create lives of intention, inspiration, love and service.
www.abetterworld.tv has been promoting the Pachamama Alliance for the past few years as its values & mission are parallel with ours. This is a Free Event. To register:
The Symposium in NY Sat., April 30, 1-5pm. It’s a powerful education across a broad spectrum of social, economic and environmental, indigenous issues and justice.
See you soon–
Mitchell J. Rabin, M.A., L.AC.
Creative Consulting, Stress Management
Host & Producer, A Better World Radio & TV
212 420-0800
www.abetterworld.tv
www.mitchellrabin.com
http://www.youtube.com/abetterworldtvshow
www.huffingtonpost.com/mitchell-j-rabin
www.naturalnews.com/Author_Mitchell_Rabin.html
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” –Margaret Mead
Please mark your calendars!!! Prime Cut Band will be performing-you do not want too miss it!
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On the day of the Z Ranch Restoration party, volunteering begins as early as 7am for set-up and will go to little after 12pm (noon) follow by a Z Ranch style lunch. Volunteering is a great way to deepen your connections with the Zorthian Ranch community, create new friendships, & be the good you seek in the world. All while having fun and supporting a historical landmark and a cultural community event that promotes authenticity and sustainability in the arts, agriculture, in addition to health and wellness. Space is limited, so please sign up quick, you can be apart of this rare opportunity to submerse yourself in the Zorthian Ranch Community.
Join the Zoom Call here: Wednesday at 11am PST
Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://zoom.us/j/2069727356
Or iPhone one-tap (US Toll): +14086380968,2069727356# or +16465588656,2069727356#
Or Telephone: Dial: +1 408 638 0968 (US Toll) or +1 646 558 8656 (US Toll)
Meeting ID: 206 972 7356
International numbers available: https://zoom.us/zoomconference?m=KfhKFY8qFI10Jdhq6IJMA1yqCBsIn6DF
If you have any questions please contact Sommer Joy Albertsen Compassion Games International Relations Coach
sommer@compassiongames.org
We together are creating compassionate global unity on Twitter at 11:11AM PST/3:11PM EST
Compassion Games invites you, partners, organizations to join us on Twitter and ripple out to all our channels compassion together. We will be tweeting meaningful questions and challenges every 5 minutes during this hour and building a powerful collective heart beat together. A Pre Global Unity Games Celebration for us all to spread and be in! Game On!!
The best way to see and be with all the tweets coming through during this hour is this twitter chat room:
Go Here and tweet with us!
http://tweetchat.com/room/CompassionUnites
We will be numbering the questions that will be coming through every 5 minutes. It is best to tweet your answers and reflections with number so we can track your answers clearly.
Example Tweet questions:
#1Q What inspires you in your community? #CompassionUnites
Example Tweet Answer:
#1A How my community gathers around tragedy support! #CompassionUnites #ServiceAboveSelf
We hope that helps how the flow unfolds. We would love to have you join us.
We are in this together!
Join the Zoom Call here: Wednesday at 11am PST
Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://zoom.us/j/2069727356
Or iPhone one-tap (US Toll): +14086380968,2069727356# or +16465588656,2069727356#
Or Telephone: Dial: +1 408 638 0968 (US Toll) or +1 646 558 8656 (US Toll)
Meeting ID: 206 972 7356
International numbers available: https://zoom.us/zoomconference?m=KfhKFY8qFI10Jdhq6IJMA1yqCBsIn6DF
If you have any questions please contact Sommer Joy Albertsen Compassion Games International Relations Coach
sommer@compassiongames.org
“Lost in the Violence? A Moment of Reflection ”
Our first Interreligious Forum for the 2016-2017 series will feature guest speaker the Rev. Jethroe “Jeff” Moore, President of the local chapter of the NAACP.
Launch of Global Unity Games 2016 – Stand For Compassion Campaign
Please join the Sobrante Park Resident Action Council, The School of Urban Mission, Madison Park Academy, Lionel Wilson and Service for Peace at this National Day of Service event.
Small communities working together making a better world!
Date: Saturday, September 10
Time: 9am to 12pm
Where: Sobrante Mini Park on Bergedo and Pueblo
9/11 National Day of Service and Remembrance – Fruitvale Oakland CA
Please join us at this National Day of Service
DATE: Saturday, September 10
TIME: 9 am to 12pm
WHERE: 1001 Fruitvale Ave., Oakland (corner of E. 10th St.) – walking distance from BART
PROJECT: Beautifying International Blvd. (cleaning up trash from the sidewalk and gutters)
Join Councilman Noel Gallo and many other volunteers making a positive difference in the community!
We will have coffee and refreshments too!
PEACEJAM BELGIUM CONFERENCE WITH JODY WILLIAMS AND SPECIAL TALK BY THE DALAI LAMA
September 10-11
What: PeaceJam Belgium Student Conference with Nobel Peace Prize winner Jody Williams and a Special Talk by His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
PeaceJam will launch in Belgium with this inspiring two-day event with two Nobel Peace Laureates and engaged students from across the region. The keynote address on Saturday will be given by Jody Williams – who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1997 for creating an international treaty to ban landmines and clearing landmine fields worldwide. On Sunday, young people will have the opportunity to hear a talk by The Dalai Lama – who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989 for his efforts to resolve the Tibetan conflict peacefully and for being a global man of peace and advocate for the environment. Young people ages 14-18, as well as their teachers and adult advisers, have the opportunity to spend two days interacting with these amazing world leaders for peace and participating in workshops around current issues, service projects, and family groups led by university mentors!
Cost: €50 per person (SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE)
Points of Light with project management support from Volunteer Fairfax will commemorate the 15th anniversary of 9/11 with a Volunteer Service Fair. Volunteers of all ages will participate in eight mini-service projects and a moment of reflection to create a better, kinder, and more peaceful word. The activities are family-friendly and will provide service-learning opportunities for all who attend.
Through the 9/11 Day of Service, we will demonstrate the power of intergenerational service, honor those who lost their lives on 9/11 and in the conflicts that ensued, and engage youth to envision the changes they want to see in the world.
Event sponsored by Booz Allen Hamilton and the Corporation for National and Community Service.
WHEN
Saturday, September 10, 2016 from 12:45 PM to 3:30 PM (EDT) – Add to Calendar
Event sponsors:
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This is a featured event for Team Silicon Valley’s Global Unity Games Kick off!!
Mountain View Celebrates 45th Annual Art & Wine Festival
Colossal Crowds Expected For Silicon Valley’s World-Class Art & Music Festival
Soak in the Cool Castro Street Vibe at “A Festival Like No Other”
New Hours, Signature Cocktails, Saturday Sunset Concert Debut!
The vibrant, magnificent city of Mountain View has evolved in a big way over the last 45 years. A population boom. The arrival of Shoreline Amphitheater as a major concert venue. The amazing growth of Silicon Valley and Mountain View’s emergence as its epicenter. The transformation of a vibrant downtown district with restaurants, shops, cafes, bookstores and performing arts center. And, last but not least, the Art & Wine Festival’s rise to become one of America’s premier art festivals. And it’s that time of year: it’s Mountain View’s time to get festive and this year we celebrate #45!
Check out this incredible FREE tele summit happening during the Global Unity Games September 11-21. We are honored to support our partnersWE and The Shift Network share this incredible line up of change maker speakers that will inspire you into compassion filled action during the world largest compassion competition.
11 Days of Global Unity – 11 Ways to Transform Your World is a worldwide platform for the promotion of peace, justice, sustainability and transformation. The key note speakers include: Dr. Jane Goodall with Roots and Shoots , Monica Willard Co Chair of International Day of Peace, Ocean Robbins CEO Food Revolution Network, Joumana Rizk with Peace Lights, Steve Farrell with Humanity’s Team, Zoe Weil with Institute for Humane Education, Aji Piper Founder of Earth Guardians Seattle, and others! This is all hosted and possible by Rick Ulfik the Founder of We, The World!
Register and Learn more here: http://bit.ly/2bAhEcW
#11Days #GlobalUnity #CompassionUnites #ServiceAboveSelf
“Tomorrow Together” is a new five-year initiative, supported by a diverse community of national service, youth, faith and education organizations, to actively promote the ideals of unity, empathy and service among young people throughout the United States. “Tomorrow Together” officially launches on September 11, 2016, in observance of the 15th anniversary of 9/11.
Those who join “Tomorrow Together” are expressing their support for the mission of unity, and are committed to individually incorporating into their programs, however they see fit, activities and teachings that help young people understand and develop the skills necessary for empathy, peace and togetherness, with charitable service as an important program element.
While many “Tomorrow Together” programs may launch or be timed annually to coincide with the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, “Tomorrow Together” is meant to be an on-going, long term program to instill the values of unity and cultivate a new generation of empathetic change makers.
To add your organization’s name to the coalition, and access our free toolkits and resources, email us at info@911day.org.
Co-founders of Tomorrow Together include (partial list):
9/11 Day
9/11 Memorial and Museum
AARP Foundation
After School Alliance
Alliance for Peacebuilding
America’s Promise
Ashoka
Be The Change, Inc.
Get involved in 9/11 Day activities with your Global Unity Games Teams! Ideas here:
911 Day Twitter Page
The United Arab Emirates is the true model United Nations. We have over 200 nationalities that live and work together in peace. Let’s share the rich diversity of the UAE to the global community, promoting peace through understanding.
A culture gram would allow people to:
1. upload a photo or video
2. include their nationality
3. share something positive about their culture
4. include the #WeAretheUAE
DONATE THROUGH THE SIMPLE ACT OF SMILING! Yas Island will contribute one brick towards building schools every time you donate your smile and use the hashtag #YasJoyofEid. All funds will go towards building a brighter future for children in Pakistan and Mauritania. Spread the spirit of joy further through education! www.yasjoyofeid.ae
Forgiving you is my gift to you. Moving on is my gift to myself.
By Mayo Clinic Staff
Nearly everyone has been hurt by the actions or words of another. Perhaps your mother criticized your parenting skills, your colleague sabotaged a project or your partner had an affair. These wounds can leave you with lasting feelings of anger, bitterness or even vengeance.
But if you don’t practice forgiveness, you might be the one who pays most dearly. By embracing forgiveness, you can also embrace peace, hope, gratitude and joy. Consider how forgiveness can lead you down the path of physical, emotional and spiritual well-being.
What is forgiveness?
Generally, forgiveness is a decision to let go of resentment and thoughts of revenge. The act that hurt or offended you might always remain a part of your life, but forgiveness can lessen its grip on you and help you focus on other, more positive parts of your life. Forgiveness can even lead to feelings of understanding, empathy and compassion for the one who hurt you.
Forgiveness doesn’t mean that you deny the other person’s responsibility for hurting you, and it doesn’t minimize or justify the wrong. You can forgive the person without excusing the act. Forgiveness brings a kind of peace that helps you go on with life.
What are the benefits of forgiving someone?
Letting go of grudges and bitterness can make way for happiness, health and peace. Forgiveness can lead to:
Healthier relationships
Greater spiritual and psychological well-being
Less anxiety, stress and hostility
Lower blood pressure
Fewer symptoms of depression
Stronger immune system
Improved heart health
Higher self-esteem
Why is it so easy to hold a grudge?
When you’re hurt by someone you love and trust, you might become angry, sad or confused. If you dwell on hurtful events or situations, grudges filled with resentment, vengeance and hostility can take root. If you allow negative feelings to crowd out positive feelings, you might find yourself swallowed up by your own bitterness or sense of injustice.
What are the effects of holding a grudge?
If you’re unforgiving, you might:
Bring anger and bitterness into every relationship and new experience
Become so wrapped up in the wrong that you can’t enjoy the present
Become depressed or anxious
Feel that your life lacks meaning or purpose, or that you’re at odds with your spiritual beliefs
Lose valuable and enriching connectedness with others
How do I reach a state of forgiveness?
Forgiveness is a commitment to a process of change. To begin, you might:
Consider the value of forgiveness and its importance in your life at a given time
Reflect on the facts of the situation, how you’ve reacted, and how this combination has affected your life, health and well-being
Actively choose to forgive the person who’s offended you, when you’re ready
Move away from your role as victim and release the control and power the offending person and situation have had in your life
As you let go of grudges, you’ll no longer define your life by how you’ve been hurt. You might even find compassion and understanding.
Freerice is an online trivia game that donates 10 grains of rice to feed the world’s hungry for every correct answer you choose. So far, it’s raised enough to feed almost 5 million people – it’s not your average trivia game! And, all of those grains of rice go to feed someone who is hungry – a person that is only six degrees away from you and me.
You probably know the 6 Degrees of Separation theory – you and I are connected to every other person on earth through at most six other people.
Just imagine: if I recruit you, and five other people, and you do the same – the online movement to fight hunger with exponentially explode! Let’s use our collective impact during the Global Unity Games September 11th – 21st to feed the world’s hungry.
Are you in? Then sign up on Freerice.com and join our group http://freerice.com/content-group/compassionate-uae.
Don’t forget after joining, you need to recruit 6 other people. You may never meet the people you help, but you can have a direct impact on their lives!
• Help end world hunger by providing rice to hungry people for free.
What‘s a gratitude gram? A shareable custom message of thanks that you create and post to Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat and Pinterest or send via email. (You can save to Instagram too!)
CREATING A GRATITUDE GRAM IS EASY:
• Upload a photo or video
• Add a gratitude filter to your photo
• Write your message
• Share it!
CHOOSE ONE:
UPLOAD A PHOTO or
UPLOAD A VIDEO
We Invite you to join other NYC area companies, leading nonprofits, colleges, anf faith-based organizations. 911 Day, the respected non profit, is leading an extraordinary coalition of interfaith, service, youth, and educational organizations that are joining together to mark the 15th anniversary of 9/11 by packing up to one million healthy meals for disadvantaged NYC area families.
911 Day NYC Signature Event Fact Sheet
Join the UNHCR #WithRefugees Campaign
As you know, the world is currently witnessing the highest levels of displacement ever recorded. More than 65 million people have been forced to flee their homes to escape violence and persecution. UNHCR believes that all refugees deserve to live in safety. Ahead of World Refugee Day, we therefore launched the #WithRefugees campaign and petition. The petition calls on world leaders to show solidarity and find solutions for people forcibly displaced, including in the areas of education, shelter and livelihoods.
The petition is to be delivered to the UN Secretary-General and the co-chairs of the UN General Assembly on September 16th, ahead of the General Assembly high-level summit on addressing large movements of refugees and migrants at the United Nations Headquarters in New York.
We would be very grateful for your support in helping make this campaign and petition a success. The petition is available in English and Arabic on www.withrefugees.org and can be posted directly on your website or social media channels.
Join our #WithRefugees campaign. Sign the petition today!
Please join us at this National Day of Service
DATE: Saturday, September 11
TIME: 9 am to 12pm
WHERE: 2410 E. 15th Street, Oakland (corner of E. 10th St.)
PROJECT: Beautifying International Blvd. (cleaning up trash from the sidewalk and gutters)
Join Councilman Noel Gallo and many other volunteers making a positive difference in the community!
We will have coffee and refreshments too!
National Day of Service and Remembrance
The September 11th National Day of Service and Remembrance is the culmination of efforts originally launched in 2002 by the 9/11 nonprofit MyGoodDeed with wide support by the 9/11 community and leading national service organizations. This effort first established the inspiring tradition of engaging in charitable service on 9/11 as an annual and forward-looking tribute to the 9/11 victims, survivors, and those who rose up in service in response to the attacks.
Paying Tribute
On the anniversary of the September 11th attacks, Americans will unite in service in the same remarkable way that so many came together following the attacks. As in years past, we anticipate service and remembrance activities in all 50 states, at which there will be opportunities for hundreds of thousands of volunteers to paint and refurbish homes, run food drives, spruce up schools, reclaim neighborhoods, and support and honor veterans, soldiers, military families, and first responders.
Pass a virtual soft copy of the Compassion Torch through social media to challenge others to acts of kindness throughout the UAE and the globe.
The 6 Degrees of Separation theory suggests that you and I are connected to every other person on the planet via a maximum of six other people.
Sign Up Today! Once you complete your individual sign-up, please send this message to 6 of your friends and challenge them to play.
Just imagine: if I pass the torch to you, and five other people, and challenge you to perform one act of kindness today and you pass the torch to six other people and ask them each to do the same. The entire country would be drowning in acts of compassion! Let’s use our collective impact during the Global Unity Games September 11-21 and prove that the UAE has the kindness edge.
Petition to County Board of Supervisors & City Mayors to Affirm the Charter and become Compassionate Silicon Valley. Please sign the petition here:
https://docs.google.com/a/sivicouncil.org/forms/d/1ouKFC_Z9uInthD49fVOx851A_Dp3Gj8e4ZDpdBgh-zI/
Compassionate Indy has partnered with Mid-North Food Pantry. Sign up to volunteer or send a donation.
10:00am: Mass at St. Edward’s University Queen of Peace Chapel
11:00am: Unveiling of Plaque at Ragsdale Student Center St. Edward’s
Noon: Program on the Quad at St. Edward’s
1:00pm.: Start of 4 mile march to the Capitol
4:00pm: Arrive at Capitol for a Rally
50 years ago on June 1, 1966, 400 farm workers in Starr County, Texas began a strike against 6 growers asking for an increase in pay from the pittance of 40 cents an hour they were earning then. They were also asking for the right to form their own union.
As the strike continued the next year, they were beaten and jailed by the Texas Rangers and mistreated by the Judges, Sheriff’s deputies, and prosecutors of Starr County. To make their issues known in Texas, they began a march to Austin. Just north of New Braunfels, Governor John Connally met them on the side of the road to try to turn them back. He told them he would not support their demand to increase the Texas Minimum Wage Law to $1.25.
On Labor Day, 1966, 10,000 people in Austin joined the farm workers on the last 4 miles of the march to the Capitol. Though the law was not passed until 1970, and no union contracts were signed, this Strike was the spark that started the Chicano movement in Texas.
Let us unite to honor the victims of 9/11, their families and first responders as we strive to transform this tragic day into one of peace & community building.An Honor Walk.
Open the Compassion Games with inspiration, dialogue and service. Explore the question “What does a Compassionate Spokane look like?” through breakout sessions on restorative justice, interfaith compassion and self-compassion. Experience community, live music, service opportunities and the Peace Wave!
The ability to make our country safe, secure, peaceful and harmonious lies in our hands. Let us unite to honor the victims of 9/11, their families and first responders as we strive to transform this tragic day into one of peace & community building
Global Game Changers will host morning assembles in a course of 8 days and 8 schools to help students to know that using their superpower to serve others and the world can make the world a better place. In addition, students will learn more about the 9/11 Day of Remembrance, The Global Unity Games, and The International Day of Peace. Following the assembles, students will then participate with their classes to write letters first responders.
AGENDA:
6:30pm: Sign in + Network
7:00pm: Welcome, introductions, and chapter business
7:15pm: Brief overview of upcoming events.
7:20pm: The Film Maker, Holly Mosher will introduce the film
7:30pm: Bonsai People – The Vision of Muhammad Yunus Film Screening
8:20pm: Discussion and Q/A with the film maker
9:00pm: Wrap
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SYNOPSIS:
Bonsai People – The Vision of Muhammad Yunus is a feature length documentary that follows Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus’ pioneering work of microcredit and social business. Bonsai People follows six impoverished rural women through their trials and tribulations with microcredit loans and how they succeed to varying degrees. The film shows how microcredit is really a tool to unleash human potential and empower millions of women. As we follow these women, we also see the other difficulties they face – they not only lack access to financial services, but to so many other services we take for granted. And that is exactly why Yunus says “Whenever I see a problem, I create a company.” He is doing what many say is the government’s job by providing access to healthcare, education, energy, nutrition and even cell phones. Even though he is best know for as the father of microcredit, microcredit is just the tip of the iceberg as we see his vision in action.
In honor of 9/11 Day of Remembrance and 9/21 International Day of Peace, Global Game Changers (GGC) & the Muhammad Ali Center (MAC) are collaborating to implement a youth-based education and service project for JCPS elementary school children to enhance civic engagement, promote global peace and tackle barriers to positive community relationships and dialogue. Louisville Metro Police Department, Louisville Fire Department, Global Unity Compassion Games, and Compassionate Louisville Education Constellation will collaborate with Global Game Changers and Muhammad Ali Center on
this project. This unique project will reach over 4,000 JCPS students in eight days between 9/11 Day of Remembrance and 9/21 UN International Day of Peace.
Labyrinth Walk for Peace
We offer our outdoor Labyrinth as a sacred space of peace in this time of anxiety and tumult in the world. Everyone is invited to gather for Labyrinth walking, meditation, and music so to bring peace to our lives and, from there, to the world around us.
In honor of 9/11 Day of Remembrance and 9/21 International Day of Peace, Global Game Changers (GGC) & the Muhammad Ali Center (MAC) are collaborating to implement a youth-based education and service project for JCPS elementary school children to enhance civic engagement, promote global peace and tackle barriers to positive community relationships and dialogue. Louisville Metro Police Department, Louisville Fire Department, Global Unity Compassion Games, and Compassionate Louisville Education Constellation will collaborate with Global Game Changers and Muhammad Ali Center on
this project. This unique project will reach over 4,000 JCPS students in eight days between 9/11 Day of Remembrance and 9/21 UN International Day of Peace.
The Red Bench is a dialogue program that encourages people with different
world-views to engage in respectful and civil discourse and meaningful
conversations to discover shared common values.
It is centered on moderated small group discussions that are genuinely respectful
and safe. No one has to be an expert on the topic of the month – individual
participants are invited to share from their personal experiences and listen with
their hearts. Join us for a conversation on the topic of Reconciliation.
Tickets $10.00
S.A.R.A.H. Is proud to present this critically important film.
Based on the internationally bestselling novel and inspired by true accounts, SOLD gives the voice to the millions of children around the world who disappear every year.
Kristina from the Orange County Human Trafficking Coalition will speak to us about this critical problem in our own backyard.
Come prepared to be inspired to take compassionate action.
In honor of 9/11 Day of Remembrance and 9/21 International Day of Peace, Global Game Changers (GGC) & the Muhammad Ali Center (MAC) are collaborating to implement a youth-based education and service project for JCPS elementary school children to enhance civic engagement, promote global peace and tackle barriers to positive community relationships and dialogue. Louisville Metro Police Department, Louisville Fire Department, Global Unity Compassion Games, and Compassionate Louisville Education Constellation will collaborate with Global Game Changers and Muhammad Ali Center on
this project. This unique project will reach over 4,000 JCPS students in eight days between 9/11 Day of Remembrance and 9/21 UN International Day of Peace.
Help us sanitize and organize the toys our Mental Health team uses in counseling sessions with the kiddos! It’s important that the toys are cleaned regularly and we need your help!
What to bring: an old towel (to dry the toys), a bucket (if you have one), and antibacterial wipes (if you have some to spare)
The Charter for Compassion Women and Girls is collaborating with a Charter for Compassion International Partner We The World who is hosting 11 Days of Global Unity, which the Compassion Games are founded on. Each day of their 11 days is themed to an important global topic with a corresponding global call. “Women” is the theme for Sept 17th, where the CCI Women and Girls will be driving all members to attend the call and afterwards, head to the Compassion Map and reflect on their impressions and commitment to do one thing to make their world more compassionate.
1. Sign up for the Global Call Below for the Sept 17th call.
2. After the call, return to the Compassion Games Report Map with an image that describes your overall thoughts and impression (search on Google Images) and reflect with a commitment to do one thing to make a difference in your community.
On the day of the Zorthian Restoration party, volunteering begins as early as 7am and will go after 12pm noon followed by a Z Ranch Style lunch. Volunteering is a great way to deepen your connections with the Zorthian Ranch community, create new friendships, & be the good you seek in the world. All while having fun and supporting a historical landmark and a cultural community event that promotes authenticity and sustainability in the arts, agriculture, in addition to health and wellness. Space is limited, so please sign up quick, you can be apart of this rare opportunity to submerse yourself in the Zorthian Ranch Community.
Celebrating wek of fasting & universal forgiveness and Promote Compassion.
PEACE IN THE PARK – San Francisco
Held on September 17th at Golden Gate Park, Peace in the Park festival brings together the San Francisco and surrounding communities for a rejuvenating day of peaceful activities for all ages and backgrounds. The festival was created in response to the growing levels of stress which can manifest in ways that are damaging to our communities. The event will feature world music and visual artists, tai chi, hatha yoga, life-enhancing seminars, kids activities, exhibits by local non-profits, and meditation experiences where individuals can explore a variety of ways to unplug and unwind.
The festival’s impact is having a positive effect towards actively contributing to peace and social conscious initiatives in San Francisco and the greater Bay Area. Since 2013, the festival’s attendance has doubled in size each year and has spread to three other cities of New York NY, Oxford UK, Miami FL and Trinidad.
SPEAKERS: Dan Siegel MD, Jim Doty MD, Gopi Kallayil, Sister Denise Lawrence, Diane Tillman, Supervisor London Breed, Indian Ambassador Venkatesan Ashok, Shunya Pratichi Mathur.
MUSICIANS: Freddy Clarke and Wobbly World, Christine Tulis Christine, ALIA, and Ron Quesada
YOGA: Darren Main, Gopi Kallayil, Laxman Panthi Laxman, John Rettger. More to come
CREATIVE WORKSHOPS: Diane Ferlatte
TAICHI: Fern Jeffcoat, Master Cathy Mu, and Master Philip Yang
CHILDREN’S THEATER: To be announced
FOOD: Amma’s Kitchen, Charlie’s Brownies, and Alicia’s Tamales
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FREE EVENT @ The Golden Gate Park Music Concourse (in between the Museums)
Bring the entire family!
www.peaceintheparksf.org
https://www.facebook.com/events/620095384832701
Gathering items and will be packing 300 paper lunch-sized bags for people to keep in their cars to hand out to the homeless. – Join us (free)
Go Kind is putting on a one day FREE pop-up store for the homeless to shop with dignity.
Bubbles galore for stress relief and FUN! Handing out 1000 bottles of bubbles to promote fun, kindness, and unity.
Bubbles GALORE for stress relief and FUN! Handing out 1000 bottles of bubbles to promote fun, kindness, and unity.
Bubbles GALORE for stress relief and FUN! Handing out 1000 bottles of bubbles to promote fun, kindness, and unity.
Join other compassionate, peace-loving people for Peace Sunday 2016 … stand in solidarity, honor the U.N. International Day of Peace, and gain inspiration and valuable tools for us to aid in the building of a sustainable peace on earth. Our 2016 Theme — Sustainability: Positive Local-to-Global Transformations at Every Level. * 10am-6pm – Indoor Student Exhibition & Table Displays * 10am-Noon – Interfaith Service * Noon-1pm – Persian Lunch (avail. $6/person) * 1-3pm – Workshops pertaining to various aspects of Peacebuilding * 3:30-5:30pm – Main Program with speakers and performers.
Established in 1982 at the Rose Bowl, Peace Sunday has continued annually since 1999 through the efforts of Unity-and-Diversity World Council (UDC). This year UDC is pleased to present its 18th Annual Peace Sunday, in cooperation with the IMAN Cultural Center, located in the Palms neighborhood of Los Angeles.
In honor of 9/11 Day of Remembrance and 9/21 International Day of Peace, Global Game Changers (GGC) & the Muhammad Ali Center (MAC) are collaborating to implement a youth-based education and service project for JCPS elementary school children to enhance civic engagement, promote global peace and tackle barriers to positive community relationships and dialogue. Louisville Metro Police Department, Louisville Fire Department, Global Unity Compassion Games, and Compassionate Louisville Education Constellation will collaborate with Global Game Changers and Muhammad Ali Center on
this project. This unique project will reach over 4,000 JCPS students in eight days between 9/11 Day of Remembrance and 9/21 UN International Day of Peace.
The Green Sheikh, H.H. Sheikh Dr. Abdul Aziz bin Ali Al Nuaimi presents One World One People: Leadership in Energy Sustainability and Transition during the 11 Days of Global Unity.
In honor of 9/11 Day of Remembrance and 9/21 International Day of Peace, Global Game Changers (GGC) & the Muhammad Ali Center (MAC) are collaborating to implement a youth-based education and service project for JCPS elementary school children to enhance civic engagement, promote global peace and tackle barriers to positive community relationships and dialogue. Louisville Metro Police Department, Louisville Fire Department, Global Unity Compassion Games, and Compassionate Louisville Education Constellation will collaborate with Global Game Changers and Muhammad Ali Center on
this project. This unique project will reach over 4,000 JCPS students in eight days between 9/11 Day of Remembrance and 9/21 UN International Day of Peace.
What is compassion to you? How can you navigate daily life as a compassionate activist? David H. Breaux, author of Compassion: Davis, CA, and founder of the Compassion Bench will explore these important questions as part of his seven year and ongoing tour established to engage communities towards greater understanding.
The Red Bench is a dialogue program that encourages people with different
world-views to engage in respectful and civil discourse and meaningful
conversations to discover shared common values.
It is centered on moderated small group discussions that are genuinely respectful
and safe. No one has to be an expert on the topic of the month – individual
participants are invited to share from their personal experiences and listen with
their hearts. Join us for a courageous conversation on the topic of Privilege.
Come meet the Mother Theresa of our times: Sister Lucy is in Seattle this week along with the amazing Gaus Sayyad and Mangesh Pol who grew up at Maher. Join Global Citizen Journey for an inspiring evening filled with stories, music, Bollywood dancing, photos, and information with a hands-on taste of the GCJ Journey experience.Do you dream of India? Would you like to be a citizen diplomat? Come learn about our upcoming delegation! Consider becoming a delegate to India in January 2017 – or volunteer to support the journey.
