The Peace Ambassador Training 2.0

Description

The Peace Ambassador Training 2.0

What You’ll Discover: Course Overview
Course sessions are on Wednesdays at 5:00pm Pacific.

The training will offer you an immersive experience in building skills with today’s top peace leaders and is divided into 4 pillars:

Mindfulness, Inner Peace & Resilience
Healing Personal & Collective Wounds
Communicating Peace
Mastering Systems Change & Organizing for Peace
Philip Hellmich and/or Emily Hine will lead all the classes and share their own insights about peacebuilding. They’ll also host guest faculty in the first 11 sessions (in the 12th and final session, Peace Ambassadors will share YOUR own insights and initiatives). Each guest faculty will teach on specific topics and then engage students in questions and answers.

Each pillar will be supplemented with bonus recordings from other renowned faculty to provide additional wisdom on each step of the peacebuilding journey.

Emily and Philip will bring the material to life by integrating the guest faculty teachings into a cohesive map for peacebuilding, from the personal to the planetary.

You’ll also have practices, readings and assignments that deepen your experience of the material and put you into close collaboration with other training members from around the world.

Pillar 1
Mindfulness, Inner Peace
& Resilience
These sessions in Pillar 1 will help you cultivate mindfulness, an inner awareness that supports emotional, psychological and spiritual well-being — the foundation for inner peace that is essential for all Peace Ambassadors.

Session 1:
Inner Peace: The Foundation for
All Peace (January 13)
Guest Faculty: Sister Jenna

In this session, you will:

Experience your true Essence — a state of being beyond any name, title, gender or role.
Access a state of inner peace and oneness that is always present.
Become aware of patterns that can “block” you from experiencing inner peace — these thoughts come from A.L.G.A.E. (anger, lust, greed, attachment and ego) and feed the thoughts that cause us sorrow or more anger.
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Guest Faculty: Sister Jenna is a spiritual leader, author, radio talk show host, renowned speaker and founder and director of the Meditation Museum I & II in metropolitan Washington, D.C. and director of the Washington, D.C. branch of the Brahma Kumaris, a worldwide organization with over 8,500 branches in 120 countries. She was selected as one of the EBW 100 Most Influential Global Leaders and served as a principal partner with the Oprah Winfrey Network and Values Partnerships on the Belief Team, a community of individuals from diverse spiritual, cultural and faith backgrounds.

Session 2:
The Science of Mindfulness
& Inner Peace (January 20)
Guest Faculty: Richard Miller, Ph.D.
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In this session, you will discover:

The latest Neuroscience that’s informing our understanding of mindfulness and meditation — how these ancient practices change our biochemistry and very DNA.
Mindfulness practices to help you:
Release negative emotions and thought patterns
Calm your nervous system
Build resiliency to reduce stress and increase well-being
Develop your capacity to respond effectively to the challenging circumstances you encounter in life
Research-proven tools and resources to assist you, your peers, family and community.
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Guest Faculty: Richard Miller, Ph.D., Founder and President of the non-profit educational Integrative Restoration Institute

The Integrative Restoration Institute (IRI) provides programs and trainings on how to live a contented life, free of conflict and fear, through our offering of teachings that help open your mind and body to its inherent ground of health, wholeness, and well-being. iRest Meditation, IRI’s special offering, is being utilized in VA hospitals, military bases, hospitals and clinics, hospice, homeless shelters, community programs, and schools worldwide.

Session 3:
The Heart’s Intuitive Intelligence:
A Path to Personal, Social & Global Coherence (January 27)
Guest Faculty: Deborah Rozman, Ph.D.
In this session, you will discover how to:

Increase resilience by improving your ability to “bounce back” and cultivate the powerful inner energy reserve that can make life easier during times of dynamic change.
Trust the heart by learning the research revealing your heart’s role in sending and receiving essential information for living a healthy, fulfilling life.
Cultivate heart intelligence by enhancing and accessing the powerful intelligence of your heart to rise above problems, even in the midst of chaos and confusion.
Engage the global heart by learning about research that suggests we are all connected by and live in the reflected energy of our hearts, with our emotions affecting the earth itself.
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Guest Faculty: Deborah Rozman, Ph.D., business executive, serial entrepreneur, psychologist, author and educator. Since 1990, founding executive director of the non-profit Institute of HeartMath, executive vice president of HeartMath LLC.

