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.
Watch for “444”– Ring buzzer 163 “Call”
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
Dear Friends,
Dr. Andrew Vidich is a longtime friend and supporter of We, The World. On Friday August 21st he is having a free celebration event in New York City for the launch of his book Love is a Secret; The Mystic Quest for Divine Love. See the details below.
It promises to be a beautiful event, so if you or your friends are in NYC, I hope you will be able to go!
Rick Ulfik
Founder of We, The World and the WE Campaign at WE.net
By Dr. Andrew Vidich
Click here to order the book
for a Discussion, Guided Meditation and Book Launch Celebration
Location; The Center for Remembering and Sharing
123 4th Ave, 2nd Fl, New York, NY 10003
Time: 6:30pm-8:30pm
FREE to the PUBLIC
Light Refreshments will follow
Love Is a Secret: The Mystic Quest for Divine Love
By Dr. Andrew Vidich
“Over the last 5000 years, inspired leaders and giants of all the great spiritual traditions have produced a rich collection of writings describing the transcendent states of love they have experienced. This book draws on all the great wisdom traditions from Taoism to Christianity, from Islam to Judaism, to describe the psychology of humankind’s deepest spiritual encounters.
“It identifies 10 distinct psychological states common to all spiritual experience. A study of the specific characteristics of each state reveals that mystics from widely different theologies, times and cultures have experienced God’s love in remarkably similar ways. Their words show us what intimate encounters with “The Great Beloved” feel like, and how we can cultivate and achieve these mystical states in our own lives.
“The compassionate wisdom in the pages of this book is a moving testament to the universal majesty, variety and splendor of the experience of God’s unconditional love. This is a book which seekers and students will enjoy for its insight as well as its message of hope: that Divine Love is available to all who seek it with humility and grace, and those who in its radiance are not only transfigured, but empowered to change the world.”
”This book eloquently describes the real life-work of every mature human being in every great culture of humanity.” Shaikh Nur al-Jerrrahi USA Leader of al Jerrahi Sufi Order.
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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!
| For 11 Days and other Updates Subscribe to the WE Campaign Global Action Newsletter here |
 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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It’s Time to Unite Our Efforts We, The World is seeking highly motivated individuals passionate about creating social change to positively impact people and the planet. If you want to join the WE Team and help coordinate one or more of the 11 Campaigns For Change CLICK HERE. Together, WE Will Transform Our World!
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
Deepak Chopra Speaks on the Subject of UNITY
September 11, 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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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.
http://theforgivenessproject.com/programmes/exhibition/
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
Submit to https://crowdsource.storymaps.esri.com/stories/compassion-report
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
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.
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
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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
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.
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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
This One People, One Earth Medicine Walk is a two day walk beginning on Saturday, Sept 19th, starting at Inwood State Park, ending the next day Sunday, Sept 20th in Central Park to join the the 14th annual Vigil For International Peace and Ecology at BandShell stage.(www.vigil4internationalpeace.org)
Exact Location to meet for the Walk is:
Indian Road Cafe, 600 West 218th Street, near Indian road where the entrance to Inwood State Park is nearby. Meet at 7AM for the start of the walk.
Please note that the meeting location at Indian Road Cafe is only the starting route for the walk, if you want to meet Brother Northstar later, along the route over the two day walk, contact him directly by calling him at 617 614-7231.
Information and background about the walk:
The One People, One Earth Medicine Walk and the International Day of Peace Vigil.
On each equinox and solstice we do a One People, One Earth Medicine Walk through Manhattan to the sacred locations of this island.This walk is a vigil to release the blocks from within ourselves, humanity and our planet. And in doing so, we seek to re-activate the original purpose of this island, which is held captive and buried under tons of concrete and capitol gain. Also, we are simultaneously paying homage to the ancestors of this land known as Lenape, who by historical accounts were a giving and loving people living in harmony with the land. Even in a city as dense as New York, we leap through the veil of the urban energy to go back and align ourselves with the original purpose of this island, which the Lenape people called, “Mannahatta” (meaning: “land of many hills”) Mannahatta was a natural wonder – a paradise of peace, love, health and harmonious living. See photos ofLenape here.
The walking route:
This One People, One Earth Medicine Walk is a two day walk beginning on Saturday, Sept 19th, at Inwood State Park. We will start with morning sunrise prayer at the highest point in Inwood Park. We will walk from the park to the top of Broadway at 231st. We will walk down Broadway (Broadway is the Mohican Trail) We walk to 178 st. to get onto Riverside Park and carry our vigil through nature – down by the river, with trees and grass and plenty of places for bathroom stops. “The Lenape called the Hudson River Shatemuc, meaning “the river that flows both ways,” because the river alternates its flow from north to south along with the Atlantic tides. Shatemuc was an important water route for the Lenape who traded with other Native people living in villages along its banks.” If you click on the link, the photos will show just how beautiful a walk through what is closest to what it was when Manhattan was a paradise. Support vehicles, are welcome to follow along with food and water can follow along riverside drive and meet us at rest points which is every 60 blocks (3 miles). We will stop for 1 hour to eat lunch and walk until we reach the 66 st.
On Sunday,September 20th, the designated day of International Day of Peace, will continue walking along the bike trail down to Battery Park and then over the the National Museum for Native Americans and have closing ceremony in Bowling Green Park. From there we will shuttle over to Central Park to another sacred location known asSeneca Village, “the Black community that died so that Central Park can live.”
From there, we will carry all the higher frequencies we gathered from the walk of the island and pour them into the higher frequencies of the “Vigil for International Peace and Ecology” being held at Band Shell stage in Central Park. This is an event where people from all over the world will be gathered on this day to invoke a new planetary direction into our collective consciousness. Click on all links to learn more about this glorious quarterly walk. If spirit moves you to join the walk or participate as support vehicle contact me for further information.
In The Name of Liberation for Humanity and the Planet Earth, my Earth-Walk is in deep gratitude to you all.
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.
EVERYONE WILL HAVE AN EXPERIENCE- either with an Ascended Master, an Arch Angel, a past life experience, an out of body experience in the inner light, or you will have some other experience special for you…
David Young is a twice Grammy Nominated musician who plays two renaissance flutes at one time in harmony. He has recorded 57 albums and sold over 1,000,000 copies. He is a healer, channel, writer of three books, artist and it is said that more people have had out of body experiences while listening to his music than other musician alive today.
Link to 1:00 event video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdL6Zk5FgUY
Whether people have been meditating a short time or for thirty years, attendees consistantly say they’ve had the most profound, spiritual experience of their entire life.
Marie Diamond, Fung Shui Master and speaker in the movie, “The Secret” came on stage after one of David’s performances and told the audience she just had “the most profound spiritual experience of her life.”
Barbara Hardie, writer of the book, “Creating Heaven on Earth”, well respected medium and angel channel from MA. who has been meditating for 25 years had a healing at her first event and shared that she had “the most high vibrational, spiritual experience of her life” at her second event. She has been to four events now and each one brought her to a higher level than she ever thought possible.
David has done over 100 Soul Activation workshops this year, traveling to three or four cities each week.
For the past two months, AT EVERY EVENT, people have consistently shared their experiences with either Buddha, Jesus, Lao Tzu, Quan Yin, or Mother Mary.
David’s wife Dawn has had nine experiences with Kali, the Goddess seen with six arms. Others have had experiences with Edgar Cayce, Gandhi, George Harrison, John Lennon, Ravi Shankar, and the Egyptian Goddess Isis. Although each experience is unique, many share that these great teachers have told them we are all One and we are equal and there is no need for the pedestals that mankind has put them on.
Three people at one event saw Jesus standing in the exact same place in the room and he gave each of them the same inner symbols.
Two women sitting next to each other at one event both described experiencing Quan Yin standing between them.
On separate evenings two people had the exact same experience with Buddha who brought them to this gigantic tree (The Tree of Life) that was so tremendous it was beyond their description of words.
At every one of these events at least ten people have shared reconnecting with their loved ones in Spirit.
A shy, introverted woman came to an event and shared that her entire family in Heaven lined up to greet her, over 20 souls.
Violetta, who has cancer has been visited six times by Jesus, George Harrison and John Lennon at events as they are helping her to heal. After living with 10 out of 10 horrible pain from her treatments the week before the last event she was pain free for 48 hours afterwards.
A woman with a son with Down Syndrome had a Soul to Soul experience where he was syndrome free on the inner and he explained why he had that disease in his current life.
David was given nine words to give to a woman, “I am Strong, I am Protected, I am Confident.” Afterwards she shared that Arch Angel Michael had come to her the previous week and gave her the same nine words and told her to write them down.
It is a privilege and sheer pleasure for David to share his music and this energy with the New York City and Jivamukti Yoga community.
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
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!!
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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
This informative, inspiring evening workshop introduces a revolutionary way of thinking and speaking that is being used around the world to bring peace and connection to personal, professional and international relationships.
Learn about this new generation of human connection and peacemaking skills, known as “NVC” that’s changing the way we think about conflict, compassion and our future. Get some personal growth, hope and profound fun. The evening starts with an interactive introduction followed by an exercise to practice NVC.
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.
Dear Friends,
Our longtime friend and ally Andrew Vidich, known for his meditation classes , highly recommends the upcoming series of talks featuring world renowned meditation teacher and spiritual Master Sant Rajinder Sing Ji Maharaj.
They are taking place in Edison New Jersey and then in Amityville New York from Wednesday April 27th through Sunday May 1st. Sant Rajinder Singh Ji Maharaj is internationally recognized for his work promoting inner and outer peace.and transforming lives through meditation.
For more information and registration see the flyer below or you can go to http://sos.org/event/NYNJ
If you live in the New York area, or you have friends there, this unique and free mini-series promises to be both inspiring and enlightening!
Rick Ulfik
Founder of We, The World and the WE Campaign at WE.net
For more information and free registration:
http://sos.org/event/NYNJ
Dear Friends,
Our longtime friend and ally Andrew Vidich, known for his meditation classes , highly recommends the upcoming series of talks featuring world renowned meditation teacher and spiritual Master Sant Rajinder Sing Ji Maharaj.
They are taking place in Edison New Jersey and then in Amityville New York from Wednesday April 27th through Sunday May 1st. Sant Rajinder Singh Ji Maharaj is internationally recognized for his work promoting inner and outer peace.and transforming lives through meditation.
For more information and registration see the flyer below or you can go to http://sos.org/event/NYNJ
If you live in the New York area, or you have friends there, this unique and free mini-series promises to be both inspiring and enlightening!
Rick Ulfik
Founder of We, The World and the WE Campaign at WE.net
For more information and free registration:
http://sos.org/event/NYNJ
Dear Friends,
Our longtime friend and ally Andrew Vidich, known for his meditation classes , highly recommends the upcoming series of talks featuring world renowned meditation teacher and spiritual Master Sant Rajinder Sing Ji Maharaj.
They are taking place in Edison New Jersey and then in Amityville New York from Wednesday April 27th through Sunday May 1st. Sant Rajinder Singh Ji Maharaj is internationally recognized for his work promoting inner and outer peace.and transforming lives through meditation.
For more information and registration see the flyer below or you can go to http://sos.org/event/NYNJ
If you live in the New York area, or you have friends there, this unique and free mini-series promises to be both inspiring and enlightening!
Rick Ulfik
Founder of We, The World and the WE Campaign at WE.net
For more information and free registration:
http://sos.org/event/NYNJ
Dear Friends,
Our longtime friend and ally Andrew Vidich, known for his meditation classes , highly recommends the upcoming series of talks featuring world renowned meditation teacher and spiritual Master Sant Rajinder Sing Ji Maharaj.
They are taking place in Edison New Jersey and then in Amityville New York from Wednesday April 27th through Sunday May 1st. Sant Rajinder Singh Ji Maharaj is internationally recognized for his work promoting inner and outer peace.and transforming lives through meditation.
For more information and registration see the flyer below or you can go to http://sos.org/event/NYNJ
If you live in the New York area, or you have friends there, this unique and free mini-series promises to be both inspiring and enlightening!
Rick Ulfik
Founder of We, The World and the WE Campaign at WE.net
For more information and free registration:
http://sos.org/event/NYNJ
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This year’s Compassion Course Online has been redesigned to be responsive and easy to use on any device (Smartphones, tablets, laptops, desktops). This brings an unprecedented opportunity for the compassion course community to become more connected and inclusive than ever before. What will the course look like? Click Here to read a sample lesson on empathy. |
Dear Friends,
We, The World is excited to tell you about this one year online NVC Compassion Course starting June 22nd. See www.compassioncourse.org and Register Here. You can participate no matter where you are in the world.
In fact, the course has had participants from over 90 countries. Couples, friends, families, entire congregations and even entire organizations are registering together, sometimes setting up weekly gatherings to practice the course material.
Thousands of people have used Nonviolent Communication (NVC) to learn and practice new ways of thinking and speaking that can transform their relationships with loved ones, co-workers and friends. By helping to resolve and prevent conflict, many believe practicing NVC is a key strategy for bringing peace to our world.
This course is being offered by Internationally Certified and acclaimed Nonviolent Communication Trainer Thom Bond who studied with, and was a close associate of, the creator of NVC Marshall Rosenberg.
The course has a sliding scale cost that will suit everyone‘s budget. (Totally free is one of the options!) I encourage you and your friends to read below or check it out online and Register Here. When you register, you will be asked “How did you find out about The Compassion Course?” Please select We, The World. Thank you!
Note: Registration ends June 21st at 11AM (USA Eastern Time) .
Thank you for helping to create a more peaceful, compassionate world!
Rick Ulfik, Founder of We, The World and the WE Campaign at WE.net
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Global Prayer Calling for Nuclear Abolition on August 6
July, 2016 – Welcoming our Newest Global Council Multiregion Trustees
Global Prayer Calling for Nuclear Abolition on August 6
Join us on August 6th, 2016 as we recite The Nuclear Prayer to commemorate the bombings at Hiroshima and Nagasaki and call for the abolition of all nuclear weapons on Earth. Join influencers such as Sec. George Schultz, Sec. William Perry, and Dr. Sidney Drell at noon, wherever you are in the world, to pray that the world will never see the death and destruction that struck Hiroshima and Nagasaki on those fateful mornings. It is our moral duty to eliminate all nuclear weapons before more life is lost.
Here is the prayer that we will recite:
View video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzoPw4pZFOk
The Beginning and the End are in your hands, O Creator of the Universe. And in our hands you have placed the fate of this planet. We, who are tested by having both creative and destructive power in our free will, turn to you in sober fear and in intoxicating hope. We ask for your guidance and to share in your imagination in our deliberations about the use of nuclear force. Help us to lift the fog of atomic darkness that hovers so pervasively over our Earth, Your Earth, so that soon all eyes may see life magnified by your pure light.
Bless all of us who wait today for your Presence and who dedicate ourselves to achieve your intended peace and rightful equilibrium on Earth. In the Name of all that is holy and all that is hoped. Amen.
Download a .PDF of the prayer here.
The prominent figures featured in the video are:
- The Honorable William J. Perry, former Secretary of Defense under President Clinton
- The Honorable George P. Shultz, former Secretary of State under President Reagan
- Dr. Sidney Drell, Professor Emeritus at the Stanford Linear Accelerator
- Ambassador James E. Goodby, former Strategic Nuclear Arms Negotiator with the U.S.S.R.
- Ambassador Thomas Graham, Jr., former Senior U.S. Diplomat
- Jonathan Granoff, President of the Global Security Institute
- Monica Willard, United Religions Initiative Representative to the United Nations
- The Right Rev. William E. Swing, former Episcopal Bishop of California, and President and Founder of the United Religions Initiative
View the whole video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=XTYkQzZRZkw
Starting July 29th, take a photo or video of yourself, friends, congregation, etc. reciting the prayer and email it to voices@uri.org or post it on Facebook or Twitter using the hashtag #TheNuclearPrayer.
The louder our voices ring, the sooner we can see change.
Want to stay in the loop for upcoming events or just show that you care? ADD YOUR VOICE HERE
Download a .PDF of the Resource and Action Packet to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons here.
It’s Pow Wow time again! After eleven years of celebratory dance, song, and drumming, this year’s 11h Annual Rock, Rattle & Drum Pow Wow will explode in another weekend of American Indian music, dance, education, entertainment, arts and crafts vendors and cultural festivities fun for the whole family!
For two exiting days, Bennington, Vermont will be the center of Native American art and culture where American Indians will gather and share the richness, diversity and beauty of their Indigenous culture.
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
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
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
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
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:
Thurs, Jan 19th 6pm, Rally
60th Street and Broadway in Manhattan
with Mayor de Blasio, Alec Baldwin, Michael Moore, Mark Ruffalo
https://www.facebook.com/events/1628974860741148/
Friday Jan 20th at 11 AM – 4 PM
Black, Brown & Indigenous Mobilize Against White Nationalism #J20
Harriet Tubman Memorial
235 St Nicholas Ave in Manhattan
https://www.facebook.com/events/569161393281686/
Friday Jan 20th at 5 PM – 11 PM
NYC Inauguration Day Rally & March
Foley Square in Manhattan
https://www.facebook.com/events/1683256988651205/
Friday Jan 20th at 7 PM – 1 AM
TheUnGovernables: TefPoe, SaRoc, Loaf Muzik
176 St Nicholas Ave, in Brooklyn
https://www.facebook.com/events/1825433731067188/
Saturday Jan 21st at 10:45 AM – 5:00 PM
Women’s March on NYC
One Dag Hammarskjold Plaza near the United Nations
Thurs, Jan 19th 6pm, Rally
60th Street and Broadway in Manhattan
with Mayor de Blasio, Alec Baldwin, Michael Moore, Mark Ruffalo
https://www.facebook.com/events/1628974860741148/
Friday Jan 20th at 11 AM – 4 PM
Black, Brown & Indigenous Mobilize Against White Nationalism #J20
Harriet Tubman Memorial
235 St Nicholas Ave in Manhattan
https://www.facebook.com/events/569161393281686/
Friday Jan 20th at 5 PM – 11 PM
NYC Inauguration Day Rally & March
Foley Square in Manhattan
https://www.facebook.com/events/1683256988651205/
Friday Jan 20th at 7 PM – 1 AM
TheUnGovernables: TefPoe, SaRoc, Loaf Muzik
176 St Nicholas Ave, in Brooklyn
https://www.facebook.com/events/1825433731067188/
Saturday Jan 21st at 10:45 AM – 5:00 PM
Women’s March on NYC
One Dag Hammarskjold Plaza near the United Nations
Thurs, Jan 19th 6pm, Rally
60th Street and Broadway in Manhattan
with Mayor de Blasio, Alec Baldwin, Michael Moore, Mark Ruffalo
https://www.facebook.com/events/1628974860741148/
Friday Jan 20th at 11 AM – 4 PM
Black, Brown & Indigenous Mobilize Against White Nationalism #J20
Harriet Tubman Memorial
235 St Nicholas Ave in Manhattan
https://www.facebook.com/events/569161393281686/
Friday Jan 20th at 5 PM – 11 PM
NYC Inauguration Day Rally & March
Foley Square in Manhattan
https://www.facebook.com/events/1683256988651205/
Friday Jan 20th at 7 PM – 1 AM
TheUnGovernables: TefPoe, SaRoc, Loaf Muzik
176 St Nicholas Ave, in Brooklyn
https://www.facebook.com/events/1825433731067188/
Saturday Jan 21st at 10:45 AM – 5:00 PM
Women’s March on NYC
One Dag Hammarskjold Plaza near the United Nations
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.
Monday, February 6, 2017
1:15 PM – 2:45 PM
777 UN Plaza
(@ the Southwest corner of 1st Ave. & 44th Street in Manhattan, New York City)
that are deeply rooted in the world’s major religions
Dear Friends,
At this time when millions of people are frightened seeing intolerance and disunity reflected in our society, I hope you or your New York based friends will join us for this inspiring and unifying event. The program includes readings from sacred scripture from a variety of faith traditions, arts, and reflections from guest speakers. And there will be live music including me at the piano!
Thank you for what you are doing to create more peace and unity in our world. I hope to see you there!
Rick Ulfik
Founder of We, The World and the WE Campaign at WE.net
11 Days of Global Unity – 11 Ways to Change Your World
Highlights of 11 Days of Global Unity 2016 including Jane Goodall, Tavis Smiley, Neale Donald Walsch and many others!
An Urgent Message From Your Children at WeYourChildren.org
GlobalUnityCalendar.org – See and post social change events and announcements worldwide!
Volunteer Sign-up: http://WE.net/takeaction/volunteer
Organization Sign-up: http://WE.net/11days/participate
Donation Page: WE.net/donate
Facebook – Twitter
See trailer at www.futurewave.org
In the wake of the controversy over the immigration ban, the story of World Citizen #1 Garry Davis is the perfect antidote. It goes to the heart of healing to the sense of fear and powerlessness that leads to trying to close in, restrict freedoms and build walls.
Now is the perfect time for “The World is My Country” to inspire us all to realize that greatness comes not by separation and fear of those who are different, but by we, the people, celebrating our diversity and forming a more perfect union – at the global level.
RSVP to Futurewavefilms@gmail.com
Set across the backdrop of refugee migration that spans East Africa, The US and Australia, How Fast Can You Run is the inspiring true story of a five-year-old boy’s flight from war in Southern Sudan and his journey to find his mother. When the US grants approximately 4,000 unaccompanied minors political asylum, Majok becomes Michael, and he is given a new start in the US. Yet his new life is not without trauma, culminating when a fellow student betrays him. This is the story of a survivor who summons the courageous spirit of millions of refugees throughout history—and it lives on today.
Coordinator Call
A week to raise awareness of pesticide usage and educate people about the alternatives.
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Celebrating Earth Month Worldwide
March 20th (Equinox Earth Day ) through April 22nd and Beyond See and Post Events Worldwide on GlobalUnityCalendar.org See also Trends in Global Grassroots Organizing http://WE.net/trends 
Details below!
      This year a variety of organizations, (including those above), with people around the world, are celebrating Earth Month . Earth Month is a convergence of events, broadcasts and other activities starting with the Original Earth Day on the Equinox March 20th (World Happiness Day), including World Water Day March 22nd, World Meteorological Day March 23rd, and continuing through April 22nd (Earth Day celebrated), and culminating with the Peoples Climate March on March 29th. Here are selected event details:
The Earth Society Foundation
www.earthsocietyfoundation.orgcordially invites you to participate in the celebration of the 47th Annual UN Peace Bell Ceremony  The Ceremony will begin at 6:00 AM EDT at the Peace Bell
in the renovated Japanese Garden at UN Headquarters The Earth Society Foundation invites you to ring a bell for peace March 20th on the Equinox wherever you are. The Peace Bell at the United Nations in New York City will ring at 6:29AM Eastern Daylight Time – the beginning of Spring in the Northern Hemisphere and Fall in the Southern Hemisphere. At the same moment (11:29AM in Austria) the Peace Bell at the United Nations in Vienna will ring. The 2017 ceremony celebrates the anniversary of the first Earth Day initiated by John McConnell on March 20, 1970, in San Francisco, and will mark its 47th celebration at the United Nations in New York City. To attend this UN event, RSVP by March 15th is required, by email, to earthsociety1@hotmail.com. Include name and telephone number. Participants should bring a photo-ID for UN Security, and arrive by 5:50 AM EDT, Monday, March 20 at the UN Visitor’s Entrance at 46th Street and First Avenue in Manhattan, New York City. To participate from anywhere around the world, you may ring a bell at this shared “Moment of Cosmic Equipoise” with the global intention to facilitate peace on our beautiful planet. WBAI Pacifica Radio Show Special
Health Action With Host Kathryn Davis Preview of Planet Heart’s Annual World Peace Earth Day Celebration March 20th 1PM Eastern Time (USA) Listen live online at http://www.wbai.org Featured Guests include:
On World Water Day March 22nd The Compassion Games will launch and build momentum for Earth Week happening from April 22nd through April 30. During Earth Month we will pass the Compassion Torch to different Champions of Compassion in Support of Standing Rock who are standing to Protect and Restore Mother Earth.
 One Love Rising Radio – Special Teleconference Edition for World Water Day With Host Heidi Little – Co founder/Director of International Children’s Month and Co-Host Rick Ulfik – Founder of We, The World March 22, 2017 at 1PM Eastern Time (USA)To Join the Teleconference call by phone: +1 516 418-5703 Featured Guests include:
 Planet Heart’s 10th Anniversary Annual World Peace Earth Day Celebration 2017Saturday April 22, 2017 | 6:30pm (Sharp)–10:00pm (Doors open 6:00pm) Church of St. Paul & St. Andrew | 263 W. 86th Street, NYC Inspirational Talks – Live Music Performances – Inspired Poetry – Guided Meditations – Vibrational Sound Activations On Earth Day April 22nd, 2017 there will be Global Teach-ins and the March for Science in Washington DC and other locations.  The Peoples Climate March is on April 29th Thank you for all you are doing to create a better world!
Rick Ulfik
Founder of We, The World and the WE Campaign at WE.net Trends in Global Grassroots Organizing: WE.net/trends 11 Days of Global Unity – 11 Ways to Change Your World An Urgent Message >From Your Children at WeYourChildren.org GlobalUnityCalendar.org – See and post social change events and announcements worldwide! Volunteer Sign-up: http://WE.net/takeaction/volunteer Organization Sign-up: http://WE.net/11days/participate Donation Page: WE.net/donate Facebook – Twitter |
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”.
| 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 |
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Celebrating Earth Month Worldwide
March 20th (Equinox Earth Day ) through April 22nd and Beyond See and Post Events Worldwide on GlobalUnityCalendar.org See also Trends in Global Grassroots Organizing http://WE.net/trends
To Join the Teleconference call by phone: +1 516 418-5703 Featured Guests include:
Details below!      This year a variety of organizations, (including those above), with people around the world, are celebrating Earth Month. Earth Month is a convergence of events, broadcasts and other activities starting with the Original Earth Day on the Equinox March 20th (World Happiness Day), including World Water Day March 22nd, World Meteorological Day March 23rd, and continuing through April 22nd (Earth Day celebrated), and culminating with the Peoples Climate March on March 29th. Here are selected event details:
The Earth Society Foundation
www.earthsocietyfoundation.orgcordially invites you to participate in the celebration of the 47th Annual UN Peace Bell Ceremony On the Original Earth Day Monday, March 20, 2017 Equinox is at precisely 6:29 AM Eastern Daylight Time (USA) The Ceremony will begin at 6:00 AM EDT at the Peace Bell
in the renovated Japanese Garden at UN Headquarters The Earth Society Foundation invites you to ring a bell for peace March 20th on the Equinox wherever you are. The Peace Bell at the United Nations in New York City will ring at 6:29AM Eastern Daylight Time – the beginning of Spring in the Northern Hemisphere and Fall in the Southern Hemisphere. At the same moment (11:29AM in Austria) the Peace Bell at the United Nations in Vienna will ring. The 2017 ceremony celebrates the anniversary of the first Earth Day initiated by John McConnell on March 20, 1970, in San Francisco, and will mark its 47th celebration at the United Nations in New York City. To attend this UN event, RSVP by March 15th is required, by email, to earthsociety1@hotmail.com. Include name and telephone number. Participants should bring a photo-ID for UN Security, and arrive by 5:50 AM EDT, Monday, March 20 at the UN Visitor’s Entrance at 46th Street and First Avenue in Manhattan, New York City. To participate from anywhere around the world, you may ring a bell at this shared “Moment of Cosmic Equipoise” with the global intention to facilitate peace on our beautiful planet. WBAI Pacifica Radio Show Special
Health Action With Host Kathryn Davis Preview ofPlanet Heart’s Annual World Peace Earth Day Celebration March 20th 1PM Eastern Time (USA) Listen live online at http://www.wbai.org Featured Guests include:
On World Water Day March 22nd The Compassion Games will launch and build momentum for Earth Week happening from April 22nd through April 30. During Earth Month we will pass the Compassion Torch to different Champions of Compassion in Support of Standing Rock who are standing to Protect and Restore Mother Earth. One Love Rising Radio – Special Teleconference Edition for World Water Day With Host Heidi Little – Co founder/Director of International Children’s Month and Co-Host Rick Ulfik – Founder of We, The World March 22, 2017 at 1PM Eastern Time (USA)To Join the Teleconference call by phone: +1516 418-5703 Or go online to One Love Rising: www.blogtalkradio.com/oneloverising Featured Guests include:
Planet Heart’s 10th Anniversary Annual World Peace Earth Day Celebration 2017Saturday April 22, 2017 | 6:30pm (Sharp)–10:00pm (Doors open 6:00pm)Church of St. Paul & St. Andrew | 263 W. 86th Street, NYC $25 pd in advance by Apr 21, $33 cash only at door – no refundsInspirational Talks – Live Music Performances – Inspired Poetry – Guided Meditations – Vibrational Sound Activations Inner Shamanic Journeys – Vendors – Celebrations – And More – All Are Welcome! Please Share! FOR MORE INFORMATION, VISIT WWW.PLANETHEART.ORG CONTACT US AT 212.222.5432 OR EARTHDAY@WETHEWORLD.ORG On Earth Day April 22nd, 2017 there will be Global Teach-ins and the March for Science in Washington DC and other locations. The Peoples Climate March is on April 29th Thank you for all you are doing to create a better world! Rick Ulfik
Founder of We, The World and the WE Campaign at WE.net Trends in Global Grassroots Organizing: WE.net/trends 11 Days of Global Unity – 11 Ways to Change Your World An Urgent Message >From Your Children at WeYourChildren.org GlobalUnityCalendar.org – See and post social change events and announcements worldwide! Volunteer Sign-up: http://WE.net/takeaction/volunteer Organization Sign-up: http://WE.net/11days/participate Donation Page: WE.net/donate Facebook – Twitter |
Shared meal and showing of the fim by Marie-Monique Robin ‘Qu’est-ce qu’on attend?’, as part of the events for Pesticide Action Week. Seven local associations have helped organised the event and will take part in the debate following the showing of the film. The film tells the story of the town of Ungersheim in Alsace, France, which undertakes 21 actions for the 21st century to reduce their carbon footprint.
A shared meal to start the evening, followed by a screening of the film and a debate on the issues raised.
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
A night of networking, fun and SOULFUL music acknowledging the contribution of several great music entertainers of African descent.
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.
“Vegetable patches everywhere and organic food for everyone” is the theme for the two days of talks, films and workshops.
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!
In the honor of “Divine Mercy Sunday“, and in the honor of “100th anniversary of Our Lady of Fatima ‘s apparitions”, I am inviting you to join me in ONE Day Retreat in New York City April 22 nd this year. It is the first time I do a retreat like this. I will focus on the Prayer MIRACLES DAY“. Our Lady told us in Fatima, in Kibeho and everywhere she appeared, that the ROSARY is Her favorite PRAYER, a weapon, a prayer that can move mountains if prayed well. With Our Lady’s help, we are planning to do just that.
I invite you to join us, counting on this SPECIAL time of God’s Mercy, to write a letter of your prayer requests and bring it to the retreat so we can present them to OUR MOTHER and ask Her to present them to Her SON and to the FATHER. It will be a special day, to pray for the SICK, for our many different needs. I expect miracles, Jesus and Our Lady always answer our prayers when we ask from our hearts, even more when we PRAY together.
Location of the retreat: Church of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary 325 East 33rd Street, New York, NY 10016 (Between 1st & 2nd Avenue),
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!
PLANET HEART’S 10th ANNIVERSARY
“ANNUAL WORLD PEACE EARTH DAY CELEBRATION”
Produced by Andrew Kaen in Association
with We, The World (fiscal sponsor) & Jodi Serota.
Come join us in NYC in a Conscious Community Gathering in Unity, Honoring Mother Earth & The New Earth,
with Inspirational Talks,
Live Music Performances,
Meditation, Ceremony,
Vendors and
Celebration.
Featuring:
Myra Jackson, http://gaiafield.net/
Julian Michael, http://www.julianmichael.net/
Jodi Serota, http://www.jodiserota.com/
Olivia Olkowski, http://www.spiritrockshamanichealing.com/
Rick Ulfik, https://we.net/
Bethany and Rufus, http://www.bethanyandrufus.com/
Deborah Moldow, http://revdeborah.com/
More to come…
More details coming soon!
ALL ARE WELCOME! Please Share!
Time: 6:30PM Sharp – 9:30PM.
(Doors Open at 6pm for Registration)
Price: $25 (pre-paid by April 21st) or $33 cash only at door. (No Refunds).
Location: Church of Saint Paul & Saint Andrew
263 W. 86th Street @ West End Ave.
Tickets & Info: www.planetheart.org,
Email: info@PlanetHeart.org ,
Call: 212-222-5432.
A portion of the proceeds helps support We.Net.
For anyone that is going to the March for Science NYC, this is the perfect antidote for the evening to be led to, as we connect as ONE.
Sponsors: We.net, Planetheart.org, Vividseats.com
Co-Sponsors/Partners: Inner Realm Magazine, Wisdom Magazine, Creations Magazine, Natural Awakenings Magazine, Heart of Mind Radio, WBAI, Talking Alternatives Broadcast, Good News Broadcast, Green Festival, Vigil for International Peace and Ecology, We Care for Humanity… more to be added.
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.
What in the world is happening?
– War and violence
– Alarming climate change
– Profits before people
At the same time, a hopeful movement grows:
– Corruption is being brought to light
– People are demanding justice, peace and a livable planet
What is behind these remarkable changes?
Maitreya the World Teacher, and the Masters of Wisdom are inspiring the Heart of Humanity, to create a world based upon justice and unity.
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.
Global Love Day, held annually each May 1st since 2004, is the universal recognition of our innate oneness through love. It is our vision to unite one and all in a celebration of love and compassion. We honor each May 1st as a symbolic day of unconditional love and call upon all people and all nations to gather together in the wisdom of peace and love. Join people around the world in celebrating and expanding LOVE.
The tenets of Global Love Day best summarize our vision:
We are one humanity on this planet.
All life is interconnected and interdependent.
All share in the Universal bond of love.
Love begins with self-acceptance and forgiveness.
With respect and compassion we embrace diversity.
Together we make a difference through love.
When we come from this limitless love, we naturally and easily embrace ourselves and our fellow humanity. Opening our heart, we allow unconditional love to be our guide and compassion to be our gift to life.
We invite you to celebrate with us by consciously focusing on love and what it means to you throughout this day. We hope that by practicing love in all areas of your life, you will find it easy to love unconditionally all year long. Our main theme explains it best…”Love Begins With Me”
To enlarge the team of planet Earth, Gaia is looking for evolutionaries working in full self-responsibility and on a freelance basis in different departments (e.g. cultural evolution, regeneration and conservation of flora and fauna, sustainable energy production, evolution of the economy, enlivening soils, upgrading human thoughtware, etc.)
– Are you willing to put your talents in service of something bigger than yourself?
– Are you ready to take radical responsibility for everything you do and don‘t do?
– Are you willing to leave your comfort zone and explore the unknown?
A growing team of extraordinary, inspired, and like-minded people with a strong vision of what is possible who lead a purposeful life, being their destiny in action and creating a future where all living beings can live harmoniously on planet Earth instead of merely surviving. If you are interested to meet with your team-colleagues, join us at the UnConference. We are looking forward to creatively collaborating with you!
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.
See last months Reaction To Response Here:
Register for June 7th here:
https://www.charterforcompassion.org/june-the-role-of-the-masculine-and-the-men-who-hold-us
A weekend of events to promote unity and bring communities together as well as to commemorate the inspiring MP for Batley and Spen (Yorkshire, GB) who was brutally murdered by an extremist last year. Street parties, coffee mornings, meetings – at all levels of society.
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
Lear more here! http://worldpeaceandprayerday.com/
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 Day Out Of Time The Mayan Calendar, known by the Maya as the Tun Uc or Moon Count is a 13-Moon Calendar and was devised by the Mayan Time-keepers, the Jaguar Priests. The calendar measures the year in 13 even months of 28 days each; a perpetual calendar of 52 perfect weeks, making a total of 364 days. With this Mayan Harmonic Time Standard, we usher in Galactic New Years Day on July 26th, and the day before that, JULY 25th, is the 365th day of the year on this 13-Moon Calendar. That day actually falls between the end of one calendar year and the beginning of the next, so July 25th is known as THE DAY OUT OF TIME as it literally is not a day of the week or day of the month at all.
The Day Out Of Time has been celebrated worldwide since 1992 as part of a growing World Peace Movement. For this reason, this special day is observed as the day to cancel all debts, pardon and forgive and to celebrate life through art and nature. It’s a day to experience true freedom…a time to ground the consciousness of and truly manifest unlimited prosperity and abundance as we usher in Galactic New Years Day on July 26th!!
On this day, honored by both the Egyptians and Mayan cultures, the Star Sirius rises with the Sun and a portal of creative potential is activated as we cross the Galactic Equator. What did they know that we have yet to learn?
This Very Special Event will include: Ceremonies of Forgiveness, Healing Through Vibrational Sound, Art, Working with Multidimensional Realms, Cancelling Debts so that all beings can have the opportunity of Beginning the New Time Unburdened, and Re-Harmonizing with Natural Time. In addition, there will be Guided Experiences Unveiling Creative Potentials for Divine Life Missions.
Please join us for this very special Global Peace Through Culture Event. Reservations are highly recommended. Please register now!
Where: New York New Church, 114 East 35th Street, New York, NY 10016. (At Park & 35th St.)
Cost: $25 in advance via Eventbrite or $33.00 cash only at the door.
Or Call 212-736-0999.
3 Days to go, We are So EXCITED
*****We HAVE added a 4th day. So many speaker requests. New speakers details to come.*****
****We are Uniting Globally****
(((New Earth New You NOW)))
FREE online LIVE 4 day Summit- 6th-9th August 2017 (U.S Dates).
“We are the future” – “To Heaven on Earth in our Time”
All of the best Earth Solutionaries: Coming to you LIVE, where ever you tune in from.
REGISTER: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/new-earth-new-you-now-live-online-summit-tickets-32025211269
This is a LOVE revolution of Solutions of grand proportion.
Synergistic Co-Creations of New Earth.
8 Group Meditations.
4x Open Group discussions end of each conference.
Shared – Future events, festivals, Summits and Sustainable community and Earth Healing Projects to be revealed.
REGISTER: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/new-earth-new-you-now-live-online-summit-tickets-32025211269
Host: Destiny Fae- Inspire Destiny, Inspire Unity Movement, New Earth New You NOW
Current speakers (Times in U.S Pacific):
DAY 1: (Spirit)
1:30pm – Yan Golding – United Earth
2:30pm – Michal Stefanow – astralship.org
3:15pm – Tessa Alexa Stanford – True Self Coach and Spiritual Teacher
3:45pm – Simon Bull – The Evolutionary Living Project
4:15pm – Kelly Kingston – OnePurse OnePlanet Ltd, NUU The Real World, Inspired Living Events, Inspired Living KIDS
4:45pm – Terrence LaMont Bellows – We Are Valuable Media
5:30pm – Margaret Sramko – Transformational Teacher, Dream Therapist, an Author and a Seminar Facilitator.
DAY 2: (Body)
1:30pm – Deane Thomas – Tesla Sustainable Village and Innovation Centre
2:30pm – Joshua Faust – Into the Mythica
3pm – Aeon PI Phlo – New Earth Solutions
3:30pm – Brittney Johnson – Fruit The World, Top of the Mountain
4:15pm – Amber Gibson – The New Earth Collective
5pm – Jangee Westphal – Humanitree
5:30pm – Amitabhaya & Moriya Light – Quantum Light Sound Healing
DAY 3: (Spirit)
1:30pm – Jody Morrison – spiritualistsonline.com, SOC Radio
2:15pm – Paula Hopwood – Inspirational Speaker, Author, InSpirit Soul Healer/Reader
2:45pm – Nomvula Green – Nomvula the Greeninglady
3:30pm – Michelle Lightworker – Lightworker Reflections
4pm – Shakara Tosha – An energetic guide + artist who communicates Light Languages + Star Messages
5pm – David Kam – Earth Dollar
5:30pm – Aislinn Kerchaert – Energy Therapy | Kundalini Goddessing | Earth Activation Altar-ation Art.
DAY 4: (mixed topics)
Details to come ASAP.
Some Themes discussed:
New Earth Energies, New Age theories, Eco Villages, Sustainable Communities, Collaborative and Sustainable Business, Alternative Currency, Mind Shifts and Mind Works with Consciousness, DNA upgrades and Consciousness evolution, Re forestation, Raw Food, Vegan food, Nutrition, Wellness in Mind Body and Spirit, Masc and Fem Balance, Synergistic social media and Alternative Media solutions, Quantum Physics and more.
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Also seeking Volunteers – Sponsors – More Co – Creators welcomed.
Our Sponsors:
The Source – Our “Omniversal” Broadcast Network
OnePurse OnePlanet Ltd
Inspire Destiny
Inspire Unity Movement
REGISTER: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/new-earth-new-you-now-live-online-summit-tickets-32025211269
If interested in Helping in any way please email: newearthnewyounow@gmail.com
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 On the occasion of the 72nd Anniversary of the Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki join Pax Christi Metro New York, Global Security Institute, Catholic Worker, Hiroshima Never Again: Principles for Inner and Outer Peace
Come for the Prayer, Presentation, and Public Witness
Sunday, August 6th, 2017
2:30 PM – 4:30 PM Prayer and Presentation: 20 Washington Square North Public Witness: Fr. Demo Square accessible by subway–A, B, C, D, E, F to W. 4th St.; N, R to 8th St.; 1 to Sheridan Sq.; and 6 to Astor PlazaBecause of the prayerful nature of the procession, we ask participants not to bring any signs or banners. Suggested minimum donation: $5 For more information, contact Pax Christi Metro New York, 371 Sixth Avenue, New York, NY Dear Friends, If you or your colleagues will be in New York City on August 6th, we invite you to be part of this commemoration of the 72nd Anniversary of the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It will feature We, The World Advisory Board Member Jonathan Granoff, President of the Global Security Institute, 2014 Nobel Peace Prize nominee and a tireless advocate for the abolition of nuclear weapons. We hope you will be part of this exceptional event! Rick Ulfik |
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.
| To read this online in your browser Click Here 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, 2017 Culminating on the INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PEACE Sept. 21st It’s Time to Unite Our Efforts! Every day we hear about new social, political and environmental challenges for our society and world. Millions of people are concerned about increasing economic insecurity, militarism, and environmental .degradation Growing polarization and intolerance is keeping us from collectively addressing the issues that potentially threaten our civilization’s very existence: The Mass Extinction of Species and Climate Disruption – both of which scientists say may become irreversible in the next 5-10 years if extraordinary action isn’t taken.
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An Urgent Message >From Your Children at http://WeYourChildren.org is a Public Service Video Series featuring children under 13 speaking in their own words to adults, making an appeal to all of us to respond with appropriate urgency.At http://WeYourChildren.org you’ll see 20 inspiring kids speaking in their own words, and learn how the children in your life can create and upload their own videos to add their voice for a Livable Future.Let’s spark a global children’s movement that gets the attention of those in power and helps to create major change! WE begins with YOU! Your generous tax deductible Donation will help us to continue and expand our global network of collaboration and action! With your Support we will:
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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
The time is upon us and on Monday morning we will be performing this artistic ritual with 150 dancers from all over the globe as an example of what can be if we all work together for one peaceful collaborative world. Our human mandala of peace will send up a cry to the heavens, to the universe. and to the world that there is a better way and we are taking proactive steps to create a world of peaceful coexistence for all. Please join us live online and add your vibrations of peace and good will as we meditate and reach out together during this half hour sacred offering. A cry for Peace.
We will meet online daily for #11DaysOfGlobalUnity To begin the day with a mantra and hear about the speaker for the day.
A Fun way to help #GlobalUnityNow and #11DaysOfGlobalUnity trend on social media. Follow www.twitter.com/thewecampaign and www.twubs.com
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
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Robert Thurman, Karenna Gore, Nwamaka Agbo
Michael Beckwith, Sande Hart, Jonathan Granoff
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON
Marianne Williamson is an internationally acclaimed spiritual author and lecturer. Six of her ten published books have been New York Times Best Sellers. Four of these have been #1 New York Times Best Sellers. 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…” – often misattributed to Nelson Mandela’s Inaugural address – is considered an anthem for a contemporary generation of seekers.
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
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
Please join us at Unity Village for the 24th annual Unity World Day of Prayer!
Weds, Sept 13:
* 7-8:30pm Opening Service in the Activities Center with keynote by Rev. Linda Martella-Whitsett. Music by Jana Stanfield. A candlelight walk to the Silent Unity Chapel will follow to open the 24-hour prayer vigil.
* 8:45pm Reception at Unity Banquet and Dining.
Thurs, Sept 14:
* 7:30-9am Interfaith Prayer Breakfast at Unity Banquet and Dining – In Person & Live Online.
* 11am Silent Unity Prayer Service in Activities Center – In Person & Live Online.
* 1:30pm Sacred Circle prayer experience in the central courtyard by flagpole
* 2:30-3:30 Sound Immersion (Gongs) in Activities Center – In Person & Live Online
* 3:30-5pm Art Gallery opening and Poetry Reading behind the bookstore.
* 4-6pm Open House for Unity Worldwide Ministries in Unity Education Building.
* 7-8pm Inspirational Concert by Jana Stanfield and closing celebration – In Person & Live Online.
* 8pm Closing of the 24-hour prayer vigil in the Silent Unity Chapel.
All events are free and open to the public. No registration required.
Donations gratefully accepted.
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.
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.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!
Nwamaka Agbo - Program Manager at Restore Oakland.
Nwamaka 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.
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 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.”
Vermont Youth UNITE: Together for Peace
Pabitra Bhattarai: Vermont Refugee Resettlement Program, Victoria Los: UNITE, Samuel Cowles: Climate Reality Project, Olivia Lapierre: NET Zero, Aden Haji: SURF, Zymora Davinchi & Audrey Grant: POC: Power of Color
UNITE is the collaboration of culturally diverse youth activists who come together from all across the state of Vermont to collaborate, innovate, and share. Youth leaders are creating space for the connection of different ideas, cultures, languages and religions in Vermont through innovation, sharing, and understanding. Youth speak up and use their voice as a tool for social change. Our goal is to help all youth realize that they do matter in this society and their voices have the power to change communities for the better. The power of encouraging youth leadership skills creates a society of engaged and aware leaders.
We are Together for Peace
This Bubble will be fully activated on September 16, 2017 @ 12:00 Noon EST on the Rainbow Bridge in Niagara Falls. It will envelope Earth as well as stretching another 2,222 miles into space.
Join millions worldwide on Saturday, September 16th at
noon NY Time and focus your prayers and
meditation on a peaceful resolution
before the situation escalates out of control. We will connect online live with Karen Palmer on The We Campaign Facebook Live.
James Twyman has been invited to the DMZ between North and South Korea to focus the synchronized meditation. We ask that you join together in groups or on your own and focus on peace on the Korea peninsula for fifteen minutes on September 16th. In the past these global meditations have been instrumental in dissolving conflicts, and given the potential catastrophe of a nuclear war with North Korea, we need you more than ever.
A Letter from James Twyman:
This is perhaps the most important prayer vigil we’ve ever been called to organize. The danger of this situation cannot be overemphasized, but neither can the opportunity. I believe that focused worldwide meditations are the most powerful force in the Universe.
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 – 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
September 11-21, 2017
Robert Thurman, Karenna Gore, Nwamaka Agbo
Michael Beckwith, Sande Hart, Jonathan Granoff
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER – IT’S FREE!
Today’s Featured Speakers are: Carlos Palma and Arooj Javed
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 for 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.
Arooj Javed is a passionate advocate for inter-faith 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 PhD 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.
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 21st Century.
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
We will be flying kites for Peace at a game park in Harare Zimbabwe. We will be hosting 40 charities who will be fundraising and spreading awareness of their causes. We hope to inspire unity hope peace gratitude and love
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
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER – IT’S FREE!
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.
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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!
Today’s Featured Speaker is: 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 nonprofit 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, includingThe 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.
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 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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Poetry Slam for Peace
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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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!
Today’s Featured Speaker is: Jonathan Granoff
Jonathan 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 Non-proliferation. 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 pro-grams, testified in Congress and at the UN numerous times and has, since 2003, addressed the annual Nobel Peace Laureate Summit in Paris and Rome.
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
Medicine for the People Spiritual Gathering is our grassroots movement for Love, Compassion and Healing in our collective conscious, for ourselves, our community, humanity and all our relations. We come together as a collective with the intent of offering our medicine to each other, to Mother Earth, Father Sky and All that IS. We are being called to share our heart space, to give gratitude as we come back to our authentic self and share our joy, peace,harmony and to help us heal in our own way and as a collective. This is a stand for Love and Unity. This is our medicine for a better tomorrow.
We gather to bring Heaven to Earth through free will and soul sovereignty in a unified collective, we humbly speak for humanity and offer healing to all our relations. Through prayer, ceremony, visualization and divine play we journey together with celebration in the arms of mother nature. Join us in beautiful Krause Springs for a weekend of camping, community, and co-creation. We will be sending our prayers through our heart space resonance as we play together, we sing together, we dance together and hold visions of Unity and Harmony for ALL.
We support each other with sharing ideas, gifts, services, talents and abilities. Co creation through collaboration. Everyone is offered the opportunity to give in a unique way,even if it is as simple as a hug, a few kind words, or asking how we can help. In this co creative space we join together for celebrating and cultivating our heart space. As a unified collective we join together in a Saturday Ceremony to give our prayers and Love affirmations to the collective consciousness as our own Medicine for the People. This fall equinox of 2017 we will be joining EARTHDANCE.ORG in a global link-up prayer for peace. We will be in the heart of the largest synchronized peace meditation in the world that takes place along with with the United Nations’ International Day of Peace. Earthdance has grown to become one of the largest globally synchronized music and dance events, having been held in over 1,000 locations in 80 countries. We welcome all open hearts to be apart of this globalized peace prayer and spiral dance. Bring your drums instruments and hold space with us for peace on our planet Earth.
Along with Earthdance prayer for peace we will be having other HEALING WORKSHOPS, and a GROUP ALTER to have as a focus of prayer and Love affirmation. Please bring sacred objects, pictures, crystals, trinkets and /or symbols of those you wish to receive our collective highest intention, affirmations and prayers. We will also have SACRED SOUND SUNDAY accompanied with an ANGEL WALK. We encourage all sacred instruments to come together Sunday morning as we journey into sound healings sessions in lush tropical landscapes of harmony and sing to mother earth together.
The event is FREE with the cost of the land fees that go directly to Krause Springs. Camping is $15 per night for 12 and up $10 for ages 4-11. Gates close at 9 pm. Please see website for rules and details @ www.krausesprings.net. If you would like to contribute to the gathering by offering a workshop/ playshop please contact us at secretagentoflove@gmail.com with a brief description of what it is you would like to offer. There are no paid positions for this gathering. Everyone should bring adequate food shelter and provisions for a safe and happy experience. Land rules apply: NO pets, glass, guns,fireworks, loud music and as always this is a FAMILY FRIENDLY event. Be very mindful of little eyes and ears. Please no drugs, alcohol or public nudity. We are all guests on this beautiful land and want to be welcomed back so please be mindful of all rules and other guests in the park.
As a collective we have the power of intention and free will to mix with Love and compassion. When we come together under a unified mind and collective resonate heart space we can create great change for a better tomorrow. We can help in healing the quantum field of the human consciousness. We get to be the change we would like to see! 3 days of camping communing and co-creation! If you are feeling called to join please RSVP ‘going’ asap so we may hold the correct amount of group space with the landowners. Keep up to speed on all that is happening by checking in the event page regularly and stay informed. This is our grassroots movement for Love! We are all here to Love and BE LOVED! We are the RAINBOW WARRIORS of native american prophecy. We are all here to bring change, if not us…who? Bring your heart, bring your soul and bring divine grace as we gather and heal one another Mother Earth and all our relations.
WE Unify is a life type concert event that begins in ceremony and ends in meditation, jam packed with multi disciplinary performing artists for love and for light the event is being handled by WE The World’s Heidi Little / Omnipresent Entertainment, and B Tru Arts a local Austin not for profit performing arts entity. From music to aerial acro/hula hoops/ the Dance of Oneness, Video segments, and a freedom DJ set, this is a family event. Suggested donation is $10-$25 at the door.
As a Featured Hour of 24 Hours of Compassion
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.
WE - A global campaign of We, The World to unite and amplify the effortsof 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!
Today’s Featured Speakers are: Deepak Chopra, Karenna Gore and Kabir Sehgal.
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 Postand 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 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 is an American author, composer, producer, navy officer, military veteran, investment banker, and financial executive. He orks 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 Journalbestselling 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 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 non-profit organization that merged with the Afro Latin Jazz Alliance.
Sehgal is a US Navy veteran and 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.
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
The theme honours the spirit of TOGETHER, a global initiative that promotes respect, safety and dignity for everyone forced to flee their homes in search of a better life. TOGETHER unites the organizations of the United Nations System, the 193 Member States of the United Nations, the private sector, civil society, academic institutions and individual citizens in a global partnership in support of diversity, non-discrimination and acceptance of refugees and migrants. It was initiated during the United Nations Summit for Refugees and Migrants on 19 September 2016.
Together, let us make this year’s celebration a memorable one where our global family experience a ray of light, hope, and peace from the Supreme Source of Light. Join us for a meditation experience and talk.
A truly unique and powerful event will happen all over the world on September 23rd and you are invited to take part.
Let’s share a minute’s eye contact with strangers in public to rebuild our sense of shared humanity in Phoenix! This is part of
The World’s Biggest Eye Contact Experiment 2017: Global Event
coordinated by The Liberators International in towns & cities all over the world and your participation will help create a global video message for peace and human connection on the 23rd of September 2017.
(Watch this powerful video from the 2015 event to see what the event is all about https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QdnCRWATZ8)
HOW TO PARTICIPATE IN THE EVENT?
1) You can become a participant, host or city representative by joining here –> http://bit.ly/OfficialEyeContact2017
2) Join this event page for updates. We will be posting in the run up to the event with important information.
ON THE DAY?
1) Bring your warm heart, a big smile and positive vibes 🙂
2) Depending on the weather conditions and personal preferences, you can bring pillows or a yoga mat, but also you can just come and share eye contact with others on foot.
3) Enjoy a beautiful morning together and after the event we will send the footage from the event to the Liberators International, so they can create a powerful, inspiring global message of peace and unity to the world !!!
WHERE TO MEET?
We will meet on Saturday the 23rd of September in the area circled at the park. Exact location will be confirmed soon.
HOW CAN YOU HELP?
1) Share this event on your profile and invite your friends !!!
2) Subscribe also to the global event here → http://bit.ly/2tBHnW0
3) Watch & share the global invitation video → http://bit.ly/2tBml9X
4) Add hash tag to photos and videos related to the event → #Share1minute #eyecontactexperiment #Phoenix #USA
Follow the Liberators International on Twitter @LiberatorsInt
Event officially hosted by www.theliberators.org & www.eyecontactexperiment.com
On all social media livestream events www.facebook.com/TheWeCampaign and www.facebook.com/mindfulmediamom www.twitter.com/TheWeCampaign and www.twitter.com/loveinactiontv
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.
The 2018 theme for International Women’s Day is #PressforProgress.
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Featured Speakers Include
 Sande Hart – Director of the Women and Girls Sector of Charter for Compassion International  Rick Ulfik – the Founder of We, The World and the WE Campaign at WE.net
Other Featured Speakers include Treasures >From The Universe members Nina Laiberg, Nancy Baldry, and Sarah Otis.
Please join us for a dynamic, inspiring and interactive live conversation on the women’s movement and women’s empowerment between passionate advocates Sande Hart, Rick Ulfik and a collective of women who have come together to give birth to Treasures From The Universe – a project of co-creation and collaboration bringing light, love, and healing to the world in tangible ways.
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 INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY WEBCAST March 7-9, 2018 http://peacechannel.com Co-Sponsored by We, The World, Playing For Change, Unity Foundation Pledge To Peace and Step It Up for Gender Equality Since 1909, International Women’s Day has celebrated the power of women around the globe. On March 8, 2018, International Women’s Day spotlights a worldwide movement for women’s rights, equality and justice. In our first annual Women’s Day Webcast, Peace Channel honors the strength and courage of the women who make up nearly half of the planet’s 244 million migrants, preserving families and contributing to the global economy. You may Embed the Peace Channel W ebcast on your own webpage using this code: <a class=”embedly-card” href=”http://peacechannel.com/“>PeaceChannel</a><script async src=”//cdn.embedly.com/widgets/platform.js” charset=”UTF-8″></script>.
To learn more, contact us at darlene@peacechannel.com.
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Global Kindness Going Viral Show
March 8, 2018
With Host Karen Palmer
Visit www.facebook.com/spiritualitygonewild
and like the page to get notifications of when we are live On March 8th, join us for a whole day filled with inspiring interviews, global meditations, and empowering action steps to become what we wish to see in the world. Conscious Women leaders in love, compassion, and kindness will share their uplifting stories of hope and ways the audience can help co-create a kinder and more loving world for all of us.
