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Pillar 1 – Mindfulness, Inner Peace and Resilience

Reviewing the course thus far, two weeks have passed. The recordings of these are available through your participant homepage. It is still possible for people to register for the course.

v2-session1Session I: Inner Peace, The Foundation of All Peace

  • Fulfilling our universal desire to live in peace.
  • What would it be like to live a narrative of Peace?
  • Peace as a collective way of living begins by breathing peace through each of us.

Sister Jenna spoke of the Four B’s:

  • Blockages
  • Barriers
  • Burdens
  • Bondages

These are the physical sense of self that does not feel free.
Some insights on how they affect us from being at Peace and hearing as individuals and collectively… and more.

v2-session2Session II: The Science of Mindfulness and Inner Peace

  • Dissolving the sense of ourselves that is conditioned to believe and live within the fundamentals of separation.
  • Acquiring the skills to re-wire the brain… dissolving the boundaries of separation, healing the fragmented parts of self by witnessing our emotions , while connecting with the larger universal energy… our true identity as Essence.

Dr. Richard Miller spoke to you about mindfulness and offered many insights/practices for deeper awareness.


pillar-tallThis Wednesday Deborah Rozman from HeartMath will be speaking on the Intelligence of the Heart. It is the final session for Pillar 1.

Mindfulness, Inner Peace and Resilience

In this session, you will discover how to:

  • v2-session3Increase 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.

Join us tonight!

Peace,
Cass

World Peace Library

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A free educational resource for You: To find peace within yourself & to create peace within your family, community and world.

The World Peace Library is designed to inspire, inform and involve people by highlighting best practices from around the world. It has over 300 audio recordings with inspirational stories, skills training and powerful solutions by the world’s top peacebuilders, social change leaders, scientists, Indigenous elders and spiritual mentors.

The World Peace Library organically grew out of our experience producing online peace summits — Peace Week (2010–11), Youth Rising for Peace (2012) and Summer of Peace (2012–ongoing.) From this “bird’s eye” view, we could see there was a much bigger narrative of peace emerging than anyone had ever imagined!

This bigger story of peace gives us all hope as people are finding solutions to the most challenging problems on the planet. The new story of peace is springing forth from the hearts, minds and souls of people of all races and religions as we each help to make the world a better place, starting right where we are with the people closest to us.

It is The Shift Network’s intention to accelerate this new narrative of peace and to advance the United Nations’ efforts of promoting a culture of peace. We encourage you to share the World Peace Library far and wide. Please  “like” the World Peace Library Facebook Page and share your experience of using the Library to promote peace in your family, schools and community so we all can learn from you.

Great Lakes Bioneers Conference

2015_brochure-350Bioneers (biological pioneers) is an annual conference, a movement and a way of life! National BIONEERS is in its 26th years and Great Lakes Bioneers Detroit (GLBD) in its 11thyear! The conference is taking place at Marygrove College, 8425 West McNichols Rd, Detroit MI 48221. Click here to see the conference program (PDF).

BIONEERS’ tagline, revolution from the heart of Nature, and GLBD’s mission to promote sustainable community that fosters life-giving relationships, nurtures connections, and celebrates solutions for restoring and healing Earth’s communities inspire us to continue to claim that the social justice movement and the environmental movement are ONE MOVEMENT.

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Event Registration

Youth Day – Friday, October 23

From 8:00am to 2:25pm youth grades 7 through 12 have a program as part of the GLBD Conference. Students, chaperones, and teachers please click the Youth Day Registration found below.

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Youth Day Registration

We Are One

The theme for this year’s conference: We are One – Opened to Spirit, Hearts Engaged, Grounded in Earth and Acting for LifeOur intention is to provide a community learning environment that invites:

  • Moving from head to heart, from knowing to feeling, loving and compassion
  • Deepening our interconnectedness with all life
  • Awakening to who we are as humans in this 21st century

As in years past conference participants will have many opportunities:

When people come together as a learning community to discover new sustainable ways of being and when they share transformative ideas for the sake of the Commons everyone benefits. When students and teachers attending the conference bring back what they learned to their schools, education can flourish. When everyone is welcome and affirmed we move toward wholeness.