In honor of 9/11 Day of Remembrance and 9/21 International Day of Peace, Global Game Changers (GGC) & the Muhammad Ali Center (MAC) are collaborating to implement a youth-based education and service project for JCPS elementary school children to enhance civic engagement, promote global peace and tackle barriers to positive community relationships and dialogue. Louisville Metro Police Department, Louisville Fire Department, Global Unity Compassion Games, and Compassionate Louisville Education Constellation will collaborate with Global Game Changers and Muhammad Ali Center on
this project. This unique project will reach over 4,000 JCPS students in eight days between 9/11 Day of Remembrance and 9/21 UN International Day of Peace.
Zayed University Abu Dhabi and Dubai campuses will plant peace poles in solidarity with the global community in the national language of Arabic and 7 other commonly spoken languages in the diverse population of 200 nationalities that live and work together cooperatively in the United Arab Emirates.
The Green Sheikh, H.H. Sheikh Dr. Abdul Aziz bin Ali Al Nuaimi presents One World One People: Leadership in Energy Sustainability and Transition during the 11 Days of Global Unity.
Each year the International Day of Peace is observed around the world on 21 September. The United Nations General Assembly has declared this as a day devoted to strengthening the ideals of peace, both within and among all nations and peoples. Join with others around the world for a time of meditation and inspiration as we reflect upon the rising tide of hope for peace that this day represents and the necessary transformation of our hearts and minds to bring it forth in our world.
Peace Walk around Lake Elizabeth; bring a sign with the word “peace” in your native language. Concludes with interfaith prayers for peace.
Sr. Annette Burkart BurkartMA@SNDdeN.org
Canice McLaughlin canice@comcast.net
Visit the Website at: http://www.UnifyFest.com/
Like the Facebook Page at: https://www.facebook.com/unifyfestsantafe
Over 170 Performances, Workshops, Yoga Classes, and Ceremonies across 5 epic stages, UNIFY FEST is a next-level paradigm shifting transformational festival dedicated to unifying humanity, celebrating life, and leaving the land better than we found it! Headliners include; Trevor Hall, Mike Love, Desert Dwellers, Kaminanda, Lily Fangz, Bluetech, Peia, Tina Malia, Jaya Lakshmi and Ananda, Dustin Thomas, Supaman, Ayla Nereo, Earth Guardians, Tubby Love and many more.
For 4-inspiring days thousands of people are invited to experience a fun and conscious music and health festival that unites, inspires, and educates each of us to live in more harmony with the planet, increase our health through high-vibrational products and education, and connect deeper to our life’s purpose while learning to live sustainably on the land and honoring the planet and all living beings.
We are taking a step back in time to help revive and bring forth native, localized, communal practices and understandings while bridging new scientific discoveries and empowering skillsets of permaculture, biodynamics, and sustainable living to co-create living community, vibrant health, and meaningful relationships and experiences all while learning to live and experience borderless Unification of Humanity. All of this takes place at the beautifully preserved and naturally designed sacred 200-acre grounds of Las Golondrinas in Santa Fe, NM.
The land of enchantment, Santa Fe is highly regarded as the 2nd largest art center in the country and is revered as a spiritual city where indigenous culture and sustainable living still permeates the lives of many locals. Unify Fest is designed as a charity-based event helping raise proceeds to build a non-profit sustainable-school and eco-community – and you are invited to be uplifted and empowered with thousands of people during UnifyFest 2016.
Visit the Website at: http://www.UnifyFest.com/
Like the Facebook Page at: https://www.facebook.com/unifyfestsantafe
The big day! I’ll be running my first ever marathon which is scary but also exciting
The big day! I’ll be running my first ever marathon which is scary but also exiciting. The whole point is to raise 240 Random Acts of Kindness, one for every minute of the run. Please visit the facebook page and make a pledge – together we can spread a little kindness 🙂
https://www.facebook.com/runningforkindness/
Rev. Dr. Joan Brown Campbell is chair of the Board of Trustees and the Global Compassion Council. She is an ordained minister with standing in two Christian denominations, the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) and the American Baptist Church. She was ordained at age 50 and has given national and international leadership to both ecumenical and interfaith work.Dr. Campbell is truly a woman of “firsts.” She was the first woman to be Associate Executive Director of the Greater Cleveland Council of Churches; the first woman to be Executive Director of the U.S. office of the World Council of Churches; the first ordained woman to be General Secretary of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA; and the first woman Director of Religion at the historic Chautauqua Institution, a center for religion, education, the arts, and recreation. More …
Mallika Chopra is Founder & CEO of Intent.com, “My intent is to connect with others by sharing and listening to each other’s stories.” Maliki learned about the power of intention at a young age from her father, Deepak Chopra. He then taught them to ask for love, hope, purpose, passion, inspiration and so many other positive qualities in their lives every day. Starting every day with an intent proved to be an anchoring device that led to connection, happiness and personal fulfillment. Mallika is mom to Tara and Leela and has written two books inspired by them — 100 Promises To My Baby and 100 Questions From My Child. Both books represent her intention to be a conscious parent. Mallika is amazed and honored to host dozens of writers on www.intentblog.com and a thriving community of people sharing their dreams and supporting one another on www.intent.com. More…
The Reverend Dr. Barbara Lewis King, affectionately called “Dr. Barbara,” is the Founder-Spiritual Leader and CEO of the Hillside International Truth Center, Inc., in Atlanta, Georgia. She began this nondenominational, ecumenical ministry in 1971 with twelve members in her living room. Since then the ministry has grown to more than 10,000 members and supporters around the world. Through her leadership The Barbara King School of Ministry, The Barbara Lewis King Scholarship Foundation, The Hillside Learning Center and over 30 ministries and auxiliaries have been created. Her ministry extends beyond Atlanta and the Unites States to outreach efforts abroad including: building a secondary school in Ghana named in her honor, helping nuns at Sisters of the Boa Morte rebuild their a community in Brazil, and teaching Truth Principles and focusing on life coaching to women and children in the Soweto Township in South Africa. More…
Grandmother Floredemayo, a wise woman of the earth, Flordemayo has been a Curandera Espiritu, a healer of divine spirit, her entire life. And through her keen vision she is able to sense other realms of light, sound and color. As a seer, she is able to see the effects of existing imbalances on the physical, emotional and spiritual levels within a person’s energy system. Flordemayo is a founding member and President of the Institute of Natural and Traditional Knowledge, based in Estancia, New Mexico. She has been widely recognized for her healing ability and wisdom, including being the recipient of the Martin de la Cruz Award for Alternative Healing. This prestigious honor is given by the International Congress of Traditional Medicine. Working with respected spiritual leader, Don Alejandro Cirilo Perez Oxlaj, who is head of the Quiche Maya Council of Elders, Flordemayo has been recognized as a ‘Priestess’ by the Maya. Flordemayo was born and grew up in the big highlands of Central America in a family of traditional healers. She now travels around the globe to share her healing abilities and to foster more spiritual understanding among people. Since 2004, Flordemayo has been a founding member of the Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers, a group of traditional female elders drawn from around the world. More…
Marianne Williamson is an internationally acclaimed spiritual author and lecturer. Marianne has been a popular guest on television programs such as Oprah, Larry King Live, Good Morning America, Charlie Rose & Bill Maher. Seven of her twelve published books have been New York Times Best Sellers. Four of these have been #1. The mega best seller A Return to Love is considered a must-read of The New Spirituality. A paragraph from that book, beginning “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure…” is considered an anthem for a contemporary generation of seekers. Marianne’s other books include The Law of Divine Compensation, The Age of Miracles, Everyday Grace, A Woman’s Worth, Illuminata, Healing the Soul of America, A Course in Weight Loss, The Gift of Change, A Year of Miracles, and her newest book, Tears to Triumph: The Spiritual Journey from Suffering to Enlightenment, available now. More…
Join us for the first 2016 Giving Games LIVE call for Team Organizers! If you are new at the games and want to learn more this call is also for you! Play With Generosity and Celebrate Giving together through#CompassionGives actions!
The Giving Games: Youth and Schools Play it Forward are a 12 day global challenge to inspire, develop, and celebrate our shared humanity through acts of generosity and compassion. The Giving Games began on November 29th – GivingTuesday– and go through December 10th, Human Rights Day. The Giving Games are being played globally between youth, educators, and mentors to foster safe and fulfilling places of learning, helping the next generation develop into happy, compassionate, creative, and resilient members of our world!
Join the LIVE call with Compassion Games International Heart Quarters Team with #CompassionGives Torch lit High! Join the zoom call here:
Topic: Weekly Giving Games Team Organizers
Time: this is a recurring meeting
Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://zoom.us/j/2069727356
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Dial: +1 408 638 0968 (US Toll) or +1 646 558 8656 (US Toll)
Meeting ID: 206 972 7356
International numbers available: https://zoom.us/zoomconference?m=KfhKFY8qFI10Jdhq6IJMA1yqCBsIn6DF
You can learn more and sign up to play The 2016 Giving Games here:http://compassiongames.org/thegivinggames/
If you have questions about participation, sponsorship opportunites, starting a team, and any other questions please contact Sommer Joy ALbertsen; Compassion Games International Relations Coach! Sommer@compassiongames.org
Join us for the 2016 Giving Games LIVE call for Team Organizers! Come and learn more about this exciting new addition on this call. If you are new at the games and want to learn more this call is also for you! Play With Generosity and Celebrate Giving together through #CompassionGives actions! Questions are always welcome on the call!
The Giving Games: Youth and Schools Play it Forward are a 12 day global challenge to inspire, develop, and celebrate our shared humanity through acts of generosity and compassion. The Giving Games began on November 29th – GivingTuesday– and go through December 10th, Human Rights Day. The Giving Games are being played globally between youth, educators, and mentors to foster safe and fulfilling places of learning, helping the next generation develop into happy, compassionate, creative, and resilient members of our world!
Join the LIVE call with Compassion Games International Heart Quarters Team with #CompassionGives Torch lit High! Join the zoom call here:
Topic: Weekly Giving Games Team Organizers
Time: this is a recurring meeting
Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://zoom.us/j/2069727356
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Dial: +1 408 638 0968 (US Toll) or +1 646 558 8656 (US Toll)
Meeting ID: 206 972 7356
International numbers available: https://zoom.us/zoomconference?m=KfhKFY8qFI10Jdhq6IJMA1yqCBsIn6DF
You can learn more and sign up to play The 2016 Giving Games here:http://compassiongames.org/thegivinggames/
If you have questions about participation, sponsorship opportunites, starting a team, and any other questions please contact Sommer Joy ALbertsen; Compassion Games International Relations Coach! Sommer@compassiongames.org
– November 7, 2016 Opening day at the 22nd COP United Nations Climate Change Conferences held in Marrakech, Morocco
– MOMENTUM FOR CHANGE LIGHTHOUSE ACTIVITY by Unfccc. Submit your activity untill april 25th: http://momentum.unfccc.int/
| 07 Nov – 18 Nov 2016 |
Marrakech Climate Change Conference – November 2016
Twenty-second session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 22) and the twelfth session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP 12) to be held in Marrakech, Morocco |
Marrakech, Morocco | UNFCCC |
Dear Relatives,
Thank you for your interest in attending the Completion Ceremony of the Peace and Dignity Journeys 2016. On May 1, 2016, two groups of Spiritual Runners began this prayer from opposite sides of Abya Yala– one group from Chickaloon, Alaska and the other from Tierra del Fuego, Argentina. With a few weeks to go both groups are physically exhausted but are spiritually strong. The Runners are carrying the prayers and intentions of several hundred communities’ and thousands of people that they have met along their path. The purpose of the closing ceremony is to tie those prayers together, honor the runners, organizers, elders, and community members that have made this Journey a reality.
The purpose of this page is to manage the travel, lodging, food and other needs for those who will be traveling to Panama for the 2016 Peace and Dignity Journeys closing ceremonies. We anticipate that there will be approximately 100 people who will be traveling to Panama from throughout North, Central, and South to attend this event.
Peace and Dignity Journeys was started in 1992 to continue in the spirit of the traditions of our ancestors. Every four years Indigenous communities all over North, Central and South America witness and partake in the tradition of receiving runners with ceremonies unique to their community, sharing stories, song, dance, and the wisdom that comes from community elders and ceremony. Peace and Dignity Journeys runners start simultaneously from both ends of the continent in Chickaloon, Alaska and Tierra del Fuego, Argentina traversing the entire continent by foot from community to community and joining together for a final gathering in Central America, Panama. The 2016 Journey is dedicated to the Seeds of our Future, the Seeds we plant in the ground and the Seeds that are the future of our communities.
In 1990, over 200 representatives of Indigenous nations from throughout the western hemisphere met for the first time in Quito, Ecuador. There, they witnessed the unfolding prophecy of the Eagle and the Condor. The inspiration of spiritual running to re-unite the nations of Turtle Island surfaced from the elders. Elders from North, Central and South America remember and talk about a prophecy that foretold how we will come together and reunite as one… “we are like a body that was broken up into pieces and this body will come back together to be whole again.”. Peace & Dignity Journeys became part of the realization. Through Peace & Dignity Journeys, numerous and diverse indigenous nations reunite and reclaim dignity for their families and communities.
Our native communities are scattered, having been pushed to the remote corners of this great land. In spite of this, we remain connected through the core traditions our ancestors have given us which have passed the test of time and space. These traditions not only serve as a binding connection to our communities, but provide us with the medium to solve our common problems.
Peace and Dignity Journeys was started in 1992 to continue in the spirit of one such tradition. Every four years Indigenous communities all over North, Central, and South America witness and partake in the tradition of receiving runners with ceremonies unique to their community. Through this process runners and participants share stories, song, dance, and the wisdom that comes from community elders and ceremony. At the same time Peace and Dignity Journeys runners take on the spiritual task and honor of running from community to community starting simultaneously from both ends of the continent in Chickaloon, Alaska and Tierra del Fuego, Argentina traversing the entire continent by foot and joining together for a final gathering in Central America, Panama.
Each journey is dedicated to a specific theme:
1992 500 Years of Indigenous Resistance/Dedicated to the Children
1996 Dedicated to the Elders
2000 Dedicated to the Families
2004 Dedicated to honor Women and the feminine spirit, particularly Mother Earth
2008 Dedicated to the honoring of and preservation and protection of Sacred Sites
2012 Dedicated to Water, the source of life for all.
2016 Dedicated to the Seeds of our Future, the Seeds we plant in the ground and the Seeds that are the future of our communities.
Peace and Dignity Journeys is a grassroots organization supported by host communities, coordinated by a dedicated network of volunteers, and manifested through our strong runners. “Peace and Dignity Journeys” is an Indigenous organization that invites the participation of native and non-native individuals who are strongly committed to the preservation of Native American culture. We wish to extend a special invitation to all Elders and Spiritual Leaders in hope of making this run a strong prayer.
#GivingTuesday is a global day of giving fueled by the power of social media and collaboration, that helping us kick off a 10 day coopetition The Giving Games with the world!
Celebrated on the Tuesday following Thanksgiving (in the U.S.) and the widely recognized shopping events Black Friday and Cyber Monday, #GivingTuesday kicks off the charitable season, when many focus on their holiday and end-of-year giving.
One of the best ways to get involved is in your own community. We’ve created a directory to help you find organizations, charities, events and more in your own community.
Created by the team at the Belfer Center for Innovation & Social Impact at the 92nd Street Y—a cultural center in New York City that, since 1874, has been bringing people together around the values of service and giving back—#GivingTuesday connects diverse groups of individuals, communities and organizations around the world for one common purpose: to celebrate and encourage giving. A team of influencers and founding partners joined forces, collaborating across sectors, offering expertise and working tirelessly, to launch #GivingTuesday and have continued to shape, grow and strengthen the movement.
Join us at the California Native Plant Workshop! Learn the importance of planting plants native to the local California soil, how they improve soil quality and nutrient levels, as well as mitigate the need for watering in our drought laden society.
At 8:30am, TEDx ticket holders and local volunteers are invited to join We Plant Peace and local organization Theodore Payne Foundation (www.theodorepayne.org) to help plant a native garden at San Fernando Gardens Public Housing Project in conjunction with the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles. Volunteers will learn about how native plants are adapted to local conditions and how they enhance the environment for all. This workshop will offer a hands-on approach to successful techniques for establishing sustainable native plant landscapes.
The event takes place Friday December 2 at 8:30am at the San Fernando Gardens Public Housing Project in Pacoima, CA as part of the Pre-TEDxLA City Experiment Series. See you there!
Stand up for someone’s rights today!
Human Rights Day is observed every year on 10 December. It commemorates the day on which, in 1948, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In 1950, the Assembly passed resolution 423 (V), inviting all States and interested organizations to observe 10 December of each year as Human Rights Day.
This year, Human Rights Day calls on everyone to stand up for someone’s rights! It is everyone’s responsibility to uphold human rights. Every one of us should take a stand. Step forward and defend the rights of a refugee or migrant, a person with disabilities, an LGBT person, a woman, an indigenous person, a child, a person of African descent, or anyone else at risk of discrimination or violence.
Follow #HumanRightsDay
You are invited to the kick off of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. & Muhammad Ali Games, Five Days of Courageous Service January 13th through January 17th. Join players and teams around the world by celebrating the birthdays of MLK and ALI by igniting their legacies of courageous service in action. During this call we will be introducing all of you to Muhammad Ali Center and a few new featured ways to play the games and the exciting new partnership honoring Muhammad Ali along with MLK.
This call will be offered for help and support of all players and teams around the world Jan 4th, Jan. 11, and Jan. 18th 10AM – 11AM PST
Topic: MLK & ALI Games Launch Call
Time: Jan 4, 2017 10:00 AM (GMT-8:00) Pacific Time (US and Canada)
Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://zoom.us/j/501101491
Or iPhone one-tap (US Toll): +14086380968,501101491# or +16465588656,501101491#
Or Telephone:
Dial: +1 408 638 0968 (US Toll) or +1 646 558 8656 (US Toll)
Meeting ID: 501 101 491
International numbers available: https://zoom.us/zoomconference?m=oahT4osMbnlw2WJRDScYgJM151Lwg6Bd
Learn more and sign up to play The MLK & ALI Games at this link.
http://compassiongames.org/mlk-ali-coopetition/
If you have any questions please contact Sommer Joy, the Compassion Games International Relations Coach.
sommer@compassiongames.org
If you had one question for the man who stood next to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., organizing the Selma Voters Rights movement and developing the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, what would it be? Here’s your chance to ask him directly. Dr. Bernard LaFayette will present on our Wednesday call speaking about the power of Dr. King’s legacy and what it means to our world today.
Also speaking and addressing your questions are modern day civil rights activists Rev. Gerald Durley and Kathy Kelly. Send your questions to one or all of them to sande@CharterforCompassion.org Register today!
We come together in our own time zones at 1:11 pm on January 11th, 2017 to collectively intention ‘Children across the planet in love, care and respect.” Unifying our hearts and minds in love, peace, and compassion for all. And igniting these intentions. Do yoga, meditate, dance ,sing, however you are uniquely called to contribute, host a meditation flashmob, gather at a favorite body of water. We come together for the children.
MLK & Ali: Five Days of Courageous Service!
Join here: http://compassiongames.org/mlk-ali-coopetition/
The Five Days of Courageous Service Coopetition (1/13 – 1/17) honors the magnificent lives of two of our most beloved Heavyweight Champions of Compassion, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK) and Muhammad Ali. Join players and teams around the world by celebrating the birthdays of MLK and Ali by igniting their legacies of courageous service into action.
It is impossible to imagine what our world may look like had MLK and Muhammed Ali never been born. Dr. King gave voice and movement to both the pain and the dreams of billions of people around the planet, helping us understand that it is in our power to change ideas and unjust laws when we act together with compassion. Muhammad Ali is one of the most celebrated athletes of all time. He was “The Greatest” not simply because of his skill in the ring, but because of what his boxing matches stood for on behalf of the progress of human rights when doing so was not only unpopular, but dangerous. Muhammed Ali passed away in 2016, yet January 17th would have marked his 75th birthday.
Each of these men spoke to the importance of service above all else, and they lived that message with courage. Dr. King said: “Everybody can be great because anybody can serve.” Muhammad Ali said: “Service is the rent you pay for your room here on Earth.”
In that spirit, we warmly invite you and your community to join us in these Five Days of Courageous Service to make our world a more just, safe, and equitable place to live for all members of the Human Family!
Join here: http://compassiongames.org/mlk-ali-coopetition/
It has become a tradition for the Ali Center to show Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech to the community in recognition of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. This year is no different.
This panel discussion will be LIVE on FB for agents of compassion around the world to tune into. The Ali Center & Compassion Games will share the panel event. Join the Ali Center as it shows this historic speech every hour on the hour beginning at 10:00 a.m. A panel discussion, “Continuing the Dream, Living the Legacy” will follow the 11:00 a.m. showing. Members of the Muhammad Ali Center Council of Students will discuss how young people are continuing the work of Dr. King and Muhammad Ali in our community.
Join ing this event is an example of way to play the games! Sign up to play the MLK & ALI Games, Five Days of Courageous Service Jan. 13 -Jan. 15th
MLK Day of Service 2017 – Morcom Rose Garden – Beautifying the Garden
Date of Project: January 16, 9:00AM to 12:30PM
Location: 700 Jean Street. Oakland
Project: Beautifying the Gardens, weeding, mulching, pruning, composting and more
Great event for adults, students and families (Kids need to be accompanied by parents)
Rain or shine! Please wear sturdy shoes, bring a water bottle and garden gloves. Rain jacket if needed!
For information and registration: e-mail sfpbayarea@gmail.com
MLK Day of Service 2017 at Shepherd Canyon Park- Transforming a Former Dump into a Place of Natural Beauty
Coordinator: Mike Petouhoff
Date of Project: January 16, 9:00AM to 12:30PM
Location: Meet at the Escher Gate, 5881 Escher Drive, (In Meadows above Soccer Field in Shepherd Canyon Park)
Project: planting and sowing seeds for CA Native bunch grasses and wildflowers, trail improvements, Creating Monarch Butterfly Habitat! Great event for adults, students and families (Kids need to be accompanied by parents)
REMEMBER: All projects are taking place rain or shine! Please wear sturdy shoes, bring a water bottle, gloves and a shovel or hand trowel if you have one. Dress warmly in layers
For information or to sign up e-mail: sfpbayarea@gmail.com
To see our first Monarch Butterfly visitors to the Shepherd Canyon Habitat in 2012 check this link:
To see some of our progress over the years at the Shepherd Canyon Upper Meadow see this link:
When: Jan 16, 2017 09:00 AM to 12:30 PM
Who: Service for Peace – Bay Area / Oakland
Virtual: No
Where: Shepherd Canyon Park – Oakland Oakland CA US 94611
Contact: Markus – sfpbayarea@gmail.com – 510-427-1605
In honor of Muhammad Ali’s famous quote, “Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on Earth”, the Ali Center’s staff and Council of Students will partner with Together We Rise for a service project. The staff’s goal is to donate 75 hours of service in recognition of what would have been Ali’s 75th birthday. The staff and team members will build over 20 new bikes for foster care children in Louisville, a nod to Ali’s stolen red Schwinn bike that became the catalyst for his boxing career.
This event is also a catalyst for the MLK & ALI Games! Compassion Games International is partnering with Muhammad Ali Center inspiring a global courageous race of thousands of hours of service honoring the legacy of Muhammad Ali’s Birthday! Players and Groups around the world will be teaming up with Ali Center and reporting all hours of courageous service on the Global Compassion Report Map.
Check out the Compassion Report Map here:
https://crowdsource.storymaps.esri.com/stories/compassion-report
You can join this global Muhammad Ali & Dr. King Birthday Celebration of courageous service with others around the world! Sign up to play and invite your team to the MLK & ALI Games Jan. 13 through Jan. 17th here:
Co-founded in 1998 by Arun Gandhi and the Association for Global New Thought, the Gandhi King Season for Nonviolence is a national 64-day educational, media, and grassroots campaign dedicated to demonstrating that non-violence is a powerful way to heal, transform, and empower our lives and our communities. This 20th anniversary celebration features task forces active worldwide that have produced lasting change in 900 cities and 67 countries since inception.
What is the World Interfaith Harmony Week Coopetition?
The World Interfaith Harmony Week Coopetition is a 7 day global challenge to promote acts of peace, collaboration and tolerance between people of all faith, spiritual, and humanistic traditions. Beginning on February 1st and going through February 7th, individuals and teams will use the spirit of coopetition to inspire acts collaborative acts of service to give back to their communities and strengthen mutual respect, understanding, and harmony between people of all backgrounds.
Why Play in World Interfaith Harmony Week?
The purpose of the World Interfaith Harmony Week Coopetition is:
- 1. To celebrate and make known the strong undercurrent of interfaith work already happening in the world, and to bring attention to this remarkable work so its positive momentum can continue to inspire and grow;
- 2. To amplify existing efforts and create new initiatives to further the reach of the interfaith movement, and to raise a broader awareness in the world’s communities that interfaith unity is possible. In addition, we want to ignite a sense of urgency for the need of this movement more now than ever;
- 3. To encourage faith communities around the world to reach out to their neighbors of different faiths in order to create new relationships of respect, understanding, and collaboration to expand the reach of the interfaith movement throughout the world.
By playing in the World Interfaith Harmony Week Coopetition you join a global movement to bring the reality of interfaith peace to communities around the world!
The Inaugural 7th Generation Global Wopida Run: Sharing the Spirit of Standing Rock, Protecting and Restoring Mother Earth and Building a Global Fire of Compassion.
A coalition of partners are hosting the Inaugural Global Wopida Run of Indigenous Youth Runners across the Golden Gate Bridge, delivering a Compassion Torch of solidarity and hope from Standing Rock to the Great Meadow at Fort Mason on Sunday, February 5th at 12:00PM.
The 7th Generation Prophecy promised that this generation of Indigenous young people would rise up and inspire other young people of the Human Family to join them in unprecedented, unified, and prayerful action.
The Dakota people have a special ceremony used for times of difficulty;Wopida. Wopida is a sacred sharing of gratitude, a connecting with all beings through giving thanks. The purpose of the Global Wopida Inaugural Run is to be grateful for whatever Life bestows on us, knowing that every test and challenge comes into our lives for our spiritual growth and development to protect and restore Mother Earth. This spiritual understanding of Wopida requires each of us to live with honor, compassion, love, respect and harmony with all life. The coalition is hosting the 7th Generation Runners in San Francisco during World Interfaith Harmony Week.
Ms. Bobbi Jean Three Legs, Hunkpapa Lakota, Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, Chris Walton and other youth runners from the Oceti Sakowin, the Seven Council Fires of the Great Sioux Nation, will be joined by local 7th Generation Runners. The Runners will share their enthusiasm, vision, and words to co-create a just, sustainable and harmonious world by building a global fire of compassionate action to unite the Human Family. We will pass the Global Compassion Torch as part of the Wopida Ceremony taking place on the Great Meadow.
The inspiration for the Inaugural 7th Generation Run began in August of 2016 when the Standing Rock Youth Runners, led by the Ms. Three Legs, ran 2,000 miles to Washington DC and brought national and international attention to the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and their supporters. Their run broadened the impact of those protecting the waters of the Missouri River against the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL), and raised a global cry: “Mni Wiconi – Water is Life.”
Traditionally, Indigenous Peoples across the Americas ran on foot to carry important messages. The Inaugural Global Wopida Run shares the news that at this time of great global change, the promised time has come for the 7th Generation to arise and inspire all generations to heal and resolve “Standing Rocks” everywhere on Mother Earth. Guided by their elders, the Runners carry the message that we are one Human Family, interrelated with all Life, and share a common destiny. The Hurt of One is the Hurt of All, the Honor of One is the Honor of All.
We request that attendees bring a favorite dish to share and their own plate and silverware to “keep it green.”
The coalition of partners include (alphabetical): Compassion Games International, Cultural Conservancy, E2K, Fetzer Institute, Four Worlds International, Pachamama Alliance, Seat of the Soul Institute, Seeding Sovereignty, The Shift Network, Unify, and the United Religions Initiative.
The Goals-Inaugural 7th Generation Global Wopida Run:
* To share the Spirit of Standing Rock and intent of the Global Wopida.
* To share the enthusiasm, the prophecy, vision, and words of the 7th Generation to ignite unprecedented, unified, prayerful, and enduring compassionate action to Protect and Restore Mother Earth.
* To unite the members of the human family to co-create a just, sustainable and harmonious world.
* To ignite a global fire of gratitude, love, and thanksgiving everywhere all at once.
Take action now here:
www.globalfire.earth
Email sommer@compassiongames.org and or jon@compassiongames.org for more information please.
A week to raise awareness of pesticide usage and educate people about the alternatives.
World Water Day is held annually on 22 March as a means of focusing attention on the importance of freshwater and advocating for the sustainable management of freshwater resources.
An international day to celebrate freshwater was recommended at the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED). The United Nations General Assembly responded by designating 22 March 1993 as the first World Water Day.
Each year, World Water Day highlights a specific aspect of freshwater. In 2015, World Water Day has the theme “Water and Sustainable Development”.
In 2016, the theme is “Water and Jobs,” in 2017 “Wastewater” and in 2018 “Nature-based Solutions for Water”.
Love Remembers Day is a worldwide virtual event showing compassion and love for those living with anaphylaxis, life threatening allergies and remembering those lives that have been lost. Visit www.compassionforanaphylaxis.com
Would you like to learn about Water Is Life! Protect The Sacred Earth Week? Join this webinar and we will talk together about our plans for April 22 through April 30th in the World’s largest compassion for Earth Competition! Join face to face on Zoom. You will meet others from all over the world caring for the Earth that also play. We will be showcasing the “Call To Play” Earth Week, and sharing tips on engaging your community, teams, and friends in the great value of joining too!