HeartMath is the world’s most influential scientific organization focused on the powers of the heart. Deborah will share how you can harness your heart’s power for intuition, joy and less stressful living.

Pillar 2
Healing Personal & Collective Wounds
The sessions in Pillar 2 will focus on giving you the skills to transform personal wounds and collective trauma in order to create personal and social transformation and significant evolutionary change.

Session 4:
How Mindfulness Can Transform
Racial Bias (February 3)
Guest Faculty: Rhonda Magee, JD

In this session, you will discover:

Research on how mindfulness practices can help you focus, give you greater control over your emotions, and increase your capacity to think clearly and act with purpose — specifically when working with racial or socioeconomic differences.
Compassion practices which can serve as powerful aids in the work of decreasing bias.
Mindfulness-based “ColorInsight” techniques that can increase your actual capacities — not only for acting in less biased ways — but also for making more authentic, positive and effective cross-race relationships in these re-segregated times.
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Guest Faculty: Rhonda Magee, JD, is Professor of Law at the University of San Francisco. She is also Chair of the Board of the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society, a member of the Project for the Integration of Spirituality, Law and Politics, and a contributor to Mindful.org.
Session 5:
Radical Forgiveness (February 10)
Guest Faculty: Colin Tipping

In this session, you will discover:

Radical Forgiveness technology — its theory and applications.
Practical tools to forgive yourself and people who have caused you pain and harm.
Techniques to shift your consciousness about what is happening in the world — to help you see the divine purpose in it and come to peace with it.
Methods to raise planetary consciousness and hasten the emergence of world peace by using the Radical Forgiveness technology.
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Guest Faculty: Colin Tipping, is Founder/Director of the Institute for Radical Forgiveness, Inc and author of Radical Forgiveness: A Revolutionary Five Stage Process for Finding Peace in Any Situation. He is the creator of what has come to be recognized as one of the most powerful leading-edge technologies for personal and spiritual growth today — Radical Forgiveness.

Session 6:
Compassion, Inner Peace & Common Humanity (February 17)
Guest Faculty: Thupten Jinpa

In this session, you’ll discover:

How recognizing suffering in yourself and others is the first step in healing your inner and interpersonal wounds.
The ways which the science of compassion illustrates we can nurture compassion for ourselves, loved ones, strangers — and even perceived enemies.
Why embracing common humanity is essential in healing collective global wounds.
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Guest Faculty: Thupten Jinpa, is Chairman of Mind and Life Institute, President of Institute of Tibetan Classics, and the Principal Translator to H.H. the Dalai Lama. He is the main author of CCT (Compassion Cultivation Training), an eight-week formal program developed at the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education (CCARE), Stanford University. He is also author of Essential Mind Training and A Fearless Heart: How the Courage to be Compassionate Can Transform Our Lives.

Pillar 3
Communicating Peace
In the sessions and practices in Pillar 3, you’ll advance in the art of skilled communication for yourself, family, community and world. You’ll learn the latest in peacebuilding, conflict transformation, social discourse and dialogue.

Session 7:
Safe Conversations: From Conflict to Connection (February 24)
Guest Faculty: Harville Hendrix, Ph.D. and Helen LaKelly Hunt, Ph.D.

Safe Conversations is for any type of family that could benefit from better communication with each other — husbands and wives, boyfriends and girlfriends, co-parents, partners, single parents and grandparents, coworkers, newlyweds, retirees, couples in crisis or best friends. No matter your situation, Safe Conversations teaches you how to interact with “Zero Negativity.”

In this session, you will discover:

Communication tools to help you create healthier relationships.
How to see other people’s differing views as a source of knowledge instead of as a source of conflict.
An introduction to the Safe Conversation Process as a resource for creating healthy communities.
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Guest Faculty: Harville Hendrix, Ph.D. and Helen LaKelly Hunt, Ph.D. co-authored best-selling book Getting the Love You Want, co-initiated Imago Relationships International as a training institute for couples therapists, Relationships First as a collaborative mission to change the cultural value system, and Family Wellness Dallas/Safe Conversations as an experiment to raise the joy index of a whole city.