Cities Of Peace Detroit – Learnshops

Cities of Peace Detroit learnshops at Great Lakes Bioneers Conference 2015
Cities of Peace Detroit learnshops at Great Lakes Bioneers Conference 2015

B.1 Experiencing Group Coherence/Your Role in Building the Beloved Community in Detroit

Saturday from 2:10-3:20

Presenters: Cass Charrette is founder of Cities of Peace Detroit and a minister of the Beloved Community…The Seminary of Spiritual Peacemaking. She sees the Beloved Community in Detroit as a model for building the new culture/new earth in communities around the world. Stephen Boyle is a community activist, photographer, designer, web and social media developer. Additional presenters may be added.

If you have ever asked yourself how you can connect and contribute beyond the conference, this learnshop is for you. It will take a shift from the head to the heart, though, and a deepening experience of group coherence. Through various activities the learnshop will lead you to a deeper consciousness of your passion, purpose and interconnectedness.

C.1 Returning to Sacred Wholeness

Sunday from 10:25-11:35am

Presenters: Cass Charrette is founder of Cities of Peace Detroit and a minister of the Beloved Community…The Seminary of Spiritual Peacemaking. She sees the Beloved Community in Detroit as a model for building the new culture/new earth in communities around the world. Carrie Landrum is a peacebuilder dedicated to growth and transformation. She is a professional facilitator and educator at the University of Michigan. Her dream is to co-create Detroit as a global center of peace and healing.

An essential step for bringing forth a sustainable world is a commitment toward personal and collective healing. Explore the Four Quadrants of Wounding/Healing Mapping: personal, collective cultural, traumatic events, and wounds in the psyche. How will you choose to be an interrupter of these patterns within these four quadrants?

Map: Consciousness Raising Walk opening Sustainability Summit

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Sites and paths for the Conscioussness Raising Walk opening the Sustainability Summit on Thurssday evening, September 10, 2015

The Consciousness Raising Walk will open the Sustainability Summit beginning from six locations close to downtown Detroit.

Our walk together in localized gatherings merging together at Grand Circus Park will be visual and symbolic. Each of our neighborhoods has factors affecting its sustainability, issues of today and the past influence our community greatly. Continue reading Map: Consciousness Raising Walk opening Sustainability Summit

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Emerging the Beloved Community of Detroit

Modeling the United Nations celebration of International Day of Peace, including a consciousness raising march and a three day summit. The UN celebration recognizes peace is integral for raising consciousness of human rights and social justice in communities and around the world. The issues of Detroit are globally recognized human rights issues. Detroit holds the potential to dialogue, envision and be a voice/platform for all of the world to hear – a fulcrum for a shift of paradigm. The Sustainability Summit aims to cocreate through vision, conscious dialogue and solutionary actions that alters our paradigm from surviving to prosperous collective interdependent sustainability.

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When and Where

The summit location is Marygrove College, 8425 McNichols, Detroit MI 48221, on the SE corner at Wyoming. The event will be held September 10 – 12, the weekend prior to International Day of Peace celebrated globally on September 21stContinue reading Sustainability Summit United Nations International Day of Peace

Presentations for Sustainability Summit

Update: Proposals for Presenting are no longer being accepted.

The Planning Council for the Sustainability Summit is seeking Presentation Proposals from the community. There are three groups of presentations being sought fitting the flow of the Summit.

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Fill out the Presentation Proposal Form to join those interested in presenting.

Vision for Living the Beloved Community

Multi-media presentations: Opening Ceremony ~ depicting current social construct vs living the new earth. Indigenous Universal laws. Universal Declaration of human rights. Morning media presentation integrated with speakers, poets, visual arts ~ Showcasing evolutionary models in Detroit, those who hold visions for models to be implemented and giving voice to models around the world that could be implemented in Detroit.