Join the Zoom Webinar Wednesday, April 5th 12 PM PST at this link.
https://zoom.us/j/493360973
We will also go LIVE on Compassion Games FB Page too!
Learn more and sign up to play Earth Week here:
http://compassiongames.org/earth-week/
Email Sommer Joy, CGI Relations Coach for more information about partnership opportunities, and Earth Week questions.
You can find Sommer on live chat on all pages of the website at
www.compassiongames.org or email at
sommer@compassiongames.org.
Chief Phil Lane Jr. is a traditionally recognized Hereditary Chief and Elder. He is an enrolled member of the Ihanktonwan Dakota and Chickasaw Nations, and is a citizen of both Canada and the United States. With master’s degrees in Education at National University and Public Administration at the University of Washington, Chief Phil Lane, Jr. is an internationally recognized indigenous leader in human and community development. The founder and chairman of the Four World’s International Institute (FWII), an organization dedicated to “unifying the human family through the Fourth Way”, Chief Phil Lane, Jr. is the recipient of many awards, including the John Denver Windstar Award, and is a frequent speaker on behalf of indigenous rights and wisdom.
Most recently Chief Phil was ceremonially recognized as an Honorary Woman by the sisters of the Salish Territories because of his relentless message and dedication, over the past 50 years, of the spiritual reality of the Equality of Women and Men. Chief Phil holds dear the Equality of Women and Men as a Spiritual Reality.
Register here: https://www.charterforcompassion.org/april-compassion-for-the-earth
Charter for Compassion International Women and Girls Sector, along with partner organizations, recognizes the need for a greater inclusion of voices and involvement of women in leadership in the global healing and transformation that is occurring. For that purpose, we have put together the Reaction to Response Webinar Series.
Purpose of Series:
Given the challenging times we are living in, the purpose of this series is to provide on-going discussions focused on responding rather than reacting to our current global state of affairs. Through this series, we intend to help shift from fear-based reactions to care-based responses, that is, learning from history in order to further lay the foundation for compassionate and care-based communities.
This series will provide the platform to:
- hear from, and be inspired by, “well-known” experts in the field, or grassroots and/or community leaders doing “cutting edge” work around creating a care and compassion-based reality for people and planet; and
- through the pre- and post-call Facebook discussion, inspire and encourage community engagement at the local, national, and international levels.
This crafty school art project took a day to finish with the help of 70 girls. We cut out stencils of our hands, wrote one thing we pledge to do to help the Earth be greener and strung them up on the handrail of our school staircase. Celebrate Earth Day at your school with this crafty idea!
Promoting the environmental awareness has never been so fun. The students of Developing Virtue Girls School made wall art in the shape of a pyramid illustrating the kind of responsibilities we owe to the Earth like picking up trash. It was an overall success and now we have a beautiful pyramid to hang up on the wall.
Join us from wherever you are on April 21 at 12pm PDT for Global Ho’oponopono! Register here: www.malamapono.life
Share your stories on social media using the #MALAMAPONO hashtag (which means “to care for one’s self” in Hawaiian)
Ho’oponopono is a Hawaiian healing ceremony that invites practitioners to clear blocked energy, trauma, and wounds converting negative energy into positive energy, love, and deepened connection. The problems we face on Mother Earth are the result of humans being out of balance with themselves, each other, and our natural environment. To bring healing to the earth we must first look within and bring resolution to the history which brought us to the present moment. Hawaiians, living on islands with finite land resources, have a powerful cultural practice that is valuable to all of humanity at this time. Mālama Pono means “to take care of one’s self”. Since the health of our planet and the individual is intertwined we are inviting all to join us for Earth Day by starting within using this simple and profound healing practice. Please visit www.malamapono.life for more info!
Thank you Unify for this event for the world!
March for Science website:
https://www.marchforscience.com/
over 360 marches around the world planned that day: https://www.marchforscience.com/satellite-marches/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ScienceMarchDC
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sciencemarchdc/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/marchforscience
The March for Science is a celebration of our passion for science and a call to support and safeguard the scientific community. Recent policy changes have caused heightened worry among scientists, and the incredible and immediate outpouring of support has made clear that these concerns are also shared by hundreds of thousands of people around the world. Mischaracterization of science as a partisan issue, which has given policymakers permission to reject overwhelming evidence, is a critical and urgent matter. It is time for people who support scientific research and evidence-based policies to take a public stand and be counted.
On April 22, 2017, we walk out of the lab and into the streets
We are scientists and science enthusiasts. We come from all races, all religions, all gender identities, all sexual orientations, all socioeconomic backgrounds, all political perspectives, and all nationalities. Our diversity is our greatest strength: a wealth of opinions, perspectives, and ideas is critical for the scientific process. What unites us is a love of science and an insatiable curiosity. We all recognize that science is everywhere and affects everyone.
Science is often an arduous process, but it is also thrilling. A universal human curiosity and dogged persistence is the greatest hope for the future. This movement cannot and will not end with a march. Our plans for policy change and community outreach will start with marches worldwide and a teach-in at the National Mall, but it is imperative that we continue to celebrate and defend science at all levels – from local schools to federal agencies – throughout the world.
“Mni Wiconi.” It means, “Water is Life.” These powerful words arose from the vision of Indigenous Youth at Standing Rock in North Dakota, and they stand strongly for the growing spirit of our time. The spirit of Mni Wiconi says: “Life is not possible without water. Therefore, it is the right of all life to have water that is safe, clean, and nourishing.” Water is Life has become a cry for unity, among people of all continents and nations, to protect and restore all that is Sacred and life-giving in our world.
There is an ancient proverb that says:
“We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors. We borrow it from our children.”
This is the growing Spirit of Standing Rock, and this is the spirit of Water is Life! Protect the Sacred Earth Week, taking place from April 22nd through April 30th.
The Call to Play in Earth Week is Now! Sign Up Today!
Water is Life! Protect the Sacred Earth Week is a 9-day global challenge to inspire acts of love, service, and compassion toward our Mother Earth and all life.
Beginning in 2017 on April 22nd and continuing through April 30th, Protect the Sacred Earth Week catalyzes the love human beings have for the Earth by bringing people together globally to participate in a playful competition of compassionate action.
In Earth Week, Players and Teams strive together to come up with fun, meaningful, and creative ways to develop regenerative practices that celebrate life’s interconnectivity, while cultivating a responsibility to protect and restore the Earth for future generations of life to come!
Let’s come together and celebrate all that we love on this beautiful planet, and allow this love to move us into unprecedented, unified compassionate action for our world!
The March for Science-Tulsa joins forces with the Earth Day Festival! Budget cuts, censorship of researchers, disappearing data sets, and threats to dismantle government agencies, like the Environmental Protection Agency, harm us all by putting our health, food, air, water, climate, and jobs at risk. Protect scientists’ right to speak out about their work!
On Sunday, April 23rd 9 AM PST -9:30 AM PST
Global Water Blessing Ceremony with Champion of Compassion Amy Walker
Here is a sneak peak of the profound talent and courageous compassion Amy Walker is here! She will be sharing her voice and spiritual intention on this call with us.
Conference on the theme of creating a new world, with Frédéric Lenoir and Pierre Rabhi – both philosophers, writers and agents of social change.
Peoples Climate Movement March April 29th
Website: https://peoplesclimate.org/
FB: https://www.facebook.com/peoplesclimate/
Join the People’s Climate Movement this April 29th in Washington, D.C. and across the country to stand up for our communities and climate.
Throughout the first 100 days in office, the People’s Climate Movement is organizing a country-wide arc of action, culminating on April 29th in Washington DC in a powerful mobilization to unite all of our movements. To change everything, we need everyone.
The role of the Masculine and The Men Who Hold Us
In honor of the men around the world, this month’s topic explores the journey men must go through to honor and empower the feminine while remaining empowered and holding a space of gender equality.
Speaker, Anthony de Sigley, most recently described as a ‘unicorn’, due to an unconventional career path, Anthony is a pathfinder and a change catalyst.
Anthony is a people-focused transformational leader who advises, coaches and mentors leaders and develops organizations in the commercial, public/government and not for profit/social sectors, helping them to define and realize their visions and improve their capabilities and performance. Anthony is a practical visionary who delivers real change in complex and challenging environments.
This practical focus is at the core of a lifelong exploration of the big questions: “Why are we here? What does it mean to be human?” and in this context “what does it mean to be a man?”
Anthony’s particular interest is the development and expansion of human awareness, across an increasing range of consciousness. Latterly, this has focused on understanding our physical reality as the key to unlocking the tremendous opportunity that we embody, as nature’s great work. From science to art, Anthony’s own journey, interests, and practice have led him to psychotherapy, shamanism and plant medicine, and latterly dance, seeking tools that will help us live integrated and embodied lives.
Anthony works with people, teams, and organizations to change the way they think, behave and experience life, helping them become more aware and more effective, to become truly free. Thank you, Women and Girls Sector of The Charter for Compassion for this year series of Reaction to Response.
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Register for June 7th here:
https://www.charterforcompassion.org/june-the-role-of-the-masculine-and-the-men-who-hold-us
2017 will mark the 22nd year of World Peace and Prayer Day. It has been hosted at sacred sites in communities all over the world including Mt. Fuji, Ireland, South Africa, the Black Hills, Mexico City, New Zealand, Brazil, Grey Horn Butte (Devils Tower), and many other sites. For a complete list of previous sites, visit here. In 2016 we saw an unprecedented coming together of tribes and people from cultures around the world to protect water at Standing Rock. The call to protect our connection to the land and sacred sites is echoing in a growing chorus across the planet as we face many environmental crises and climate change.
We are overjoyed to announce this sacred gathering on Hawaii Island the same month that Hōkūle’a returns from her 4-year journey around the world. World Peace and Prayer Day is a ceremony, not a concert or festival, it is being honored in Hawaii as well as simultaneous sites around the world on June 21. There are specific protocols to be honored at this gathering and anyone wishing to attend should come with a humble heart to pray and learn.
Thank you and many blessings!World Peace and Prayer Day is a free event and we are now in the process of fund-raising to bring elders and dignitaries from around the world. If you would like to participate, you can make a donation below. Please join our mailing list by filling out the form in the upper right-hand column of this page or visiting here, and we will keep you posted with news and information as event details become confirmed. Thank you for your interest and support!
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Following the birth of a White Buffalo Calf in 1994, the Keeper of the White Buffalo Calf Pipe for the Lakota, Dakota and Nakota Nations— Arvol Looking Horse, was directed to honor the Four Directions with ceremony on Summer Solstice/June 21st. According to Lakota Star Knowledge, the birth of “Miracle,” a female white buffalo, signaled a time of Earth changes and the coming of The Mending of the Hoop of all Nations. The Summer Solstice is said to be a powerful time to pray for peace and harmony among all Living Beings. Grandmother Earth’s gifts; the air, water, plant, animal, and rock nations must be allowed to heal if we are to live in harmony with Her.
Ancient prophecies throughout the world have predicted this time…when population growth, over-consumption, depletion of our natural resources and pollution would severely damage our Earth’s life-sustaining capabilities. It has become Chief Looking Horse’s personal commitment as the “Keeper of the Sacred Bundle” to assist in the fulfillment of the Mending of the Hoop of all Nations. Besides his work with his own community, meeting with global and spiritual leaders around the world and speaking and offering prayers at Universities and environmental symposiums, (including the United Nations); Chief Looking Horse’s mission with World Peace and Prayer Day has already made tremendous contributions to the progress of Earth Awareness and World Peace.
Your welcome to join and support this Global Event lead by Chief Arvol Looking Horse on June 21st and help First Nations Elders attend from all love the world. Every penny helps–the more we share with our friends, family, and community, the more we will achieve this easy goal. Donate HERE
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Points of Light’s Conference on Volunteering and Service is the largest service-related convening of nonprofit, government, business and civic leaders in the world. Each year, thousands of people who really care about the future of volunteer service convene in one place – to learn from, share with, and get inspired by one another – to work together to increase the number of volunteers in the world and the impact of the work they do.
Points of Light’s Conference on Volunteering and Service provides the singular opportunity for thousands from around the world to come together to shape the future of volunteerism. As the world’s largest service-related convening, it brings more than 3,500 nonprofit, government, business and civic leaders together to gain and share knowledge, resources and connections needed to galvanize the power of people to create change globally.
Join one of India’s most revered spiritual leaders and yogis, His Holiness Swami Chidanand Saraswati (www.PujyaSwamiji.org) for a historic first-of-its-kind celebration of International Yoga Day at the United Nations in New York City. Organized by the Indian Mission to the United Nations and attended by eminent dignitaries, this celebration will include music, meditation, chanting and dynamic yoga classes with two of America’s most renowned yoga experts — Seane Corn (www.SeaneCorn.com) and Sharon Gannon (https://jivamuktiyoga.com/teacher/sharon-gannon).
The event is in two parts: Part one is the evening of the 20th June from 6 – 7:30 pm on the North Lawn at the United Nations Headquarters where H.H. Pujya Swami Chidanand Saraswati, Sadhvi Bhagawati Saraswati (www.Sadhviji.org), Seane Corn and Sharon Gannon will lead a transformative program which will conclude with participation by all of New York’s yoga studios and inspiration to take yoga off the mat into the world.
Part two is the morning of the 21st from 10:30 am to 12:30 pm in the ECOSOC Chamber at the United Nations Headquarters which will be a high level panel discussion with questions-answers on Yoga and Health. H.H. Pujya Swami Chidanand Saraswati and Sadhvi Bhagawati Saraswati will be joined by leaders from the World Health Organization as well as corporate and media leaders in a compelling discussion on how yoga can lead to health for the body, the mind, the spirit and our communities and world.
Both events are free to all but, due to United Nations security, registration is required for the 21st morning event and requested for the 20th evening event. Registering will also ensure that you will be kept up to date with all program updates and details as it gets closer. Please note — for the 21st morning high level panel, only those who have pre-registered by the 18th June will be permitted inside.
Join us at the Launch Sunrise Ceremony of the at the World’s Largest Service & Volunteer Event on Earth at 6:30am PST lighting the Global Compassion Torch! RSVP HERE
Now is the time for the global community, as one human family, to act together as an authentically empowered collective to make unprecedented unified action toward love and peace, our generation’s legacy.
UNIFY and Compassion Games are partnering to produce the World Peace and Global Unity Campaign. The campaign is an opportunity to co-create across divides, synchronize our shared intentions and gamify our compassionate action globally. The Campaign will launch on June 21 and culminate with a World Peace Weekend taking place on September 23rd and 24th.
The purpose of the campaign is to catalyze and quantify the shared impact of globally synchronized activities and events focused on peace, compassionate action, and community service. Campaign participants connect globally synchronized events to compassionate action in local communities around the world. We synchronize globally and organize locally.
During the campaign, we will unify +2,500 locations around the world engaging in peace activities and meditations. We will link them to organize compassionate acts and service projects locally and then have these results reported and shared via the World Peace and Compassion Report Map. By illuminating these events and activities we are creating opportunities for learning, sharing experiences and making connections so that these local efforts can become a global force for change.
UNIFY and Compassion Games are partnering to unify compassionate action as a dynamic force capable of creating a “ripple effect” that can lead to a global tsunami of peace and unity.
On June 21st, our leadership team will be celebrating World Peace & Prayer Day, World Yoga Day and passing the Global Fire of Compassion Torch to Hereditary Chief Phil Lane Jr. (Global Activist from Ihanktonwan Dakota and Chickasaw Nations and Compassion Games Chairperson) Kayah George (Youth Activist from Tsleil-Waututh Nation), Ken Workman (Cheif Seattle’s Great Grand Son) and Points Of Light (The World’s largest service and volunteer organization) at The Service Unites Conference in Seattle, WA.
We would be honored if you joined us LIVE on Compassion Games FB Page with changemakers from all over the world for this never before special Global Compassion Torch Ceremony & Launch at Sunrise! What is your wish for the world? Share your wish and gratitude for this world with us on June 21st.
We will have more details soon about this featured day of lighting up the world with the fire of compassion! This day will be launching to the world the first day to sign up and warm up for Global Unity Games, Building Bridges in action September 9th through September 24th. Learn more about these 16 days we are building momentum now for here: http://compassiongames.org/global-unity-games/
This FB Live Event is a great way to get you and your teams inspired in action and creative preparation for the 2017 World Peace & Global Unity Campaign. Please share this event far and wide! The Points of Light are incredible Champions of Compassion. If you are a resident near Seattle, Washington, check out the Points of Light Service Unites Conference details here and join us in person:
http://www.volunteeringandservice.org/index.html
If you have any questions are ideas please email us at sommer@compassiongames.org
While Arno’s current work does not specifically address “women’s issues,” the transformation he underwent included shifting his views on women, how men and women relate to one another, which ultimately moved him to become an active feminist.
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Arno Michaels was a founding member of what went on to become the largest racist skinhead organization on Earth, and a Reverend of a self-declared Racial Holy War. He also fronted as the lead singer of the hate-metal band Centurion, that sold more than 20,000 CDs by the mid-nineties and is still popular with racists today.
Single parenthood, love, his daughter, and the forgiveness shown by people he once hated all helped to turn his life around, allowing him to embrace diversity and practice gratitude for all life. Today, Arno is a speaker, practitioner of character development outreach and author of My Life After Hate. Arno enjoys spending time with his daughter, art, music, and all forms of fearless creative expression, along with climbing things, being underwater, and exploring the wonderful natural beauty of our planet Earth.
The Global Unity Games last for 11 days: they begin on September 11th and end on September 21st. This year marks the 15th Anniversary of September 11th and the 35th annual International Day of Peace. In 2001 the International Day of Peace took place on 9/11. Earlier, the UN General Assembly had decided that the International Day of Peace should be permanently observed on September 21st starting in 2002. Our colleagues at We, The World looked at Peace Day moving from September 11th to September 21st and were inspired to launch 11 Days of Global Unity as a time to promote and celebrate compassionate action around the world.
There are many ways that individuals and teams can play, from organizing creative service projects to give back to one’s community to performing acts of kindness to promote unity of the human family. All players will receive an Agent of Compassion mission to use each day of the Global Unity Games, offering meaningful, tangible ideas and inspiration for activities as a way to play. Players then report on their activities on the Compassion Report Map. The reports of Registered Teams are reflected on the Global Unity Games Scoreboard, displaying the number of volunteers, number of hours served, number of people served, and the monies raised for local or global causes.
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We will start with a MultiFaith Universal Worship service with readings and music. We will then feature talks related to community gardening and the environment. We will have a pep rally for our Greater Toledo & NW Ohio Compassion Games. Then we will share a meal of garden soups with potluck sides.
We are championing Education for Life through #SendThemBack2School for underprivileged children in rural areas of Nigeria Access to education can help lift people out of poverty, bring a deeper understanding of the world around us and providing better opportunities for everyone, including girls. We are focusing on ensuring everyone has access to learn no matter who they are or where they are.
Wheels of Hope Rising Foundation Nigeria focusing on bring education support to underprivileged children and community to promote a culture of peaceful relationship and non violence in their respective communities
We will meet online daily for #11DaysOfGlobalUnity To begin the day with a mantra and hear about the speaker for the day.
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Marianne Williamson is an internationally acclaimed spiritual author and lecturer. She has written seven New York Times best sellers, including her newest book Tears To Triumph: Spiritual Keys to Healing Anxiety & Depression. Four of her books have been #1 New York Times best sellers, including the mega best seller A Return To Love which contains the famous paragraph beginning,“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.” Marianne lectures LIVE every Tuesday night in New York City at the Marble Collegiate Church at 29th St at 5th Avenue, 7:30PM ET / 4:30PM PT. Her talks are also LIVE STREAMED – you must register in advance and you’ll have access to the video for 72 hours.
Marianne’s book A Course in Weight Loss: 21 Spiritual Lessons for Surrendering Your Weight Forever was selected by Oprah to be one of her Favorite Things in 2010. Marianne’s other books include The Age of Miracles, Everyday Grace, A Woman’s Worth, Illuminata, Healing the Soul of America and The Gift of Change. She has been a popular guest on television programs such as Oprah, Larry King Live, Good Morning America and Charlie Rose. Marianne is a native of Houston, Texas.
In 1989, she founded Project Angel Food, a meals-on-wheels program that serves homebound people with AIDS in the Los Angeles area. Today, Project Angel Food serves over 1,000 people daily. Marianne also founded a Campaign to establish a US Cabinet Level Department of Peace. In December 2006, a NEWSWEEK magazine poll named Marianne Williamson one of the fifty most influential baby boomers. According to Time magazine, “Yoga, the Cabala and Marianne Williamson have been taken up by those seeking a relationship with God that is not strictly tethered to Christianity.”
Register for The Summit HERE
Recap of the day and a gathering of hearts in the vision for #GlobalUnityNow
JOIN this Conversation HERE on September 12th 10 am PST HERE
Michael Bernard Beckwith
Michael Bernard Beckwith is the founder and spiritual director of the Agape International Spiritual Center, and founder of the Agape University located at the Los Angeles headquarters of the Agape Movement. He is also a co-founder and president of the Association for Global New Thought (AGNT). Dr. Beckwith is an international speaker and faculty of meditation, and originator of the Life Visioning Process. His books include: Spiritual Liberation~Fulfilling Your Soul’s Potential, Inspirations of the Heart, Forty Day Mind Fast Soul Feast, and A Manifesto of Peace. He has been a guest on The Oprah Show, Larry King Live, Tavis Smiley, and his own PBS special, The Answer Is You.
Steve Farrell
Steve Farrell is the President & Worldwide Executive Director for Humanity’s Team, a global grassroots spiritual movement focused on awakening and embodying Oneness so humanity may enjoy a sustainable world of peace, harmony and happiness. Humanity’s Team presently has over 590,000 friends in over 150 countries.
Humanity’s Team projects include: Global Oneness Day – a day that Humanity’s Team created following its visit to the United Nations in May 2010 and a conscious business initiative focused on creating a new global standard for business in the 21stcentury.
Before Steve became involved with Humanity’s Team he co-founded and led two high growth technology companies based in Silicon Valley in the 1990’s that were featured in the INC 500 and spanned the United States and Europe. At this time he was an officer in the Young Entrepreneurs’ Organization and the Young President’s Organization. But he walked away because he felt a calling to help create a new dream based on the Divine in life that humanity can manifest together.
Steve lives with his wife Stephanie and his two children in Boulder, Colorado.
On September 13th 10:00 AM PST Join this Conversation HERE
Join the CEO of Al Ihsan Charity Association, Sheikh Dr. Abdul Aziz Al Nuaimi (a.k.a. The Green Sheikh), as he emphasizes how, in order for humanity to address the decline of the “Natural Environment,” we must face the dis-ease of the “Human Environment” — beginning with greed and power. Dr. Al Nuaimi shares his experience working with youth in the United Arab Emirates to foster tolerance and compassion… and introduces a climate restoration program to reduce greenhouse gases.
During this important session, you’ll discover:
- 7 critical factors for successful sustainability & peace
- The “Blue Youth” — 50,000 young people working on solutions for the global water crisis & climate change
- Islamic teachings on environmental stewardship
H.H. Sheikh Abdul Aziz bin Ali Al Nuami
Sheikh Abdul Aziz Al Nuaimi bin Ali Al Nuami is a member of the Ajman royal family in the United Arab Emirates, and has made a name for himself as one of the most resilient and vocal proponents for the environment, as well as being a youth catalyzer through his inspirational presentations made around the globe. His Highness is considered to be a change agent for environmental planning and long-term strategy on sustainability in the UAE, where he is a global leader, environmentalist and a social campaigner in the Gulf Cooperation Council countries (GCC), as well as the Arab World.
As CEO of Al Ihsan Charity Association, HH Sheikh Abdul Aziz Al Nuamimi leads effectively in the social work of UAE with compassion and effective actions. His strategic vision based on the integration of local community efforts fits with his mission towards achieving a better life for the needy people and less fortunate families who look after them every day by the organization he oversees.
Sheikh Abdul Aziz, better known as the “Green Sheikh” for his good work in environmental education, is also a visionary who over the past 25 years has dedicated his life to traveling and collaborating around the world on issues related to humanity, global peace, cooperation, understanding and environmental stewardship. HH spearheads by encouraging and motivating groundbreaking ideas developed by youth, through his empowering actions, and a meaningful way of life. He leads by practicing his belief of living a more simple life.
WE – A global campaign of We, The World to unite and amplify the efforts of people, organizations and movements working for the common good WE.net
The 11 Days of Global Unity Tele-Summit
September 11-21, 2017
Robert Thurman, Karenna Gore, Nwamaka Agbo
Michael Beckwith, Sande Hart, Jonathan Granoff
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER – IT’S FREE!
H.H. Sheikh Abdul Aziz bin Ali Al Nuami – CEO of Al Ihsan Charity Association.
Sheikh Abdul Aziz Al Nuaimi bin Ali Al Nuami is a member of the Ajman royal family in the United Arab Emirates, and has made a name for himself as one of the most resilient and vocal proponents for the environment, as well as being a youth catalyzer through his inspirational presentations made around the globe. His Highness is considered to be a change agent for environmental planning and long-term strategy on sustainability in the UAE, where he is a global leader, environmentalist and a social campaigner in the Gulf Cooperation Council countries (GCC), as well as throughout the Arab World.
As CEO of Al Ihsan Charity Association, HH Sheikh Abdul Aziz Al Nuamimi leads effectively in the social work of UAE with compassion and effective actions. His strategic vision based on the integration of local community efforts fits with his mission towards achieving a better life for the needy people and less fortunate families who look after them every day by the organization he oversees.
Sheikh Abdul Aziz, better known as the “Green Sheikh” for his good work in environmental education, is also a visionary who over the past 25 years has dedicated his life to travelling and collaborating around the world on issues related to humanity, global peace, cooperation, understanding and environmental stewardship. HH spearheads by encouraging and motivating groundbreaking ideas developed by youth, through his empowering actions, and a meaningful way of life. He leads by practising his belief of living a more simple life.
Summit Background
The 11 Days of Global Unity Tele-Summit is a FREE online event produced by The Shift Network in partnership with We, The World as part of the annual Summer of Peace, now in its 6th year. Each year, the 11 Days of Global Unity Tele-Summit broadcasts from September 11th through September 21st — the UN International Day of Peace.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Deepak Chopra, Jane Goodall, Tavis Smiley, Eve Ensler, Daniel Ellsberg, Amy Goodman, Bill McKibben, Hazel Henderson , and many other visionary global leaders have spoken on the 11 Days of Global Unity Tele-Summit in the past.
This Tele-Summit is a key component of 11 Days of Global Unity – 11 Ways to Transform Your World — a global platform for change makers that annually includes as many as 700 associated events in over 60 countries. The theme of the Tele-Summit is Moving from Vision to Action! and it features speakers (like you) who are global leaders in their respective fields, and whose actions are creating a more peaceful, just and sustainable world.
We hope you will join us for all the sessions of the 11 Days of Global Unity Tele-Summit! Register for FREE: https://shiftnetwork.isrefer.com/go/11D17WTW/WTW
For more information about We, The World and 11 Days of Global Unity go to WE.net
This Tele-Summit is a key component of 11 Days of Global Unity – 11 Ways to Transform Your World — a global platform for changemakers that annually includes as many as 700 associated events in over 60 countries. The theme of the Tele-Summit is Moving from Vision to Action! and it features speakers (like you) who are global leaders in their respective fields, and whose actions are creating a more peaceful, just and sustainable world.
We hope you will join us for all the sessions of the 11 Days of Global Unity Tele-Summit! Register for FREE: https://shiftnetwork.isrefer.com/go/11D17WTW/WTW
For more information about We, The World and 11 Days of Global Unity go to WE.net
On September 14th at 10:00AM PST join this conversation HERE
Join the program manager at Restore Oakland, Nwamaka Agbo, as she speaks to the catastrophic rising economic inequality, how it’s threatening many aspects of our society, and what you can do about it — for yourself and your community. She offers local solutions and collective organizing efforts to end poverty.
During this potent session, you’ll discover:
- The role of movements such as the Ella Baker Center & the Movement Strategy Center
- Innovative neighborhoods that apply the EcoDistricts Global Protocol
- Strategies for building sustainable & thriving communities
Nwamaka Agbo
Program Manager at Restore OaklandNwamaka Agbo has over 10 years of experience in working on social and economic justice issues and campaigns that help support the sustainable and equitable development of thriving and prosperous communities as the New Economy Innovation Fellow for Movement Strategy Center. Through a strategic partnership with Movement Strategy Center, Nwamaka serves as the Program Manager for Restore Oakland – a joint initiative of the Ella Baker Center and Restaurant Opportunity Centers United.
Most recently, as the Director of Programs at EcoDistricts, Nwamaka was responsible for leading Target Cities – a pilot program designed to support 11 innovative neighborhoods in 9 cities across North America in applying the EcoDistricts Global Protocol to help accelerate and achieve their district-scale sustainability goals.
During her time as the Director of Programs at Transform Finance, Nwamaka helped to design and launch the inaugural Transform Finance Institute for Social Justice leaders. The Institute was created to educate and train social justice community leaders about how to best leverage impact investments to deepen their social impact for transformative social change. Prior to that, Nwamaka worked at the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights for over six years in a range of positions spanning from Policy Director, to Campaign Director and Deputy Director. During her tenure at the Ella Baker Center, Nwamaka helped to support the launch of the Oakland Green Jobs Corp and later went on to develop the organization’s Oakland-based Soul of the City civic engagement campaign.
