Global Cooperation, Peace & Freedom

December 16, 2020Leave a comment

The Global Silent Minutewas launched on December 21st, 2019 as a once-only event to create a planetary pause to recalibrate Humanity to its true destiny within the Universe. In recognition of its restorative, revitalizing impact, Global Silent Minute has continued as a daily practice. 2020 was the year in which this daily rhythm was anchored throughout the planet. In the face of global challenges, to meet together daily for one minute of silence – the exact same minute everywhere – enables us to harness the power of cooperation on both sides of the veil for global cooperation, peace and freedom. Join Dot Maver, Founder of the Global Silent Minute, for this uplifting conversation.

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Dr. Dot Maver is an educator and peacebuilder whose keynote is inspiring cooperation on behalf of the common good. Dot is a co-founder of the Global Silent Minute and is a founder and board member with the National Peace Academy USA, Global Alliance for Ministries and Infrastructures of Peace the River Phoenix Center for Peacebuilding. and Garden of Light. Her work in education, politics and grassroots community organizing is focused on applied peacebuilding utilizing a shared responsibility and shared leadership model. She is a speaker and facilitator focusing on the spirit of cooperation and creating the conditions for a Culture of Peace.

Exploring World Unity

June 17, 2020Leave a comment

Exploring World Unity with Ben Bowler

The global pause caused by the COVID-19 pandemic is uniting the world in new ways. Our opportunity to foster a genuine movement towards global unity has never been greater. Together, we are co-creating a new story and a more beautiful future for Earth and all its inhabitants. As we seek greater unity, some ask, “Is unity even possible?” Perhaps our inherent unity—our innate wholeness—is the only remedy for our times. Join Ben Bowler from Unity Earth as he invites that unity to shape our future, inspire radical hope, and catalyze deep transformation.

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Ben Bowler is the Executive Director of UNITY EARTH, a global network building a worldwide movement for unity and peace. In 2006 he and his wife Jildou moved to Thailand to volunteer along the Thai-Burma border. In 2008 they founded Blood Foundation together, a NGO focusing on education projects. In 2008 Ben founded Monk for a Month in Chiang Mai offering men and women the opportunity to experience Thai temple life and temporary ordination. In 2010, Ben launched Muslim for a Month in Turkey offering guests a first-hand experience of Turkish Islam and Sufism, underneath the spiritually inclusive banner of Rumi. A year later, he launched World Weavers, offering spiritual immersion programs in Tibetan India, Nepal, Cambodia and Ethiopia. In October 2015, at the Parliament of World’ Religions, Ben launched 1GOD.com, an online platform aimed at countering religious fundamentalism, relativism and western materialism. Since then he has worked to build UNITY EARTH into a global platform that can support and empower the many grassroots movements working towards unity and peace in the world.

Peacebuilding and Codes for a Healthy Earth

May 20, 2020Leave a comment

Peacebuilding and Codes for a Healthy Earth with Dot Maver

The National Peace Academy‘s understanding of peace is shaped by the definition contained in the Earth Charter: “…peace is the wholeness created by right relationships with oneself, other persons, other cultures, other life, Earth, and the larger whole of which all are a part.” Building peace begins with the interdependent and dynamic interrelationships between and among all organisms and their surroundings in a living system, and requires that we actively strive to establish right relationships with Earth and its ecosystems. Learn how to build peace with Codes for a Healthy Earth and Peace Activist, Dot Maver.

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Dorothy J. Maver, Ph.D. is an educator and peacebuilder whose keynote is inspiring cooperation on behalf of the common good. Dot is a co-founder of the Global Silent Minute, the National Peace Academy USA, River Phoenix Center for Peacebuilding, and Global Alliance for Ministries and Infrastructures of Peace. She also co-facilitates monthly webinars focusing on the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Dot is co-author of the book Conscious Education: The Bridge to Freedom; is a Fellow with the World Business Academy; a board member with Lifebridge Foundation and Garden of Light; and serves on the International Cities of Peace Advisory Council, the Inamori International Center for Ethics and Excellence Advisory Board, the Shift Network Summer of Peace Wisdom Council; and is an advisor for Compassion Games. From 2005–2007 Dot served as Executive Director of The Peace Alliance and Campaign for a US Department of Peace, and prior to that she was the National Campaign Manager for Kucinich for President 2004. In the world of fast-pitch softball Dr. Dot is known for her revolutionary fast-pitch hitting technique, The Maver Method: Secrets of Hitting Success.