Bridging the Gap between Current Culture and a New Collaborative Culture

Community Open Forum Dialogue for sharing and writing a document that voices the values and beliefs of the current culture vs. the Beloved Community. Speakers/Poets and community voicing both. Peter Hammer speaking on beliefs and conditioning. The impact beliefs and conditioning have on our lives, our relationships, our systems and how they keep us in a culture of separation. Part One of Public call with Peter Hammer and David Korten for building the new Earth. Continue reading Presentations for Sustainability Summit

Save The Date

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Community Gathering

Acknowledging Committee & Contributors:
Barbara Beesley, Kim Bergier, Stephen Boyle, Brenda Bryant, Lila Cabbil, Linda Campbell, Paula Cathcart,
Cass Charrette, Will Copeland, Jesse Cox, Susan deCaussin, Margaret Dwyer, Alicia Renee Farris,
Richard Feldman, Peter Hammer, Darryl Eley Jordan, Joe Kochajda, Gloria Lowe, Gloria Rivera, Helen Weber,
Mike Whitty, Gwendolyn Winston, and expanding.
Full list will be posted on website.
http://www.CiiesOfPeaceDetroit.com


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WCCC Monthly Forum of Workshops

Have you ever wondered how to gain perspective on the world and discover yourself and community more fully? Cities of Peace Detroit is working with Women Creating Caring Communities on a consciousness and healing journey .

Our events will be centered in healing, purpose and transformation. We will come together in a caring nurturing environment to support, inspire and empower each other for living our full potential.

Our dreams are meant to be spoken and manifested. The dreams you desire to live are what your Soul is communicating to you. Your Soul longs for your desired dreams to be realized. This is a space for our dreams to be expressed and supported.

Continue reading WCCC Monthly Forum of Workshops

WCCC Monthly Forum of Healing Workshops

Have you ever wondered how to gain perspective on the world and discover yourself and community more fully? Cities of Peace Detroit is working with Women Creating Caring Communities on a consciousness and healing journey . Continue reading WCCC Monthly Forum of Healing Workshops

Summer of Peace 2015

The Shift Network is offering a free 3 month global online event, starting on June 21st and culminating with a global synchronized meditation on September 21st, WorldFlagsUnited Nations International Day of Peace.

When you sign up, you will get access to a schedule of evolutionary social change agents that illuminate best practices for citizen engagement and conscious activism to help accelerate a shift in consciousness. These conversations support the trajectory for co-creating a life and a world where the deeper principals of peace becomes the new baseline.

The Summer of Peace brings together tens of thousands of global citizens who, like you, yearn for a more peaceful way of life for all.

  • From personal to planetary some of what will be discussed is inner community and collective peace.
  • You’ll learn critical skills to address today’s critical issues.
  • There are four special summits, one of which is Global Unity. A few of the themes will be interdependence, economic justice, human rights, freedom, and health.
  • A special live broadcast will feature campaign nonviolence. Looking at deepening the movement for a culture of peace free from war, poverty, climate change and the epidemic of violence.

The Sustainability Summit being held here in Detroit takes place at the start of the 11 Days of Global Unity leading into the International Day of Peace.

Register for Summer of Peace

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Click here to register

World Peace Library

WorldPeaceLibrary

A free educational resource for You: To find peace within yourself & to create peace within your family, community and world.

The World Peace Library is designed to inspire, inform and involve people by highlighting best practices from around the world. It has over 300 audio recordings with inspirational stories, skills training and powerful solutions by the world’s top peacebuilders, social change leaders, scientists, Indigenous elders and spiritual mentors.

The World Peace Library organically grew out of our experience producing online peace summits — Peace Week (2010–11), Youth Rising for Peace (2012) and Summer of Peace (2012–ongoing.) From this “bird’s eye” view, we could see there was a much bigger narrative of peace emerging than anyone had ever imagined!

This bigger story of peace gives us all hope as people are finding solutions to the most challenging problems on the planet. The new story of peace is springing forth from the hearts, minds and souls of people of all races and religions as we each help to make the world a better place, starting right where we are with the people closest to us.

It is The Shift Network’s intention to accelerate this new narrative of peace and to advance the United Nations’ efforts of promoting a culture of peace. We encourage you to share the World Peace Library far and wide. Please  “like” the World Peace Library Facebook Page and share your experience of using the Library to promote peace in your family, schools and community so we all can learn from you.