Guests include: Ladies Go Live, Tina Valant, Lottie Hern Ross, and Jenn Nelson, Then Wendi Gilbert of Kindness Evolution, Sande Hart of Charter for Compassion Women and Girls Sector, Teri Angel of Angelspeakers and Spirituality Gone Wild, David Nichol will lead us in a Global Meditation for Unity, Ann Cabano Founder of Just Be Love Project, Scarlett Lewis of Jesse Lewis Choose Love Foundation, Heidi Little of We, The World and International Children’s Month, and ShaRon Rae of No Judgement Just Love Movement.
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Unleashing the African Woman Thato Angelina Gabaitse Founder and Director Gabarone, Botswana Unleashing the African woman is a program aimed and designed to train groups of vulnerable women across Botswana. The mission of this program is to empower women to take full control of their lives. The program is designed to bring out the beautiful, strong and compassionate goddess in every woman.
This program strives to achieve this goal by developing the woman’s mindset through the building of leadership, life and entrepreneurial skills. This will be achieved through training conducted for 30 weeks through a body, mind and soul transformation journey with counseling, training on the development of a wholesome and holistic childhood foundation through love, abundance, and joy. Other activities include arts & crafts, theatre & dance, and gardening. Currently we are mobilizing resources to launch the program in partnership with YWCA Botswana (Young Women’s Christian Association), an organization that gives teen mothers the opportunity to continue with their secondary education while their babies are enrolled in the day care centre within the institution!
And soon we will be opening a branch office for We, The World in Botswana. For more information contact us at info@WeTheWorld.org |
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  ZEMYNA The Goddess of Earth
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1654075494638275 Inviting all Eco Warrior women to join hands with us to make this a better planet Organised by Namrataa Arora Singh Country Director for Charter for Compassion India, Women and Girls Namrataa Arora Singh is a spiritual eco-feminism activist, currently a fellow with Change.Org’s She Creates Change program in India, battling against the use of plastics and other issues relating to empowering women.
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Women Organized to Make Abuse Nonexistent http://www.womaninc.org 26 Boardman Place | San Francisco, CA 94103
Direct Line: (415) 969-6761 24/7 Support Line: (415) 864-472
Roberta Donnay’s New Album Release
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International Women’s Day 2018 Campaign Theme
 #PressforProgress https://www.internationalwomensday.com Now, more than ever, there’s a strong call-to-action to press forward and progress gender parity. There’s a strong call to #PressforProgress motivating and uniting friends, colleagues and whole communities to think, act and be gender inclusive.
Individually, we’re one drop but together we’re an ocean. Commit to a “gender parity mindset” via progressive action. Let’s all collaborate to accelerate gender parity, so our collective action powers equality worldwide.
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Hear & Join Eve Ensler’s Passionate Call for 1 Billion Women To Rise! Go to http://WE.net/EveEnsler for the inspiring interview with Eve Ensler who has led a global movement to end violence against women.
“At the beginning, we got a group of women together in my living room. I think living rooms and kitchens are where all revolutions really begin.”
– Eve Ensler Tony Award winning playwright, activist, and author of the theatrical phenomenon The Vagina Monologues
Eve Ensler was the Featured Speaker on WOMEN for the 11 Days of Global Unity Tele-Summit 2015 produced by the Shift Network in Partnership with We, The World.
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It’s Time to Unite Our Efforts
Rick Ulfik
Founder of We, The World and the WE Campaign at WE.net
Subscribe to our WE Campaign Global Action Newsletter: WE.net/subscribe
Extended Interview with Eve Ensler at http://WE.net/EveEnsler
Resources for Collaboration & Action
11 Days of Global Unity – 11 Ways to Transform Your World
11 Days of Global Unity Tele-Summit 2017 – Listen to the recent interviews with Deepak Chopra, Marianne Williamson, Ralph Nader, Robert Thurman and many others!
Trends in Global Grassroots Organizing , Trends Newsfeed
An Urgent Message From Your Children at WeYourChildren.org
GlobalUnityCalendar.org – See and post social change and cultural events worldwide!
Renewable Energy Media Campaign and Movement
Volunteer Sign-up: http://WE.net/takeaction/volunteer
Organization Sign-up: http://WE.net/11days/participate
Donation Page: WE.net/donate
Facebook – Twitter
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
International Day of Forests 2018
2018 Events around the world
To celebrate this year’s International Day of Forests, this event will gather eminent speakers presenting innovative ideas on urban farming, the integration of trees in buildings, wood construction and architecture, showing that technology and ingenuityhave no limits.
Project Extraordinary is an inaugural award competition to make sustainability sexy for consumers. The brief is to develop a concept for a short-form video that demonstrates an idea that makes sustainability so sexy it cannot be ignored any more. This initiative is a collaboration between WiLD Studios and WWF, supported by UN Environment.
Distinguished guests will discuss ‘difference’ from diverse perspectives and how engagement with the natural world, each other, and diverse spiritual traditions may bridge the divide. The evening’s guests include Duncan Murdoch, host of forest walks throughout the state with his organization, Nature Connection Guide, artist; and Steven Parker owner and manager of High Reach Farm, a diversified tree farm in Danville, VT.
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.
The Love Initiative.
Notes From the Road – Bright Lights Blog
http://troubadourofpeace.blogspot.com/
Book a house concert or music for a yoga class today!!
TOUR DATES
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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 |
International Event
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For more information:
https://marchforourlives.com/faq
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
Soon it will be time again: On Saturday, March 24, 2018, the next EARTH HOUR will take place! Watch as the lights go off anywhere in the world between 8:30 pm and 9:30 pm local time – as a sign of protecting our planet and calling for more climate protection.
For a nature-friendly energy transition :
The oceans are warming up, glaciers are retreating, the deserts are spreading: in order to prevent the worst effects of climate change, we must consume significantly less energy, switch to environmentally friendly renewable energies and protect the forests and oceans for climate regulation. Politics must create framework conditions, companies must save greenhouse gases, but every single one is now in demand!
Together we can promote a nature-friendly energy transition, actively influence climate policy and promote sustainable lifestyles.
Join in:
- To be active even for climate protection
- Climate and energy tips
- Participation for companies as well as cities and communities
Largest climate protection action in the world!
The WWF EARTH HOUR is a simple idea that quickly became a global event: when the first time the EARTH HOUR was switched off in 2007, it only happened in one city: Sydney. Meanwhile, the number of participants is growing from year to year. In 2017, EARTH HOUR reached hundreds of millions of people in 187 countries and territories. More than 12,000 famous buildings have been darkened.
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.
The Institute for Sustainable Development is proud to present Xiuhtezcatl Martinez, Indigenous climate activist, hip-hop artist, author, and Youth Director of Earth Guardians to Chico State for a student and community Earth Month event.
We hope you can join us on Monday, April 16, 2018 from 3:00-5:00 pm at the Bell Memorial Union Auditorium.Seating starts at 2:00 pm. This show is free and open to the public with advanced registration. Click here to register for this event.
Earth Guardians Youth Director Xiuhtezcatl Martinez, (his first name pronounced ‘Shoe-Tez-Caht’) is a 17-year-old indigenous climate activist, hip-hop artist, author and powerful voice on the front lines of a global youth-led environmental movement. At the early age of six Xiuhtezcatl began speaking around the world, from the Rio +20 United Nations Summit in Rio de Janeiro, to addressing the General Assembly at the United Nations in New York city.
He has worked locally to get pesticides out of parks, coal ash contained, and moratoriums on fracking in his state and is currently a lead plaintiff in a youth-led lawsuit against the federal government for their failure to protect the atmosphere for future generations. Xiuhtezcatl has traveled across the nation and to many parts of the world educating his generation about the state of the planet they are inheriting.
His message has inspired youth to join the front lines to combat some of the greatest issues of their times that are impacting their communities and future. Earth Guardians has grown to hundreds of youth-led crews in over 30 countries. His work has been featured on PBS, Showtime, National Geographic, Rolling Stone, Upworthy, Aljazeera, The Guardian, Vogue, Bill Maher, The Daily Show, Skavlan, Q&A, AJ+, CNN, MSNBC, HBO, VICE, and many more.
In 2013, Xiuhtezcatl received the 2013 United States Community Service Award from President Obama, and was the youngest of 24 national change-makers chosen to serve on the President’s youth council. He is the 2015 recipient of the Peace First Prize, recipient of the 2015 Nickelodeon Halo Award, 2016 Captain Planet Award, the 2016 Children’s Climate Prize from Sweden, as well as the 2017 Univision Premio’s Ajente de Cambio Award.
Read an excerpt from Xiuhtezcatl’s book
We Rise: The Earth Guardians Guide to Building a Movement that Restores the Planet
Free Conference call invite
Organizer: Rita Morgin
Land healing meditation: sending love and light to all the energies on a land or space that are in need of Loving Care.
Saturday, april 21, 2018 9:00 am to 1:00 pm PDT
Sat. 21 April 2018 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm AES
Sustainability Hub at Grantham Heritage Park 71 Seven Hills Road South
Seven Hills, NSW 2147 Australia
SAVE THE DATE SATURDAY APRIL 21ST, 2018
PLANET HEART’S 11th
ANNUAL WORLD PEACE EARTH DAY CELEBRATION
“Celebrating Our Planet, Healing Our Heart”
Produced by Andrew Kaen in Association
with We, The World (fiscal sponsor) & Jodi Serota.
Come join us in NYC for A Very Special Evening with our Conscious Community as we Gather in Unity Honoring Mother Earth & The New Earth.
Listen to Inspirational Talks, Experience Live Music Performances, and Inspired Poetry along with Guided Meditations.
Heal, Awaken & be Ignited through Vibrational Sound Activations.
There will be Opening and Closing Ceremonies, Celebrations & Prayers for World Peace, Planet Earth & All Inhabitants.
All Are Welcome! Please Share! We Are One!
May Peace Prevail On Earth!
Featuring:
❤️Mitchell Rabin (Host/MC): Founder/Host/Producer, A Better World Radio and TVP, www.abetterworld.net
❤️Andrew Kaen: Executive Producer/Vibrational Sound Healer/Poet
❤️Jodi Serota: Metaphysical Educator, Channel, Vibrational Healer, Professional Artist, www.jodiserota.com
❤️Rick Ulfik: Founder of We, the World, We Campaign (www.we.net)
❤️Kurt Johnson – Author, The Coming Interspiritual Age, President of the Friends of the Institute of Noetic Sciences (FIONS), www.interspirituality.com
❤️Ron and Victoria Friedman: Co-Founders, Vistar Foundation
www.vistarfoundation.org
❤️Barbara Biziou: Spiritual Life Coach and Global Ritual Expert
http://barbarabiziou.com/
❤️Premik Russell Tubbs: Composer, Arranger, Producer and an accomplished Multi-Instrumentalist, www.premik.com
❤️and you
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❤️Visit our Full Website for FULL DETAILS and bios of Presenters
http://www.planetheart.org/
Contact: info@planetheart.org
Event hotline: 212-222-5432
Direct line: 646-765-7890 – Andrew Kaen,
Executive Producer, Founder, Principal Organizer
❤️Visit the website http://www.planetheart.org/
ALL ARE WELCOME! Please Share!❤️
Time: 6:30PM Sharp – 9:30PM.
(Doors Open at 6pm for Registration)
Price: $25 (pre-paid by April 20th) or $33 cash only at door. (No Refunds).
Location: New York New Church
114 East 35th Street, New York, NY, 10016
More Info: www.planetheart.org ❤️
Email: EarthDay@WeTheWorld,org
Call: 212-222-5432.
A portion of the proceeds helps support We.Net.❤️
Sponsors: We.net, Planetheart.org
Co-Sponsors/Partners: Inner Realm Magazine, Wisdom Magazine, Creations Magazine, Natural Awakenings Magazine, Heart of Mind Radio, WBAI, Talking Alternatives Broadcast, Good News Broadcast, Vigil for International Peace and Ecology, We Care for Humanity, Pete Rogina and Eileen Cohen’s Peace Lights, Aum Shanti Bookshop, Forest Nation, Action Moves People United, Interspiritual Network, A Better World with Mitchell Rabin, The Family of Light: Artists, Psychics & Healers (Alan Pratt), Ayurveda Cafe, Sanctuary for Harmonic Living, Peace December (NY Peace Coalition), Sylvia Moss, Vistar Foundation, FIONS, Peace Toys (HUGG A PLANET), Peace Lights Org, Media Dream Productions, Vanessa Espinosa Graphic Design, Anne Leighton Media Relations, #EarthDay2018 #PledgetoPlant
Planet Heart Logo © Elana Stanger, a.k.a. St. Angel www.diversityarts.com
Pope Francis said “Bring the whole human family together . . . for we know that things can change.” (Laudato Si’, 13)
Celebrate creation during mass. After mass, encourage your diocese to shrink its carbon footprint by signing postcards together.
It’s surprising, but postcards really do work.
The diocese is a moral leader. It also coordinates activities in parishes that affect a lot of people. That’s why its commitment is so important.
On Earth Day we lift our voices as one. We’re uniting in a big global effort to encourage dioceses to reduce their emissions. Here’s how it works:
- Celebrate creation during mass. After mass, work together to write postcards to the diocese.
- The postcards will encourage the diocese to put Catholic teaching into practice by reducing their greenhouse gas emissions.
- The first step is to establish an office devoted to caring for creation.
Diocesan staff are invited to a webinar led by Vatican officials.
MARCH FOR SCIENCE
DENMARK
APRIL 22, 2018
SCIENCE MARCHES ON
In 2017, more than one million people around the world gathered together in the largest event for science advocacy in history. On April 22, 2018, March for Science Denmark unites again to hold our elected and appointed officials responsible for enacting equitable evidence-based policies that serve all communities and science for the common good.
IT’S TIME WE HELD OUR POLITICAL LEADERS ACCOUNTABLE FOR SUPPORTING GOOD SCIENCE POLICY. IT’S TIME WE JOIN TOGETHER AND DEMAND THAT OUR LEADERS USE SCIENCE TO INFORM THEIR WORK AND CAST THEIR VOTES FOR SCIENCE.
We are scientists, science enthusiasts and concerned people of planet Earth. We come from all cultures, all religions, all gender identities, all sexual orientations, all abilities, 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 and social progress. What unites us is a love of science, reason and an insatiable curiosity for knowledge. We recognize that science is everywhere and affects everyone on the globe.
Science protects the health of our communities, the safety of our families, the education of our children, the foundation of our economy and jobs, and the future we all want to live in and preserve for coming generations.
Wednesday, April 25, 2018
Volunteer Recruitment Happy Hour
4:30 – 6:00 pm MDT
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Rocky Mountain Conservancy is excited to share its 2018 Volunteer Events! This summer we have volunteer projects planned from May through October working on litter clean-ups, trail project, invasive species removal, native plant restoration, fire fuels reduction, and more!
Join us on April 25, 2018 for Happy Hour at Rock Cut Brewing to learn more about these opportunities, register for our volunteer list, and enjoy some discounts on local craft beer when you sign up!
Current list of volunteer opportunities can be found at https://rmconservancy.org/donate/support-work/volunteer/.
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
In Association with Friends of the Institute of Noetic Sciences
Present
and the Power of Nonviolent Communication
http://WE.net/wwv-nvc-june18 Monday June 18, 2018
Registration, Seating and Networking 6:30pm – 7:00pm
Program starts promptly at 7:00pm to 9:00pm
227 West 13th Street 3rd Floor Aqua Room
(Between 7th and 8th Avenues) in Manhattan, New York City Outside of New York?
View the Free Online LIVE Webcast!
(Livestream link at www.YouCanView.com or go to WE.net)
Featuring
- Dr. Jude Currivan – Author of The Cosmic Hologram and Co-Creator of the WholeWorld-View
- Rick Ulfik – Founder of We, The World and the WE Campaign at WE.net, Rick is also a Nonviolent Communication (NVC) Workshop Facilitator and leader
- Dr. Kurt Johnson – Author of The Coming Interspiritual Age, President of Friends of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, and a Co-Creator of Unity.Earth
- Kristin Hoffmann – Internationally acclaimed Singer, Songwriter and Recording Artist
- Gil Agnew – Co-Creator of the WholeWorld-View
- Robert Levine – Writer, activist, Yoga instructor, Outreach & Volunteer Coordinator for We, The World and Board Member of Friends of the Institute of Noetic Sciences
Sliding Scale: $20, $15, or $10 (no one turned away) Limited Seating! To RSVP please write to Gil@newinnergy.com
Dear Friends,
We invite you to join us for a dynamic, inspiring, informative and interactive gathering in New York City and LIVE Online wherever you are. At this gathering we will deepen our understanding and experience of the emergent WholeWorld-View. And we will explore how the framework and language of NonviolentCommunication can apply this unity awareness, empoweringus to value our personal uniqueness and celebrate our diversity whilehealing and transforming our relationships with ourselves, each otherand our planetary home.
In this participatory and experiential evening, you will:
- Discover the key insights of the WholeWorld-View of unified reality and unity awareness
- Explore the principles and processes of Nonviolent Communication (NVC) that have touched millions of lives and inspired many to believe that practicing NVC is a key strategy for bringing peace and unity to our world
- Understand the unity movements’ impetus in the world
- Participate in an NVC experience called Shifting Towards Compassion
- Attune with the transpersonal experience of unity awareness
- Explore and share what the embodiment of unity expressed in diversity means for our own lives
- Be deeply moved by the inspiring vocal performances of Kristin Hoffmann !
We look forward to hearing from you and hope you will join us June 18th – in person or online!
Rick Ulfik – Founder of We, The World and the WE Campaign at WE.net
Visit https://yoga.unify.org/
The UN declared June 21st as International Yoga Day, and in honor of this special day, UNIFY along with its partners are organizing a Global Synchronized Yoga and Meditation Journey. From a full day YOGA SUMMIT to live events around the world, join us to participate and UNIFY with millions of others practicing at the same time.
Enter your info in the form to the page to receive a mobile text reminder to sync up with us on World Yoga Day, and the ability to share photos from your event by text! Your information is private and secure and will not be shared with other organizations.
You can also find an event on the map on our site, add your event, or list your studio to support our network in practicing year round.
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
Across the nation we will confront corruption and demand democracy with a candlelight vigil at sundown on July 18, 2018. Collaborate with your community to take action.
HUMANUNITY DAY
7/21/18
It is time to designate and celebrate a holiday that includes every person upon the planet. A global holiday celebrating the only thing that all 7.3 billion of us have in common – our shared humanity. On this July 21st, and for every year forward on this day, let us recognize and celebrate the simple truth that we are all human. Beyond any and all of the many aspects of the diversity that distinguishes us, let us recognize that there is a sameness that connects us – an undeniable human connection that we share with every person upon the planet. So be it a small gathering for a meal or a march of unison in a major metropolis, on this day let us recognize and celebrate our connection – a connection based upon the simple truth that we are all human.
http://www.Abolition2000.org
Abolition 2000 Events Around The World
To Commemorate
The Nuclear Bombing of Hiroshima (August 6, 1945)
And Nagasaki (August 9, 1945)
To have your event added to these, please contact Basel Peace Office – info@baselpeaceoffice.org
ACTION STEPS TO CALL FOR THE ABOLITION OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS
http://www.baselpeaceoffice.org/sites/default/files/imce/articles/2018/nuclear_remembrance_and_action_week_aug_6-9.pdf
You can also
Please let us know if you want to synchronize your calendar with ours.
Dear Friends,
August 6 and 9 are the 73rd anniversaries of the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. As a member of Abolition 2000 We, The World invites you to join one of the Abolition 2000 Events worldwide and add your voice to the growing movement for nuclear abolition.
On the topic of Disarmament we encourage you to watch this remarkable interview with Jonathan Granoff, who is President of the Global Security Institute, a 2014 Nobel Peace Prize nominee, We, The World Advisory Board Member, and a tireless advocate for the abolition of nuclear weapons.
Also, please Save The Date September 12th during 11 Days of Global Unity – we will be celebrating We, The World’s 20th Year with a special event in NYC! And it will be webcast. Click here for more details.
Thank you for helping to create a world that works for all.
Rick Ulfik
Founder of We, The World and the WE Campaign at WE.net
Subscribe to our WE Campaign Global Action Newsletter: WE.net/subscribe
At this #MeToo Moment – Extended Interview with Eve Ensler at http://WE.net/EveEnsler
Resources for Collaboration & Action
11 Days of Global Unity – 11 Ways to Transform Your World
11 Days of Global Unity Tele-Summit – Watch the recent interviews with Deepak Chopra, Marianne Williamson, Ralph Nader, Jonathan Granoff, Robert Thurman and many others!
An Urgent Message From Your Children at WeYourChildren.org
GlobalUnityCalendar.org – See and post social change and cultural events for a global audience!
Renewable Energy Media Campaign and Movement
Volunteer Sign-up: http://WE.net/takeaction/volunteer
Organization Sign-up: http://WE.net/11days/participate
Donation Page: WE.net/donate
Sponsorship Page: WE.net/sponsor
Facebook – Twitter
http://www.Abolition2000.org
Abolition 2000 Events Around The World
To Commemorate
The Nuclear Bombing of Hiroshima (August 6, 1945)
And Nagasaki (August 9, 1945)
To have your event added to these, please contact Basel Peace Office – info@baselpeaceoffice.org
ACTION STEPS TO CALL FOR THE ABOLITION OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS
http://www.baselpeaceoffice.org/sites/default/files/imce/articles/2018/nuclear_remembrance_and_action_week_aug_6-9.pdf
You can also
http://GlobalUnityCalendar.orgPlease let us know if you want to synchronize your calendar with ours.
Dear Friends,
August 6 and 9 are the 73rd anniversaries of the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. As a member of Abolition 2000 We, The World invites you to join one of the Abolition 2000 Events worldwide and add your voice to the growing movement for nuclear abolition.
On the topic of Disarmament we encourage you to watch this remarkable interview with Jonathan Granoff, who is President of the Global Security Institute, a 2014 Nobel Peace Prize nominee, We, The World Advisory Board Member, and a tireless advocate for the abolition of nuclear weapons.
Also, please Save The Date September 12th during 11 Days of Global Unity – we will be celebrating We, The World’s 20th Year with a special event in NYC! And it will be webcast. Click here for more details.
Thank you for helping to create a world that works for all.
Rick Ulfik
Founder of We, The World and the WE Campaign at WE.net
Subscribe to our WE Campaign Global Action Newsletter: WE.net/subscribe
At this #MeToo Moment – Extended Interview with Eve Ensler at http://WE.net/EveEnsler
Resources for Collaboration & Action
11 Days of Global Unity – 11 Ways to Transform Your World
11 Days of Global Unity Tele-Summit – Watch the recent interviews with Deepak Chopra, Marianne Williamson, Ralph Nader, Jonathan Granoff, Robert Thurman and many others!
An Urgent Message From Your Children at WeYourChildren.org
GlobalUnityCalendar.org – See and post social change and cultural events for a global audience!
Renewable Energy Media Campaign and Movement
Volunteer Sign-up: http://WE.net/takeaction/volunteer
Organization Sign-up: http://WE.net/11days/participate
Donation Page: WE.net/donate
Sponsorship Page: WE.net/sponsor
Facebook – Twitter
http://www.Abolition2000.org
Abolition 2000 Events Around The World
To Commemorate
The Nuclear Bombing of Hiroshima (August 6, 1945)
And Nagasaki (August 9, 1945)
To have your event added to these, please contact Basel Peace Office – info@baselpeaceoffice.org
ACTION STEPS TO CALL FOR THE ABOLITION OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS
http://www.baselpeaceoffice.org/sites/default/files/imce/articles/2018/nuclear_remembrance_and_action_week_aug_6-9.pdf
You can also
Please let us know if you want to synchronize your calendar with ours.
Dear Friends,
August 6 and 9 are the 73rd anniversaries of the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. As a member of Abolition 2000 We, The World invites you to join one of the Abolition 2000 Events worldwide and add your voice to the growing movement for nuclear abolition.
On the topic of Disarmament we encourage you to watch this remarkable interview with Jonathan Granoff, who is President of the Global Security Institute, a 2014 Nobel Peace Prize nominee, We, The World Advisory Board Member, and a tireless advocate for the abolition of nuclear weapons.
Also, please Save The Date September 12th during 11 Days of Global Unity – we will be celebrating We, The World’s 20th Year with a special event in NYC! And it will be webcast. Click here for more details.
Thank you for helping to create a world that works for all.
Rick Ulfik
Founder of We, The World and the WE Campaign at WE.net
Subscribe to our WE Campaign Global Action Newsletter: WE.net/subscribe
At this #MeToo Moment – Extended Interview with Eve Ensler at http://WE.net/EveEnsler
Resources for Collaboration & Action
11 Days of Global Unity – 11 Ways to Transform Your World
11 Days of Global Unity Tele-Summit – Watch the recent interviews with Deepak Chopra, Marianne Williamson, Ralph Nader, Jonathan Granoff, Robert Thurman and many others!
An Urgent Message From Your Children at WeYourChildren.org
GlobalUnityCalendar.org – See and post social change and cultural events for a global audience!
Renewable Energy Media Campaign and Movement
Volunteer Sign-up: http://WE.net/takeaction/volunteer
Organization Sign-up: http://WE.net/11days/participate
Donation Page: WE.net/donate
Sponsorship Page: WE.net/sponsor
Facebook – Twitter
http://www.Abolition2000.org
Abolition 2000 Events Around The World
To Commemorate
The Nuclear Bombing of Hiroshima (August 6, 1945)
And Nagasaki (August 9, 1945)
To have your event added to these, please contact Basel Peace Office – info@baselpeaceoffice.org
ACTION STEPS TO CALL FOR THE ABOLITION OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS
http://www.baselpeaceoffice.org/sites/default/files/imce/articles/2018/nuclear_remembrance_and_action_week_aug_6-9.pdf
You can also
Please let us know if you want to synchronize your calendar with ours.
Dear Friends,
August 6 and 9 are the 73rd anniversaries of the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. As a member of Abolition 2000 We, The World invites you to join one of the Abolition 2000 Events worldwide and add your voice to the growing movement for nuclear abolition.
On the topic of Disarmament we encourage you to watch this remarkable interview with Jonathan Granoff, who is President of the Global Security Institute, a 2014 Nobel Peace Prize nominee, We, The World Advisory Board Member, and a tireless advocate for the abolition of nuclear weapons.
Also, please Save The Date September 12th during 11 Days of Global Unity – we will be celebrating We, The World’s 20th Year with a special event in NYC! And it will be webcast. Click here for more details.
Thank you for helping to create a world that works for all.
Rick Ulfik
Founder of We, The World and the WE Campaign at WE.net
Subscribe to our WE Campaign Global Action Newsletter: WE.net/subscribe
At this #MeToo Moment – Extended Interview with Eve Ensler at http://WE.net/EveEnsler
Resources for Collaboration & Action
11 Days of Global Unity – 11 Ways to Transform Your World
11 Days of Global Unity Tele-Summit – Watch the recent interviews with Deepak Chopra, Marianne Williamson, Ralph Nader, Jonathan Granoff, Robert Thurman and many others!
An Urgent Message From Your Children at WeYourChildren.org
GlobalUnityCalendar.org – See and post social change and cultural events for a global audience!
Renewable Energy Media Campaign and Movement
Volunteer Sign-up: http://WE.net/takeaction/volunteer
Organization Sign-up: http://WE.net/11days/participate
Donation Page: WE.net/donate
Sponsorship Page: WE.net/sponsor
Facebook – Twitter
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!
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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Radical [Re]Construction of Values Workshop Series – FOOD + HEALTH
Sat, August 25, 2018, 9:30 AM – 12:30 PM CDT
| 312.508.3982
We invite you to join us for the next workshop of a year-long series of gatherings and events that seek to catalyze the Radical [Re]Construction of Chicago’s South side. At this session, you will engage in action-oriented dialogue through which we will collectively reflect on our current state and begin to articulate the values and actions required to realize our vision of reconstruction. Light breakfast, coffee, and lunch will be provided. Arts and crafts activities will be available for children. RSVP Required. Click here to register. **************************************** |
Founder and guiding teacher of the Earth Treasure Vase Global
ETV full moon call
Please join us August 25 at 9:pm for a FREE live global meditation to call forth a wise USA, led by Cynthia Jurs of the Earth Treasure Vase Global Healing Project: goo.gl/H76JR0
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Subtle Activism Movement
The Role of the Gaiafield Project within the Global Subtle Activism Movement
The Gaiafield Project is part of an emerging, multi-hub global subtle activism movement. Although we offer regular public subtle activism events, our primary aim is not to create another new global meditation network, but to facilitate greater coherence and collaboration between the many existing and newly emerging global subtle activism initiatives. We are not “the” hub, but we are ‘a’ significant hub for leaders and organizations in this new field.
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.
The UN High Level Forum on The Culture of Peace, 5 September 2018 at United Nations Headquarters, New York, NY – Webcast at UN WebTV At this Forum key UN and civil society leaders discuss strategies for resolving and preventing conflicts and implementing the UN Programme of Action on the Culture of Peace. 1992 Nobel Peace Laureate Dr Rigoberta Menchu Tum will be the keynote speaker. President of the General Assembly and UN Secretary-General will also speak. The theme of the Forum is “The Culture of Peace: A Credible Pathway to Sustaining Peace“. Please visit the following UN link to know more: https://www.un.org/pga/72/wp-content/uploads/sites/51/2018/08/PGA-letter-Culture-of-Peace.pdf “Contact: Iris Spellings optu.ny@gmail.com
After what seems like forever playing defense, our chance to go on the offense comes September 8.That’s the day we Rise for Climate across the world — there will be big events in at least 80 countries.
But the most important focus may be in the U.S. — we launched this day of demonstrations to coincide with the upcoming Global Climate Action Summit in California. Just as we did before the Paris climate conference, we need to demonstrate that there’s a deep and wide demand from people across the U.S. for climate action.
And if we can’t do it now — after the hottest May to July period in American history, after wildfires that closed Yosemite and Glacier national parks, after Hurricanes Harvey and Maria — then when? This is the moment. We’re not trying to persuade Trump — he’s unreachable. Instead we’re telling governors, mayors, local officials of all kinds that they need to take up some of the slack from D.C.
We’re focused on 100% renewables (and the price of solar power keeps hitting record lows). We’re focused on stopping the build out of new fossil fuel infrastructure (and just last week came the news that yet another court has ordered yet another new review of Keystone XL). And we’re focused on stopping the flow of money to the fossil fuel industry (we’re still a little giddy from the news that the entire nation of Ireland is divesting, bringing the total commitments to well over $6 trillion).
But now we need you, in your community. If the past days of global action are any indication, this will be fun, moving, and extraordinarily useful. Find out what’s happening near you, and sign up. And see you in the streets.
Boston RISE for Climate, Jobs, and Justice: Rally and People’s School
Date and Time:
Sat, Sep 8, 2018 12:00 PM (Local Time)
Time is tentative.
Organized By: Massachusetts Chapter
Location: Boston, MA 02114, USA
Map | Directions
Event Organizers:
Michele Brooks
michele.brooks@sierraclub.org
(617) 423-5775
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Climate change impacts people of color, low-wage workers, and Indigenous peoples—here and around the world—first and worst. Extreme heat, drought, floods, wildfires, storms, and poisoned oceans caused by fossil fuel pollution worsen the war, famine, poverty, violence, and oppression they already face. Many are left with no choice but to leave their homes and seek refuge in the U.S., only to be met with more violence and oppression by our own government. Families are being torn apart. Ecosystems are collapsing. People are dying. The tide is rising…but so are we. As governors, mayors, and corporate reps meet at the Global Climate Action Summit in CA—and as our own Governor & Legislature in MA continue to accept money from the fossil fuel industry and then fail to enact commonsense climate and immigration reforms—we’ll prove that real climate leadership rises from the grassroots up and doesn’t leave anyone behind. On Sept 8 (and beyond), local climate and immigrant justice groups are joining forces to strengthen relationships across our movements, build collective power, and demand accountability and ACTION on climate change and immigrant rights: 100% renewable energy for all. Dignity & respect for all. JOIN US to envision & build a JUST TRANSITION in MA: FROM dirty coal, oil, & gas TO clean wind & solar power. FROM prisons & deportations TO freedom & sanctuary. FROM worker abuse TO safe, green, family-sustaining union jobs. FROM gentrification & displacement TO affordable housing & transit. FROM corporate control TO community control. FROM polluted air, water, & soil TO healthy people & planet. FROM extraction & exploitation TO economic & environmental justice. On Sept 8: Resist – Learn – Build – Connect – Act – RISE – for Climate & Immigrant Justice Join us for the Climate, Jobs, & Justice outdoor “People’s School.” It will start with a short kickoff rally that highlights the intersections of our issues, the failings of our political system in MA, and the urgency of this moment for us to come together and take action. The rest of the day will consist of interactive teach-ins, skill-shares, and art-builds that touch on a range of intersectional topics to educate folks, build relationships, and lift up the work of local frontline groups. |
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! |
WORLDPEACEPRODUCTIONS.ORG, WE, The World, and FamilyOfLight,org invite you to participate in a global movement for Peace & Sustainability Sept 11-21, culminating in the International Day of Peace.
The FIRST DAY of our ONLINE #11DaysOfGlobalUnity
FREE FILM SCREENINGS VEGAN FILM FESTIVAL starts, Sept. 11.
THEME: UNITY
Please host a free film screening, watch the film, and take an 11 Day Challenge to go Vegan and share the opportunity with those you care about by hosting an improVdinners.com Breakin’ Bread Together for a Better World
MODERN DAY PEACE RALLY with WORLDPEACEPRODUCTIONS.ORG
MEDIA THAT MATTERS!
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-UPs 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. “Laughter is the shortest distance between 2 people.” – Victor Borge Connect to others with 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!
The Empowered Elder:
CEN’s Foundation Workshop
Tuesdays, Sept 11th – Oct 23rd
10 – 12:15pm PDT 1 – 3:15pm EDT
Join the Conscious Elders Network for our online workshop. The Empowered Elder Workshop covers the underlying principles and ideas of CEN and invites a shift from individual self to global self, and from “senior” to empowered Elder. This highly interactive workshop incorporates practices of the Work That Reconnects, Age-ing to Sage-ing, Sacred Activism, and more to help us explore together what it means to be an Elder at this time in history.
Facilitated by Constance Washburn M.A., a founding member of the Conscious Elders Network. She is an activist, workshop leader, and educator with over 35 years of experience designing programs which inspire and build deep connections to ourselves, each other, and the natural world.
Video recording of each session will be available for those who need to miss a session or two.
Seven Online Sessions
via Zoom Video Conferencing
Cost: $85 – $100 Sliding Scale
Yoga is described as a Union of Mind, Body, Spirit..Yoga Cosmic Breath brings in the Heart.
This Ancient practice is part energy tool/part meditation/ part pranayama. It is a link to Higher Love and Higher Consciousness.
Humanity has done the work to raise the vibration enough to be able to emass to be a container and anchor of this energy to the new earth.
This practice was offered first for the month of Sept in 2009 and now again in 2018
To serve others as a way to the higher heart resonance, which elevates us into different dimensions and Cosmic Consciousness.
Research has shown that the magnetic field of the heart is 5,000 times more powerful than the mind.
The way to living in the higher dimensions is through the heart portal which leads to unconditional love and a greater connection to the Divine, to yourself, to others and to nature.
The Cosmos ARE are here to help humanity.
It’s about a being in alignment with a cosmic heart connection of a different heartbeat, a heartbeat attuned to Cosmic Love through activations and being in rhythm with the Universe.
WE are stronger together is true!
How do you make an impact when you are working alone? Sloooowly.
Let us quicken as One.
It is a simple solution, we have done the heavy lifting, now we are in the labor pains and a smart mother- to-Be will learn how to breathe to ease the pain.
It only makes sense to do this as well, while we are in this process of birthing a new earth, does it not?
Our work now only requires us to BREATHE in a new way, and connect to our hearts.
This is about something greater than ourselves!
To Be, Midwives for the New Earth whether you are a woman or a man.
You will discover the more of us that do the inner work consistently, of raising our vibration and releasing density, we will be pulled towards the 5th World.
This is not a might be, this is a pathway.
I’m here to be a wayshower and a bridge.
This will fill the body with cosmic energy, assisting you to hold more light and love and to be the anchor And container.
Blessings,
Margarit
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
Yoga is described as a Union of Mind, Body, Spirit..Yoga Cosmic Breath brings in the Heart.
This Ancient practice is part energy tool/part meditation/ part pranayama. It is a link to Higher Love and Higher Consciousness.
Each night is a new experience, however the foundation follows this sequence
Rhythmic Breathing, Reiki, Neck and Shoulder Stretches, Closing with the main event the Yoga Cosmic ‘Love’ Breath
Humanity has done the work to raise the vibration enough to be able to be emass as a container and anchor of this energy to the new earth.
This practice was offered first for the month of Sept in 2009 and now again in 2018
To serve others as a way to the higher heart resonance, which elevates us into different dimensions and Cosmic Consciousness.
Research has shown that the magnetic field of the heart is 5,000 times more powerful than the mind.
The way to living in the higher dimensions is through the heart portal which leads to unconditional love and a greater connection to the Divine, to yourself, to others and to nature.
The Cosmos ARE are here to help humanity.
It’s about a being in alignment with a cosmic heart connection of a different heartbeat, a heartbeat attuned to Cosmic Love through activations and being in rhythm with the Universe.
WE are stronger together is true!
How do you make an impact when you are working alone? Sloooowly.
Let us quicken as One.
It is a simple solution, we have done the heavy lifting, now we are in the labor pains and a smart mother- to-Be will learn how to breathe to ease the pain.
It only makes sense to do this as well, while we are in this process of birthing a new earth, does it not?
Our work now only requires us to BREATHE in a new way, and connect to our hearts.
This is about something greater than ourselves!
To Be, Midwives for the New Earth whether you are a woman or a man.
You will discover the more of us that do the inner work consistently, of raising our vibration and releasing density, we will be pulled towards the 5th World.
This is not a might be, this is a pathway.
I’m here to be a wayshower and a bridge.
This will fill the body with cosmic energy, assisting you to hold more light and love and to be the anchor And container.
Blessings,
Margarit
Yoga is described as a Union of Mind, Body, Spirit..Yoga Cosmic Breath brings in the Heart.
This Ancient practice is part energy tool/part meditation/ part pranayama. It is a link to Higher Love and Higher Consciousness.
Each night is a new experience, however the foundation follows this sequence
Rhythmic Breathing, Reiki, Neck and Shoulder Stretches, Closing with the main event the Yoga Cosmic ‘Love’ Breath
Humanity has done the work to raise the vibration enough to be able to be emass as a container and anchor of this energy to the new earth.
This practice was offered first for the month of Sept in 2009 and now again in 2018
To serve others as a way to the higher heart resonance, which elevates us into different dimensions and Cosmic Consciousness.
Research has shown that the magnetic field of the heart is 5,000 times more powerful than the mind.
The way to living in the higher dimensions is through the heart portal which leads to unconditional love and a greater connection to the Divine, to yourself, to others and to nature.
The Cosmos ARE are here to help humanity.
It’s about a being in alignment with a cosmic heart connection of a different heartbeat, a heartbeat attuned to Cosmic Love through activations and being in rhythm with the Universe.
WE are stronger together is true!
How do you make an impact when you are working alone? Sloooowly.
Let us quicken as One.
It is a simple solution, we have done the heavy lifting, now we are in the labor pains and a smart mother- to-Be will learn how to breathe to ease the pain.
It only makes sense to do this as well, while we are in this process of birthing a new earth, does it not?
Our work now only requires us to BREATHE in a new way, and connect to our hearts.
This is about something greater than ourselves!
To Be, Midwives for the New Earth whether you are a woman or a man.
You will discover the more of us that do the inner work consistently, of raising our vibration and releasing density, we will be pulled towards the 5th World.
This is not a might be, this is a pathway.
I’m here to be a wayshower and a bridge.
This will fill the body with cosmic energy, assisting you to hold more light and love and to be the anchor And container.
Blessings,
Margarit
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.
GRANDMOTHERS OF THE SACRED WE
PRESENT
“INDIGENOUS WISDOM OF THE CHAKRAS”
Many Grandmother Elder prophecies have been foretold. Here is your invitation to experience and receive treasured wisdom as Grandmothers of the Sacred We return to Western Michigan.
Healing And Empowering Topics Will Include
Tribal Foundational Beliefs
Intimate Prayer
Courage to Trust
The Harmony of Love
Empowering Your Ancestral Voice
Expression of Joy and Peace
Friday, September 14, 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Saturday, September 15, 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Sunday, September 16, 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Lunch and Beverages provided on Saturday and Sunday.
$270 for all three days. (No day passes.)
Tickets now on sale!
Also go to: www.skyviewretreatcenter.com
28 spaces remaining!
We have people traveling here from outside of Michigan for this extraordinary gathering! Driving from Canada and the Midwest!
If you are feeling the call to attend, please heed the call and do what you can to experience their healing ways and deep wisdom.
Those who register before midnight, EST, July 31st, will be eligible to win some Early Bird goodies donated from the Grandmothers themselves!
Please continue to share this auspicious opportunity for us as individuals and for the collective of humanity.
1 to 1 Healing Appointments are now being scheduled for
Monday, September 17 and Tuesday, September 18.
See information further down on the page for details.
Tickets are non-refundable after September 1, 2018.
No on-site camping.
Hotels available in Grand Haven, Muskegon, Holland, Allendale, or Grand Rapids.
Airports located in Muskegon and Grand Rapids.
PayPal account is not needed. You can check-out with a credit or debit card.
You will receive an email confirmation within 48-hours of registering. If you don’t receive a Welcome Email from Sky View Retreat Center within this time, please check your spam folder or email us to confirm your space for this Event.
If you are purchasing 2 tickets, please include the second person’s name and current email address.
Speakers subject to availability.
Facebook Event Page link: www.facebook.com/events/353236211822001/
Get Your Tickets Now: Pathway to Paris
Bioneers is thrilled to partner with the brilliant minds behind Pathway to Paris who will be hosting two evenings of music and art at the Global Climate Action Summit on September 14 in San Francisco and September 16 in Los Angeles. The events will feature well-known artists, including Patti Smith, Flea, Olafur Eliasson, Bill McKibben, Tenzin Choegyal, and more.
Get your tickets for the San Francisco event on September 14 and for the Los Angeles event on September 16.
Pathway to Paris is an initiative in partnership with the United Nations Development Programme and 350.org that brings together musicians, artists, activists, climate change experts, academics, politicians and innovators to participate in a series of events, dialogues and leading initiatives to help turn the Paris Agreement into reality.
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Pathway to Paris was founded by Jesse Paris Smith and Rebecca Foon in September 2014 with an intimate evening of music and discourse at Le Poisson Rouge immediately following the People’s Climate March in New York City.
Yoga is described as a Union of Mind, Body, Spirit..Yoga Cosmic Breath brings in the Heart.
This Ancient practice is part energy tool/part meditation/ part pranayama. It is a link to Higher Love and Higher Consciousness.
Each night is a new experience, however the foundation follows this sequence
Rhythmic Breathing, Reiki, Neck and Shoulder Stretches, Closing with the main event the Yoga Cosmic ‘Love’ Breath
Humanity has done the work to raise the vibration enough to be able to be emass as a container and anchor of this energy to the new earth.
This practice was offered first for the month of Sept in 2009 and now again in 2018
To serve others as a way to the higher heart resonance, which elevates us into different dimensions and Cosmic Consciousness.
Research has shown that the magnetic field of the heart is 5,000 times more powerful than the mind.
The way to living in the higher dimensions is through the heart portal which leads to unconditional love and a greater connection to the Divine, to yourself, to others and to nature.
The Cosmos ARE are here to help humanity.
It’s about a being in alignment with a cosmic heart connection of a different heartbeat, a heartbeat attuned to Cosmic Love through activations and being in rhythm with the Universe.
WE are stronger together is true!
How do you make an impact when you are working alone? Sloooowly.
Let us quicken as One.
It is a simple solution, we have done the heavy lifting, now we are in the labor pains and a smart mother- to-Be will learn how to breathe to ease the pain.
It only makes sense to do this as well, while we are in this process of birthing a new earth, does it not?
Our work now only requires us to BREATHE in a new way, and connect to our hearts.
This is about something greater than ourselves!
To Be, Midwives for the New Earth whether you are a woman or a man.
You will discover the more of us that do the inner work consistently, of raising our vibration and releasing density, we will be pulled towards the 5th World.
This is not a might be, this is a pathway.
I’m here to be a wayshower and a bridge.
This will fill the body with cosmic energy, assisting you to hold more light and love and to be the anchor And container.
Blessings,
Margarit
Sponsored by Elders Climate Action (ECA) and Elders Activists for Social Justice (EASJ), Action groups of the Conscious Elders Network, Environmental Justice Working Group and the Unitarian Universalist Church.
September 15, 2018
9 am – 4 pm
San Francisco, CA
As Elders, we will explore, decide, and act:
Seeing with new eyes- what really is happening to our Earth home.
Claiming our roles as Elders and our interconnection to all life.
Examining and choosing the ways we are called to act for our Earth home.
Come join a deep examination of our elderhood and our needed, pivotal role in restoring the life-sustaining legacy for our grandchildren, future generations, and all life. We will explore our passions and skills to effect change and to build relationships for a thriving future.
Be an Elder Standing for Earth and Humanity!
Morning Session
Through interactive processes from the Work that Reconnects, we will explore together how to reclaim our Elders’ moral voice — the voice that speaks for the welfare of all — protecting our grandchildren, restoring Mother Earth, and regenerating a flourishing world. We will have opportunities for truth-telling about the state of our world and the pain and gratitude we feel on its behalf. We will provide particular focus on the unjust effects on communities most at risk from climate chaos and on our planetary life support systems. And we’ll share our dreams of transforming our society towards health, justice, peace, and cooperation.
Lunch Hour
Lunch will be provided. This hour will feature a celebration of our diversity.
Afternoon Session
We will summarize the reality of our changing climate and the positive solutions available to combat this threat to all life. We will hear from Elders who have developed successful community organizing methods that we can adopt. We will divide into small groups by interest and region (a) to address climate action, social justice, intergenerational collaboration, or other themes that may arise; and (b) to create action plans for going forth. We will come together to report on these plans and our commitments thereof.
We will end by celebrating our elderhood and the restorative roles we have chosen.
First Unitarian Universalist Society of San Francisco
Martin Luther King Room
1187 Franklin Street, San Francisco, CA
9 am- 4 pm
Registration includes sliding scale fees to cover our costs.
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
Yoga is described as a Union of Mind, Body, Spirit..Yoga Cosmic Breath brings in the Heart.
This Ancient practice is part energy tool/part meditation/ part pranayama. It is a link to Higher Love and Higher Consciousness.
Each night is a new experience, however the foundation follows this sequence
Rhythmic Breathing, Reiki, Neck and Shoulder Stretches, Closing with the main event the Yoga Cosmic ‘Love’ Breath
Humanity has done the work to raise the vibration enough to be able to be emass as a container and anchor of this energy to the new earth.
This practice was offered first for the month of Sept in 2009 and now again in 2018
To serve others as a way to the higher heart resonance, which elevates us into different dimensions and Cosmic Consciousness.
Research has shown that the magnetic field of the heart is 5,000 times more powerful than the mind.
The way to living in the higher dimensions is through the heart portal which leads to unconditional love and a greater connection to the Divine, to yourself, to others and to nature.
The Cosmos ARE are here to help humanity.
It’s about a being in alignment with a cosmic heart connection of a different heartbeat, a heartbeat attuned to Cosmic Love through activations and being in rhythm with the Universe.
WE are stronger together is true!
How do you make an impact when you are working alone? Sloooowly.
Let us quicken as One.
It is a simple solution, we have done the heavy lifting, now we are in the labor pains and a smart mother- to-Be will learn how to breathe to ease the pain.
It only makes sense to do this as well, while we are in this process of birthing a new earth, does it not?
Our work now only requires us to BREATHE in a new way, and connect to our hearts.
This is about something greater than ourselves!
To Be, Midwives for the New Earth whether you are a woman or a man.
You will discover the more of us that do the inner work consistently, of raising our vibration and releasing density, we will be pulled towards the 5th World.
This is not a might be, this is a pathway.
I’m here to be a wayshower and a bridge.
This will fill the body with cosmic energy, assisting you to hold more light and love and to be the anchor And container.
Blessings,
Margarit
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
Yoga is described as a Union of Mind, Body, Spirit..Yoga Cosmic Breath brings in the Heart.
This Ancient practice is part energy tool/part meditation/ part pranayama. It is a link to Higher Love and Higher Consciousness.
Each night is a new experience, however the foundation follows this sequence
Rhythmic Breathing, Reiki, Neck and Shoulder Stretches, Closing with the main event the Yoga Cosmic ‘Love’ Breath
Humanity has done the work to raise the vibration enough to be able to be emass as a container and anchor of this energy to the new earth.
This practice was offered first for the month of Sept in 2009 and now again in 2018
To serve others as a way to the higher heart resonance, which elevates us into different dimensions and Cosmic Consciousness.
Research has shown that the magnetic field of the heart is 5,000 times more powerful than the mind.
The way to living in the higher dimensions is through the heart portal which leads to unconditional love and a greater connection to the Divine, to yourself, to others and to nature.
The Cosmos ARE are here to help humanity.
It’s about a being in alignment with a cosmic heart connection of a different heartbeat, a heartbeat attuned to Cosmic Love through activations and being in rhythm with the Universe.
WE are stronger together is true!
How do you make an impact when you are working alone? Sloooowly.
Let us quicken as One.
It is a simple solution, we have done the heavy lifting, now we are in the labor pains and a smart mother- to-Be will learn how to breathe to ease the pain.
It only makes sense to do this as well, while we are in this process of birthing a new earth, does it not?
Our work now only requires us to BREATHE in a new way, and connect to our hearts.
This is about something greater than ourselves!
To Be, Midwives for the New Earth whether you are a woman or a man.
You will discover the more of us that do the inner work consistently, of raising our vibration and releasing density, we will be pulled towards the 5th World.
This is not a might be, this is a pathway.
I’m here to be a wayshower and a bridge.
This will fill the body with cosmic energy, assisting you to hold more light and love and to be the anchor And container.
Blessings,
Margarit
Yoga is described as a Union of Mind, Body, Spirit..Yoga Cosmic Breath brings in the Heart.
This Ancient practice is part energy tool/part meditation/ part pranayama. It is a link to Higher Love and Higher Consciousness.
Each night is a new experience, however the foundation follows this sequence
Rhythmic Breathing, Reiki, Neck and Shoulder Stretches, Closing with the main event the Yoga Cosmic ‘Love’ Breath
Humanity has done the work to raise the vibration enough to be able to be emass as a container and anchor of this energy to the new earth.
This practice was offered first for the month of Sept in 2009 and now again in 2018
To serve others as a way to the higher heart resonance, which elevates us into different dimensions and Cosmic Consciousness.
Research has shown that the magnetic field of the heart is 5,000 times more powerful than the mind.
The way to living in the higher dimensions is through the heart portal which leads to unconditional love and a greater connection to the Divine, to yourself, to others and to nature.
The Cosmos ARE are here to help humanity.
It’s about a being in alignment with a cosmic heart connection of a different heartbeat, a heartbeat attuned to Cosmic Love through activations and being in rhythm with the Universe.
WE are stronger together is true!
How do you make an impact when you are working alone? Sloooowly.
Let us quicken as One.
It is a simple solution, we have done the heavy lifting, now we are in the labor pains and a smart mother- to-Be will learn how to breathe to ease the pain.
It only makes sense to do this as well, while we are in this process of birthing a new earth, does it not?
Our work now only requires us to BREATHE in a new way, and connect to our hearts.
This is about something greater than ourselves!
To Be, Midwives for the New Earth whether you are a woman or a man.
You will discover the more of us that do the inner work consistently, of raising our vibration and releasing density, we will be pulled towards the 5th World.
This is not a might be, this is a pathway.
I’m here to be a wayshower and a bridge.
This will fill the body with cosmic energy, assisting you to hold more light and love and to be the anchor And container.
Blessings,
Margarit
Yoga is described as a Union of Mind, Body, Spirit..Yoga Cosmic Breath brings in the Heart.
This Ancient practice is part energy tool/part meditation/ part pranayama. It is a link to Higher Love and Higher Consciousness.
Each night is a new experience, however the foundation follows this sequence
Rhythmic Breathing, Reiki, Neck and Shoulder Stretches, Closing with the main event the Yoga Cosmic ‘Love’ Breath
Humanity has done the work to raise the vibration enough to be able to be emass as a container and anchor of this energy to the new earth.
This practice was offered first for the month of Sept in 2009 and now again in 2018
To serve others as a way to the higher heart resonance, which elevates us into different dimensions and Cosmic Consciousness.
Research has shown that the magnetic field of the heart is 5,000 times more powerful than the mind.
The way to living in the higher dimensions is through the heart portal which leads to unconditional love and a greater connection to the Divine, to yourself, to others and to nature.
The Cosmos ARE are here to help humanity.
It’s about a being in alignment with a cosmic heart connection of a different heartbeat, a heartbeat attuned to Cosmic Love through activations and being in rhythm with the Universe.
WE are stronger together is true!
How do you make an impact when you are working alone? Sloooowly.
Let us quicken as One.
It is a simple solution, we have done the heavy lifting, now we are in the labor pains and a smart mother- to-Be will learn how to breathe to ease the pain.
It only makes sense to do this as well, while we are in this process of birthing a new earth, does it not?
Our work now only requires us to BREATHE in a new way, and connect to our hearts.
This is about something greater than ourselves!
To Be, Midwives for the New Earth whether you are a woman or a man.
You will discover the more of us that do the inner work consistently, of raising our vibration and releasing density, we will be pulled towards the 5th World.
This is not a might be, this is a pathway.
I’m here to be a wayshower and a bridge.
This will fill the body with cosmic energy, assisting you to hold more light and love and to be the anchor And container.
Blessings,
Margarit
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
Yoga is described as a Union of Mind, Body, Spirit..Yoga Cosmic Breath brings in the Heart.
This Ancient practice is part energy tool/part meditation/ part pranayama. It is a link to Higher Love and Higher Consciousness.
Each night is a new experience, however the foundation follows this sequence
Rhythmic Breathing, Reiki, Neck and Shoulder Stretches, Closing with the main event the Yoga Cosmic ‘Love’ Breath
Humanity has done the work to raise the vibration enough to be able to be emass as a container and anchor of this energy to the new earth.
This practice was offered first for the month of Sept in 2009 and now again in 2018
To serve others as a way to the higher heart resonance, which elevates us into different dimensions and Cosmic Consciousness.
Research has shown that the magnetic field of the heart is 5,000 times more powerful than the mind.
The way to living in the higher dimensions is through the heart portal which leads to unconditional love and a greater connection to the Divine, to yourself, to others and to nature.
The Cosmos ARE are here to help humanity.
It’s about a being in alignment with a cosmic heart connection of a different heartbeat, a heartbeat attuned to Cosmic Love through activations and being in rhythm with the Universe.
WE are stronger together is true!
How do you make an impact when you are working alone? Sloooowly.
Let us quicken as One.
It is a simple solution, we have done the heavy lifting, now we are in the labor pains and a smart mother- to-Be will learn how to breathe to ease the pain.
It only makes sense to do this as well, while we are in this process of birthing a new earth, does it not?
Our work now only requires us to BREATHE in a new way, and connect to our hearts.
This is about something greater than ourselves!
To Be, Midwives for the New Earth whether you are a woman or a man.
You will discover the more of us that do the inner work consistently, of raising our vibration and releasing density, we will be pulled towards the 5th World.
This is not a might be, this is a pathway.
I’m here to be a wayshower and a bridge.
This will fill the body with cosmic energy, assisting you to hold more light and love and to be the anchor And container.
Blessings,
Margarit
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
Wherever you are in the world, please join us in an hour-long silent meditation for peace. Your presence makes a difference!
Yoga is described as a Union of Mind, Body, Spirit..Yoga Cosmic Breath brings in the Heart.
This Ancient practice is part energy tool/part meditation/ part pranayama. It is a link to Higher Love and Higher Consciousness.
Each night is a new experience, however the foundation follows this sequence
Rhythmic Breathing, Reiki, Neck and Shoulder Stretches, Closing with the main event the Yoga Cosmic ‘Love’ Breath
Humanity has done the work to raise the vibration enough to be able to be emass as a container and anchor of this energy to the new earth.
This practice was offered first for the month of Sept in 2009 and now again in 2018
To serve others as a way to the higher heart resonance, which elevates us into different dimensions and Cosmic Consciousness.
Research has shown that the magnetic field of the heart is 5,000 times more powerful than the mind.
The way to living in the higher dimensions is through the heart portal which leads to unconditional love and a greater connection to the Divine, to yourself, to others and to nature.
The Cosmos ARE are here to help humanity.
It’s about a being in alignment with a cosmic heart connection of a different heartbeat, a heartbeat attuned to Cosmic Love through activations and being in rhythm with the Universe.
WE are stronger together is true!
How do you make an impact when you are working alone? Sloooowly.
Let us quicken as One.