Discovering Profound Peace and Connection in Unprecedented Times

April 8, 2020Leave a comment

Discovering Profound Peace and Connection in Unprecedented Times with Panache Desai

Achieving equilibrium in these unprecedented times can seem like a nearly-impossible—even frivolous—task. Panache Desai offers a refreshing, surprisingly unusual approach to meet the challenges of the modern moment and heal the fractured self it produces. For Desai, the soul—whole, unbroken, at peace, and one with the life source—isn’t a destination. It already exists within each of us, just waiting to be revealed. When we are in union with our soul, we experience a personal evolution that not only illuminates our purpose but helps us to engage the sense of purpose and presence necessary to remake the world itself.

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Panache Desai is a bestselling author, thought leader, and life catalyst whose loving, compassionate presence and unique power of insight have transformed countless individuals, organizations, and companies. Through energetic transformation, Panache helps people break free from suffering and limitation on every level, fostering a deeper understanding of who they are, and guiding them into greater states of connection, collaboration, and love.

Business Plan for Peace

March 4, 2020Leave a comment

Business Plan for Peace with Scilla Elworthy

Many people feel powerless in the face of what they see on TV or read in the news – a world in crisis, with wars and violence taking place across the globe. Do you want to step out of the helplessness and apply your personal skills to do something meaningful about the challenges now facing us? Humanity now has the experience, knowledge and tools to prevent and resolve conflict. Scilla Elworthy offers the Business Plan for Peace, an ambitious, long-term solution that challenge the status quo.

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Dr Scilla Elworthy turns vision into action: three times nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for developing effective dialogue between nuclear weapons policy-makers worldwide and their critics, with the Oxford Research Group founded in 1982.

Peace Direct goes from strength to strength under brilliant young leadership, founded by Scilla in 2002 to fund, promote and learn from local peace-builders in conflict areas. Scilla was adviser to Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Sir Richard Branson in setting up ‘The Elders’, and was Awarded the Niwano Peace Prize in 2003.

Today her full attention is on developing Business Plan for Peace

www.thebusinessplanforpeace.org resulting from her 2017 book The Business Plan for Peace: Building a World Without War.

Her TED talk on non-violence has been viewed by over 1,400,000 people on TED and YouTube.

Peace with All Life

October 17, 2019Leave a comment

Peace with All Life with Sailesh Rao

Imagine a radically inclusive, equitable human society that is in harmony with a thriving natural world. You are invited to wake to the notion that compassion for all life is infinitely sustainable. Sailesh Rao talks about compassion and the Codes for a Healthy Earth: Cultivating Peace with All Life.

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Sailesh Rao is the Founder and Executive Director of Climate Healers, a non-profit dedicated towards healing the Earth’s climate. As a systems specialist with a Ph. D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford, Sailesh worked on the Internet communications infrastructure for twenty years after graduation. In 2006, he switched careers and became deeply immersed, full-time, in the spiritual and environmental crises affecting humanity. He is the author of Carbon Dharma… and Carbon Yoga… He is also the Co-Executive Producer of the trilogy of documentaries, The Human Experiment, Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret, and What The Health, which explore the systemic causes of human and environmental ill health and of the documentary, The Compassion Project.

Play for Peace

February 20, 2019Leave a comment

Play for Peace with Sarah Gough

Five hundred million people live in countries in conflict, many of them children at risk for violence and exploitation. Play for Peace shares a hopeful, but ambitious vision to unify the world starting with bridging the divides in the most conflicted areas led by local youth leaders. Play for Peace teaches children, youth and communities that there is another way. Differences and conflict are a part of human reality, but hatred, violence and fear don’t have to be.

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Sarah Gough, MSW, is Play for Peace’s Director enjoying over 20 years field work with youth in diverse settings. Involved with Play for Peace since 2001, Sarah co-authored “Peacecircles” (2013) and has facilitated training and workshops in experiential peace education around the world. Through Sarah’s leadership Play for Peace has grown to include thousands of children, youth and adults in over 40 countries. As an experiential educator she has facilitated growth, learning and change in corporate, governmental, religious and school groups.