Session 8: Nonviolent Communication — An Interpersonal & International Approach to Peace (March 2)
Guest Faculty: Katherine Singer

In this session, you will discover:

An authentic, compassionate connection with others using Nonviolent Communication techniques.
How to identify and communicate your feelings and needs so that you can communicate more effectively even when triggered.
Ways to use your inner dialogue and self-compassion as strategies to help you communicate peace internally and externally.
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Guest Faculty: Katherine Singer, President of Board for the Center of Nonviolent Communication (CVNC); Founder of the Korean Center for Nonviolent Communication

Having experienced the Korean War at the age of 5, Katherine has felt a deep commitment towards bringing about a world that is peaceful both within and without by resolving conflicts in a peaceful manner. In 1970, she immigrated to the United States, and, in 1997, met Marshall Rosenberg, the founder of Nonviolent Communication. Later, she became a trainer, then served the CNVC as a board member, and now as an assessor.

Session 9: Bridging the Cultural
Divide (March 9)
Guest Faculty: Waidehi Gokhale

In this session, you will discover:

The emerging field of Virtual Exchange.
Common perceptions that Islamic and Western youth have about each other.
Insights on how to become aware of your biases towards people of other cultures.
Techniques to help shift your perspective of people of other cultures.
Basic tools for facilitating dialogues and ways you and your community can participate in Virtual Exchange programs.
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Guest Faculty: Waidehi Gokhale, Executive Director of Soliya

Soliya is a pioneer in Virtual Exchange, working with 100 universities in 28 countries across the Middle East, North Africa, South Asia, Europe and North America. Soliya’s programs are helping bridge Islamic and Western youth through facilitated online dialogues. Soliya’s programs have inspired new legislation in the United States to encourage more Virtual Exchange in universities and colleges across the country.

Pillar 4
Mastering Systems Change & Organizing for Peace
In the Pillar 4 sessions, you’ll hone your understanding for how to create systemic change. You’ll also discover models of community-building and collaboration so you can choose how you want to apply your training as a Peace Ambassador in the world.

Session 10:
Change the Story, Change
the Future (March 16)
Guest Faculty: David Korten, Ph.D.

While we are witnessing global environmental devastation, social and economic injustice, and violence, we are also experiencing an emergence of movements focused on creating a new system of institutions, policies, and initiatives guided by new stories of hope and possibility.

David Korten writes, “We are in the midst of a deep shift in human consciousness. The work of our time is to learn to live in alignment with the structures and processes of Living Earth. If we step back, we can discern the outlines of an emerging interracial, intercultural global-scale social movement – an inclusive intersectoral movement of movements – converging on a trajectory toward a Living Earth future.”

While the issues we face can seem overwhelming, David Korten invites us to help shift the prevailing cultural story by exploring the stories that live in our hearts, inform our politics and media choices, and guide the missions of the institutions/organizations we depend upon and care about.

In this session, you will discover:

The realities of the economic and environmental challenges facing the planet and examine the underlying paradigms that have created these crises.
Insights on the emerging movements that are raising up a new living Earth narrative and actively displacing the old, destructive economic system with community-based solutions.
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Guest Faculty: David Korten, Ph.D. visionary, systems thinker, and author of Change the Story, Change the Future: A Living Economy for Living Earth, Agenda for a New Economy: From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth, When Corporations Rule the World, and The Great Turning.
Session 11:
The 21st Century Peace Ambassador as Evolutionary Leader & The Summer
of Peace (March 30)
Faculty: Philip Hellmich with special guests to be announced

As the course draws to a close, we will bring in several special guests who model the leadership characteristics of an evolved peace leader — qualities we’ve learned about throughout The Peace Ambassador Training 2.0. These special guests will share how they’ve applied their skills in their own peacebuilding organizations including: PeaceJam, Humanity’s Team, the International Cities of Peace, the International Day of Peace, The Peace Alliance, Gaiafield and the Summer of Peace.

Eleanor Roosevelt said: “It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.”

In this session, you will:

Anchor your understanding of the leadership skills needed to be an evolved peace leader
Learn about several successful global peace initiatives and how you can get involved
Become inspired to create your own peace project to apply your training immediately

Session 12:
Final Session — What is Your Peace
of the Puzzle? (April 6)
Faculty: Emily Hine and Philip Hellmich
This final class is an opportunity for you and your fellow Peace Ambassadors to share what you have learned and how you have been transformed during this training. You will also have the opportunity to share your personal peace projects and initiatives for creating peace in yourself, family, schools, community and our world.

In this session, you will:

Activate your part in the larger global shift to a culture of peace.
Determine what role you may play in The Summer of Peace.
Share your intended project and seek support from your fellow Peace Ambassadors.

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