The Dalai Lama says that it is impossible to have world peace without inner peace. Your journey in Module 1 will begin with your own inner world inventory, which will be expanded into an external world inventory.

The foundation for spreading peace in this new and very different kind of peace movement will be provided by developing a mapping process of your beliefs and values.

You will in this session.

• Get to the heart of your personal core belief systems and values
• Discover how to help others share their core belief systems and values and understand how belief is truly the rudder of change

• Examine unsustainable worldviews that lead to war and violence and broader systemic breakdown and outline the emerging worldviews that contribute to creating a planetary culture of peace as well as learn how to express this to others in a helpful, productive format
• Get a clear overview of the movement from one set of beliefs to another set, which fosters cultures of peace.

The inner and outer experiences of life are interdependent. You look at peace from the outside.

As you learn to participate in transforming societal aggression, violence and polarization, it’s necessary for skillful peacebuilding to be synchronized.

Creative peacebuilding and becoming a healthy and generative is the central theme of this module. The activist is sacred. There are people who model the changes needed for conflict resolution.

You will in this session.

• Develop a clear understanding of how our spiritual, psychological, and emotional field determines how skillfully you reflect peace and transform aggression and how you can effectively share this concept with others
• Familiarize yourself with important contributions of the new science to understand how to synchronize inner and outer, and communicate these concepts with others
• Learn how to sustain creative peacebuilding in a balanced way and how to guide others in this process
• Learn how to model the changes needed for social transformation and conflict resolution and in turn teach others to model the changes in themselves.

There can be no peace without healing.

James O’Dea pioneered the field of social healing. You can explore the effects of society’s wounds on the individual, and learn proven methods for healing both.

You will in this session.

• Discover key features of the emerging field of social healing and how to frame its new insights for others
• Examine wound attachment and the transmission of wounding between generations
• Explore perpetration from the perspective of wounding and psychological scarring
• Build on your understanding of worldview formation in Module 1, and address moving from right/wrong paradigms to wounding/healing frameworks
• Clarify the dynamics of forgiveness, the reconciliation process and restorative justice
• Explore how to teach peace through transformational stories of truth, reconciliation and forgiveness

You will in this session.

• Discover an in-depth treatment for using listening as a tactical and surgical tool of peacebuilding
• Break down listening skills for engaged and constructive communication so that you can guide others through this process
• Learn how to create conditions for compassionate listening and review six distinct modes of listening essential for any peacebuilder
• Review guidelines for non-violent communication, addressing the needs of hostile communicators and how to conduct self-care in hostile environments
• Explore how to teach these aspects of peacebuilding in experiential formats, allowing people to practice the skills being taught

Dialogue is a cornerstone of peacebuilding and social healing and can be practiced and learned.

Emotionally charged experiences can be effectively shared in safe environments through suspending polarizing judgment and holding deep space.

You will in this session.

• Discover how to tap into fields of collective intelligence and guide others in listening with both heart and mind
• Review different dialogic formats such as council, conversation, appreciative inquiry, consensus and deep dialogue – the tools for the peacebuilder in you and those you may guide
• Learn how to link effective dialogue and communication with new perspectives on energy mastery and how to guide others in this process as well

It is important to understand the basic concepts of whole systems thinking.

This approach allows you to tie in all of our work so that healing perspectives andholistic thinking are part of a consciousness shift. The whole system changes. It’s not like it’s like it’s like it’s like it’s like it’s like it’s like it’s like it’s like it’s like it’s like it’s like it’s like it’s like it You will in this session.

• Discover the 12 Simple Rules for Systems Thinking developed by a Washington think tank
• Examine case studies related to whole systems thinking
• Build on these concepts and learn how to teach the basics of whole systems thinking

With time for you to address how to cultivate peace among different audiences and in different formats, your final class will summarize all the tools and strategies you have learned over the past 6 modules.

You will in this session.

• Discover how to integrate this road map of peacebuilding, from the inner to international, into your daily life
• Develop a personal vision of how you will embody and express peace – inner peace, personal relationships and/or community projects
• Share with classmates your commitment(s) to embodying and expressing peace
• Learn from other students’ commitments how you can approach peacebuilding in new ways
• Experience the synergy of mutual support from your fellow classmates, as together we learn to become empowered peacebuilders

In this special audio with renowned scholar, author and philosopher Jean Houston, she explores humanity’s journey of transformation and how it relates to you.

Jean will talk about how we must partner with Creation in the deepest expression of ourselves and in the restoration of the biosphere in order to build a new type of culture. The work of humanity begins now.

This bonus audio will give you a new knowledge of the cosmos, cross-cultural understanding, and the potential for new evolutionary direction.

About Dr. Jean Houston. A pioneer, scholar and researcher in human capacities, Dr. Jean Houston is the author of numerous books and the founder of a cross-cultural mythic and spiritual studies program-dedicated to empowering change agents and people around the world.

She is the founder of training programs in social artistry, which enables leaders to extend their own development so as to more adequately deal with the social challenges of today’s world. Multiple methods of increasing physical and mental skills, learning and creativity are her specialty.

Ocean Robbins shares with you the power of partnership and authentic leadership, as well as illuminates the crucial link between personal development and social transformation.

Ocean, a younger leader with an old soul, wants you to live in integrity with your values by learning how to build healing bridges across historic divides. You won’t want to miss this session.

About Ocean Robbins. Ocean Robbins founded Youth for Environmental Sanity at the age of 16. He facilitates hundreds of gatherings for leaders from 65 nations. It’s not like it’s like it’s like it’s like it’s like it’s like it’s like it’s like it’s like it’s like it’s like it’s like it’s like it’s like it Ocean is the author of The Power of Partnership and Choices for Our Future. He received both the Jefferson Award for Outstanding Public Service by an Individual 35 Years or Younger and the Freedom’s Flame Award. Ocean and his wife are the parents of twins River and Bodhi Robbins.

The number two executive of Search for Common Ground, Susan Collin Marks, gives 888-353-1299 888-353-1299 888-353-1299 888-353-1299 888-353-1299 888-353-1299 888-353-1299 888-353-1299 888-353-1299 888-353-1299 888-353-1299 888-353-1299 888-353-1299 888-353-1299 888-353-1299 888-353-1299 888-353-1299 888-353-1299 888-353-1299 888-353-1299 888-353-1299 888-353-1299 888-353-1299 888-353-1299 888-353-1299 888-353-1299 888-353-1299 888-353-1299 888-353-1299 888-353-1299 888-353-1299 888-353-1299 888-353-1299 888-353-1299 888-353-1299 888-353-1299 888-353-1299 888-353-1299 888-353-1299 888-353-1299 888-353-1299 888-353-1299 888-353-1299

Susan draws from her experiences on the frontlines of conflict-ridden regions to describe her insights about peacebuilding.

About Susan Marks. Marks is the senior vice president of Search for Common Ground. She was a peacemaker during South Africa’s transition from apartheid to democracy. She launched the Leadership Wisdom Initiative in 2006 to offer one-on-one support and coaching to political, institutional and civil society leaders.