It is a simple solution, we have done the heavy lifting, now we are in the labor pains and a smart mother- to-Be will learn how to breathe to ease the pain.
It only makes sense to do this as well, while we are in this process of birthing a new earth, does it not?
Our work now only requires us to BREATHE in a new way, and connect to our hearts.
This is about something greater than ourselves!
To Be, Midwives for the New Earth whether you are a woman or a man.
You will discover the more of us that do the inner work consistently, of raising our vibration and releasing density, we will be pulled towards the 5th World.
This is not a might be, this is a pathway.
I’m here to be a wayshower and a bridge.
This will fill the body with cosmic energy, assisting you to hold more light and love and to be the anchor And container.
Blessings,
Margarit
Connect for Peace is a public street happening for peace in honor of the International Day of Peace. We invite participants and passersby to connect with one another in a spirit of openness, spontaneity, and childlike innocence. A cross between performance art and a peace rally, these powerful events have touched the lives of people from around the globe.
We take a moment to connect for peace. We take a moment to really see the person in front of us. We say, “I see you” and are genuinely seen in return. The bungee cords physicalize the invisible connections between all people. As we realize how interconnected we are, peace is a natural outcome.
Amazing things happen at every Connect for Peace event. It touches something deep. Passersby stop to share intimate details of their lives. Strangers are moved to extraordinary acts of kindness. The premise is simple but the results are incredibly powerful.
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
CAMPAIGN NONVIOLENCE CONVERGENCE: MOMENT OF TRUTH
TIME: All Day
ADDRESS: 1640 Columbia Rd., NW
CITY: Washington, DC
MARK YOUR CALENDARS! Join us on Sept. 21, 2018, International Peace Day, for an evening of reflection on five years of Campaign Nonviolence and the next steps forward, with George Martin, Rev. John Dear, Rev. Lennox Yearwood, Shane Claiborne, Dr. Ken Butigan & Dr. Kit Evans-Ford, and on Sat. Sept. 22, 2018, for a legal rally and a nonviolent silent march from the Martin Luther King, Jr. statue to the White House for a rally and nonviolent direct action.
Friday, Sept 21. 2018
Gather at 7:00 p.m. at The Festival Center, 1640 Columbia Rd., NW, Washington, D.C. for an evening featuring Campaign Nonviolence The centerpiece of this Week of Actions will be The Moment of Truth – The Campaign Nonviolence Convergence September 21-22 in Washington, DC. On September 21, we will gather, reflect and prepare. On September 22, we will assemble at the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial, march to the White House, vigil, and take nonviolent action.
As we mark the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., we will march in the spirit of the prophetic declaration he made the night before he was killed: “The choice is no longer violence or nonviolence; it’s nonviolence or non-existence.” In this moment of truth, we will call on the nation to choose a culture of nonviolence free from war, poverty, racism, and environmental destruction.
Now is the moment of truth for taking action – and for recommitting to the power of truth itself, in light of the many false or misleading statements made by the administration. On September 22, we will take action for peace, economic equality, racial justice and environmental healing – and for a new spirit of truth and nonviolence.
Speakers will include Lisa Sharon Harper, Rev. Lennox Yearwood, Jr, Kit Evans-Ford, Rev. Ray East, George Martin, Shane Claiborne, and Rev. John Dear.
Join us in Washington at this critical moment of truth.
THE NATIONAL CONVERGENCE SCHEDULE
Friday, September 21, 2018
Location: The Festival Center, 1640 Columbia Rd., NW, Washington, D.C.
4:00pm – 5:30pm: Nonviolence training by CNV with Ken Butigan and Veronica Pelicaric. Free. Dinner available for purchase at The Potter’s House restaurant and bookstore next to the Festival Center.
7:00 pm: Gathering at The Festival Center to celebrate, reflect and share stories on five years of the Campaign Nonviolence movement and discuss next steps. Speakers include CNV leaders Rev. John Dear, Ken Butigan, George Martin, and Kit-Evans Ford. Free-will donations accepted at the door.
Saturday, September 22, 2018
Location: King Memorial, 1964 Independence Ave SW, Washington, DC 20024 near West Basin Dr. SW
9:00 am: Rally at the statue of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., on the Southside of the Lincoln Memorial, near the Jefferson Memorial Tidal Basin.
10:00 am: Silent March. We will line up in pairs holding signs and walk in silence from the Dr. King statue past the Lincoln Memorial to the front of the White House, where we will stand in silence with signs in Lafayette Park. While some keep vigil in front of the White House, others will participate in nonviolent direct action.
Registration: Please let us know which events you will join and how to contact you.
Please note: CNV is not coordinating lodging or transportation.
This convergence is taking place during the 5th Campaign Nonviolence Week of Actions September 15-23, 2018. Be sure to hold your event locally earlier that week, then join us in DC!
Together in this Moment of Truth, we choose the way of nonviolence and we will take our message to the White House and the nation. Together, our collective actions and voices are calling for an end to the culture of racism, poverty, war, and environmental destruction, and making the choice for nonviolence, peace and truth.
For more information, contact Ryan Hall at Pace e Bene, at info@paceebene.org.
YES! I AM COMING TO WASHINGTON!
“A decade ago, Unity Foundation launched the Peace Day Global Broadcast to celebrate the message that peace is really possible,” explains Bill McCarthy, founder of Unity Foundation and co-founder of the Peace Day Global Broadcast. “Since then, we’ve been honored by participation from world leaders and international celebrities. Our audience has grown each year. Last year, we had more than 700,000 views in more than 130 countries. This year, we plan to surpass a million views.”
Can the world be peaceful for 24 hours? Every hour a new invitation, action, mission, and hero will invite you in the UNIFY Experience for all to do and share together! This is hosted by UNIFY and all our amazing Partners honoring The International Day of Peace. The Incredible Celebration will be led LIVE on UNIFY FB Page.
Sept 21 we will be LIVE on FB,starting the kick off of this Global Synchronized Event and will be working towards breaking our last Guinness World Record!
Learn more about this at http://www.home.unify.org/
Share your peaceful actions on Twitter, FB, Instagram with us featuring hashtag # reporting your actions on the Map on our site
Please share this event! Peace on!
From Peace Accelerators Description: It is our dream (and hopefully it will become your dream as well) that over the next decade we begin to celebrate the International Day of Peace (September 21st) more and more each year, until over time it becomes the first holiday that the entire world celebrates.
It is not religious and it is not about any made-up country — it is about all of us seeing the commonality between each other, realizing we’re on one Earth (and in many ways this place needs us to adapt to her quite quickly at this crucial point in history).
This Thursday we are holding a large beautiful inspiring event for the International Day of Peace. There will be community leaders, speakers, musicians, meditation, yoga, dj’s and much more.
This will be one evening you will not want to miss.
It will be the largest celebration for the International Day of Peace in NYC, the heartbeat city of our one planet.
Let’s show the world what we want.
10 MINUTES FOR PEACE GLOBAL MEDITATION
Friday September 21 9a-10a PDT
Synchronized meditation for peace
10 minutes | SEPT 21 | 4 pm GMT
10 Minutes for Peace is a coalition of organizations, corporations, and individuals demonstrating the power of humanity coming together as ONE to create a world of greater peace and prosperity.
Participate from wherever you are!
Align with millions of people around the world
in a synchronized experience on September 21:
starting at 9a Los Angeles,
12p Washington D.C.,
6p Paris,
9:30p New Delhi,
and 12a Beijing.
Check-in with a photo of “You at a peace gathering,
Commit to
10 Minutes For Peace
9.91K more People needed to Hit Threshold
Unifyre catalyzes a wide variety of group experiences,
anything from a local gathering
to a global movement
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!
Raising Consciousness is the Path to Peace! Yoga is one life path to peace. Yoga is described as a Union of Mind, Body, Spirit..
Yoga Cosmic Breath brings in the Heart.
This Ancient practice is part energy tool/part meditation/ part pranayama. It is a link to Higher Love and Higher Consciousness.
Each night is a new experience, however the foundation follows this sequence
Rhythmic Breathing, Reiki, Neck and Shoulder Stretches, Closing with the main event the Yoga Cosmic ‘Love’ Breath
Humanity has done the work to raise the vibration enough to be able to be emass as a container and anchor of this energy to the new earth.
This practice was offered first for the month of Sept in 2009 and now again in 2018
To serve others as a way to the higher heart resonance, which elevates us into different dimensions and Cosmic Consciousness.
Research has shown that the magnetic field of the heart is 5,000 times more powerful than the mind.
The way to living in the higher dimensions is through the heart portal which leads to unconditional love and a greater connection to the Divine, to yourself, to others and to nature.
The Cosmos ARE are here to help humanity.
It’s about a being in alignment with a cosmic heart connection of a different heartbeat, a heartbeat attuned to Cosmic Love through activations and being in rhythm with the Universe.
WE are stronger together is true!
How do you make an impact when you are working alone? Sloooowly.
Let us quicken as One.
It is a simple solution, we have done the heavy lifting, now we are in the labor pains and a smart mother- to-Be will learn how to breathe to ease the pain.
It only makes sense to do this as well, while we are in this process of birthing a new earth, does it not?
Our work now only requires us to BREATHE in a new way, and connect to our hearts.
This is about something greater than ourselves!
To Be, Midwives for the New Earth whether you are a woman or a man.
You will discover the more of us that do the inner work consistently, of raising our vibration and releasing density, we will be pulled towards the 5th World.
This is not a might be, this is a pathway.
I’m here to be a wayshower and a bridge.
This will fill the body with cosmic energy, assisting you to hold more light and love and to be the anchor And container.
Blessings,
Margarit
UMass Campus Center – 1 Campus Center Way Amherst, MA
REGISTRATION—-https://cohousingassociationoftheunite.regfox.com/northeast-cohousing-summit
This regional cohousing conference is for :
People who want to learn about cohousing, how to create it, how to live it
Those that are forming a cohousing community, whether you’re just starting or already building
Residents who currently live in a cohousing community
Architects, developers, planners or other professionalsinterested in creating communities
Coho/US produces:
What is Coho/US?
Coho/US is a national non-profit raising awareness of the benefits of cohousing and supporting the development of cohousing communities nationwide. We serve as a connector and clearinghouse to grow and nurture cohousing.
What is our Mission?
Coho/US advances cohousing by assisting forming and existing communities through a robust network of resources and access to technical assistance; and educating the public about the benefits of cohousing, from resource conservation and sustainability to resilient communities and healthy families.
Coho/US Program & Services
- Educating and inspiring through national and regional conferences
- Serving as a clearinghouse and connector for resources and professional services
- Building a national cohousing community through networks and mentoring
- Fostering a cohousing-friendly social, political and economic environment through education & advocacy
- Collaborating on opportunities to grow the cohousing movement and nurture communities.
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REGISTRATIONS NOW OPEN for the Northeast Summit!
Conference sessions held at UMass Campus Center – 1 Campus Center Way Amherst, MA 01003
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Affordable Cohousing, Including Affordable Farming – Lessons Learned and Being Learned at Rocky Corner, Bethany CT – Saturday Session with David Berto, Richard Wilber & Jerome Garciano
Rocky Corner is the first cohousing community in Connecticut. It is being developed by Green Haven, Inc., which is a local group who got together to create this community that they then want to live in. Construction is underway at this time. The community is located on an abandoned dairy farm of 33 acres in close proximity to New Haven, CT. With clustering of the buildings, most of the property is preserved as farmland. The goals of this project include creating a vibrant cohousing community in a rural setting, with a wide range of affordable units for a wide range of income diversity, and creating an effective and affordable approach to utilizing the remaining farmland. All of these goals presented large challenges but are being accomplished. Development of a cohousing community in this rural setting inherently had initial challenges of high land costs, zoning and town approvals, and creating of water, septic, road access and fire safety. The community of 30 homes and families will have 13 of these at reduced prices that are affordable to purchasers in a range of limited incomes. With the relatively small farm area, alternatives are being evaluated to determine the best ways to effectively utilize this area for ongoing and productive agriculture. An initial detailed evaluation was undertaken by a permaculture expert to define the best uses in the different locations throughout the site. Alternative uses are then being defined and evaluated to best align with the soil characteristics and local interest. Uses include community supported agriculture, community gardens, fruit and nut trees, eggs, small animals, coppice, and other uses as they are identified.
Affordable Co-housing: The Sharing Housing Option – Saturday Session with Annamarie Pulhar
Many people who see the benefits of co-housing and would like to live in such a community can’t afford it. The costs of land and new construction mean that only the affluent can comfortably commit to joining a co-housing communities. But what if people agreed to buy in together to live under one roof? Or an owner opens his/her house to a home-mate? How might that simple idea make it possible for the less than affluent to participate in co-housing communities? How does this impact the community?
This Think Tank will explore the how shared housing can be incorporated into co-housing communities. Lead by Annamarie Pluhar, author of Sharing Housing, A Guidebook for Finding and Keeping Good Housemates and President of Sharing Housing, Inc., it will begin by identifying the barriers and opportunities to implementing this idea. Small groups will then discuss how those barriers can be overcome.
Age-Friendly is Human Friendly – The Appropriate Environment Supports Purposeful Living at Any Age - Saturday Session with Ruth Neeman
Environments that support healthy aging are residential, inviting and are desirable for all, at any age. Universal Design, that is based on principles of equitable use, flexibility and adaptability, simplicity and clarity, perceptible information, tolerance for error, low physical effort, and appropriate accommodation for a variety of abilities – dovetails beautifully with the Cohousing focus on community, interdependence, friendship, accommodation and support.
A Taste of Dynamic Governance / Sociocracy – Saturday Session with Jerry Koch-Gonzalez
Looking for an effective way to make decisions? Check out this taste of sociocracy, an increasingly popular governance and decision-making method based on the values of transparency, equivalency, and effectiveness. We will have an appetizer of the basic principles. We will gorge on two main courses: a hands-on experience of organizational structure that maximizes participation and empowerment, and a real consent decision-making process of selecting someone to a role. We will close by looking at the dessert menu of the ways feedback keeps a community yummy!
Getting the Work Done – Saturday Session with Lyons Witten
How do you get all your community work done? Each cohousing group needs to decide what tasks to include in community work, what system to use to connect each member with their tasks, how to organize meals work in particular, and whether and how to enforce work agreements. In this session, I will explore a wide range of work systems used by existing communities, as well as presenting a framework for understanding the many facets of community work. I will illustrate the breadth of work taken on by most cohousing communities using a “work budget” matrix that can be adjusted to fit your specific community, and will present useful information on how to actually keep your community running smoothly.
Growing Your Group – Saturday Session with Dyan Wiley
Explore the many ways that successful cohousing communities have marketed and promoted their community and the benefits of cohousing. Consider strategies to attract and retain interest and participation — orientation/meet and greet sessions, local news stories, special events, e-newsletters, and social media tools. Understand the importance of good communication skills, being comfortable with conflict, and other factors contribute to building the social fabric of your membership as you build the physical structures and policy agreements that will support your community over time.
If It Doesn’t Work Socially, Why Bother – Saturday Session with Charles Durrett
Across the globe, we seek ways to make neighborhoods more conducive to living lighter on the planet and being happier. We yearn to let our kids play with the neighbors knowing they are safe. New and “innovative” solutions are trying to solve the senior housing challenge, only to fail due to lack of buy-in from the community. Charles Durrett says, “Forget trying to reinvent the wheel. The answers do exist – it’s a matter of addressing our social beliefs and asking if they will bring us happiness.” Durrett will explain the importance of being authentic and listening to the community when addressing senior and intergenerational housing. He will also explain why crafting a well-fitting glove in a facilitated process is one of the keys to success.
Living and Farming in Community – Saturday Session with Nubanusit Neighborhood & Farm and Stowe Farm Community
Nubanusit Neighborhood & Farm (NN&F) and Stowe Farm Community (SFC) will present and discuss the joys, benefits, challenges, and options of farming in community. The presentation will include information about several other agricultural cohousing communities in the northeast region. Join us as we share stories and lessons learned – and learning!
Meals 3 Times a Week – Saturday Session with Ross Harpestad & Catya Belfer
Well, really it’s 11-13 per month, but who’s counting? Come hear about the Mosaic Commons meals program, from Cat Belfer, cook and kitchen czar, and Ross Harpestad, meals scheduler extraordinaire. Tell us what’s great about how you do meals, what you’re struggling with, what you wish for.
Nathaniel Hawthorne Hated Co-Housing: Our Transcendentalist History – Saturday Session with Samantha Bernstein
This presentation will offer a deep dive into the spiritual ancestor of co-housing: the transcendental Utopian communities of the 1840s. Brook Farm and Fruitlands (both in Massachusetts) will be described, along with a discussion of voluntary simplicity (an essential component of these communities), and how the concept has changed and developed since those communities were founded. An essential question will be posed and discussed: How does co-housing support or not support voluntary simplicity? Presentation is for anyone living in co-housing or thinking about living in co-housing.
Replacement Reserves: Taking the Worry Out of your Community’s Financial Future – Saturday Session with Lyons Witten
A real-life DIY cohousing Replacement Reserves (RR) Spreadsheet will be used to explain the benefits of Replacement Reserves, how to manage the multitude of potential items needing replacement (someday), how Replacement Reserves are funded, what big-ticket items cannot be included in Replacement Reserves and how to manage those expenses. Those who do not have such a spreadsheet can use this example to set up their own. This is a “living DIY model” that should be reviewed each year by the Finance team/committee. Having said that, and shown how to use the “living model”, it may be that some/most communities would want to hire a consultant to help them fill in the categories, costs, and life-expectancy of each item in the RR model. This session will provide insight for either way the DIY RR model is used.
Singing in Community – Saturday Session with Zachary Belfer-Shevett & Catya Belfer
Would you like to sing more in your cohousing group? Come experience how groups use song to grow community. Combining conversation and singing, Zach & Catya will share some great songs that really work well for different cohousing groups. Learn about why “having a good voice” doesn’t matter. Learn pitfalls to avoid when selecting songs. Learn about bringing singing into your group’s culture. Cat & Zach will create space for songs from participants, so bring your favorite. If possible, contact us beforehand to teach us your song. (Note: we’ll not be sharing explicitly religious songs.)
Structure in Community – Saturday Session with Karen Gimnig and Carolyn Shapiro
In this session we’ll talk about some of the structures available to cohousing communities including Sociocracy and Imago Relationships tools. We’ll briefly describe each one, share our experience with the transformational power these structures can have, how they can be adapted for different groups, and what can be challenging about them. Bring your questions. This will be a time of story telling with just enough explanation to enable you to bring pieces back to your community.
User-Centered Cohousing Design: Perspectives from Environmental and Social Psychology – Saturday Session with Debi Levine
What lessons can we learn from environmental and social psychology to inform the design and development of cohousing communities? How can theory and practice in these areas help us maximize satisfaction of individual and social needs?
Environmental psychology, also known as person-environment studies, provides insight into how the built – and natural – environment affects individual and interpersonal behavior. Social psychology helps us understand how interpersonal dynamics influence our notions of community, and can also help us evaluate how to apply community design principles originating in one culture (Denmark), to our own.
This session is an opportunity to (1) learn how basic human needs for both privacy and positive social interaction can be addressed through macro and micro physical design elements; (2) expand upon user-centered design principles to address how cultural norms and notions of “community” can inform design choices; and (3) share experiences about design elements that have worked well – and not so well. Insights from social psychology that can inform the consensus decision-making process around design will be interwoven throughout the session.
Want Something to Change in Your Community? – Saturday Session with Betsy Waters
With a change you are interested in making in your community in mind, explore organizational development strategies. We will draw heavily from the work of the consultant group, Vital Smarts.
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Bios: 2018 Northeast Cohousing Summit
Alan O’Hashi, MPA, resides in Silver Sage Village cohousing in Boulder, CO and is a documentary filmmaker, screenwriter and seasoned storyteller. His latest, “The New Deal Artist Public Art Legacy just aired on Wyoming PBS. He’s developing the Lincoln Court Mixed Use Intentional Community in Cheyenne, Wyoming.
Annamarie Pluhar, M.Div, is the founder of Sharing Housing, Inc. a nonprofit 501©(3) whose mission is to promote the idea of shared housing for adults and provide
educational resources. An award-winning speaker, she is the author of Sharing Housing, A Guidebook for Finding and Keeping Good Housemates. She designs and delivers in-person workshops and on-line webinars to teach individuals and organizations the tools for effectively selecting a good home-mate. Her blog is at https://www.sharinghousing.com. The nonprofit organization is at https://sharinghousing.org. She is a graduate of Vassar College and has a masters in divinity from The Episcopal Divinity School. She lives in Vermont with one two-legged and two four-legged Housemates.
Carolyn Shapiro is an artist/education. She worked with her husband to establish White Pine Cohousing where she introduced the sociocratic method as the way to conduct cohousing meetings. She looks forward to sharing her experiences with how the sociocratic method works for White Pine and how it has helped members deal with difficult issues.
Catya Belfer is a founder and resident of Mosaic Commons, about an hour and a half East of Amherst. Catya works as a technical program manager and also builds websites for cohousing groups and others, including www.cohousing.org. She cooks for the community once or twice a month. She is passionate about building connections between people and has been involved in intentional communities since 1994. On the non-technical side, she is fascinated by how we build community through ritual, tradition, and song, though she’s not as good at singing and harmony as her kid.
Charles Durrett brings a wealth of knowledge and experience. He pioneered the cohousing movement in the U.S. and teaches architects and community leaders how to start successful cohousing communities around the globe.
David Berto created Housing Enterprises, Inc. 25 years ago to provide creative solutions to housing development and to preserve historic structures. Prior to this he was a nuclear engineer. Housing Enterprises, Inc. now has a staff of 4. Housing Enterprises assists small nonprofit groups and others in all aspects of developing and sustaining all types of affordable, mixed income and mixed use housing projects in Connecticut and other parts of the country. They work with each organization throughout all steps of the development process to create quality projects that strengthen neighborhoods and provide housing where families and individuals can feel proud to call home.
Debi Levine is a freelance instructional designer and professional facilitator with advanced graduate training in Social Psychology, People-Environment Studies, and Human Relations Training. Over the past 25 years, Debi has developed and led workshops on a broad range of management and professional development topics, and has consulted to several Cohousing communities on consensus-building and effective facilitation skills. Debi has an abiding interest in how the natural and built environments influence individual and interpersonal behavior, and how they can support health, healing, and a sense of “home.” She has been an active member of the Environmental Design Research Association, a board member of LivableStreets Alliance, a six-year resident of Cornerstone Cohousing in Cambridge, MA, and a former expatriate, having lived in Denmark for nine years – including in a variety of informal “living-together” housing situations.
Dyan Wiley is a founding member of Pioneer Valley Cohousing Community in Amherst MA. She was a key member of the Membership committee working to attract newcomers to their start-up community 25 years ago. She also served on the community’s Development Team, Facilitation committee, and kitchen design team. She has helped several other communities with their marketing and outreach efforts through trainings and informal consulting. For her day job, Dyan works full-time in the grants office at Mount Holyoke College and is a busy activist for immigrant rights.
Elizabeth Magill is one of the early members of Mosaic Commons Cohousing in Berlin, MA, and has been part of their conflict resolution (now called community support) team through its many changes. Liz also handles conflict and community in her “day job” is as a pastor in the United Church of Christ. When it’s all too much she hides in her attic making quilts.
Gabriel Mugar is a researcher and activist working at the intersection of technology, media, and community building. He is currently a Design Researcher at IDEO in Cambridge, MA. Until May of 2018, Gabriel was a research associate and affiliate faculty at the Emerson College Engagement Lab where he coordinated a national study on civic media practitioners and taught courses on qualitative research and digital media studies. Gabriel earned his PhD from the Syracuse University School of Information Studies where his dissertation research looked at the newcomer management strategies of digital participatory platforms and how newcomers negotiate such strategies. Gabriel’s recent work includes designing experiences to engage Boston Public School students in conducting research and writing for descriptions of historic locations in augmented reality games developed by Niantic, Inc. (makers of Pokemon Go), and researching Civic Media Innovation in the United States, published as a white paper for the MacArthur Foundation. Gabriel is the founder of the Transformative Culture Project, aBoston-based nonprofit that supports career development for young media professionals across southern
New England, and is an affiliate of the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard
University.
Jana Lussier is a Head Cook at Pioneer Valley Cohousing. She has also cooked semi professionally at various restaurants in her former life. Now she is a licensed Acupuncturist.
Jerome Garciano is an attorney with a concentration on state and federal tax financing incentives affecting the built environment. His experience includes provided legal support for developers, syndicators, investors, non-profit sponsors, and government agencies in renewable energy and real estate developments using the historic, new markets, renewable energy and low-income housing tax credits. As a LEED, AP, he has also served clients utilizing energy efficiency and renewable energy tax incentives. An attorney at a major Boston law firm, he has also served as a finance project manager at The Community Builders, Inc., a national non-profit developer of affordable housing. Prior to that, Mr. Garciano was a financial analyst with Recapitalization Advisors, a nationally recognized real estate finance consulting firm, specializing in repositioning affordable multifamily housing assets. He is a CPA and has a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Cornell University and a Master of Public Policy from Harvard University.
Jenny French and Anda French, AIA, are principals of French 2D, an architecture studio based in Boston. French 2D’s work combines architectural form-making with integrated art practice, and experimental collaborative methods in commercial, residential, and civic projects. French 2D works on housing and mixed-use with a focus on unconventional housing types that combine familiar ideas of home with more radical organizations and typologies. They focus on the ethos of compact living and shared resources in projects like the first all micro-unit building built in Boston. French 2D was one of five finalists in the 2013 Museum of Modern Art PS1 Young Architects Program in New York, and the firm was featured as Architect Magazine October 2017 Next Progressives. Jenny French is a Design Critic at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and Anda French serves on the Board of Directors of the Boston Society of Architects.
Jerry Koch-Gonzalez is a founding resident at Pioneer Valley Cohousing, and has been
teaching sociocracy and Non-Violent Communications for many years.
Karen Gimnig is a certified professional facilitator with Imago Relationships International. She believes that every decision to be made and every conflict that occurs is an opportunity to increase the sense of community in cohousing. She is passionate about sharing the tools that help communities take advantage of these opportunities to experience deeper relationships and greater joy. She brings experience from her own cohousing community as well other other communities, the board of Coho US, and other non-profit organizations. Feel free to contact her with questions at gimnig@gmail.com or 678-705-9007.
Laura Fitch is a founding principal with Fitch Architecture & Community Design in Amherst, Massachusetts and a 24-year resident of Pioneer Valley Cohousing. Fitch specializes in energy-efficient building design for homes, commercial properties, and smart growth communities. She has worked on programming, schematic design, and/or full architectural services on over thirty cohousing communities across North America for which the firm has received numerous awards.
In 2006, Fitch was given the Boston Architectural College’s “Distinguished Alumni Award”, stating “because of you, Laura, many people have found more neighborly and sustainable ways to live. Through your work, our world is a better place”. Laura, principal of Fitch Architecture & Community Design, Inc., can be contacted at lfitch@facdarchitects.com. 413-549-5799
Lyons Witten, 24-year resident, chairman of the Buildings Grounds Circle and a member of the Finance Circle of Pioneer Valley Cohousing (Amherst, MA), will present useful information on how to keeping your community running smoothly. From fascinating meal sign-up sheets to complicated replacement reserve spreadsheets, he has helped run a tight ship through the quagmire of cohousing!
Email: lyons@cohousing.com
Mary Kraus, AIA, LEED BD+C is a cohousing architect and facilitator who has worked with over two dozen communities in the US and Canada over the past thirty years. She was a founding board member of the Cohousing Network (now Coho US). She lives at Pioneer Valley Cohousing, the first cohousing community in the eastern US, where she can be found preparing dinner in the common house kitchen with her cook team.
Nubanusit Neighborhood & Farm has 29 families in a rural cohousing community on 113 acres in Peterborough, NH
Rev. Dr. Betsy Waters — a workshop leader, coach and a church consultant, pastor, past school psychologist and teacher, facilitator and process leader at Mosaic-Commons. www.renewingchurches.com
Richard Wilber has a B.A. in Fine Art, worked as a computer programmer, and is now retired. He is an amateur woodworker and has recently received a Permaculture Design Certificate, skills that will come in handy in the Rocky Corner cohousing community. He believes that living in community and designing the landscape using permaculture principles are important for the health of our planet. He is hoping that Rocky Corner can set an example in living the change we want to see, and that others will be inspired to do something similar.
Ross Harpestad is a resident of Mosaic Commons, about an hour and a half east of Amherst. He cleans up after meals three to four times a month as well as performs the monthly meals accounting and the every-other-month meals scheduling process. Ross works as a Senior Software Engineer and Analyst for a large for-profit that designs financial software geared towards schools, cities and counties governments. He grumbles a lot and has been involved with Mosaic Commons since 2009.
Ruth Neeman AIA, Principal, Director of Senior Environments Design Studio – LWDA Inc.is a registered architect with more than 30 years of experience in planning, design and research focusing exclusively on environments that enable elders and support independence and aging with dignity. Her project experience includes new construction and renovations of Independent Living Communities, traditional and memory supportive Assisted Living facilities, Long Term Care centers, short term rehabilitative care units, as well as community based day centers. E-mail: rneeman@lwda.com
Samantha Bernstein’s childhood summers were spent in a co-housing “situation” in Otis, Massachusetts that was founded by all four of her grandparents. She has a BA in Anthropology, a BS in Nursing, and an MA in American Studies, and is currently working on her MS- Nursing at University of New Hampshire. Sam became academically interested in co-housing and voluntary simplicity during college and her master’s thesis “Buy Less, Be More: The Transcendentalist History of Anti-consumerism” devoted an entire chapter to cohousing. She moved into Nubanusit Neighborhood and Farm with her family in 2015 and has recently moved out of the ‘hood.
Shelly Parks left a nationally recognized sales and marketing career in the retirement living industry to focus on sharing her professional skills and experience with cohousers. Shelly completed the 500 Communities Program in 2017 and is now an affiliate of Cohousing Solutions. She is also a member of Skagit Cohousing, a developing community in Anacortes, WA. To learn more about Shelly and her work, go to her website: www.covisionconsulting.com
Stowe Farm Community will have 11 families when complete, it has 8 families now.in a rural cohousing community on ~80 acres in Colrain, MA
Zachary Belfer-Shevett grew up in community and now attends Hampshire College here in Amherst. They are a dedicated musician who plays guitar-like instruments and have sung in a variety of choruses, and are an avid contra dancer. Zachary recently finished a course in Ethnomusicology.
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Pre-conference Intensives on Friday Sept 21st (optional)
Pre-conference Intensives held at Pioneer Valley Cohousing – 120 Pulpit Hill Road, Amherst, MA 01002
BE THE GENERATION TO TAKE ACTION.
Global Citizen is calling on YOU to take a stand, use your voice to make change and Be the Generation to Take Action.
From Sep 22 – 29, we are turning NYC into an arena of advocacy, with dozens of events and activations. We are uniting Global Citizens to learn, take action, and see world leaders commit to achieve the Global Goals for Sustainable Development and a world without extreme poverty by 2030.
Global Citizen Week coincides with the annual leaders meeting of the United Nations. We kick off at the historic Riverside Church on the Upper West Side celebrating the human rights leaders and movements who spoke up against injustice, and culminate at the iconic Global Citizen Festival in Central Park on Saturday, Sept 29.
Join us at conferences and concerts, on the streets, in shops, and in churches to show our leaders that the movement for change has never been stronger.
Be sure to check back as we add more events and opportunities for you to get involved!
SEE events already listed on website!
30+YEARS
STANDING WITH FAMILY FARMERS
Farm Aid works year-round to build a system of agriculture that values family farmers, good food, soil and water, and strong communities. Our annual music and food festival celebrates farmers, eaters and music coming together for change.
Farm Aid’s annual festival is a an all-day celebration of music and family farmers featuring a unique lineup of artists and genres, along with family farm-identified, local and organic foods as part of our HOMEGROWN Concessions®.
Farm Aid 2018 is Saturday, Sept. 22, at XFINITY Theatre in Hartford, marking the first Farm Aid festival in Connecticut.
TICKETS HAVE SOLD OUT
Tickets to Farm Aid 2018 sold out in less than four hours! Questions and issues regarding tickets purchased through the public sale on Live Nation should contact them at 1-800-745-3000.
There are still ways to join us; win a VIP trip to Farm Aid 2018 with Crowdrise and bid on one-of-a-kind Farm Aid 2018 experiences with IfOnly.
Click here to learn more about our VIP tickets and exclusive packages.
LINEUP
The Farm Aid 2018 lineup includes:
- Willie Nelson
- Neil Young
- John Mellencamp
- Dave Matthews with Tim Reynolds
- Chris Stapleton
- Sturgill Simpson
- Kacey Musgraves
- Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats
- Jamey Johnson
- Margo Price
- Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real
- Particle Kid
- Ian Mellencamp
Click here to learn more about the lineup and listen to our Farm Aid 2018 Mixtape.
“Folks are educating themselves about where and how food is grown – they’re hungry for the truth. Family farmers bring us good food, protect our soil and water, and strengthen our country. The Farm Aid concert is a day for us to honor that truth and keep working for family farmers.” — Willie Nelson
VENUE INFORMATION
THE FARM AID APP
Access the entire Farm Aid experience through the official Farm Aid 2018 mobile app, available now for iPhone and Android devices. View the entire Farm Aid 2018 schedule and add artists, workshops and artist briefings to make their own personalized schedule for the day. Learn more or download the app today:
WATCH & LISTEN AT HOME
We’re excited to bring the Farm Aid festival experience to your home. From the renowned music on stage and backstage interviews with farmers, to the excitement of the HOMEGROWN Village and an insider’s peek at the press event featuring Farm Aid artists sharing conversations with farmers.
Live Webcast
Watch the show here at farmaid.org on your computer, phone, or tablet at 3pm EDT. If you have a “smart TV,” Apple TV, Roku, or other streaming device, you can watch the webcast on Farm Aid’s YouTube channel(just search for “Farm Aid” and you should see us streaming live).
AXS TV
AXS TV will broadcast Farm Aid 2018 live beginning at 7pm EDT. Click here to find AXS TV in your area.
SiriusXM
Willie Nelson’s SiriusXM channel (59), Willie’s Roadhouse, will broadcast live from Farm Aid 2018, beginning at noon EDT. SiriusXM’s Dallas Wayne will host backstage interviews and behind-the-scenes coverage of the event.
THE HOMEGROWN VILLAGE
In The HOMEGROWN Village, festivalgoers explore hands-on activities that engage all of their senses in the Farm Aid mission. Hear farmers and artists talk together about pressing issues on the FarmYard Stage, attend demonstrations to learn agrarian skills and celebrate the culture of agriculture in the HOMEGROWN Skills tent, connect with farmers and organizations doing critical food and farm work all over the country and so much more.
Read about last year’s exhibits.
HOMEGROWN CONCESSIONS®
Farm Aid’s 2018 concert will feature Farm Aid’s HOMEGROWN Concessions®, the first-of-its-kind model for featuring family farm-identified, local and organic foods at major concert events. HOMEGROWN Concessions® has fed more than 260,000 festivalgoers since its introduction in 2007 at the HOMEGROWN Festival at Randall’s Island in New York City. It has served as a model for entertainment events, including the Super Bowl and a variety of music festivals and venues that have embraced the Good Food Movement in concessions. Backstage, artists and crew enjoy HOMEGROWN Catering with the same family farm standards. We use compostable service products and promote composting to festivalgoers and artists with a goal of zero waste.
Stay tuned for the 2018 menu, which will include a wide variety of vegetarian, ethnic and fresh, local foods.
“At Farm Aid…we’ll come together to stand up to the handful of corporations that control our food system. If you want a better world, it starts with you.” — John Mellencamp
HOTELS
Farm Aid has partnered with Hotels For Hope to assist festivalgoers with their lodging needs for Farm Aid 2018. Every room night booked through this Hotels for Hope link generates a $2 contribution for Farm Aid’s HOMEGROWN Youthmarket.
Click here to book your room through Hotels for Hope now.
VOLUNTEER AT FARM AID 2018
Volunteers play a vital role in making the festival happen each year. Interested in helping out? Visit our volunteers page for more information. Thank you!
FARM AID EVENTS
Farm Aid works closely with folks on the ground to host local activities and events preceding the show.
More information about this year’s events will be coming soon.
PAST FARM AID CONCERTS AND FESTIVALS
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FACEBOOK EVENT
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How to Create a Spiritual Community, and Flourish
How to Flourish as Community:
Living in Joy in a Time of Planetary Phase Transition
A Seven-day Shunyamurti Retreat, September 22 – 28, 2018
Sat Yoga Ashram, Costa Rica
For those who are awakened to the nature of our historic moment and the requirements for survival through this time of global tribulation and who realize the necessity of forming and fostering a new kind of tribal living.
The Sat Yoga Ashram community has gained priceless experience from our own steep learning curve in our shift from vision into manifestation. We have come to understand what is needed to sustain an enduring community with a lifestyle that balances constraint with creativity, duty with freedom, growth with consistency, law with love, and spiritual realization with re-education.
We remain humbly engaged in endless learning and sharing. That spirit has motivated us to open our doors to create a forum that can both inspire and support, and also receive new information and perspectives—and opportunities for mutual benefit—by inviting all those who are either members of communities, leaders, or those who are thinking of joining a community and want a deeper sense of what is involved, what mistakes to avoid, and how to augment our thriving lifestyle.
Themes and Topics
The themes we intend to discuss at this inter-communal gathering include the following:
Unifying Vision and Full Commitment
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Structure, Dharma, and Leadership
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Psychological and Spiritual Power, Understanding, and Training
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Food Security and Adaptation to an Off-Grid Future
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Harvesting the Wisdom of past Monastic, Ashram, and Tribal Cultures
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Transformational Processes for Maturation, Conflict Resolution, and Ego Transcendence
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The Nitty Gritty: Dealing With Such Matters as Aging, Death, Money, Workers, Children, Entheogens, Sex and Drugs
Interested in learning more about these themes?
Read Shunyamurti’s New essay: What is Community?
About Shunyamurti
Shunyamurti is an adept healer who functions also as a researcher, author, community eader, guide, retreat facilitator, and teacher. He is the founder and spiritual director of the Sat Yoga Institute and Ashram.
Many years of meditation practice and training in numerous forms of yoga, including apprenticeship with Baba Hari Dass, ten years of vowed association with a Brahmachari ashram in India, a special resonance with Sri Ramana Maharshi and a deep study of Advaita and esoteric Shaivism and Buddhism, have been supplemented by the intensive study of western metaphysics, modern sciences, profound exploration of the dimensions opened by entheogens, trans-personal psychology, various forms of psychoanalysis and Jungian dreamwork, and the entire development of the perennial philosophy, including Taoism, Kabbalah, and mystical Christianity.
Peace Walk & Singing Peace
Hosted by Zach Freidhof
May all beings know peace. Om Shanti.
My the leaves of aggression fall from the trees of society,
and may the rotting fruits of anger
be turned to compost
through our inward efforts and outward compassion.
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1111 Carey Ave (Big Love Headquarters)
Akron, OH 44314-1975
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We will begin at Big Love HQ and walk in silence and mindfulness to Chestnut Ridge Park, about 25 min. We will meditate there for about 20 min and return to Big Love HQ. Then we will have a Peace Kirtan until 2pm, chanting for Peace – mainly Peace Shalom Salaam Shanti.
All are welcome! If anyone would like to bring food, it can be there at Big Love HQ for after the walk. We will walk rain or shine, though if there is a drenching rain or thunderstorm, we will just chant for Peace and reschedule the walk.
For those who have not experienced The Big Love Network, Peace Month is the perfect time. Come and walk with the kindest group of folks you”ll ever meet. Laugh and share food. Please bring a dish to share and stay for the meditation and chanting for inner peace and the power to send that on.
SEP 24 – 26
DC Advocacy Days 2018 – Peace Alliance DoP Campaign
TICKETS –$25
Event Information
DESCRIPTION
It’s become an annual tradition since 2011, Several or many of us prepare materials, strategies and sometimes gifts, connect in DC, welcoming newcomers and preparing ourselves for a new year of advocacy meetings and conversations while dropping off information packets with staffers and Members of Congress. We meet with prospective, former and current co-sponsors to continue to build the case for a federal infrastucture making peacebuilding and nonviolence a priority in all that we do and supporting U.S. cities who choose to do the same.
Attend 1, 2 or 3 days of Advocacy 9/24-26/18;
Contact Karen at politicalstrength@gmail.com or 312-545-3460 for room shares at the Harrington.
Advocacy materials will be provided in DC; more information to registrants.
Pre-Lobby Days Options
- 9/21-22 in DC – Pace e Bene Campaign Nonviolence Convergence (some DoP advocates will be attending; see www.paceebene.org/events/campaign-nonviolence-convergencefor more information.)
- 9/21-23 in Toronto – World Beyond War Conference (9/22 DoP Workshop, “Departments and Other National Infrastructures for Peace – A Way Forward” with Saul Arbess and Anne Creter, plus a DoP table at conference); optional Sunday event through WBW. Portions of the WBW conference will be simulcast. (See NoWar2018! for more information.)
- 9/23 in DC – 10:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. – limited number of free “timed entry tickets” for The National Museum of African American History and Culture – reserve ASAP by contacting kendramon@comcast.net; optional a.m. event through Campaign Nonviolence.
Hotel Harrington
436 11th St NW
Washington, DC 20004
NATIONAL DOP COMMITTEE
Organizer of DC Advocacy Days 2018 – Peace Alliance DoP Campaign
Women’s Environmental Institute presents:
September 29 @ 8:00 am – September 30 @ 3:30 pm
The New Will Allen Farmer Training Weekend –
Farm, Eat, Sleep: All Four Seasons
Overview:
The weekend workshops will provide participants with hands-on knowledge for building a low-cost hoop house, growing microgreens, growing mushrooms, herbalism workshops, soil building through composting and vermiculture, keeping bees, and growing fish and greens together through aquaponics. The Saturday night bonfire discussion with Will Allen will focus on cold climate farming, community sustainability and climate change – a very popular capstone event which brings environmental, agricultural and food justice together.
CLICK THIS LINK FOR COMPLETE DESCRIPTION
Registration Info: $275/person
Deadline is September 19, 2018 at 12:00pm
Meals: All meals, snacks and beverages included.
Overnight Accommodations at WEI: Limited camping space is available, please reserve your camp space upon registration.
Instructor Name: Will Allen, Will Allen Farms, LCC Milwaukee, Former Founder Growing Power, Inc., Urban Farmer Hero
REGISTER HERE or SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATION
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THE WOMEN’S ENVIRONMENTAL INSTITUTE
The Women’s Environmental Institute (WEI) is an environmental research, renewal and retreat center designed to create and share knowledge about environmental issues and policies relevant to women, children and identified communities affected by environmental injustice; to promote agricultural justice, organic and sustainable agriculture and ecological awareness; and to support activism that influences public policy and promotes social change.
Our mission brings together agricultural, food and environmental justice, one community at a time; one farm at a time, one person at a time and all of us together.
Amador Hill Farm and Orchard
15715 River Road
North Branch, MN 55056
Mailing Address:
WEI
P.O. Box 128 (55056)
St Paul Office –
550 Rice St
St Paul, MN 55103
Email: wei@w-e-i.org
September 29–30, 2018
Loyola Marymount University
Los Angeles
Note that times are for Pacific Coast Time Zone
jotff@anewwayoflife.org
323-563-3573
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Note: Last movie – SURVIVORS GUIDE TO PRISON – with Q&A to follow with producer DAVID ARQUETTE
September 30 | 3:30 PM (RunTime: 102 minutes) – at MAYER THEATRE
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Film Synopses & Trailers
Saturday, September 29
(Screenings will be followed by Q&A with filmmakers)
RT: 30 minutes
September 29 | 11 AM
Life Sciences Building Auditorium Theatre
Q&A to follow with writer/director Tiffany Johnson and producer/animator Jonathan Clark
The Real Background Check
This animated short film is based on the real life story of Tiffany Johnson, who survived life-altering trauma caused by early childhood abuse. “The Real Background Check” breaks down what happens to people before they enter the criminal justice system.
RT: 57 minutes
September 29 | 1:30 PM
Life Sciences Building Auditorium Theatre
Q&A to follow with Johnny Perez (Director of U.S. Prison Programs, National Religious Campaign Against Torture)
Rikers: An American Jail
From Bill Moyers comes the first film to focus exclusively on former detainees who were held at Rikers Island. Their searing testimonials about the deep-seated culture of systemic violence and corruption that has plagued the notorious NYC jail for decades add a powerful authentic voice to investigative journalism that has reported on violence and abuses at the jail.
RT: 68 minutes
September 29 | 1:30 PM
Seaver 100 Theatre
Q&A to follow with writer/director/producer Saffron Cassaday
Returning Citizens
“Returning Citizens” focuses on a passionate group of individuals who are looking for a second chance – or perhaps a chance they never had to begin with. Set in Southeast Washington, DC, the film offers a humanizing perspective on a community that has been negatively impacted by mass incarceration.
RT: 40 minutes
September 29 | 1:30 PM
Seaver 200 Theatre
Knife Skills
What does it take to build a world-class French restaurant? What if the staff is almost entirely men and women just out of prison? What if most have never cooked or served before, and have barely two months to learn their trade? Oscar-nominated Knife Skills follows the hectic launch of Edwins restaurant in Cleveland. In this improbable setting, with its mouth-watering dishes and its arcane French vocabulary, we discover the challenges of men and women finding their way after their release.
RT: 45 minutes
September 29 | 3:05 PM
Life Sciences Building Auditorium Theatre
The Bail Trap: American Ransom
Money bail is one of the main causes of mass incarceration in the United States. Yet, few people know what the money bail system is, let alone how it all works or why we need to do away with it. This short film compilation from Brave New Films explains America’s broken bail system.
RT: 22 minutes
September 29 | 3:00 PM
Seaver 100 Theatre
Q&A to follow with producer/director Terrell Wormley
Wild Roots
Hakeem, a reformed gang member, gets out of jail and wants to change his life around, but the hood won’t left him go easily. He knows how senseless gang banging is, but what do you do when your past catches up to you?
The Talk
After an unarmed black teen is killed, James & Maddie argue about whether they should warn their 9-year-old son about police brutality.
RT: 16 minutes
September 29 | 3:40 PM
Seaver 100 Theatre
Q&A to follow with Marlon Perrier, writer/director/star of “The Talk”
Sunday, September 30
(Screenings will be followed by Q&A with filmmakers)
RT: 60 minutes
September 30 | 11 AM
Life Sciences Building Auditorium Theatre
Q&A to follow with director/producer Ultan Guilfoyle, Craig Webb (Gehry Partners) & Leonard Noisette (Justice Team Director, Open Society Foundations)
Building Justice
At the invitation of George Soros and his Open Society Foundations, architect Frank Gehry arranged two ‘masters’ studios, one in SCI-Arc in Los Angeles, the other at the Yale School of Architecture, to investigate prison design as a subject for the best architecture students in the US. Partnering with Susan Burton of A New Way of Life Re-Entry Project in
Watts, Gehry and his students explored all aspects of prison design, learning first hand the design flaws of prison living from women who have been incarcerated in America’s worst prisons and visiting what are considered to be the world’s most successful prisons, in Norway.
RT: 60 minutes
September 30 | 1:50 PM
Life Sciences Building Auditorium Theatre
Q&A to follow with director AJ Ali
Walking While Black: L.O.V.E Is the Answer
“Walking While Black: L.O.V.E. Is The Answer” presents proven action steps
to bridge the painful gap between peace officers and the communities they serve. Featuring interviews with peace
officers, faith leaders, educators, activists and others, the film offers an inspiring blueprint to end racial profiling and heal our communities.
RT: 73 minutes
September 30 | 1:50 PM
Seaver 200 Theatre
Q&A to follow with director/executive producer Rahiem Shabazz
Elementary Genocide III: Academic Holocaust
Elementary Genocide: Academic Holocaust adds more statistical proof of the scholastic inequalities faced by Original people around the country. The documentary revisits the importance of education and its impact on self-image, family structure, financial freedom and the collective future of African/indigenous people in America and abroad.
RT: 16 minutes
September 30 | 1:50 PM
Seaver 100 Theatre
Let My People Vote
Filmed in Tampa, two days before the 2016 presidential election, this verité short covers a day-in-the-life of civil rights activist Desmond Meade. His mission? Assisting people in voting — something our “forefathers marched and died for.”
What begins as an upbeat day of faith in our democratic process, ends with a heartbreaking realization: Jim Crow is not dead.
RT: 102 minutes
September 30 | 3:30 PM
Mayer Theatre
Q&A to follow with producer David Arquette
Survivors Guide to Prison
Follows the stories of two innocent men, Bruce Lisker and Reggie Cole, who spent decades behind bars for murders they did not commit. With gripping testimony from formerly incarcerated people, guards, cops, lawyers and reformers, “Survivors Guide” exposes the failed “punishment model” and examines the programs proven to work.
Meditation * Mantra for World Peace * Music * Dance * Speakers * Vendors * Kirtan * Bhajans * Annual Award Ceremony * Prasad * Guru Dileepji’s 50th Birthday Celebration
http://www.wycevents.com/
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
Click HERE!
NO START TIME and NO END TIME – LISTEN to past and current podcasts!
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.
How would you like to help the Charter for Compassion raise awareness of our work, generate significant funding and uplift the world – and laugh a lot while doing it?
You can do ALL of these things by taking and spreading:
Rolling on the Floor Laughing Challenge to Spark Laughter that Uplifts the World!
The Charter for Compassion is beyond thrilled to announce that we are one of the benefiting organizations in the Rolling on the Floor Laughing Challenge to raise awareness and funding for the positive work of over 50 non-profits GLOBALLY!
Our focus is on the FUN in FUNdraising and the power everyday people have to fuel some of the most important work being done in the world.
The #ROFLChallenge dares each of us to create a funny video, share and donate. Every video, every share, and every donation supports over 50 nonprofits and helps to solve complex problems that no individual business, organization or leader can solve alone.
Take the ROFL Challenge – Spark Laughter that Uplifts the World
- Step 1: Take the challenge! Tell a joke, play a (safe) prank, put on a skit — or just plain ANYTHING to get another person laughing.
- Step 2: Film it and post it with the hashtag “#ROFLChallenge”.
- Step 3: Challenge your friends and activate your networks! Challenge them by name in your video and use social media to invite others to make a video or donate (or both!)
Acts of laughter and generosity are potent remedies to divisive times we live in, acting as sparks that ignite the good will and good intentions that we all have within us.
Laughter is a universal connection we all share, able to bring joy to our hearts and form bridges across differences we have with one another.
With #ROFLChallenge – you get to spread laughter while also contributing, supporting and uplifting the world through donating to organizations that dedicate themselves to making the world a much better place.
Please help Spark Laughter that Uplifts the World:
TAKE and SHARE #ROFLChallenge – Text ROFL to 50155 or go to www.rolfchallenge.org
ACTIVATE YOUR NETWORKS:
Challenge your well known, most generous or funny friends to take the ROFL Challenge and/or Donate.
Share our Facebook Video on your Facebook Newsfeed so that others can see it, comment on it, like it and share it. (We want our video to go viral.)
Thanks so very much for joining us in Laughing, Giving and Uplifting the World Together!
P.S. Check out our ROFL Challenge Video Here. Please help us make it more visible by Liking it, posting a Comment, or Sharing it on your own Facebook Newsfeed.
Get Inspired and Engaged by the Global Community
Reconnect with the Source of Pachamama Alliance
A 75-Minute Conference Call for Our Global Community
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These calls are designed to
bring together Pachamama Alliance
participants, leaders, and supporters who are actively engaged
in creating a shift in humanity to a worldview
that honors and sustains life
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By coming together and grounding in this vision, you will:
*Feel supported in your work.
**Be inspired and energized in your unique role in a worldwide
network committed to a new future for all.
***Strengthen your connection to like-hearted people and to the spirit
that has inspired Pachamama Alliance since its inception.
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GO TO: https://www.pachamama.org/events
to reserve your space for the conversation.
Fill out the online form and submit.
You will receive a confirmation email.
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Theater Company of Lafayette Presents
The Laramie Project
by Moises Kaufman and the Tectonic Theater Project
Directed by Nanci Van Fleet
October 2018 marks the 20th anniversary of Matthew Shephard’s murder. He was the victim of a brutal assault because he was gay. Moises Kaufman and fellow members of the Tectonic Theater Project made six trips to Laramie over the course of a year and a half, in the aftermath of the beating and during the trial of the two young men accused of killing Shepard. They conducted more than 200 interviews with the people of the town and created a deeply moving and fascinating theatrical experience.
Do not miss this powerful and moving production that explores the depths to which humanity can sink and the heights of compassion of which we are capable.
Performances run October 5 – 14
Fridays and Saturdays – 7:30 pm
Sunday matinees at 2:00 pm
LAFAYETTE ARTS HUB
420 Courtney Way
Lafayette CO 80026
Tickets at
https://
or
1-800-838-3006
Join indigenous leaders from around the world for a day of Earth-based wisdom teachings, prayers, and music to support transformation, healing, and social change.
Powerful Indigenous voices from our beloved Mother Earth are coming together to share sacred knowledge with you… (scroll down for details)
There is no registration required to attend… just visit our Facebook page here on October 8 starting at 9am Pacific Time.
During this full-day Facebook Live gathering, you’ll:
- Celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day, October 8, 2018 LIVE with sisters and brothers all over the world
- Receive stories and wisdom from Indigenous elders
- Participate in reverent moments & an opening ceremony
- Learn about prophecies regarding enormous change & heart-connected evolution
- Discover how to take action for change!
- View The Doctrine of Discovery: Unmasking the Domination Code — a compelling documentary film by Sheldon Wolfchild
And much more good healing for us all!
At the core of global restoration is the recognition that Indigenous peoples carry a way of being that is sustainable, harmonious, healthy, and just. Their ancient wisdom can guide us in healing our hearts, transforming our minds and creating truly loving, collaborative communities on our planet.
That’s why we’re thrilled to announce that on Indigenous Peoples Day, Monday, October 8, 2018, The Shift Network is presenting a full-day Global Indigenous Wisdom Summit via Facebook Live!
This will be a profound spiritual gathering of Indigenous leaders from around the world sharing Earth-based wisdom teachings, prayers, and music to support transformation, healing, and social change, as well as concrete examples for birthing a new era — one in which all members of the human family are treated with respect, understanding, compassion and justice.
The day will be hosted by Indigenous speaker Shawna Bluestar (Shawnee, Lenape, Azteca), and will include keepers of wisdom from around the world, such as:
Grandmother SaSa (Swan of the North) is a seer, a dreamer and a universal healer. She founded The Rose and The Swan Healing Center for Healers, where she conducts teachings and the Medicine Hoop of Life ceremony twice a year.
Grandmother Flordemayo is a founding member of the Church of the Spiritual Path, the Confederation of Indigenous Elders of the America, Institute of Natural and Traditional Knowledge, International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers, and recently founded The Path a 501(c)3 organization.
Woman Stands Shining (Pat McCabe) has the honor of being of the Diné (Navajo) Nation. A life-bringer, life-bearer mother, writer, artist, activist, speaker and cultural liason, her work is driven by the study of the Science of Right Relations. Moving from the central knowledge that we, the five-fingered-ones, are born into beauty, as beauty, for joyful life, she brings the understanding of Indigenous ways of knowing into discussion and inquiry on sustainability.
Dave Courchene , Nii Gaani Aki Innini (Leading Earth Man), has traveled internationally, carrying a message of hope and peace. Dave shares ancient Indigenous knowledge that he believes can act as the foundation in supporting the new life that Mother Earth is now entering, and that the elders have confirmed has arrived. He has created a special place for sharing ancient Indigenous knowledge — the Turtle Lodge — built based on a vision he received many years ago.
Grandmother Moetu-Taiha Ransfield is descendent of the Ngai Tuhoe and the Kahungunu tribes of Aotearoa New Zealand. Moetu is always connected to her land, her mountain, her river and her people because she is them. She carries her ancestors with her. After an experience with cancer, she was given a choice of whether to stay “here” or go to the ‘loved ones’. Grandmother Moetu chose to stay and made a commitment to be a channel for helping humanity. Her ‘calling’ is her life. She wants to find and build leaders, the ones who want to make a difference and be a force for good in the world.
Pura Fé is a Native singer-songwriter, seamstress, teacher and activist. She is also the founding member of the Internationally renowned Native American women’s a cappella trio, “Ulali”.
Ilarion (Kuuyux/Larry) Merculieff has over 40 years of serving his Unangan (Aleut) people and is a carrier of messages from Indigenous elders from around the world. He speaks all over the world, has received many awards and co-authored two books.
Tiokasin Ghosthorse is a musician, writer, educator. He is an internationally-syndicated host, executive producer and founder of the 26-year-old “First Voices Radio,” heard on 77 public, community and commercial radio stations in the U.S. and Canada. Photo by Ivan March.
Joanne Shenandoah , PhD, is one of “America’s most celebrated and critically acclaimed Native American musicians of her time” (Associated Press). She is a Grammy Award winner with 3 nominations and over 40 music awards, including 14 Native American Music awards – a Hall of Fame Inductee. Her music ranges from solo to full symphony and 22 recordings.
