Awe-Struck: Another Way to Find Peace & Community

Awe-Struck: Another Way to Find Peace & Community

Awe-inspiring experiences maybe one of the best ways to find peace.

Making Peace Journals: A Teach Peace Now Activity for All Ages

Making Peace Journals: A Teach Peace Now Activity for All Ages

There is no time left for anything but to make peacework a dimension of our every waking activity.— Elise Boulding Lesson: Peace Journals Objective: To become aware of the role each one of us plays in creating a peaceful world and to record one’s thoughts about it. Peace journals can be kept by everyone. This is […]

Inspiration from the Art of JahSun

Inspiration from the Art of JahSun

  Yelling and profanity burst our joyous family union like a needle stabbing a balloon.  What was once a warm, inter-generational breakfast became a cauldron of fury and recrimination.   Months passed until forgiveness and apology began the process of healing.    A careless comment from my spouse hurt, but letting it go became the balm to […]

The arts are a universal language of peace

by Joan Koster, author Growing Artists: Teaching the Arts to Young Children We may not understand the words in a song or the techniques in a painting from another time or place, but we can feel the artist’s humanity and feel what is important to him or her.  In this way we can cross boundaries […]