On September 15th 10:00 AM PST Join HERE
Health
During this engaging session, you’ll discover:
- Diet related disorders… & how the Standard American Diet (S.A.D.) is being exported around the world
- The Naturopathic Therapeutic Order
- What you can do to improve your health & our collective wellbeing
Dr. Rangan Chatterjee
Dr. Rangan Chatterjee is a doctor trained in integrative medicine. When his six month old son became ill from a preventable vitamin deficiency he took charge of finding a whole new way, not just of taking care of his family and his patients, but to get to the bottom of what makes people ill and keeps us healthy. He completely restored my son’s health and now applies the same 360-degree progressive approach to my patients.
Using progressive, integrative and natural medicine, he routinely helps patients with diabetes, blood pressure issues, sleep and energy patterns, menopausal symptoms, IBS, autoimmune conditions, circadian rhythms and many other common health problems. Dr. Chatterjee’s starting point involves the four pillars of health: sleep, rest, food and movement. He feels that progressive medicine is all about thinking about the body’s systems and how they can work better to reduce the risk of chronic disease and improve day-to-day wellbeing.
James Maskell
James Maskell is the host and founder of the Functional Forum, the largest integrative medicine conference in the world, streamed live to physician communities in over 100 countries. He is also the CEO of Evolution of Medicine, a community e-commerce hub that fuses technology and functional medicine. James has been featured at TEDMED, Huffington Post Live, TEDx, KevinMD and several other organizations. He has lectured to physician audiences on three continents, worked with AIHM, The Integrative Health Symposium and George Washington University’s Metabolic Medicine Institute, and spent four years on the faculty of “Heal Thy Practice.”
WE - A global campaign of We, The World to unite and amplify the effortsof people, organizations and movements working for the common good WE.netThe 11 Days of Global Unity Tele-Summit
September 11-21, 2017
Robert Thurman, Karenna Gore, Nwamaka Agbo
Michael Beckwith, Sande Hart, Jonathan Granoff
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER – IT’S FREE!
Dr. Rangan Chatterjee and James Maskell.
Dr. Rangan Chatterjee is a doctor trained in integrative medicine. When his six month old son became ill from a preventable vitamin deficiency he took charge of finding a whole new way, not just of taking care of his family and his patients, but to get to the bottom of what makes people ill and keeps us healthy. He completely restored my son’s health and now applies the same 360-degree progressive approach to my patients.
Using progressive, integrative and natural medicine, he routinely helps patients with diabetes, blood pressure issues, sleep and energy patterns, menopausal symptoms, IBS, autoimmune conditions, circadian rhythms and many other common health problems. Dr. Chatterjee’s starting point involves the four pillars of health: sleep, rest, food and movement. He feels that progressive medicine is all about thinking about the body’s systems and how they can work better to reduce the risk of chronic disease and improve day-to-day well-being.
Humanity’s Team projects include: Global Oneness Day – a day that Humanity’s Team created following its visit to the United Nations in May 2010 and a conscious business initiative focused on creating a new global standard for business in the 21stcentury.
Summit Background
The 11 Days of Global Unity Tele-Summit is a FREE online event produced by The Shift Network in partnership with We, The World as part of the annual Summer of Peace, now in its 6th year. Each year, the 11 Days of Global Unity Tele-Summit broadcasts from September 11th through September 21st — the UN International Day of Peace.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Deepak Chopra, Jane Goodall, Tavis Smiley, Eve Ensler, Daniel Ellsberg, Amy Goodman, Bill McKibben, Hazel Henderson , and many other visionary global leaders have spoken on the 11 Days of Global Unity Tele-Summit in the past.
This Tele-Summit is a key component of 11 Days of Global Unity – 11 Ways to Transform Your World — a global platform for changemakers that annually includes as many as 700 associated events in over 60 countries. The theme of the Tele-Summit is Moving from Vision to Action! and it features speakers (like you) who are global leaders in their respective fields, and whose actions are creating a more peaceful, just and sustainable world.
We hope you will join us for all the sessions of the 11 Days of Global Unity Tele-Summit! Register for FREE: https://shiftnetwork.isrefer.com/go/11D17WTW/WTW
For more information about We, The World and 11 Days of Global Unity go to WE.net
On Septemeber 16th 10:00 am PST Join HERE
Join the International Activities Director and General Coordinator at Living Peace International, Carlos Palma, and Arooj Javed, a passionate advocate for interfaith and intercultural dialogue, as they share their experiences bringing peace education projects to children in 1000 schools in 113 countries. They demonstrate how children engaged in peace projects are highly motivated to stay in school. And they discuss whether current social media technology is a productive tool for empowering young people to organize… or more of a distraction from getting involved.
During this inspiring session, you’ll discover:
- How adding peace education to children’s school curriculum can improve academic performance
- Information about several children’s peace programs — including Dice For Peace, the Focolare Movement & the Youth World Peace Forum with Syrian refugees in Amman, Jordan
- An urgent message from Your Children Program
Arooj Javed
Arooj Javed is a passionate advocator for interfaith and inter-cultural dialogue and an ardent believer in humanity. She believes that only if we are able to educate our future generations the value of peace, conflicts can be resolved with negotiation, forgiveness, and reconciliation can heal old wounds and love can overcome all grievances.
She received a masters’ degree in mass-communication with a specialization in public relations from Pakistan. She completed her second masters’ degree in Culture of Unity with a focus on human development, religion and peace building at Sophia University, Italy. Currently, she is enrolled in the same university in Ph.D. program. Her research is based on the role of religion in peace building. She is a former world bank employee and is currently engaged in Living Peace and various projects around the globe with the desire to play her part in promoting peace and unity at academic and practical level.
Carlos Palma
Carlos Palma is the international activities director and general coordinator of Living Peace International Project, a path of peace Education with a universal proposal open to all, children, teens, youths, and adults, of different cultures, religions and social groups. Living Peace involves today 250.000 students from more than 1000 schools and Associations in 113 countries, creates mini and macro peace projects to apply in collaboration with 48 International Peace Organizations.
Since 2015 Carlos Palma is the President of the Youth World Peace Forum, a project of the Schengen Peace Foundation, a Non-Governmental Organization, approved by His Majesty the Grand Duke Henri of Luxembourg. Created with the purpose of promoting the message of peace in Europe and the world, the Foundation contributes to the development of a more peaceful world by spreading the “Spirit of Schengen” into all world regions.
The 1st Youth World Peace Forum was in Cairo, Egypt, working on the topic of “Let’s Bridge “. In 2016, Florianopolis, in Brazil, hosted the Youth Forum in September, on the topic of “We Believe” and from 17 to 25 September 2017 it will be in Amman, Jordan, on the topic “Now is the Time” , 9 days to live and work in a refugee camp with and for the refugees coming from Syria.
We will gather to celebrate Children and Peace through ~Dance~Song~Prayer~Games~Storytelling~Drumming~
Please join us
On September 17th 10:00 am PST join this conversation HERE
Women With Sande Hart & Despina Namwembe
Join Sande Hart, interfaith activist and advocate for women and youth empowerment, and Despina Namwembe, community organizer, and trainer, as they address the challenges women face around the world, and explore local-to-global solutions for women’s empowerment — including the mission and activities of the Charter For Compassion’s Women and Girls Sector.
During this impassioned session, you’ll discover:
- These ambassadors for women and girls — spreading wisdom & inspiration
- Information about Empowering Political Literacy, which supports women’s equal presence in local & national government
- Some innovative work for women’s empowerment and conflict resolution, & current worldwide efforts for the protection of girls
Sande Hart
Sande Hart is Director of the Women and Girls Sector of Charter for Compassion International. The mother of two, she is: President of S.A.R.A.H. (Spiritual And Religious Alliance for Hope) Women’s Interfaith organization, Past Chair of the North American Region of the United Religions Initiative, and founder of Compassionate California, and Member of the International Team for the One Humanity Institute – Auschwitz Project.
Despina Namwembe is a social scientist with a Master’s in Peace and Conflict Studies. She coordinates the work of over 30 grassroots interfaith organizations doing different social action in the Great Lakes countries of Africa. Despina is a community organizer and trainer who also mentors many in organizational development. Growing up in a continent that sometimes fuses strong customs with religion to deter full women participation, Despina has a passion for addressing issues that support women and girls to achieve their full life potential. She is widely traveled; something that has helped her conceive many life-changing situations outside the box. She is also a contributor to literature in the areas of interfaith, gender, environment and peacebuilding.
WE - A global campaign of We, The World to unite and amplify the effortsof people, organizations and movements working for the common good WE.netThe 11 Days of Global Unity Tele-Summit
September 11-21, 2017
Robert Thurman, Karenna Gore, Nwamaka Agbo
Michael Beckwith, Sande Hart, Jonathan Granoff
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Today’s Featured Speakers are : Sande Hart and Despina Namwembe.
Sande Hart is Director of the Women and Girls Sector of Charter for Compassion International. The mother of two, she is: President of S.A.R.A.H. (Spiritual And Religious Alliance for Hope) Women’s Interfaith organisation, Past Chair of the North American Region of the United Religions Initiative, and founder of Compassionate California, and Member of the International Team for the One Humanity Institute – Auschwitz Project.
Despina Namwembe is a social scientist with a Master’s in Peace and Conflict Studies. She coordinates the work of over 30 grassroots interfaith organizations doing different social action in the Great Lakes countries of Africa. Despina is a community organizer and trainer who also mentors many in organizational development. Growing up in a continent that sometimes fuses strong customs with religion to deter full women participation, Despina has a passion for addressing issues that support women and girls to achieve their full life potential. She is widely traveled; something that has helped her conceive many life-changing situations outside the box. She is also a contributor to literature in the areas of interfaith, gender, environment and peacebuilding.
Humanity’s Team projects include: Global Oneness Day – a day that Humanity’s Team created following its visit to the United Nations in May 2010 and a conscious business initiative focused on creating a new global standard for business in the 21stcentury.
Summit Background
The 11 Days of Global Unity Tele-Summit is a FREE online event produced by The Shift Network in partnership with We, The World as part of the annual Summer of Peace, now in its 6th year. Each year, the 11 Days of Global Unity Tele-Summit broadcasts from September 11th through September 21st — the UN International Day of Peace.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Deepak Chopra, Jane Goodall, Tavis Smiley, Eve Ensler, Daniel Ellsberg, Amy Goodman, Bill McKibben, Hazel Henderson , and many other visionary global leaders have spoken on the 11 Days of Global Unity Tele-Summit in the past.
This Tele-Summit is a key component of 11 Days of Global Unity – 11 Ways to Transform Your World — a global platform for changemakers that annually includes as many as 700 associated events in over 60 countries. The theme of the Tele-Summit is Moving from Vision to Action! and it features speakers (like you) who are global leaders in their respective fields, and whose actions are creating a more peaceful, just and sustainable world.
We hope you will join us for all the sessions of the 11 Days of Global Unity Tele-Summit! Register for FREE: https://shiftnetwork.isrefer.com/go/11D17WTW/WTW
For more information about We, The World and 11 Days of Global Unity go to WE.net
On September 17th 11:00 am PST Join This Conversation HERE
Special Bonus Empower Women With Tiffani Sharp
Join the founder of Willow Tree Roots, Tiffani Sharp, as she shares about exciting and innovative projects in women’s empowerment around the world. She uses her legal expertise to shed light on the realities of human trafficking on local and international levels and discusses the hopeful work she’s engaged in globally.
During this inspiring session, you’ll discover:
- The intricacies of women’s empowerment in today’s world
- How the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals can impact women
- How to create greater awareness on human trafficking
Tiffani Sharp
Tiffani Sharp is founder and president of Willow Tree Roots. She is a licensed attorney with a specialization in international law and her own legal practice and has spent over a decade advocating for the legal rights of the underrepresented. She has also volunteered much of her time assisting women who are the victims of domestic violence. She has traveled the world extensively to developing countries volunteering in orphanages and working with women to improve their socioeconomic status.
Through her legal practice and travels, she observed that in communities where women actively participated in changing and improving their own economic status, the communities as whole benefited. This underlying philosophy, that improving the socioeconomic status of women is the key to improving a community at large, is at the root of Willow Tree Roots.
On September 18th 10:00 AM PST Join conversation HERE
Human Rights
Join Jey Tsong Khapa professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies, Robert Thurman, as he sheds light on the current human rights situation for the people in Tibet… as well as the social and political turmoil in the United States and its implications for Tibet. He shares insights on the what it would take to end the polarization and move toward unity.
During this eye-opening session, you’ll discover:
- The efforts of the Tibet House in preserving Tibetan culture & heritage
- Funny and inspiring stories about Robert Thurman & the Dalai Lama
- The Man of Peace Project (for the Dalai Lama)
Robert Thurman
Robert A.F. Thurman is the Jey Tsong Khapa Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies in the Department of Religion at Columbia University and President of the American Institute of Buddhist Studies, a non-profit affiliated with the Center for Buddhist Studies at Columbia University and dedicated to the publication of translations of important artistic and scientific treatises from the Tibetan Tengyur. At the request of HH the Dalai Lama, Robert co-founded Tibet House US, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the preservation and promotion of Tibetan civilization.
Thurman is known as a talented popularizer of the Buddha’s teachings. He is a riveting speaker and an author of many books on Tibet, Buddhism, art, politics and culture, including The Central Philosophy of Tibet, The Tibetan Book of the Dead, Why The Dalai Lama Matters: His Act of Truth as the Solution for China, Tibet, and the World and, most recently, with Sharon Salzberg, Love Your Enemies. Time chose Professor Thurman as one of its 25 most influential Americans in 1997 and The New York Times recently said Thurman “is considered the leading American expert on Tibetan Buddhism.”
Inspired by his good friend the Dalai Lama, Thurman stands on Buddhism’s open reality and thence takes us along with him into an expanded vision of the world, whether the sweep of history, the subtleties of the inner science of the psyche, or the wonders of the life of the heart. He always shares the sense of refuge in the Dharma, which unfailingly helps us clear away the shrouds of fear and confusion, sustains us with the cheerfulness of an enriched present, and opens a door to a path of realistic hope for a peaceful future.
On September 19th 10:00 AM PST Join this Conversation HERE
Freedom
Join Ralph Nader, American political activist, and multiple time US presidential candidate, as he explores current threats to freedom and democracy, concentrations of wealth and power, political polarization and intolerance. He offers various solutions to these challenging issues — including movements, messaging and media. And he looks at the concept of a WE Party that frames all current events from the perspective of WE and the common good.
During this compelling session, you’ll discover:
- Ralph Nader’s incredible legacy — including the Clean Water Act, the Freedom of Information Act, the Consumer Product Safety Act, seat belts, food ingredient labeling & more
- The role of movements in creating change that benefits all
- Simple ways you can take action to improve our society & all of our lives
Ralph Nader
American political activist, author, Lecturer, Attorney, and Multiple Time US Presidential Candidate
Ralph Nader is an American political activist, author, lecturer, attorney, and multiple time US Presidential Candidate. He s activism has been directly credited with the passage of several landmark pieces of American consumer protection legislation including the Clean Water Act, the Freedom of Information Act, the Consumer Product Safety Act, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, the Whistleblower Protection Act, and the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act – all which affects everyone in the United States such as through laws mandating seat belts, food ingredient labelling and so much more. He has been named to lists of the “100 Most Influential Americans” by Life Magazine, Time Magazine, and The Atlantic.
The son of Lebanese immigrants to the United States, Nader was educated at Princeton and Harvard and first came to prominence in 1965 with the publication of the bestselling book Unsafe at Any Speed, a critique of the safety record of American automobile manufacturers that became known as one of the most important journalistic pieces of the 20th century. Following the publication of Unsafe at Any Speed, Nader led a group of volunteer law students – dubbed “Nader’s Raiders” – in a groundbreaking investigation of the Federal Trade Commission, leading directly to that agency’s overhaul and reform. In the 1970s, Nader leveraged his growing popularity to establish a number of advocacy and watchdog groups including the Public Interest Research Group, the Center for Auto Safety, and Public Citizen.
A two-time Nieman Fellow, Nader is the author or co-author of more than two dozen books and was the subject of a documentary film on his life and work, An Unreasonable Man, which debuted at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival. He has run for President of the United States on several occasions as an independent and third party candidate, using the campaigns to highlight under-reported issues and a perceived need for electoral reform.
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Join Karen Palmer host of GlobalKindnessTV to see how we can have more kindness in our schools with expert Jerri Eddington best-selling author of “Work it out” Conflict Resolution Expert ♥ Educator ♥ International Best Selling Author ♥
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Poetry Slam for Peace
Poetry Slam for Peace
On September 20th Join this Conversation Here!
Disarmament With Jonathan Granoff
Are we the first generation that has the ability to decide whether or not this will be the last generation? Join the president of the Global Security Institute and Nobel Peace Prize nominee, Jonathan Granoff, as he speaks to Disarmament, with a focus on nuclear weapons and related issues of human security… including climate disruption. Jonathan offers his wisdom on compassion and conscience in public affairs, as well as the paradox of more weaponization… which leaves people feeling more insecure. He also highlights the intersection of spirituality and public policy and the current action plan for the abolition of nuclear weapons.
During this important session, you’ll discover:
- The true nature of human security
- The issue of “deterrence”
- What has changed in the strategy to achieve an abolition of nuclear weapons since the 2016 U.S. elections
Jonathan Granoff
President Global Security Institute, Nobel Peace Prize Nominee 2014Jonathan Granoff is an attorney, author and international advocate emphasizing the legal, ethical and spiritual dimensions of human development and security, with a specific focus on advancing the rule of law to address the threats posed by nuclear weapons. He is president of the Global Security Institute, Senior Advisor to the ABA’s Committee on Arms Control and National Security and Co Chair of the ABA Blue Ribbon Task Force on Nuclear Nonproliferation. He is Senior Advisor to the Nobel Peace Laureate Summit and has served as Vice President and UN Representative of the Lawyer’s Alliance for World Security. He serves on numerous governing and advisory boards including the ABA International Law Section, Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy, Fortune Forum, Jane Goodall Institute, the NGO Committee on Disarmament, Peace and Security and Middle Powers Initiative.
Mr. Granoff is the award-winning screenwriter of The Constitution: The Document that Created a Nation, and has articles in more than 50 publications and books including: The Sovereignty Revolution, Toward a Nuclear Weapons Free World, Imagining Tomorrow, Analyzing Moral Issues, Perspectives on 911, Toward a World In Balance, Reverence for Life Revisited, and Hold Hope, Wage Peace. He has been a featured guest and expert commentator on hundreds of radio and television programs, testified in Congress and at the UN numerous times and has, since 2003, addressed the annual Nobel Peace Laureate Summit in Paris and Rome.
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Join this Talk & Meditation with Deepak Chopra
Join Deepak Chopra, founder of The Chopra Foundation and senior scientist at The Gallup Organization, Karenna Gore, director of the Center for Earth Ethics, and bestselling author Kabir Sehgal as they examine the nature of peace… whether peace is possible amid the widespread polarization in our society, and the connection between individual compassion and health and collective wellbeing and peace. They contemplate the nature of human security, and the possibility that war will ever end.
During this engaging session, you’ll discover:
- The illusion of separation that perpetuates humanity’s greatest challenges — climate disruption, poverty & war
- How the transformation of human consciousness can lead to a culture of peace & nonviolence
- What you can do to create peace in your own life, and in the world
Deepak Chopra
Deepak Chopra, MD, FACP, founder of The Chopra Foundation and co-founder of The Chopra Center for Wellbeing is a world-renowned pioneer in integrative medicine and personal transformation and is Board Certified in Internal Medicine, Endocrinology and Metabolism. He is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and a member of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists. Chopra is the author of more than 85 books translated into over 43 languages, including numerous New York Times bestsellers. Two of his books, Ageless Body, Timeless Mind (1993) and The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success (1995) have been recognized on The Books of The Century Bestsellers List.
TIME magazine has described Dr. Chopra as “one of the top 100 heroes and icons of the century.” The World Post and Huffington Post global internet survey ranked Dr. Chopra #40 influential thinker in the world and #1 in Medicine. Chopra serves as the Co founder of Jiyo, Founder of The Chopra Well on YouTube, Adjunct Professor at Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, Adjunct Professor at Columbia Business School, Columbia University, Assistant Clinical Professor, in the Family and Preventive Medicine Department at the University of California, San Diego, Health Sciences, Faculty at Walt Disney Imagineering and Senior Scientist with The Gallup Organization. He is also on the advisory board of We, The World.
Karenna Gore
Karenna Gore is Director of the Center for Earth Ethics and is the eldest daughter of former US Vice President Al Gore and Tipper Gore. She is an attorney, advocate, writer, and educator who has worked in the legal center of Sanctuary for Families, as Director of Community Affairs for the Association to Benefit Children, and on the editorial staff of Slate magazine. She is the author of Lighting the Way: Nine Women Who Changed Modern America, and in June 2016, Karenna was among 23 protesters who were arrested for demonstrating at the construction site of the Spectra pipeline in Boston.
Kabir Sehgal
Kabir Sehgal is an American author, composer, producer, navy officer, a military veteran, investment banker, and financial executive. He works in corporate strategy at First Data Corporation, a global payments technology firm, which completed the largest IPO on the New York Stock Exchange in 2015. He is the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of five books including A Bucket of Blessings and Coined. He has also won two Grammy Awards and a Latin Grammy Award as a record producer. He was previously a vice president at JPMorgan Chase. He is a co-author with Deepak Chopra of a book entitled Home: Where Everyone Is Welcome: Poems & Songs Inspired by American Immigrants.
Sehgal has won two Grammy & one Latin Grammy Awards, and his productions have garnered 8 nominations and 5 wins. Sehgal is a composer, librettist, and musician who wrote an opera on the European financial crisis. He co-founded an arts nonprofit organization that merged with the Afro Latin Jazz Alliance.
Sehgal is a US Navy veteran and a reserve officer who served on active duty with special operations in the Middle East, and he received the Defense Meritorious Service Medal. He served as a speechwriter on a presidential campaign and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Free – You Bring the Kids, We’ll Bring the Jazz – Eli Yasmin & Anette Montegue – The WBGO Kids Jazz Series brings world-renowned jazz musicians to concert halls and venues throughout Essex County, New Jersey, USA. These hour-long concerts give young listeners the chance to discover the enjoyment of improvisation and musical collaboration.
Join in a beautiful global meditation with your global family. David Nicol of The Gaiafield Project will lead us in a guided meditation for unity, prosperity, and peace for all.
Sponsored by Women’s March Alliance
https://www.womensmarch.com/enough
Women’s March Youth EMPOWER is calling for students, teachers, school administrators, parents and allies to take part in a #NationalSchoolWalkout for 17 minutes at 10am across every time zone on March 14, 2018 to protest Congress’ inaction to do more than tweet thoughts and prayers in response to the gun violence plaguing our schools and neighborhoods. We need action. Students and allies are organizing the national school walkout to demand Congress pass legislation to keep us safe from gun violence at our schools, on our streets and in our homes and places of worship.
FAQ’s
Why are we doing this?
We are living in an age where young people like us do not feel safe in our schools. This issue is personal for all of us, especially for those of us who are survivors of gun violence. We are walking out for ALL people who have experienced gun violence, including systemic forms of gun violence that disproportionately impact teens in Black and Brown communities. It is important that when we refer to gun violence, we do not overlook the impact of police brutality and militarized policing, or see police in schools as a solution. We also recognize the United States has exported gun violence through imperialist foreign policy to destabilize other nations. We raise our voices for action against all these forms of gun violence.
Why March 14?
March 14 is the one-month anniversary of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.
Why 17 minutes?
The 17 minutes are in honor of the 17 lives taken in the tragedy in Parkland, Florida.
For more FAQs go to https://www.womensmarch.com/enough-faq
Share your smiles, compliments, time, talents, money, and energy with those around you. We must truly be the change that we want to see. And we can do it. We are doing it. Believe that the future is full of mindfulness where hearts mean more than our accounts.
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TOUR DATES
| Date | Time | Venue | Location | Cost |
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| 3/22/18 | 3:00 PM | Choices | Akron, OH | |
| 3/22/18 | 6:00 PM | Tea Time for Peace | Kent, OH | |
| 3/23/18 | 5:00 PM | Friends of the Metro Parks Benefit w/ the Bright Lights | Akron, OH | |
| 3/27/18 | 7:00 PM | Brother’s Lounge | Cleveland, OH | |
| 3/30/18 | 6:30 PM | 330 Day @ Akron Civic Theatre | Akron, OH | |
| 3/31/18 | 10:30 AM | Celebration of Life for Marilyn Stroud | Cuyahoga Falls, OH | |
| 4/3/18 | 6:30 PM | MLK Kirtan | Akron, OH | Donations |
| 4/4/18 | 6:30 PM | Nonviolent Communication Circle | Akron, OH | Donations |
| 4/6/18 | 7:00 PM | Big Love Night @ Live Music Now w/ Rhodes St Rude Boys | Akron, OH | $5-10 |
| 4/7/18 | 8:30 PM | Mustard Seed Highland Square w/ Bright Lights! | Akron, OH | |
| 4/10/18 | 7:00 PM | Brother Lounge | Cleveland, OH | |
| 4/16/18 | 7:00 PM | Wolf Creek Winery | Norton, OH | |
| 4/21/18 | 6:30 PM | Bright Lights @ the Rialto | Akron, OH | $5 |
| 4/22/18 | 4:00 PM | Yoga Central | Canton, OH | |
| 4/28/18 | 7:00 PM | Wine Mill | Peninsula, OH | |
| 5/2/18 | 6:30 PM | Nonviolent Communication Series | Akron, OH | Donations |
| 5/4/18 | 7:00 PM | Big Love Night @ Live Music Now w/ Gretchen Pleuss | Akron, OH | $5-10 |
| 5/5/18 | 12:00 PM | Cleveland VegFest | Cleveland, OH | |
| 5/5/18 | 6:00 PM | Bent Ladder winery | Doylestown , OH | |
| 5/8/18 | 7:00 PM | Brother’s Lounge | Cleveland, OH |
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The march will take place on Saturday, March 24 on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C. between 3rd street and 12th street NW. The March will begin at 12:00pm (noon). Please RSVP here
WATER OLYMPICS
Students at the Lutheran primary school of Zlatice Oravcova will participate in a Water Olympiad to raise their awareness of the importance of water. Each class will compete in water-based events to determinate a champion. Activities include a mineral water taste test, singing folk songs, cleaning water, blowing bubbles and much more. Students will learn the importance of saving water for next generations and of clean water.
Date/Time
Date(s) – 26/03/2018
9 h 00 min – 13 h 00 min
Location
Evanjelická základná škola Zlatice Oravcovej / Lutheran primary school of Zlatica Oravcova
Address
Daxnerova 42
Rimavská Sobota
Rimavská Sobota
Banskobystrický
97901
Slovakia
See the Call to Play Earth Week video below!
“Mni Wiconi.” It means, “Water is Life.” These powerful words arose from the vision of Indigenous Youth at Standing Rock in North Dakota, and they stand strongly for the growing spirit of our time. The spirit of Mni Wiconi says: “Life is not possible without water. Therefore, it is the right of all life to have water that is safe, clean, and nourishing.” Water is Life has become a cry for unity, among people of all continents and nations, to protect and restore all that is Sacred and life-giving in our world.
Water is Life! Protect the Sacred Earth Week is a 9-day global challenge to inspire acts of love, service, and compassion toward our Mother Earth and all life.
Beginning in 2018 on April 22nd and continuing through April 30th, Protect the Sacred Earth Week catalyzes the love human beings have for the Earth by bringing people together globally to participate in a playful competition of compassionate action.
In Earth Week, Players and Teams strive together to come up with fun, meaningful, and creative ways to develop regenerative practices that celebrate life’s interconnectivity, while cultivating a responsibility to protect and restore the Earth for future generations of life to come!
Let’s come together and celebrate all that we love on this beautiful planet, and allow this love to move us into unprecedented, unified compassionate action for our world!
Water is Life! Protect the Sacred Earth Week is grounded in appreciation and respect of one’s local bioregion, honoring Indigenous leadership and practices in how best to care for Mother Earth while acknowledging our human place in the web of life. Earth Week is a way to explore how we can be compassionate toward the Earth, and act in ways to discover compassion for ourselves, each other, and all members of the Earth Community.
Earth Week includes Earth Day, an annual event to support environmental protection.
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Spend a day celebrating the earth!
TWC Wilderness Run: 9:00 – 12:30
Register through Vertical Runner Race Management. A fun run for the kids is an option.
Garlic Mustard Pull: 9:00 – 3:00
You can help with conservation efforts by picking up litter or pulling invasive garlic mustard.
Backpacking Club Demonstration: 9:00 – 12:00
Looking for a new hobby? Learn about places to go and the gear needed from the experts.
FotoFest: 9:00 – 5:00 and Sunday, April 22, 1:00 – 4:30
Be sure to vote for your favorites in our annual nature photography competition sponsored by TWC Photo Club.
Playscape Playdate: Earth Day Scavenger Hunt: 10:00 – 12:00
How well does your family know The Wilderness Center? Start at the Playscape on a scavenger hunt around our favorite spaces and come back to show off your discoveries. Easy and advanced levels will accommodate children of all ages.