Shawna Bluestar Newcomb (Shawnee, Lenape, Azteca) is a spiritual guide and mentor for women, supporting them to share their unique gifts and voices. Shawna is working with her father Steven T. Newcomb to challenge The Doctrine of Discovery, and dedicated to bring about healing for humanity, Mother Earth, and future generations by sharing The Reverence Code based on ancient and Indigenous wisdom.
Buffy Sainte-Marie is an internationally renowned recording artist, activist, educator, visual artist, and winner of countless awards. In 2017 she released Medicine Songs, a career retrospective of Sainte-Marie’s song collection spanning nearly 50 years. Medicine Songs features new recordings of Sainte-Marie’s songs about the environment, alternative conflict resolution, Indigenous realities, greed, and racketeering. Part rhythmic healing, part trumpeting wakeup call, Medicine Songs is the soundtrack for the resistance.
Unci Rita Long Visitor Holy Dance is an Oglala Sioux who lives on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. She is a Lakota keeper of the traditional ways, great grandmother, Native American Church elder, and beadworker descended from Long Visitor and members of the Crazy Horse Band, named for the great warrior, Crazy Horse.
Steven Newcomb (Shawnee, Lenape) is the co-founder and co-director of the Indigenous Law Institute, along with Birgil Kills Straight who is an Oglala Lakota headman and ceremonial person. Steve Newcomb is author of “Pagans in the Promised Land: Decoding the Doctrine of Christian Discovery” and co-producer of the documentary film, “The Doctrine of Discovery: Unmasking the Domination Code” directed by Sheldon Wolfchild (Dakota). Newcomb is one of the world’s foremost authorities on the Doctrine of Discovery based on the 40 years he has spent investigating and writing about these issues. Photo by William P. Laronal
Leah Shenandoah is an Oneida Iroquois Wolf Clan award-winning singer-songwriter, jeweler and multi-media artist. She considers herself a radical compassionist in a world filled with suffering.
Nathan Blindman is a commercial artist and a producer known for “CowJews and Indians” (2013).
Reverend Eila Paul is a Grandmother and healer who has a spiritual and physical connection to her people, the Maori of Aotearoa New Zealand, and to her culture. Eila works with the elderly, and children, to weave deep and sacred connection to the earth and all beings. She travels through North America and Europe offering sacred seeds of knowledge and healing.
Lyla June is poet, musician, educator, anthropologist, activist and community servant of Diné (Navajo), Tsétsêhéstâhese (Cheyenne) and European lineages. She holds a degree in Environmental Anthropology with honors from Stanford University as well as a degree in American Indian Education with distinction from the University of New Mexico.
Throughout the day, these powerful leaders will help open a deeper understanding within you about the many challenges Indigenous nations and peoples face, and how we can work together toward a brighter future for humanity, all living things, and Mother Earth.
At the Shift Network, we are deeply committed to our Indigenous brothers and sisters and see healing our society’s relationship with Indigenous Peoples, and supporting their upliftment, as essential for the larger healing of our world. That is why we dedicate this event to hearing more of their voices of wisdom, which carry important medicine for our time.
Please join us!
There is no registration required to attend… just visit our Facebook page here on October 8 starting at 9am Pacific.
In Conversation With Mother Jones
Mother Jones is bringing its fearless reporting and in-depth conversation to a city near you. Our In Conversation series features timely discussions with writers, thinkers, and changemakers who are pushing the national conversation forward.
Our latest event featured the Rev. William J. Barber, a preeminent civil rights leader and co-founder of the Poor People’s Campaign, in conversation with our senior reporter Ari Berman about voter suppression, civil rights, and the upcoming midterm elections.
Watch the Facebook Live stream of the event.
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Humanity’s Team Earth Day Event to celebrate Oneness
An Online Summit Celebrating 10 Years of Transition in the US!
On Saturday, October 27th, Transition US will host our first-ever national online summit, bringing together Transition US community members and organizers from across the country for a day of education, inspiration, and celebration. Both groups and individuals are invited to join in the fun!
PROGRAM OVERVIEW
We will commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Transition Movement in the US with an inspiring full-day program, including:
– Keynote sessions featuring international Transition Movement founder Rob Hopkins and world-renowned author, educator, and activist Margaret J. Wheatley.
– Engaging panel discussions focused on sharing some of the greatest success stories from our national network and deepening connections with the wider movement for community resilience.
– A live, interactive session with a talk by Transition US staff about the state of our movement and the presentation of several awards nominated by you, the community.
Scroll down for schedule and program details, and additional information on how to participate! Tickets available here.
HOW TO REGISTER
Registration is now available here, with flexible pricing options available for groups and individuals.
We encourage Transition groups to use this Online Summit as the basis for hosting local gatherings. Click here to download a PDF guide for how to host a local watch party for your Transition or other community resilience-building group.
Please email info@transitionus.org for more information or if you’d like to join our planning team.
Here’s to another decade of building thriving, resilient community for all!
DETAILED SCHEDULE
Below are approximate times for our livestream of this event, which requires online registration and will take place via our Zoom video-conferencing platform. Please note that if you’re planning to host a watch party in your community, all of these times (except for our live, interactive session) are flexible. Suggested schedules for organizing an event in all four North and South American time zones are included in our downloadable “How to Host a Watch Party” guide.
– Arrival and welcome: 12:45-1:00pm Eastern Time (9:45-10:00am Pacific)
– Rob Hopkins keynote: 1:00-1:45pm Eastern Time (10:00-10:45am Pacific)
– Replicable examples panel: 1:45-2:30pm Eastern Time (10:45-11:30am Pacific)
– Margaret Wheatley keynote: 2:30-3:15pm Eastern Time (11:30am-12:15pm Pacific)
– Wider movement panel: 3:15-4:00pm Eastern Time (12:15-1:00pm Pacific)
– Live, interactive session: 4:00-5:15pm Eastern Time (1:00-2:15pm Pacific)
– Visioning, discussion, and closing: 5:15-6:00pm Eastern Time (2:15-3:00pm Pacific)
PROGRAM DETAILS
Below is a list of session titles, descriptions, and presenter bios. More information will be posted here as it becomes available.
KEYNOTE 1
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION ON “THE TRANSITION MOVEMENT: PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE”
In this lively keynote session, Transition Movement Co-Founder Rob Hopkins, Sarah McAdam, Delivery Director for Transition Network, and Don Hall, Co-Director of Transition US will explore a wide variety of themes that have emerged from the practice of Transition internationally and here in the US since its inception over a decade ago. In addition to pointing out successful strategies and common challenges, we’ll also look forward from this reflective moment to consider how the movement might continue to broaden, deepen, and scale-up its reach and positive impact over time.
Rob Hopkins: I’m a co-founder of both Transition Town Totnes and Transition Network. I’m also a serial blogger, author of The Power of Just Doing Stuff and 21 Stories of Transition, and I tweet as @robintransition. I previously wrote The Transition Handbook and The Transition Companion, and was awarded a PhD by the University of Plymouth – and more recently – Honorary Doctorates by the University of the West of England and the University of Namur. In 2012, I was voted one of the Independent’s top 100 environmentalists and one of “Britain’s 50 New Radicals.” I have appeared on BBC Radio 4’s “Four Thought” and “A Good Read,” appear in the French film phenomenon “Demain” (“Tomorrow”), have spoken at TED Global once, and at three TEDx events. I am an Ashoka Fellow, a keen gardener, one of the founders of New Lion Brewery in Totnes, and a Director of the Totnes Community Development Society, the group behind Atmos Totnes, a very ambitious community-led development project. If you’re wondering why I’m now writing a book about imagination, you can find out here.
Sarah McAdam: I play a coordinating role for Transition Network, paying attention to the overall health and strategic direction of our organisation. I’m currently working with people across the international network of Transition Hubs to design and implement innovative governance models and projects which support the sharing of power, resources, and learning across and beyond the Transition movement. I’m also a Council member for ECOLISE, the European network for community-led initiatives on climate change and sustainability.
Don Hall: I have had the good fortune to participate in the Transition Movement in a variety of capacities over the past decade. Initially serving for two years as the Education and Outreach Coordinator for Transition Colorado, I went on to found and direct Transition Sarasota from 2010 to 2016. A certified Transition Trainer and experienced facilitator, I was named Co-Director of Transition US in 2017. I hold a Master’s degree in Environmental Leadership from Naropa University and currently live in Sarasota, Florida.
KEYNOTE 2
INTERVIEW ON “CREATING ISLANDS OF SANITY: LEADING WELL IN THIS TIME OF INCREASING TURBULENCE”
Margaret (Meg) Wheatley is dedicated to awakening us to be leaders for this time of profound disruption, to reclaim leadership as a noble profession that creates possibility and humaneness in the midst of increasing fear and turmoil. She summons us to use our influence and power to create Islands of Sanity, to commit ourselves to engaging with compassion and insight amidst the increasing turbulence of our world.
Meg is especially interested in bringing the concept of Islands of Sanity to Transition Towns. Building on the strong identity of community that’s been established, sane leadership is the necessary next step. Sane leadership is the unshakable confidence that people can be generous, creative and kind. At this time when fear and polarization predominate, and people find it increasingly difficult to work well together, how do we create the conditions for people’s best qualities to manifest within the community on behalf of the issues we most care about?
Since 1966, Margaret Wheatley has worked globally in many different roles: a speaker, teacher, community worker, consultant, advisor, formal leader. From these deep and varied experiences, she has developed the unshakable conviction that leaders must learn how to evoke people’s inherent generosity, creativity, and need for community. As this world tears us apart, sane leadership on behalf of the human spirit is the only way forward. She is a best-selling author of nine books, from the classic Leadership and the New Science in 1992 to her newest book (June 2017) Who Do We Choose To Be? Facing Reality, Claiming Leadership, Restoring Sanity.
COST
To cover the costs of producing this event while ensuring that no-one is turned away for lack of funds, we are offering a variety of different registration options for individuals and groups. Please click here to register as soon as you’re ready.
For Individuals: $15 covers our cost per person to produce this event, $5 is our minimum suggested donation, and $30 covers our cost per person while helping another person to attend on scholarship. Those who are unable to afford the $5 minimum donation are welcome to attend for free.
For Groups: We are offering a sliding scale from $20 to $200. If your group is well-resourced or you have a member who can afford to pay $200, we’d greatly appreciate it! If not, consider taking up a collection at your next meeting – just four people contributing $5 each will provide a basic level of support and you should be able to easily make this back (and then some) by turning your local event into a fundraiser for your initiative!
WATCH PARTY HOSTING GUIDE
We strongly encourage Transition groups of all sizes to use this historic summit as an opportunity to host local gatherings and watch parties. We’ve prepared this PDF guide to support you in facilitating a live event with your local community resilience-building group to celebrate 10 years of Transition in the US.
In the weeks leading up to the event, we’ll publish a listing of local Online Summit Watch Parties and other live events here on our website. If you’re planning something, let us know!
If you have any questions, or if you’d like us to list your local watch party here on our website, please email info@transitionus.org.
PLEASE HELP US SPREAD THE WORD!
This movement is fully organic and 100% people-powered. Please help us make it irresistible by sharing this excellent opportunitywith your local and extended network of change-makers and resilience-builders.
Please RSVP and Share our FB event page here.
Thanks!
~The Transition US Team
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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Lifting the Vibration of Our Spirit: Unleashing the Heart Power of Collective Consciousness,
November 14-18, 2018
Riviera Maya region of Mexico
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Reconnect, Renew and Uplift
Come join us for a transformative experience, Lifting the Vibration of Our Spirit: Unleashing the Heart Power of Collective Consciousness, our 7th Annual HeartMath and Global Coherence Event in Mexico in the lovely Riviera Maya region of Mexico. This timely event will take place November 14-18, 2018, in a delightfully, wholesome environment that offers abundant flora, beautiful beaches, elegant accommodations, amazing food, fun and adventure, and a unique feeling of spiritual connection.
Lifting our vibration gives us access to more efficient choices from a whole other level of consciousness. Together, we will learn and practice techniques to raise our personal vibration, increase our social coherence and focus our resonant intentions to uplift collective consciousness and awareness on the planet.Enjoy An Experiential Event with Many Optional Activities  Free time is scheduled in each day so you can practice tools you’ll be learning and have fun while making deeper connections with others. Mornings
Afternoons
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Your Program Hosts Save $200 When You Register by September 30th! You will receive a $200 discount off this year’s price of $1,495 when you register on or before September 30, 2018. This includes the cost of the program and transportation to and from the airport, not the cost for hotel accommodations. You will need to make your own hotel and flight reservations. We’ve reserved a block of rooms, which includes all meals, at a special price of $111 per night double occupancy and $166 per night single occupancy. You will receive room reservation information immediately upon registering. All Meals Are Included
The Grand Bahia Sian Ka’an, is a quiet, all-adult hotel, just across the street from the conference room location. It’s an inclusive package, which means your meals will be free at any of the 12 restaurants. Questions: Contact Del Walker at: delwalker@heartmath.org Call Del at (831) 338-8502 or (800) 711-6221 Event Program Preview:
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Prem Rawat Foundation Supports Veterans With Peace Education Program
This article is also available in: French
For too many veterans, finding an enduring sense of peace remains elusive long after they return from war. They often face immense challenges as they transition to civilian life, from trauma disorders to unemployment and homelessness.
Thankfully, November 11 marks an occasion to honor their service and support solutions that can improve their lives. The date is Veterans Day in the United States, and in many other countries it is called Remembrance Day and Armistice Day, commemorating the end of World War I.
A growing number of veterans say the Peace Education Program is a solution that gives them the tools they need to harness their own inner-strength and overcome their obstacles. The program’s workshops feature videos of Prem Rawat’s empowering international talks on themes such as dignity, choice and hope.
“The Peace Education Program tries only to achieve one simple thing: it’s to put you in touch with yourself,” says Rawat.
While the goal is simple, the impact was profound for Alyce Knaflich, a veteran who suffered from post-traumatic stress, depression and homelessness for 10 years. She credits PEP with giving her the confidence to now work as the executive director of Aura Home Women Vets, a charity in Asheville, NC that provides housing and support to homeless women veterans.
Veteran Alyce Knaflich shares her story in this video.
“I was lost. Prem Rawat and his message in the program, it brought me home. And my home is my heart. Peace starts on the inside,” says Knaflich.
She has incorporated the Peace Education Program into Aura Home’s services to help her clients have the same enriching experience that she did.
“Prem’s message will help them heal their emotional stress, and ease the transition of coming out of the military and trying to find a new career path. It will help them center themselves and bring out their confidence,” says Knaflich.
Conversations on Compassion with Dr. Elissa Epel
When
6:00 pm to 7:30 pm, November 15, 2018
Location
Cubberley Auditorium, Graduate School of Education, Stanford University
485 Lasuen Mall, Stanford, CA, United States
About The Event
In this conversation, CCARE’s founder and director, Dr. James Doty, will discuss compassion, meditation, and biology of aging with Dr. Elissa Epel. The hour-long dialogue will be followed by questions from the audience and a book signing. The talk will be recorded and posted to CCARE’s YouTube Channel and website several weeks after the event.
About Dr. Elissa Epel
Elissa Epel, Ph.D, is a Professor at UCSF in the Department of Psychiatry. She studies how chronic stress can impact aspects of biological aging (including the telomere/telomerase system), and how behavioral, mindfulness, and meditation interventions may buffer stress effects and promote psychological and physiological thriving. She co-leads the NIH Stress Network and a UC obesity research consortium, linking other UC campuses in the study of stress, sugar, food addiction, and obesity. Dr. Epel is a member of the National Academy of Medicine, steering council member for the Mind and Life Institute, and President Elect of the Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research. She co-authored “The Telomere Effect: A Revolutionary Approach to Living Younger, Healthier, Longer,” a NYT best seller, with Nobel Laureate Elizabeth Blackburn.
Registration
FREE ONLINE REGISTRATION | Please bring a paper or electronic copy of your confirmation email for entrance to the event.
Doors open at 5:30 p.m. for registered attendees | Registration is required to access seating before the event begins. Remaining seats will be offered on a first-come, first-served basis after the event begins.
Directions & Parking
Cubberley Auditorium, Stanford Graduate School of Education | Directions | Parking
Disability-Related Accommodations and Services
Please email CCARE staff at CCARE_info@stanford.edu by November 10, 2018 with requests for disability-related accommodations.
HONOR NATIVE LAND:
A GUIDE AND CALL TO ACKNOWLEDGMENT
IN COUNTRIES SUCH AS NEW ZEALAND, AUSTRALIA, CANADA, AND AMONG TRIBAL NATIONS IN THE U.S., it is commonplace, even policy, to open events and gatherings by acknowledging the traditional Indigenous inhabitants of that land. While some individuals and cultural and educational institutions in the United States have adopted this custom, the vast majority have not. Together, we can spark a movement to change that.
We call on all individuals and organizations to open public events and gatherings with acknowledgment of the traditional Native inhabitants of the land.
Acknowledgment is a simple, powerful way of showing respect and a step toward correcting the stories and practices that erase Indigenous people’s history and culture and toward inviting and honoring the truth. Imagine this practice widely adopted: imagine cultural venues, classrooms, conference settings, places of worship, sports stadiums, and town halls, acknowledging traditional lands. Millions would be exposed—many for the first time—to the names of the traditional Indigenous inhabitants of the lands they are on, inspiring them to ongoing awareness and action.
For more than five hundred years, Native communities across the Americas have demonstrated resilience and resistance in the face of violent efforts to separate them from their land, culture, and each other. They remain at the forefront of movements to protect Mother Earth and the life it sustains. Today, corporate greed and federal policy push agendas to extract wealth from the earth, degrading sacred land in blatant disregard of treaty rights. Acknowledgment is a critical public intervention, a necessary step toward honoring Native communities and enacting the much larger project of decolonization and reconciliation. Join us in adopting, calling for, and spreading this practice.
Download the Guide: Created in partnership with Native allies and organizations, the Guide offers context about the practice of acknowledgment, gives step-by-step instructions for how to begin wherever you are, and provides tips for moving beyond acknowledgment into action.
Download the #HonorNativeLand Guide
Fill out the form to download the guide
WHY INTRODUCE THE PRACTICE OF LAND ACKNOWLEDGMENT?
- Offer recognition and respect.
- Counter the “doctrine of discovery” with the true story of the people who were already here.
- Create a broader public awareness of the history that has led to this moment.
- Begin to repair relationships with Native communities and with the land.
- Support larger truth-telling and reconciliation efforts.
- Remind people that colonization an ongoing process, with Native lands still occupied due to deceptive and broken treaties.
- Take a cue from Indigenous protocol, opening up space with reverence and respect.
- Inspire ongoing action and relationship.
Acknowledgment by itself is a small gesture. It becomes meaningful when coupled with authentic relationship and informed action. But this beginning can be an opening to greater public consciousness of Native sovereignty and cultural rights, a step toward equitable relationship and reconciliation.
Print, Customize, and Post #HonorNativeLand Art
Imagine going to a local coffee shop, music venue, grocery store, or town hall, and finding a sign on the wall acknowledging traditional lands. Sound far-fetched? It doesn’t have to be! As part of this campaign to #HonorNativeLand, we partnered with Native artists to create downloadable signs that you can print, customize, and post in your community.
After Downloading the Guide, Take the Pledge
We urge organizations, collectives, institutions, and agencies to publicly commit to practicing traditional Native land acknowledgment.
Those who have taken the Pledge:
- Artist’s Laboratory Theatre
- Arts in a Changing America (ArtChangeUS)
- ArtSpark
- ArtWell
- California Indian Culture & Sovereignty Center
- Dancing Earth
- Democracy at Work Institute
- Emerging Arts Leaders/Los Angeles
- Indigenous Women Rise in Gallup
- Ink People, Inc.
- IU First Nations Educational & Cultural Center
- Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection
- Marietta Ohio Arts Innovation Lab
- National Council for Science and Faith
- Native American Music Awards
- Native Arts and Cultures Foundation
- New Economy Coalition
- SOMArts
- Women of Color in the Arts (WOCA)
- Artivists LA
- Kamiah Community Library
- Peñasco Theatre Collective
- Self Help Graphics & Art
- The Field
- YWCA Olympia
As a step toward honoring the truth and achieving healing and reconciliation, our organization commits to open all public events and gatherings with a statement acknowledging the traditional Native lands on which we stand. Such statements become truly meaningful when coupled with authentic relationships and sustained commitment. We therefore commit to move beyond words into programs and actions that fully embody a commitment to Indigenous rights and cultural equity.
The U.S. Department of Arts and Culture is a people-powered department — a grassroots action network inciting creativity to shape a culture of empathy, equity, and belonging. Learn more about the USDAC and read our Statement of Values, then join this act of collective imagination
Contact info: hello@usdac.us.
PROTOTYPING CULTURAL DEMOCRACY SERIES Part 7: Remember2019, Memory and Reflection on Mass Lynching in Phillips County, AR
By Arlene Goldbard, Chief Policy Wonk
This is the sixth in a series of blogs profiling the USDAC’s Policy Prototype projects, seven projects across the U.S. receiving micro-grants to document their work related to the proposals in “Standing for Cultural Democracy: The USDAC’s Policy and Action Platform.”
The proposal submitted for a one-off USDAC Policy Prototype micro-grant by Ashley Teague, a theater director with extensive community experience, focused on the critical issue of commemorative justice (as did the STICK + MOVE project featured earlier in this series). Partnering with Mauricio Salgado, co-founder of Artists Striving to End Poverty and Arielle Julia Brown, founder of The Love Balm Project, Remember2019 lives in South Phillips Country Arkansas where in “1919 arguably the largest mass lynching in American history, took the lives of more than 230 African Americans in less than 72 hours….,”
Remember2019 was developed in response to Bryan Stevenson’s (founder of the Equal Justice Initiative) call to action when he said, “Formalizing a space for memory, reflection, and grieving can help our communities recover from this traumatic history of mass violence.”
In the Remember2019 proposal, Ashley wrote:
As we approach the centennial of the massacre in South Phillips County, our goal is to partner with individuals and organizations throughout the region to create a theatre event that unearths this erased and contentious history and considers how it has affected the communities past and present. Furthermore, we will raise Dr. Martin Luther King’s timely question—where do we go from here?— tour the play during the 2019 centennial year, organize an annual residency that will continue after the theater event, offering local artists opportunities to create their own self-determined work around issues of memory, reflection, belonging, and cultural citizenship.”
Three Platform points were referenced:
- Point 2. Support A Culture of Justice and Equity
- Point 3. Redeem Democracy with Creativity
- Point 5. Invest in Belonging and Cultural Citizenship
The work touched on all three, but as Ashley explained when we spoke, “we ended up doing more work towards point five, investing in belonging in cultural citizenship. That’s where this long-term artist residency came from, working with community-based centers to reuse abandoned or underused spaces and some of our focus with the young people.”
“We believe that culture influences policy,” Ashley wrote in her proposal. “Therefore, it is our responsibility to reframe our cultural narrative so that it inspires just policies. This project begins by recognizing a history that was intentionally devalued and disposed of in order to entrench a normative white supremacist culture. In order to do that, this project will embody equity and participation by prioritizing the leadership, stories, and talents of community members that have been historically ignored. Our model is flexible, scale-able and nimble enough to adapt to the specific context and goals of the community, while still based in well-researched frameworks and proven methodologies.”
Healing the Land Ceremony in Elaine, AR, October 30, 2017
Remember 2019 is a long-term project, as Ashley explained when I interviewed Mauricio and herself:
The big picture is that we’re producing six residencies over six years. The first two are trailblazed by Remember2019, beginning with a blues event featuring local musicians using their music to synthesize personal stories and testimony with the rich history of the blues in the Delta. The next residency is the original, full-length play featuring community testimony and community and professional actors on stage. Then the next four will be determined by local artists. We are part of funding those residencies and getting a group of local folks together to take on those residencies past our involvement in the community, creating a long-term artist residency in the neighborhood.
“Another way of thinking about this long-term project, Mauricio added, “is that we are supporting local efforts to build an ecosystem of art spaces and work. At the moment there are a couple of spaces where folks engage in visual or performing arts—aside from churches, I think there are only two. There are local artists like Kyle Miller at the Delta Cultural Center who are hoping to build out a community of art spaces and art makers and that’s what we’re trying to do. How else do we build that ecosystem but by creating opportunities for performance and for sharing?”
Ashley agreed. “In this community there are a lot of vacant spaces that used to be for commerce. One part of our conversation is if there is a way to repurpose these as creative spaces. Is there a way to take on these underused or unused spaces in the blues festival performance and also in other residencies moving forward?”
The team’s time on the ground in South Phillips County was revealing and catalytic, as Ashley explained:
During the two months we were in South Phillips County we found ourselves wondering, “Where are the young people?” There’s nowhere to hang out. There’s no public space to let loose and relax and see friends other than going to church. How can we create space for that? How can we provide food and entertainment and make a space where people can just hang out and commune?
A major goal is to create and perform in 2019 a play grounded in the experiences and voices of local people who have been affected by the massacre of 1919. Mauricio explained:
All of our work, both the story-sharing institute as well as the current blues festival, has conversation at its core. We are interested in reflecting on the story-sharing practices that remember that moment in time and how that has been affected and where that has been channeled. There’s some research at the institute that the blues changed in response to the red summer of 1919, for instance. So all of that’s in the mix of thinking about the dream for the play next year.
Ashley explained that the playwright, Clos Sirah, “has gone several times to the community for interviewing and story-gathering, including one time when we were all there together for weeks. We’ve been having meetings with our community partners—community-based organizations, community-based centers in the area—as we shape what that play will be to make sure we’re getting community feedback at every stage. Ultimately it will be a performance that is inspired by and based on community testimony and will involve community in the making and performance. One idea is that it may travel around the community so that part of the experience is really being present in the space, really being aware of generations stacked up on this land and here we are now as a community moving through our space together.”
Team photo, July 2018 Staged Reading of Scapegoat by playwright Christina Ham in Helena, AR
Mauricio noted the nuances and controversies that commemorative justice projects can entail. “The Elaine Memorial Foundation is putting up a memorial and there are a series of events that are being organized for next October. And so how are we doing something that adds to that conversation? That puts up against it? That isn’t just the same thing? How is our work refracting, reflecting on, reckoning with the conversation that is already happening in light of the memorial that’s being created?
The past is always in dialogue with the present in such work. “Something we heard often from our partners and from folks we’d meet in the community,” Mauricio told me, is ‘We’re not just what happened in 1919. We’re a lot more than that, and who’s interested in that? It seems like folks are only interested in the hype around that one moment. How do we broaden our understanding of that story so that we can tell that side of ourselves too?’ That’s only possible if there are several conversations happening simultaneously that can use the events of a hundred years ago as a jumping-off point.”
Ashley and Mauricio explained that their team has been in conversation with all kinds of local groups, from Waves of Prayer to the Delta Community Center to the Boys and Girls Club, local educators, social service organizations, and beyond.
What binds our work and theirs is a desire to have this story told on a national level, to give voice to these stories, and understanding that art and theater is the way to do that. People tell us “We’re trying to move our community forward and we need this story to get out and we need attention to come here. We need jobs to come here. We need work to come here,” and the understanding is growing that theater as a vehicle for storytelling can serve those purposes as well.
This type of long-term relationship-building grounded in art calls on Citizen Artists to be open to sharing their gifts in a spirit of flexibility and generosity. For instance, Mauricio noted that he’d been helping folks from the Delta Cultural Center write a grant proposal for an after-school music academy, and the person he was working with
…says to me, “I feel funny. I don’t know what this has to do with your work.” And I said “Listen, Kyle, we are in for the long game of supporting the development of the arts in the area. So helping you write this grant is also my work.” We are showing up as much as we can for the community and the community’s needs, checking at the door our own particular agendas or even our own abilities. In that way I think this project will continue to morph. We will continue to produce these events, and that will be a centerpiece of our work. But also a whole lot of other things, because it’s going to take participating in many things.
Remember2019 has received funding from Alternate ROOTS, the Highlander Research and Education Center, The MAP Fund, and the Network of Ensemble Theaters to support this long-term cultural development in the service of commemorative justice.
In fact, a keystone event made possible with this funding is coming right up: in Marvell, Arkansas on 29 September 2018 and Elaine, Arkansas on 2 October:
Remember2019 Collective members Carlos Sirah and Mauricio Salgado are collaborating with James “Gone for Good” Morgan, Marcus “Mookie” Cartwright, and Vera White to present Black ‘n da Blues: Stories and Songs from the Arkansas Delta. The event is free to the public and will include a reception with food.
In Black ‘n da Blues, Phillips County musicians explore the relationship between legacies of race and artistic expression – locally, nationally and beyond. The event is being produced in partnership with The Delta Cultural Center, The Elaine Legacy Center and The Boys, Girls, Adults, Community Development Center (BGACDC).
Major events like these emerge from a fabric of community dialogue and story-sharing. For example, Remember2019 Collective members Arielle Julia Brown and Carlos Sirah convened a two-day story-sharing institute on 18 and 19 June, inviting local people to share “freedom songs, delta blues traditions, oral histories, meal centered oral traditions, story circles, testimonies, gossip, folklore, interviews and more,” culminating in a Juneteenth Freedom Celebration in a local park.
Specific activities also emerge from a convergence of interests in which the artists’ desire for commemorative justice—for their work mattering to people and serving as a vehicle for everyone’s liberation—connects with local desires and aspirations. Mauricio recalls being asked by a community leader
“What’s your investment in the work?” She would question us whenever we would say “We’re here for you.” Towards the end of our last time together, she heard us start to say “We’re here because we want. We want.” She says, “I only trust people who are here 100% for themselves because how do I know that you’re committed unless you too realize there’s something here for you?” That’s the level of commitment we’re being asked.
If you’d like to explore bringing any points in Standing for Cultural Democracy to life in your community, please feel free to contact us at hello@usdac.us. While Policy Prototype micro-grants were a one-time thing, we can still offer technical assistance and help share information with the wider world if you have a project that promotes one of more of the Platform points, so call on us.
DECEMBER 3 at 9:00 to DECEMBER 4 at 9:00 pm
24 Hours of Reality: Protect Our Planet, Protect Ourselves
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It’s a fact: Fossil fuels are driving a climate crisis and threatening our health. On December 3 – 4, Climate Reality and former Vice President Al Gore will be joined by an all-star line-up of artists, thought leaders, and scientists for 24 Hours of Reality: Protect Our Planet, Protect Ourselves.
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Empowering Women through Writing, Weaving and Sharing
Be heard, connect with your inner resources and cultivate courage to create change.
Our Mission
To create a woven tapestry based on the stories of 1,000 women globally by 2020 that will be exhibited internationally to shine a light on the creative accomplishments of women while calling attention to the challenges women currently face world-wide.
To foster a culture of self-knowledge and sharing that builds courage and fosters a sense of power in women everywhere to contribute to their communities in positive ways.
To allow women to tell the story of their lives, as a catalyst for change, particularly by opening up discussions about issues of domestic violence and sexual abuse in a safe and supportive way.
To promote resilience, compassion, open communication, healing and peace in individuals and communities.
Intro to the Project
Participating in Woven Voices is a journey that starts with self-reflection and writing, and transforms into a woven tapestry, a visual storyboard of women’s lives from around the globe. The 3 elements of the Woven Voices project work together as tools to access, claim, and celebrate our power as individuals and together as a global community of women.
The Artist
Brecia Kralovic-Logan is a passionate champion of creativity who has spent the last 40 years helping people of all ages to embrace and express their unique individuality.
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UNITY EARTH LIFT OFF
http://www.unity.earth/lift-off
AN INTERACTIVE CONCERT & BROADCAST
IN CELEBRATION OF UN WORLD INTERFAITH HARMONY WEEK
@ One of New York City’s Largest Theaters 
The United Palace
A Magnificent Landmarked Urban Treasure
4140 Broadway at 175th Street in Manhattan New York City
Featuring Performances By
BELLA GAIA – an unprecedented NASA-powered immersive experience that blends live music, dance and large screen NASA imagery into a breathtaking planetary journey.PATO BANTON – a Grammy-nominated artist whose audiences become participants as the beat keeps them on their feet, and Pato delivers a message that is food for the mind and soul.
KRISTIN HOFFMANN – a Juilliard trained multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, and recording artist with a transcendental ability to take audiences on a journey of deep awakening to Spirit.
AKIM FUNK BUDDHA – a Zimbabwe-born legendary urban performer known for his holistic approach to Hip Hop, rhyming, beat-boxing, mouth percussion, story-telling, Mongolian throat-singing, and martial arts.
MYSTIC VOICE – her soothing and meditative chanting stems from a deep spiritual connection to the ancient texts such as the Tao Te Ching, the Buddhist Sutras, the Sanskrit Vedas and the poetry of Rumi.
PLUS Appearances By indigenous leaders, diplomats, artists, scientists, peacemakers, interfaith and faith-based activists in an unprecedented celebration of our common humanity
& Other Special Guests to be announced!
General Admission Tickets: $20
VIP Reserved Orchestra Seating Tickets: $100
(includes Pre-Concert Recepton with the Artists + VIP admission to the After Party!)
The Concert Livestream plus Interviews and Special Features
will be Broadcast on multiple platforms including
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is excited to be partnering with Unity Earth for this remarkable concert and broadcast event! We invite you, your friends and families to join us for UNITY EARTH LIFT OFF February 2nd – in person, if you are in New York City, or via Online Broadcast. Tickets are available at www.unity.earth/lift-offNOTE: Do you have an organization that might be interested in joining our Road To 2020 Coalition? Are you available to attend a special high-level organizing meeting in Manhattan NYC the day before the concert, on Friday Feb. 1st from 11AM – 4PM? If so, please reply to this email as soon as possible since this free Leadership Conference is by invitation only and is nearly at capacity. Please include information about your organization and a link to your website.
I would be thrilled if you can join us in person or online for the UNITY EARTH LIFT OFF CONCERT February 2nd. Together let’s grow this worldwide movement for unity and peace!
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You are invited to participate in the FIRST ANNUAL International Women’s Day Drumming Circle.
Our planet needs healing. One way we can help it to heal is by raising its vibration and a great way to do that is through drumming. So you are being invited to form and/or participate in a drumming circle on March 8 and 9, 2019 wherever you are on the planet.
This is an experiment! We want to see if we can get the whole world drumming during the same 2-day period of time, what positive healing effect it will have on our beloved Mother Earth.
We would like to keep track of how many circles are participating throughout the world, so we ask you to register your circle on this site. When we receive your registration, we will post the name of your circle and your circle’s location on this site. We hope you will participate!
Note: A drumming circle can consist of any number of participants. If you are drumming by yourself, that counts. Simply visualize yourself adding your energy by joining in the Global Drumming Circle!
CONSCIOUS COLLEGE ROAD TOUR 2019
The CCRT is a unique, interactive opportunity for students to become mobilized around sustainable solutions on college campuses. We’re preparing for the 8th Annual Conscious College Road Tour, a cross country journey from March 18 – May 2, 2019. The tour stops at up to sixteen college campuses to educate about conscious living through a sustainability themed exhibition and Town Hall dinner. The goal is to empower students to create tangible change in their own lives and campus community and with the TG team, develop a student-led action project.
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OCTOBER 1-30, 2019
ABOUT
Beginning on October 1, 2019, Project Green Challenge (PGC) seeks to inform, inspire and mobilize high school, college, and grad school students globally. This powerful and diverse call to action features 30 days of environmentally–themed challenges. PGC aims to touch lives, shift mindsets, and equip students with knowledge, resources and mentorship to lead change on campuses and communities worldwide.
Through conscious living, informed consumption, and individual and collective action, PGC participants are challenged to envision and work toward a healthy, just, and thriving planet.
Since launching in 2011, PGC has built a movement of young leaders, engaging over 40,000 students directly and tens of millions indirectly on 4,000 campuses, 50 states and 56 countries.
WHAT TO EXPECT
Each day throughout the month of October, a uniquely themed challenge will be delivered to registered PGC participants by email at 6 am Pacific Time. Each challenge will be live for 24 hours inviting participants to complete actions and upload deliverables to acquire points and prizes. Deliverables include photos, videos, and text uploaded on the PGC site, as well as across TG social platforms; Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, and YouTube. Twenty incredible prize packages will be awarded daily based on outstanding content.
WHO WE ARE
Turning Green (TG) is a student led global movement devoted to education and advocacy around environmentally sustainable and socially responsible choices for individuals, schools, and communities.
We operate under the belief that when students understand that they can directly affect small and large scale change, they are motivated to carry this sense of responsibility, purpose and stewardship for the rest of their lives.
Our hope is to engage youth in the transition from conventional to conscious living, empowering this generation and mobilizing action to sustain a healthy, just and thriving planet.
Turning Green is a global student-led movement devoted to cultivating a healthy, just and thriving planet through education and advocacy around environmentally sustainable and socially responsible choices. We inform, inspire, and mobilize a global network of students to become visionary catalysts for sustainable change in their lives, school campuses, and local communities.
WE ARE TURNING GREEN
to inform
We are young people with a passion to change the world. We speak our minds, and value ethics. We stand for environmentally sustainable and socially responsible choices, practices and communities. We assess our surroundings and investigate the impacts of what we do and think. And then we share solutions.
to inspire
We believe that a conscious mindset and thoughtful perspective are critical in today’s society. We remain aware of the effects of our actions on the earth and those around us. We choose wisely and lead with purpose and passion. We empower peers to grow our global voice because together we thrive.
to mobilize
We see individuals as catalysts for the change that our world needs at every level. We learn from innovation and living in the moment. We push for transparency, challenge injustice, and shake up systems that oppress, poison, or fail. No is not an option. Inspiration is everything.
We dream and do.
“The World Is My Country” Sat 4:45 is the amazing true story of World Citizen #1 Garry Davis. It is getting standing ovations at film festivals because finally here is a film with hope, introduced by Martin Sheen as “a roadmap to a better future.”
The Twelfth Annual New York Peace Film Festival (NYPFF) is a two-day festival co-hosted by The Peace & Justice Task Force of All Souls Unitarian Church screening
10 films: five full-length documentaries and 2 documentary shorts, 2 anime shorts, and In This Corner of the World, winner of the Japanese Academy Film Prize for Best Animated Film. See www.NYpff.com. Director Arthur Kanegis is flying out from the West Coast for a Q & A following the showing of his film “The World is My Country”. Kanegis was the producer of the Paul Newman film “War Without Winners.”
Open Heart Conversations: Zoroastrianism with Ferzin Patel, M.A.
Who are the Zoroastrians?
In this Open Heart Conversation, we will explore Zoroastrianism, the ancient Persian religion that may have originated as early as 4,000 years ago. It is arguably the oldest and first monotheistic faith and was the state religion of three Persian dynasties until the Muslim conquest of Persia in the seventh century.
Famous Zoroastrians include Cyrus the Great, founder of the Achaemenid Persian Empire who ruled by the Zoroastrian law of asha (truth and righteousness), but didn’t impose Zoroastrianism on the people of Persia’s conquered territories.
Many scholars claimed that tenets of Zoroastrianism helped to shape the major Abrahamic religions— Judaism, Christianity and Islam —through the influence of the Persian Empire. Zoroastrian concepts, such as a single god, heaven, hell, and a day of judgment may have been first introduced to the Jewish community of Babylonia, where people from the Kingdom of Judea had been living in captivity for decades.
When Cyrus conquered Babylon in 539 B.C., he liberated the Babylonian Jews among whom many returned home to Jerusalem, where their descendants helped to create the Torah or Hebrew Bible.
In Western culture:
Farrokh Bulsara, better known as British musician Freddie Mercury, lead singer for the rock band Queen, was of Parsi descent and a Zoroastrian. His 1991 funeral was performed by a Zoroastrian priest.
Zoroastrian god Ahura Mazda served as the namesake for Japanese automaker Mazda Motor Corporation. The company hoped that an association with the “God of Light” would “brighten the image” of their first vehicles.
George R.R. Martin, creator of the fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire, which was later adapted into the HBO series Game of Thrones, developed the legend of Azor Ahai from Zoroastrianism. In it, a warrior demigod, Azor Ahai, defeats darkness with the help of the deity R’hllor, a fire god, which Martin may have modeled after Ahura Mazda.
On Sunday March 31st, join Rev. Arda Itez and Rev. Dr. Jose Roman in unveiling and celebrating the rich history and culture of this ancient tradition with Ferzin Patel, M.A., a Zoroastrian community leader and Trustee of the Dar-E-Mehr Zoroastrian Temple.
For over 25 years, we’ve inspired, educated and activated thousands of communities and organizations through our solutions-focused programs and ready-to-use social and digital tools. Together, they provide the launchpad for emerging generations and sustainability leaders to experience “ah-ha” moments that lead to extraordinary environmental and social change.
Drawdown EcoChallenge is:
- a 21-day engagement program focused on carbon reduction;
- a challenge taking place April 3-24 and;
- following actions highlighted in Drawdown, a book based on meticulous research that maps, measures, models, and describes solutions to global warming that already exists and;
- where participants track and share their progress online in a robust platform and earn points for taking action and;
- the combination of collective action, camaraderie, and friendly competition makes change a little easier — and a lot more fun and;
- providing tools and inspiration to turn intention into action, and
- giving participants a fun and social way to think about and act on proven solutions to reverse global warming!
Over eighty actions within seven challenge categories
provide participants with diverse options to reduce carbon usage.
The EcoChallenge Platform is a signature offering of EcoChallenge.org (formerly Northwest Earth Institute), a sustainability organization that provides innovative social and digital tools designed to be a launchpad for emerging generations and sustainability leaders to experience “ah-ha” moments that lead to extraordinary environmental and social change. EcoChallenge.org also hosts a global October EcoChallenge which is free and open to everyone, everywhere. Over 73,500 people from 101 countries have used the EcoChallenge Platform and the organization has engaged over 250,000 people throughout its 25-year history. The EcoChallenge Platform can also be used to create custom Challenges that meet the engagement and action goals of your workplace, college, or community.
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An evening of chants and songs to heal, inspire and empower.
Very few people can say that they have been a singing mermaid, a singing casket, and was literally “elevator music” when she was hired to sing and play piano in a moving elevator. Meet Karen Drucker.
Karen has recorded 15 CDs of her original inspirational music, and is the author of an inspirational book, “Let Go of the Shore: Stories and Songs That Set the Spirit Free.” Among her many accomplishments, she has been a professional comedienne, led her own band for corporate events, and has been the music director of New Thought Churches, as well as music director and “music weaver” for many spiritual conferences and retreats. Karen has been honored with an Honorary Doctorate of Music for her work within the Religious Science Community, and a “Grace Note” award for her work within the Unity Movement.
In following her passion, Karen sings, speaks and leads workshops at women’s retreats, mind-body & health conferences, and various churches around the country, as well as working with authors like Joan Borysenko, Alan Cohen, and many others.
Karen Drucker has been called “a master of communicating presence and spirituality through music.” She loves making music, making a difference, and touching hearts.
Metamorphic Convergence – A Journey of Planetary Stewardship is a streaming film series that shines a light on the path from the present to the future, while weaving together regenerative solutions and fresh perspectives from artists, scientists, activists, authors and philosophers. Through poetic imagery, visual meditation and timely interviews – the series delves into how our environmental crisis is an opportunity for radical personal and planetary transformation. Artists and filmmakers guide us on a journey to reconcile what they perceive as a crossroads for humanity.
Since ancient times, indigenous cultures have understood the importance of living in balance and harmony with the earth and cosmos. Because of this, shamanic living has been a source of empowerment, healing and fulfillment for a millennium.
Now, Hereditary Tuvan Shamaness ChokBar will bring ancient wisdom, practices, and rituals to the community in an intimate setting.
This exploration of the ethereal world and subtle realities will introduce you to spirit guides, ancestors, and power animals and awaken the interconnectivity that supports our healing, transformation, and life purpose. Shamanic work has been known to remove deeply rooted fears, attachments and unhealthy patterns that keep you from reaching your highest potential and finding personal fulfillment. Shamans have utilized the power and perfection of nature to facilitate healings for centuries.
In our monthly circle, you will journey to alternate esoteric realms through drumming, rattling, meditation and movement to remove obstacles, merge with spirit, and connect to the core of your being.
Join us to come into energetic alignment with the highest vibrations of the Universe and create positive change in your life and the world at large. The time for transformation is upon us.
Requirement:
Any type of a rattle, could be self made with a glass jar filled with rice, beans, or corn.
Drums if you have them.
Piece of fabric of your choice, and/or one or several ribbons.
Optional:
Power objects from your altars, such as stones/crystals to charge on our altar and then take back home.
Flower(s)
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
Come join us in NYC for A Very Special Evening with our Conscious Community as we Gather in Unity Honoring Mother Earth!
Listen to Inspirational Talks with Spiritual, Interfaith, Indigenous and Environmental Leaders, Experience Live Music Performances, Guided Meditations, Qigong and more! Plus a
Special Tribute to Grandmother Lygia DeCastro
There will be Vendors (including Healthy Food & Drinks), Celebrations & Prayers for World Peace, Planet Earth & All Inhabitants. There will also be inter-active participation throughout the day! Opening Ceremony and Procession with the Vigil For Peace and Ecology Team!
All Are Welcome! We Are One!
“Every day is Earth Day where Peace Within Brings Peace on Earth ” – ReAwakennd
Planet Heart
Produced by Andrew Kaen in Association
with WE, The World (fiscal sponsor), World Yoga Community and
@ The Vigil 4 Peace & Ecology
presents
12th Annual World Peace Earth Day Celebration Community’s Annual WORLD PEACE EARTH DAY CELEBRATION AND BENEFIT 2019
“Awakening Humanity’s Consciousness as One,
“Celebrating Our Planet, Healing our Heart”
Save the Date!
SUNDAY APRIL 21, 2019
3:00 PM – 8:00 PM
4 West 43rd Street, Social Hall
New York, NY 10036 – Near 5th Ave.
Cost: $15 (advance) or $20 cash only at door.
Email: EarthDay@WeTheWorld.Org,
Call: 212-222-5432
Meet your Presenters:
MC HOST – Mitchell Jay Rabin, International speaker/Workshop Leader, Holistic Coach and Host/Producer of A Better World Radio and TV A Better World Radio & TV – http://abetterworld.tv/
Fabien Cousteau – Aquanaut, Oceanographic Explorer, Environmental Advocate and Founder of the Fabien Cousteau Ocean Learning Center – http://www.fabiencousteauolc.org/
QUEEN MOTHER DR. DELOIS BLAKELY
Goodwill Ambassador To Africa, Community Mayor Of Harlem
Celebrating 50 Years as a Global Humanitarian and working with the UN and around the world – http://newfuturefoundation.org/
Rick Ulfik – Founder of We, the World, The WE Campaign and 11 Days of Global Unity – https://we.net/
Rev. Susana Bastarrica
Founder/Organizer, The Vigil 4 Peace & Ecology – http://www.vigil4peace.org/
Dileepkumar Thankappan internationally known as Avadhuta H. H. Jagat Guru Dileepji Maharaj (Spiritual Name) and otherwise known as “Guruji” is a world renowned Yogi , Founder and President of World Yoga Community and International Gurukula Community International Gurukula Community;
on the Vigil For Peace and Ecology Team – http://guruji.us
Rev. Toshikazu Kenjitsu Nakagaki – Author, President/Founder, Heiwa Peace and Reconciliation Foundation of New York
Patricia Anne Davis, MA Choctaw-Navajo/Chahta-Dineh Wisdom Keeper – https://nativeamericanconcepts.wordpress.com
Visionaries David Giller and Helene Abrams are Founders of Think Positive World, a movement to accelerate positive change and greater well-being in cities and communities worldwide
Kathryn Davis, Host of Heart Of Mind Radio (on WBAI and The Progressive Radio Network), facilitator of Meditation and Relaxation Techniques; a Master Teacher of Qigong Form; an Energy-Vibrational Healer – http://kathryn.one/
Sah D’Simone – Author|Transformational Coach|Meditation Teacher
http://sahdsimone.com/
Jodi Serota – Metaphysical Educator, Channel, Vibrational Healer, Professional Artist, META Center New York- https://www.jodiserota.com/
Susana Koehler- Founder and CEO of Sustainable Global Network(SGN), Ambassador For Peace; on the Vigil For Peace and Ecology Team – http://sustainableglobalnetwork.org/
Andrew Kaen (ReAwakennd)
Executive Producer and Founder/Organizer of Planet Heart’s Annual World Peace Earth Day Celebration
Vibrational Sound Healer/Channel/Poet/Singer-Soulwriter/Ambassador For Peace, on the Vigil For Peace and Ecology Team – http://www.planetheart.org/
Lisa Roma – Singer-Songwriter, vocalist, songpoet, musician and composer, writer, publisher, and visionary – Creative Women’s Network http://www.creativewomensnetwork.com/
RoseMary Wereley and Dainah Wereley – Will be performing some wonderful Indigenous Traditional Songs, and in Ceremony
lead us all to connect, celebrate, and sing in Unity and Love.
Kevin Nathaniel is a visionary musician who, with voice and ancient Afrikan instruments, channels sound as a universal healing force – he will lead us in inter-active ceremony with sound, celebration, Unity & Love – http://kevinnathaniel.com/
Shiang-Jiun Chen, Ed.D. Columbia University is an educator, photographer, singer, songwriter and dancer; on the Vigil For Peace and Ecology Team – https://peacekiteproject.wixsite.com/site1
Christine Marie – iMov – “Conscious Pop” Healing and Recording Artist, Healer and Mentor – https://soundcloud.com/christinemarieakaimov
Marsha-Ramdask Silvestri – multi-disciplined artist, writer, yogi and dancer, creator of Pure Life Planet , on the Vigil For Peace and Ecology Team – https://purelifeplanet.com/
Portions of the Proceeds support We, The World (www.we.net)
All donations are tax deductible. If you would like to make a larger donation, and help support us, please do!
The Vigil For Peace and Ecology will return to Central Park Bandshell Sunday, Sept 15 from 9AM-5PM
We are pleased to have the Vigil Team part of this year’s festivities!
This event and Planet Heart/We the World is a co-sponsor of the Vigil and a part of 11 Days of Global Unity
For Volunteer Opportunies and to be a Vendor, contact us at EarthDay@WeTheWorld.org or call Andrew Kaen at 646-765-7890.
CoSponsor/Partners: A Better World Radio and TV, Inner Realm Magazine, Creations Magazine, Wisdom Magazine, Natural Awakenings Magazine, Heart of Mind Radio with Kathryn Davis, Good News Planet, Hugg-A-Planet (Peacetoys.org), WBAI, Talking Alternatives Radio, Cafecito Break Podcast, One Love Rising Radio with Heidi Little,Global Kindness Going Viral/Spirituality Gone Wild with Karen Palmer, Age of New Beginnings with Ellen Pellegrino, FIONS, and more.
What if everything you knew about reality is about to be transformed?
What if, instead of experiencing consciousness at different levels of self-awareness, you understand that consciousness is what we and the whole world are?
What if science finally catches up with universal spiritual truths to provide scientifically-based evidence of the unified nature of the whole world?
What if you’re about to be presented with more compelling confirmation that we’re microcosmic co-creators of our Universe, that evolves as a coherent entity?
You are.
Join Dr. Jude Currivan, cosmologist, planetary healer, futurist and author, for an afternoon that explores a scientific revolution that connects me to we, and everyone. Increasing evidence across many fields of research from cosmology and physics to biology and social studies are reconciling with spiritual experiences and ‘supernormal’ phenomena, such as telepathy, remote viewing and synchronicities, to show that we are interconnected and interdependent.
Instead of the apparent separation of the manifest world, we invite you to understand, experience and embody the unified reality of this wholeworld-view. This transformational shift invites you to celebrate and value your individual uniqueness and our collective diversity. It empowers us to live, love and evolve together in our universal oneness.
Join us to harness our communal wisdom to transform our current global emergency into the emergence of our conscious evolution.
Music will be provided by Kristin Hoffmann, a Julliard trained singer-songwriter-musician with extraordinary artistic range. Her music has been heard on major record labels, film and television, and she has performed throughout the world, collaborating with musical luminaries on projects ranging from individual albums to grand symphonic productions.
Join us for a monthly celebration of the ancient, mystical tradition of mantra music. Elevate your spirit and cultivate community through the joyous, sacred sound of kirtan at the all-inclusive United Palace of Spiritual Arts.
Chant UP with Gaura Vani is a monthly world-music experience of kirtan. It is true spiritual artistry – it’s about connecting to the sacred – whatever that means for you – through participatory performance art and the ancient practice of communal singing. Kirtan is a musical form of storytelling, shared recitation and call-and-response that opens the heart and allows a glimpse of the beauty that lies in our human and spiritual connections.
Come experience a celebration of music, spirit and community led by Gaura Vani. Raise your voice and vibration!
Since ancient times, indigenous cultures have understood the importance of living in balance and harmony with the earth and cosmos. Because of this, shamanic living has been a source of empowerment, healing and fulfillment for a millennium.
Now, Hereditary Tuvan Shamaness ChokBar will bring ancient wisdom, practices, and rituals to the community in an intimate setting.
This exploration of the ethereal world and subtle realities will introduce you to spirit guides, ancestors, and power animals and awaken the interconnectivity that supports our healing, transformation, and life purpose. Shamanic work has been known to remove deeply rooted fears, attachments and unhealthy patterns that keep you from reaching your highest potential and finding personal fulfillment. Shamans have utilized the power and perfection of nature to facilitate healings for centuries.
In our monthly circle, you will journey to alternate esoteric realms through drumming, rattling, meditation and movement to remove obstacles, merge with spirit, and connect to the core of your being.
Join us to come into energetic alignment with the highest vibrations of the Universe and create positive change in your life and the world at large. The time for transformation is upon us.
Requirement:
Any type of a rattle, could be self made with a glass jar filled with rice, beans, or corn.
Drums if you have them.
Piece of fabric of your choice, and/or one or several ribbons.
Optional:
Power objects from your altars, such as stones/crystals to charge on our altar and then take back home.
Flower(s)
Join Rev. Arda Itez and Rev. Dr. Jose Roman for a very special Open Heart Conversation to explore the path of Bhakti-yoga with one of its most beloved spiritual leaders and NY Times best-selling author, his holiness Radhanath Swami, with music by Jahnavi Harrison and friends.
Introduced to the West as The International Society For Krishna Consciousness in 1966 by A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Bhakti-yoga has traceable roots to the 1st millennium, BCE. What came to be known as the “Hare Krishna Movement” developed into one of the most influential and important spiritual and social reformations in US history.
Sometimes referred to as “love for love’s sake,” Bhakti is one of the four yogic paths to enlightenment and the essence of spiritual perfection, which is to awaken ecstatic love for God.
What was it about the Bhakti tradition that inspired so many people to embrace it as their own?
Who are the Hare Krishnas?
What are the Bhakti tenets, spiritual practices and beliefs?
Discover the beauty behind one of the oldest, most well-known and often misunderstood spiritual traditions, and what led to his life of devotion directly from Radhanath Swami himself.
Note that time listed is PST – Please adjust for your time zone!
This spring, Grist is teaming up with the Peoples Climate Movement to host a series of discussions about the potential impact of a Green New Deal on communities that are on the front lines of climate change, including communities of color, rural communities, low-income communities, displaced workers and indigenous peoples.
On May 21st, we’ll be hosting a virtual town hall discussion, moderated by Grist journalist Zoya Teirstein, about what a Green New Deal could mean for workers. We’ll be joined by Matt Schlobohm, Executive Director of Maine AFL-CIO, Alison Hirsh, Political Director of 32BJ SEIU, and April Sims, Secretary Treasurer of the Washington State Labor Council, AFL-CIO, who will be taking your questions on the challenges that workers face around the transition to a green economy, and what something like the Green New Deal could do to address them. We’ll also discuss how a Green New Deal done correctly could create opportunities for workers, and what a ‘Just Transition’ would really mean.
Tune in online to ask questions and hear how the what the Green New Deal really is and what it could mean for workers — what’s exciting, and what the debate over it means for our vision of a just and equitable future for climate, jobs and justice.
Register today to save your spot in our live chat. There is limited availability so act fast!
We look forward to seeing you there!
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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
JOIN US!! WE WILL BE READING FABULOUS BOOKS FOR US ALL ON FACEBOOK LIVE SHOWS THROUGHOUT THE MONTH!
LIKE AND SHARE US ON FACEBOOK!
https://www.facebook.com/2019-International-Childrens-Month-Global-Wave-of-Love
Introducing the Encore Public Voices Fellowship
The Encore Public Voices Fellowship is a prestigious year-long initiative to accelerate the ideas and impact of 20 new and necessary thought leaders working at the intersection of aging/longevity, inter-generational connection and social justice.
Many parts of the world are rapidly aging. In the United States, we have added more than 30 years to life expectancy in the past century, but not across the board. Whites live longer than people of color. Women live longer than men. And the richest Americans live 10-15 years longer than the poorest. In 2019, for the first time ever, there are more people over the age of 60 than under the age of 18. The ripple effects of these shifts will affect every aspect of society.