Living Your Wholeness

February 14, 2019Leave a comment

A Pep Talk with Humanity

October 17, 2018Leave a comment

A Pep Talk with Humanity with John Viscount

You open the morning paper, turn on the radio or T.V., and what do you experience? You log-in to social media and a plethora of emotions and opinions storm your field of awareness. You can eloquently remain in the peaceful sanctuary of your higher mind no matter what the world presents. John Viscount shares wisdom and practices that transcend the obstacles of our daily lives. His life and work begin with promoting the kind in humankind and these times call for more kindness. Listen in for a compassionate and loving “pep talk” for us all.

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John Viscount is the Founder of the Peace Entertainment Project (PEPSTAR) and Co-Founder of PeaceNow.com, which is gathering one billion signatures for a proposed United Nations Global Resolution that establishes peace departments in governments worldwide. He is also a filmmaker, playwright, composer and author of “Mind What Matters. A Pep Talk for Humanity.” John began writing as a delivery system for the helpful teachings that cured him of cluster migraine headaches that he suffered with for 16 years. Their nickname was appropriately, “suicide headaches” and The American Medical Association called these headaches one of the worst pains known to humankind. He eventually turned to spiritual teachings that helped him change the way he thought and turn his mind into an ally. Once the headaches were healed, he began writing to share the perspectives that had been so helpful to him so others could benefit. Those perspectives and teachings are featured in all his work including his book, his award-winning film, “Admissions” and his upcoming film, “The Principle” which tackles cyberbullying. John has also created dramatic scripts which address societal challenges such as human trafficking, racism, homelessness, opioid addiction, PTSD, the global water crisis, universal free health care, climate change, the homeless children of La Paz, Bolivia, terminal illness, divorce, bereavement and teenage suicide. John also has a full slate of for-profit feature films and television series, in addition to original music he has created for these commercial intellectual properties. For more information, please contact his manager, Trish Reilly at trish@johnviscount.com. You can also visit www.johnviscount.com.

The Missing Piece/Peace

October 9, 2015Leave a comment

A Halloween catalog came in the mail. I don’t usually look at catalogs but my husband suggested I would enjoy the fun and creative visual feast. I opened it and immediately spotted this image: “Rest in Pieces.” Instantly, I had one of those moments of recognition. It was as if a story of “unity and connection” had written itself, begging for my signature. I chuckled out loud and thought, “How perfect is that!?”

The play on words from “Rest in Peace” to “Rest in Pieces,” with the spooky, graveyard zombies, took my mind on a whimsical, yet contemplative, journey.

One definition of peace is personal. Inner peace, or peace of mind, refers to a mental calm, serenity, or tranquility. This peace is considered by many to be healthy homeostasis and generally associated with bliss and happiness as opposed to stress and anxiety. Another definition of peace is relational. It means a freedom from disturbance, disorder, dispute, or war. Peace is a sign of harmony and suggests the existence of healthy or newly healed interpersonal or international relationships.

Piece, on the other hand, refers to a portion of an object or something “not being whole.” What happens when we view ourselves, and our world, as “not being whole?”

Humanity has been “Resting in Pieces” for centuries. We have been living out a powerful and very destructive story of separation. In developing the ego, the self-reflective mind differentiates the self and creates an illusion of separation from the earth, nature, God/Spirit/Source, other humans, the cosmos, and the whole of creation. The mind compartmentalizes everything into pieces, including our body/mind/spirit. As a result, we have become obsessed with comparing, contrasting, and competing. This perpetuates an even greater sense of separation, stress and anxiety as we experience perennial failure – never measuring up or fitting in. Feeling incomplete, we find ourselves in an epic wandering, searching outside of ourselves for the missing piece/peace.

Relationally, seeing the world from the story of separation has left us feeling threatened and vulnerable. We have created myriad social forms – political, economic, spiritual, and so on, in an attempt to create order, a sense of belonging, and protect ourselves (from “them” – the other pieces of the whole). This worldview of separation has led to unhealthy boundaries, beliefs, judgment, and injustice. We have created greater disturbance and unrest by seeing the world through separation and fear. In the pursuit of power and dominance, we are destroying each other, our planet, and ourselves.

There is no peace when we rest in our pieces.

It is time to awaken and move into action. Let’s put our pieces back together and claim our authentic power through peace and connection. The power of peace comes from an integral lens, seeing Creation as one living, interdependent system. It’s time to tell a new story of love, integration and unity. We are essential pieces of an integrated whole. We are part of one living system. We are members of an interconnected universe. We have never really been separate. Remembering our wholeness, and seeing the world and ourselves in this way, moves us into greater health, harmony and yes, peace.

Peace be with you… and may we all rest in the awareness of our complete piece/peace.

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