Habitat Earth: Digital Theater Show: 11:00, 12:00 and 1:00 show times
Living networks connect and support life forms large and small — from colonies of tiny microbes and populations of massive whales to ever-expanding human societies. Discover what it means to live in today’s connected world. Through stunning visualizations of the natural world, dive below the ocean’s surface to explore the dynamic relationships found in kelp forest ecosystems, travel beneath the forest floor to see how Earth’s tallest trees rely on tiny fungi to survive, and journey to new heights to witness the intricate intersection between human and ecological networks.
Story Walk™ and Dip-netting: 1:00 – 3:00
Walk a trail and read a book! Follow pages from Turtle Splash then grab a net and dip into the pond to discover for yourself first-hand what lives there!
Kids Earth Day Celebration by Los Angeles County Department of Beaches & Harbors
DATE AND TIME
Sat, April 21, 2018
11:00 AM – 4:00 PM PDT
LOCATION
Don’t miss the first Earth Day celebration at the Dockweiler Youth Center! Join 3rd Rock Hip Hop as they teach kids about environmental awareness through hip hop music. This community and family-oriented event will also feature:
- Environmental exhibitors
- Hands-on activities
- Bouncy houses
- Games
- FREE giveaways
- & so much more!
COST: Admission is FREE!
Faster Check-In w/ EventBrite RSVP Tickets! For faster entry into the event and access to the rides & attractions, each entrant must show a printed or digital EventBrite ticket showing acceptance of the liability waiver.
Regular Check-In: Upon arrival, all entrants to the event who don’t have an EventBrite ticket that shows acceptance of the liability waiver must complete & sign a hard-copy liability waiver form before accessing the rides & attractions.
Please click here for a downloadable flyer. Call (310) 726-4128 for more information.
International Children’s Month is a full year long, free, thematic, activity platform for all. The mission is “Children across the planet in love, care and respect.” Our peak month is JUNE and we ask all involved with children to take it up a notch or twenty and do something special for this month with them. Support the children in doing what they feel called to do. Support the children in what you feel called to do. This month is about celebration and joy of our children, and of appreciation. Please visit the SEL partner platform for all at www.internationalchildrensmonth.com
We come together for the Annual Children’s Global Wave Of Love, at 1:11pm in every time zone beginning in New Zealand and ending in Hawaii, we come together to collectively intention “Children across the planet in love, care and respect.” Based on the Fibinacci sequence of increasing increments of divine love we send out love across the waters and lands for all. A peak day for International Children’s Month and our free year long thematic activity platform International Children Love Self Love and Cooperation 2018.
A great soul /funk concert. Come and be uplifted by great music and let’s raise as much money as possible to help re-unite children who have been separated from their families at the U.S. border. Tickets are $10. Please click on the link below to buy tickets, bring friends! You may make an extra donation on the night if you so wish. All proceeds will go to this great cause. Rob Duncan has played music all over the world, is a father of 3 and writes music about his experience of being human, man and father.
Here’s what he says about his music and this concert:
My music draws from my life experience; spiritually, soulfully, intellectually, and emotionally. All of my songs represent my musical influences like soul music, blues, jazz, and rock. Deeply soulful, funky, melancholy music with ultimately a message of hope. That’s how I write my music. That’s how I sing my music. I lay my heart on the table and reach you in places that you feel.
I have decided to donate the cover charge from my upcoming show at Rockwood Music Hall 3 to RAICES. RAICES primarily provides two very very important things.
It provides lawyers for the children who have been torn from their parents by ICES, and it pays the Immigration Bond which releases the parent from detention allowing their children to rejoin them. This is where your $10 cover charge for my upcoming show will go. If you wish to donate extra you may do so on the night of the show.
ROCKWOOD MUSIC HALL PRESENTS
ROB DUNCAN LIVE with his Funkin Soul Band
Date: Saturday, July 7
Time: 7 PM – 8 PM (Arrive by 6:30. Show starts at 7:00! )
Rockwood Music Hall Stage 3
185 Orchard St, New York, NY
Hosted by North Corner Music
$10 Cover Charge
For Tickets, Click Here: https://bit.ly/2LB0QPM
MAPTING PHOTO CONTEST
United Nations International Youth Day 2018
2018 Safe Spaces for Youth
Earth Charter Initiative
#YouthDay #SafeSpaces4Youth
Take a picture using #YouthDay and #SafeSpaces4Youth
with SDGs 4 Quality Education and 5 Gender Equality
for a chance to win a free Online Youth Course on Leadership, Sustainability, and Ethics!
In celebration of the International Youth Day, the President of International Federation for Peace & Sustainable Development, Mrs. Sally Kader requests the pleasure of your company at our side event panel discussion on creating safe spaces for youth empowerment on August 13th, 2018 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, NY.
Topic: S.P.A.C.E for Youth: Safe Place to Actively Collaborate and Engage for Youth
Date: August 13th, 2018
Time: 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Location: Conference Room 8, United Nations Headquarters, NY 10017
Young people constitute the majority for the world’s population today. In 2015, a global figure of 1.2 billion aged 15-24 accounted for one in every six people worldwide. However, nearly 535 million of children are living in harsh conditions, lacking access to decent health, education and protection services. Discrimination based on religion, race, disability, age and gender, high unemployment rates and lack of opportunities are also some of the adversities that the youth need to overcome. In face of such hardship, what is much needed for youth to become activists who can change the world into a place free of hunger, inequality and violence is a safe space where their voices are heard.
Our event will feature a prominent panel of speakers including youth leaders, ambassadors, ministers and other experts in the field of youth and social development speaking from their expertise and personal experience. The speakers will shed light on effective methods to create safe spaces for youth for their empowerment through government policies.
At IFPSD, we are deeply committed to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which necessitates the empowerment and inclusion of youth in the development plan, and we hold events to celebrate the International Youth Day annually. The panel discussion aims to take a step forward towards the realization of sustainable peace, stability, human rights and effective governance, with the collective voice of youth better heard. Please join us at our event on August 13th at the United Nations.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION: Attendance is open to all delegates, diplomats, government officials and civil society representatives including students with a valid UN Pass. Feel free to forward to interested colleagues. For Non-UN Ground Pass Holders, you must RSVP and bring your valid government ID when you pick up your UN pass. Once you RSVP we will send you further instructions via email regarding where you can pick up your UN Grounds Pass.
PO Box 117
Yellowstone National Park
WY 82190
Phone: 406.848.2400
Email: contact@yellowstone.org
Bozeman Office
222 East Main St.
Suite 301
Bozeman, MT 59715
Phone: 406.586.6303
Yellowstone National Park is still full of visitors enjoying the summer sun, relishing these final weeks of the season. However, the first snowfall is poised to blanket the park in white within just a few months. Winter is nearly here, and we want to offer you a special way to welcome it.
Yellowstone Forever Institute winter programs will open for registration to the general public on Aug. 22. From wildlife programs to snowshoeing and skiing adventures to a class about Lakota Winter Stories and Skills, there is something for everyone to enjoy this coming winter.
The Lakota Winter Stories and Skills program is one of the highlights of our winter each year. You’ll learn about Lakota oral traditions, use natural ingredients to fend off cold, and prepare traditional soups and stews. It’s always a wonderful time.
Other programs that people always enjoy include The Intelligence of Animals, interpreting the way animals move and vocalize to uncover insights about their inner lives; Birds of Winter, an ornithology adventure visiting a variety of habitats; and many more.
But we keep groups rather small so every experience can be personalized and unique – which means they fill up very quickly. And we’re excited to report that you can now register for your program and lodging together online.
The true beauty of Yellowstone is that it offers a different experience for each visitor. No matter what area of the park interests you, we can help you gain a deeper connection to Yellowstone while you’re here.
The Yellowstone Forever Institute introduces thousands of students to the park’s natural wonders. Programs range from one day to three weeks in length, and highlight the park’s amazing wildlife, geothermal areas, rich history, and awe-inspiring wilderness.
View the 2018 winter or summer catalog.
Registration for Winter 2018-19 Field Seminars opens August 15, 2018 for Yellowstone Forever Supporters, and August 22, 2018 for the general public.
Learn about our new Yellowstone Day Adventures program, offering a convenient, expert-led wildlife watching experience during the summer season.
Yellowstone Forever—formerly the Yellowstone Association and Yellowstone Park Foundation—is the official nonprofit partner of Yellowstone National Park.
We partner with Yellowstone National Park to create opportunities for all people to experience, enhance, and preserve Yellowstone forever.
Our educational programming, products, and services help people enjoy, understand, and appreciate the wildlife, geology, and cultural history of the park. The opportunities Yellowstone Forever provides for volunteerism and community relations develop and engage new stewards for the park. Through thoughtful cultivation and stewardship of people who love the park, Yellowstone Forever is building a broad network of philanthropic supporters dedicated to preserving the park.
Yellowstone Forever’s mission of engagement and support through education and fundraising for the park will ensure Yellowstone remains for generations to come.
PARTNERS
Yellowstone Forever is the official education and fundraising partner of Yellowstone National Park.
Yellowstone Forever, through the Yellowstone Forever Institute, offers courses on the Gallatin, Caribou-Targhee and Shoshone National Forests under a Special Use Permit administered by the Gardiner Ranger District. In addition, Yellowstone Forever has Park Stores at the Hebgen and Gardiner Ranger Stations.
Delaware North is the contracted concessioner that operates all Yellowstone General Stores inside the park. The General Stores provide food, equipment, supplies, keepsakes and collectibles. They have partnered with Yellowstone Forever to offer in-park discounts to our members and help raise funds to benefit the park.
Yellowstone National Park Lodges is the operator of lodges, restaurants, gift shops and activities in the park. Yellowstone National Park Lodges and Yellowstone Forever, through the Yellowstone Forever Institute, offer a wide variety of award-winning Lodging & Learning programs at park hotels. They have partnered with Yellowstone Forever to offer in-park retail discounts and seasonal lodging discounts to our members, as well as to raise funds to benefit Yellowstone through the Guest Donation Program.
Yellowstone Forever is one of over 84 national park cooperating associations serving more than 300 areas in the national park system. Many of these organizations are members of the Public Lands Alliance.
Up-Lift 2018—Raising Our Higher Consciousness Capacity
You’re invited to tune in online Saturday, August 25th for the Up-Lift 2018—Raising Our Higher Consciousness Capacity webinar hosted by Howard Martin, Executive Vice President, HeartMath Inc.; Rollin McCraty, Director of Research, HeartMath Institute; and Owen Ward, Chief Strategy Officer, HeartMath Inc.
Click here for simple instructions to determine the webinar times in your area:
- For Select time and place to convert from, choose San Francisco, Calif.
- For Select time and place to convert to, choose your country and a city in your time zone.
When you register for the Up-Lift 2018—Raising Our Higher Consciousness Capacitywebinar, you will receive a replay link
They will share valuable information and preview this year’s event, Lifting the Vibration of Our Spirit: Unleashing the Heart Power of Collective Consciousness, which will be held November 14-18 in the Mexican Riviera on the beautiful Yucatan Peninsula.
Up-Lift 2018—Raising Our Higher Consciousness Capacity
(A free HeartMath/
Saturday, August 25
11-11:45 a.m. or 6-6:45 p.m.
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ABOUT US
HeartMath Institute
We are passionate and dedicated people, steadfast in our commitment to provide solutions for activating the heart of humanity. HeartMath Institute empowers individuals, families, groups and organizations to enhance their life experiences using tools that enable them to better recognize and access their intuitive insight and heart intelligence.
Resources to empower you.
Presented by type of media.
Explore HeartMath’s collection of free resource and downloadable materials for expanding your heart connections including practical solutions for your personal growth, health and life fulfillment.
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Sample of available webinars:
Empowering Coherent Groups: New Frontiers in Social Coherence Research and Development
What happens when a group’s members are resonating in-sync – past their normal performance levels? Researcher explains how an energetic field connects individual group members, which simultaneously distributes information between the group members leading to key social behaviours. Learn about a new heart rate variability system being developed for measuring group coherence and a training program for facilitating team and group coherence.
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Dr. Charles Mully
Mully Children’s Family USA
OnBuzz
Mother Teresa.
The Letters: The Untold Story of Mother Teresa.
will benefit Mully Children’s Family
Please join us in celebrating an amazing humanitarian
and Nobel Peace Prize winner who
served others in need.
Join us on the Road to 2020!
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11 Days of Global Unity is a community action-oriented program, hosted by the Florida Earth Charter Initiative and “We the World.” Beginning on September 11th, and leading up to the UN’s International Day of Peace – September 21st – Syraj Syed, founder of Your Authentic Self Work, and Sue Blythe, creator of the FutureFlash! Climate Challenge, will interview community activists for each of 11 Themes for Change.
Register at https://docs.google.com/forms (copy link to browser) to receive each day’s Community Exchange and learn how you can find your place in the movement of movements for a sustainable, just and peaceful future.
Join us on the Road to 2020! |
Celebrating 20 Years With We, The World & Good News Planet
CHURCH OF THE VILLAGE
201 WEST 13TH STREET (corner of 7th Ave.) Manhattan, NYC
WEDNESDAY SEPT 12, 2018
6:30PM – 9:30 PM
Sliding Scale: $10/20 in advance, $15/25 at the door
Ticket Link: http://bit.ly/WTW20GN
Facebook Event Page: https://www.facebook.com/events/250681448989549/
Livestream Link (day of event): https://www.youcanview.com/
Official Website page: https://we.net/20years
Don’t miss this Unforgettable Once-In-A-Lifetime Event!
6:00pm Doors Open
6:30pm Sharp – 9:30pm Program
9:30-10:00pm Networking
With Hosts
Paul Sladkus, Founder, Producer and Host of Good News Planet and
Rick Ulfik, Founder of We, The World and the We Campaign
Featuring:
Special Opening Performance at 6:30 by Dynamic New York R&B Recording Artist Al Smith
Kathryn Davis, host of Heart of Mind Radio
Rev. Deborah Moldow, founder of Garden of Light
Singer songwriter Heidi Little
World Dance with Kaeshi Chai and PURE (Public Urban Ritual Experiment)
Singer songwriter Kristin Hoffmann
Claire Diab, International Yoga Therapist, Board Member of the Deepak Chopra Center
Joumana Rizk, Peacelights
Monica Willard, United Religions Initiative
Rev. Susana Bastarrica, Founder, Vigil for Peace and Ecology
Alan Steinfeld, host and producer of New Realities
Mitchell Rabin, host and producer of A Better World
Drs. J.J. and Desiree Hurtak, Academy For Future Science
Andrew Kaen, Founder, Planet Heart, Producer of Annual World Peace Earth Day Celebration
Tribute To Carole Hart (helped launch Sesame Street, Free to Be, You and Me)
World Premiere of the We, The World Song by Heidi Little, Rick Ulfik, Andrew Kaen and others
Tribute to Aretha Franklin & Wilson Pickett Featuring Cherette White, Al Smith, Rick Ulfik and other Musicians
Plus Special Video Presentations including:
Video Message from Deepak Chopra (Bestselling Author and We, The World Advisory Board Member)
Woodstock Forever: Peace, Love, Hope. Movie Premiere Trailer
An Urgent Message From Your Children
For more information contact: Andrew Kaen, organizer 646-765-7890
or email andrewkaen@wetheworld.org
GLOBAL CLIMATE ACTION SUMMIT
Moscone Center South in San Francisco, California.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2018 — FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2018
The Global Climate Action Summit will bring leaders and people together from around the world to “Take Ambition to the Next Level.” It will be a moment to celebrate the extraordinary achievements of states, regions, cities, companies, investors and citizens with respect to climate action.
It will also be a launchpad for deeper worldwide commitments and accelerated action from countries—supported by all sectors of society—that can put the globe on track to prevent dangerous climate change and realize the historic Paris Agreement.
The decarbonization of the global economy is in sight. Transformational changes are happening across the world and across all sectors as a result of technological innovation, new and creative policies and political will at all levels.
States and regions, cities, businesses and investors are leading the charge on pushing down global emissions by 2020, setting the stage to reach net zero emissions by midcentury.
ATTENDING THE SUMMIT
People everywhere are encouraged to participate in the hundreds of affiliate events taking place in the San Francisco Bay Area and throughout the world during the week of September 10-14th, including climate action panels, workshops, tours, exhibits and other special events. The full affiliate event schedule will be posted here this summer.
From September 12-14, you can virtually attend the Summit by streaming it live on YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. In person, Summit attendance for the plenary and other high-level sessions is by invitation and will require accreditation. If you represent an organization ready to make a major climate commitment at the Summit, please send details about that proposed announcement by clicking here.
The Global Climate Action Summit is also committed to reducing the environmental impact of the Summit event itself. To see how the Summit looks to meet or exceed international sustainability standards for large events, please click here.
At the heart of the Paris Climate Change Agreement is the commitment by national governments to review their progress and rachet up the ambition of national climate action plans, known as Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs).
The Global Climate Action Summit, happening midway between Paris 2015 and 2020, is timed to provide the confidence to governments to ‘step up’ and trigger this next level of ambition sooner rather than later.
The momentum we generate this year must lead to bending the curve of emissions down by 2020—science advises us that this gives the world the best opportunity to prevent the worst effects of climate change. 2018 therefore must be the beginning of a new phase of action and ambition on climate change.
The Summit will underscore the urgency of the threat of climate change by mobilizing the voices and experience of real people, in real communities already facing real and stark threats. It will challenge and channel the energy and idealism of people everywhere to step up and overcome it.
At the Summit, international and local leaders from states, regions, cities, businesses, investors and civil society—known as “non-party stakeholders/non-state actors”—will be joined by national government leaders, scientists, students, nonprofits and others in a new wave of mobilization.
They will be sharing what they have achieved to date and committing to doing more to usher in the era of decarbonization, greater levels of sustainability and prosperity for the many rather than the few.
These actors will also celebrate a range of new climate commitments under five key areas: Healthy Energy Systems, Inclusive Economic Growth, Sustainable Communities, Land and Ocean Stewardship and Transformative Climate Investments.
The confidence, enthusiasm and support generated by this wave of action now and through 2019, will embolden national governments leaders to trigger the necessary domestic processes ahead of 2020 while also triggering more states and regions, cities, businesses and investors to ‘step up’ further action themselves.
THE CO-CHAIRS
We’re running out of time. There’s been some backsliding since Paris, and our Summit on September 12, in San Francisco—our Global Climate Action Summit—aims to increase the commitments that have already been made in Paris, to make them even greater, and thereby build the momentum going into the conference of the parties at Poland.
JERRY BROWN Governor of California
I am delighted to be one of the co-chairs of the California Summit where we have an opportunity to move the needle further and faster towards the swift realization of the goals of the Paris Agreement.
PATRICIA ESPINOSA
Executive Secretary of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change
I am delighted to be one of the co-chairs of the Summit and look forward to continuing the momentum set in motion by the Paris Agreement.
ANAND MAHINDRA
Chair of the Mahindra Group
During this important period, the Summit will help mobilize the national, sub-national, business, and society as a whole to demonstrate their actions and determinations, which will not only advance the global climate governance process, but also push forward the global green and low-carbon transformations.
XIE ZHENHUA
Special Representative for Climate Change Affairs of China
I’m so honored and pleased to be invited as a Co-Chair of the Global Climate Action Summit. This a recognition of the transformative power of young people as equal partners in the fight against climate change. We must continue to support youth-led innovative climate solutions at scale and provide spaces for young people to lead climate action globally and on the ground, mobilizing communities in support of the Paris Agreement.
JAYATHMA WICKRAMANAYAKE
The United Nations Secretary-General’s Envoy on Youth
CLIMATE ACTION IS FEMALE: HOW WOMEN ARE SUPERCHARGING LOCAL LEADERSHIP FOR CLIMATE SOLUTIONSAn Official Affiliate Event of the Global Climate Action Summit, San Francisco, CA
Climate solutions are bubbling up on the local level, often led by women leaders. This panel discussion will highlight the groundbreaking work of women taking action on climate change at the local level, including mayors, community activists, and other women leaders. The panel will by led by Heather McTeer Toney (shown above), who served as the first African-American, first female, and youngest mayor of Greenville, MS. In 2014, she was appointed by President Barack Obama to serve as Regional Administrator for Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Southeast Region. She is a senior advisor on local government for Moms Clean Air Force. |
WHEN: Friday, September 14, 2018
8:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. — Light breakfast and coffee
9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. — Panel discussion
10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. — Optional tour of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission Headquarters
WHERE: San Francisco Public Utilities Commission Building (525 Golden Gate Avenue, San Francisco CA 94102)
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MISSION of Moms Clean Air Force
Moms Clean Air Force is a community of over 1,000,000 moms and dads united against air pollution – including the urgent crisis of our changing climate – to protect our children’s health. We arm members with reliable information and solutions through online resources, articles, action tools, and on-the-ground events. We work across the US on national and local policy issues, through a vibrant network of state-based field teams. Our moms meet with lawmakers at every level of government to build support for commonsense solutions to pollution. We believe that protecting children’s health is a non partisan issue. In fact, we think of ourselves as “Mompartisan”. We meet with members of Congress on both sides of the aisle to let them know that votes for clean air and a stable climate are urgently important to us. Moms have passion and power – an unbeatable combination. We are harnessing the strength of mother love to fight back against polluters.
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WHAT WE’RE WORKING ON
- Connecting the dots between climate change and children’s health;
- Building support for standards that limit climate pollution from carbon, methane, and ozone;
- Protecting children from potentially harmful chemical exposures through education and advocacy focused on toxic chemicals in consumer products and other sources;
- Bringing the voices of parents to decision makers at the local, regional, and national levels;
- Driving solutions that support clean, renewable energy for a strong economy and healthy families; and
- Fostering a national conversation about climate change that moves beyond partisanship, to focus on families and communities.
WHY MOMS?
Moms have passion and power — an unbeatable combination. Moms will do everything we can to keep our children safe and sound. That’s why we are uniting to ensure that our children have clean air right now, and for their future.
At Moms Clean Air Force, we make it easy and fast for busy parents to make their voices heard—while baby naps.
Because sometimes, being a good mom means being an active citizen.
In part one of our fundraising series, international speaker, author, and peace activist, John Dear will host a discussion based on his latest book,“They Will Inherit the Earth”. In it, he examines the connection between violence and our treatment of Mother Earth. He writes, “We need not be blind any longer.” We can reclaim “a vision of peace for ourselves, Mother Earth, and her creatures.”
Join us for an afternoon of challenging reflection on how the current time calls for a transformation of our vision and way of life. A reception to follow in our gardens.
Tickets are required for this event. All proceeds benefit the Center for Environmental Transformation.
Join others for 15 glorious minutes of Laughter Yoga on the phone as we celebrate 11 Days of Global Unity!
No previous experience, no special clothes or equipment required. CALL: +1-218-339-2460 CODE: 52844# (LAUGH#) We’ll start with SMILE-UPsSM and get the giggles with silly, playful LAUGHTER exercises that help unite us as we decrease stress, anxiety and depression, increase joy, connection, creativity, energy, focus and productivity. Connect to others through LAUGHTER! Different times each day so check the calendar carefully. Times given for Central Standard Time. More information about Sarah and her work on www.SeriousGiggles.com Come together to LAUGH for joy! “Laughter is the shortest distance between 2 people.” – Victor Borge
WORLDPEACEPRODUCTIONS.ORG, WE.NET, VEGANSEDONA.COM & FamilyOfLight,org invite you to participate in a global #11DAYSOFGLOBALUNITY movement for Peace & Sustainability Sept 11-21, culminating with the International Day of Peace.
The 6th DAY of our ONLINE #11DaysOfGlobalUnity FREE FILM SCREENINGS – VEGAN FILM FESTIVAL is Sept. 16.
THEME: Youth & Children
FILM: VEGAN – EVERYDAY STORIES
Please host or attend a free improVdinners.com film screening, watch the film online, donating to our cause and joining our MEDIA THAT MATTERS movement, and/OR take the Challenge to goVegan! for 11 Days and Break Bread Together for a Better World! www.VeganFilmFest.com
Join others for 15 glorious minutes of Laughter Yoga on the phone as we celebrate 11 Days of Global Unity!
No previous experience, no special clothes or equipment required. CALL: +1-218-339-2460 CODE: 52844# (LAUGH#) We’ll start with SMILE-UPsSM and get the giggles with silly, playful LAUGHTER exercises that help unite us as we decrease stress, anxiety and depression, increase joy, connection, creativity, energy, focus and productivity. Connect to others through LAUGHTER! Different times each day so check the calendar carefully. Times given for Central Standard Time. More information about Sarah and her work on www.SeriousGiggles.com The Event Page has more details including a MAP to find the correct time in YOUR time zone and a link to the Facebook Event where you can RSVP if you want to connect further. Come together to LAUGH for joy! “Laughter is the shortest distance between 2 people.” – Victor Borge
Join others for 15 glorious minutes of Laughter Yoga on the phone as we celebrate 11 Days of Global Unity!
No previous experience, no special clothes or equipment required. CALL: +1-218-339-2460 CODE: 52844# (LAUGH#) We’ll start with SMILE-UPsSM and get the giggles with silly, playful LAUGHTER exercises that help unite us as we decrease stress, anxiety and depression, increase joy, connection, creativity, energy, focus and productivity. Connect to others through LAUGHTER! Different times each day so check the calendar carefully. Times given for Central Standard Time. More information about Sarah and her work on www.SeriousGiggles.com The Event Page has more details including a MAP to find the correct time in YOUR time zone and a link to the Facebook Event where you can RSVP if you want to connect further. Come together to LAUGH for joy! “Laughter is the shortest distance between 2 people.” – Victor Borge
Join others for 15 glorious minutes of Laughter Yoga on the phone as we celebrate 11 Days of Global Unity!
No previous experience, no special clothes or equipment required. CALL: +1-218-339-2460 CODE: 52844# (LAUGH#) We’ll start with SMILE-UPsSM and get the giggles with silly, playful LAUGHTER exercises that help unite us as we decrease stress, anxiety and depression, increase joy, connection, creativity, energy, focus and productivity. Connect to others through LAUGHTER! Different times each day so check the calendar carefully. Times given for Central Standard Time. More information about Sarah and her work on www.SeriousGiggles.com The Event Page has more details including a MAP to find the correct time in YOUR time zone and a link to the Facebook Event where you can RSVP if you want to connect further. Come together to LAUGH for joy! “Laughter is the shortest distance between 2 people.” – Victor Borge
Join others for 15 glorious minutes of Laughter Yoga on the phone as we celebrate 11 Days of Global Unity!
No previous experience, no special clothes or equipment required. CALL: +1-218-339-2460 CODE: 52844# (LAUGH#) We’ll start with SMILE-UPsSM and get the giggles with silly, playful LAUGHTER exercises that help unite us as we decrease stress, anxiety and depression, increase joy, connection, creativity, energy, focus and productivity. Connect to others through LAUGHTER! Different times each day so check the calendar carefully. Times given for Central Standard Time. More information about Sarah and her work on www.SeriousGiggles.com The Event Page has more details including a MAP to find the correct time in YOUR time zone and a link to the Facebook Event where you can RSVP if you want to connect further. Come together to LAUGH for joy! “Laughter is the shortest distance between 2 people.” – Victor Borge
Join others for 15 glorious minutes of Laughter Yoga on the phone as we celebrate 11 Days of Global Unity! Today, we culminate these 11 days as we mark the UN International Day of Peace. When Dr. Kataria, founder of Laughter Yoga, began spreading his vision of sharing intentional laughter, he recognized that Laughter is a universal language and since its founding in 1995, he has hoped others will share his vision of using shared intentional laughter to help the world find peace. I’m SURE I’ve enjoyed laughing with each and every person who has called in during the 11 Days of Global Unity. On this, our last call of this series, we will focus on Laughter Exercises that envision a more peaceful world. As always: no previous experience, no special clothes or equipment required. CALL: +1-218-339-2460 CODE: 52844# (LAUGH#) We’ll start with SMILE-UPsSM and get the giggles with silly, playful LAUGHTER exercises that help unite us as we decrease stress, anxiety and depression, increase joy, connection, creativity, energy, focus and productivity. Connect to others through LAUGHTER! Time given is for Central Standard Time. More information about Sarah and her work on www.SeriousGiggles.com The Event Page has more details including a MAP to find the correct time in YOUR time zone and a link to the Facebook Event where you can RSVP if you want to connect further. Come together to LAUGH for joy! “Laughter is the shortest distance between 2 people.” – Victor Borge
Also NOTE: Sarah continues these Laughter Calls every MONDAY MORNING at 9am Central Standard Time for 15 minutes. You are always invited! Thanks for joining the fun as we all work together to find a more unified, and much more peaceful world, one big smile and one shared laugh at a time!
In celebration of our common humanity, we join with citizens from all around the world on September 21st for International Peace Day. This year we are excited to celebrate the EMPOWERED VOICES OF YOUTH in our commUNITY, who are leading the way to a more peaceful and just world. International Day of Peace was established in 1981 by unanimous United Nations resolution and this day of peace provides a globally shared occasion for all humanity to commit to peace above all differences and to contribute to building a culture of peace.
Come and join us as we
march, chant, dance, rally, listen and create
with one another to celebrate our
connection, hope, and commUNITY!
Festivities include:
March
Unique voices from our International community
Performances
International Flag Ceremony
Face-painting
Sign Making
…and more!
National Farm to School Month
Celebrating the Movement
- Get Inspired: Follow the National Farm to School Network on our blog, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram to see inspiring examples of farm to school success and innovation.
- Spread the word: Shout out about farm to school and share what you’re doing for National Farm to School Month with the hashtags #farmtoschooland #F2SMonth on social media.
- Explore resources: Check out our free resources and national calendarfor planning and promoting celebrations in your community, including customizable posters and bookmarks, stickers, activity suggestions and more.