We need better and faster ideas from a more diverse set of people of all ages, including those who are most impacted by the uneven implications of these realities, and thus most likely to see new solutions and envision a more just future. The Encore Public Voices Fellowship is a collaboration among The OpEd Project, Encore.org, and Ann MacDougall and is part of The OpEd Project’s national Public Voices initiative to change who writes history.
Participants will receive extraordinary support, skills and mentoring to ensure their ideas shape the greater public conversation. All participants will publish at least two written pieces (hopefully many more) during their fellowship. Read this summary oped to learn how the first 20 fellows are changing the national conversation.
After a highly successful pilot year, we are looking for community and business leaders, activists, entrepreneurs, writers, educators, researchers and other thinkers. We are committed to building a cohort that is inclusive across all identities and backgrounds. We will take into account a variety of factors, including but not limited to race/ethnicity, geography, age, gender and area of expertise. During our pilot year, over half of the cohort consisted of people of color.
Encore.org is an innovation hub and catalyst, working to realize the potential of longer lives and intergenerational connection to solve our most pressing social problems.
The OpEd Project is a think tank and leadership organization that expands history by accelerating the ideas and public impact of new and necessary voices, including women of all backgrounds.
Ann MacDougall, former president of Encore.org, serves as a senior advisor to the Encore Public Voices Fellowship.
Our Advisory Council is comprised of a small group of outstanding social innovators and media professionals. Members include Ellen Goodman (Chair), Sylvia Brown, Mary C. Curtis, Ken Dychtwald, Raymond Jetson, Katie Orenstein, Trabian Shorters and Lester Strong. They will advise on strategy, recruitment of candidates and fellow selection, and may participate as guest speakers.
MORE ABOUT THE FELLOWSHIP The Public Voices Fellowship is part of an ambitious national initiative to change who writes history. Launched by The OpEd Project in collaboration with a core group of institutional partners, including Yale, Northwestern, the Ford Foundation and a dozen others, we have had extraordinary success accelerating the ideas and impact of new and necessary voices at the highest levels in their fields, including women of all backgrounds. Watch this short video to hear how last year’s fellows describe their experiences.
Selection
Fellows will be chosen through a competitive selection process. The 2019-20 fellowship targets leaders across all fields and generations who are working somewhere in the intersection of aging, longevity, intergenerational connection and social justice. We strongly encourage people in adjacent fields to apply provided they have a clear and demonstrated desire and ability to contribute to the public dialogue on these issues. Areas of focus could include intergenerational activism, ageism, encore careers, financial security/insecurity, climate change activism as a “legacy” to our descendants, outdated retirement policies, etc.
Selection criteria includes work history, professional track record, and desire to help change the cultural narrative.
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Year-long program
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Up to 20 fellows
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Four interactive day-long seminars in NYC designed to expand thinking and deepen expertise (dates are: September 26-27, 2019; December 3, 2019; March 6, 2020; and May 8, 2020)
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Dedicated editors (top journalists) to provide regular, hands-on, one-on-one support/editing/coaching
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Access to ongoing mentoring for the fellowship year
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A limited number of travel stipends for those who need them
THE ENCORE FRAMEWORK Guided by the belief that the aging of America is every bit as much an opportunity to be seized as a problem to be solved, Encore.org tells a new story about the possibilities of an older America, creates new ways to enable people of all ages to contribute more fully to their communities, and seeds a movement built around these ideas. We hope to change both the conversation and reality around the years after 50, not just for the enormous cohort of baby boomers, but also for generations to come.
There are barriers to this exciting vision. Ageism remains pervasive. Neither government nor big business have been especially innovative or supportive of policies or programs to pr.epare experienced people for new roles. And there are scant pathways and opportunities for individuals to get from their midlife work to a new chapter, often called an encore career. Many people in this life stage find themselves in difficult financial circumstances, without the resources to weather later life. And sadly, some low-income communities are missing out on these “bonus years” altogether.
Encore.org has been a leader in this space for the past two decades, working to normalize the idea of people in this life stage as a force for social good. Scores of leaders (the vanguard of an emerging encore movement) are now engaged in thought leadership in this area, but this issue has not yet become part of a mainstream, public conversation. Rather, it is driven by a small chorus of people who are not reflective of the diversity of our population
Faith & Climate Series | Webinar 2: The Ten Green Commandments
Public · Hosted by Parliament of the World’s Religions and Interfaith Power & Light
Tuesday, June 18, 2019 at 12:15 PM – 1:45 PM CDT
Parliament of the World’s Religions
70 E. Lake Street Suite 320, Chicago, Illinois 60601
Tickets
register.gotowebinar.com
Details:
The Parliament’s Climate Action Program and the Security and Sustainability Forum are working together to produce the new Faith and Climate Webinar Series.
The second webinar in the Faith and Climate Webinar Series will be a discussion with Fr. Joshtrom Isaac Kureethadam, author of The Ten Green Commandments of Laudato Si’, Pope Francis’s second encyclical, “On Care for Our Common Home,” which asks “every person living on this planet” to begin a dialogue about the future of our world. The webinar is hosted by the Parliament of the World’s Religions.
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The Faith and Climate webinars will bring faith leaders and climate activists from all sectors and faiths together to address our increasingly urgent and collective responsibility to act on behalf of the natural world and all humanity to change the catastrophic impact we are having on our planet.
Visit parliamentofreligions.org/drag-and-drop-page/faith-and-climate-webinar-series for more information.
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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.
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New Moon Global Call to Action
Living As If Life Matters… A FREE Interactive Global Conversation with Michael & Clare Dubois Wednesday, July 31st, 9-10:30am Pacific There is a way to feel empowered in the face of climate change, and that is by taking actions that make sense in relationship to life and that work towards the sort of future that you want for your children. This is one such moment.
Clare Dubois, founder Treesisters.org
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This second New moon of the month will be an invitation to experience a collective consciousness shift rooted in communion with self, other and nature. Clare Dubois (TreeSisters Founder) will guide a fully experiential inner journey of embodiment using an ancient technology based on sacred geometry. The technology is designed to slow the nervous system, shift perception, surface inhibitors to flow and to liberate Life force. This is a flow that can carry one from apathy into activism rooted in the practice of presence and self acceptance. Join us with this special interactive webinar and be deeply touched, inspired and opened to a whole new possibility for being fully present in the face of the massive changes that are happening in our world today! ‘Bowing to the wild intelligence of your life force, and choosing to respond to the deepest wisdom of your soul is no longer merely an opportunity for growth, it is the global imperative upon which cultural transformation depends
Clare Dubois
Clare Dubois is the founder of TreeSisters.org, a global women’s movement supporting humanity’s evolution into a restorer species. She is an Earth-loving social entrepreneur and inspirational speaker, known for her direct, catalytic energy; her whole systems approach to behaviour change and her unending loyalty and love for the natural world. In her own life, her aim is to reclaim balance, astonish herself and be ‘walking permission’ for those who are fed up of being held back, and just want to have a go. https://www.treesisters.org
Michael Stone is a multi-faceted leader in the realm of shamanism and spiritual development. He is the on the faculty of the Shift Network and is the host and producer of the Shamanism Global Summit. For the past 15 years he has hosted KVMR’s weekly Award winning show Conversations, which highlights leading edge thinkers, authors and activists in environmental restoration, social justice and spiritual fulfillment. As co-founder of Quantum Consulting he works with organizations to combine quantum theory with mystical shamanism to promote healing, wellness and belief change with his clients. Michael leads classes, tele-seminars and workshops on embodied shamanism, meditation and unity spirituality.
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with your one wild and precious life? Mary Oliver The new moon is a time of new beginnings, an access to unlimited potentiality!
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The Center for Sacred Studies
A FREE Community Prayer Portal CALL ~ Listening to the Wisdom of the Earth with Jyoti ~ July 31st @ 5pm PST
Dear Community and Relatives,
We would like to invite you to our Center for Sacred Studies Prayer Portal call on July 31, 2019, 5 pm PST.
Margin will be hosting the Prayer Portal call this month with our Center for Sacred Studies Grandmother Elder Jyoti. This will be the eighth of twelve calls that have been scheduled once a month on the last Wednesday of the month. These calls include different facilitators each time so that we can offer a diverse dialogue.
We are hoping to hold a focus of the Now!
What is happening and what can be our response?
How is this walk a prayer in motion for unity and peace?
What is the shadow that has been brought out in our collective for healing?
How can we stay fully present as we follow the guidance of prophecy that comes to guide us through these times?
Witness the many Divine channels that are intervening now to help us.
Our call this month is “Listening to the Wisdom of the Earth” – Please join us as Jyoti our Grandma Elder, Founding member of Kayumari with her husband Russell Park; one of the Founding members of the Center for Sacred Studies; Founder of the Fountain Project and Spiritual Grandma for our Global Community Village, shares with us on July 31st about her pilgrimage trip across the UK starting at the north shore and extended across the UK to the south shore, aligning and restoring the Michael and Mary lines. Along these lines, she attended the KIVA gathering and the Glastonbury Festival. She then went onto Peru, participating in meetings and ceremonies with elders of the Quechua Peoples. Her final stopping point was in Colombia in meetings and ceremony with the Mamos. She brings back messages and shares the collaborative actions that are following the direction of the Eagle/Condor Prophecy.
Jyoti writes:
‘Dear Relatives and Community,
I am traveling in a spiritual pilgrimage for almost 6 weeks which will take me across England and into Peru and Colombia. Shortly after I return, we will have our call. So much is challenging us in this turning time. Mother Earth has a clear focus on where she is taking us. Listen carefully to her messages. They may come in your dreams. In your experiences with Nature. Through your intuition and visions. Gather this as I travel, so that we can all share what we have received. And through that collaborative sharing, we will glimpse at what she is revealing.
Off on my pony!!!
Talk to you soon.’
Jyoti
We look forward to being on the call together!
Please read on to see how to join us!!
See you there!!!
With blessings of love and peace,
Jyoti, Darlene and the Staff of the Center for Sacred Studies
We invite you to come together on the FREE Teleconference Call
Wednesday, July 31st at 5:00 pm PST
Listening to the Wisdom of the Earth
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These offerings are medicine for these times.
It is now time to unify our diversity as One People for One Earth.
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Monthly gathering in many towns and villages to share information and raise awareness of environmental issues related to pesticides in particular. François Veillerette, president of GF, will be in the castle at Carnville in Normandy. There is an ongoing national petition calling on the government to take action to protect the environment.
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
P.O. Box 285, 91 Main St., Greenfield, MA 01302
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.
Join TransOhio for our Annual Unity Picnic
for the transgender and gender non-conforming community and allies.
Sunday, August 4 2019
11:00 am to 3:00 pm
We will be serving hamburgers, hot dogs and veggie dogs.
Bring a side to share!
All ages are welcome.
We will be at the Shadblow Shelter at
Blendon Woods Metro Park
in Westerville, Ohio.
We hope to see everyone there!
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Blendon Woods Metropolitan Park 4265 E. Dublin-Granville Road, Westerville, Ohio 43081
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TransOhio is a state-wide nonprofit that serves the transgender and ally communities by providing services, education, support, and advocacy.
Columbus, Ohio 43214
Meditation and Prayer Gathering for World Peace on Hiroshima Day
August 5 @ 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm
This is a simple call for a gathering of spiritually-minded persons dedicated to world peace. Please join us, to make peaceful compassionate steps to help heal our wounded world. Walk together one step at a time mindfully. Let us cultivate peaceful minds and hearts within, and work harmoniously with our fellow beings on earth.
The event includes A-bomb panels, experiencing a walking mindful meditation, Origami, Tanabata tree of wishes, music, prayer and readings.
May Peace Prevail On Earth International
Nagasaki Peace Pals Art Awards by artist
Join us in a one minute SYNCHRONIZED GLOBAL MEDITATION
WATCH THE LIVE Broadcast HERE
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/wppc
Our friends at the URI – United Religious Initiatives
invite you to recite The Nuclear Prayer on Hiroshima Day
as a call for the abolition of all nuclear weapons.
Join 791 URI Community Circle in 98 countries
in a call for the abolition of all nuclear weapons.
Learn more about The Nuclear Prayer and the
Voices for a World Free of Nuclear Weapons URI Cooperation Circle.
www.TheNuclearPrayer.org
May Peace Prevail On Earth
Weekly Coherence Call for Our Co-Mentoring Community – REGISTER TO JOIN COHERENCE CALLS
WE’RE BUILDING A FIELD OF COHERENCE AROUND THE PLANET FOR THE GOOD OF THE WHOLE
Our Weekly Coherence Call is for Mentoring Stewards of GOOD of the WHOLE. We invite you to join our community and open to your infinite, creative potential each Wednesday. We intentionally gather to build a field of coherence and conscious connection. We delight in expanding the resonance and resting in the experience of our inherent wholeness and (w)holiness, while we move into generative, co-creative, mutual support of one another. On this weekly Coherence Call we will:
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AUG 7
Disarm Hate: Gun Violence Prevention Vigil & Dialogue
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Wednesday at 7 PM – 9 PM
2 days from now68–90°F Thunderstorms
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Former BC Courthouse then walk to Salem United Church
Doylestown Borough
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DISARM HATE: A CALL TO ACTION
CANDLELIGHT VIGIL & COMMUNITY DIALOGUE ON GUN VIOLENCE PREVENTION
WED, AUGUST 7, 2019, 7pm – Doylestown, PA
In the wake of the mass shootings this past weekend that left 30 dead and many injured, we ache for the victims, their families and the entire community. As we mourn, we also rise up to take a stand against hate and all forms of gun violence. The clear connection between hate and the access to firearms must be addressed by our elected officials
Please join us this Wednesday, August 7, at 7 pm on the steps of the former Courthouse (55 E Court St, Doylestown) for a candlelight vigil followed by a slow procession to Salem United Church for a Community Dialogue. (186 E Court St, Doylestown)
Please bring your own candle.
Co-sponsors include: Orange Wave, Temple Judea, The Peace Center, Rise Up Doylestown, Bucks Students Demand Action, Heeding God’s Call, The Rainbow Room, Salem United Church & CeaseFire PA.
For more information, contact thepeacecenter.org or call 215-750-7220.
The Convergence
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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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Episode Description
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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Da FUNction is a one-day community fun fest full of art, activities, music and workshops designed to bring a wide range of LA communities together around a lifestyle that is beautiful, healthy and full of life-giving culture. Da FUNction is a free, family-friendly event. All you have to do is RSVP. |
Da FUNction is the brainchild of Ron Finley, one of LA’s most widely known artivists and a disruptive innovator in the healthy food movement. “Change your food! Change your life!” is one of Ron’s most well known phrases, but Da FUNction is about more than changing your food, it’s about changing culture. It’s about redesigning lives and taking back our community. A mission at the core of the Ron Finley Project (RFP).
Supported by Nell Newman Foundation, Thug Kitchen, Community Coalition, LA Department of Parks and Recreation, The Fand dozens of community members and volunteers, Da FUNction will offer many activities including:
* A special performance by Tommy the Clown!
Art Installations
Circus Performers
Custom T-shirt Printing
Dancing
Drumming
Face-Painting
Food Trucks
Kid-Friendly Crafts
Jump Rope / Double Dutch
Live Painting
Make-Your-Own Sustainable Household Products
Mosaics
Natural Body Care Workshop
Soil & Gardening Workshops
Weaving
Woodworking
Yoga
RFP is committed to creating and sustaining positive and lasting changes in Los Angeles. A safe, healthy, thriving LA is the What. Da FUNction is the How.
Bring the whole family and come out to the Vermont Square Park on August 10, 2019 to be a part of it all!! We’ll see you there.
STAND UP FOR HUMANITY! 2019
1225 R Street NW | Washington, DC, 20009 | 202-543-1414
Stand Up For Humanity! is a movement promoting and supporting a world that works for all. It is about embracing those qualities that serve the Highest and Best of our Humanity. We are here to help each other connect and act from our universal and common good; and to raise the consciousness and vibrations on the planet, and within our nation, to one of inclusion, peace, and harmony. And to demonstrate that even one small act taken by an individual can make a difference and contribute to the positive uplifting of humanity.
THE EVENT
On Saturday, August 10, 2019 at 6pm, let’s gather, millions strong at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, to “Stand Up For Humanity”. Featuring dynamic speakers and fantastic music! We are calling all people willing to raise the consciousness within our nation and the world!
Hosted by Unity of Washington, DC – Rev. Sylvia E. Sumter, Senior Minister
1225 R Street NW – Washington, DC 20009 – 202-543-1414
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The Nature of Unity
Unity is a religious movement that began over a century ago. In the 1880’s Charles and Myrtle Fillmore, co-founders of Unity, began to work with some new ideas that they had found about life. Charles had a withered leg; Myrtle had tuberculosis. But in a short time, Myrtle was healed and Charles’ health was so much improved that other people, seeing the changes in them, were drawn to them to find out how they, too, could change.
The Fillmores had no thought of starting a new religion; they just wanted to help themselves and others who turned to them for help. In 1889 they began to publish a little magazine called Modern Thought, which a few years later they renamed Unity. In this magazine, they presented the ideas that had helped them heal themselves and find peace and strength. These ideas are simple. They are centered around two basic propositions:
One ~ God is Good.
Two ~ God is available, in fact, God is in you.
If God is good, God’s will is good. It is impossible to believe that a good God — a God who is love and intelligence — could have made you in any other way except to be healthy, happy, prosperous, loved and loving, courageous and strong. If you are not healthy and happy, it can only be because you have separated yourself from God in mind — the only place you can separate yourself from God and God’s good. You have only to reunite in mind with God, and your life is certain to be full and fulfilling. You do this best by getting still and realizing your oneness with God. Every thought, negative or positive, comes one at time to the door of your conscious mind; there you let it in or turn it away. To have a good life, you have to learn to say no to the negative thoughts which deny your oneness with god’s good and say yes to the positive thoughts which affirm your oneness with God’s good.
Perhaps this is an oversimplification of Unity teachings, but these are the essential elements.
Unity is not a proselytizing religion. We are happy to have you call yourself a Unity student and join a Unity group. But we are also happy when we can help you be a better Methodist, a better Catholic, a better whatever you are.
Unity began as an open-ended religion, and we pray it always will be. May we always be seekers after Truth rather than people who feel that they have found all the Truth and must form an exclusive little circle to preserve it.
Unity is the religion of the written word, and Unity School of Christianity is the organization that has carried that written word around the world. Unity has grown almost entirely because individuals who have been helped by its ideas have told others who need help about it. Unity has always been a warm and loving way of life, sensitive to people’s needs, God-centered but human-hearted. This is Unity.
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Calling All Volunteers – “Stand Up for Humanity”
Saturday, August 10, 2019
Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool
In November of 2017, Unity of Washington, DC kicked-off our Stand Up for Humanity Movement on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. We are excited to share that we have planned another gathering at the Memorial on Saturday, August 10, 2019. Additional information will be forthcoming, however in the interim we are seeking volunteers to assist with the execution of the event. There will be a variety of opportunities to serve on sub-committees prior to the event, as well as onsite. If you are interested in volunteering sign-up TODAY!
Our Story
Thunder Valley CDC was inspired and incubated
by a group of youth and young families
that were reconnecting to cultural spirituality and identity through
spiritual ceremonies.
This reconnection to spirituality was supported by the Thunder Valley spiritual circle. It was our involvement in those ceremonies that inspired us to do more for our communities and for our people. We are a grassroots community development corporation that is guided by the needs and ideas of our community.
Our values are deeply rooted in Lakota values and the continued engagement of our community in this project.
Join us as we celebrate the 1st annual Wakíŋyaŋ Opȟa Oškáte, or Thunder Valley Festival, on Saturday, August 10th!
“If we want our children to be successful, we need to create the space for them to succeed,” said Scotti Clifford, local musician and band member of Spirits Cry. “That’s what Thunder Valley is dedicated to do!”
This year’s Wakíŋyaŋ Opȟa Oškáte will launch with a FREE music concert starting at 7PM—lawn chairs welcome. In addition, we will have food vendors and tours of the Thunder Valley CDC regenerative community development. The celebration will take place alongside the Indigenous Film Festival at the newly opened Thunder Valley Community Center and Bunkhouse located at 672 Thathanka Iyotaka Ave, Porcupine, SD 57772—in the regenerative community development.
“We want to provide a space for creativity and what better way to do that than promote our Indigenous artists.” – DeCora Hawk, Director of Community Engagement for Thunder Valley CDC and event organizer.
Wakíŋyaŋ Opȟa Oškáte is a model for celebration and wóphila to our community through arts and culture. As we build an ecosystem of opportunity that is intentionally disrupting the status quo we are focused on healing ourselves and our communities on the Pine Ridge Reservation. Art is a cornerstone of healing and is deeply rooted in our cultural identity as Lakota people. By creating these models of change we will overpower intergenerational traumas and build momentum towards equity and liberation.
For more information contact DeCora Hawk, director of community engagement, at decora@thundervalley.org OR
Catch the enthusiasm of WE, The World spreading Peace and Love and hear the We, The World song and the story of its creative song weavers’ collaboration. livestream MNN.org . tune in to the 28 minute show “Reclaim Your Voice, Reclaim Your Time” where Rick, Heidi and Andrew promote WE and Heidi sings our song, scheduled to air on MNN2 channels:
Spectrum 56 RCN 83 FIOS 34 and livestream, click on MNN2 at http://www.mnn.org the following dates/times:
August 12 at 2:30 pm Eastern
August 14 at 5 pm Eastern
August 18 at 7 pm Eastern
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
so you can ask questions of the film team
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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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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
Compassion Camp
August 15-18, 2019
at Earthaven Ecovillage | near Asheville, North Carolina
Compassion Camp is a four day event for adults and children where we create a community of people who learn, play and celebrate together, empowered to then send each other back into the world to spread these seeds of justice and love. Our time together is designed to foster community among the growing number of people in Western North Carolina and beyond who are passionate about living and promoting compassionate consciousness. Located at Earthaven Ecovillage, it is an opportunity to have fun, enjoy ourselves, learn together, and connect deeply in a beautiful natural setting.
Compassion Camp is inspired by the life and work of Dr. Marshall Rosenberg, the creator of Nonviolent Communication (NVC). We believe that the theory and practice of NVC is a life-changing tool for cultivating compassion in our hearts, communities, and the world. In addition to NVC, other topics may include: social justice, ecology, circling, restorative circles, healthy relationships, feminism, families and children, eco-sexuality, community, economics, and authentic movement.
Compassion Camp combines experiential and traditional approaches to learning, including professionally led classes, small-group conversations, hands-on practices, movement, self-reflection, and interactive activities, to provide an intimate, well-rounded, and powerful experience. Through both pre-planned presentations and Open Space sessions, Compassion Camp seeks to concentrate the creativity and inspiration of participants into an ongoing, life-serving energy for the community and create networks among affinity groups such as educators and social activists. Compassion Camp also features relational activities centered around singing, dancing, storytelling, and silence, which cultural anthropologist Angeles Arrien has identified as the four most common ways that humans create wellness, community, and connection.
Compassion Camp participants will likely experience:
- Increased connection to self, others, and nature
- A deeper commitment to being of service
- A broader understanding of the ways you can live compassion
- More skill in creating supportive community in your life
- More practical tools and resources to inspire yourself and others
Schedule
Compassion Camp hosts a broad selection of topics to explore through the combination of pre-planned presentations and group-selected open space offerings. Connection and movement activities, meals, and rituals also contribute to a rich and nourishing experience.
More about schedule and Open Space technology
About the Co-Directors
For over thirty years, Steve Torma has gently guided our culture toward cooperation and regeneration. He is the former President of Earthaven Ecovillage, where he continues to live his passion for community and sustainability. Trained in Nonviolent Communication, and other healing modalities, Steve co-founded The REAL Center in 2007. Through his compassionate presence and guidance, Steve has helped countless people to find healing, direction, and meaning in their lives.
Terrie Lewine focuses her work on deep self-awareness, communication and relationship work. She currently resides in Philadelphia, PA where she owns and manages her private teaching/coaching practice and the Back to Life Wellness Center. She offers classes, workshops and trainings for individuals and couples, and supports organizations by developing and supporting best practices regarding collaboration, team building and effective conflict resolution.
Steve and Terrie have been deeply enriched by using NVC in their own lives, relationships, communities and with the people they serve. Having felt the power of NVC to transform lives they are excited to create a gathering where people can come together to learn from each other, celebrate, and network.
While deeply inspired by NVC, their vision of a compassionate world includes many other aspects of creating the more beautiful world our hearts know is possible. With that in mind, they’ve brought together a group of leaders in WNC to share their wisdom at Compassion Camp.
More Facilitators and Class Descriptions
Location, Travel, and Accommodations
Location
This program takes place at Earthaven Ecovillage. This permaculture-based community offers a unique living classroom where participants will engage with the natural world, eco-infrastructure, and the intimate experience of rural community living.
Accommodations
Camping is included. Private indoor lodging at Earthaven is available for an additional cost.
Shared indoor lodging
Cost per person: 1 night $20, 2 nights $40, 3 nights $60, 4 nights $75
Private indoor lodging
Cost for 1 person: 1 night $50, 2 nights $85, 3 nights $105, 4 nights $120
Cost for 2 people (shared bed): 1 night $75, 2 nights $130, 3 nights $160, 4 nights $175
Off-site options
Various options in Bat Cave, Black Mountain, and Asheville.
Travel
Earthaven is nestled in the heart of the rural Southern Appalachian Mountains, 30 miles outside of Asheville, NC on curvy mountain roads and within two hours of three airports.
Food
Delicious, omnivorous meals are prepared by talented culinary artists from the Earthaven community. Vegetarian, vegan, and gluten-free options available. Snacks and beverages (tea, coffee) are provided. Participants are invited to help with meal clean-up. Many hands make light work.
As much food as possible is sourced from Earthaven and its surrounding farms and gardens, with some ingredients sourced from local grocery stores. Our meals are created with seasonal, local, fresh, wildcrafted, humanely-raised, and organic ingredients.
Children and Families
We welcome families with children to attend and will do our best to support you and your children. The village setting of Earthaven offers a safe and fun place for people of all ages and stages to explore. Much of the content involves focused, sit-down presentations, so attending with a young child will likely mean being less able to participate fully in the program.
Children ages 0-3 ($0 includes food and camping)
Young children are welcome to attend with parent/guardian at no cost. We do not offer a program or childcare for this age group. If you decide to bring your young child(ren) to sessions, please understand that you and your child may need to step outside if your child is crying or playing loudly so that others may participate fully.
Children ages 4-12 ($100 includes food and camping)
Children are welcome to attend with parent/guardian. For this age group we offer a youth program that runs during open space sessions and will include games, crafts, and nature connection activities. Parents are responsible for their children during all other times.
Teens ages 13-17 ($100 includes food and camping)
Teens are welcome to attend with parent/guardian. We do not offer a program for this age group. Teenagers may attend sessions, but parents should be aware that there may be adult content, and parents are responsible for them and what they attend.
Compassion camp was an emotionally nourishing environment where I was able to sink into my relationship with my partner and our children. ~ Angel Trail, 2018 Participant
Cost
Registration includes instruction, all materials, food, and three nights of camping. Private indoor lodging at Earthaven is available for an additional cost (see above).
Adults
Registration Sliding Scale: $220-400
Payment available in $60 increments
Youth
Infant and Toddlers ages 0-3: Free
Children ages 4-12: $100 (youth program available)
Teens ages 13-17: $100 (no program available)
Work Trade: We offer a few partial work trade opportunities to individuals who are available and qualified for the following service areas, and who would otherwise not be able to afford to attend. Our partial work trade positions cost $50-90 depending on the position, require about 11 hours of service, and include food, camping, admittance to camp, and materials.
Scholarships: We offer limited partial scholarships of $100 to individuals who otherwise would not be able to afford it. We prioritize scholarships for people of color and single parents with financial needs. We understand that people of color experience more financial and institutional barriers to participation, and we want to counteract that by offering scholarships.
Work trades and scholarships do NOT cover transportation or indoor lodging.
Please contact us at info@schoolofintegratedliving.org to receive a work trade or scholarship application.
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. ~ Dalai Lama
Welcome to the Self-Study version of Living the New Story Series 1
Our live journey ran from August 2017 to March 2018 and each of the 8 videoconferencing sessions were recorded.
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Welcome to the Self-Study version of Living the New Story Series 2 !
Our live journey ran from September 2018 to April 2019 and each of the 8 videoconferencing sessions were recorded.
Throughout the eight sessions, we are inviting you to take an experiential journey into what needs to change in us, and in the human story. Each session will explore, at increasing levels of depth, what it is to live the new story personally, and accelerate it collectively, through:
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Understanding our own personal journey inside of our larger, collective story of human evolution.
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Awakening to ourselves as dynamic, inspired agents of change and learning how to powerfully cocreate the future of our world in a way that is uniquely ours.
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Catalysing our growth and evolution beyond the patterns and core beliefs of our past to make way for the new story to unfold.
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Honouring the best of the old story and integrating it into the new.
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Connecting with, and beginning to harness, the power of the collective field to carry the new story forward.
As we change our story, we change our world
We humans find our way by story. Our stories shape us, hold us and give meaning to our lives. Every so often it becomes clear that a prevailing story is no longer serving. Now is such a time. Humanity needs a new, inspiring picture of the future to live into.
This website is designed to support the emergence of a coherent new story for humanity and the production of practical, collaborative ways to live this new story.
We invite you to help us accelerate our collective understanding of what the ‘world in waiting’ holds for us, what is already emerging and what needs to change, both in us and in the human story.
As a first step in this journey already begun by others, the Findhorn Foundation gifted to the world – The New Story Summit: Inspiring Pathways for our Planetary Future –which was held from 27 September to 3 October 2014…a gift economy gathering of the human family to experience planetary community, draw on our collective intelligence and co-create a story to inspire us all.
The Summit was more than full so we know there is huge support and longing for a new way to live together – a way which honours ancient wisdom and the interconnected whole living system of which we, the Earth and the cosmos are all part. It’s all connected and we are all accountable. To find out more, visit our Summit page.
This online hub will continue to be just that – a hub for people from all over the world to meet, engage, collaborate, share information, dream, synergise and inspire each other to live a new story.
If you would like to join this wave of collaborative action to shift consciousness and build on the threads of a new story already being lived and experimented with, you are very welcome. We invite your engagement, transparency, trust, compassion, innovation, entrepreneurship and generosity of spirit
You can also contact us by post:
Visitors Centre
Findhorn Foundation
The Park
Findhorn
Forres, IV36 3TZ
Scotland, UK
For general enquiries tel: +44 (0)1309 690311
Email: enquiries@findhorn.org
Bookings office contact details:
Bookings
Findhorn Foundation
The Park
Findhorn
Forres, IV36 3TZ
Scotland, UK
For booking and workshop information tel: +44 (0)1309 691653
Email: bookings@findhorn.org
Media and Public Relations
Public Relations
Findhorn Foundation
The Park
Findhorn
Forres, IV36 3TZ
Scotland, UK
For media enquiries tel: +44 (0)1309 690605
Email: pr@findhorn.org
Scottish charity No. SC007233, registered offices at the address above.
VAT registration No. 0957.68.506B01
The Findhorn Foundation is a Non-Governmental Organisation associated with the Department of Public Information of the United Nations.
CREATING COMMUNITY
Boulder, CO
Free
August 22, 2019
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM MDT
Join Loam on August 22 for a Loam Home strategizing session and sweet summertime picnic. We’ll gather together in the garden to break bread, savor herbal tea, and talk about tangible next steps for Loam Home.
Loam Home is an emerging community center and creative co-working space in Boulder, CO committed to serving as an intentional container for climate adaptation and eco entrepreneurship. From hosting permaculture workshops to farm-to-table suppers, we envision Loam Home as a vibrant hub for our community to explore regenerative living in practice. We want Loam Home to be a true collaboration and hope you’ll bring your radical skills and big dreams to share with us.
Location will be e-mailed to registered participants the day before.
We’re so excited to connect with you all!
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Loam is a movement of compassionate and creative activists who strive to support one another as we find our footing in the heart of the climate crisis. Our community is passionate about seeding regeneration, resilience, and joy through embodied experiences that inspire the cultivation of sustainable activist practices, foster inter-sectionality across movements, and help each one of us to heal our connection to our earth.
From publishing vibrant print publications to facilitating immersive workshops, Loam’s constellation of creatives is committed to building a better world through arts-as-activism.
We are endlessly grateful to the Kalliopeia Foundation for supporting this work. Loam would not be possible without our community!
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Reconnecting Ecology, Culture, and Spirituality
Kalliopeia Foundation is responding to a need—a global challenge—to take spiritual as well as physical responsibility for our common home. Our programs and those we support engage with contemporary issues at their root, with the understanding that ecological, cultural, and spiritual renewal are interdependent.
We envision a future rooted in fundamental values, such as compassion, respect, dignity, reverence for nature, and care for each other and the Earth. Our work strives to embody the following core principles:
- Life Is Sacred: Honoring all life as sacred; expressing reverence for one another, the Earth, and life as a whole.
- Interconnectedness: Approaching ecology, culture, and spirituality as inextricably interdependent.
- Innovation: Generating creative ideas and outcomes through simple, meaningful engagement with others and the Earth.
- Service: Embracing an ethic of care—the essential and natural aspiration to respond to needs beyond our own.
Kalliopeia’s Story
In 1997, Kalliopeia was founded as an independent private foundation to help support people and organizations who are working to bring spiritual values into institutions and systems of everyday life and work. The name “Kalliopeia” means beautiful voice and refers to the first of the nine Greek muses. She is associated with heroic poetry, justice, and transforming lower qualities into higher.
https://kalliopeia.org
AKRON PRIDE FESTIVAL
2019
The mission of Akron Pride is to unify and affirm the LGBTQ community and allies in celebrating our diversity and recognizing our likeness.
We will promote acceptance of all individuals by defending human equity.
“We came together, strong, unified, for the purpose of uniting the LGBTQ community for one day of celebration. With many obstacles and challenges ahead of us, we are willing to take risks and ask questions. With allies in tow, every person in this endeavor is helping to write history in this small city of Akron, Ohio. Every city in every state, no matter how big or small, should own their pride-strong, united, untethered! When there are many that say ‘no’ there is one to say ‘yes’-‘yes we can!’ Small city, big heart!”
-D. Lottman Cruise, President & Founder
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.
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CALLING ALL VOLUNTEERS!!!
Would you like to volunteer at The Peace Center?
Do you already volunteer, and would like to learn more about The Peace Center’s varied programs?
Join us for an informational (and fun) Volunteer Training, Tuesday, August 27, 9:30 – 11:30 AM, at The Peace Center. In this optional training, participants will learn about the many programs offered by The Peace Center to schools and communities throughout Bucks County and beyond, as well as how to best represent and promote The Peace Center and its mission.
For more information or to register (it’s free), email events@thepeacecenter.org, or call 215-750-7220.
Then…sign up to represent and promote The Peace Center at these 3 upcoming local festivals: https://forms.gle/
MOBILIZERS:
supporting one another, supporting the movement.
Be with a community That is facing climate truth during our monthly calls:
Meditation for Climate Emergency
Our monthly Meditation calls explore the personal work that helps us develop as agents of change and maintain a healthy, burnout-free balance. We weave meditation instruction and practice with themes from Margaret Klein Salamon’s work on the psychology of climate change and concepts from essays like The Transformational Power of Climate Truth. Click below to register for the next call:
SEPTEMBER IS NATIONAL PREPAREDNESS MONTH
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The 2019 Theme is “Prepared, Not Scared.”
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donating to PayPal Giving Fund.
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Every two minutes a woman dies from complications in pregnancy or childbirth, and millions around the world are denied the choice of if and when they want to have children.
UNFPA Supplies supports over 20 million women and girls worldwide with family planning services, contraception, and vital maternal medicines, and since 2007 they have saved over 1.1 millions lives.
Without additional support, their vital work — and the safety of over 20 million women and girls — will be at risk. Call on world leaders to step up for women and girls by pledging new funds this year.
Thank you so much,
Annabelle Roberts
17 September 2019 – Opening of the General Assembly regular session | 24 September 2019 – Opening of the general debate.
Sign the petition telling world leaders — including the UK, Canada, Australia and Germany — to pledge new funds to UNFPA Supplies and protect women’s lives everywhere. We’ll be handing your signatures over to decision makers this September at the United Nations General Assembly, so add your name now!
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We have a number of ways to get involved this month and be part of The Peace Alliance’s peacebuilding movement.
Take Action with Creation Justice Ministries This September
Check out these different ways for you and your congregation to get involved. Come back every month for new ways to take action!
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#CareForCreation: September 2019
Share the Word
September 1, 2019
Online Prayer Service for Creation Day/World Day of Prayer for Creation
Creation Day, also called the World Day of Prayer for Creation, opens the Season each year. Pope Francis, Patriarch Bartholomew, the World Council of Churches, and many other leaders have called the faithful to celebrate it. Christians from around the world are invited to join an online prayer service to come together in a joyful celebration of our common cause.
September 16, 2019
Webinar
Learn more
10:00 Eastern US / 15:00 London / 21:00 Manila
Please join us for a webinar to explore the connection between biodiversity and Christian spirituality. Speakers include Rev. Dr. Dave Bookless or A Rocha International / Lausanne Catalyst for Creation Care, Rev. Dra. Neddy Astudillo of GreenFaith Latino America, and Celia Deane Drummond of the University of Oxford. The conversation will be moderated by Rev. Rachel Mash, Environmental coordinator for the Anglican Church of Southern Africa and Green Anglicans.
September 20, 2019
Global Climate Strike
Young people from around the world will come together for a remarkable day of strikes from school to demand urgent action on the climate crisis. Their parents, neighbors, teachers, and families will stand alongside them. The climate strikes were galvanized by Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg, and each strike to date has sent more than a million people into the streets. Learn more at Laudato Si’ Generation, the climate initiative by and for young Catholics.
September 21, 2019
International Coastal Cleanup Day
For over 30 years, communities have come together to remove trash from coastlines and waterways including ponds, lakes, and rivers. Together, these volunteers remove and catalogue mountains of litter every year. Your community is invited to join. To learn more, please visit the Ocean Conservancy.
September 23, 2019
United Nations Climate Action Summit
The UN Secretary General is hosting a summit devoted to climate change, with the aim of calling the world’s attention to the urgent need to implement the Paris Agreement. The Paris pact has been agreed to by every country–only the United States has said it intends to leave it. But countries have not made policies to meet its goals. Of the 197 countries in the agreement, only seven are on track to keep warming below 2 degrees celsius, and only two are on track to keep warming below 1.5 degrees celsius. Science tells us that every fraction of a degree in warming means more hunger, more sickness, more conflict. The UN Secretary General’s summit is a chance for the people of the world to rally around real, ambitious policies to solve this crisis.
September 23, 2019
6th International Conference on Ecological Theology and Environmental Ethics, Orthodox Academy of Crete Chania, Crete, Greece
Learn more
This conference will engage theology on key ecological concerns from a variety of religious traditions and perspectives. This year’s theme is “Ecological racism and prophetical voices for ecological crisis.” The conference will be a blend of learning and discussion, while attending to the magnificent Earth and cultural context of this region of Crete.
Guide 2019 – Season of Creation Theme – Web of Life
October 4, 2019 St. Francis Day Many traditions view St. Francis as an inspiration and guide for those who protect creation. October 4 is his feast day and the last day in the Season of Creation. Faith leaders from around the world will come together to reflect on how St. Francis has informed their spiritual journey and to celebrate our month-long journey together.
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
Karen Palmer known as Miss Kindness will be sharing about #PeaceMonth and how to grow more kindness and unity in each community. She will be featuring many organizations and doing mindful moments of adding more compassion, gratitude, love, kindness, and Peace on Earth . Just LIKE https://www.facebook.com/spiritualitygonewild and get notified we are live. #WeAreOneWEAreFun #LoveAndLight #GlobalFamily
Love Glasses symbolize your ability to filter out hate and negativity.
Our fun and stylish Love Glasses help you share a vital message to the world
It is because of you we are changing the world and
it is because of you we are the Love Glasses Revolution.
Who Wears Love Glasses?
It’s easy to join the Love Glasses Revolution!
When we wear our LOVE GLASSES: “We choose to SEE the world with our Love Glasses to symbolize our ability to filter out hate and negativity. Our fun and stylish Love Glasses help you share a vital message to the world. It is because of you we are changing the world and it is because of you we are the Love Glasses Revolution – GLASSES for viewing the world on our terms, repelling the negativity around us and increasing random acts of kindness and understanding that those small acts make a large impact.
We view life as a gift and we live each day with gratitude.”
Why LOVE GLASSES REVOLUTION?
In 2015, I became depressed over the state of affairs. Political rhetoric was out of control, hate crimes were up 67% and things seemed dismal at best. One day after reaching my breaking point I called my little brother Brad and I cried on the phone for almost 2 hours about all of the negativity. My brother didn’t know what to do or say but he sent me a meme. It was a picture of a little guinea pig wearing heart shaped glasses and it read “I can’t see the haters with my love glasses on”.
It was at that moment that I decided to go out and buy a pair of heart shaped glasses. I felt like it was a shield to go out in the world and that if anyone said or did anything negative to me, I would be ready. However, that is not what happened…not even close.
I would wear my love glasses to the grocery store and it never failed that someone would say, “Oh I love your heart shaped sunglasses!” and I would respond “they are my love glasses!” and then they would ask “Where can I get some?” Each and every time I went out I would have an interaction and it was often times around my glasses. Things started to change and I looked forward to going out and find new people to meet and share a kind word or a smile.
It was after a short time that I decided that I wanted to not only go out and socialize more but I carried myself differently and more confidently and understood the power of choosing to see the world with love and that these love glasses were reminders that I could do just that. I came home and told my husband that I wanted to start a Love Glasses Revolution to help others find their voice and be confident in who they are.
Shortly Love Glasses Revolution was born and it wasn’t long that we were manufacturing our own quality yet affordable love glasses inscribed with the words “Love Glasses Revolution” and offering them to others to remind them that they too can choose love. It became a movement, people all over the world are now wearing love glasses. We call our followers love rebels, they are people who are actively rebelling against the negativity and hate. They do all sorts of things in the world, they are professionals, artists, writers, students, activists, teachers but they are all tied together with a common thread that they want to make the world a better place. They care and they show up and use their voices, their way, their style.
We hope that you will join the thousands of people who take the pledge to choose to see the world with love. It is because of you we are changing the world and it is because of you we are the Love Glasses Revolution.
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LOVE GLASSES are amazing, stylish and FUN to wear but they are more than that. They are a symbol and statement that you are choosing to see the good and BE the good in the world. It’s a message to the world that you live on your own terms and you write your own narrative.
There are only 2 “asks” to join the LOVE GLASSES REVOLUTION
1. We ask you to take the Love Glasses Revolution Pledge and say “I choose to view the world with Love”.When we wear our LOVE GLASSES:”We choose to SEE the world with our LOVE GLASSES, viewing the world on our terms, repelling the negativity around us and increasing random acts of kindness and understanding that those small acts make a large impact. We view life as a gift and we live each day with gratitude.”
2. WE ASK YOU TO SHARE THE LOVE! Literally share all the GOOD and random acts of kindness on facebook and Instagram using #LoveGlassesRevolution. They can be selfies, stories, good deeds. Share the good, share wide and share far. We need it more now than ever!
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Watch for announcements for our 2020 program!
You can attend one day: Saturday or Sunday, or both days!
(Registration includes community activities and meals)
Special pricing available for Seniors and Students
Creative Arts, Spirituality, Body/Mind/Spirit Healing,
Self-transformation, Manifestation, and so much more…. in a sacred space
and inspirational speakers & performers
during our shared meals and interactive group activities as we:
Share our stories . . . Build nurturing community
Empower each other . . . Transform our world
Build nurturing community . . . Transform our world
“This conference is a life expanding experience – a time of reflection, rejoicing, renewing and connecting with other fabulous women.”
If you believe in raising the Feminine Spirit and transforming our world, please consider contributing to Women of Wisdom. We desire to create the new WOW, for the next generation of women to know their power and the importance of their voices. As each of us grows into our power, there’s a ripple effect around the world.
Consider donating to our Crowdfunding Campaign
to support the WOW Conference this year and for the future!
We appreciate any donations you can gift us – Thank You!
It is with a heavy heart that we announce the passing of Nicole Sangsuree Barrett. She was hit by a car when she attempted to cross the Chiang Mai superhighway in Thailand on foot. It was determined that Nicole died instantly from the collision. She had friends with her who witnessed the accident and were grieving heavily by the time the emergency services arrived. After rescue teams helped calm Nicole’s friends, the women asked everyone to sing the Thai song “Deuan Pen” as it was her favorite song. Nicole will be missed at Women of Wisdom. She was a dynamic performer and an amazing activist and woman. Here is a video she finished just before her death. She performed this on our stage for the 2014 Women of Wisdom conference to the delight of many. It is an amazing tribute of her talent, beauty, and passion. We will miss you Nicole but know that your light continues to shine and your journey continues.
WOW Watering Wholeness Community Call on the third Wednesday of every month – next one is August 21st at 6:00pm. It’s a live video call (if you don’t have a camera on your computer you can call in from your phone) where you can meet other women in the community and discuss important issues for women. Read below how you can register for this call. It’s been great to connect with women from other parts of our country!
Looking for connections with other women? Join our monthly circles where you connect with other women year round!
We are a volunteer organization – 100% and WOW needs some assistance in these areas:
Please contact us if you are interested in supporting WOW through volunteering!
Take advantage of the variety of free webinars posted in this enewsletter – from Celtic Shamanism, Egyptian Shamanism, Thriving in your 40’s, 50’s and beyond, Reuniting Science and Spirituality and more! ************************************************************************************************
5th annual event in aid of the Mercury Phoenix Trust. Hat-themed party.
A Benefit Concert for Daily Acts: Rising up for Climate Action!Enjoy a full day music festival centered around Climate action and ways you can reclaim the power of your every daily action. Also enjoy local & sustainable craft and food vendors, non-profit organizations, green technology demos, inspirational talks and info on climate action programs, a kid’s craft area, silent auction, and more! LEARN MORE about the event, Bands, and Presenters on our Concert page under the Support tab on our main menu.Bands preforming:
Rupa and the April Fishes
The Coffis Brothers
The Highway Poets
Dusty Green Bones Band
The Real SarahsPresentations by:
Brock Dolman – Occidental Arts & Ecology Center, Trathen Heckman – Daily Acts, Supervisor Lynda Hopkins, Sunrise Movement – Youth Climate Leaders, Trashion Fashion Show – CREDO High School + more to be announcedAll proceeds will benefit Daily Acts’ climate action programs
When: Sunday, September 8th, 2019 1pm – 7pm
Where: SOMO Village Event Center (Sonoma County’s 100% Solar Powered Venue)
Cost: $30, buy your tickets on our Eventbrite page here.
Please note that we have a new registration platform and if you have not done so already, you will be prompted to create a Daily Acts username and password. We are here to help by email or by phone (707) 789-9664.
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THE NATIONAL HEIRLOOM EXPO AT SANTA ROSA, CALIFORNIA
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SOW TRUE SEED OF ASHEVILLE, NC
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243 Haywood St, Asheville NC 28801
community@sowtrue.com
Mon-Fri : 9am-6pm | Saturday: 10am – 4pm
Seeds and Garden Supplies
FOR SAMA
TUESDAY, September 10, 2019
4:00pm – 6:30pm
Konover Auditorium
Dodd Center
University of Connecticut
FREE ADMISSION
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Department of Digital Media and Design
Human Rights Institute
Huskies for Human Rights
Middle East Studies
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Thomas J. Dodd Research Center
SUPPORTING FOOD SECURITY AND SEED DIVERSITY SINCE 2009
Sow True Seed has a collection of over 500 varieties of vegetable, herb and flower seeds. We are proud to carry heirloom, organic and small-farmer grown varieties. It is central to our social mission to support and encourage a seed saving community for resilience in agriculture and our food systems.
OUR SEED DONATION PROGRAM OFFERS UP OUR LEFTOVER SEED AT THE END OF EACH SELLING YEAR UP TO PUBLIC & PRIVATE SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITY GARDENS AND ORGANIZATIONS WHO USE THE SEED DIRECTLY TO FEED AND EDUCATE THEIR COMMUNITY.
Who we are: Sow True Seed provides open-pollinated, heirloom, and organic vegetable, herb, and flower seeds to home gardeners and small market farmers.
We ask that all of our growers fill out the Grower Questionnaire.
You can do so here
.For more information, contact: Angie Lavezzo, Agriculture Manager
E-mail: Ag@sowtrue.com Phone: (828) 254-0708
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Location: Sow True Seed, 243 Haywood St, Asheville NC 28801
Date: Tue Sept 10 2019 from 6 -7:30 PM
Cost: $10 class (includes a milkweed plant and your choice of flower seed packet!). $5 of each ticket will be donated to the “Bring the Hive Alive” initiative to raise awareness of pollinators by painting a bee mural in downtown Hendersonville – http://handsonwnc.org/hive.
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Need additional income on your farm? Sow True Seed is always looking for more farmers to grow seed for us!
Joan of Angels and Gina Marie co-host a Facebook Live broadcast dedicated to 11 Days of Global Unity. Joan of Angels will lead a meditation and We will have a dialogue about our personal lives and our stories of connection and presence.
About this Event
Please join The Square One Project and The Vera Institute of Justice for Reimagining Justice: The Next 25 Years, taking place on September 11th at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, NY. As we approach the 25th anniversary of the federal 1994 Crime Bill, this multi-format event will consider the visionary work, big ideas, and fundamental values that will guide the next 25 years of justice policy.
Program: 3:30pm – 6:00pm ET (details to be announced soon)
Reception: 6:00pm – 7:00pm ET
Details for the livestreaming option for this event will be available shortly.
Update: The full list of researchers, activists, and professionals that will be participating in Reimagining Justice: The Next 25 Years is available here!
Speakers and presenters include [list in formation]:
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Gina Marie, of We Campaign for Unity, and ShaRon Rea with No Judgement Just Love co-host a FB Live cast; In this broadcast, We commemorate the first day of 11 Days of Global Unity, We discuss the importance of this day and We invite viewers to join and share in a conversation about Unity and how they can achieve more peace and unity in their community.
Screening of Queen and Adam Lambert’s Summer Sonic 2014 show – all profits to Mercury Phoenix Trust in support of Aids Awareness Worldwide. Tickets on sale from 17th August 2019
Alaska Interfaith Power & Light (AIPL) and the United Religions Initiative-North America are excited to present:
“One Planet, One Family: Facing Our Environmental Challenges & Finding Solutions Together,”
a gathering on climate change in Juneau, Alaska from September 12-15, 2019.
World-renowned climate scientist and public speaker Katharine Hayhoe will be
the key speaker of the conference and participants will have ample time to spend
working collaboratively on finding solutions to our shared concerns.
Alaska is on the front lines of dealing with climate change.
Because of this, Alaska Interfaith Power and Light and the United Religions Initiative North America are hosting a gathering for environmentally-concerned URI members from across the US and Canada to:
- learn about—and see—the climate crisis in Alaska,
- understand how it affects those of us working on environmental issues outside of Alaska, AND
- work together to identify solutions!
The gathering will take place in Juneau, Alaska from September 12-15, 2019.
World-renowned climate scientist and public speaker Dr. Katharine Hayhoe will be the key speaker of the conference and participants will have ample time to spend working collaboratively on finding solutions to our shared concerns.
Let us bring together our knowledge, wisdom, and energy to fan the flame of caring for Our Common Home!
For more details about the gathering, follow this link: https://urinorthamerica.org/web/one-planet-one-family-gathering/
If you are a member of a URI North America Cooperation Circle/Affiliate and need financial assistance to travel to Alaska, please fill out the travel assistance application: https://forms.gle/SeNhRpSDkHj
WORLD DAY OF PRAYER
Light a Virtual Candle
Unity World Day of Prayer is a global event.
We invite you to light a virtual candle
to represent your light shining in prayer.
How Can You Participate in World Day of Prayer?We invite all to submit a prayer request and light a virtual candle. You can join for the events at Unity Village or other Unity centers. Follow our hashtag #WDOP2019 and join us at the Unity Facebook page to connect with our reflection questions and watch live events. Sign up for Unity4Today to receive email updates and announcements. What Is World Day of Prayer?Held annually on the second Thursday in September, World Day of Prayer unites Unity and draws in New Thought partner communities for a 24-hour period of prayer practice. In prayer, we dissolve our personal borders as we realize God within us, around us—an active source of life, love, and wisdom
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World Day of Prayer 2019—Invitation
Guiding Prayer
Breathing in to prayer, I am in awe of the unbound spirit, the infinite presence within and around me. God is vitality in my breath, beauty in the natural world, strength in my determination, and compassion in my acts of service. I recognize God in the spaciousness of the universe as well as in my limitless dreams.
Let me set my sight beyond where I have seen before, into the vast reality of divine power and presence. Let me draw upon divine power and presence in order to fulfill my great potential.
In the harmony of prayer, my heart beats to the rhythm of God. The pulse of infinite life moves me, nourishes me, and empowers me to give life to my dreams.
Unity Worldwide Ministries
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World Day of Prayer 2019: Infinite Presence, Unlimited Potential
Thursday, September 12, 2019
I celebrate the vast possibilities for my life.
You are invited to participate in Unity World Day of Prayer, a 24-hour Prayer Vigil and meditation. As always, the names and requests you send us will be held in silent prayer during the vigil.
Draw upon divine power and presence to realize the limitless possibilities in your life.
Join together with tens of thousands of people around the world. Together we will hold the high watch during World Day of Prayer, affirming that there is no spot where God is not. Wherever we are, God is.
The event will feature live music, a candlelight vigil, live-streamed prayer service, sacred prayer circle, and more.
The vigil begins Wednesday, September 11, at 7 p.m. (CT) with a candlelight walk to the Silent Unity Chapel following the opening ceremony.
World Day of Prayer 2019—Invitation
How Can You Participate in World Day of Prayer?
We invite all to submit a prayer request and light a virtual candle. You can join for the events at Unity Village or other Unity centers. Follow our hashtag #WDOP2019 and join us at the Unity Facebook page to connect with our reflection questions and watch live events.
Sign up for Unity4Today to receive email updates and announcements.
What Is World Day of Prayer?
Held annually on the second Thursday in September, World Day of Prayer unites Unity and draws in New Thought partner communities for a 24-hour period of prayer practice. In prayer, we dissolve our personal borders as we realize God within us, around us—an active source of life, love, and wisdom.
Guiding Prayer
Breathing in to prayer, I am in awe of the unbound spirit, the infinite presence within and around me. God is vitality in my breath, beauty in the natural world, strength in my determination, and compassion in my acts of service. I recognize God in the spaciousness of the universe as well as in my limitless dreams.
Let me set my sight beyond where I have seen before, into the vast reality of divine power and presence. Let me draw upon divine power and presence in order to fulfill my great potential.
In the harmony of prayer, my heart beats to the rhythm of God. The pulse of infinite life moves me, nourishes me, and empowers me to give life to my dreams.
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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Join us each month on the full moon for the profound Earth Treasure Vase Full Moon Global Healing Meditation series, with Cynthia Jurs and David T. Nicol.
Fri Sept 13 // Sun Oct 13 // Tues Nov 12 // Wed Dec 11
Our mailing address is:
Alliance for the Earth
PO Box 8031
Inspired by an ancient Tibetan Buddhist tradition, the Earth Treasure Vase Global Healing Project brings healing and protection to the Earth by filling consecrated clay vessels with prayers and offerings, and ceremonially burying them in the Earth in collaboration with indigenous elders, young activists and grassroots leaders in places where healing and protection are most needed around the planet.
The project began in 1990, when Cynthia met a 106 year-old lama living in a cave in the Himalayas and asked him, What can we do to bring healing and protection to the Earth? He gave her this practice and since then, 49 Earth Treasure Vases have been planted (5 of these are in process now) in sacred places, war torn communities, mountains, forests and sources of rivers on every inhabited continent. The vases form a living global mandala of prayers and intentions for the healing of the Earth. With 21 vases still to go, the practice continues with pilgrimages to many new locations. On every full moon we gather for a guided meditation to direct our prayers and intentions into the vases and energize the global mandala, embracing Gaia with our heartfelt presence and sacred offerings.
Meet Your Facilitators
Cynthia Jurs
Cynthia Jurs, is a Lama in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition and a Dharmacharya in the Order of Interbeing of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh. She is the guiding teacher at Open Way Sangha in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she teaches a dharma path of sacred activism in response to the call of the Earth. In 1990 she made a life-changing pilgrimage to meet the hermit and meditation master, Kushok Mangden Charok Rinpoche, a 106-year-old lama living in a cave in Nepal, from whom she received the practice of the Earth Treasure Vases. Cynthia’s nonprofit, Alliance for the Earth is dedicated to facilitating a global community committed to planetary healing and collective awakening through the Earth Treasure Vase Global Healing Project and is also engaged in numerous peace-building and women’s empowerment efforts in Liberia, Africa. Cynthia directed the film, Turning Prayer Into Action: Indigenous Grandmothers Meet the Bioneers and is currently at work on a book and film entitled, Summoned By The Earth.
David Nicol, Ph.D.
David T. Nicol, Ph.D., is the executive director and co-founder of the Gaiafield Project, and co-founder of BeThePeace and WiseUSA, two initiatives that have united tens of thousands of people worldwide for large-scale meditations dedicated to social change. He is the author of Subtle Activism: The Inner Dimension of Social and Planetary Transformation (SUNY Press), the first comprehensive study of the idea that focused collective meditation and intention can contribute powerfully and measurably to social change. David has taught on Subtle Activism at the California Institute of Integral Studies, The Shift Network, and the Institute for Subtle Activism.
for the ETV Global Healing Meditation are:
Fri Sept 13 // Sun Oct 13 // Tues Nov 12 // Wed Dec 11.
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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.
OJAI, Calif — Planet Earth is not a star but it rises to outright star status in one of the most fascinating film documentaries of 2019.
In “The Earthing Movie,” produced by award-winning filmmakers Josh and Rebecca Tickell, the curtain rises to demonstrate − to very unsuspecting audiences – that our planet packs surprisingly huge healing properties.
The film relates the discovery of the healing power of the planet’s electrically charged surface, a natural, perpetual energy shown in multiple studies over the last 20 years to significantly reduce inflammation, pain, and stress, produce deeper sleep, more energy, and improve circulation.
Earthing, also known as grounding, refers to accessing these major health benefits by walking outdoors on natural surfaces or using commercially available grounding products indoors while you sit or sleep.
In short, Earthing is a simple lifestyle addition that connects you to the Earth’s healing touch. You get the benefits without effort or dieting.
The Earthing movie debuted at the Sedona International Film Festival earlier this year to a packed audience of 750 people. It subsequently won the Audience Award at the Dances With Films Festival at the Grauman’s Chinese Theater in Hollywood in June.
The movie features actresses Amy Smart and Mariel Hemingway, integrative medicine pioneer Deepak Chopra, and an array of physicians, who, along with Earthing pioneer Clint Ober, describe the unique science and benefits of Earthing.
September showings include Palm Springs, London (The Health Optimisation Summit), Los Angeles, and Santa Monica, and at the Yoga’s Research Society’s annual convention on November 16 in Philadelphia.
For showtimes, screening locations, and a short trailer of the film, see www.EarthingMovie.com
The film is currently doing a festival circuit after which it will be available on major digital platforms both in the U.S. and internationally.
You can read a review of the film here: http://crimsonkimono.
Previous films by Josh and Rebecca Tickell’s Big Picture Ranch Production Company, based in Ojai, California, have won multiple awards for social and environmental documentaries, including awards at Sundance, Seattle, Gaia, and Sustainable Planet film festivals.
For more information about Earthing, refer to the Earthing book and the Earthing Institute website
Whether you practice Earthing outdoors or indoors, make sure you do it routinely. Stay connected to the Earth’s healing power! Indoor grounding products developed by Earthing pioneer Clint Ober are available at earthing.com and www.
The Earthing Institute
HOST YOUR OWN EVENT!
In cooperation with the WE-Energime-Global Cooperation Turtle Island International Civil Society Organization and in support of peaceful interfaith dialogue, especially in light of Laudato Si, the recent message from Pope Francis on “Care for Mother Earth”, Drawdown Markham will be assisting Global Cooperation Day (GCD, New Zealand) to Celebrate the 800 year Anniversary (in 2019) of the meeting between Saint Francis of Assisi and Sultan Al Kamil in the year 1219 by planting a *Commemorative Tree of Peace* on a property in the East end of Markham (Locust Hill) on Sunday, September 15th.
This event is being done in support of the DD Markham CCAH Collaborative Exchange Project (CEP) and the “Spark for Humanity” project by We Are Mother Earth! (WAME) and GTI Enterprises (cooperative corporation), and for the eventual establishment of our “Go Local” Campaign for community resilience and adaptation, supported by our local Drawdown Markham Interfaith Neighborhood and Business Collaborative (which is part of the EncounterCanada collaborative, which is intended “to localize the Sustainable Development Goals to build ‘Climate Smart’ safe and sustainable communities and cities, pursuant to the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction”).
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://strikewithus.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
World Peace Card Meditations
Wednesday, September 18, 7:30pm
(based on local time in your time zone)
International Center for Reiki Training <reiki@reiki.org
You are invited to take part in the next World Peace Card Meditation. Please mark your calendar and forward this email to all your friends.
Thanks for Your Help!
Because so many of you forwarded this email to your friends, there have been almost 396,800 downloads of the World Peace Cards. This is a tremendous increase in the number of people using the cards. So far the total number of World Peace Card sets downloaded, received from our free offer and from our magazine has been nearly 440,000! I hope you have been using your peace cards as their use brings blessings to the world as well as to you.
The next World Peace Card group meditation have been scheduled for Wednesday, September 18 at 7:30pm. This is local time in your time zone. This method has been chosen because of the special effect it produces. As people meditate in each successive time zone the energy builds like a wave which gets stronger and stronger as it circles the planet. Because of the higher dimensional nature of consciousness, the energy of peace will be transmitted for a full 24 hours and continue long after this.
Reports from those who took part in the previous meditations indicate many had powerful spiritual experiences. As they united with those taking part in the meditation a feeling of peace developed within that stayed with each for a long time. Some saw beautiful golden light surrounding the planet and others felt that a web of fear was dissipating and being replaced with trust in others and for our future. All those who have received the cards are being asked to meditate on world peace at this time. By taking part in this group meditation, you’ll be joining thousands of people who will be using the cards to bring peace to the world. By joining together, the affect we have will be greatly multiplied. This powerful experience and will help shift the vibration of our wonderful planet into a higher state of consciousness. As you use the cards to meditate on world peace, you will be a beacon through which peace will spread around the planet which will have a positive uplifting effect on all people. Please set aside this time to meditate with the cards. The suggested meditation period is 15 minutes, but of course you can meditate longer if you’d like to. The technique I’d like you to use is based on allowing yourself to be a beacon of peace. The World Peace Cards hold the vibration of the World Peace Grids which have been placed at spiritually significant locations and are relay stations for higher consciousness. By simply opening to their energy, you’ll become a channel for their love and peace which will flow through you to all the people on Earth. To do this, hold the cards in your hands or place them in front of you. Then simply meditate on peace. We are entering a new era. Our entire planet including all the people and living things are moving into a place where it will be much easier to solve our problems and to create peace, prosperity and happiness for everyone. The World Peace Card meditation will quicken this process, making it easier for people to experience this new quality of higher consciousness and will provide great benefit for all people. Since this benefit will be flowing through you out to everyone on the planet, you’ll be blessed by this experience as well. Many have received the cards in the mail or in the Reiki News Magazine while others have downloaded them from our web site. If you would like additional copies of the cards, please download them using this link and print as many copies as you can use. Please feel free to give them to your friends. Also, forward this email to anyone you feel would like to take part in the meditation.
World Peace Card Download
Additional World Peace Cards – https://www.reiki.org/WPCM.
Note: This is a larger file and it may take several
minutes for it to open, so please be patient.
When printing the cards from this file, print page 2 first, then place this page in your printer and print the image of the peace grids on the back.
New Reiki Grid – Send Reiki to Others
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We also have a new image of the World Peace Crystal Grid that can be used for a Reiki Grid. By using it for your Reiki Grid you’ll be tapping into the energy of all the peace grids and this will add to the energy that is sent to all those whose names or photos you place in the grid making the Reiki more effective and adding wonderful feelings of peace and harmony. And each time you charge your grid, you’ll be charging the peace grids for world peace! With this system you’ll use 12 crystals around the outside – placing 1 crystal over each of the crystals in the photo plus 1 crystal in the center and 1 as your master crystal for a total of 14 crystals. The additional crystals will also hold and transmit more energy. Also, remember you can place your goals into the grid as well. I suggest printing it on glossy photo paper if you have it or you could get some at your office supply store. You’ll need to trim the one side of the grid after it’s printed. https://www.reiki.org/ Read the story of the World Peace Grids This is a pdf file of an article that appeared in the Winter 2004 issue of the Reiki News Magazine. It describes the World Peace Crystal Grid program, and the adventures William experienced placing them at the North and South Pole and in Jerusalem. The article contains lots of pictures Thank you for taking part in this group meditation. Sincerely, |
The Grandmothers are getting ready to travel to New York next month to celebrate the Grandmothers Wisdom book launch and then we will travel to upstate New York for a historical event at Menla, LIFT THE EARTH, where we will be joined by other spiritual leaders.
Are you being called to action to support Mother Earth and world peace? Many have requested guidance on how to respond to the chaotic state of the world. Join us in traditional dialogue, ceremonies and circles, and participate in indigenous wisdom on these topics.
In love and peace,
Grandmother Mona Polacca
Book Launch
September 18, 2019
Tibet House US, New York, NY
Our much-anticipated book promises to be a ground-breaking portrayal of traditional spiritual women in history and will be an inspiration for all. These stories are ageless wisdom of earth-based cultures that can benefit all people in today’s climate of disconnection.
Please join the Grandmothers and special guests in New York City for the book launch of Grandmothers Wisdom: Reverence for All Creation.
Tickets are selling fast!
September 18, 2019
4:00 – 7:30 pm
Tibet House
22 West 15th Street
New York, NY 10011
Join the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers, Dr. Henrietta Mann, Nena Thurman and other special guests for the book launch of“Grandmothers Wisdom: Reverence for All Creation”.
The Earth is our loving grandmother. For all time, Cheyenne storytellers, generation after generation, have repeated this belief with both their minds and their hearts. As they say, The Great One, Everywhere Spirit, created the universe and all life with power so vast it defies human imagination. Entirely with the force of thought, the four powerful spirit beings came into existence to witness creation and to eventually safeguard and shelter all life, especially human beings. Next came the water of life, the fire and light of the sun, the infinite sky air, and compassionate Earth. The Great One, Everywhere Spirit, contemplated creation and thought the Earth to be the most beautiful of all, then declared that the Earth be known as our grandmother.
Grandmother Earth is also, more commonly, referred to as Mother Earth. Indeed, she is first woman, first mother, first teacher, oldest mother, and oldest grandmother. The Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers whose magnificent lives are encapsulated in the work of this book represent Earth’s titanic spirit, power, beauty, and love. Individually and collectively, they are rooted in the Earth and carry her wisdom as a perpetual trust. They are committed to sustaining their Earth home and to educating and defending the hearts of all the world’s children.
Please join us in celebrating the manifestation of “Grandmothers Wisdom: Reverence for All Creation”, life and the continuation of this movement of peace, spiritual activism, honoring Mother Earth and future generations.
Seating is first-come, first-served.
Reception and book signing to follow. To join the signing line, we ask that you please purchase a copy of the book available at the event.
World Peace Card Meditations
September 18, October 16, November 13, December 18 at 7:30pm
You are invited to take part in the next World Peace Card Meditation. Please mark your calendar and forward this email to all your friends.
Thanks for Your Help!
International Center for Reiki Training · 21421 Hilltop #28 ·
Southfield, MI 48033 · USA
William Lee Rand
The International Center for Reiki Training
Because so many of you forwarded this email to your friends, there have been more than 396,500 downloads of the World Peace Cards. This is a tremendous increase in the number of people using the cards. So far the total number of World Peace Card sets downloaded, received from our free offer and from our magazine has been over 439,700! I hope you have been using your peace cards as their use brings blessings to the world as well as to you.
The next World Peace Card group meditation has been scheduled for SEPTEMBER 18 at 7:30pm. This is local time in your time zone. This method has been chosen because of the special effect it produces. As people meditate in each successive time zone the energy builds like a wave which gets stronger and stronger as it circles the planet. Because of the higher dimensional nature of consciousness, the energy of peace will be transmitted for a full 24 hours and continue long after this.
Reports from those who took part in the previous meditations indicate many had powerful spiritual experiences. As they united with those taking part in the meditation a feeling of peace developed within that stayed with each for a long time. Some saw beautiful golden light surrounding the planet and others felt that a web of fear was dissipating and being replaced with trust in others and for our future. All those who have received the cards are being asked to meditate on world peace at this time. By taking part in this group meditation, you’ll be joining thousands of people who will be using the cards to bring peace to the world. By joining together, the affect we have will be greatly multiplied. This powerful experience and will help shift the vibration of our wonderful planet into a higher state of consciousness. As you use the cards to meditate on world peace, you will be a beacon through which peace will spread around the planet which will have a positive uplifting effect on all people. Please set aside this time to meditate with the cards. The suggested meditation period is 15 minutes, but of course you can meditate longer if you’d like to. The technique I’d like you to use is based on allowing yourself to be a beacon of peace. The World Peace Cards hold the vibration of the World Peace Grids which have been placed at spiritually significant locations and are relay stations for higher consciousness. By simply opening to their energy, you’ll become a channel for their love and peace which will flow through you to all the people on Earth. To do this, hold the cards in your hands or place them in front of you. Then simply meditate on peace. We are entering a new era. Our entire planet including all the people and living things are moving into a place where it will be much easier to solve our problems and to create peace, prosperity and happiness for everyone. The World Peace Card meditation will quicken this process, making it easier for people to experience this new quality of higher consciousness and will provide great benefit for all people. Since this benefit will be flowing through you out to everyone on the planet, you’ll be blessed by this experience as well. Many have received the cards in the mail or in the Reiki News Magazine while others have downloaded them from our web site. If you would like additional copies of the cards, please download them using this link and print as many copies as you can use. Please feel free to give them to your friends. Also, forward this email to anyone you feel would like to take part in the meditation.
World Peace Card Download
Additional World Peace Cards – https://www.reiki.org/WPCM.
Note: This is a larger file and it may take several
minutes for it to open, so please be patient.
When printing the cards from this file, print page 2 first, then place this page in your printer and print the image of the peace grids on the back.
New Reiki Grid – Send Reiki to Others
We also have a new image of the World Peace Crystal Grid that can be used for a Reiki Grid. By using it for your Reiki Grid you’ll be tapping into the energy of all the peace grids and this will add to the energy that is sent to all those whose names or photos you place in the grid making the Reiki more effective and adding wonderful feelings of peace and harmony. And each time you charge your grid, you’ll be charging the peace grids for world peace! With this system you’ll use 12 crystals around the outside – placing 1 crystal over each of the crystals in the photo plus 1 crystal in the center and 1 as your master crystal for a total of 14 crystals. The additional crystals will also hold and transmit more energy. Also, remember you can place your goals into the grid as well. I suggest printing it on glossy photo paper if you have it or you could get some at your office supply store. You’ll need to trim the one side of the grid after it’s printed. https://www.reiki.org/
Read the story of the World Peace Grids
Reiki and World Peace
by William Lee Rand
This is a pdf file of an article that appeared in the Winter 2004 issue of the Reiki News Magazine. It describes the World Peace Crystal Grid program, and the adventures William experienced placing them at the North and South Pole and in Jerusalem. The article contains lots of pictures Thank you for taking part in this group meditation.
Sincerely,
William Lee Rand
The International Center for Reiki Training
Bringing Peace to Our Ancestors
September 19-22, 2019
Menla, Phoenicia, NY
Join us on World Peace Day and the Fall Equinox for LIFT THE EARTH: Bringing Peace to Our Ancestors; a four-day gathering which includes the participation of the Grandmothers Council, Alice Walker, Dr. Henrietta Mann, Chief Phil Lane Jr, Dr. Robert Thurman, Jussara Korngold and other spiritual leaders and activists from around the world.This gathering will include interactive dialogue, prayer circles, and teachings on ancestral healing, water and land issues, and the future of the generations to come.
Register now before we sell out – join us for this special event and participate in this world-wide collective prayer for outer and inner peace.
GRANDMOTHER AGNES BAKER PILGRIM
GRANDMOTHER BERNADETTE REBIENOT
GRANDMOTHER CLARA SHINOBU IURA
GRANDMOTHER MONA POLACCA
GRANDMOTHER RITA BLUMENSTEIN
GRANDMOTHER RITA LONG VISITOR HOLY DANCE
ALICE WALKER
DR. HENRIETTA MANN
CHIEF PHIL LANE
ROBERT A.F. THURMAN
JUSSARA KORNGOLD
DAY SCHILDKRET OF MORNING ALTARS
Men and Spirituality – Ghost Ranch – New Mexico
What is in a man’s heart? As a man, you are possibly the only person who truly knows, and you may feel isolated without answers to the age-old questions: Who am I? Why am I here? Where am I going? Gather with other men in a safe contemplative setting to experience the true power of conscious vulnerability, and the healing alchemy of deeply connecting with other men seeking answers along their spiritual path. Then learn how to take your experience home if you wish and extend the conversation to engage like-minded men.
Please note that our workshop price structure packages your tuition, course materials, lodging and meals together in a single rate. Prices are presented for each of the types of lodging available for the workshop you select. Some art workshops will have an additional list of course materials and supplies that can be purchased or you will be asked to bring with you.
- Note: Some courses (especially studio courses and plein air painting courses) can carry an additional material list or expense.
All rates are Per Person, Double Occupancy unless otherwise specified. Single Occupancy: Single occupancy rooms may be reserved for an additional $50 per night when space is available. The fee will be charged when space is confirmed. Single occupancy lodging is generally not available during June and July. If you are a single person and do not specify a roommate, a roommate of the same gender will be assigned to share your lodging space or you can request the single occupancy and be charged the supplement of an additional $50 per night (based on availability). For more information or if you would like to attend this workshop, but do not need lodging, please call the Registrar’s Office at 505.685.1001 or 505.685.1001 ext 4155 or toll-free at 877.804.4678 — available Sunday–Friday, 8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. MST.
Three ways to register:
- Download printable registration form and mail to: Ghost Ranch Registrar, 280 Private Drive 1708, Abiquiu, NM 87510. OR scan and email your completed form to: registrar@GhostRanch.org
- Register by telephone at 505.685.1001 or 505.685.1017 or toll-free at 877.804.4678, ext. 4155 or ext. 4121 — available Monday-Saturday 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. MST.
Circles of Men Project
The Circles of Men Project, in association with the Charter for Compassion, launched in January 2019 for the purpose of creating and fostering a global constellation of likeminded men working together to elevate mindfulness, compassion and consciousness among men around the world.
The overarching intention is to provide a forum:
- for thought leaders in men’s work to support one another navigate forward in the rapidly changing world
- to enable men and boys around the world to engage in contemplative conversation both in person and virtually
- to help provide a foundation for work in the area of deep healing between women and men with Gender Equity and Reconciliation International.
The Circles of Men Project is evolving as an extension of the Men’s Fellowship Network which launched in 2012 and has grown into a global network with visitors to the website from over 140 countries; half of whom are women seeking to learn more about the issues men face today and to offer as a resource to the men in their lives.
For more information contact us at: clay@clayboykin.com
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Registration is open for our 6th Appalachian Trail Retreat.
Space is limited and is on a first come/first serve basis. We will maintain a waiting list once registrations fill.
On the weekend of Sept 20-22, 2019 Friends of Peace Pilgrim will be holding our annual Appalachian Trail Retreat at the Mohican Outdoor Center in Blairstown, NJ.
Peace Pilgrim was the first woman to hike the entire Appalachian Trail in one hiking season in 1952, the year before she began the pilgrimage. In 2017 she was inducted into the Appalachian Trail Hall of Fame.
We have exclusive use of Blueberry Hill Lodge. The lodge includes a large living/relaxing space with fireplace, a kitchen, shared bunkrooms, and multiple shared baths. We will share our connections with Peace Pilgrim, our inspiration and involvement with creating more peace in our lives and the world, cook our own vegetarian meals, and have opportunities to be inspired by the beauties of Nature.
You can download additional information and a registration form by following this link – https://bit.ly/2SYc5XA – email your questions to atretreat@peacepilgrim.org
Registration deposit of $60.00 due by August 20 holds your spot and is on a first come/first serve basis!
In peace and friendship,
Friends of Peace Pilgrim
PO Box 2207
Shelton, CT 06484
1Million Meditators is a global movement of highly conscious individuals who are raising the vibration of the planet to help it thrive again! During our last Global Meditation over 330,000 beautiful souls tuned into the 65 live meditations broadcasts streamed live by 1Million Meditators Ambassadors, from all corners of the world. This year we are celebrating 2 years and during our weeklong mediations “LoveFest” from starting with Sept. 21st, dedicated to International Peace Day and culminating with Sept. 28th dedicated to all Sentinel’s beings it is our intent to reach 500,000 meditators worldwide! Join us on for an entire week September 21st to 28th, 2019. We’ll be meditating on beaming Love throughout the entire week!
https://www.facebook.com/events/343840616277756/
❤️ As ONE Consciousness & Connected to LOVING INTELLIGENCE let us raise our collective vibration to one of LOVE, PEACE, COMPASSION & ABUNDANCE for ALL!
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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There’s only three weeks until Farm Aid 2019! We’re getting excited and
we hope you are too.
Even if you won’t be joining us in person in Wisconsin,
here are a couple of ways to join the Farm Aid fun
from wherever you are:
Stand with family farmers today! The people who grow our food deserve to make a fair living. But that’s out of reach for the livestock and poultry farmers who work in an industry where the power of giant corporations leaves them trapped in a rigged marketplace, vulnerable to abusive business practices.
Showing your support is easy with our online petition that will be delivered to the USDA.
Global week of action on Peace, the Climate, SDGs and Nuclear Abolition
September 21 – September 27
The week of Sep 21-27 includes the following key events:
- Sep 21: UN International Day for Peace;
- Sep 23: UN Climate Summit;
- Sep 24-25: Summit on SDGs;
- Sep 26: International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons.
Together these dates comprise a Global week of action on peace, climate, SDGs and nuclear abolition.
Flyers on the Global Week: Taking action together
Abolition 2000 has established a working group to build cooperation between climate, SDG, peace and disarmament organisations to take action during the week. For more information see the Abolition 2000 flyer on the Global Week for Peace, the Climate, SDGs and Nuclear Abolition Sep 21-27.
Abolition 2000 is cooperating with Action for Sustainable Development (A4SD), Forus, Asia Development Alliance (ADA), the Korea International Cooperation Agencyand other sustainable develpoment organisations on Stand Together Now for a Just and Peaceful World: Seven Days to Save our Planet. See Stand Together for peace and sustainability Global Week of Action Sep 20-27 poster.
Connections between peace, climate protection, SDGs and disarmament
UN Charter (Article 26) recognises the connection between disarmament and sustainable development. Article 26 requires the UN to facilitate disarmament ‘in order to promote the establishment and maintenance of international peace and security with the least diversion for armaments of the world’s human and economic resources.’
More recently the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development recognizes that there can be no sustainable development without peace, and no peace without sustainable development. In addition, Securing our Common Future: An Agenda for Disarmament, the disarmament agenda released in 2018 by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, outlines the links between disarmament and many of the SDGs.
Key events and actions:
Sep 21: International Day for Peace
- UN event: International Day of Peace Student Observance, United Nations, 20 September 2019. Watch it on webtv.un.org
- Peace One Day event in London: with civil society leaders and celebrities that will be live-streamed globally.
- List your event at Peace One Day, a global platform to share, find out about or join actions for Peace Day.
For further information see the UN website on International Day for Peace. Share your ideas and activities through #PeaceDay and #ClimateAction.
Sep 23: UN Climate Summit
- UN Climate Summit, New York on 23 September
Action: Call on your government to commit in New York to deeper reductions in carbon emissions, a faster transition from fossil fuels to renewable energies, and reductions in military budgets in order to fund climate protection.
Sep 24-25: Summit on Sustainable Development
- Summit on the SDGs, September 24-25
Action: Call on your government to highlight at the SDG Summit the importance of peace and demilitarisation in achieving the SDGs, and support the proposal of Kazakhstan that all countries redirect 1% of their military budget to the SDGs.
Sep 26: International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons
- UN High Level Meeting on Nuclear Disarmament, September 26. See International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons. To register click here (registration deadline is August 23).
- List your action or event at UNFOLD ZERO: list of events for Nuclear Abolition Day .
Actions:
a) Encourage your Prime Minister/President to attend the Sep 26 UN High-Level Meeting on Nuclear Disarmament and call on all States to never launch a nuclear war, and to negotiate for the abolition and elimination of nuclear weapons;
b) Organise a screening of ‘The Man who saved the World’ or other action for Nuclear Abolition Day.
Climate Action Summit 2019
The Secretary-General will convene a Climate Action Summit in September 2019 to bring climate action to the top of the international agenda. Mr. Luis Alfonso de Alba, a former Mexican diplomat, will be his Special Envoy to lead its preparations.
The Summit will focus on the heart of the problem – the sectors that create the most emissions and the areas where building resilience could make the biggest difference – as well as provide leaders and partners the opportunity to demonstrate real climate action and showcase their ambition.
To read about the commitments that regions, cities, businesses, investors and civil society pledged during the Global Climate Action Summit in California, September 2018, click here.
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“Sunflowers instead of missiles in the soil would ensure peace for future generations”
U.S. Secretary of Defence William Perry, as he joined Russian and Ukrainian defence ministers to plant sunflowers on a former missile base
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Contact
Basel Peace Office
c/o Seminar für Soziologie
Universität Basel
Petersgraben 27
CH-4051 Basel
Switzerland
The Global Consciousness Project is an international, multidisciplinary collaboration of scientists and engineers, who collect data continuously from a global network of physical random number generators located in up to 70 host sites around the world at any given time.
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The International Day of Peace (“Peace Day”) is observed around the world each year on 21 September. Established in 1981 by unanimous United Nations resolution 36/37, the General Assembly has declared this as a day devoted to “commemorating and strengthening the ideals of peace both within and among all nations and peoples.”
Join us to create a wave of peace
as you hold your Moments of Mass Mindfulness
at midday across the world in your local time zones
for International Peace Day.
Register for World Peace Day.
.MOMM is thrilled to be part of the Peace Coalition network of Peace One Day and a global partner of Pace e Bene’s Campaign
Moments of Mass Mindfulness (MOMM) is a meditation movement for everyone. We are raising awareness of, and co-creating in community, a model that fully embraces the true definition of health as both an Art and a Science. At the heart of it all, we’re focused on building community, connection, collaboration and to enhance personal wellbeing.
Imagine if mindfulness and meditation was a regular part of daily life in society. If every person was able to slow down, and connect with their calmer, essential self and find balance, it’s likely feelings of negative self-talk and aggression would disappear. Mindfulness is a strategy for directing yourself away from these self-incriminating thoughts and limiting beliefs. It’s a meditative practice of paying attention to your body, mind, and surroundings in a non-judgmental manner.
Mindfulness can be thought of as a form of self-care. Science has proven (1) that it’s a valuable antidote to the fast pace of our now technology-driven culture, and mind body techniques, when used effectively, can influence our brain activity and lead to a reduction in stress, mood and anxiety.
Mindfulness and meditation is recommended as a treatment for people with mental ill-health – (1) It is recommended by NICE as a preventative practice for people with experience of recurrent depression (2)), as well as those who want to improve their mental health and wellbeing (3). There are numerous studies showing compelling support for Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), which helps people to cope with stress, and for Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), which is designed to help people with recurring depression. There has become little doubt that its use is an effective intervention and prevention technique.
The importance of mental health both to human wellbeing and the prosperity of the country has been well established in a number of recent reports (including the report of the Wellbeing Economics APPG published last year), and it has prompted the government’s initiative to set up the What Works Centre for Wellbeing in 2015, hosted by Public Health England (4).
Conversations and collaborations are springing up through a new paradigm of self care and lifestyle medicine, which combine objective knowledge and subjective experiential practices. These practices, towards balance and coherence, energise and rejuvenate both mind and body. Meditation, mindfulness, indeed all contemplative practices serve to calm the nervous system, activating the body’s own natural healing system, our ‘inner pharmacy’ aided by health-improving behaviours of better nutrition, exercise, stress reduction and a good night’s sleep. This combination of the health sciences from both modern day and traditional care, will help fulfil the potential future of vibrant health and well-being.
Let’s come together with open minds, open hearts and pure intention.
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TransOhio and Clintonville Counseling and Wellness present the 2nd Annual Trans Career and Wellness Day at Columbus Public Health! Local employers and community and wellness partners will be onsite to offer employment, health, and other opportunities to the transgender and gender non-confirming community.
10AM – 3PM: Job Fair with dozens of local affirming and inclusive employers and resources from Community organizations
11AM – 4PM: Wellness Workshops
10AM – 4PM: Medical testing by Columbus Public Health
Please check back to hear about the employers and community partners attending this year, details about the wellness workshops, and info about raffle prizes! Please share!
TransOhio, Inc.
P.O. Box 14481
Columbus, Ohio 43214
Email: TransOhio@transohio.org
Facebook: TransOhio Fan page
Our Mission
TransOhio serves the Ohio transgender and ally communities by providing services, education, support, and advocacy, which promotes and improves the health, safety and life experience of the Ohio transgender individual and community.
Our Vision
- to serve as a bridge to other LGBTQ+ and ally communities
- to provide a focus for matters of concern to the Ohio transgender community and their allies by providing open, affirming, visible and tangible support
- to promote opportunities and networking that increase awareness of the Transgender and gender-nonconforming community’s needs and concerns such, as discrimination and violence
- to increase lesbian, gay, bisexual, heterosexual, and ally understanding and cultural awareness of the Ohio Transgender community
- to help ensure that Ohio educational programs and services are inclusive and supportive of Ohio Transgender issues, perspectives, and concerns
- to provide social activities that are inclusive of all LGBTQ+ and ally communities, access to safe-spaces, people, forums for confidential discussion, support, and local and national resource information
- to foster Ohio Transgender community pride
The Peace Fair of Bucks Quarterly Meeting of Friends
Dedicated to promoting harmony in the home,
the community,
the environment,
and the world
Saturday, September 21, 2019
at Buckingham Friends Meeting & Buckingham Friends School
The Peace Fair provides a comfortable family-friendly atmosphere in which adults and children can learn about how others promote peaceful relations in their organizations and their own lives. The Fair is nonsectarian and nonpartisan, and seeks to attract people of all beliefs from all walks of life.
- Dozens of information tables from organizations with peace-related messages and missions
- Non-competitive Fun for Children: human-powered Peace Train, Fish Pond, Beanbag Toss, face painting and more
- Family-friendly live musical entertainment, including EcoMan, Tookany Creek, and River Drivers
- Food including hamburgers, hot dogs, and veggie burgers
- Crafts by local artisans
- Gently used book sale
Contact Us:
For more information, please e-mail peacefair.org@gmail.com or call Peter Ray, Peace Fair coordinator, at 215-794-2708.
Peace Lanterns Festival 2019
September 21, 2019
2:00-8:30pm
Gantry Plaza State Park
Long Island City 11011
Our next peace event that Heiwa Peace & Reconciliation Foundation is co-sponsoring will be annual Peace Lanterns Festival on Saturday, September 21 (UN International Day of Peace!!!) from 2pm – 8:30pm. It will be held at Gantry Plaza State Park in LIC, NY (along with East River, across the River from the United Nations) – Center Blvd & 49th Ave., LIC.
Schedule of Peace Lanterns Festival:
-Free Public Event. Donations are welcome. –
2:00 – 6:00pm Lantern Decorating, Origami, Face Painting, Henna Tattoos, Seedball Making, and African Dance.
2:30 – 5:30pm “Meditate NYC” – Public Meditation Day
Practice mindfulness and calming under the guidance of revered teachers from Buddhist and other traditions from across the globe.
3:00 – 6:00pm Public Paddling, organized by HarborLAB
6:15pm – 7:30pm Speakers and Interfaith Prayers for Peace
Music by Heiwa Peace Band
7:30 – 8:30pm Floating Peace Lanterns
108 lanterns with your words and images of peace and set them afloat with the setting sun.
Peace Lanterns Festival is co-sponsored by the HaborLAB, the Heiwa Peace Reconciliation Foundation of New York and the Buddhist Council of New York, in partnership with the Global Movement for the Culture of Peace, the Interfaith Center of New York, the Interfaith Center of USA, the Newtown Creek Group, the NY de Volunteers, the Origami Therapy Association, the Sikh Cultural Society, the TF Cornerstone, and the World Yoga Community.
A Celebration of Diversity and A Feast for Peace
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Sponsored by STOP: Scottsdale Together Overcoming Prejudice
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This is a community potluck to meet your neighbors.
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Saturday, September 21, 2019, from 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm, the International Day of Peace
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Held at: Mountainview Community Center Multipurpose Room, 8625 E. Mountainview Road, Scottsdale, AZ. Space is limited to 150 people so please sign up on Sign Up Genius at: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f0a4da4ab2fab9-acelebration
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Everyone is welcome. Bring a dish to share to celebrate your personal diversity. Beverages will be provided. Vegan, nut free and vegetarian options will be provided.
This event is in response to a recent hate crime in McDowell Mountain Ranch in North Scottsdale. Lisa Sprout, an oncologist who lives in McDowell Mountain Ranch, said “The community we live in talks about how tolerant we are…but in this gated community, we have hate crimes.” A photo was posted to a front door which appears to depict a scene from the civil rights movement, with white protesters holding a sign that says in all caps: “GO BACK TO AFRICA NEGROES.” In response, a grass roots community effort sprung up called STOP.
STOP is a group of concerned neighbors who believe positive change comes about through respect, understanding, education, awareness, engagement and strength in numbers. We seek to solidify Scottsdale as a safe and welcoming city for all.
Contact Lisa Sproat at sproatsaysno@gmail.com with questions.
Join us in launching this unprecedented mission to mobilize humanity in the net 16 months to take the direct actions necessary to get us on track to ending the crisis in time.
We will have 3 full days of Ceremony and Celebration !! We will arrive and unpack at Sunday 22nd at 7PM because we will start very early in the morning on Monday 23rd. Our last Ceremony will be late in the evening of Wednesday 25th. At Thursday 26th we will leave and pack before Noon.
We have planted many seeds over the past months and have been aiming to achieve our goal of creating this very special event. Now has come the moment to invite you all to join. We celebrate on the Land of Jessica and Rogier, owners of ‘de Stille Kracht’, an Oasis of Nature, Beauty and Peace in Drenthe, (Northern part of The Netherlands)
During 3 beautiful days we will not only co-create this Gathering to pay respect to our Mother Earth, our Lands and Ancestors and the future of our next seven Generations to come, we also love to bring honor to Grandmother Flordemayo and TreeSisters and their Sacred work. Dorm (with ten separate beds)
Early dorm ticket: €315,-
Normal dorm ticket: €333,-
Room (private room, each with two separate beds. If you buy a ticket alone you can expect to sleep with another person in the room. If you want to be in the room with someone specific, let us know!)
Early room ticket: €333,-
Normal room ticket: €358,-
Order your ticket now by sending an email to info@eigentijdsnederland.com In that email state your first and last name and ticket type. From there we will inform you on how to secure your spot for this event.
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.  |
Song Carriers Immersion
OVERVIEW
The Song Carriers Immersion is an initiatory experience for women called to awaken their natural wild essence and vitality through song and sisterhood. The immersion brings participants deeply into the way of the Song Carrier and provides guidance about how to gather, learn, hold, and offer sacred Earth Songs. Through a rich mix of communal singing, dancing and ritual along with solo visioning and wandering, women uncover the unique gifts of their voice and remember their original role as caretakers of life and dreamers of the mystery. The setting is the pristine wilds of Apache Canyon, NM where the music and medicine of nature powerfully present themselves and root the overall experience.
**The Song Carriers Immersion is a pre-requisite for the
Song Carriers Leadership Training.**
DATES & LOCATION:
Fall 2019 Song Carriers Immersion is
Tuesday September 24, 2:00 pm through
Sunday September 29, 1:00 pm at
Apache Creek Ranch near Santa Fe, NM
CORE ELEMENTS
- Nature Immersion
- Ancestral and New Song Lineages
- Dance as Prayer
- Earth-based Ritual
- Rhythm Making
- Solo Time in the Forest
- Sisterhood Weaving
- Conscious Visioning
THE HARVEST
- Enliven your wild essence
- Receive earth songs in original languages
- Awaken the gift of listening for and shaping songs from nature’s music
- Increase fluency with rhythm
- Deepen embodiment
- Develop ritual practices
- Cultivate relations with Mother Earth and beyond-human entities
- Enter a community of sisterhood
THE SETTING & ACCOMMODATIONS
Apache Creek Ranch is located 30 minutes from downtown Santa Fe and is surrounded by 400 acres of forest with a small creek that runs through the canyon. The breathtaking ranch has two sweet adobe casitas with loft spaces containing individual beds to share with two or more women and there is one room available with a king size bed to share with another woman. (This room is reserved for two women who are unable to climb a ladder into the loft spaces). Camping is also available for those that want more privacy. Each casita contains communal bathrooms with a shower. There is also a luxurious heated outdoor swimming pool. The retreat includes 3 nourishing meals a day, using locally grown and organic foods by our personal chef, Brigita Lacovara. (http://brigitaskitchen.com)
THE SESSIONS & SCHEDULE
The Song Carriers Immersion sessions will mainly take place outdoors with evening sessions indoors. Most days require an easy twenty minute walk to the forest for our gatherings. There will be one day devoted to a longer hike up the sacred mountain to make offerings and listen for nature’s songs.
Tuesday, Sept. 24
2pm-3pm Arrival & Registration
4pm-6pm Session
6pm Dinner
Wednesday, Sept. 25
8am Breakfast
10am Opening Ceremony
1pm Lunch
2pm-5pm Session
6pm Dinner
7pm-9pm Session
Thursday, Sept. 26
8am Breakfast
9am-4pm Pilgrimage to sacred mountain
6pm Dinner
7pm-9pm Session
Friday, Sept. 27
8am Breakfast
9am-1pm Session
1pm Lunch
2pm-5pm Session
6pm Dinner
7pm-9pm Session
Saturday, Sept. 28
8am Breakfast
9am-1pm Session
1pm Lunch
2pm-4pm Session
5pm-7pm Closing Water Lodge
7:30pm Feast
Sunday, Sept. 29
8am Breakfast
9am Check-out
10am-12:30pm Song Carriers Women’s Community Circle in Santa Fe
GUIDE
Madi Sato is a singer and women’s community leader of Japanese Ainu and Celtic roots. She is devoted to raising women’s voices for the benefit of all life. Madi has guided hundreds of women in awakening and empowering their authentic voices through the self-designed Song Carrier method of gathering in community. From a young age, she was immersed in indigenous ceremony and drawn to the feet of traditional grandmothers. She continues to compose original songs & chants consonant with nature’s music and is a lifelong dancer versed in an array of traditions and styles, both old and new.
Madi and her husband, poet Timothy P. McLaughlin, are co-founders of PRAISING EARTH, an organization devoted to rewilding the human heart through the traditions of song, story, dance and ritual to enliven all people’s essential belonging to Earth. She is the creative mother of the organization’s Singing Waters programs, which include Song Carriers Women’s Circles, Basket of Seeds Grandmother’s Alliance, Song Carriers Immersion, Song Carriers Leadership Training, and the 13 Moons Song Archive. She lives in Santa Fe with Timothy and their three children.
PraisingEarth.org
COST
$1600, includes all meals and shared lodging
$1475, includes all meals and camping
Song Carrier Immersion
Application
Thank you for your interest in the Song Carrier Immersion! This application allows you to articulate your desires and intentions for this program and helps us get to know you.
Before applying, please ensure you are able to commit to living on-site and fully engaging in every day of the immersion.
(Type into the spaces beside/beneath each question. Use whatever space you need. When complete, save and send to: Info@TheSingingWaters.org)
Name:
Address, Telephone, Email Address:
DOB:
Heritage(s):
Languages spoken or sung:
Health/Fitness Condition:
Express what draws your soul to the path of the Song Carrier.
Describe your connection and experience with song & wilderness.
What is your ceremonial background?
Are you comfortable in the elements and with hiking and spending solo time in the wild?
Please state your lodging preference. Loft bed, shared king bed, or camping?
Please list any food preferences or restrictions—
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On September 25th we’re hosting a live event in Chicago! At AWE Partners we LOVE the idea of blending profit and purpose to change the world. So we have created an event for business women who want to learn how they can support women’s empowerment. The event is called How to Invest, Shop, Give to Empower Women and will feature a panel of extraordinary women whose lives are a testament to doing good. At the event you will learn about…
The struggles our sisters are facing
Who is implementing solutions to change lives
How you can support these solutions in the way you invest, shop, and give
There will be plenty of time for Q&A, networking with other amazing women, and yummy food & drink. The event will be held at Susan Crown Exchange (4 East Ohio) and the price is only $30 – but space is limited so register early. Here’s the EventBrite link…
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/
SEPTEMBER 25, 2019
How to Invest, Shop, Give to Empower Women
$15 – $30
Event Information
Are you passionate about creating impact with your actions? Do you want to learn how to empower other women through investing, shopping, and giving?
Join a diverse community of heart-centered, mission-driven, and socially conscious women for a night of networking and learning. Our panelists and fellow impact-oriented women will help us discover how we can best incorporate the principles of Conscious Capitalism into our life and business for more passion, purpose, and profit!
We are embracing a paradigm shift to a more feminine approach to solving our social challenges that says “yes” to a new way forward and “no” to what’s not working.
Our guest panelists are:
Invest – Peg Quinn is a financial advisor and Certified Financial Planner for Paradigm Wealth Management. She works with individuals and families to simplify and organize their financial matters by providing comprehensive financial planning and investment management services. Her studies include a BS and MBA concentrating in finance. In addition, her 35 years of experience within the investment industry provide her a unique perspective into impact investing’s evolution. She is a friend of Gilda’s Club Associates Board and a member of the National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO).
Shop – Daniela Ancira is a human rights lawyer, an Ashoka Fellow, and founder of La Cana, a social enterprise working with incarcerated women in Mexico and creating social reintegration programs in prison. Daniela has promoted public policies on issues regarding prison labor, and is currently working closely with legislators to create a framework that guarantees basic working and social standards to inmates to incentivize companies to formally employ convicts, in order to help reduce recidivism and delinquency rates in Mexico. She has worked as a Human Rights lawyer defending victims of torture and enforced disappearance at a national and international level, and has collaborated with several organizations in litigating human rights violation cases before the UN and the Inter-American Human Rights Commission. She is a member of the Technical Working Group of the United Nations Office for Drugs and Crime to create the United Nations Advanced Standards for the Mexican Penitentiary System; and in private practice has worked in prestigious firms in Civil and Commercial litigation, Corporate Law and Intellectual Property matters. Daniela is an Ashoka Fellow and was named Citizen of the Year in 2018.
Give – Izabel Olson is the Founder and CEO of Salt and Light Coalition here in Chicago, a non-profit organization which works with victims of human trafficking. She is dedicated to the empowerment of women, especially survivors of human trafficking, as they reframe their trauma experience and find success in the workplace. The unique combination of an academic background in cognitive science and a passion for holistic self-care gives her a unique ability to have a positive impact on women’s lives. Olson holds a Ph.D. in Learning Sciences from Northwestern University and is the founder and CEO of Salt & Light Coalition, a grassroots organization focused on job training and mind/body restoration for survivors of human trafficking in Chicago and beyond. In 2017, Olson was awarded the Illinois Secretary of State’s Latina Humanitarian Achievement Award.
Light appetizers and drinks will be served. The event starts at 5:30 and our panel will begin at 6. Hope to see you all there
WHY WOMEN
Women are the future
of Social Impact.
If you’re here, we’re willing to bet you believe this, too. Here’s some AWEsome news: no matter if you’re a solopreneur just starting out or a seasoned exec, you absolutely can make a social impact (and inspire others to do the same)!
AWE Partners is a social enterprise created for women who are eager to give, invest, and shop for maximum impact on the causes they care about most.
In business…in life…in every area of our world, women aren’t just rewriting the “rules”. They’re redefining them, shattering the status quo, and leading the way on social issues that demand our attention.
Are you determined to create social impact…
Are you a female entrepreneur or executive determined to create meaningful social impact… but not quite sure where to start?
If you…
- feel confused and overwhelmed by the giving process
- don’t know where to begin
- aren’t sure where to find the information you need
- want to save time and money
Welcome home! Prepare for a whole lot more passion, purpose, AND profit in your life and business!
7 in 10 Americans think companies have the obligation to take actions to improve issues that may not be directly relevant or related to their everyday business. They are expected to help solve social problems.
That’s according to a 2017 study by Cone Communications
Working with AWE Partners
- Discover Your Purpose
- Ignite Your Passion
- Grow Your Impact
- Make a Positive Difference in the World
- Create a Meaningful Legacy
We understand this desire.
We can help.
- Identify the social issues that matter most to you
- Define your unique goals
- Maximize your social impact
- Connect you with a supportive community of like-minded women
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PRESS RELEASE: ‘CELEBRATING AMBASSADORS OF PEACE’ (AOP) EVENT SET FOR SEPTEMBER 26 IN LOS ANGELES
“Creative Community for Peace (CCFP), an organization made up of prominent members of the entertainment industry that’s dedicated to promoting the arts as a means to peace, will honor several music business executives at its second annual Celebrating Ambassadors of Peace gala. More than 200 top entertainment industry leaders are expected to attend the event, which will be held Sep. 26 at the Holmby Hills home of CCFP board advisor and noted entertainment attorney Gary Stiffelman, whose clientele has included Justin Timberlake, Eminem and Yo-Yo Ma.”
A limited number of tickets for this exclusive event are available for purchase at the following site, along with sponsorship opportunities: https://www.creativecommunityforpeace.com/gala/honorees/
Web: http://CreativeCommunityForPeace.com
Contact: Alexandra Greenberg
Direct: 213-216-1755
Email: agreenberg@falconpublicity.com
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On Thursday, September 26, Creative Community For Peace (CCFP) will hold its second annual “Celebrating Ambassadors Of Peace” (AOP) event at the Holmby Hills home of noted entertainment attorney and CCFP Advisory Board member, Gary Stiffelman, Esq. (whose clients have included Justin Timberlake, Eminem, Yo-Yo Ma, Trent Reznor, Maroon 5).
In 2018, CCFP honored Scooter Braun, Geffen Records President Neil Jacobson and Warner Music Group executive Aton Ben-Horin. This year’s honorees are: Aaron Bay-Schuck (CEO/Co-Chairman Warner Records); Jacqueline Saturn (President, Caroline Music/CMG); Troy Carter (Founder of Q&A and Atom Factory); Walter Kolm (former President of Universal Music Latino and now manages Maluma, Carlos Vives, and Wisin amongst others); and special artist honoree, Ziggy Marley (GRAMMY Award-winning artist).
The honorees were chosen for their commitment to championing artistic freedom and advancing the idea that music and the arts are a powerful force for building cultural bridges. Through their work and influence, they have advanced coexistence to create a better future for all.
As stated by CCFP Co-Founder David Renzer, and Director Ari Ingel, “Creative Community for Peace was founded by entertainment industry executives on the principal that music and the arts can be a unifying force to bring people of different backgrounds together. We also believe that a cultural boycott of Israel does not further the prospects for peace.”
The honorees shared their excitement to be recognized as Ambassadors of Peace and the importance of CCFP’s work, stating the following:
Aaron Bay-Schuck: “I am honored to be recognized as an ‘Ambassador of Peace’ by Creative Community for Peace and humbled to be receiving it alongside such accomplished industry executives and friends. The cultural boycott movement is detrimental to prospects for peace between Israelis and Palestinians, as well as to artistic freedom around the world, and I will continue to stand with my friends and colleagues who are dedicated to using music and the arts to bring people together.”
Jacqueline Saturn: “I’m honored to receive the Ambassadors of Peace award from Creative Community for Peace. Music and all creative art forms have the unique ability to pierce through cultural barriers, reshape perspectives, and create common ground. CCFP bridges divergent communities, enabling them to find a common voice. Now more than ever, the creative community must take a courageous stance against those that seek to divide rather than unite. I am proud to be in a position to empower artists from many different backgrounds to help us get to “higher ground.”
Walter Kolm: “It’s an honor for me to receive an Ambassadors of Peace award this year. I’ve always been a firm believer in the power of music to bring people together, which is why I support CCFP and their mission. The fact that so many incredible Latin artists I’ve worked with over the years, like Maluma, Carlos Vives and Wisin, have performed in Israel is a testament to this. Our artists are always embraced with enthusiasm and love in such a way that truly shows that music crosses all cultural and national boundaries to unite us.”
Troy Carter: “There is no better way to bring people of different backgrounds together than through the arts. This is why I share the vision of Creative Community for Peace and am proud to receive their Ambassador of Peace award.”
Ziggy Marley: “It is an honor to be one of CCFP’s 2019 Ambassadors of Peace. We all should use our voices, music, and art in the struggle for justice, love, and peace for all human beings of all races, religions, and ethnicities. I am thankful to be a part of this year’s ceremony. One Love”
More than two-hundred top entertainment industry leaders are expected to attend the event, which will feature special musical performances. Sponsors include Sony/ATV, EA Music, BMI, Epic Records, Atlantic Records and Warner Records among many others. Variety, which recently included CCFP honoree Jacqueline Saturn on their “Women’s Impact Report,” is the event’s official media sponsor.
A limited number of tickets for this exclusive event are available for purchase at the following site, along with sponsorship opportunities: https://www.creativecommunityforpeace.com/gala/honorees/
Web: http://CreativeCommunityForPeace.com
Video: https://vimeo.com/332545709
Contact: Alexandra Greenberg
Direct: 213-216-1755
Email: agreenberg@falconpublicity.com
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A BEAUTIFUL OPPORTUNITY…
You are invited to gather with GOOD of the WHOLE Mentoring Stewards and friends as we deepen into the embodiment of wholeness, co-mentoring strategic, sacred action for the earth and all her inhabitants. Given that we are on the evolutionary edge, living in times of great change, we share a vision of a world where every individual feels valued, connected, and whole. During this time together, we will joyfully cultivate an ethos of wholeness, nurturing our innate capacity to live for the good of the whole.
Each morning in Heart Resonance, tuning into the Unified Field and listening to the collective consciousness, we experience an expanded sense of vision and purpose. Aligning with our true nature and inherent wisdom, we step forward as co-mentors and leaders.
With the exciting news of GOOD of the WHOLE’s non-profit status, we are grounding in sacred action, contributing our gifts and co-creating the education, community and media opportunities that are in front of us. We invite you into this generative experience. Join with us as we expand the newly-merged Global Heart Team, catalyze new media and communications, access our shared-resource repository, and lift up your unique gifts and vision!
“Wholeness is the medicine of our times.” ~ Julie Krull
MORE DETAILS…
Who? GOOD of the WHOLE Mentoring Stewards & Friends
What? Private Lakeside Retreat and Intimate Gathering
When? 5:00 pm Thursday September 26th through Sunday evening, September 29th
(Come join us pre OR post retreat from September 25 – 30)
Where? Julie Krull’s Lake Houses, 146 and 147 Lakeview Acres, Johnson Lake, Nebraska 68937
(Nice bunkhouse accommodations for the first confirmed 24 people)
Why? Gather in a coherent field of love, resonance and creativity, as we experience the emergence and realize our collective potential. We are the embodiment of consciousness for the GOOD of the WHOLE. We will open to the impulse of creation expressing through us and offer our greater gifts for the good of the whole.
COST? $222 plus $30/per day food (Limited to 24 – First come first serve)
For More Information Contact:
Julie Krull 308.830.0296 Julie@GoodoftheWhole.com
OR Shelley Darling 415.516.3555 Shelley@GoodoftheWhole.com
TRAVEL INFORMATION…
BEST FLIGHT: Omaha Eppley Airfield: 231 miles, 3 hour drive (Rental car, car pool, shuttle to Kearney, NE & bus available to Lexington, NE – super easy drive!)
Shuttle from Omaha to Kearney: Eppley Express — website for reservations and schedule HERE
FLY to Kearney, NE: 30 minutes drive (Pay a little extra for flight; Rent car or we will pick you up!)
FLY to Grand Island, NE: 1½ hour drive (A little extra for flight; Rent car or we will pick you up!)
FLY AND/OR DRIVE FROM COLORADO: Estimated drive time from the front-range of Colorado is 4-5 hours. You can fly to Denver and rent a car. This option includes a 4 hour drive.
REGISTER NOW…
Make a $100 Donation as a down payment to hold your spot HERE
Please email Shelley@goodofthewhole.com your travel itinerary so she can help organize your commute with cars and shuttles. Thank you.
Standing in Love,
GOOD of the WHOLE Stewards
Transition Thrive Online Training
Thursday, September 26, 2019 – 11:00am – Thursday, November 21, 2019 – 12:30pm
All times Pacific. We are currently offering two registration options through this page: a $120 Standard Ticket to cover the basic costs of producing this course and a $180 Sponsor Ticket to help subsidize scholarships. If you would like to request a need-based scholarship or group discount, please contact don@transitionus.org
Transition Thrive can be thought of as the sequel to Transition Launch Training. While Launch focuses on the first few steps of the Transition process – understanding the global context, forming an initiating group, raising awareness, and cultivating partnerships with like-minded organizations – Thrive builds upon this foundation to provide answers to how to broaden, deepen, and scale up the impacts of local community resilience-building initiatives over time.
Over the course of eight weekly sessions, you will form mutually-supportive relationships with other participants, develop new abilities and knowledge, receive guidance for overcoming the specific challenges you are facing, and create a robust action plan to take your work to the next level.
Prior participation in a Transition Launch Training is recommended, but not required. This course is open to social change activists from all over the world, but is currently only available in English.
Sessions at a Glance
1. Maps for the Transition Journey (October 3): Identify your initiative’s current strengths and weaknesses using the Transition Healthcheck and explore how The Five Stages of Transition can provide an achievable path to thriving.
2. Cultivating the Collective Genius (October 10): In this session, we will look closely at our individual wholeness and unique collaboration styles while exploring ways of cultivating these so that the collective genius in our groups is more likely to emerge.
3. Running Successful, Practical Projects (October 17): This session will share design ideas for projects that bring tangible benefits to your community, engage and energize volunteers, and support working groups to be effective and rewarding.
4. Reaching Beyond the Choir (October 24): Learn how to create a tipping point of support for your initiative and cultivate strategic partnerships by telling your best stories, harvesting metrics, and designing value propositions.
5. Building Momentum and Capacity (October 31): In this session, we will cover running larger campaigns, forming diverse coalitions, taking a multi-faceted approach to fundraising, and establishing a healthy formal organization.
6. System-Changing Strategies (November 7): This session will explore the mindsets, practices, and structures that support community-wide and whole systems strategies, such as creating localized food systems or transforming local economies.
7. In It for Life (November 14): Here, we will discuss some of the unique challenges we encounter as long-term change-makers, and will suggest tools, mindsets, inner postures, and practices that help us stay inspired and prevent burnout.
8. Bringing It All Back Home (November 21): In this final session, we will circle back to the Transition Healthcheck to harvest key insights from this course, address major challenges, and create an action plan for your group to thrive!
How Does It Work?
Thrive Online consists of a series of eight pre-recorded presentations that will be made available for you to watch before engaging in weekly 90-minute live videoconferences exploring each of these topics in greater depth. We will also provide you with access to a private discussion forum that you can use to share resources and continue conversations in between sessions.
Please don’t worry if you don’t consider yourself to be tech-savvy. The platforms we use are designed to be easy to navigate, and we will provide personalized technical assistance throughout the course to ensure that your experience is as enjoyable as humanly possible.
While this online format enables you to participate in an international learning cohort from the comfort of your own home – at a lower cost and with a smaller carbon footprint than traditional face-to-face offerings – if you’d prefer to host a Thrive Training in your local community, please click here to learn more about how to do that.
Facilitation Team
Don Hall has had the good fortune to participate in the Transition Movement in a variety of capacities for more than a decade. Initially serving for two years as the Education and Outreach Coordinator for Transition Colorado, he went on to found and direct Transition Sarasota (Florida) from 2010 to 2016. Don was named Co-Director of Transition US in 2017. He holds a Master’s degree in Environmental Leadership from Naropa University.
Michelle Colussi has worked in community and economic development for over 20 years with a focus on community resilience and organizational capacity-building and planning. She was a co-founder of Transition Victoria (BC) and their flagship programs: Building Resilient Neighbourhoods and Resilient Streets. She has delivered Launch Training since 2009 and chaired the University of Toronto’s Transition Emerging Research Advisory Group.
Rebecca Blanco completed a Master’s and a Doctorate and has been a psychotherapist for 40 years. Her interest in eco-psychology sparked her conviction that personal transformation within an ecological-social context is crucial for a regenerative world. She’s participated in a mentorship with Dr. Andy Fisher and The Work That Reconnects Training. Rebecca is a workshop facilitator at Forest Center.
Sally Ludwig is a co-founding member of Transition Guelph, with particular interests in inner dimensions of personal and community resilience, ecological and climate justice, effective collaboration, and social applications of Permaculture. She is a trainer for Transition and facilitator of the Work that Reconnects, educator, mentor and consultant. Secretly, she throws seed bombs and does guerilla planting of fruit trees and raspberry bushes.
8th semi-annual Equinox event here in the mystical Red Rock Paradise of Sedona, Arizona. The weekend of Sept. 28-9 is in the Fall Equinox window where the veil between interdimensional realms is thin and the PERFECT time to come together in the spirit of unity consciousness! I would LOVE to meet you at this transformational event. Together we can REJOICE in our ONENESS.