‘GRANDMOTHERS ON THE MOVE’ Podcast Episodes
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Grandmothers To Grandmothers Campaign
The Grandmothers to Grandmothers Campaign exists to support the indomitable African grandmothers who are caring for the millions of children who have been orphaned by AIDS. Members of the Grandmothers Campaign share three goals. They work to:
- Raise funds to meet the needs of African grandmothers and the children in their care;
- Listen to African grandmothers, respect their expertise and amplify their voices, in order to promote authentic and substantive responses to the epidemic in Africa;
- Build solidarity among African and Canadian grandmothers in order to motivate and sustain the vital work of turning the tide of AIDS in Africa.
Canadian grandmothers groups are tremendously active in their communities. They put on concerts, organize card tournaments, and sell jewellery. They visit countless schools and community organizations. They bake, cook, sew, knit, paint, write, organize cycle tours, walks, and even ride motorcycles – all to raise funds and awareness for grandmothers in sub-Saharan Africa through the Stephen Lewis Foundation.
To learn more about how you can get involved in the Campaign, write to Ilana here.
Articles About The Campaign
What started as a conversation around a kitchen table has grown to become a movement to empower women, especially grandmothers, in Africa.
The Grandmothers Campaign, an initiative of the Stephen Lewis Foundation, is known as Grandmothers 4 Grandmothers in Regina, which was among the very first places in Canada where women took on projects to support families in Africa.
‘We know the power of women’s organizing in Canada and older women have an extraordinary amount of vigour and energy.’– Ilana Landsberg-Lewis
As Ilana Landsberg-Lewis explains, the movement arose in response to the human crisis, observed by her father Stephen Lewis during his time as a special envoy for the United Nations, afflicting the African continent during the HIV and AIDS pandemic.
Millions of children were orphaned by the deaths of their parents. Their grandmothers were left to raise them, with little or no support.
Ilana Landsberg-Lewis is co-founder, with her father Stephen Lewis, of the Stephen Lewis Foundation. One of their main campaigns supports grandmothers in Africa. (Lisa MacIntosh/Stephen Lewis Foundation)
“Grandmothers were just in an agony of loss,” Landsberg-Lewis said. “Death was everywhere. They were left with no income and often isolated by the terrible stigma surrounding HIV-AIDS.”
Landsberg-Lewis recalled how requests seeking aid referred to the grandmothers as “caregivers” and when she asked why, she learned there was a strong bias in play.
“Nobody wants to fund them because they’re older women and nobody sees them as a meaningful investment,” she learned.
“We decided if Canadian grandmothers knew what was happening on the [African] continent then it would surely resonate with them and boy did it ever,” Landsberg-Lewis said.
“I wish I could say that I was prescient but it would be overstating it,” she said, talking about how the success of the organization, which quickly grew from a handful of activists brain-storming at a kitchen table (her own) to over 250 chapters across the country.
Since 2006 they have raised about $25 million.
“It was really extraordinary but I can’t say that I’m surprised,” she said. “Older women in our communities, we know the power of women organizing in Canada and older women have an extraordinary amount of vigour and energy.”
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The Campaign currently boasts more than 240 grandmothers groups across the country. Many of the groups have organized into regional and national networks in order to support each other’s efforts in solidarity with African grandmothers and the children in their care.
Resources from the Grandmothers Campaign go to grassroots organizations that support African grandmothers with food, health care, school fees and school uniforms for their grandchildren, income-generating programmes, counselling, social support, essential shelter, and other necessities. Throughout Africa, grassroots organizations run by and for grandmothers are sharing insights, deepening their expertise, collaborating with other local organizations, and building their capacity to turn the tide of AIDS at community level.
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THE ALCHEMY OF WOMEN’S COLLECTIVE WISDOM AND POWER Pre-Parliament Women’s Sacred Circles On November 1, 2018, 9- 12 PM EST, a collaboration of women’s organizations will host a circle with a sacred center for 200 women and girls attending the Parliament of The World’s Religions in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, www.parliamentofreligions.org.
We hope you will host a local circle anytime on Nov. 1st, and connect with us in prayer and through this Group. We will live-stream the opening, speakers, water ceremony and the closing. We will have reflection questions that empower and unite us as a mighty force of feminine energy. The questions and other information will be posted here. We will have a water ceremony and encourage you to have one also. Each person adds water from their source to a common bowl and blesses the water.
Please connect as local circles of women, men, youth gathering to give each one a voice in a circle with a sacred center that supports, encourages and empowers the collective feminine wisdom and power. Please spread the word to organizations, circles, groups and individuals. Please put in your newsletter, newspaper, FB groups and Timeline.
Basic Circle Principles and information on how to start a circle found on www.millionthcircle.org and www.gatherthewomen.org
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PURPOSE AND INTENTION
Climate Change & Consciousness: Our Legacy for the Earth, April 20-26 2019, will be a collaborative and participatory investigation into how we can steward a sustainable future on what has already become a radically changed planet Earth. We have travelled to this ‘new’ planet on a burst of carbon dioxide. A new planet requires new ways of living.
The conference will bring together eminent scientists, wisdom keepers, business people, activists, artists, entrepreneurs, young people and others, to envision and begin to inhabit our joint future. It will be an international, inter-generational and multi-disciplinary gathering. This is the principle of ‘the big tent‘, borrowed from party politics, whereby diverse viewpoints, backgrounds and interests (the ‘voices in the room’) are brought together to engage and dialogue.
Floor plan of the Universal Hall, the main conference venue, with
a symbolic representation of the diversity of ‘voices in the room.’
Through interactive, embodied and experiential means, participants will access intuitive, intelligent and innovative insights into how we will meet the demands of this new world. Each individual will be invited to invoke their ‘Legacy for the Earth.’ Our combined roles and commitment will represent a global mission of stewardship. Everyone will be part of this love story.
Participants will collaborate in exploring:
- The science and truth of climate change in language that we can all comprehend;
- Ways to embody our longing to connect with the Earth and hear Her voice;
- How we can build and rebuild communities as functional entities;
- Political, legal and social activism, and networking for social change;
- How do we nurture children and support youth to restore our environment;
- Soil restoration, organic food production and community-scale agriculture;
- Alternative energy sources and appropriate technologies;
- Biodiversity and the intrinsic preciousness of all species;
- Racism, misogyny and gender bias – how they deepen the environmental crisis;
- Contemporary and traditional resources to address the trauma of climate change;
- What can we learn from indigenous cultures, activists and wisdom keepers;
- Healthcare and the detoxification of environmental pollutants and toxins; and
- How to generate inspiration for a grassroots upsurge to reclaim our future.
THREE MAJOR ORIENTATIONS
Three major threads running though the conference will be:
- AWAKE: Facing the truths of climate change.
- CELEBRATE: Using the arts to express our love for the Earth and all life.
- ACT: Developing our response, locally and globally.
TEN GUIDING PRINCIPLES OF CCC19
These principles were received along with the guidance for the manifestation of CLIMATE CHANGE & CONSCIOUSNESS on November 8, 2016:
1. That the gathering be a grassroots representation of diverse global populations;
2. That the gathering be held at the Findhorn Foundation due to its origins and because it represents and embodies community and sustainability;
3. That indigenous environmental leaders be represented;
4. That youth play a significant role and that their voices be heard;
5. That all participants, both at the conference and online, be encouraged to connect, engage, contribute and network.
6. That everyone at the gathering have an opportunity to establish and cultivate a direct, intimate and personal relationship with Nature;
7. That the gathering be infused with art as one of the key celebrations of human creativity and resiliency;
8. That the outcome of the gathering be the creation of networks of innovation and communities of inspired action;
9. That these networks and community initiatives be seeded before the conference begins; and,
10. That they be effectively supported to grow and flourish after the conference ends, in order to accelerate the generation of sustainable, life-serving responses to climate change.
WHY THIS CONFERENCE IS UNIQUE
While words like ‘climate change’ and ‘sustainability’ are in the popular parlance, the truth about the magnitude of our environmental predicament is not well understood. This is in part because the language used to deliver the science is frequently infused with acronyms that deter engagement. This conference will translate scientific jargon into language that is accessible to anyone. In addition, we intend a celebratory response to climate change that emphasises human resilience and creativity, which is key to coping with the scientific reality. These two sides of the coin (environmental science and celebratory resilience) will be linked at every juncture of this gathering.
This conference will be led by some of the most knowledgeable and highly regarded voices of the climate change movement. The key contributors are recognised internationally for their expertise, their commanding presence, and their proven capacity to identify practical and optimistic strategies for sustainability action. Joining these voices with those of artists, healers, parents and youth has seldom been attempted in quite such a way.
YOUTH
We are planning (although it’s funding dependant), a separate youth programme that will run parallel to the conference. Youth aged 16 – 20 will form a contingent that will join with, and present to, the entire assembly. Their ideas will be woven into an action plan that is developed for follow through after the event. The intention will be to permeate schools and social media with viable options for surviving and thriving in a climate-changing world.
LIVE STREAMING
There will be live streaming from Findhorn of most of the conference programme (details to follow). Aside from individual subscriptions to the streaming, we are encouraging organisations (such as community groups, non-profits, institutions and companies) to subscribe to the streaming as a collective, or hub. Hubs will take the opportunity to do much more than just passively watch the streaming. We will encourage them to self-organise a mini-conference of their own, whereby they hold their own in-house discussion groups, panel sessions, workshops and so on. We envisage these hubs becoming cells of impassioned and empowered activists who sustain their climate activism into the future.
Interested in forming a hub? Please contact us or email: CCC19@findhorn.org.
WHY FINDHORN?
The Findhorn Foundation and Community are a renown ecovillage, spiritual community and learning centre (See blog post here). This conference comes at a time when the art of community building is badly needed. Findhorn famously demonstrates the potential of community to develop low-impact settlements and lifestyles. Further, Findhorn’s deep roots in the natural world and 50 years of ‘co-creation with the intelligence of nature’ makes it the perfect host for this event.
The central intention of Climate Change & Consciousness is to encourage the participants (including thousands watching by live-stream) to prioritise their love for the Earth, putting the environment first in order to steward for the children of the future. This epitomises the role that Findhorn has long played in raising consciousness for the good of the whole. This conference fulfils Findhorn’s essential purpose as a lighthouse beaming forth messages from Mother Nature.
The Universal Hall at Findhorn, the main conference venue.
PRESENTERS
ANGAANGAQ ANGAKKORSUAQ
Angaangaq Angakkorsuaq is an Eskimo-Kalaallit Elder from far North Greenland. He is a shaman, healer, storyteller and bearer of the Qilaut (wind drum). Angaangaq has been a keynote speaker at international conferences on climate change, environmental and indigenous issues. His beliefs and practices are deeply rooted in the wisdom and traditions of his people. www.icewisdom.com
Quotes: “The greatest distance in the existence of Man is not from here to there nor from there to here. Nay, the greatest distance in the existence of Man is from his mind to his heart. Unless he conquers that distance he can never learn to soar like an eagle and realize his own immensity within.”
“The Ancient One’s say that One Day, when the World needs it most, the Sacred Fire will come home to the people on the Top of the World.”
CHARLES EISENSTEIN
Charles Eisenstein is an extremely popular philosopher, author and internationally renowned speaker and program facilitator. His books include The Ascent of Humanity, Sacred Economics and most recently, The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible. His forthcoming book, to be released in 2018, addresses the impacts of climate change. www.charleseisenstein.net
Quotes: “Humanity is meant to join fully the tribe of all life on Earth, offering our uniquely human gifts towards the wellbeing and development of the whole.”
“Enlightenment is a group activity.”
“The path of service is a path of self-realization.”
“Our salvation must come from recovering a direct relationship to what is alive in front of us.”
POLLY HIGGINS
Polly Higgins is founder of Ecocide Law, the Earth Community Trust and co-founder of the Earth Law Alliance. She holds the Arne Naess Chair at Oslo University and won the 2016 Polarbröd‘s Utstickarpriset prize for Future Leadership. Ecologist Magazine have named her one of the top ten visionary thinkers in the world. www.pollyhiggins.com
Quotes: “The shift in consciousness required here is an espousal of our collective responsibility for the ecology of our planet. Once we have that shift we will have true social progress.”
“Without the wellbeing of the ecology of our planet, our wellbeing suffers.”
“Calls for public and environmental justice are about securing peaceful life for future generations, the aspiration for a better world. To me, this is the ultimate altruistic act; to give your life in service for a greater good. My rallying call is for life for all who inhabit this planet, not just humans. It can be your call too if you so choose. I ask you to join me.”
XIUHTEZCATL MARTINEZ
Xiuhtezcatl Martinez is a 17 year old indigenous climate activist who has spoken at the Rio + 20 Summit and the UN. With beauty, flare and music he reachs out to youth to invite them to be advocates for the Earth. He received the Peace First Prize in 2015 and the Children’s Climate Prize in Sweden in 2016. www.earthguardians.org/
Quotes:“My generation faces a total systemic collapse on every level of our planet. Never before has there been such an intergenerational opportunity to shape the world we serve.”
“Every young person in the world has the potential to lead. There is nothing holding us back…Whether it is on the local level or it is about the entire world, we can take on the leadership role. We deserve a healthy environment to live in.“
“I have to do something with the sadness I feel about what is happening to my world. I am totally in love with this planet and it is falling apart. I have to use my voice and my passion to make a difference. I have to education, empower and inspire.”
BILL MCKIBBEN
Bill McKibben is a pioneer of the climate change movement, best-selling author, journalist, environmental activist and founder of 350.org, a global grassroots climate change movement. Bill has won the Gandhi and Thomas Merton Prizes. He is a Distinguished Scholar in Environmental Studies at Middlebury College. The Boston Globe calls him “America’s most important environmentalist.” www.billmckibben.com, www.350.org
Quotes: “We must step up the fight to keep climate change from getting even more powerfully out of control, and to protect those people most at risk, who are almost always those who have done the least to cause the problem.”
“We will build the architecture of the world that comes next. We will create the dispersed and localized societies that can survive the damage that we can no longer prevent. We still must live on the world we’ve created and we will do that lightly, carefully, and gracefully.”
JONATHON PORRITT
Jonathon Porritt CBE is founder and Director of Forum for the Future, the UK’s leading sustainable development charity. He was co-chair of the British Green Party (1980-83); Director of Friends of the Earth (1984-90); and Trustee of WWF UK (1991-2005). Jonathon received a CBE in January 2000 for services to environmental protection. www.forumforthefuture.org
Quotes: “Imagine the good world we are going to be living in – massively improved by smart, clean technology, and committed to a much fairer, more sustainable model of economic growth.”
“Practically everything we need to fashion a sustainable world for nine billion people is either out there, on the drawing board or in the lab. And the pace of change is extraordinary, the wealth creating potential quite staggering.”
VANDANA SHIVA
Vandana Shiva PhD is a world-renowned environmental thinker, activist, physicist, feminist, philosopher of science, science policy advocate and author of 20 books. She has taken on what is likely one of the greatest challenges of climate change – feeding a growing population without further harming the Earth. Vandana was awarded the Right Livelihood Award in 1993. http://vandanashiva.com/
Quotes:“Soil teaches us how to be earth citizens.”
“We will either make a democratic transition from oil to soil or we will perish.”
“Soil is the metaphor of decentralized and deep democracy.”
“Living economies are grounded in the soil; literally and metaphorically. They are localized, which reduces our ecological footprint on the planet while enhancing our wellbeing. Economies rooted in the soil are centered on nature and people.”
“Earth democracy grows in the fertile soil shaped by the earth, the human imagination and human action.”
ADDITIONAL PRESENTERS
Margaret Elphinstone is one of Scotland’s foremost writers who has written extensively about the crises in which we now find ourselves. Margaret contributes to Dark Mountain, a British based project that seeks, through the arts, to elicit urgently needed myths that reflect our times. She is Emeritus Professor of Writing at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow and an Honorary Fellow of the Association of Scottish Literary Studies. www.margaretelphinstone.co.uk
Mumta Ito is founder of the charity Rights of Nature and the International Centre for Holistic Law. A former financial lawyer in the City of London, she was an adviser to governments, multi-national corporations and investment banks. She is now a public interest environmental attorney. She initiated the European Citizens Initiative to put the rights of nature on the legislative agenda of the EU. www.rightsofnature.eu
Deborah Jay Lewin is an energy worker disguised as a dance teacher. She is a senior practitioner in her field having trained with Gabrielle Roth in 1994 and as a co-founder of Open Floor International in 2014. Her knowledge of and respect for the wisdom of the body is incisive and contagious. Deborah is devoted to utilising embodied movement to harness creativity for the benefit of all beings and the Earth. www.vitalmoves.co.uk
Rachelle McCabe, concert pianist and Professor of Music at Oregon State University, enjoys an international career as an artist-teacher and as a solo recitalist and highly respected chamber musician. She has performed extensively in the United States, Canada, Southeast Asia and England, and has been heard on NPR’s Performance Today, the CBC, and PBS television. http://www.riverwalking.com/a-call-to-life.html
Stephanie Mines is a neuroscientist, psychologist and author of five books on the treatment of trauma and shock. Stephanie first went to Findhorn in 2011 when she was a keynote speaker at the Conscious Medicine Conference. She has returned every year since and has a strong love for the community and the place. Stephanie lives in Portland, Oregon and is married to environmental attorney Robert E. Yuhnke. www.Tara-Approach.org
Kathleen Dean Moore is a moral philosopher, nature writer, and veteran climate advocate best known for her ability to weave science, ideas, and emotions in her spoken-word performances and books. She is the author or co-editor of a dozen books, including Great Tide Rising, Moral Ground, and the newest, a novel, Piano Tide. http://www.riverwalking.com/a-call-to-life.html
Dave Rock is a spoken word artist, storyteller and Authentic Speaking coach. He works with communities, co-creating rites of passage, ritual and celebration; and with stage performers and change makers to help them embody and express their message as a way of being. As a performer he finds ways to speak all voices and remember life into being whole again. www.speakingrocks.life
Joey Walters is the Founder of Awakening Feminine Leaders. Her work is a soulful, authentic pathway to allow feminine leadership to emerge. She is gifted in inviting the power of ritual to accompany her gentle, clear and focused leadership. Joey is completing her first book based on her successful international series “A Call to Stand.” She lives close to nature in the woodlands of Scotland with her partner and two wee sons. www.awakeningfeminineleaders.com
Robert E. Yuhnke has been an environmental attorney and policy consultant for forty-five years. He co-authored the Clean Air Act in the US and has worked tirelessly for its enforcement. His ability to explain the science behind climate change and how communities must respond to survive and thrive will add significantly to this conference. Robert lives in Portland Oregon and is married to Stephanie Mines. bob.yuhnke@prodigy.net
This year we explore all the various ways we can be and co create love in action. Along with a challenge~ How are you showing up in the world? at the grocery store, with your family, at work, school, out being social How are we showing up in the world? Does it feel in alignment? Since we know we are love, and love is who we are… what does love look like for us personally? Each person here is a divine, miraculous unfolding. We each have our own Unique Energetic Signature… what you bring to the planet, to the streets, only you can bring. Be strong in your heart, be strong in your dreams. Let’s show the world what we can do in the name of love! International Children’s Month 2019 Platform is TAKING IT TO THE STREETS! Love In Action! International Children’s Month web site is based in Oral Traditions. If you are inspired, please cite your source. We stand on the shoulders of those who have come before us. IN the name of love we thank Gandhi, our indigenous relatives/relations, and for this year especially the first wave of love in action creators of the 60’s…We have come full circle. GAME ON and BE THE MEDICINE! #ICMTakingItToTheStreets #ICMGameOn #ICMGlobalWaveofLove #ICMBeTheMedicine
FIRST WE TUNE INTO SELF, THEN TO OUR FAMILY, COMMUNITY AND THE WORLD. AS WE DO THIS WE SPREAD LOVE. DR. EMOTO TAUGHT US THAT WE TRANSFORM THINGS BY THINKING AND FEELING ABOUT THEM… JOIN ICM IN THIS PARTNERSHIP WITH THE 7 DAYS OF REST AND REFLECTION BEGINNING TODAY, AND FOR THE NEXT 7 DAYS. YOU CAN ALSO SHARE THIS WITH YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY, AND TOGETHER WE WILL LOVE ALL THAT IS SACRED AND IMPORTANT TO US. SIGN UP ON THE WEB SITE WWW.7DAYS-OF-REST.ORG AS AN INDIVIDUAL, TEAM OR COMMUNITY. #GAMEON
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Our next Community Conversation will be on
Thursday, July 18
9:00 – 10:30 am PST / 12:00 – 1:30 pm EST
The terrible issue of immigrant children detained at the U.S. border
The United States of America has, since its inception, been a country formed by immigrants. Yet now, at our southern border particularly, thousands of people leaving their home countries are requesting asylum or entrance and are being held in detention centers and processed very slowly. Meanwhile, the immigrating families are being separated and the children held in cells – cages in many cases – without adequate sanitation or bedding, without adequate nutrition and without access to their parents or adult relatives. In spite of legal and popular objection this problem has continued and continued to worsen for over a year under the Trump administration.
Is the description above adequate to define this problem? What are some of the underlying causes of the problem and what can or should be done instead? What actions can we take to effect those changes?
Looking at this issue through your social justice and elder lenses, please read the materials suggested below, focus your attention on this issue in other news you read and conversations you hear, then bring your thoughts on the subject to our conversation July 18th.
In our Community Conversations we draw on the experience and wisdom of our group to better understand the critical issues we are facing and discern what actions we would want to take as elders in our society today. We offer moral support for each other as we grapple with the issues and challenges of our times and discern how to best support the activism that we are each engaged in.
Resources:
Letter from Santa Fe Dreamers:
Dear Friends and Supporters,
We know that you have all been reading and watching the absolutely horrific news unfold about the conditions of detention on the border. We know that many of you feel scared, frustrated, angry, and powerless by the way that our government is treating vulnerable people, especially children. We are writing today with information and direction towards action but also to urge you not to feel powerless. We are always capable of making change through our collective power. Of course this requires courage, stamina, and an intelligent, disciplined, and organized theory of change. It will not be easy. We encourage you to turn away from despair and towards this place of collective power knowing that it will test you. We will be with you the whole way. Below you will find some ideas for inspiration.
Love,
Your friends at Santa Fe Dreamers Project
- Educate yourself: Here at SFDP this is always our number one piece of advice. The more you know, the fiercer you will be as an advocate and a voter. There are plenty of explosive news articles to read but here are a few that we have learned from recently: We suggested this piece in our last newsletter but if you haven’t had a chance to read it we highly suggest Dara Lind’s “The Border is in Crisis. Here’s How it Got This Bad”. The New Yorker ran an incredibly thought provoking piece written by a historian about “The Unimaginable Reality of American Concentration Camp”. Again from the New Yorker, a report from the lawyers who were recently allowed in to inspect a children’s facility in Clint, TX, “Inside a Building in Texas where Government is Holding Immigrant Children”. Another really important thing to learn about (and something that is not highlighted enough in the news) is the Migrant Protection Protocol or MPP program that has currently turned thousands of thousands of migrants around at the US border to wait in Mexico. This is an excruciatingly dangerous policy that is threatening the lives of migrant families day after day.
- Understand that this cruelty is not new and these tactics did not just begin. In fact, the Obama administration reignited the practice of family detention in 2014. One of the reasons this summer feels so out of control is because the sheer numbers of people asking for asylum are so high. The Obama and now Trump administrations’ policies attempted to deter migrants through punishment, suffering, and torture but their success was dependent on the flow of migrants actually stopping. Now that the numbers are so high, these cruel and failed policies have now turned deadly.
- Engage with politicians: Here is the thing: The Trump administration cannot be swayed with moral arguments or blame. They are doing this on purpose. One way of thinking about engaging with politicians is to remember that Congress has the power of the purse and is funding this enforcement regime. One theory is that we can defund ICE and CBP and redirect that money to agencies or NGO’s that are capable of handling a humanitarian crisis of this scope and are not killing people for political motive. This means we have to pressure progressives and democrats and republicans with a conscience to do more than just signal compassion for immigrants. We need these leaders to articulate how they are going to disempower the Trump Administration and make sure it is part of the work they are doing to secure our votes. We can and must demand courageous leadership from our Senators and Representatives and that their actions reflect our deep desire to end the state sponsored violence on the border.
- How to respond to the threat of ICE raids: Trump’s twitter threat for a massive enforcement action last week was credible and achieved its purpose of scaring the shit out of immigrant and refugee communities all over the US. While it has been “delayed”, now is a wise time for communities to get organized. The American Friends Service Committee published this resource about how allies can support their immigrant and refugee neighbors during this time. Here is the ACLU’s guide to knowing your rights during ICE encounters and we suggest exploring it. Santa Fe Dreamers will be holding walk in hours for people to help families with power of attorney and family prep plans every Friday in Santa Fe from 1-5 at our 1213 Mercantile Rd office. If you work with concerned families let them know about this resource.
- Actions happening in NM: There is a lot of talk about national protests to close concentration camps on July 12. One of the organizations that is involved with planning this is called Lights of Liberty. Their Facebook page is a source of info– although we don’t have much info yet about that organization. We are talking with folks in NM about planning more locally focused actions and as soon as we have more details we will announce it. Choose your social media of choice or keep reading our emails to stay in touch.
- Where to donate: Of course here at Santa Fe Dreamers Project we use your donations to protect vulnerable immigrants and refugees in a million different ways every day. Specifically, we need more help on the border. We just rented a much larger office space in El Paso for our expanding team there and are raising funds for a legal assistant so we can have greater impact in the borderlands. You can donate to that effort here. Write border in the note! We are grateful for any help you can give putting this donation link out there into the universe. For those of you wondering where else it might be useful to donate here is our list of several grassroots legal organizations that we know are having impact (we also know we have left many out!)
- And finally an offer of poetry from our director, Allegra, who likes to contemplate what this particular poem is trying to teach us when thinking about the horrors we witness:
Now you know the worst
By Wendell Berry
To my granddaughters who visited the Holocaust Museum on the day of the burial of Yitzhak Rabin
Now you know the worst
we humans have to know
about ourselves, and I am sorry,
for I know that you will be afraid.
To those of our bodies given
without pity to be burned, I know
there is no answer
but loving one another,
even our enemies, and this is hard.
But remember:
when a man of war becomes a man of peace,
he gives a light, divine
though it is also human.
When a man of peace is killed
by a man of war, he gives a light.
You do not have to walk in darkness.
If you will have the courage for love,
you may walk in light. It will be
the light of those who have suffered
for peace. It will be
your light.
Regarding Investor Activism:
Here are some groups focused on Social, Environmental and Governance-conscious investing:
- Proxy Impact
- Sustainable Investment Institute
- As You Sow
- Green America (and also: www.greenamerica.org/finance)
And finally, for your research about political donations, money flow and lobbying influence:
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Camp Kindness Day — July 23, 2019
On July 23, the camp community will participate in Camp Kindness Day – an event highlighting the practice of intentional kindness that happens every day at American camps. This is an opportunity to raise awareness of the the great work that camps are doing to teach kindness in engaging, simple, repeatable, and high impact ways that live on in the daily lives of campers and staff members when they return home.
Focusing on our youth and young adults, Camp Kindness Day will help showcase the commitment of the camp community to fostering the core values of kindness, compassion, generosity and care, and integrating those values more fully into every aspect of our society. These values are already part of the fabric of the camp experience. We share the mission for our youth to be nurtured, taught, supported, and inspired to grow into our new generation of kind, compassionate, socially-minded, community-oriented citizens.
Camp Kindness Day will allow camps to incorporate into their July 23 programming fun theme-based activities and cooperative games, cool projects, and memorable moments which will celebrate the value and impact of kindness.
How your camp can participate:
- Schedule Camp Kindness Day into your programming on July 23.
- Help spread the word in a unified social media campaign by tagging #CampKindnessDay into your social media and other communications.
- Share your plans so that ACA can support you through localized public relations efforts.
To support your camp’s involvement in Camp Kindness Day, ACA has produced an electronic #CampKindnessDay Backpack, complete with programming ideas and activities, FAQs, social media tips, and other information on how your camp can celebrate Camp Kindness Day.
Be part of the nation-wide evolution! Plan now to add #CampKindnessDay to your camp’s programming on July 23.
Honoring the Past • Healing the Present • Celebrating the Future
A CELEBRATION OF NATIVE AMERICAN ART, MUSIC AND CULTURES
Thank you Joanne and Monte for this inspiring, hope-infused interview.
Tickets: www.sheatheater.org
Note that the concert is at the Shea Theater at 17 Avenue A in Turners Falls at 7:30 pm on Saturday and tickets are available before the event at a reduced rate and also available at the door.
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Festival details and schedule: www.nolumbekaproject.org
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The mission of the Nolumbeka Project is to promote a deeper, broader and more accurate depiction of the history of the Native Americans/American Indians of New England before and during European contact and colonization;
To protect and preserve sites sacred to, and of historic value to, the Native Americans/American Indians of New England; to create and promote related educational opportunities, preservation projects and cultural events; and to work in partnership, as much as possible, with the tribes.
We will strive to exemplify the Native American/American Indian peoples’ respect for Mother Earth and all living beings; to be mindful of our role as caretakers for future generations; and to honor our connection to the Earth and Sky and to the Creator.
The Nolumbeka Project, Inc. is a 501(c) (3) non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation of the history of Native Americans/American Indians of New England through educational programs, art, history, music, heritage seed preservation and cultural events. We are actively building, maintaining and expanding an historical archive research library for use by the Tribes and Educators of the Northeast and beyond.
Our Board of Directors is comprised of volunteers who have been active for more than 40 years in a number of other preservation, historical research, environmental and social justice organizations.