Hosts including Karen Palmer and Debbie Garcia will be here LIVE Sharing behind the scenes!!! Don’t miss the history in the making event. We have added the brilliant and beautiful author and host of Higher Journeys, Alexis Brooks, along with the talented and gifted sound healer, Susie Beiler, to our roster of phenomenal speakers and musicians for the TRANSCENDENCE EVENT in Sedona at the Creative Life Center Sat. 9/28-9 including Keynote, Dr. Sarah Larsen, Sonja Grace, Sandra Walter, Kimberly Marooney, Clifford Mahooty, ThunderBeat Devara, Shekina Rose, Kymberley Maajii Griffin, The Divine Ms M, Mathues Imhotep and Sterling Sumaya O’Grady. We have also added pre-conference workshops featuring Kundalini Yoga and an Angel Light Body Activation! There is a UFO tour, Sunrise Meditation in the Red Rocks and Meet & Greet along with a concert by award-winning multi-instrumentalist, Robin Miller. The phenomenal Intuitive Astrologer, Laura Eisenhower, offers a Spiritual Journey in the Red Rocks on Monday 9/30! We would love for you to join us. You can choose any level of participation that inspires you most:
Concert, featuring Queen and Adam Lambert, Pharrel Williams, Alicia Keys and hosted by Hugh Jackman and Deborra Lee-Furness. Global Citizen is a movement of engaged citizens taking action to bring about permanent change in the world.
A $30 donation per guest is highly appreciated.
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New Moon Global Call to Action
Sacred Reciprocity: Learning to Live in Harmony with All of Life A FREE Interactive Global Conversation with Michael & Puma Fredy Quispe Singona Friday, August 30th, 9-10:30am Pacific There is so much that is affecting us, so much heavy energy, worry, stress, and fear that is affecting our physical bodies and sending us to the hospitals. We need to take care of our heart and mind in order to completely heal our physical bodies.
Puma Fredy Quispe Singona I am very excited to announce that our dear friend Fredy “Puma” Quispe will be joining us for this month’s new moon call. Puma, who lives in Cusco Peru, was trained by his grandfather from the age of 6. He has been walking the path of a traditional Andean Medicine Man and is recognized as a holder of ancient Andean wisdom.
Puma and Michael will be exploring the concept and application of Ayni, the sacred art of reciprocity, to our lives and human evolution. August is the month for celebrating Mother Earth in Peru, although it seems that this is true of every month with the indigenous people. Please join us as we explore how to meet the challenges of separation, alienation and divisiveness that are growing in our world today. Our separation from the natural world is not only killing us, we are taking the bulk of all the earth’s species with us in our quest for more of what we really don’t need. When we learn to think in terms of systems we recognize that everything is connected and plays a vital role in the balance of the energetic forces of the universe…
Michael Stone
Fredy “Puma” Quispe is a prominent citizen within his local community and a member of the Elders Council in Chinchero, Peru as well as the co-founder of Cusi Huayna, a youth group focused on re-strengthening the community through the remembrance of traditional dance, story, and weaving. He is accredited to sharing the secrets of the Andes with hundreds of tourists each year as a guide on the Inca Trail while continuing to study with Quechua elders throughout the Sacred Valley.
Today Puma plays an active role in world affairs by sitting on several international and indigenous councils including the World Wisdom Council, whose honorary chair is Mikhail Gorbachyev. He was also featured in 4Real which began as a documentary television series that features young leaders who, under extreme circumstances, are affecting real change on some of the most pressing issues of our time, and has now expanded to include an online global community. Through this work, he is ensuring the contribution of indigenous wisdom toward strengthening the vision of global harmony and healing.
Michael Stone is a multi-faceted leader in the realm of shamanism and spiritual development. He is the on the faculty of the Shift Network and is the host and producer of the Shamanism Global Summit. For the past 15 years he has hosted KVMR’s weekly Award winning show Conversations, which highlights leading edge thinkers, authors and activists in environmental restoration, social justice and spiritual fulfillment. As co-founder of Quantum Consulting he works with organizations to combine quantum theory with mystical shamanism to promote healing, wellness and belief change with his clients. Michael leads classes, tele-seminars and workshops on embodied shamanism, meditation and unity spirituality.
www.WellofLight.com www.patreon.com/welloflight The new moon is a time of new beginnings, an access to unlimited potentiality!
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Our annual People’s Ecochallenge is back to invite you to do more environmental + social good.From October 2 – October 23,create more environmental + social good alongside your peersand thousands of global changemakers.Connect the dots between your values and the impact of your actions.The People’s Ecochallenge harmonizes individual and collective action,camaraderie, and friendly competitionto create significant collective impact.Over 100 actions within nineChallenge categories await you. Register today! |
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Connect the dots between your values + the impact of your actions during The People’s Ecochallenge!
Ecochallenge.org’s social change platform + curriculum connect a global community of advocates and changemakers, each doing what we can, in ways that are most relevant to us, to make this great spinning dot we call home a healthier, more equitable, more sustainable place. Welcome to The People’s Ecochallenge!
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The time is now more than ever to be the change and stand up for peace and nonviolence. Our communities deserve to live their daily lives peacefully and together we can strive to make that happen. As partners of #Gandi150 and believers in the power of peace, we invite you to be part of the movement on October 2. More information here.
How to get involved on October 2:
1. Nonviolence Champion – Nominate a faculty member from your educational institution, as the champion for the event.
2. Nonviolence in Action – On October 2, host a screening of the documentary film, “From India with Love”, followed by an interactive discussion to promote peace.
3. Nonviolence in Classrooms – Lead an experiential learning module on nonviolence in the classroom and promote peace.
Join us on October 2 and share your activity with us at The Peace Alliance. Find our Facebook page here and/or tag us on Twitter at @PeaceAlliance. Use #Gandhi150 and #RethinkPeace to join the worldwide social media conversation on peace!
Thank you!
In peace and partnership!
Jelena Popovic, Teaching Peace in Schools Council Lead
and The Peace Alliance Board of Directors and Leadership Council
About The Peace Alliance
Mission:
The Peace Alliance empowers civic action toward a culture of peace.
Who We Are:
We are an alliance of organizers and advocates taking the work of peacebuilding from the margins of society into the center of national discourse and policy priorities.
We champion a comprehensive, collaborative approach to peace and peacebuilding.
$475 – $595 sliding scale
Cost includes all meals and shared lodging at our beautiful private retreat center. All proceeds benefit the work of ONE. Deposit of $150 holds your place (nonrefundable). The remaining balance of the sliding scale you choose is due by August 25th.
You’re invited to enjoy a very special weekend of renewal and transformation on powerful Mount Shasta in Northern California. Long considered one of the seven sacred mountains of the world, Mount Shasta holds a vibrant transformative energy that seekers the world over travel to experience. Graceful and deeply profound, Mount Shasta is an immense energy center filled with opportunities to connect deeply with the Heart of the Living Earth. How long has it been since you listened?
Your guided journey begins at 4pm on Thursday October 3rd with a welcoming circle and delicious dinner, and ends on Sunday October 6th at 12pm with our closing circle. Throughout your experience you will enjoy opportunities to connect and communicate with Pachamama and the more than human beings that she nourishes. You will:
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·Travel to the Mountain for exploration and prayers
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Learn simple yet profound techniques to help you more easily hear the language of non verbal beings, including Heart Coherence, extra sensory perception, Grazing, and Earthing
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Experience communication with the Water People, Rock People, Animal People, Plant People, Tree People and the Mountain Herself
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Be transformed through earth based ceremony
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Feast in joyful communion in our Sacred Kitchen
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Make an alchemical sacred anointing oil that you’ll take home
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Enjoy lively discussions, laughter and heart-centered community connection
This will be a time of deeply connecting to oneself, the mountain, nature and the cosmic forces supporting our spiritual evolution. We live in a sacred world that is not just more complex than we think – it’s more complex than we can think. We’ll move out of the “thinking ball” on top of our bodies and settle deep into our hearts to learn a new language. We go to the mountain to listen. We go for new direction. We go to play. You’ll return home with a renewed sense of connection, gratitude, and deep appreciation for the unique and interconnected place you hold in life’s tapestry.
Lodging
Lodging opportunities at our retreat center include shared bedrooms in the main house, shared space in the smaller yurt (yurt spaces include a bed and curtains to separate your space from the rest of the yurt if desired), and “glamping” tent sites with two beds per tent. You might initially feel awkward about sharing sleeping rooms, but part of the weekend’s experience is to remember the gifts of community that come with sharing space in a world that supports increasing isolation. If you have a preference for a particular space, please indicate your preference when you register and we’ll do our very best to accommodate you. See slide show below for photos.
Things to Bring
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An item from your kitchen that has personal significance to you. These will be placed on our Sacred Kitchen alter, and you’ll take them home again at the end of the journey.
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A homemade gift for our giveaway. This could be a piece of art, a jar of jam, a poem – anything you’ve personally made with your hands and your heart.
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Folding camp chair and blanket for your outdoor comfort. The evenings can be chilly on the mountain in early October.
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Sunscreen
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Water Bottles. I recommend bringing extras to fill with fresh living spring water from the Sacramento River Headwaters so you can take some of this amazing water home with you.
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Paper or journal, with an extra pen.
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Drums, rattles, guitars, and other musical instruments – if you wish
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A walking stick (optional)
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A day pack
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Snacks or special foods you might need.
Meet Your Facilitators
Julie Caldwell, MA
Over two decades ago Julie opened the doors of Humboldt Herbals ~ a full service herbal apothecary located in the heart of the Redwoods on the pristine northern California coast. She and her staff of experienced herbalists now serve hundreds of community members each month who rely on Humboldt Herbals as a primary source of health care.
Originally from Alabama, Julie grew up with a plant talking granny, a pharmacist father, an artist mother, and loads of fiddle-playing, guitar picking relatives. Her first serious relationship with a plant began over 45 years ago at age 5, when she became great friends with a wild black cherry tree her granny called Crazy Doug. Julie’s “formal” education includes a BS in research psychology and biology, a MA in contemporary American poetry, and many, many herb classes including extensive studies with Pam Montgomery. The works of Pam, Stephen Harrod Buhner and Rosemary Gladstar have greatly influenced her herbal approach. She serves on the Visioning Council for the Organization of Nature Evolutionaries, and continues to enjoy a long history of spiritual exploration with wise ones from various traditions around the world.
Julie offers personal sessions, classes and herb walks in the Humboldt County area, and facilitates ongoing retreats in sacred Mount Shasta. To learn more about Julie’s classes, services, and herb shop, you can sign up for the Humboldt Herbals monthly newsletter at www.humboldtherbals.com.
Elyshia Holliday
In the spring of 2000 Elyshia left her thriving naturopathic practice in the Central Valley of California and moved to the mountains of New Mexico, where she co-founded a non-profit organization dedicated to healing the relationship between human beings and Mother Earth. She studied with many teachers and elders in the course of supporting this mission, who were called upon to guide and share their innate perspective of living as part of a whole earth system. Their wisdom and knowledge has had a profound influence on the way Elyshia views life, healing, and our basic guardianship of earth.
Growing up in the Cascade Mountains of Oregon created a unique opportunity to be close to the mountains, waters, trees and the wild in her everyday life. The quietness of the land allowed Elyshia to learn to listen to nature, to the wind blowing through the tall pines and currents of the river flowing across skin. It was good preparation!
Although it seems the most important things she learned came from elders, the cosmos and the Earth herself, Elyshia’s formal education includes a BS in Biology with concentrations in molecular biology and biochemistry as well as Master Herbalist, Master Iridologist and Naturopathy certificates from the School of Natural Medicine in Boulder, Colorado where she studied with Farida Sharan.
Julie and Elyshia at the Global Earth Repair Conference
Much of the work Elyshia has done and continues to do is centered around community group facilitation, sacred nourishment, and helping people expand their relationship with Mother Earth. Since 2016 she has initiated and been engaged with a multi year regeneration project focused on healing the human-land-water relationship, especially in relation to erosion, desertification and the balance of the masculine and feminine. Elyshia continues to contribute in New Mexico and is the Executive Director of O.N.E..
Deposit and Registration
Deposit of $150 holds your place (nonrefundable). We will email registration form after we receive your deposit. The remaining balance of the sliding scale you choose is due by August 25th. Please email info@natureevolutionaries with any questions.
Photos of Retreat Center and the Mount Shasta Area
One year ago, thousands of women, femmes, survivors, and allies descended on DC to protest now-Justice Brett Kavanaugh and his inadequate and intentionally incomplete confirmation process. On the anniversary of Kavanaugh’s illegitimate confirmation, Congress must reckon with us once more.Join Women’s March, Demand Justice, Center for Popular Democracy and partners on October 6th in DC for a mobilization on the anniversary of Kavanaugh’s sham confirmation to make sure Congress knows that we are still watching and demand they investigate Kavanaugh. A thorough vetting of him and his record is more important now than ever.
We must know whether Kavanaugh lied to the Senate, whether he sexually assaulted the women who credibly accused him of doing so, and whether he is ultimately fit to be a justice on the Supreme Court.
Brett Kavanaugh will roll back rights that women have worked for generations to secure. We won’t wait around for that to happen, we’re fighting back now.
See you in DC.
Contact: actions@womensmarch.com
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!”
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Youth Champions for Peace:
Securing our Common Future with the United Nations onboard the Peace Boat
Trial to Table is a chance to celebrate and share the food we’ve grown, and the diversity it offers. If you like food, get excited.
Date And Time
Sat, October 12, 2019
5:00 PM – 9:00 PM EDT
Franny’s Farm
22 Frannys Farm Road
Leicester, NC 28748
Trial to Table: A Utopian Seed Project Fundraising Feast
INDIGENOUS PEOPLE’S DAY |
Governor’s Mansion, One Mansion Drive, Santa Fe, NM |
Located in the ancestral Tewa homelands of Northern New Mexico, Tewa Women United is a multicultural and multiracial organization founded and led by Native women. The name “Tewa Women United” comes from the Tewa words wi don gi mu which can be translated as “we are one” in mind, heart, and in the spirit of love for all.
Learn more about our vision, mission, and history here.
Please Visit the Contact Us page for a list of program/staff emails addresses.
Come Celebrate Our 30th Anniversary With Us!
Please join us for this special evening
to celebrate Tewa Women United’s Past, Present, and Future
This event, on Indigenous People’s Day, celebrates 30 years of being in beloved community and showcases how Tewa Women United has created spaces for Indigenous women to uncover their power, strength, and skills.
Wo’watsi will feature…
- Pueblo Dances
- Blessings from the TWU Sayain/Grandmothers’ Circle
- Words from executive director Dr. Corrine Sanchez
- Indigenous-inspired appetizers from Chef Ray Naranjo
- Offerings of Poetry & Art
- And more….
All ticket proceeds will benefit the work of Tewa Women United.
This will be an evening to remember…we look forward to sharing it with you!
• NOTE: Tickets are limited and available until October 7 or until sold out
• To receive email updates about this event, sign up here
Contact Us
Tewa Women United
Phone: (505) 747-3259 | Fax: (505) 747-4067
Mailing Address:
Tewa Women United
PO B0x 397
Santa Cruz, NM 87567
Office: 912 Fairview Lane, Española, NM 87532
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About Us
About Tewa Women United
Located in the ancestral Tewa homelands of Northern New Mexico, Tewa Women United is a multicultural and multiracial organization founded and led by Native women.
The name “Tewa Women United” comes from the Tewa words wi don gi mu which can be translated as “we are one” in mind, heart and in the spirit of love for all.
Our Beginnings
Tewa Women United (TWU) started in 1989 as a support group for women from the Pueblos of the northern Rio Grande concerned with the traumatic effects of colonization, religious inquisition, and militarization leading to issues such as alcoholism, suicide, domestic/sexual violence and environmental violence. In the safe space we created, we transformed and empowered one another through critical analysis and by embracing and reaffirming our cultural identity.
In 2001 we transitioned from an informal, all volunteer group to a 501(c)3 non-profit organization.
Tewa Women United was incorporated for educational, social and benevolent purposes, specifically for the ending of all forms of violence against Native Women and girls, Mother Earth and to promote peace in New Mexico.
Our Vision
TWU believes in strengthening and re-strengthening beloved families and communities to end violence against women, girls, and Mother Earth.
Our Mission
The mission of TWU is to provide courageous spaces for Indigenous women to uncover the power, strength, and skills they possess to become positive forces for transformative change in their families and communities.
Our Values
A’Gin – respect for self and others
Wina ta yay – Together we live these values
Seegi ma vay i – Loving, caring for each other
Kwee-wa seng-wa vi tuu – female/ male energy – ancestral knowingness
Nung Ochuu Quiyo – Our Mother, Mother Earth, multi-versity
Bin mah pah di – Letting go
Wowatsi – Our breath, our prayer, commitment to live life with purpose and good intentions
JOIN US IN CREATING ‘MEMORIES OF THE FUTURE;’ AND ASKING #WHATIF
WE KNOW THE TIME OF BUSINESS IS OVER, THAT WE MUST TRANSFORM THE
PRESENT IN ORDER TO CREATE A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE
If we are to make the changes the climate emergency demands of us, the next 10-15 years will be a time of social, cultural, economic and political transformation almost without precedent. It will be a time when our imagination needs to be invited, valued and empowered. A time that future generations will sing great songs, and tell great tales about. A challenging yet amazing time to be alive!
What will help us build something so necessary and so remarkable will be our ability to tell rich and compelling stories of how the future could look, feel, taste, and sound. Stories that create a deep longing for a future very different from the present.
A future of clean air, children playing in the street, cities with food growing everywhere, more birdsong and wildlife, thriving local economies, homes and businesses powered by renewable energy, imaginative and playful architecture, and rewilded landscapes.
An age of connection, collaboration and community, with a sense of collective purpose. A more resilient, more diverse, more equal, more caring, fair world with zero emissions.
It will be a time of creativity, dreaming, and sharing. A space to explore our longings for what we want the future to be. Connecting us to each other and to a future worth fighting for.
WE INVITE YOU TO JOIN US DURING 17-24 OCTOBER
Gather your community group, faith group, street, school, or organisation and spend time together generating ‘memories of the future’.
What this will look like is up to you, and you can find out more and download a resource guide here – https://transitionnetwork.org/popuptomorrow/
Join us to march against violence in America!
We will meet in front of Cobo Hall (1 Washington Blvd. Detroit, MI 48226) at 11 AM on Saturday, October 19, 2019, and we will walk together towards the Spirit of Detroit Plaza to rally alongside politicians and leaders who want to make a change.
This march will be a symbol to reflect on the nonviolence movement conducted by Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. to protest for peace and freedom. Violence has been the curse of America, and the MLK-Gandhi March for Nonviolence intends to bring the lessons taught to us by Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. into the 21st century.
For more information, please contact Dr. Anil Kumar at (248)266-2734 or email us at chips4mi@gmail.com |
- Hayes Mansion, San Jose California
- 200 Edenvale Ave
- San Jose, CA
- 95136
| At Science and Nonduality (SAND), preeminent scientists, philosophers, mystics and artists gather to explore and advance the new paradigm emerging in spirituality that is both grounded in cutting-edge science and consistent with the ancient wisdom of nonduality—the deep understanding of the interconnectedness of life.
To open the conference, Cynthia is excited to offer a teaching on Sacred Activism for the Great Turning; the Earth Treasure Vase Global Healing Meditation. Like acupuncture needles in the living body of the Earth, little holy vessels known as Earth Treasure Vases have been offered to Gaia to form a healing mandala of nodes and meridians imagined as a web of light to serve us as we awaken together into our own unique role in the great work of our time—to heal the web of life, restore balance and harmony, envision our world anew, and embody that vision with every fiber of our life force for the benefit of all. Charles Eisenstein’s excellent essay, Every Act a Ceremony, refers to the ETV practice. Charles will also be a speaker at SAND. October 23–27, 2019
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For scientists, bonds and connections are essential to the working of the universe; for mystics, love is the ultimate principle. From the depths of physics to the delights of being human, relationships make life possible.
The mechanistic view of reality which sees the world as separate objects, separate individuals, communities and nations, has led to fragmentation in every aspect of life. We are now realizing that, from quarks to people, from gut bacteria to galaxies, it’s all about interconnectedness, cooperation, and symbiosis.
This year, SAND will be bringing together some of the brightest minds in science, along with spiritual teachers from various traditions and artists, in a quest to expand and deepen our understanding and experience of our relational nature through the two lenses of science and spirituality. We will explore and integrate our human knowledge and experience around the theme of relationships. We will inquire into the many scales of relationship we are part of, from microbes and bacteria to mushrooms and trees, to people and families, to galaxies and black holes.
At the end of the day, no matter how complex the field of study becomes, the innate intelligence and reflective nature of the universe shines through. Love is what breathes life into the equations; Love is the field in which the quarks and human beings relate.
We will meet you there.
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As of Aug 8, Hayes Mansion is sold out for the event dates.
See a list of alternative accommodations
Download the free SAND app
We’re excited to announce that Science & Nonduality Conference 2019 has a free, official app which you can Download and be able to:
– View the event agenda and plan your schedule
– Find someone to share a ride or a room
– Plan some social activities such as a morning run, city tour, or meet-ups with your fellow attendees.
– Receive updates such as last minute room change from the organizers
– Get presentation documents and slides
– Share photos and essential takeaway
Already used the Whova app in the past? Double-check that it is installed on your phone, and log in using your existing account email and password.
We look forward to seeing you soon at Science & Nonduality Conference 2019 !
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THE WISDOM OF THE ELDERS
Time of the Sixth Sun is an inspirational and uplifting documentary film about the shift in global consciousness and the emerging movement to find a new way to walk more lightly on this Earth. Our ancestors understood our symbiotic relationship to nature and the elements, and foresaw the collapse of an unsustainable world. Filmed predominantly in North America, Mexico, Peru, S.Africa, India, Egypt, Israel and Australia, this film is a synergy of ancient wisdom from the indigenous Elders and insights from pioneers of new energy consciousness, who collaboratively hold the vision of a new earth experience.
The film is introduced by Greta Scacchi and narrated by ‘Tobias’, an angelic being who has lived many lifetimes on Earth, channeled by Geoffrey Hoppe. Our crew flew to Colorado and whilst Geoffrey was in a trance state, we asked Tobias if he would tell our story. He called it ‘the biggest evolution of consciousness humanity has ever experienced’.
“You are witnessing the dissolving of old systems and the birth of new energy consciousness. It is time to re-member who you are and why you are here, at this time of the greatest change ever.” (Tobias)
The power of this film is carried in the transmission of both the narrator and the speakers, and is interwoven with ceremony and the visual journey of the film’s ‘everyman’, a modern day musical troubadour.
A montage of sound and visuals create a sonic tapestry, inviting the viewer into an intimate and authentic experience of a world in transition. A sensory feast that promises to be as impactful on the ear as it is on the eye, whilst an original soundtrack seamlessly weaves sacred songs, prayers and chants with the resonant strings of Estas Tonne, virtuoso guitarist and troubadour on his journey. A meditation for the soul.
11:11 STAR KNOWLEDGE CONFERENCE
CEREMONY OF REMEMBRANCE
Estes Park, Colorado
NOVEMBER 8-9-10-11, 2019
FEATURING:
CHIEF GOLDEN LIGHT EAGLE
JENNIFER BLACK ELK
GRANDMA CHANDRA
LAURA EISENHOWER
ELIZABETH APRIL
BLISS PREMA
JAMES GILLILAND
JEN BERRYHILL
BRIAN BERRYHILL
MICHAEL LEE HILL
CHARLES BOLTA
BOBBIE JO KUHL
AMANDA KIMIMILA
SHIRLEY BOLSTOK
MEGAN RILEY
MARITZA VALDIOSERA
SYLINA “TWO BEARS”
AND MORE!
MORE TO BE ANNOUNCED
11:11 STAR KNOWLEDGE CONFERENCE EVENT DETAILS
JOIN US IN THE GLORIOUS MOUNTAIN SETTING OF ESTES PARK, COLORADO NEAR ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK FOR A ONCE IN A LIFETIME EXPERIENCE. THIS IS A CONFERENCE LIKE NO OTHER. NOT ONLY DO WE BRING YOU THE TEACHINGS OF THE STAR WAYS, BUT WE ENLIGHTEN OUR GUESTS WITH KNOWLEDGE AND ANCIENT WISDOM OF THE GALACTIC STAR NATIONS THROUGH THE WISDOM KEEPERS, ALTERNATIVE HEALERS, AUTHORS, CHANNELERS, LIGHT LANGUAGE SPEAKERS, AND INSIDERS TO THE TRUTH OF WHAT IS HAPPENING ON A GALACTIC LEVEL…
ALL WITH A TOUCH OF CEREMONY.
Chief Golden Light Eagle –
Your Host and Founder of Star Knowledge Conferences
Teacher of The Star Ways, Chief Golden Light Eagle is one of the “original code carriers” of Turtle Island (North America). Nakota Sundance Chief Golden Light Eagle, is a member of the Nakota Ihunktowan Band of South Dakota, a spiritual advisor, and He is one of seven Sundance Chiefs for the Yankton Sioux Sungdeska Sapa Tiospaye. Through years of prayer and ceremony, with a group of spiritual teachers, he has brought forth interpretations of the Star Laws.
He co-authored four books titled, “MAKA WICAHPI WICOHAN”, “ANPAO WICAHPI WICOHAN”, IKTOMI WICAHPI WICOHAN”, and “CAN WAKAN WICOHAN”. The MAKA WICAHPI WICOHAN manual was inducted into the Smithsonian Institution during a formal ceremony on September 26, 1999 and the manual was also donated to the A.R.E. Library on September 22, 2002.
Chief Golden Light Eagle will be sharing about the 11:11, 12:12, and 13:13 teachings featured in the books that he authored through the guidance of spirit and ceremony.
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 8, 2019
1:00 pm – Registration and Vendor Setup
2:00 pm — Opening Ceremonies/Conference Begins/Chief Golden Light Eagle/Jennifer Black Elk
2:30 — Jennifer Black Elk
3:30 — Sylina “Two Bears”
4:30 — Michael Lee Hill
5:30 — Elizabeth April
6:30 — 8:00 pm – Break for Dinner
8:00 pm – Laura Eisenhower
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 9, 2019
9:00 a.m. — Opening and Presentation with Amanda Kimimila
10:00 — Jen Berryhill – Blue Owl Woman
11:00 — Chief Golden Light Eagle Presentation
12:00 – 2:00 – Lunch Break
2:00 — Bliss Prema
3:30 — Grandma Chandra Via Skype
4:15 — Crystal Bowl Sound Healing with Caressa
5:00 — James Gilliland
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Break for Dinner
8:00 – 10:00 Live Entertainment/Music/Dance
CHIEF GOLDEN LIGHT EAGLE AND THE STARDUST JAM BAND
SUNDAY NOVEMBER 10, 2019
9:00 a.m. — Opening and Presentation with Brian Berryhill
10:00 – Megan Riley
11:00 – Bobbie Jo Kuhl
12:00 – 1:30 – Lunch Break
1:30 — Elliott Haines III
2:00 – Shirley Bolstok
3:00 – Light Language Panel (Garrett Duncan, Shakara Tosha, Yemanya Carey and friends)
4:00 – Charles Bolta
5:00 Special Panel to be announced!
6:00 – Closing Ceremonies
MONDAY NOVEMBER 11, 2019
11:11 CEREMONY
11:11 AM – Outdoors in Estes Park
(Free to All who want to participate)
Location to be announced
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STAR KNOWLEDGE HAS TEAMED UP WITH THE EAGLE HEART FOUNDATION FOR THIS YEAR’S NON-PROFIT BENEFACTOR
50% OF THE PROCEEDS FROM THE SILENT AUCTION AND RAFFLE WILL GO TO THE EAGLE HEART FOUNDAtion
Mission
The Eagle Heart Foundation promotes connection across all cultures through education and charitable contributions.
Vision
The integration of past wisdom with present knowledge to create a future of both heart and mind.
TO DONATE ITEMS FOR THE SILENT AUCTION AND/OR RAFFLE, PLEASE CONTACT JOY GRAY
BOOK YOUR LODGING BY CALLING ROCKY MOUNTAIN HOTEL DIRECTLY
(970) 586-5363
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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.
Peace, People and Ecology with Rina Kedem
Teleseminar is 12 PST/3EST on Sunday, December 15th.
Join O.N.E. and Rina Kedem, environmental peace-builder, as we dialogue about peace, ecology, and communities. Rina believes in peace between people and the land, and is part of an international network of projects and communities that are involved in this work.
Rina Kedem has developed and directed cooperative projects with Palestinians, Israelis, and Jordanians for the past 16 years. Her work is guided by a holistic perspective that includes social-economic and environmental well-being of communities, as well as hands-on, long term peace-building opportunities that impact policy. She helped found a multi-cultural center for peace and ecology at the Almog- Jericho junction, an area accessible to Israelis and Palestinians, and was part of a volunteer team that has built a network of ecological villages in Israel (GEN- Israel).
Rina is currently working on her Ph.D. in Community Development and Environmental Conservation Across Borders in the Department of Geography at Hebrew University and resides with her family in the Israeli desert. She is part of the University of San Diego’s 2019 Women PeaceMakers program. and lives with her family in the desert of Israel.
How to Call into the Teleseminar
The call in number for all seminars is 1-805-309-2350 and access code: 5771624#. You can also access the the teleseminar through your computer here using the same access code (5771624). Click here to find the correct teleseminar time for your local time zone.
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
Will you join us?
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Planet Heart Presents…
We, The World
&
Musicians For Musicians
CORDIALLY INVITE YOU TO OUR END-OF-THE-YEAR
HOLIDAY PARTY!!!
SATURDAY DECEMBER 21, 2019
In the Heart of Times Square, Midtown Manhattan between 6th-7th Avenues!
Sliding Scale of Donations (You Choose!)
$10, $15, $20, $50 or $100 in advance
$15, $20, $25, $50 or $100 at the door
Space is Limited!
Buy Advance Tickets here:
https://WE.net/holidayparty2019 Facebook Event Page:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1176155195907810
Please share with your network
(and let us know if you are going!)Enjoy wonderful food, drink, singing, dancing, fabulous musicians,
performers, activists, artivists, people working for a better world, and
f u n f o l k s l i k e y o u !
Please bring food or drink to share and instruments to play!
(NOTE: If you bring food to share for at least 4-6 people, we may discount your ticket cost.
Please Reply to this message with what you want to bring and then we will confirm.)
And we’ll livestream all the amazing performances too!
https://www.facebook.com/TheWeCampaign
Please subscribe to this page so you can be notified when broadcasts are starting
Featuring some of the finest musicians and singers in New York City including:
Roger Blanc – Guitar
Ken Hatfield – Guitar
Meredith Manna – Vocals
Joel Bluestein – Guitar
Rick Ulfik – Piano
Joe Berger – Guitar
Baba Don Eaton – Percussion
Lyndol Descant – Vocals and Piano
Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi – Sax
Dawoud Kringle – Dilruba
If you can’t make the party, will you support the work of We, The World and Musicians For Musicians with a tax deductible contribution? Here’s how:
Make a secure Online Donation for We, The World and the WE Campaign here: https://WE.net/give
Your support will help WE to continue and expand our global networks of collaboration and action for a peaceful, just and sustainabile world. Send checks payable to We, The World Here:
We, The World
P.O. Box 750651
Forest Hills, NY 11375
Make a secure Online Donation for Musicians For Musicians here: http://www.MusiciansForMusicians.org/your-support
Your support will help MFM to advocate for the benefit of all musicians, financially and other ways.
Thank you and see you Dec. 21st!
Founder of We, The World and the WE Campaign at WE.net
Subscribe to our WE Campaign Global Action Newsletter: WE.net/subscribe
Now is the Time For WE Video (Narrated by Desmond Tutu and Jane Goodall for We, The World): WE.net/we-video
11 Days of Global Unity – 11 Ways to Transform Your World
The 11 Days of Global Unity TeleSummit Features Hazel Henderson, Jonathan Granoff, Jamie Margolin, Chief Phil Lane Jr., Rev. Sylvia Sumter and many other Visionary Leaders and Activists
An Urgent Message from Your Children at WeYourChildren.org
GlobalUnityCalendar.org – See and post social change and cultural events for a global audience!
See our YouTube Channel: YouTube.com/WeTheWorldOrg
Check out the We, The World Song: https://wetheworldmusic.bandcamp.com
Volunteer Sign-up: http://WE.net/takeaction/volunteer
Organization Sign-up: http://WE.net/11days/participate
Donation Page: WE.net/donate
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7 DAYS OF REST and RADIANT DIVERSITY
HOME | ECO-GOVERNANCE | CITIZENS FOR A HEALTHY EARTH | CLIMATE | SOLUTIONS | 7 DAYS OF REST
For 7 Days of Rest & Radiant Diversity January 1 – 7, 2020 individuals and groups across the world will create and participate in events dedicated to cultivating Harmony in Diversity – a core organizing principle of Codes for a Healthy Earth. Together we will co-create an experiential journey to cultivate peace and empathy with each other and with all of Life. The event offers a creative space for partners and supporters of the Codes to share their unique offerings and wisdom for nourishing a global culture that honors and celebrates the diversity of Creation.
Welcome to 7 Days of Rest
7 Days of Rest is an annual global event that takes place the first week of every year. The aim of the event is to begin the new year by co-creating a global unified field of intention and experience dedicated to the healing and replenishment of the planet and all its inhabitants.
The event provides an open, co-creative space for individuals and groups around the world to freely share and self-organize online and physical events such as retreats, webinars, meditations, ceremonies, sacred activism, artistic expression and more.
For 2020, 7 Days of Rest & Radiant Diversity, will be dedicated to exploring and remembering the essential nature of Life-enhancing diversity. Together we will cultivate our capacity to engage with ourselves, each other, and the world around us with greater empathy and wisdom, and learn about the vitalizing nature of our similarities, differences, and complementarities.
7 days of rest & radiant diversity january 1 – 7, 2020
An Invitation
During the first 7 Days of 2020
individuals and groups around the world
unite to co-create a global field of intention
dedicated to cultivating harmony in diversity.
We rest from our habitual patterns of how see
and relate to the world around us and within us.
Inspired by the foundations of Life,
we reconnect with the Language of Vibration-
the primal Language of Life.
Awakening our senses in new ways,
we remember a deeper capacity for communion
with Mother Earth and all Her Children
and recognize more and more of ourselves in the “other”
and the “other” in ourselves.
Each day we discover and befriend
diverse human and non-human perspectives,
nourishing our gratitude and empathy for all of Creation.
Together we honor and celebrate the multi-faceted,
mutually-enriching nature of existence.
and shine our unique colors
in harmony with each other and all of Life.
Introducing
Codes for a Healthy Earth
For the first time, the upcoming 7 Days of Rest will be directly connected with another global initiative called Codes for a Healthy Earth. Codes for a Healthy Earth offers a foundational whole-system framework to support citizens in working together across national, cultural and ideological boundaries for radical system transformation and rapid social and ecological regeneration. One of the core organizing principles for the “Codes” is cultivating harmony in diversity.
Previous Years of
7 days of rest
We will soon be updating this website for the 2020 event. To learn more about the inspiring events, wisdom offerings and learnings from previous years please follow the links below:
During the first 7 Days of Rest, we co-created a field of re-calibrating with the essential vibration of Rest from which the old can be shed, disease can begin to heal, and new healthy Life and Consciousness can be birthed.
During the second 7 Days of Rest & Reflection, we reconnected with the Foundations of Life in new ways so that we could learn to honor and protect these foundations within us and beyond us as an essential part of our collective healing.
(Re-)Discovering
7 days of rest & reflection, january 1 – 7, 2019
THANK YOU!
Thank you for contributing to making the 7 Days of Rest & Reflection all that it was.
We are moved and grateful that so many people across the world joined to co-create the event.
This second annual event brought together individuals and groups from over 80 countries and was experienced by many as a deeply healing and loving space of abundant diversity, generosity and creativity. Together we catalyzed a renewed connection with the foundations of Life, and co-created an purposeful sense of community with like-hearted people across the globe.
The website is still active, and you are invited to discover a rich diversity of offerings that were shared during the event on the daily Calendar Pages or in the Gallery.
For ongoing sharing, connecting and inspiration please join the social media channels Facebook Page, Community Sharing Space. and Instagram
With blessings and deep gratitude,
Shelley Ostroff, Yan Golding and Lidewij Marinissen
The 7 Days of Rest and Reflection is dedicated to cultivating Sacred Relationship with all of Life. Given this intention, we are delighted to dedicate this event to the White Lions and Lionesses of Tsau, and the work of Linda Tucker and Jason A. Turner, founders of the Global White Lion Protection Trust.
As we move into the 7 Days, we invite you to pass through the White Lion and Lioness Gateway of Sacred Relationship that has inspired this event and our ongoing work as Together in Creation.
We also encourage participants to join in the Gateway Meditations offered by Cynthia Jurs and David Nicol on the first and last day of the event, connecting with a global mandala grid of vases laid by the Earth Treasure Vase Healing Project over the last 30 years.
And most of all we invite you to enrich yourselves with the abundance of generous resources offered by the global community to create your own meaningful and replenishing journey through the 7 Days.
HOW TO PARTICIPATE
Given the co-creative, emergent nature of this event, this website will continue to evolve over the week with new events and updates.
Each individual and group is invited to honour these 7 days in ways that are most meaningful to them. We recommend that you prepare for the event by sensing into and clarifying your intention for this sacred time and doing what is possible to create the optimal conditions for you to manifest this intention.
While the journey through the 7 days is a very personal one, we will offer suggestions for each day that provide an opportunity to weave meaning and deepen your experience along different themes and through different gateways.
Calendar Pages are dedicated to each day – representing one of the Foundations of Life. On these pages you will find inspiration, resources, and local and online events specific for those days. New events and information will be added on a daily basis so please check the website regularly to enjoy the full range of offerings.
Gateway Pages are pages dedicated to different themes. These gateways are specifically chosen to enrich the field of reflective experience.
A Global Map shows the participants, communities and events that registered on this website.
Community Sharing Space: A community sharing space is available for participants to share, meet, inspire and be inspired. Please note that Facebook does not share widely from groups so you may not see the posts unless you visit the group.
Facebook Page: We will use our Facebook page to share inspiration for the day, and in some cases provide updates and useful information.
Facebook Event Page: will showcase local and online events offered by the global community. On this page you can find details and directly subscribe to the events.
OFFERINGS
We are deeply moved by the range of offerings already gifted to the collective space – from Sacred Ritual Holders holding ceremony on all continents, and the subtle activism offering of the Gateway Meditations with Cynthia Jurs and David Nicol, to the frontline activism of the nonviolent civil disobedience movement of the Extinction Rebellion.
Current offerings include:art, music, reflective groups, beach clean ups, nature walks, mind-body and contemplative practices, music, videos, ceremony, webinars, meditations and more.
Diverse religious and spiritual groups are participating, each bringing their unique tradition and gifts in service of all Creation.
Our own daily offerings of guided meditations and practices invite participants to experience a deeper sense of connectedness and communion with the foundations of Life, through intuitive and imaginative attunement to the different elements: Earth, Water, Fire, Air, Climate, Biodiversity and the Web of Life,
Through an empathic leap of the imagination we sense into how these foundations exist within us and beyond us, their unique nature and qualities, and their interdependence and relationship with the other elements.
We explore reflective questions such as:
What do they reveal to us when we listen in, with all our sense and offer them our focused attention?
What can we learn from different forms of reflective engagement about how we can best protect and replenish these elements, nourish them and be nourished by them?
CREATE YOUR UNIQUE EXPERIENCE
Please consider this website as your evolving and dynamic guidebook, event calendar, and resource library for creating your own unique experience for the 7 Days.
This global event is rooted in the spirit of generosity and provides all participants and co-creators access to a wealth of offerings from around the world. This experiential field of diverse offerings contributes to personal growth, as well as our evolution as conscious protectors of Life on Earth.
Not all offerings speak to all participants. There may be those that are considered for some to be too spiritual, while by others too rational and pragmatic… too noisy or too restful, too wordy or too vague. Some are choosing to honour the event by immersing themselves in nature and disconnecting from all media and technology. This diversity is an integral part of the design that enables people from many different cultures and perspectives to unify in protection and reverence for all Life..
We invite you to choose that which feels vitalizing and accurate for you. And, if you cannot find among the offerings something that is aligned with your specific needs and ways of participating, we invite you to create and lead an offering which opens your unique window to enrich the good of the whole.
Honouring the Foundations of Life with Shelley Ostroff
For a deeper understanding of the vision and evolution of the 7 Days of Rest and Reflection Event – you can listen to this in-depth dialogue between Dr. Julie Krull and Dr. Shelley Ostroff as they explore what it means to develop a deeper connection with the foundations of Life through this event.
GRATITUDE
We look forward to co-creating with you a global field of inspiration, reconnection and replenishment – for the planet and all its inhabitants!
As a small team, during the event dedicated to Rest and Reflection, we may not be able to be available for questions and technological support. We hope to support the unfolding in whatever way we can and trust that the most powerful force at work is our individual and collective intention and practice during these days, in whatever form it takes.
We are deeply grateful to the Sacred Ritual Holders, Stewards, Partners and Co-creators who are contributing so lovingly and generously to the 7 Days of Rest Global Event. Thank you for helping this event become a powerful force for unity and healing in the world.
Blessings for a deeply healing and replenishing time for you and for all Life.
With Love and Gratitude,
Shelley Ostroff, Yan Golding and Lidewij Marinissen
The first week of 2018 brought together individuals and groups from over 60 countries in meditation, prayer, sacred ceremony and a range of creative initiatives dedicated to the healing and replenishment of the planet and all its inhabitants.
For January 1-7, 2019, the intention was to collectively seed the New Year with a global field of restful reflection on our interdependence with all of Creation. Together we will focus our intention on restoring sacred relationship of the Feminine and Masculine with each other and with the Foundations of Life – Air, Earth, Water, Fire, The Climate, Biodiversity and with the entire Web of Life.
ORGANIZED BY:
https://www.7days-of-rest.org/
https://www.togetherincreation.org/
with https://www.codes.earth/initiatives
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INITIATIVES
“The power of mass intention may ultimately be the force that shifts the tide toward repair and renewal of the planet.”
— Lynne McTaggart
7 Days of Rest & Radiant Diversity – January 1-7, 2020
Led by Starhawk, Charles Williams and friends.
Dates: January 5 – January 19, 2020: two-week intensive residential course
Location: Black Mountain Preserve and Golden Rabbit Ranch, Western Sonoma County, CA
Sliding scale:$1800-2300*
*includes all instruction, lodging, meals, and materials
WORK TRADE positions are currently full. Please feel free to apply for a spot on our waiting list ~ Limited Diversity Scholarships still available
Who is this training for?
We firmly believe that everyone can benefit from learning the tools and insights of permaculture to apply toward the broad goal of earth regeneration. Permaculture has solutions not just for landscapes and agricultural systems, but also for social design, public policy and survival strategies for these challenging times.
Topic and Projects Covered:
Hands-on projects vary with weather and needs, but may include mapping, water harvesting structures, graywater or roof catchment, compost, compost teas, sheet mulch, plant propagation, planting trees and shrubs, seed-starting, introductions to natural building concepts (including cob, straw-clay or plastering) and a collaborative design project. Our projects can be tailored to students of varied levels of physical ability and diverse ages and previous experience.
Our students include:
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- Young people looking for a career oriented around sustainability
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- People in mid-life looking for a new direction for existing or new work
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- Retirees wanting new fields to explore
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- Established professionals wanting to broaden and deepen their knowledge of sustainable alternatives
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- People involved with intentional communities, co-housing and eco-villages, or those who want to start or join one
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- Gardeners, farmers, ranchers, and land stewards of all kinds
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- Green business entrepreneurs who want to have a broader understanding of the possibilities
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- Teachers, environmental educators, and youth workers
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- Anyone involved in gardening, especially school gardens and community gardens
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- Architects and landscape designers
- Artists, musicians, poets, writers and dancers, and anyone who collaborates creatively
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- Community organizers and activists from many movements, including environmental justice, food justice, global justice, anti-oppression, human rights workers, and others
- Dreamers, visionaries, and more…
Start: Monday, January 13, 2020• 5:30 PM
End: Monday, January 13, 2020• 8:30 PM
Location:Cherokee United Methodist Church•2105 Cosgrove Ave, North Charleston, SC 29405
Host Contact Info: southcarolina@poorpeoplescampaign.org
Join the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival in South Carolina for the eighth stop of the We Must Do M.O.R.E. national tour as we Mobilize, Organize, Register and Educate.
Click here if you’d like to volunteer and help make this tour a success!
The tour in South Carolina will culminate with a Moral Monday March and Mass Meeting on Monday, January 13th in Charleston, SC. This will follow a weekend of activities a community canvas to register people for a movement that votes and a community site visit.
Monday, January 13th | Charleston, SC
South Carolina Moral Monday March & Mass Meeting
5:30 PM – Gather for the march
6:30 PM – Mass Meeting begins
Cherokee United Methodist Church, 2105 Cosgrove Ave, North Charleston, SC 29405
**No large bags or umbrellas will be allowed in the mass meetings and small bags are subject to being searched.
At the Moral Monday, we will hear from South Carolinians directly impacted by systemic racism, poverty, ecological devastation, militarism and the war economy, and the corrupt moral narrative. We will also hear from Rev. Barber and Rev. Theoharis, Co-Chairs of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival.
The Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival is organizing a 25-state We Must Do MORE national tour from September 2019 to May 2020. This tour will lead into the Mass Poor People’s Assembly & Moral March on Washington, where thousands of poor people and moral agents will gather at the nation’s capitol on June 20, 2020 to demonstrate their power.
We will demand the implementation of our Moral Agenda and call all people of conscience to engage in deeply moral civic engagement and voting that cares about poor and low-wealth people, the sick, immigrants, workers, the environment, people with disabilities, first nations, the LGBTQ community, and peace over war.
Transition Declares a Climate Emergency
What: In more than 90 communities throughout the US, people and are coming together to build powerful coalitions that can push local governments to respond to the Climate Emergency. Join Ezra Silk and Rebecca Harris from The Climate Mobilization to learn more about this growing movement and how you can start a Climate Emergency push in your neighborhood, city, or county.
When: Tuesday, January 14, 2020 –
11:00am – 12:15pm, Pacific Standard Time
Where: Free Online Event
Please click here to register for this free webinar and receive a personalized link to join.
In more than 90 communities throughout the US, people and are coming together to build powerful coalitions that can push local governments to respond to the Climate Emergency. Join Laura Berry and Rebecca Harris from The Climate Mobilization, along with our friends at Post Carbon Institute, to learn more about this growing movement and how you can start a Climate Emergency push in your neighborhood, city, or county.
Presenters:
Laura Berry brings over a decade of experience in climate advocacy, organizing, and policy to her role as Research and Publications Director of The Climate Mobilization. Her previous work with groups including the Stockholm Environment Institute and 350.org has spanned international environmental politics, local climate change planning, and democratic public engagement, and she has published research on the intersections of activism and public engagement in facilitating environmental policy change. Laura now works to research and facilitate the development of emergency-speed climate policy and governance frameworks in support of TCM’s vision of WWII-scale Climate Mobilization.
Climate Mobilization Organizing Director Rebecca Harris is a dynamic organizer who has been working for social justice since the age of 15, when she became involved in the peace movement in her hometown of Salem, Oregon. Rebecca joined The Climate Mobilization in February 2018, bringing a background in facilitation, fundraising, and strategic communications. Most recently, Rebecca worked as Development and Communications Manager at Latino Union of Chicago, an immigrant’s and worker’s rights organization.
Don Hall
THOUSANDS OF LGBTQ ACTIVISTS TO CONVENE IN DALLAS, TX JANUARY 2020 FOR 32ND ANNUAL CREATING CHANGE CONFERENCE, WITH THEME OF LOVE, LEARNING & LIBERATION!
REVEREND ANGEL KYODO WILLIAMS TO KEYNOTE
– Thousands of LGBTQ advocates, activists, leaders, and allies will gather in Dallas, TX for the 32nd Creating Change Conference from Wednesday, January 15 through Sunday, January 19, 2020 at the Sheraton Dallas.
The Creating Change Conference, run by the National LGBTQ Task Force, is the foremost political, leadership, and skills-building conference for the LGBTQ social justice movement. Since 1988, Creating Change has created opportunities for tens of thousands of committed people to develop and hone their activist skills, build community, and inspire. This year, in addition to the political focus of the work, the Conference will be focusing on the 2020 Census and building capacity to ensure everyone is counted.
The primary goal of the Creating Change Conference is to build the LGBTQ movement’s political power from the ground up to secure our overarching goal of full freedom, justice, and equality for LGBTQ people and their families in the United States.
This will be the second Creating Change Conference managed by Andy Garcia, who is bringing some new changes to the longtime activist gathering as attendance grows and diversifies. Garcia said, “It is clear that 2020 will be a critical year for all of us, including LGBTQ communities. We face a historic election year, some of the most significant Supreme Court cases in our lifetime, on-going attacks from the current administration, and an epidemic of violence, among other challenges. Creating Change is where LGBTQ advocates, activists, leaders, and allies come together to learn and connect with each other, with a focus on creating a welcoming space for queer and trans people of color. We need that now more than ever.”
The keynote speaker for Creating Change 2020 will be Reverend angel Kyodo williams, who will kick off this year’s conference at the opening plenary on Thursday, January 16, 2020 at 7 PM. With the alarming murders of trans women of color across the country, the Creating Change Conference community will also be rallying to spotlight and build capacity to address this epidemic as well as featuring the resilience, determination, and leadership of the trans community.
PLENARIES
Opening Plenary Session: Love, Learning, and Liberation
From the Census to the election, 2020 is going to be historic. We have a lot of work ahead of us against a backdrop of an epidemic of trans women of color being murdered and a rollback of hard-fought gains by the current administration. This plenary aims to set a new tone for the conference and for our movement: one of love, learning, and liberation. As we create change together, how can we be mindful to center our hearts and our minds?
Opening Keynote Speaker: Rev. angel Kyodo williams: Love and Justice are One
Called “the most intriguing African-American Buddhist” by Library Journal, angel Kyodo williams is an author, activist, master trainer, and founder of Transformative Change. Her newest work, Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love & Liberation, is igniting communities to have the long overdue conversations necessary to become more awake and aware of what hinders liberation of self and society. angel notes, “Love and Justice are not two. Without inner change, there can be no outer change. Without collective change, no change matters.” She was made for these times.
Plenary Session: The Annual State of the Movement Address
Following our Creating Change 2020 theme, “Love, Learning, and Liberation,” Task Force executive director, Rea Carey, and deputy executive director, Kierra Johnson will host the annual State of the Movement plenary. Even as LGBTQ people and their families are under attack by the current administration, we know our community is strong, resilient, creative, and determined. This year, with special guests, we will focus on the issues facing trans women of color, the work being done to address anti-trans violence and systemic discrimination, and moving us forward in our work for freedom, justice, and liberation. Come be inspired to fight on, and defeat those who intend to make our lives invisible!
Closing Plenary Session: Queering Immigration: Owning Our Power, Building the Defense Line
Immigration will once again be a top issue this election year. This panel will focus on how we can collectively build power by centering the needs and experiences of those most impacted: queer and trans people of color. Our expert panelists will talk about deportation defense, rapid response at the neighborhood, city, and state level, the criminalization of Black and Brown bodies, legislative victories, and so much more. Our call to action will be the work that still needs to get done: closing the camps, stopping the arrests and deportations, and imagining a world without borders.
The immigration-focused panel will be made up of Sharita Gruberg (She/Her/Hers), policy director for the LGBT Research and Communications Project at the Center for American Progress; Oluchi Omeoga (They/Them/Theirs), a co-creator and Core Team member of Black Visions Collective, a black-led local organization working in Minnesota; Monserrat Padilla (She/Her/Hers) the Coordinator for the Washington Immigrant Solidarity Network; Nancy Haque (She/Her/Hers), executive director of Basic Rights Oregon, an LGBTQ political advocacy organization with a focus on transgender justice and racial justice; and Dani Marrero Hi of the Texas Civil Rights Project.
New for this year, the traditional closing plenary brunch will be replaced by a dynamic indoor street fair on Sunday, January 19th with an 11:30 am – 1:00 pm “Send Off Celebration!” including accessible HIV testing and mammogram screening.
DAY-LONG INSTITUTES
This year’s Racial Justice Institute encompasses queerness and racial diversity within an expression and experience that centers on resisting with all our brilliance, our joy, and our truth. Keynote speaker and Queer Black Feminist Love Evangelist Alexis Pauline Gumbs will offer a loving reflection and an accessible practice designed to impact how to work together through and across difference and depth. In addition, our second keynote Timothy DuWhite is a Black, queer, poz-writer/artist based out of Brooklyn, NY. A majority of his work circles around the intersections of state & body, state & love, and state & mind. Following our keynotes is a series of afternoon breakout sessions on topics that range in topics from Talking to Kids about Race, Respectfully United – Allyship Without Tokenization, Beyond D&I: Organizing for Racial Equity, The Metamorphosis of White Men: Ending our Legacy and Creating a New Story.
Also this year, the Conference team is excited to add six new Day Long Institutes, bringing the total number of these intensive eight hour sessions to 23. New topics like Disability Justice and Leading in Complex Situations will be held alongside returning favorites like the Trans Institute, Latinx Institute, and LGBTQ+ Campus Resource Professionals Institute.
For more information about the day long institutes see here: https://www.creatingchange.org/day-long-institutes-2/
WORKSHOPS AND CAUCUSES
The conference features over 250 workshop and caucus sessions. Workshops range from 90 minutes to three hours, addressing the vast scope of issues relevant to LGBTQ activism and organizing. There are nearly a dozen sessions on campus organizing, several intergenerational dialogues, many workshops focused on healing and well-being, art and theater activism, racial and economic justice, trans issues, and a robust track for political advocacy. Caucuses cover a broad range of identities and interests, including caucuses for deaf queer people, lesbians, Queer Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) people, LGBTQ people in STEM, LGBTQ Jews, and parents.
AWARDS
SAGE Award for Excellence in Leadership on Aging Issues: Carmen Vasquez
Carmen Vasquez was born in Puerto Rico and grew up in Harlem, New York. Among her many accomplishments, Vasquez was the Founding Director of the Women’s Building in San Francisco, helped found the Lavender Youth Recreation and Information Center in San Francisco, and the LGBT Health & Human Services Network. She was a founder and principal author of Causes in Common (a national coalition of Reproductive Justice and LGBT Liberation activists). Her essays have been published in several anthologies and she has made scores of keynote presentations at conferences and college campuses across the United States. Vasquez is the Co-Chair of the Woodhull Freedom Foundation Board of Directors and the former Director of LGBT Health and Human Services.
Haas, Jr. Award for Outstanding LGBTQ Leadership for Immigrant Rights: Stephanie Cho
Stephanie Cho is the Executive Director for Asian Americans Advancing Justice – Atlanta. She brings 20 years of experience in labor and community organizing, strategy planning, and fundraising at the local and national level. Under her leadership over the last three years, AAAJ-Atlanta has worked to protect DACA and end local law enforcement cooperation with ICE. Originally born in South Korea, Cho grew up in Oregon. In 2015, she co-authored “Beyond the Binary: A Tool Kit for Gender Identity Activism in Schools.” Last year, she was a Grand Marshal for Atlanta Pride.
The Leather Leadership Award: Judy Tallwing McCarthy
Judy Tallwing McCarthy has been involved in the leather/BDSM world since 1969; and, in 1987, became first International Ms. Leather. That same year, she was the leather community’s keynote speaker at the 1987 March on Washington. She has also served as Co-Chair of the National Leather Association from 1988-1992. She is widely credited for helping change the focus of leather to community activism. Judy Tallwing McCarthy continues to judge, teach, and speak at various leather events and has been honored with numerous awards from the leather community. Of Apache, Tewa, and African descent, Judy Tallwing McCarthy has raised raising six biological children (with 25 grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren) and nurtured and protected numerous “leatherkids.” Judy Tallwing McCarthy will be the first woman of color to receive the Leather Leadership Award.
The Susan J. Hyde Award for Longevity in the Movement, sponsored by Wild Geese Foundation: Monica Roberts
Monica Roberts is the founding editor of the award winning TransGriot blog, and a longtime award-winning human rights advocate. She has been advocating for the human rights of transgender people for over 20 years, with a focus on the issues affecting Black trans people. Her writing has appeared at Ebony.com, the Advocate, Black Girl Dangerous, and in the ‘Unapologetically Trans’ monthly column in Houston’s OutSmart magazine. Some of the honors that Roberts has received are the 2018 GLAAD Media Award, the Robert Coles Call of Service Award from Harvard University’s Phillips Brooks House Assn, the Virginia Prince Transgender Pioneer Award, the Barbara Jordan Breaking Barriers Award from the Harris County Democratic Party, the IFGE Trinity Award, and being named to the 2019 OUT100.
ACCESSIBILITY
The Creating Change Conference is committed to radical accessibility. Everyone benefits when everyone participates fully and equitably in every aspect of the conference. When you register online for Creating Change, you can request:
- ASL interpretation
- Spanish translation
- Programs in large print
- Electric scooters and wheelchairs
- Assisted Listening Devices
- Magnifiers, readers, and step stools
There will be a staffed Accessibility Table set up near registration, where attendees can ask questions, meet up with an interpreter, and pick up the items listed above.
There will also be an ASL “Hub” where our team of ASL interpreters meet and plan their day. Last year we had over 40 ASL interpreters.
There will also be a People with Disabilities Hospitality Suite where those who need and want to have an opportunity to regroup and relax.
PRESS CREDENTIALS
Press are invited to the conference, and press credentials are given out as space provides. To request credentials email Sarah Massey and Cathy Renna below. Confirmation of credentials will be considered on a rolling basis and as space allows.
MISSION STATEMENT
The National LGBTQ Task Force advances full freedom, justice and equality for LGBTQ people. We are building a future where everyone can be free to be their entire selves in every aspect of their lives. Today, despite all the progress we’ve made to end discrimination, millions of LGBTQ people face barriers in every aspect of their lives: in housing, employment, healthcare, retirement, and basic human rights. These barriers must go. That’s why the Task Force is training and mobilizing millions of activists across our nation to deliver a world where you can be you. For more general information go to https://www.thetaskforce.org
Contact: Sarah Massey, Communications Director, National LGBTQ Task Force, 202-639-6308, smassey@thetaskforce.org
Cathy Renna, TargetCue, 917-767-5123, cathy@targetcue.com
Des Moines Iowa Mass Meeting | We Must Do MORE National Tour
Start: Wednesday, January 15, 2020• 7:00 PM • Central Time (US & Canada) (GMT-06:00)
End: Wednesday, January 15, 2020• 9:00 PM • Central Time (US & Canada) (GMT-06:00)
Host Contact Info: iowa@poorpeoplescampaign.org
If you are interested in helping make the Iowa We Must Do MORE tour a success, visit: CLICK HERE to Volunteer
Need a ride or have extra seats to offer in yours? Please sign up here on our MORE Tour Mass Meeting Carpool system.
**No large bags or umbrellas will be allowed in the mass meetings and small bags are subject to being searched.
The Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival is organizing a 25-state We Must Do MORE national tour from September 2019 to May 2020. This tour will lead into the Mass Poor People’s Assembly & Moral March on Washington, where thousands of poor people and moral agents will gather at the nation’s capitol on June 20, 2020 to demonstrate their power.
We will demand the implementation of our Moral Agenda and call all people of conscience to engage in deeply moral civic engagement and voting that cares about poor and low-wealth people, the sick, immigrants, workers, the environment, people with disabilities, first nations, the LGBTQIA+ community, and peace over war.
Iowa is the eighth stop on this tour.
Continuing Dr Martin Luther King Jr’s spirit and many legacies…
“Opening Space for Peace and High Performance”
https://osius.org/peace-high-performance-2020
January 17-19, 2020
International House
500 Riverside Dr
New York, NY 10027
Dynamic global leaders have gathered at International House since 1924 to learn and address urgent issues of the day. This annual gathering of Open Space networkers, overlooking the glorious Hudson River, reminds us of our past – geologically and historically.
Decades of resonance from diverse groups and intentions infuse these environs, a living example of how people can live, learn, and connect with each other, regardless of politics, media spin, and other learned ideologies.
Who are we today? The teachings of Dr. King and the work of Open Space around the world align around similar values, principles and mission. https://osius.org/
The gathering’s inspiration and purpose are influenced by Harrison Owen’s book “The Practice of Peace”. Some of his words:
- Peace is not the absence of chaos, confusion, and conflict.
- …conflict in all its forms is an essential, albeit painful, element of life, and life without conflict is only a lobotomized shadow of its former self.
- Peace then is a process, not a thing; a journey and not a destination.
- True power lies with the incredible capacity of self-organizing systems to create Peace for themselves and with their environments.
- Order appears in chaos. Nobody did it. Not a committee or executive in sight, but things definitely get organized at a new and higher level of complexity.
Practice of Peace
opens space for peace to emerge in each of us and for all our collectives
To exponentially ignite and inspire yourself and others to all that we imagine possible,
please join us.
https://osius.org/peace-high-performance-2020
It’s not the waking, it’s the rising!
We must do M.O.R.E!
Manifesting the DREAM of MLK Jr.!
Sneak Peek Showing of “We Cried Power: A documentary of the PPC”
Dayton: January 19th at 12:00PM
College Hill Community Church
1547 Philadelphia Drive
Dayton, Ohio 45406
Looking forward to hearing your voices and making a change with you to mobilize,organize, register and educate Ohioans around poverty, racism,ecological devastation and the war economy!
Check out the newly designed website! Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival
Here is a link to a video that describes the tour during the 2nd stop in North Carolina.
PPC in NC, We Must Do M.O.R.E!
For those of you wanting to join us in DC for the Mass Poor People’s Assembly and Moral March on Washington, June 20, 2020, please visit the site below and book your ride! The PPC Rally will also make stops along the way to fill the bus, so if you don’t see your city listed let us know and we can find a way to connect you. We will also need to do a tremendous amount of fundraising to send those that are impacted.
Here is the link to book your ride to DC, Click HERE
Register for the March on Washington Click HERE
Here is the donation link for those who would like to support those going to DC.
https://actionnetwork.org/
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EXCITING NEWS FOR APRIL: The National Mobilizing, Organizing, Registering and Educating (M.O.R.E.) Tour, will be coming to Dayton, Ohio, with Campaign co-chairs Rev. Theoharis, and Rev. Barber on April 23, 2020—details will be coming in a few weeks!
It’s not the waking, it’s the rising!
We must do M.O.R.E!
Manifesting the DREAM of MLK Jr.!
Cincinnati: January 20th
A special collaboration with Public Allies from 12:00 to 3:00 p.m.
Sneak Peek of “We Cried Power”, followed by an economic and panel discussion.
Cincinnati Public Library in the Tower Room
800 Vine St, Cincinnati, OH 45202
Looking forward to hearing your voices and making a change with you to mobilize,organize, register and educate Ohioans around poverty, racism,ecological devastation and the war economy!
Check out the newly designed website! Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival
Here is a link to a video that describes the tour during the 2nd stop in North Carolina.
PPC in NC, We Must Do M.O.R.E!
For those of you wanting to join us in DC for the Mass Poor People’s Assembly and Moral March on Washington, June 20, 2020, please visit the site below and book your ride! The PPC Rally will also make stops along the way to fill the bus, so if you don’t see your city listed let us know and we can find a way to connect you. We will also need to do a tremendous amount of fundraising to send those that are impacted.
Here is the link to book your ride to DC, Click HERE
Register for the March on Washington Click HERE
Here is the donation link for those who would like to support those going to DC.
https://actionnetwork.org/
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EXCITING NEWS FOR APRIL: The National Mobilizing, Organizing, Registering and Educating (M.O.R.E.) Tour, will be coming to Dayton, Ohio, with Campaign co-chairs Rev. Theoharis, and Rev. Barber on April 23, 2020—details will be coming in a few weeks!
It’s not the waking, it’s the rising!
We must do M.O.R.E!
Manifesting the DREAM of MLK Jr.!
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THE POOR PEOPLE’S CAMPAIGN AND WE THE WORLD ARE COLLABORATING
Visit OUR Facebook page to watch a virtual screening of “We Cried Power”.
There will be a panel discussion afterwards.
Visit the facebook page here – We, the World
to watch the live screening
of the PPC documentary on January 26th, at 6:00 pm.
Looking forward to hearing your voices and making a change with you to mobilize,organize, register and educate Ohioans around poverty, racism,ecological devastation and the war economy!
Check out the newly designed website! Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival
Here is a link to a video that describes the tour during the 2nd stop in North Carolina.
PPC in NC, We Must Do M.O.R.E!
For those of you wanting to join us in DC for the Mass Poor People’s Assembly and Moral March on Washington, June 20, 2020, please visit the site below and book your ride! The PPC Rally will also make stops along the way to fill the bus, so if you don’t see your city listed let us know and we can find a way to connect you. We will also need to do a tremendous amount of fundraising to send those that are impacted.
Here is the link to book your ride to DC, Click HERE
Register for the March on Washington Click HERE
Here is the donation link for those who would like to support those going to DC.
https://actionnetwork.org/
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EXCITING NEWS FOR APRIL: The National Mobilizing, Organizing, Registering and Educating (M.O.R.E.) Tour, will be coming to Dayton, Ohio, with Campaign co-chairs Rev. Theoharis, and Rev. Barber on April 23, 2020—details will be coming in a few weeks!
January National Call
January 28 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm EST
4th Tuesday of the Month
7PM (Eastern) | 4PM (Pacific)
Join us for the monthly
ELDER’S CLIMATE ACTION (ECA)
National Call with
Nathaniel Stinnett from the
Environmental Voter Project
Please RSVP for the call now.
All those who RSVP will receive the recording.
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Nathaniel Stinnett is the Founder & Executive Director of the Environmental Voter Project, a non-partisan nonprofit that uses data analytics and behavioral science to mobilize environmentalists to vote. Named one of five global “climate visionaries” by The New York Times in 2018, and dubbed “The Voting Guru” by Grist magazine, Stinnett is a frequent expert speaker on cutting-edge campaign techniques and the behavioral science behind getting people to vote. He has held a variety of senior leadership and campaign manager positions on U.S. Senate, Congressional, state, and mayoral campaigns, and he sits on the Board of Advisors for MIT’s Environmental Solutions Initiative. Formerly an attorney at the international law firm DLA Piper, Stinnett holds a B.A. from Yale University and a J.D. from Boston College Law School, and he lives in Boston, MA with his wife and two daughters. |
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We’re building a movement of elders to address the social and environmental crises of our time!
Within our society, elders’ talents and experiences are largely untapped; much of our collective wisdom gained over decades of living lies fallow. This is an unfortunate waste of invaluable human resources that could be applied to addressing the serious societal and environmental problems that we face in our nation.
As elders, we have the benefits of time, talent, experience and know-how to guide making the needed transformations. We can become catalysts of a social movement in which all generations collaborate in evolving changes for our common betterment. In so doing, we find a new and rewarding sense of meaning in our lives, and we create a new elder culture in the process.
Please explore our website to see where your talents and experience fit with what we are doing – and join us!
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Climate Action
Elders Climate Action (ECA) is building a non-partisan movement of elders committed to making our voices heard on the climate crisis. We are determined to change our nation’s policies while there is still time to avoid catastrophic changes in the earth’s climate. Because of this concern and because we vote consistently, elders are in a unique position to influence national policy. We are committed to using our voices, our votes, and our collective power to push for policies that will reduce greenhouse gases to a level consistent with life thriving on our planet.
Get inspired by the members of Elders Climate Action who are taking action on climate change. We are parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles, just like you, hoping to make a difference on climate action. Join ECA and get informed about the climate crisis, learn more about Elders Climate Action’s core policies and principles, access the ECA Action Tool Kit, watch webinars and videos, find climate related links, and explore what you can do with your grandchildren. Get engaged, explore ways to take action with ECA. Learn more about ECA Chapters, find events, join our action projects, national calls and more.
ECA is a great way to build connections in your area and make new friends locally and nationally.
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I’m thrilled to invite you to a FREE global online Summit that starts Feb. 2-7 called:
Igniting the Worldwide Spiritual Wildfire We Need Now: A Call to Action
LINK TO: https://www.spiritual-wildfire-summit.com
I’ll be participating with 23 other featured speakers including Sandra Ingerman, Andrew Harvey, Nina Simons, Cynthia Jurs, Steve Farrell and Lyla June Johnston and I’d love for you to join us! Each of us will be offering inspiration, healing, and empowering practical tools to anyone who is ready to courageously use their own light to help ignite a worldwide spiritual wildfire.
The Spiritual Wildfire Summit is organized to address the fact that we live in epic times. In fact, we are experiencing nothing less than the reinvention of civilization. Yet as we dive into uncharted waters and move closer to a critical tipping, we see a worldwide awakening beginning to catch fire. The Spiritual Wildfire Summit offers inspiration, healing, and empowering practical tools to anyone who is ready to courageously use their own light to help ignite a worldwide spiritual wildfire.
To register for this free event click here. Link to: https://www.spiritual-wildfire-summit.com
Together we can create a new world based on compassion, wisdom, justice, and joy!
During this FREE 6-day global online summit, together we will experience & integrate profound ways to restore the Story of Our Awakened Hearts.
This transformational event is FREE to all registered attendees! You do need to RSVP in order to receive all of the info you need to participate in this unique and never before seen gathering of visionaries!
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Every day, Americans throw away tons of plastic “stuff.” But it doesn’t actually go away. Instead, it washes into our waterways, where it harms our wildlife and pollutes our oceans, rivers, and lakes.
The Break Free From Plastic Pollution Act is the first comprehensive federal plan to protect public health, wildlife, and wild places from the plastic waste. It’s the kind of groundbreaking legislation we need to manage our plastic pollution crisis and put wildlife over waste.
Join us for the Break Free From Plastic Pollution Act bill launch
to show your support for stopping plastic pollution.
– What: Bill Launch for the Break Free from Plastics Pollution Act
– When: Tuesday, Feb. 11, 11am (Speakers start at 11:30am)
– Where: U.S. Capitol East Front (House side)
-Speakers (list developing): Sen. Tom Udall & Rep. Alan Lowenthal
Hear from speakers, including the bills authors, Sen. Tom Udall and Rep. Alan Lowenthal, about their work to protect the environment and public health from plastic pollution. Listen to advocates and lawmakers talk about the need to reduce the amount of plastic we create and use. Take photos with some fantastic plastic pollution props at the U.S. Capitol to share on social media. Together, we can spread the word to stop plastic pollution.
(Rain location: Capitol Visitor Center, room SVC 215)
Learn more about the bill:
https://www.tomudall.senate.gov/news/press-releases/udall-lowenthal-seek-input-on-landmark-legislation-to-address-the-global-plastic-waste-crisis
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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 WE.net  Manifesting The Dream Carrying Forward the Work and Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. This Broadcast is Inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Philosophy and Practice of Nonviolence Nonviolent Communication Featured Speakers Include:
“If I gave appreciation for everything Thom Bond has contributed to me, I wouldn’t have time for anything else.”
— Marshall Rosenberg (Creator of Nonviolent Communication – NVC)
Take Action and Be of Service
During MLK 40 Days of Peace You and Your Organization Are Invited To Participate Now Through Feb. 29th Sign Up Here For Updates & To Participate WE.net/MLK Full MLK Broadcast Links and other activity details here: MLK’s Rip Van Winkle story was a warning:
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This Broadcast is Inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s
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Nonviolent Communication A LIVE Interactive Broadcast & Workshop Tuesday February 11th at 6PM Eastern Time Featuring Thom BondFounder of the New York Center for Nonviolent Communication To send questions to Thom in advance Or to speak to Thom LIVE during the workshop RSVP By February 10th at MLK-NVC@WeTheWorld.org Watch the Broadcast LIVE Online 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. 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 with participants including Desmond Tutu, Jane Goodall, Deepak Chopra, Eve Ensler, Bill McKibben and many others. Rick has served as a Nonviolent Communication Workshop Facilitator and leader working with Thom Bond and the New York Center for Nonviolent Communication.
Thom Bond is a thought leader, author, activist and founder of The New York Center for Nonviolent Communication (NYCNVC.org). He is best known as the creator and leader of The Compassion Course. Thom is the author of The Compassion Book: Lessons From The Compassion Course (Second Edition) — available in paperback and the e-book, Shifting Toward Compassion (TheExercise.org), “64 Days for Peace” an online, self-led curriculum. Over the past fifteen years as a disciple of the creator of Nonviolent Communication, Marshall Rosenberg, Thom has touched hundreds of thousands of clients, participants, readers, and listeners throughout the world.
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2020 Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service & 40 Days of Peace
With Calls To Action that Inspire, Inform and Involve!
MANIFESTING THE DREAM – A SERIES OF INTERACTIVE BROADCASTS DURING 40 DAYS OF PEACE ON THE WORK AND LEGACY OF MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.
Join Interactive Broadcasts and Calls To Action on topics that MLK devoted his life to, such as Nonviolence, Racism, Materialism, Militarism and Poverty on our Facebook page.
Full MLK Broadcast Links and other activity details here: WE.net/MLK-program
Electricity. It’s essential to our modern way of life, from the phone in your pocket to the lights overhead. And yet right now we are relying on a dirty, outdated electricity system to deliver us the power we need. Our country’s electricity infrastructure is simply not keeping up with the times.
It’s time for an upgrade—to a better, cleaner, and more reliable electricity grid.
Webinar: State of the Grid |
The Union of Concerned Scientists invites you to a webinar on the state of our outdated electricity grid and the barriers and opportunities to a clean energy future.
Date: Wednesday, February 12
Time: 6:00–7:00 p.m. CST / 7:00–8:00 p.m. EST
Our current electricity grid is outdated and not equipped for the clean energy future we want. We need states to champion clean energy solutions and to upgrade to an electricity grid that supplies and powers the clean energy demands of the future.
The Union of Concerned Scientists puts rigorous, independent science to work to solve our planet’s most pressing problems. Joining with people across the country, we combine technical analysis and effective advocacy to create innovative, practical solutions for a healthy, safe, and sustainable future.
Learn more at http://www.ucsusa.orgBecome a member at http://www.ucsusa.org/about/ways_to_give/
Take action at http://www.ucsusa.org/action
My Queer Valentine Reception
Hosted by Torpedo Factory Art Center and Target Gallery
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Friday, February 14, 2020 at 7 PM – 10 PM
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Art in Person and in Progress. Located in Old Town Alexandria, the Torpedo Factory Art Center is home to 165 working artists, seven galleries, The Art League, and the Alexandria Archaeology Museum. Free admission.
My Queer Valentine Shows the Richness of LGBTQ Life
The warmth of recognition is strong inside the exhibition.
“Acrylic” by Aurele Gould, 2017
I took my girlfriend to see My Queer Valentine on a Monday morning; it was a date, I told her. We took the Metro down to King Street and walked to the Alexandria waterfront. Once we got there, we strolled into The Torpedo Factory Art Center’s Target Gallery, hands interlocked.
For My Queer Valentine, the contemporary gallery’s spring show, the small space is filled with large-scale photographic prints, paintings on both large and small canvases, and sculpture. Visually, the pieces cover a broad range of styles, including a digitally influenced take on Abstract Expressionism, geometric interpretations of fire, Basquiat-esque mark-making and writing over photographs, sculpture with few references to recognizable forms, canvases made three-dimensional by the attachment of glittery found objects, and small silkscreen prints. Thematically, they may at first seem to not cohere, but that’s only because My Queer Valentine’s juried works cover a diverse and rich swath of queer life.
As for taking my girlfriend, I had another motive that I didn’t say aloud, though she may have picked up on it. I wanted to enter that exhibition as a visibly gay person, and I wanted to see how that affected my experience of the art. It was the right choice. My Queer Valentine does more than curate work that examines what it means to be LGBTQ in the 21st century: It creates a queer space warm with the joy of recognition.
Some works speak directly to that joy, like artist Cat Gunn’s abstract canvases. Their dramatic patterns represent the harmony of being in a relationship where their partner sees them as their authentic, nonbinary self, they write in the wall text. There are glittering squares and wobbling lines moving back and forth across the plane, but things seem to be coming together the longer you look—parts that once made no sense have an internal logic that reveals itself with sustained attention and open mindedness. Recognition can be dangerous, and the closet offers safety, but it also means hiding behind a mask. The relief of dropping the charade and being seen is transcendent.
My Queer Valentine isn’t camp, not as a whole, but it’s full of artworks made by people who understand the humor and the wondrous pompousness of queer glamor. (That glamor and its high drama are knowingly self-important because there are still so many people who wish we didn’t have it.) The first pieces the viewer encounters play with the feminine trappings of artificial jewelry, glitter, plastic, and resin, all in bright, loud colors; one piece dripping with sequins invites viewers to “lick me until ice cream.” That kind of playful sexuality thrives in many of the works, even the more subdued ones. A beige canvas on the opposing wall asks the onlooker to “come (cum on my) back.” The half-joking, half-serious attitude toward sex is one of My Queer Valentine’s greatest strengths, highlighting the laughter and joy inherent in queer life and queer sex.
Linda Hesh’s “Kissing Booth” is another joyful artwork. It’s not a stunning feat of technique and construction; it’s just a wood and steel booth, like one you might see at a county fair in the ’50s. It advertises itself as, unsurprisingly, “KISSING BOOTH.” It’s not anchored to a wall. Instead, it stands out from a corner and beckons viewers to come in, where they might notice that its gingham pattern is made up of pictures of kissing same-sex couples. I’ll admit my biases here: I’ve always had a love for participatory art. But the booth’s standing invitation to come inside, to take a picture kissing underneath it, and to share that picture with the world is a brave act, even in 2020 in Alexandria—brave for the artist and the piece inviting those kisses, brave for the people who choose to do so. Even though queer desire is hypervisible in contemporary life, it’s not always recognized as a loving, human affect. By asking people to kiss, Hesh affirms the romance of the gesture and the genuine safety of the space around it.
The most striking pieces were by D.C.-based photographer Matt Storm, a transgender man. His work is challenging, cheeky, and hard to look away from. The two images on display come from his Act of Looking series, where he returns to the same studio in Provincetown, Massachusetts, the famous gay vacation spot, to photograph his body “to create an expanded lexicon of ways to see a body, inclusive of ways to see my body,” he writes in his artist’s statement. In the first image, we see him standing naked, in a pose that looks relaxed but requires him to hold himself in place with his own strength. His muscles are tense but not flexed. His face isn’t overly expressive, but there’s a spark of playfulness in his eyes and a hint of a smile on his mouth. And his arm drapes behind his back, coming to rest between his legs, where he holds his fingers playfully—an obvious commentary on how, as he says, “my body is incongruous with how we are taught to see bodies.” In another, he clasps his hands in front of his crotch, fingers crossed. We can’t see his face, but we can feel the humor. The piece is titled “Crossing my Fingers, Getting Away with Something.”
But a different series of works stopped me in my tracks. Aurele Gould’s photographs pulled my gaze from the moment I entered the gallery. When I saw her triptych of an athlete putting pre-wrap around another girl’s thigh, I felt a lump in my throat. “A moment of transference is constructed, a care and an intimacy among women,” she writes in the wall text. Immediately I thought of Barbara Kruger’s 1981 piece “Untitled (You Construct Intricate Rituals),” which famously says “You construct intricate rituals that allow you to touch the skin of other men” over an image of men roughhousing. But I thought of it less because of its artistic impact and more because, for years, queer kids on Tumblr have been using it as a memetic reference point for jokes about the forbidden, magnetic pull of another person’s skin. In the three images of the piece, we see hands grab the inner thigh, let go to wrap the tape around, and return to place both hands on the partner’s leg.
Likewise, I’d been primed to see Gould’s piece “Acrylic” before I walked in—it represents My Queer Valentine online—but I stopped myself from making a beeline to it. When I did make my way over and allowed myself to look, I noticed for the first time the two models’ sharp, long, matching acrylic nails gently cradling each other’s faces. That striking image is made more striking by those glittery nails. Gould knows this: “I like how thought processes can fold unto each other, like thinking about when stereotypes can be used and who they can be used by,” she wrote in the wall text. I felt a pang of recognition. I smiled. The two lovers in the photograph stared at me, nails shining, and I took my girlfriend’s manicured hand and stared back.
105 N. Union St., Alexandria. (703) 746-4587. torpedofactory.org.
Join us in setting our intentions for healing in China and around the world. We will be meditating together for 7 days, through February 21 with Master Mingtong Gu.
February 15th – Saturday 11am Mountain Time
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Master Mingtong Gu
Master Mingtong Gu
Named Qigong Master of the Year by the 13th World Congress on Qigong and Traditional Chinese Medicine, Mingtong Gu possesses a profound ability to harness energy in order to accelerate personal and global healing, making him a sought-after healer, practitioner, and teacher.
As a child growing up in China during the Cultural Revolution, Master Gu endured hunger, poverty, and a long separation from his birth family. Despite these incredible hardships, he became the first from his village to attend college, earning a bachelor’s degree in mathematics followed by two master’s degrees, including an MFA from Ohio State University. As a graduate student in art, Master Gu discovered the treasures of his own culture through the spiritual iconography of Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, and Western mystic traditions while practicing yoga, Tantric Buddhism, and qigong.
In 1997, Master Gu returned to China for qiqong training under Dr. Pang Ming, a qigong grandmaster trained in Western medicine and traditional Chinese medicine, and the founder of the world’s largest qigong hospital. During his training, Master Gu observed thousands of cases of chronic and “incurable” diseases being healed at this “medicine-less” hospital, which has now treated over 200,000 patients with over 185 different illnesses, with a 95 percent effective improvement rate.
Witnessing these profound healing experiences inspired Master Gu’s dedication to the teaching and practice of qigong healing, which he now teaches to thousands of people in the United States, China, and Europe through his workshops, books, and education programs. He created the Pure Qi Online series—a collection of courses which translate the ancient teachings of Wisdom Healing Qigong™ for contemporary times—and is the founder of the Chi Center and the Center for Wisdom Healing Qigong, a beautiful 79-acre resort located 20 minutes south of Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Through practice, Master Gu has recovered from his own chronic conditions of asthma, scoliosis, back pain, and kidney weakness. His teaching emphasizes activating the power of inner self-healing, facilitating the release of chronic illness while improving health and well-being. Master Gu lives and teaches with his wife Linling, also a gifted healer, and their two children.
Linling Xie
Linling studied Zhineng Qigong at the medicine-less Qigong hospital in China under the guidance of Dr. Pang Ming. She is a gifted Wisdom Healing Qigong Teacher and Healer, offering private sessions while Healing Intensive Retreats are in session at the Center in Santa Fe.
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From What Is to What If: The Role of Imagination in TransitionWhat: In this online event, Rob Hopkins will set out the key ideas behind his new book “From What Is to What If,” and invite participants to reflect on the role of the imagination in their work in Transition. It will include some interactive exercises, stories from around the world, and a way of looking at it that you may not have experienced before. As Kate Raworth, author of ‘Doughnut Economics’ described it, “for anyone seeking a renewed sense of possibility, this one’s for you.” When: Tuesday, February 18, 2020, 11:00am – 12:30pm, Pacific Standard Time Where: Free Online Event Please click here to register for this free webinar and receive a personalized link to join. **********************************************************************************************
Rob Hopkins is a cofounder of Transition Town Totnes and Transition Network, and the author of The Power of Just Doing Stuff, The Transition Handbook, and The Transition Companion. In 2012, he was voted one of the Independent’s top 100 environmentalists and was on Nesta and the Observer’s list of Britain’s 50 New Radicals. Hopkins has also appeared on BBC Radio 4’s Four Thought and A Good Read, in the French film phenomenon Demain and its sequel Apres Demain, and has spoken at TEDGlobal and three TEDx events.
An Ashoka Fellow, Hopkins also holds a doctorate degree from the University of Plymouth and has received two honorary doctorates from the University of the West of England and the University of Namur. He is a keen gardener, a founder of New Lion Brewery in Totnes, and a director of Totnes Community Development Society, the group behind Atmos Totnes, an ambitious, community-led development project. He blogs at transtionnetwork.org and robhopkins.net and tweets at @robintransition. In his spare time, he likes to draw.
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Do you have old clothes you’ve been wanting to get rid of?
Been wanting some new pieces for your wardrobe but don’t want to pay the price?
Bring a friend and get ready to spice up your look (;
WHERE: MGC 245
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Tuesday, February 18, 2020 at 6 PMNext Week46–55°F Rain Showers
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4400 Massachusetts Ave NW, Washington D.C. 20016
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https://www.facebook.com/events/221931118836576/
Join us for a film screening and a discussion on how these industry plans put our drinking water at risk. We will explore the ways our community can work together to address these problems. Your RSVP is greatly appreciated bit.ly/Storyplastic
HOSTED BY OHIO RIVER GUARDIANS, GREEN UMBRELLA AND OHIO POOR PEOPLE’S CAMPAIGN |
This Pre-Release film was recently called “a tell-all on plastic pollution…one that is a must-see for people to understand where the problem of plastic really lies.” The New film that is currently touring the film festival circuit presents a cohesive timeline of how we got to our current global plastic pollution crisis and how the oil and gas industry has successfully manipulated the narrative around it. This film introduces audiences to the heroes and the villains behind one of the world’s most pressing environmental issues, from the extraction of fossil fuels to plastic disposal and the global resistance fighting back.
As cities like Cincinnati, numerous states, and entire countries act to reduce single-use plastic, global petrochemical companies are planning to build twenty-five petrochemical and plastic facilities in the Ohio River Valley.
Thank you for RSVP’ing to
The Story of Plastic Film Screening
Friday, February 21, 2020
Doors open 6:00 pm
St. John’s UU Church,
320 Resor Ave,
Cincinnati, OH 45220
The movie will begin at 6:15 pm. Snacks will be provided. Following the film, there will be a panel discussion on Petrochemical and plastics, and what Cincinnati is doing to reduce single-use plastic pollution.
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Become a member today and get involved with one of our seven action teams (Energy, Greenspace, Local Food, Outdoors, Transportation, Waste Reduction and Watershed) or three staffed initiatives (Tri-State Trails, Greater Cincinnati Regional Food Policy Council and Cincinnati 2030 District).
Learn more at greenumbrella.org
If you are interested in volunteering in any way to mobilize your community, help us with phone banking or sharing your gifts with the OHPPC, please email ohio@poorpeoplescampaign.org or call (513) 202-3458 and we will find a way to plug you in.
The Ohio Coordinating Committee
Forward Together, Not One Step Back!
Toledo/NW OHPPC Mobilizing Workshop
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Saturday at 10 AM – 1:30 PM
3 days from now28–46°F Sunny
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Vision Ministries South Toledo Campus1630 Broadway St, Toledo, Ohio 43609 |
We can’t wait to meet all the folks in NW Ohio who want to join the PPC and help Mobilize and Organize Toledo! If you are interested in attending please email us at ohio@poorpeoplescampaign.org.
For more information about the PPC go to Poorpeoplescampaign.org
Let’s get ready for National M.O.R.E. Tour stop in Dayton, on April 23rd and Poor People’s Assembly and March on Washington, D.C. on June. 20th!
We will introduce the campaign to those who are new, update those who have been involved, provide resources and information for mobilizing for April 23rd in Dayton, and June 20, 2020!
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WE – A global campaign of We, The World to unite
and amplify the efforts of people, organizations
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WE.net
This Special Broadcast
is part of our MLK Program
Carrying Forward the Work and Legacy
of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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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.
Take Action and Be of Service
During MLK 40 Days of Peace
To Participate Now Through Feb. 29th
For Updates & To Participate
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Don’t SLEEP through the REVOLUTION!Thank you!Rick Ulfik
Founder of We, The World and the WE Campaign at WE.net
Subscribe to our WE Campaign Global Action Newsletter: WE.net/subscribe
Now is the Time For WE Video – Narrated by Desmond Tutu and Jane Goodall for We, The World: WE.net/we-video
Manifesting The Dream – Service Activities to Honor and Carry Forward the Work and Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. https://WE.net/MLK
11 Days of Global Unity – 11 Ways to Transform Your World
An Urgent Message from Your Children at WeYourChildren.org
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February 23, 2020
A National Call for Moral Revival
Panel Discussion and Interactive Online Broadcast
Featuring National Campaign Leaders
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 startingThese Special Broadcasts are part of our MLK Program
Manifesting The Dream
Carrying Forward the Work and Legacy
of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
During the Compassion Games’ MLK 40 Days of Peace
To Participate in Manifesting The Dream: MLK 40 Days of PeaceSign Up Here
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Takes under a minute!Full MLK Broadcast Links and other activity details here:
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Wednesday, February 26, 2020 at 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Next Week25–41°F Snow Showers
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Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County (Main Library) 800 Vine Street, Cincinnati 45202
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Meeting will be at the Main Library – Huenefeld Tower Room
In 2013, the Supreme Court gutted the core of one of the crowning achievements of the civil rights movement: the Voting Rights Act. The 1965 bill, propelled by the historic march of protesters from Montgomery to Selma, Alabama, officially put an end to the literacy tests, poll taxes, and voting restrictions that had disenfranchised millions of minority voters for decades. And it went further than that: it also required areas of the country with a history of using these discriminatory tactics to get federal approval before making any changes to voting.- Vice News Oct. 16, 2020
Soon after the ruling in 2013, polling locations were closed and many of the closed polls were in neighborhoods with large minority populations.
We will review the history and ramifications of the gutting of the Voting Rights Act. Then we will discuss what are the possible solutions to solving attacks on our nation’s voting rights in our community, our state and our nation.
If you are able, please bring a dish to share. Please let us know if you have any needs to allow you to participate fully.
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Rethinking Race: Film Screening & Discussion
Hosted by Drs. Nicholas and Dorothy Cummings Center for the History of Psychology and The University of Akron
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Thursday, February 27, 2020 at 11 AM – 8 PM
73 S College St, Akron, Ohio 44325
Call (330) 972-7285
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Visit the National Museum of Psychology to view the film, “The Negro and the American Promise”. The film will run continuously throughout the day beginning at 11am. The last showing will begin at 6pm with a discussion following at 7pm. The film is an hour long and is FREE.
In the spring of 1963, Dr. Kenneth B. Clark, a professor of psychology at the City College of New York, interviewed Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Minister Malcolm X, and author James Baldwin, respectively, in order to examine and discuss the racial climate of America. The resulting program, “The Negro and the American Promise”, is a thought-provoking film depicting the varying perspectives of three passionate, powerful leaders in the Black community.
Regular museum rates apply to tour the Museum and Institute galleries. Museum admission is free for The University of Akron students, faculty, and staff with a valid ZipCard.
This event is part of Rethinking Race at The University of Akron. See the full list of events: https://www.uakron.edu/race/calendar/.
ECHOES & REFLECTIONS
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PROGRAMS FOR EDUCATORS and anyone who wants to know more
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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.
Info: manosunidasorg@gmail.com, kmcardot@gmail.com, mariamorengo2019@gmail.com
(413)-841-0298, (413)-464-6485, (413)-310-8944, se habla espanol
“I Have A Dream” / “Yo Tengo Un Sueño”
Four Kings Community Event
The Whitney Museum of Art,
42 Wendell Ave,
Pittsfield MA
February 28, 2020
5-8:00 pm
In the Latino culture , Three Kings Day is a very important event to celebrate the coming of the Three Kings to the Christ child, falling on January 6th, which includes re enactment and gifts for children. Additionally, the “ I Have a Dream” Four Kings event will promote the values of love and equity of the “King of Social Justice”, Martin Luther King.
“To inject a new dimension of love into the veins of our civilization”- MLK JR.
“Para inyectar una nueva dimension de amor dentro de la venas de nuestra civilizacion”- <MLKJR.
Manos Unidas announces a collaborative community event with Roots and Dreams Coop and other dedicated collaborators, to shake off the winter blues! Come learn how to dance a dance from Central America, help create a giant mural on themes of peace and justice, add your dream to the Community Dream Tree, eat delicious Puerto Rican food, witness a colorful Mexican dance troupe, hear songs of peace, *ta gift sharing for our community children.
There will be concurrent tabling and a silent auction, as well as a material donation area for our *Unidos con Puerto Rico” project, which is seeking support again for our Puerto Rican brothers and sisters affected by the recent earthquakes.
At 7:00 pm, we will do a staged reading of our community bilingual play “I Had a Dream,” written by David Detmold, and performed by a dedicated group of Manos Unidas members. Connect with a diverse array of community members in this second annual “I Have a Dream” Four Kings Day tradition in the spirit of community generosity and love.
The event is free to all peoples, but there is a suggested donation of $10 per plate of food, and a suggested donation of $20 for the food and event per family, to raise money for the Hopeseed Empowerment Cooperative of Manos Unidas, which is helping build a multi-class, multicultural movement that assists in building cooperative business visions, as well as raising the capacity of our community to the next level of greatness.
Four Kings/ Cuatro Reyes Performance lineup
The Whit, 42 Wendell Ave, Friday Feb 28th, 2020
Concurrent 5-630: Puerto Rican Food by Gustitos Boricuas
Concurrent 5-7pm: Multicultural Muralmaking with Kristina Cardot of Funky Phoenix and Manos Unidas
Concurrent: Silent Auction and Info Tabling
5-5:30- background music and intros, readings by Manos team and TBA
5:30-6:
Tyramisu- soul music
Indigo and Anaelisa- songs for justice
Chris Stix- drumming
Imaran and Anu- spoken word
6pm: Sandra Bonilla- Salvadorean dance
6:20- Living through the Arts Multicultural Youth Initiative of Manos Unidas children sing
6:30- Hoping Machine
7:00pm staged reading of “I Had a Dream”, a bilingual play about border crossings and the struggles of our times. written by David Detmold and performed by Manos Unidas members and supporters with a special vocal and musical performances by Living through the Arts project children/ Manos team and the Gauadalupenas, a Mexican dance troupe
7:30- 7:50- words and generosity/giftsharing/ concurrent music
7:50 closing and musica
Info: manosunidasorg@gmail.com, kmcardot@gmail.com, mariamorengo2019@gmail.com
(413)-841-0298, (413)-464-6485, (413)-310-8944, se habla espanol
P.O Box 112, South Lee, MA 01260
and popup locations in Pittsfield, MA 0120
http://manos-unidas.wix.com/
For more information about a list of desired items for Puerto Rico or for gift signups for your children or those you know, please text or email one of us above!
Para mas informacion sobre las donaciones para Puerto Rico, para agregarse a la lista de los regalos de los ninos, o cualquier pregunta, porfavor comunicarse con nosostros en los correos electronicos o telefonos arriba!
WORLD INTERFAITH HARMONY MEET
City: Mount Abu
+919079295525
Organizer: Brahma Kumaris
Location:: Gyan Saroval – Academy for a Better World, Mt.Abu, Rajasthan, India
Email: ecoshanti@brahmakumaris.com
World Interfaith Harmony Meet is being organized by Brahma Kumaris at its international Head Quarter Complex Gyan Sarovar, an academy for a better world.
This event is being celebrated during the Silver Jubilee celebrations of Gyan Sarovar. Many spiritual, religious and faith leaders will be participating in the meet. The aim and objectives of this event are to share common interests and to also come to common understanding regarding actions that could be taken to mitigate climate-related issues, inter-regional harmony, and value-based education systems. The list of the invited guests include:
HH Dalai Lama Ji,
Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev Ji,
Sri Ravi Shankar Ji,
Dadi Janki Ji, and many others.
Gyan Sarovar
The Academy for the Better World, known in Hindi as Gyan Sarovar, offers residential programs and courses on development and practical implementation of human, moral and spiritual values and principles.
The Brahma Kumaris started building the campus for the Academy for a Better World, an institution of higher learning established by the Brahma Kumaris along with its sister institution, the World Renewal Spiritual Trust, and Rajyoga Education and Research Foundation, in 1991. The aim was to provide a training facility for the institution’s outreach to all sections of society. Within a few years, 28 acres of land near the institution’s headquarters in Mount Abu was transformed into a modern village complex in a quiet, rural setting.
The campus includes Universal Harmony Hall, an auditorium that can seat 1,600 people and has facilities for simultaneous translation in 16 languages; the International Spiritual Art Gallery housing sculptures, murals, audio-visual and laser displays and other works of art from around the world; the International Center for Higher Learning comprising 13 seminar and training rooms; accommodation for up to 1,500 people; kitchen and dining facilities that can cater to 1,200 people at a time; three man-made lakes that irrigate the 15,000 trees planted to provide fruits and vegetables and a rural retreat atmosphere; and a solar water heater for cooking. The telephone exchange, computers and emergency lighting systems are powered by solar and wind energy, and a unique waste treatment plant is capable of treating 200,000 liters of washing, kitchen and bathroom waste water daily, of which nearly 80 percent is available for re-use.
In 1996, the Academy was presented to Habitat II, the second UN Conference on Human Settlements held in Istanbul, Turkey. It was recognised as part of the Best Practice Initiative for Human Settlements.
“When you increase the number of gardens, you increase the number of heavens too!”
Greater Cincinnati PPC Organizing Meeting
· Hosted by Ohio Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival
Our Saviour Covington
246 E 10th St,
Covington, KY 41011
Sunday, March 1, 2020
at 4 PM – 6 PM
MARCH 3, 2020
Lunch Hour: Technology and Relationships
A Four Week Online Course with Dr. Kenneth Rose
Virtual Reality, Māyā,
and Yoga’s Virtual Bodies
Tues, Mar 3, 10, 17, 24 (7-9:00 pm EST)
Course Description
Everyday life is rapidly going virtual, and we are experiencing the vaporization of physical reality as technology rapidly evolves. Apps are displacing shopping malls, and crude single-player video games have morphed into massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs). This rapid virtualization of physical reality leads MIT computer scientist Rizwan Virk to suggest in The Simulation Hypothesis that we may be living in an MMORPG without knowing it.
If we are living in a hypnotic simulation controlled by beings greater than us but unknown by us, can we develop a powerful video game to break through to reality? Perhaps, but we would remain dependent upon machinery to awaken—like always needing a meditation app to meditate. Humanity’s mystical traditions teach that we are master simulators of our own experience—with or without machinery—and that it is our choice to sleep or to wake up.
In this course, we will unfold the classic Panchakosha, or Five-Bodies Teaching, from the Upaniṣads to realize the mystical depth in human life. This ancient teaching shows us how to perceive the multiple subtle or virtual bodies that cover up our ordinary consciousness. As we enter more deeply into this teaching over the four weeks of this course, we will also learn how to dismantle these virtual bodies and return to our inborn standpoint of natural enlightenment.
Students who take this course will learn:
The difference between virtual, augmented, and simulated reality
How Hinduism’s Five-Bodies Teaching uncovers the multiple bodies that cover our naturally illumined consciousness
How to use the natural technology of meditation
How the Simulation Hypothesis mirrors ancient teachings about māyā and illusion
How to enter deeper stages of meditation
How to perceive and pass beyond the five bodies that enclose our true Self
COURSE INCLUDES:
4 Live, Interactive Zoom Sessions
4 Q&As with Kenneth
4 Downloadable Videos & MP3s
Course Readings
10 Embodied Philosophy Credits
10 Yoga Alliance Cont. Ed. Credits
Private Pop-Up Facebook Group
Course Outline
Kenneth Rose, Ph.D., has been a professor of Philosophy and Religion for three decades. His degrees include an M.Div. from Harvard Divinity School and an M.A. and a Ph.D. in the Study of Religion from Harvard University. He developed and lead the online course, “Wisdom from World Religions,” which is funded by a Templeton World Charity Foundation grant (https://wisdomfromworldreligions.com).
His books include:
Yoga, Meditation, and Mysticism: Contemplative Universals and Meditative Landmarks,
Pluralism: The Future of Religion,
The Light of the Self: A Memoir of a Spiritual Awakening,
Edge of Awakening: Poems from the Borderline of Mind and Awareness.
These books and his three Audible programs are available at:
https://smile.amazon.com/Kenneth-Rose/e/B00B5J3ANO?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1574093203&sr=8-1
Free LIVE Webinar
How to Shine Your Light to Co-create the World We Know is Possible
Wednesday, March 4 at 2:00 pm EST
- Courage: Courage to believe in your dreams . . . for yourself and for the Earth . . . even when appearances seemingly prove otherwise.
- Tools: Empowering practical tools that work. Tools that you help you stay calm, grounded, and centered, even when it can feel like the world around us is falling apart.
- Community: Connection to a community of like-minded visionaries who share your hopes, dreams, and visions. The kind of people who believe that together we can co-create a new world. In our lifetime.
- Why courage is an essential quality of all visionaries today and how to cultivate it on a daily basis to foster your dreams.
- 3 easy tools to help keep you grounded and centered so you can integrate this courage to help build your innate strength and resilience. One tool in particular focuses on building your heart’s resilience.
- Why connection to a community that shares your values is vital for visionaries.
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.
FIND OUT MORE
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:
(415) 767-0070
Mailing Address:
No Bully
1012 Torney Ave
San Francisco, CA 94129
Tuesday, March 10, 2020
Hallock Auditorium, Lewis Environmental Studies Building, Oberlin College
122 Elm Street, Oberlin, OH, 44074
4:30pm – 6:00pm EST; doors open at 4pm
Topic: Tainted: Anti-Suffragism and Race Politics in the Crusade for Women’s Votes
“Determined to Rise”: Women’s Historic Activism for Equal Rights
Panelists:
- Angela P. Dodson, Author, Remember the Ladies: Celebrating Those Who Fought for Freedom at the Ballot Box (Center Street Press, 2017): Angela P. Dodson is author of “Remember the Ladies: Celebrating Those Who Fought for Freedom at the Ballot Box” about the woman suffrage movement in the United States and women’s political gains up to the present. Dodson is also an independent editor, writer and consultant. She founded an editorial services company, Editorsoncall LLC, in 2012, to link freelancers to clients in need of writing, editing, graphic and photographic services. She earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism at Marshall University and a master’s degree in journalism and public affairs from the American University. Angela is a former senior editor and former Style editor for the New York Times. She has most recently been an online editor and book reviewer for DIVERSE: Issues In Higher Education, diverseeducation.com, and diversebooks.net. She is the former executive editor of Black Issues Book Review.
- Dr. Carol Lasser, Emerita Professor of History, Oberlin College: Carol Lasser is Emerita Professor of History at Oberlin College and former president of the Society for the History of the Early American Republic (SHEAR). At Oberlin she taught about women, gender and race in American history, and chaired the History Department and the Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies Program. Her books include Antebellum American Women (with Stacey Robertson, 2010); Friends and Sisters: Letters Between Lucy Stone and Antoinette Brown Blackwell, 1846-1893, (with Marlene Merrill, 1987), Educating Men and Women Together: Coeducation in a Changing World (1987), and, most recently, with Gary Kornblith, Elusive Utopia: The Struggle for Racial Equality in Oberlin, Ohio (Louisiana State University Press 2018). Her articles address topics ranging from Civil War courtship to utopianism to the scholarship of teaching and learning. With students, she created Digitizing American Feminisms: Projects from the Oberlin College Archives (http://americanfeminisms.org/), featuring materials that bring feminist history alive. Her current projects include ongoing research on the life Lethia Cousins Fleming (1876-1963), a Cleveland woman of color who pursued a pioneering political career in the first half of the twentieth century. Professor Lasser is also rethinking the racial implications of the Nineteenth Amendment in her work-in-progress, “Bending to the Color Line: The Fight for Woman Suffrage in Ohio,” and she continues her work exploring Oberlin history, focusing on racial inequality in employment, public schools, housing and recreation from the 1930s to the 1980s. She earned her B.A. at the University of Pennsylvania and her Ph.D. at Harvard University.
- Dr. Ben Railton, Professor of English Studies and Coordinator of American Studies, Fitchburg State University: Ben Railton is Professor of English Studies and Coordinator of American Studies at Fitchburg State University in Massachusetts. He is the author of five books, most recently We the People: The 500-Year Battle over Who is American (Rowman and Littlefield’s American Ways series). He also writes the daily American Studies blog, contributes the bimonthly Considering History column to the Saturday Evening Post, and is the Boston Chapter Leader for the Scholars Strategy Network.
- Moderator: Tamika Nunley, Assistant Professor of History, Oberlin College: Tamika Nunley is an assistant professor of American history. Her research and teaching interests include slavery, gender, 19th-century legal history, digital history, and the American Civil War. At Oberlin, she created the History Design Lab that allows students to develop scholarly projects that involve methodological approaches that range from digital humanities, exhibit design, oral history, podcasts, historical fiction, and public history. Her book manuscript, ‘‘At the Threshold of Liberty: Women, Slavery, and the Boundaries of Freedom in Washington, D.C.,’’ examines how black women strategically used the laws, geography, and community networks of the nation’s capital to make claims to liberty during the Civil War era. Her work has been supported by the Andrew W. Mellon and Woodrow Wilson foundations as well as the American Association of University Women.
To register, go to https://www.eventbrite.com/e/determined-to-rise-womens-historic-activism-for-equal-rights-tickets-93388356087
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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.
Thursday, March 19, 2020
The Forum, Michigan History Center
702 W. Kalamazoo St, Lansing, MI 48915
6:30pm – 8:00pm
In collaboration with Michigan Women Forward
Topic: Woman’s Suffrage: The West Came First
“Determined to Rise”: Women’s Historic Activism for Equal Rights
Panelists:
- Dr. Molly Rozum, Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, The University of South Dakota (Vermillion, SD): Molly P. Rozum, Ph.D., is the co-editor (with Lori Ann Lahlum) of Equality at the Ballot Box: Votes for Women on the Northern Great Plains, published by South Dakota Historical Society Press (2019). The volume includes her article, “Citizenship, Civilization, and Property: The 1890 South Dakota Vote on Woman Suffrage and Indian Suffrages.” Rozum is Associate Professor and Ronald R. Nelson Chair of Great Plains and South Dakota History at The University of South Dakota, Vermillion and teaches the histories of South Dakota, and the Great Plains, and the American West, and Modern Women’s History. Rozum grew up in Mitchell, South Dakota.
- Dr. Lori Ann Lahlum, Professor, Department of History, Minnesota State University, Mankato (Mankato, MN): Lori Ann Lahlum is professor of history at Minnesota State University, Mankato, where she teaches courses on the American West, Minnesota history, and western women’s and gender history. She and Molly Rozum edited Equality at the Ballot Box: Votes for Women on the Northern Great Plains, which came out with South Dakota Historical Press in 2019. Lahlum also publishes on Norwegian America.
- Dr. Virginia Caruso, Historian and Member, Board of Trustees, Historical Society of Michigan (Plainwell, MI): Virginia Paganelli Caruso retired in 2001 after 34 years of teaching history at 4-year liberal arts colleges, and community colleges. She holds graduate degrees from the University of Michigan where she received her MA, has a Specialist in the Arts degree from Western Michigan University, and her PhD from Michigan State University. Her interest in both Michigan and Women’s History dates back to early 1981 when she discovered that the standard texts on Michigan History were inconsistent about when women in Michigan achieved equal suffrage. Focusing on this topic for her dissertation, she has been researching and talking about Woman Suffrage, voting rights, voting in Michigan, and the political activism of women ever since. She currently serves on the board of the Historical Society of Michigan, moderates panels at HSM conferences, serves as a Michigan History Day judge, and is active with the local Friends of Michigan Library Group. She also conducts local history research with the informal local history group that uses the library’s resources.
- Moderator: Valerie Marvin, Historian & Curator of the Michigan State Capitol (Lansing, MI): Valerie Marvin serves as the Historian & Curator of the Michigan State Capitol, a National Historic Landmark. In this capacity, she oversees the Capitol’s historical collections, and conducts extensive research on Capitol and legislative history, sharing her findings through publications, lectures, and social media. She is a proud graduate of the University of Michigan (Bachelor of Arts in Russian Studies, 2005) and Eastern Michigan University (Masters of Science in Historic Preservation, 2009). She is an active member of the Historical Society of Greater Lansing, the Downtown Lansing Inc. Design Committee, and the Lansing Woman’s Club. Valerie lives with her husband David in a 1906 home in downtown Lansing.
To register, go to https://www.eventbrite.com/e/determined-to-rise-womens-historic-activism-for-equal-rights-tickets-93316306585
The Spring Awakening and Healing Through Pure Consciousness Retreat
Whether you have significant health concerns or not, the Pure Consciousness practices support you to:
transform the stress of modern living,
improve your overall well-being,
expand your capacity to be of service to others (including healing your loved ones, humanity, and our planet), and
expand your experience of life to live with more freedom, joy, and wisdom.
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Explore our 7-Day Awakening and Healing Retreat with us,
focused on continuous practice, silent connection, and
the embodied experience of pure consciousness,
During the 7-day Retreat you will be guided by Master Mingtong in gentle movement, sound healing, and meditation practices, specifically to strengthen and stabilize your connection to Pure Consciousness and Pure Energy.
The Spring Awakening and Healing Through Pure Consciousness Retreat is coming up soon — March 20-26. It will convene at the beautiful Chi Center for Wisdom Healing Qigong, just outside Santa Fe, New Mexico.
During 7 magical days, Master Mingtong will guide you in cultivating your consciousness via group learning, direct transmission, and continuous practice — while you enjoy the clean air, starry skies, amazing food, charming facilities, and warm community you’ll find at The Center.
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The Center for Wisdom Healing Qigong
Santa Fe, New Mexico |
The Chi Center, 40 Camino Vista Clara, Lamy, NM 87540, US
Take Action on National Refugee Shabbat
National Refugee Shabbat 5780, which will take place on March 20-21, 2020, is a moment for congregations, organizations, and individuals around the country to dedicate a Shabbat experience to refugees and asylum seekers.
Register: Learn more about how your community or group can participate at hias.org/nrs – it’s not too late!
There are also many ways individuals can take action for refugees and asylum seekers in the week leading up to National Refugee Shabbat, as well as on the actual Shabbat itself (in accordance with individual Shabbat practice). Feel free to share the list below widely with family and friends.
12 WAYS TO TAKE ACTION THIS NATIONAL REFUGEE SHABBAT
1. Advocate – Call your Member of Congress to ask them to stand for the rights, safety and dignity of refugees and asylum seekers.
2. Get Involved in the Election – Research the candidates running in local elections in your area, and let them know that the rights of refugees and asylum seekers are among your top priority issues this year.
3. Update Your Facebook Photo Frame – Show your support for refugees by updating your Facebook profile picture with the HIAS #JewsforRefugees frame. Click here for directions.
4. Join the “Jews for Refugees” Facebook Group – Joining this group is a great way to connect with thousands of other committed individuals across the country, access up-to-the-minute information about the Jewish response to the refugee crisis, and share the actions that you are taking. Click here to join.
5. Donate Your Miles to Asylum Seekers – HIAS has partnered with Miles4Migrants (M4M), a nonprofit charity dedicated to using donated frequent flyer miles and money for the relocation of refugees and those seeking asylum – including families recently separated at the U.S.-Mexico border. HIAS and Miles4Migrants (M4M) will work to identify refugees and asylum seekers who need assistance purchasing airfare to reunite with their families. Donate your frequent flyer miles here the week of National Refugee Shabbat.
6. Buy Refugee-Produced Goods – Support refugees and asylum seekers around the world and in your local community by buying refugee-produced goods and/or researching refugee-owned restaurants in your community and having a meal there. Check out this website to purchase goods made by a collective of African asylum-seeking women living in Tel Aviv, Israel.
7. Give Life to Refugees and Asylum Seekers – In the week leading up to National Refugee Shabbat, set up a Facebook fundraiser to benefit HIAS’ work.
8. Scholarships for Displaced Students – Research whether your local universities and colleges offer scholarships to refugees and asylum seekers. If not, reach out and ask them to consider starting such a program. Check out Columbia University’s program for an example.
9. Have A Difficult Conversation – Using the HIAS Conversational Guide for How to Talk About Refugees with Family and Friends, commit to having at least one conversation with someone in your life who has expressed concern about welcoming refugees to the United States or even someone who has made disparaging remarks about refugees or asylum seekers.
10. Light Shabbat Candles with Intention – As you welcome Shabbat on March 20, use this reading before lighting Shabbat candles to set an intention to stand with refugees and asylum seekers around the globe.
11. Host A Gathering In Your Home – Invite a small group of friends over to your home for Shabbat dinner or lunch or a havdallah (the ceremony for closing Shabbat) wine and cheese gathering. At the gathering, consider using the HIAS National Refugee Shabbat 5780-2020 Programming Content Resource. Use the text study on page 6 of this guide as a jumping off point for conversation, take a look at and discuss the refugee art on page 13 of this guide, or screen the movie suggested on page 14 and 15 of this guide.
12. Start A Book Club – Start a book club – for adults or young people – to read books by and about refugees and asylum seekers. Use this list as a jumping off point for suggestions or search google for even more ideas.
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.
The climate crisis is the greatest challenge we face – already excacerbating injustices and environmental health disparities.
The good news? Leading medical journals and experts confirm that climate change poses the “greatest health opportunity of the 21st century.” Taking action to reduce fossil fuel pollution and address the crisis can save lives, improve our air quality, and address inequality.
Health professionals are essential messengers to inspire action.
Will you join us in Vancouver, WA on March 22nd for this
free education and advocacy training event
focusing on the latest on climate change and health,
and how to effectively promote solutions?
The climate crisis is big, but we know we can achieve meaningful solutions through dedicated advocacy. To do so, we need to build upon our movement and engage more health professionals to drive action. Join us in Vancouver to learn more and get plugged in!
Featured speakers include Dianne Glover, MD, a WPSR Climate & Health Task Force pediatrician, Don and Alona Steinke, RN, of Southwest Washington Climate Action, and Lluvia Merello, Energy Justice Organizer for Oregon PSR.
Vancouver Public Library, 901 C Street, Vancouver WA
RSVP: Vancouver Climate Change & Health Event
This is a FREE event, and lunch will be provided.
See you there!
Sarah Cornett
WPSR Climate Program & Advocacy Manager
sarah@wpsr.org
206-547-2630
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