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In a world inevitably going global and multicultural, what becomes of religions and spirituality? What becomes of activism towards real global change? In THE CONVERGENCE, global Interspiritual pioneer and scientist Dr. Kurt Johnson joins interfaith leaders Ben Bowler of Australia and Doug King of America in engaging women and men who are inspiring leaders and change agents around our world. Spiritual and cultural leaders, sacred and secular activists, scientists, artists, writers, economists, politicians and even shamans join in this discussion of a world trying to wake up and grow up. What is at stake and what are the technologies and cosmologies creating a world that can work for everyone? If you are concerned for our world’s future and sincere about your commitments to bold and world-serving ideas, you’ll want to tune in to The Convergence on the VoiceAmerica Empowerment Channel.
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VoiceAmerica presents this Evergreen Special detailing major 2019 and 2020 global events upcoming from UNITY EARTH partners Standing for Peace Campaign, Road to 2020 Events, and Caravan of Unity across America. The five sections of the Special spotlight, now and for months to come: United Nations mandated global holiday events like the International Day of Yoga and the International Day of Peace, the vision and work of Light on Light Magazine and VoiceAmerica in covering all these events, UNITY EARTH and its partners month to month activities and initiatives 2019-2020, and the roles of partner groups like Transformation365, We, the World, URI, UNIFY, EcoPeace and The Evolutionary Leaders. Featured are global leaders from the UN, UNITY EARTH, Light on Light Magazine, Transformation365, We, and The Evolutionary Leaders. Lets share this Special, ongoing, as a resource and PR instrument pointing toward all of these global events and gathering a global constituency for their success!
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Ambassador K. Nagaraj Naidu
His Excellency Ambassador K. Nagaraj Naidu is a career diplomat in the Indian Foreign Service representing the Permanent Mission of India to the United Nations in New York. He holds a Master’s Degree in law and diplomacy from the Fletcher School. His extensive background includes being a fluent Chinese speaker and having previously served in China on four separate postings. More recently, he was the National Coordinator for establishing the International Solar Alliance in India. Significantly, Ambassador Naidu is a long-standing yoga practioner. Reaching back to a tender age, he was exposed to his grandfather rising early to teach yoga classes. As part of the 5th Anniversary of World Yoga Day in June, he moderated a high level panel in New York in the UN Secretariat on the theme of climate change and climate action.
Gayatri Naraine
Since 1980 Gayatri Naraine has served as the representative of the Brahma Kumaris at the United Nations in New York. She is a spiritual educator, writer, and speaker. She is currently the vice chair of the International Day of Yoga Committee. Gayatri’s focus is on the Sustainable Development Goals. She helped in the development of a concept paper entitled Enhancing Human Flourishing Within the 2030 Development Agenda: The Spirituality of Global Transformation. This was the result of a 3-year dialogue held with UNFPA. As a design team member for the Call-of-the-Time Dialogues, a global leadership dialogue, she has spent the last 20 years exploring “experiments in silence,” the transformational depth of contemplative silence and its impact on the world. She serves on the Board of the Kosmos Journal. Gayatri was born in Guyana and currently lives in New York City, USA. Contact Gayatri.naraine@us.brahmakumaris.org
Ben Bowler & Deborah Moldow
Ben Bowler, Executive Director of UNITY EARTH and Deborah Moldow, UE Creative Consultant discuss the vision of UNITY EARTH and its Road to 2020 and Caravan of Unity across America. Ben and Deborah are leaders of a team projecting inspiring global events from 2019 – 2020 and beyond. The Road to 2020 to date has touched all five continents with major intercultural and musical events. (https://unity.earth/roadto2020/). In 2019 events in India and The Holy Land will join the list. The New York Convergence and UNITY Earth Liftoff Celebration and concert are first steps toward “the Caravan of Unity across America” which, in 2020, will features events across America culminating in major celebrations in New York City for the International Day of Peace (Sept. 21). Ben and Deborah will help anchor a “Coalition for the Road to 2020” organized regionally to create participations in these inspiring events. The Leadership Conference, February. 1 will begin that process (contact adam@unity.earth).
Rick Ulfik
Rick Ulfik is Founder of We, the World, We.net and The 11 Days of Global Unity which for many years has been directing major events around the major international holidays of the United Nations. Rick is a founder/leader of We.net, FIONS and other New York City transformational organizations. He works with leaders of United Nations Committees and fellow members of the Evolutionary Leaders network co-sponsoring New York and UN international event programs. We, the World and their “Eleven Ways to Change the World” are central to the plans for 2019 and 2020 for The Road to 2020 and the Caravan of Unity across America. Rick is also a leader in Marshall Rosenberg Nonviolent Communication initiatives as well as an award-winning composer and musician. Rick co-produces Visual Voices on the Dish Network available in 15 million homes. Producing short films as well, Rick organizes and promotes scores of events and other better world activities, large and small, every year. See www.We.net.
Denise Scotto and Adam Collett
Denise Scotto, Esq., and Adam Collett join us, respectively, as Chairperson of the International Day of Yoga Committee at the United Nations, and as Creative Director for UNITY EARTH. Denise is Guest Editor of Light on Light Magazine’s annual issues on the International Day of Yoga and hosts the IDY discussion on this broadcast. Adam, a strategist, designer, media and event producer dedicated to making a positive impact in the world by combining innovative solutions with a deep knowledge of cultural diversity, joins Ben Bowler and Rick Ulfik in the discussions of these global activities on this broadcast. Denise is an attorney at law and policy advisor who has held leadership roles in professional bar organizations and has organized numerous events at UN fora. Adam, with 20 years of experience in design and technology, event production, not-for-profit management, cultural projects, youth programs and more, implements cutting-edge solutions for NGOs and social enterprises.
Karuna and Kurt Johnson
Karuna is founder of www.lightonkundalini.com and a leader in the international Yoga and spiritual practice communities. She is also Host Editor of Light on Light Magazine and a host of The Convergence Series on VoiceAmerica. Dr. Kurt Johnson is the Series Host for The Convergence on VoiceAmerica and Contributions Editor for Light on Light Magazine. Light on Light has produced two annual special issues on The International Day of Yoga with the IDY Committee at the United Nations also featured in this broadcast and will publish a special issue in August 2019 reflecting this VoiceAmerica Special,see https://www.facebook.com/ lightonlightmagazine Karuna and Kurt are co-developing Light on Light with Managing Editor Shannon Winters (below) and also preparing a lifestyle book, manual and lifestyle Teacher Training program with Karuna for 2019. Light on Light magazine and Kurt’s Interspiritual Network are both partners of UNITY EARTH. See www.unity.earth.
Rev. Diane Berke and Jeff Genung
Part of Tranformation365, Rev. Diane Berke is the founder of The One Spirit Learning Alliance and One Spirit Interfaith Seminary in New York City. Jeff Genung is co-founder and President of Contemplative Life.org and, with Rev. Berke, a leader in the interspiritual movement. One Spirit and Contemplative Life have both co-sponsored various events with UNITY EARTH and Contemplative Life is a UNITY EARTH Partner. An author and international speaker, Diane is a recipient of the Houston Smith Interfaith Educator Award and numerous other recognitions. Contemplative Life and Transformation365 create a digital hub that connects people and communities with transformative practices. Contemplative Life.org’s prodigious website hosts hundreds of spiritual teachers and practice traditions, as do the famed interfaith education programs at One Spirit Interfaith.org. Recently Jeff has also partnered with Prosocial.world along with Dr. Kurt Johnson of the Interspiritual Network and UNITY EARTH.
Kate Sheehan Roach and Sr. Mary Friedland
Sr. Mary Friedland and Kate Sheehan Roach join us from Transformation365. Mary Friedland is Coordinator of the Brahma Kumaris activities in Chicago and the Midwest. A Raja Yogi of more than 30 years, she teaches courses in meditation and everyday spirituality. She enjoys applying spiritual principles to life’s knotty problems and sharing what she has learned with others. Kate Sheehan Roach served as founding editor of Contemplative Journal, and as managing editor of the Spirituality Channel at Patheos.com. She is now Director of Content for ContemplativeLife.org and as a founding member of the Transformation365.org core team. Kate works alongside some of today’s great spiritual and religious teachers as editor/agent, podcast host, moderator, and program director. She is a certified Centering Prayer facilitator and serves on the North America Leadership Council for the United Religions Initiative. She lives on the edge of Philadelphia. Contact: katesheehanroach@gmail.com.
Shannon Winters and Yanni Maniates
Shannon Winters in the Managing Editor of Light on Light Magazine and Yanni Maniates is Global Projects Director for UNITY EARTH. Light on Light is dedicated to spiritual practice and inspired lifestyle and Yanni has been working with Contemplative Life.org and other leaders in the UNITY EARTH Network creating spiritual practice programs to accompany UNITY EARTH’s events. The program developed by Yanni, Jeff Genung of Contemplative Life and Rev. Diane Berke of America’s largest interfaith seminary, One Spirit in New York City is called “Transformation 365” and its programs can be found at http://www.tranfomation365.org. Shannon has also been Managing Editor of UNITY EARTH’s Convergence Magazine which, along with Light on Light, publishes special issues on the amazing activities across the networks featured in this broadcast. Shannon has also just completed a spiritual autobiography, The Gospel of Wisdom, documenting her journey from religious fundamentalism to interspirituality.
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Don’t miss the 3rd and final workshop of the Summer Training Institute at The Peace Center: Restorative Justice in Education, a 3-day (cumulative) workshop led by Barbara Simmons and Gayle Evans. This training is ideal for teachers, administrators, teacher’s aides, and anyone who works with youth in an environment in which there may be conflict.
STAND UP. SPEAK OUT.
BE AN UPSTANDER.
“upstander | noun: A person who stands up, speaks out, and/or takes action in defense of those who are targeted for harm or injustice. Antonym: bystander
UPSTANDER PROJECT
The Upstander Project produced DAWNLAND. The filmmaking and educational collaborative was created in Boston, Massachusetts in 2009 is to challenge indifference to injustice and raise awareness of the need for upstanders, especially among teachers and their students. We help bystanders learn the skills of upstanders and contribute to action-oriented campaigns in response to vital social issues.
The Upstander Project’s flagship program presented with the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center at the University of Connecticut is the Upstander Academy. The Upstander Academy is an inquiry-based professional development opportunity for secondary educators with a focus on genocide and human rights education to foster upstanding and address complex historical and current issues. The Academy is six days (Sunday through Friday) and is based at the University of Connecticut-Storrs. Additionally, Academy participants will spend time on sacred Tribal lands, including the Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center, home of our principal partner.
Since 2009 we have used documentary film, teacher professional development, and interactive educator resources to teach about colonialism and genocide and address how we deal with difference in our society. Our first project is anchored by COEXIST (broadcast in April 2014 on PBS World Channel) and its extensive Teacher’s Guide. The film examines Rwanda’s unprecedented social experiment in government-mandated reconciliation through the stories of survivors and perpetrators of the 1994 genocide.
Learn more about Upstander Project teacher workshops and learning resources on the Upstander Project website.
Dawnland
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Join the makers of the Emmy Award-nominated film DAWNLAND for a special screening of the 86-minute feature edition.
For decades, child welfare authorities have been removing Native American children from their homes to save them from being Indian. In Maine, the first official “truth and reconciliation commission” in the United States begins a historic investigation. DAWNLAND goes behind-the-scenes as this historic body grapples with difficult truths, redefines reconciliation, and charts a new course for state and tribal relations.
After the movie please stay with us
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Learn more about the film and watch the trailer at dawnland.org
120 minutes
Panelists
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Adam Mazo is the director of the Upstander Project and co-director and producer of First Light, and the feature-length film, Dawnland. Adam also directed and produced Coexist (WORLD Channel, Africa Movie Academy Award Nominee). He co-founded the Upstander Project in 2009. He is originally from Minnesota, graduated from the University of Florida, and now lives in Boston with his wife and son.
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Mishy Lesser, Ed.D., is the learning director for the Upstander Project and Education Fellow at the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center at the University of Connecticut. She is director of the Upstander Academy, a weeklong professional learning experience for teachers and museum educators that focuses on genocide and human rights education and the skills of upstanders. Currently Dr. Lesser spends much of her time researching and writing the five-inquiry Teacher’s Guide for Dawnland. Mishy authored the Coexist Teacher’s Guide to promote learning about the complexity of reconciliation in post-genocide Rwanda. She is a Circle Keeper and has been featured on WBUR (Boston) and PRI/BBC’s The World. Mishy was a Fulbright Scholar in Ecuador and spent 12 years learning and working in the Andes.
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Tracy Rector (Choctaw/Seminole) is the impact producer for Dawnland and the Upstander Project. She is a mixed race filmmaker, curator, community organizer, co-founder of Longhouse Media. She has made over 400 short films, and is currently in production of her fifth feature documentary. Her work has been featured on Independent Lens, Cannes Film Festival, ImagineNative, National Geographic, Toronto International Film Festival, and in the Smithsonian’s Museum of the American Indian. She is a current Firelight Media Lab Fellow, WGBH Producer Fellow, and Sundance Institute Lab Fellow. Raised in Seattle and Albuquerque, Tracy lives in Seattle and sits as a City of Seattle Arts Commissioner.
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Elder Activists for Social Justice
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Our next Community Conversation will be on
Thursday, August 15
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Bystanders to Activists:
Ways of Being Engaged in Ensuring Social Justice
3rd Thursday of each month
9:00 – 10:30 am PT / 12:00 – 1:30 pm ET
We participate together over Zoom video conferencing in a lightly-facilitated, educational and interactive conversation. We have time to deep dive into our topics using an Elder and social justice lens…always provocative, meaningful and community-oriented.
We began, three years ago, by looking at issues related to racism, white privilege, wealth inequality and Islamophobia, and have recently studied Native peoples’ history, reconciliation and the moral voice of an Elder. Each month’s topic grows from the previous month’s and the interests of those attending.
Approximately two weeks before each meeting we may post resources about our subject which include relevant readings, videos, articles, and introspective questions. Our meeting format is participatory, and everyone has a chance to interact and share. All meetings are via Zoom video conferencing. Click for instructions and access to Zoom conferencing. ALL ARE WELCOME.
Our next Community Conversation will be on
Thursday, August 15
9:00 – 10:30 am PT / 12:00 – 1:30 pm ET
Bystanders to Activists:
Ways of Being Engaged in Ensuring Social Justice
In this month’s Community Conversation we turn toward taking specific actions on developing an EASJ project to end the separation of immigrant children from their parents at the border. Your task, should you decide to accept it, is to look up and read everything you can find on recent actions taken by the US government, state and local border governments, prison facilities housing immigrants and ICE officials to change separation practices.
Also, think about how you would actually define the problem and its underlying causes. Be thorough in asking yourself “Why?” or “What does that mean?” because we’re setting this up as a serious project. We’re not just talking about or protesting the problem. We’re developing responsible action for finding and enacting positive solutions for this terrible, heartless situation. Join us!
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July Conversation:
The terrible issue of immigrant children detained at the U.S. border
At our July 18 meeting we asked What can I or We do about [the] problem [of immigrant children being separated from their parents at the border]?…. As Elders who care deeply but who are not necessarily able to get up and go to protests – although some do – determining what can one person do presents the usual question of just that – what can one person do? The power of positive action of any type was deemed to be essentially of a personal choice, but whatever it is, it’s important – whether it be writing letters to editors, senators or representatives; joining local or bigger groups and jumping on the bandwagon; donating money for aid or bail for immigrants, or writing to our mutual fund investment managers about divesting from prison complex companies like Geo Group (GEO) and CoreCivic (CXW), it’s all good.
But, perhaps the best way to help is to follow Shannon’s information she found in the New York Times on June 24, 2019: Children Shouldn’t Be Dying at the Border. Here’s How You Can Help
Donation of money (100%) to the National Bail Fund Network aids in disrupting the injustice of bail requirements in the immigration detention and mass incarceration systems. For more information contact Pilar Maria Weiss, Director of Community Justice Exchange at 202-279-1656 or go online to: www.communityjusticeexchange.org/national-bail-fund-network
So…show up…speak out…and ‘be the light’ because it all matters!
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Letter from Santa Fe Dreamers:
Dear Friends and Supporters,
We know that you have all been reading and watching the absolutely horrific news unfold about the conditions of detention on the border. We know that many of you feel scared, frustrated, angry, and powerless by the way that our government is treating vulnerable people, especially children. We are writing today with information and direction towards action but also to urge you not to feel powerless. We are always capable of making change through our collective power. Of course this requires courage, stamina, and an intelligent, disciplined, and organized theory of change. It will not be easy. We encourage you to turn away from despair and towards this place of collective power knowing that it will test you. We will be with you the whole way. Below you will find some ideas for inspiration.
Love,
Your friends at Santa Fe Dreamers Project
- Educate yourself: Here at SFDP this is always our number one piece of advice. The more you know, the fiercer you will be as an advocate and a voter. There are plenty of explosive news articles to read but here are a few that we have learned from recently: We suggested this piece in our last newsletter but if you haven’t had a chance to read it we highly suggest Dara Lind’s “The Border is in Crisis. Here’s How it Got This Bad”. The New Yorker ran an incredibly thought provoking piece written by a historian about “The Unimaginable Reality of American Concentration Camp”. Again from the New Yorker, a report from the lawyers who were recently allowed in to inspect a children’s facility in Clint, TX, “Inside a Building in Texas where Government is Holding Immigrant Children”. Another really important thing to learn about (and something that is not highlighted enough in the news) is the Migrant Protection Protocol or MPP program that has currently turned thousands of thousands of migrants around at the US border to wait in Mexico. This is an excruciatingly dangerous policy that is threatening the lives of migrant families day after day.
- Understand that this cruelty is not new and these tactics did not just begin. In fact, the Obama administration reignited the practice of family detention in 2014. One of the reasons this summer feels so out of control is because the sheer numbers of people asking for asylum are so high. The Obama and now Trump administrations’ policies attempted to deter migrants through punishment, suffering, and torture but their success was dependent on the flow of migrants actually stopping. Now that the numbers are so high, these cruel and failed policies have now turned deadly.
- Engage with politicians: Here is the thing: The Trump administration cannot be swayed with moral arguments or blame. They are doing this on purpose. One way of thinking about engaging with politicians is to remember that Congress has the power of the purse and is funding this enforcement regime. One theory is that we can defund ICE and CBP and redirect that money to agencies or NGO’s that are capable of handling a humanitarian crisis of this scope and are not killing people for political motive. This means we have to pressure progressives and democrats and republicans with a conscience to do more than just signal compassion for immigrants. We need these leaders to articulate how they are going to disempower the Trump Administration and make sure it is part of the work they are doing to secure our votes. We can and must demand courageous leadership from our Senators and Representatives and that their actions reflect our deep desire to end the state sponsored violence on the border.
- How to respond to the threat of ICE raids: Trump’s twitter threat for a massive enforcement action last week was credible and achieved its purpose of scaring the shit out of immigrant and refugee communities all over the US. While it has been “delayed”, now is a wise time for communities to get organized. The American Friends Service Committee published this resource about how allies can support their immigrant and refugee neighbors during this time. Here is the ACLU’s guide to knowing your rights during ICE encounters and we suggest exploring it. Santa Fe Dreamers will be holding walk in hours for people to help families with power of attorney and family prep plans every Friday in Santa Fe from 1-5 at our 1213 Mercantile Rd office. If you work with concerned families let them know about this resource.
- Actions happening in NM: There is a lot of talk about national protests to close concentration camps on July 12. One of the organizations that is involved with planning this is called Lights of Liberty. Their Facebook page is a source of info– although we don’t have much info yet about that organization. We are talking with folks in NM about planning more locally focused actions and as soon as we have more details we will announce it. Choose your social media of choice or keep reading our emails to stay in touch.
- Where to donate: Of course here at Santa Fe Dreamers Project we use your donations to protect vulnerable immigrants and refugees in a million different ways every day. Specifically, we need more help on the border. We just rented a much larger office space in El Paso for our expanding team there and are raising funds for a legal assistant so we can have greater impact in the borderlands. You can donate to that effort here. Write border in the note! We are grateful for any help you can give putting this donation link out there into the universe. For those of you wondering where else it might be useful to donate here is our list of several grassroots legal organizations that we know are having impact (we also know we have left many out!)
- And finally an offer of poetry from our director, Allegra, who likes to contemplate what this particular poem is trying to teach us when thinking about the horrors we witness:
Now you know the worst
By Wendell Berry
To my granddaughters who visited the Holocaust Museum on the day of the burial of Yitzhak Rabin
Now you know the worst
we humans have to know
about ourselves, and I am sorry,
for I know that you will be afraid.
To those of our bodies given
without pity to be burned, I know
there is no answer
but loving one another,
even our enemies, and this is hard.
But remember:
when a man of war becomes a man of peace,
he gives a light, divine
though it is also human.
When a man of peace is killed
by a man of war, he gives a light.
You do not have to walk in darkness.
If you will have the courage for love,
you may walk in light. It will be
the light of those who have suffered
for peace. It will be
your light.
Regarding Investor Activism:
Here are some groups focused on Social, Environmental and Governance-conscious investing:
- Proxy Impact
- Sustainable Investment Institute
- As You Sow
- Green America (and also: www.greenamerica.org/finance)
And finally, for your research about political donations, money flow and lobbying influence:
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The mission of the Zero Hour movement is to center the voices of diverse youth in the conversation around climate and environmental justice. Zero Hour is a youth-led movement creating entry points, training, and resources for new young activists and organizers (and adults who support our vision) wanting to take concrete action around climate change. Together, we are a movement of unstoppable youth organizing to protect our rights and access to the natural resources and a clean, safe, and healthy environment that will ensure a livable future where we not just survive, but flourish.
This is Zero Hour.
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Creation Justice Webinar Series
Sign-up to receive monthly notices about upcoming webinars that feature speakers who will assist churches in learning about best practices for ministries related to caring for God’s creation. Each webinar will have a focus pertaining to one of the four areas of discernment for Creation Justice Churches: theology and worship, institutional life and practice, circles of awareness and advocacy, and connections to a broader movement. Participation in the Creation Justice Churches program is not required to join a webinar.
Our Next Webinar: The Youth Climate Movement—A Moral Force
Special Guest: Jamie Margolin
Date and Time: August 15th at 1 pm ET (Register even if you can’t make it, and we will send you the video.)
Contact Info
Brooks Berndt
Minister for Environmental Justice
700 Prospect Ave
Cleveland, OH 44115
216-736-3722
berndtb@ucc.org
Socially Conscious Leadership from the Inside Out
Our guest this week has come to believe that “No matter how wonderful a program is, if it is done as a bestowing – a certain group of people making decisions for another group – that is never going to bridge the divide in our city.” Does your work fit within this paradigm of “bestowing,” and how do you plant seeds for a deeper mindset or consciousness shift to address underlying structural issues? Share Your Reflection »
Dallas-based therapist, activist, writer, community leader and speaker Michelle Kinder examines and teaches conscious leadership “from the inside out.” She offers practical, achievable steps for parents, teachers and others to support children’s social-emotional health, and for business and other leaders to drive transformation in their lives and organizations. While exploring the lack of mental health resources in southern Dallas, Kinder got to know the work of the Momentous Institute, a 99-year-old Dallas-based nonprofit organization that has been building and repairing social-emotional health through education and mental health programs. Momentous Institute serves vulnerable children through therapy services, curriculum and teacher training focused on See full.
Five Questions for Michelle
What Makes You Come Alive?
Thank you for asking. Learning makes me come alive. Learning combined with contribution has long been a winning formula for me feeling most alive. Over the years I developed the habit of checking in with myself every six months or so with the questions “Am I learning? Am I contributing?” There have been interesting seasons on how the two balance each other. There are times that striving to contribute crowded out the kind of white space by brain needs for deep learning and I have had to course correct. And there have been other times that I was learning a lot, but didn’t feel like I was being a good steward in terms of making a difference for other people or for causes I care about. I should also say that because I am currently in a season of more white space and more time for discernment, increasingly, simple pleasures are what make me come alive. Listening to birds, watching our dogs, yoga, running, sunshine, good coffee and the sound of my girls laughing together. Things like that.
Pivotal turning point in your life?
When I was in High School I left my family in Guatemala and came to the states to attend boarding school. It was a transformational experience. The wonderful faculty there saw qualities in me that they nurtured into leadership and I really learned who I was and what I was capable of during those four years. Interestingly, in my previous school, there were teachers who experienced the exact same qualities as problematic, annoying or something to control. Having that experience has made me very interested in how adults show up in the lives of children in a way that respects the enormous privilege and responsibility. I always say there are no neutral interactions when it comes to our relationships with children – all interactions are either positive, negative or missed opportunities.
An Act of Kindness You’ll Never Forget?
When I was in college, my 24-year-old sister died suddenly and it was an enormous challenge to go back to school while navigating the grief process. Several weeks into it, when people had stopped checking in, I found a card tucked into one of my books. It was from a classmate I knew somewhat, but not super well. It said something like, “I know time has passed but your hurt hasn’t.” I still tear up thinking about that act of kindness. It meant so much and it has shaped my desire to show up for others in similar ways.
One Thing On Your Bucket List?
Have the kind of flexibility to visit different places for a month at a time and work remotely while folding into the local scene.
One-line Message for the World?
Regardless of the situation, if you ever aren’t sure how to be most helpful, regulate your own nervous system.
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Awakin Circles: A hub for local meditation circles that started in the Silicon Valley and have now spread to 80+ cities around the globe. The circle start with an hour of silence, followed by a circle of sharing and dinner in silence. A newsletter with a passage selected from various wisdom traditions and an audio reading is sent out to 87,000 subscribers each week. See also Awakin Calls that hosts weekly conversations with wide-ranging thought leaders.
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ServiceSpace is an organization run entirely by volunteers. We leverage technology to encourage everyday people around the world to do small acts of service. Our aim is to ignite the fundamental generosity in ourselves and others, creating both inner and outer transformation.
ServiceSpace was conceived by volunteers, was built by volunteers, and is run by volunteers — all for the benefit of volunteers. Our projects range from a daily positive news service, to an acts-of-kindness portal, to a gift-economy restaurant. Regardless of the endeavor, we act in concert to create service opportunities for each other and to support each other’s service journeys.
In September of 2011, we formally changed our name from CharityFocus to ServiceSpace. Founded in 1999, ServiceSpace was originally started to help non-profits with technical services. Over the past dozen years, the organization has become an umbrella for many generosity-driven projects. Thus we have expanded our services from focusing just on helping charities, to encouraging everyday people to contribute in meaningful ways to the world around them. As the name suggests, our new expanded ServiceSpace platform allows people to stay connected with others interested in service, participate in service opportunities through any of our dozen projects, organize their own local service event using our tools, and stay connected to inspirational content. Above all, we believe in the inherent generosity of others and aim to ignite that spirit of service. Through our small, collective acts, we hope to transform ourselves and the world.
We hold these three principles steadfast within our organization:
Stay fully volunteer-run.
ServiceSpace was founded by volunteers and is run by volunteers. There is no paid staff, no office, and no central facilities. All ServiceSpace programs are conceived, designed, implemented, and administered by people who selflessly give their time so that others can benefit from those services.
Based on twelve years of our experience with a volunteer-run infrastructure, we’ve developed a streamlined process that structures projects in a distributed and decentralized manner. This allows more volunteers to give small chunks of time and still deliver high quality services to the end-receiver.
Being volunteer-run also allows us to organically self-organize. Instead of hierarchies and prefabricated business plans, our volunteer infrastructure is dynamic, low-cost and open to radical change. Everything is based on relationships and presence, and that creates a powerful context to BE the change.
We continue to be amazed at what inspired and dedicated individuals can do. Margaret Mead eloquently said, “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever does.” We could not agree more.
Serve with whatever we have.
We have chosen a slightly different path than most organizations, and choose not to focus on fundraising, grants, or other sources of revenue – for example, none of our websites contain any advertisement. All services are distributed are gifted without any fees. Thus, we serve with whatever support and resources that come in organically when people are truly moved to give.
ServiceSpace projects are built within a gift-economy system, an economic system in which goods and services are given freely, rather than traded. In a traditional market economy, one’s wealth is increased by saving. In a gift economy, giving leads to increase: an increase in connections and relationship strength.
Our services are given freely, without asking for anything in return. Instead of scarcity and fear for an uncertain future, our second principle roots us in abundance and trust. We have realized that over time, if you serve with pure intentions, people’s cups of gratitude overflow. They don’t give to fulfill a need, they give as an expression of their own solidarity and joy. These genuine gifts, no matter how small or large, are what sustains us.
Focus on the small.
Our attempt is to do “small acts with great love”. As our tagline says, “Change Yourself, Change the World.” If we started out by having a goal to change the world, we might have been a little disappointed in our abilities; when we start with ourselves, we notice that the ripples around us continue to get bigger and bigger and as more people try to do small acts, we have every potential to change the world.
Just as every tiny bit of a hologram contains information of the whole, we feel that paying attention to the process, to the present moment, gives us plenty of information to become instruments of a larger, systemic change.
This is how ServiceSpace makes things happen. But essentially the engine that drives the organization is inspiration, pure and simple. We learn from each other, spur each other, help each other, and frequently amaze each other. Sure, we are stirred by the words and lives of great men and women like Gandhi and Martin Luther King and Mother Theresa; but the examples set by our ServiceSpace colleagues–everyday heroes–are the real sustaining forces behind our projects.
THINK KINDNESS, WE CHARITY, COUNT ME IN CHAMPION KINDNESS WORLD WIDE
There’s a growing crisis among young people today. One-in-five students report being bullied, cyberbullying is on the rise, and teen suicide is at a record high. As these problems continue to worsen, many adults may be left scratching their heads. How do we stop this crisis and help our youth?
There are a lot of possible answers, but there’s one that I’d like to pose today that I think is too often overlooked: kindness.
Yes, the simple act of kindness – not just witnessing it, but participating in it – has the ability to change people’s lives for the better. To make our world safer and happier for our children, we need to be teaching them how to be kind at home, at school, and in their communities.
This may seem overly simple, but science backs it up. According to research from places like Harvard and UC Berkeley, among others, acts of kindness release chemicals in the brain, such as serotonin and oxytocin, which reduce depression and anger and boost overall happiness.
Being kind isn’t something we should just mention to our kids in passing – it should be an integral part of their daily activities.
As the founder of Think Kindness, I am blessed to have an incredible job. I go into schools all across the country and help kids tap into their inner kindness potential. In my ten years here, I’ve seen some amazing results. For instance, after my very first speech, a student who struggled with suicidal thoughts wrote me to tell me how getting involved in helping others radically changed his life for the better.
Luckily, Think Kindness isn’t the only organization that makes kindness its mission.
There’s a group called Count Me In, founded and led by youth, which helps to connect young people with volunteer opportunities in their communities and around the world. To date, the organization has inspired over 100 million volunteer hours. In addition, Count Me In has an annual leadership summit which serves as a bootcamp training kids how to be volunteers and do good in the world. I am also blessed to sit on the advisory board for such a powerful and meaningful organization.
Similarly, there’s an organization in Canada called the WE Charity which does incredible work to connect kids to acts of kindness. For instance, WE offers volunteer trips to impoverished communities around the world, giving young people a powerful chance to make a real difference for people in need.
They also host what they call We Days, which draw hundreds of thousands of children into stadiums across the world to hear nspirational messages about doing good around the world.
Organizations like these and others are essential to turning the tide of anger, depression, and sadness among our youth today.
But they need backup, because according to one study, youth volunteering has gone down over the last fifteen years. All of us – parents, teachers, community leaders – need to promote kindness to young people.
We can do it in two ways: first and foremost, by showing kindness ourselves; second, by connecting our kids to groups which can give them the tools they need to be conduits of kindness everywhere they go.
Let’s get to it – it just might change the world.
With Kindness,
Brian Williams
President & Founder, Think Kindness
#BeKindTogether
9/13/19 – UN High Level Forum on the Culture of Peace (Anniversary Observance)
10:00 am – 6:00 pm Eastern Time via Livestream @ webtv.un.org
9/14/19 – First Annual Culture of Peace Youth Movement Launch
All day youth-led intergenerational program in NYC
9:00 am – 9:00 pm ET at the Church of the Covenant, 310 E. 42nd Street, near the UN
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Campaign Nonviolence was created to help unite movements and build peace by working to end war, poverty, racism and environmental destruction.
Since 2014 tens of thousands of people have joined Campaign Nonviolence (CNV) every September marching for peace, racial justice, economic equality and environmental healing. Now, we are gearing up for another powerful nationwide mobilization September 14-22 — please join us!
Over 2,660 marches, rallies, workshops and other public events took place in all 50 states and 25 countries last September. This year we will build on this growing movement by bringing all of our issues together in the same week coast to coast and around the world — and calling with one voice for a nonviolent culture that works for everyone.
Event: Empowered Youth Transforming Humanity:
Photography Exhibition & Videos
Picture 16©, is the most recent exhibition by 21 year-old Canadian award-winning photographer/filmmaker/author & social entrepreneur, Kasha Sequoia Slavner. The 16-piece exhibition is inspired by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal #16, Peace, Justice and Strong institutions. As a young global leader and traveling peace ambassador, Kasha explores the intersectionality of goal 16, what we can learn from each other’s stories, and how peace informs the actions we take in our own lives, communities and the world at large.
About the photographer/filmmaker:
Kasha is a Gen-Z filmmaker/photographer/writer, passionate global youth leader & social justice advocate. At 14 she founded the The Global Sunrise Project – a youth-led social enterprise that creates positive impact media. She uses her storytelling platform to inspire youth to become civically engaged and conducts educational outreach with screenings & workshops. Her feature documentary, The Sunrise Storyteller, has screened at 60+ international film festivals and won 28 awards, including the Ron Kovic Peace Prize and Women Transforming Media Award.
She is the first recipient of the Kim Phuc Youth Peace Award. Most recently this committed changemaker became a Diana Award Holder, for sustaining positive social change in the memory of Diana, Princess of Wales. She is an 7x UN Youth Delegate with The Canadian Voice of Women for Peace and an accredited expert for the Women’s Media Center. In addition, Kasha tours with a 32 piece photography exhibition “Travels into the Heart”. At 17 Kasha published her first 200+ page book of photography “Reflections of the Sunrise Storyteller – A Journey into the Heart as a Global Citizen”. She’s a frequent public speaker, has been commissioned by National Geographic Learning, and a contributor to Thrive Global, The Huffington Post, and several publications.
Press Conference – Livestream – Facebook – JULIANA vs UNITED STATES – SEPTEMBER 18 – SIGN UP AND TUNE IN – WASHINGTON D.C.
This month will be the dawn of a new era in the climate movement. With glaciers melting at unprecedented rates and fires burning across the Amazon, young people are going all out to fight for our future and our elders are rising in solidarity with us.
Sign up for a reminder to tune in to the September 18 press conference featuring the Juliana plaintiffs and Greta Thunberg.
https://www.youthvgov.org/livestream
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AND THEN – DON’T FORGET;
On Friday, September 20, young people, workers, activists, politicians and many more will strike to demand immediate climate action in what will likely be the largest climate mobilization ever. We will strike to demand transformative action to address the climate crisis. Building on the recent surge of the youth climate movement, adults will join us to send a clear, intergenerational message to governments that they must act decisively in the face of climate chaos.
Join my co-plaintiffs and me at strikes across the country, from New York City to Alaska, to show solidarity with the broader youth climate movement and demand our day in court.
Grateful for all you do to support the brave young people in this movement.
Thank you for rising with us,
Xiuhtezcatl Martinez
Juliana v. United States plaintiff and Earth Guardians Youth Director
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#strikewithus
On September 20, three days before the UN Climate Summit in NYC, young people and adults will strike all across the US and world to demand transformative action be taken to address the climate crisis. Millions of us will take the streets to demand a right to a future, and we’re inviting you to #strikewithus
Find a strike near you to attend on September 20 on the map below. If you don’t see an event in your area, organize one! We’ll provide everything you need to get started in planning something in your community so no experience is necessary.
Whether you’re 7 or 777, you’re invited to join the movement.
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PO BOX 5181 EUGENE, OR 97405 | INFO@OURCHILDRENSTRUST.ORG
https://www.youthvgov.org/congress4julian
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KELSEY JULIANA, 23
EUGENE, OREGON
XIUHTEZCATL MARTINEZ, 19
BOULDER, COLORADO
MIKO VERGUN, 18
BEAVERTON, OREGON
LEVI D., 12
INDIALANTIC, FLORIDA
ISAAC V., 17
BEAVERTON, OREGON
JAIME BUTLER, 18
FLAGSTAFF, ARIZONA
NATHAN BARING, 19
FAIRBANKS, ALASKA
HAZEL V., 15
EUGENE, OREGON
NICK VENNER, 18
LAKEWOOD, COLORADO
TIA HATTON, 22
BEND, OREGON
JOURNEY ZEPHIER, 19
KAPAA, KAUA’I, HAWAI’I
ZEALAND B, 15
EUGENE, OREGON
AJI PIPER, 19
SEATTLE, WASHINGTON
AVERY M., 14
EUGENE, OREGON
JACOB LEBEL, 22
ROSEBURG, OREGON
VIC BARRETT, 20
WHITE PLAINS, NEW YORK
KIRAN OOMMEN, 22
EUGENE, OREGON
JAYDEN F., 15
RAYNE, LOUISIANA
SAHARA V., 15
EUGENE, OREGON
SOPHIE KIVLEHAN, 21
ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA
ALEX LOZNAK, 22
OAKLAND, OREGON
MUSIC BY JULIANA V. US PLAINTIFF XIUHTEZCATL
VIDEO PRODUCED BY ROBIN LOZNAK
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IF YOU’RE A LEGISLATOR AND READY TO SHOW YOUR SUPPORT, GO HERE.
While we wait for the decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, we must call on Members of Congress to publicly support Juliana v. United States and the constitutional rights of young people to life, liberty, and property free from government endangerment. We have been calling on the judicial branch to help hold the executive branch of our federal government accountable for its role in causing the climate crisis, and we need the legislative branch to step up as well.
Let’s make this happen.
~ Vic Barrett, Juliana v. United States plaintiff
Remember to do all three – tweet and email and call
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Kasha from The Global Sunrise Project is Speaking about Climate Action for Peace at the UN’s Student Observance of International Peace Day.
ECOLISE
The European Network for Community-led Initiatives on Climate Change and Sustainability, is the initiator and main organiser of the European Day of Sustainable Communities. We have 46 member networks and organisations across Europe
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A celebration of local communities taking action for a zero-carbon, regenerative and inclusive Europe.
This is an ECOLISE flagship event. #EDSC19 #SustainableCommunity
Become a co-creator of the day! For details see https://www.sustainable-communities.net/
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Join your hosts Adam Avin founder of Wuf Shanti and the Kids Association for Mindfulness in Education and Helen Maffini, researcher, co-author of Developing Children’s Emotional Intelligence and creator of Thriving Kids and MindBe Education and host of the Preschool Mindfulness Summit and the Mindfulness in Education Summit
Join your hosts Adam Avin founder of Wuf Shanti and the Kids Association for Mindfulness in Education and Helen Maffini, researcher, co-author of Developing Children’s Emotional Intelligence and creator of Thriving Kids and MindBe Education and host of the 
Helen Maffini is the host of the 2018 Mindfulness in Education Summit, she is a doctoral researcher, author and educator. Helen is the creator of the MindBE preschool curriculum used in schools across Asia. She is co-author of the book Developing Children´s Emotional Intelligence and creator of the course Thriving Kids -A Path to Compassion, Caring and Confident Children!
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Welcome to the first international Mindful Kids Peace Summit. The idea for this summit came because Adam was concerned about the violence in the world, and he wanted to help kids learn to live in health and wellness, and peace and positivity, so that they can grow up to live healthier and happier lives.
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Mindfulness is such an important topic in today´s busy world. Giving teens the best opportunities to use their natural skills in mindfulness, to develop happiness, calm, focus and confidence is a gift we all hope to give.
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In order to actualize real, lasting reforms to our juvenile justice system
on a national level,
we need your help making a difference on the local and state level.
Governors, state legislators, county commissioners, district attorneys, and mayors all make decisions that shape communities, including what investments our tax dollars fund. Down-ballot candidates for these policy-making positions have the ability to shift resources away from youth incarceration and into community alternatives for our young people.
It’s critical that we build relationshipswith candidates throughout their campaignsto ensure that any person running for officeknows that youth justiceis a priority in your community.They need to hear from you and other voicesin the community who care about youth justicefrom now through Election Day and beyond.We’ve updated our Electoral Toolkit for 2019 to provide you with updated resources, including social media graphics, to mobilize your community to engage local candidates in an effort to end youth incarceration and direct resources to community alternatives. Those seeking political power in local and state elected positions must understand the issues facing youth involved in the juvenile justice system, talk about their positions publicly, and stand ready towork with young people and families if elected.Your participation helps educate candidates about youth incarceration and what is at stake, so that we can create local systems that promote safer communities and a more just system for our children. Candidates also need to know that we are an engaged community that will hold them accountable through our vote and our activism, even once they’re in office, through activities such as voter registration drives, community events, and forums.Please join our movement by downloading our toolkit to learn what you can do in your community and share this with all your friends and colleagues in your own network. You can also share this toolkit on your social media pages using the graphics here.We look forward to joining together with you in this fight.Thank you,The Youth First Team___________________________________________________________________ YOUR TOOLKITTAKE ACTION : LOOK AT THIS PDFYou can take action now to educate your lawmakers on why incarcerating youth doesn’t work! Follow these steps:
NKIP-Shifting-Resources-Backgrounder-Document-2P ___________________________________________________________________ Looking to make a difference? Take action now by joining a campaign in your community! Don’t see a campaign in your state? Consider starting your own campaign. CONNECTICUTIn 2015, Governor Malloy announced plans to close to close the Connecticut Juvenile Training School (CJTS). The Connecticut Juvenile Justice Alliance (CTJJA) is spearheading advocacy efforts to ensure that the state replaces CJTS with a comprehensive continuum of mostly community-based programs for youth and their families.  KANSASProgeny protects youths’ voice and advocates for Kansas youth touched by the juvenile justice system. Progeny strives to progress, develop and build the future expectations of the youth in our community. Progeny successfully advocated for the restoration of funding for alternatives to incarceration for youth.  MAINEMaine Youth Justice is a nonpartisan campaign to end youth incarceration in Maine and invest in a range of community-based alternatives that respond to young people’s needs, support families, and build community in support of community alternatives to youth incarceration.  NEW JERSEY150 Years is Enough seeks to transform New Jersey’s youth incarceration system into a community-based system of care by closing two of New Jersey’s three youth prisons, the New Jersey Training School for Boys (“Jamesburg”) and the Female Secure Care and Intake Facility (“Hayes.”)  VIRGINIARISE (Re-invest in Supportive Environments) for Youth is a nonpartisan campaign of youth, families, and community organizations that successfully advocated for re-investment of funding from the closure of youth prisons in Virginia into community-based programs and placements for youth. The campaign is urging the state to continue to expand effective community treatment rather than build new prisons.  |
WECAN Birth to Three Conference – 2019
Registration for this conference is being processed by WECAN (Waldorf Early Childhood Association of North America)
COST TO REGISTER:
WECAN Individual Member: $180
WECAN Institute Member: $190
Non-Member: $200
Housing Information:
If you have questions around housing or would like suggestions, please contact Katherine Scharff at katherine@sophiashearth.org.
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PUT YOUR OXYGEN MASK ON FIRST
Healing After Divorce Begins With The Parents
Your children will be better when you are better.
10 “Parenting Pick Me Up” tips to inspire you on those tough days.
Co-Parenting Course For: Moms
Mondays 6:30pm to 8pm October 7, 14, 21, 28, 2019
Co-Parenting Course For: Dads
Tuesdays 6:30pm to 8pm October 8, 15, 22, 29, 2019
You Matter! Self-love is not selfish. It’s necessary.
Give yourself permission to focus on your mental, emotional, spiritual and physical health with kindness and compassion. You deserve to feel good!
I’m inviting you to take a bold step and join me in this safe, supportive and nonjudgmental place I’ve created for you. We meet live online in small groups for your convenience so each parent receives personal attention.
Do this for you, because your NEW LIFE is calling!
Welcome!
I’m ShaRon Rea and I’m thrilled you’re here!
After years of helping hundreds of parents regain their confidence after a breakup or divorce, my clients tell me how glad they were to work with me. They just couldn’t read another co-parenting self-help book!
Let me be your personal guide. Discover how you too can experience more success managing the day to day challenges of co-parenting. Learn how to anticipate problems before they escalate and stop making decisions from desperation. The Co-Parenting Course increases your parenting skills and inspires you to try new things to build a high-quality future for you and your children.
Who Is The Co-Parenting Course For?
This course is for divorced, separated and single parents. You can take control for yourself and the kids, even if the other parent is not willing. This course is also for grandparents, foster parents and any adult caring for children of divorce.
In the United States and abroad, courts mandate divorcing parents take a class. The court ordered classes give parents a foundation, but in the months and years after the court classes have ended, parents still struggle to find peace. Conflicting opinions about what’s best for the kids, and so many other arguments, stop effective co-parenting from becoming a reality for many families.
In The Co-Parenting Course, I deliver the next level of support to parents so they can deal more successfully with conflict, have patience with the ups and downs of their children’s behavior and turn their focus to solutions instead of staying stuck in the problems.
LOOK INTO THE FUTURE and IMAGINE
In just four weeks, after completing The Co-Parenting Course, your life will be filled with
HEALTH
HARMONY
HAPPINESS
COURSE DETAILS
This 4-week course repeats each month
on the first Monday for moms and the first Tuesday for dads.
October 2019 classes are open and enrolling now.
Each group meets LIVE online
through www.zoom.com
once a week,
for 90 minutes per class,
for a total of four classes.
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Coach ShaRon Rea
will teach each group with:
information-rich slides,
open discussions
and manages each class,
leaving lots of time for Q&A.
WEEK 1
What Do You Know?
Discover important statistics parents need to know about children and divorce, explore The ACE Study (Adverse Childhood Experiences), and learn to take care of yourself so you can better help the kids.
WEEK 2
Show Off Your Parenting Style and Kid “Know-How.”
Discussions about why your “parenting style” is important, the ages and stages of your child’s development and critical secrets kids are afraid to tell their parents.
WEEK 3
He Said. She Said.
Men and women use different words to talk about what’s important to them.
Learn to hear the other parent in ways that make conversations more effective.
WEEK 4
Getting to the Win-Win
Learn strategies to move from being stuck to discovering solutions and develop problem-solving methods with more chances of success!
WHEN YOU INVEST IN PEACE OF MIND AND GREATER CO-PARENTING CONFIDENCE
YOU GET SOME BONUSES!
Because you’re worth it and it’s fun to give!☺
Pay $299 in full
Get 2 Bonus private sessions with Coach ShaRon Rea
Make two payments of $149
Get 1 Bonus private session with Coach ShaRon Rea
Meet Coach ShaRon Rea
Trained Professional Educator
- Certified Family Communication and Relationships Coach
- Arizona State Attorney General trained Mediator
- Certified Fatherhood Practitioner and Healthy Relationship Educator
- Certified Social Emotional Learning Educator
- Certified ACE (Adverse Childhood Experiences) Trainer
Real-Life Experience
Married for 21 years, I raised two children and divorced in 2008. I lived through the anger, fear, and grief until finding the way to a successful co-parenting relationship with my children’s father. What I teach is what has helped me, and my clients. My passion is to see all families live in the greatest amount of love and compassion. I’m really excited to meet you and help you find your personal co-parenting success!
Testimonials
“ShaRon is compassionate and really cares about all members of the family. What I like the most is that when it fits, she shares her own experiences with us. She truly wants us to understand what’s working and what we can change. My daughter adores going to see ShaRon!”
“Thank you for working with me ShaRon. I appreciate how you are able to shed perspective on my life and help me see my worth. I appreciate you very much and don’t know what I would do without you guiding me through this very difficult time in my life.”
“I have worked with ShaRon for over a year. She has been an invaluable support and resource. She listens in non-judgmental ways and has never-ending knowledge on how to work through co-parenting conflicts. She has helped me find peace, clarity, and a loving approach to challenges in times when the children and I needed it most.”
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ShaRon Rea
Champion for Outstanding Family Relationships
www.thewholefamilycoaching.com
Founder of the Global Movement No Judgment. Just Love.®
www.nojudgmentjustlove.com
Founding Corporate Member of World Kindness USA
www.worldkindnessusa.org
Peace in your family and in the world.
Both are possible! Let's talk...480.420.9551
About this Event
💜Festival of the Child is a completely FREE event and takes place ONLINE, from Nov 14th-20th, featuring experts and change-makers working tirelessly for the good of children everywhere.
🌸Supporting a paradigm shift in learning, we are reimagining education.
🌸Join us and add your voice to the collective.
🌸Learn directly from visionaries, storytellers, teachers, activists, doctors, psychologists and more to get the latest insights in how to grow today’s child for tomorrow and restore wellbeing now.
🌸So many of our children suffer from mental health issues that directly result from ways in which they are being educated and a system that is failing to look at their developmental needs.
🌸Learn tried and tested strategies that support YOUR child to grow up healthy, happy and full of hope for the future.
🦋Now more than ever we have an incredible opportunity to shift the learning paradigm into one that supports ALL of our children to truly thrive.
🦋It is time to be bold in our vision and brave in our footsteps as we re-imagine what learning looks like in the 21st century.
🦋We know that you want your children to grow up with a connection to themselves a strong sense of self and personal identity, empathy and care for others and full of creative solutions to transform humanity as this crucial time in our collective evolution.
🦋Come join the education revolution. Be heard. Have your say. Be a part of this important conversation.
💕Completely free to sign-up. 💕
But only available to registered participants.
Get your FREE eventbrite ticket then head on over to our website www.festivalofthechild.com to REGISTER.
It’s the only way to access the videos – as all links will be sent out by email.
Can’t wait to see you all on the other side!
Join us: RootSkills Workshop
November 15th // WaterFire Arts Center // Providence, RI
For full event details, visit the event website – linked here. Including: agenda, workshop offerings, speakers, cost of registration, scholarships & stipends, carpooling & travel.
View event website View workshops & agenda Register to attend Apply for a scholarship
The Grassroots Fund’s RootSkills workshops are day-long gatherings where grassroots organizers, colleagues and supporters convene to network, share stories and dig into both issue- and process-based skills-building sessions. We work with a planning committee ahead of each event to ensure a broad range of lived experiences and perspectives weigh in as we set agendas, select workshop topics and invite speakers.
The Grassroots Fund is committed to participatory, democratic decision making processes across our grantmaking and skillsbuilding programs. We work to bring together a broad range of lived experiences as we plan and design the RootSkills Training Series. We invite community organizers, students, non profit colleagues, funder partners and sustainable business people to apply to be on the planning committee for each of our RootSkills in-person trainings.
Contact program manager Tess Beem with questions about this event: tess@grassrootsfund.org or 603-905-9915×2.
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In an effort to make the RootSkills Conference as accessible as possible, registration is on a self-identified, sliding scale from $35 – $150.
ShaRon Rea
The Whole Family Coaching
480-420-9551
ShaRon@TheWholeFamilyCoaching.
www.thewholefamilycoaching.com
WE – A global campaign of We, The World to unite
and amplify the efforts of people, organizations
and movements working for the common good
WE.net
This Special Broadcast
is part of our MLK Program
Carrying Forward the Work and Legacy
of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Sign Up at WE.net/MLK
The Poor People’s Campaign
A National Call for Moral Revival
Rev. William Barber, Rev. Liz Theoharis, Other Leaders
and a Growing Coalition of Organizations
Drawing on the unfinished work of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s
1967/68 Poor People’s Campaign
Panel Discussion and Interactive Online Broadcast
Sunday February 23rd at 6PM Eastern Time
Watch the Broadcast LIVE or Watch the Recording on
We, The World’s Facebook Page
Please LIKE the Page to be notified when our Broadcasts are starting
Featured Speakers Include:
Karen Palmer (Host) is a Global Kindness Leader and a Livestream / Social Media Expert who co-produces several popular online talk shows. She is a best-selling author and is Coordinator of We, The World’s Campaign for Women. She helps change agents and peacemakers find their voice, and share their message and gifts globally. Find her at http://www.globalkindnesstv.
Rick Ulfik (Co-Host) is the Founder of We, The World and the WE Campaign at WE.net. Rick is the Co-Creator of 11 Days of Global Unity – 11 Ways to Change the World linking local awareness and action campaigns into an inspiring international movement with participants including Desmond Tutu, Jane Goodall, Deepak Chopra, Eve Ensler, Bill McKibben and many others.
The Reverend Dr. Liz Theoharis is Co-Chair with the Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival which has organized the largest and most expansive wave of nonviolent civil disobedience in US history. She is the Director of the Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice at Union Theological Seminary and is a Founder and Coordinator of the Poverty Initiative.
Rev. Janelle Bruce, Esq. is a National Organizer with Repairers of the Breach and the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival. She is also the Founder and Pastor of the Church Without Walls, Global Reach. Her life, ministry and work is guided by Micah 6:8, “He has told you O’ mortal what is good and what does the Lord require of you, but to do justice, love mercy and walk humbly with the Lord”.
Njimie Dzurinko is the founder and co-coordinator at Put People First and the Pennsylvania Poor People’s Campaign. Njimie studied Urban Studies at Temple University and English Literature/Poetry at University of Pennsylvania.
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Don’t SLEEP through the REVOLUTION!Thank you!Rick Ulfik
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ECHOES & REFLECTIONS
CONFIDENTLY TEACH ABOUT THE HOLOCAUST
Echoes & Reflections empowers middle and high school educators with dynamic classroom materials and professional development.
PROGRAMS FOR EDUCATORS and anyone who wants to know more
and understand…
RELEASE AND REVIEW OF THE NEW CONTEMPORARY ANTISEMITISM UNIT
A Webinar on February 27th, 2020 4PM – 5PM EST
With a changing education landscape and the recent spike in antisemitic incidents, it is essential that educators have access to strategies and tools to address the reality of antisemitism and hate with their students. To meet this need, Echoes & Reflections is launching a revised Contemporary Antisemitism Unit with an inquiry-based and student-centered learning approach to raise the important topics of hate, antisemitism in the US and globally, and what it means to be an ally. Participate in this webinar, led by the lead developer of this Unit, to discover new curated content and approaches for incorporating these important lessons into your classroom.
Check out other webinars on our website.
2020
New York City at Sony Hall
Get ready to celebrate!
Join us in New York on March 9, 2020 as No Bully celebrates our partners and friends at our annual Broadway Against Bullying event. This annual one-night-only cabaret show, featuring stars from some of Broadway’s biggest musicals, benefiting No Bully’s mission to eradicate bullying and cyber-bullying worldwide.
Calling all New York area Friends who LOVE Broadway. March 9th: Broadway Against Bullying, a one-night-only cabaret featuring stars from some of Broadway’s biggest musicals. Lexi Lawson (Hamilton), Telly Leung (Aladdin) and Kevin Duda (Book of Mormon). A wonderful organization, committed to a kinder world, No Bully has teamed up with Broadway Stars,(Year 2) for an evening supporting bullying prevention school programs and positive action initiatives. Entertainment and Doing Good! Get your tickets for March 9: www.nobully.org/broadway2020 and join the movement to end bullying! #broadwayagainstbullying #nobully #bullying #kindevolution, #nobullyingperiod
IGNITING COMPASSION
Words that come to mind when describing our team include: compassionate, kind, inclusive, strong, and has a generosity of spirit.
Each one of us has our own personal story around bullying and we hold this work near and dear to our hearts. We are constantly trying to live out our mission on a day to day basis, both igniting compassion around the office and also the world!
No Bully takes a holistic approach to partnering with schools and districts by involving the administration, staff, parents, and students in the process.
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No Bully is the most comprehensive professional development program proven to combat bullying and enhance school culture.
There are so many ways to become a part of No Bully’s mission to dramatically reduce bullying. Consider yourself invited to tell us how you’d like to connect.
Phone:
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San Francisco, CA 94129
Fourth Annual “Everyday DC” Photography Exhibition: Opening Reception
Please join us for an opening reception of the 4th annual
“Everyday DC” exhibition
at the Pepco Edison Place Gallery
in Washington, D.C.
on the evening of Wednesday, March 11, 2020
from 5:30-7:30pm.
Remarks will begin at 6:00pm, and will be followed by live music and snacks.
“Everyday DC,” a photography exhibition on view at the Pepco Edison Place Gallery from March 10, 2020, through March 20, 2020, presents a visual narrative of everyday life in Washington, D.C. through the eyes of more than 150 public middle school students from all four quadrants of the city. The exhibition is the culmination of a unit designed by the Pulitzer Center in collaboration with D.C. Public Schools (DCPS) and facilitated by over a dozen DCPS visual arts teachers. Images from 14 middle schools are represented in the exhibition.
The Everyday DC project was inspired by the Everyday Africa project, founded by Pulitzer Center grantees Peter DiCampo and Austin Merrill to visually represent a more accurate understanding of what the majority of Africans experience on a day-to-day basis: normal life. Like Everyday Africa, Everyday DC challenges students to consider how Washington D.C. is portrayed in the media, and how they can compose images that more accurately visualize their everyday experiences.
The Everyday DC project is funded in part by the D.C. Commission on the Arts & Humanities, an agency supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. The project is also supported by the Pepco Edison Gallery, which generously donated the space for the exhibition. For more information about the unit plan and exhibition, contact education@pulitzercenter.org.
Gallery opens to the public every Tuesday to Friday, March 10 through March 20, from Noon to 4 p.m. The space will also be open on Saturday, March 14, 2020. Free admission.
Thinking about your next steps in school or college? COME TO CITY OF SCIENCE!
To all students exploring your options for a future in STEM, join us at CITY OF SCIENCE produced by the World Science Festival and presented by Fairleigh Dickinson University. This community STEM event will introduce you to complex scientific concepts with interactive exhibits, one-on-one talks with top science professionals, and Q&A sessions with FDU students and recent graduates. From a warped space gravity simulator to a 20-foot pendulum wave, this FREE STEM event will inspire young minds.
+ TOUR FDU science and engineering labs and experience college-level activities—including forensic analysis, nursing simulations, and programming robots.
+ LEARN about STEM careers through talks and presentations.
+ EXPLORE complex scientific principles and their real-life applications— like a spinning ride to learn about Earth’s rotation or experimenting on an inclined plane to explore state-of-the-art problems in mechanics.
+ MEET and NETWORK with local STEM professionals and organizations.
+ ASK and LEARN from FDU students and recent graduates in Q&A sessions
City of Science is FREE and recommended for students in Grades 7-12 thinking about their next steps. Families and kids of all ages are invited to join as well. RSVP HERE!
Questions? Email education@worldsciencefestival.com or call 212.348.1400.
This event is sponsored by 3M, Best Buy and Picatinny.