James O’Dea – The Path of the Peacemaker

James O’Dea – The Path of the Peacemaker

Attention: Healers, Visionary Activists, Educators, Clergy, Creative Social Artists, Change Agents, and Social Entrepreneurs who are READY to learn exactly what it takes to harness the transformative power of Peacemaking in your lives and become powerful agents for positive change.
You can now access step-by-step strategies for navigating conflict and building peace so you can heal yourself, your family and the world, NOW, when the world needs us most.
You can take an active role in being the change – and you can learn to do it effectively with tools and strategies from a world-renowned social healer and peacemaker. We’ll show you how with this 7-session course, which will:
Provide profound tools for cultivating peace in your life, your family, and your community.
Help you navigate conflict in more skilled and effective ways
Empower you to release old wounds, navigate stress and clear barriers to intimate friendship
Offer information, skills, and tools for you to be a better peacemaker in the world
Teach you the state-of-the-art in planetary peacemaking, as well as the leading edge science.
Help you develop the essential skills of the social healer
Develop your skills to stand in the fire of hostility and aggression as an agent of transformation

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Session One: Peace and Security: From the Inner Core Out into the World
Illuminating the emergence of mature human beings capable of holding their center in conflict and crisis.
Learning how we transmute corrosive negative stress, and hostility.
Confronting false positives, distraction and denial and remaining centered in positive and visionary truth
Cultivating the stance of the authentic peacemaker
Session Two: The Inner Capacities of the Peacemaker
Integrating spiritual vision, spiritual practice with engagement in social justice, social healing and political realities.
Experiencing the wounded healer in action
Learning the art and science of forgiveness
Studying the role of empathy, compassion, emotional spaciousness
Developing ongoing clarity and conviction around intentions
Session Three: The Communication Skills of the Peacemaker
Building dialogic skills, types of dialogue and when/where to practice dialogue
Practicing non-violent communication
Mastering the use of different modalities of communication in specific contexts
Cultivating the science and practice of deep listening
Using media and messaging: the range of tools at your disposal
Activating track two diplomacy
Session Four: Translating the Science of Health and Healing into Social and Global Contexts
Review of key concepts in mind body health and how they relate to the social body
Learning approaches to healing collective wounds of the past; specific case studies
Understanding victim perpetrator entanglement in ongoing conflicts
Session Five: Developing a Systems Perspective on War, Violent Conflict and Oppression

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Using systems theory to illuminate the interrelatedness of issues leading to violence
Analyzing specific contexts from a systems perspective
Engaging “simple rules” as a peacemaker from a systems perspective
Session Six: Reframing Beliefs and Worldviews for a Peaceful World
Understanding core international treaties and documents with regard to human rights and peace; special attention to the Earth Charter.
Learning about key concepts that are changing international law and practice and continuing impediments to ending massive levels of violence
Understanding how worldview and belief are affecting the transformation of societies across the planet and giving birth to a more peaceful future.
Session Seven: You are the Peacemaker We Have Been Waiting For: How to Identify and Engage in Your Work as a Peacemaker
Synthesizing course work
Sharing information and key resources
Making a sacred commitment
Bonus Session #1 with Frances Moore Lappé
Frances Moore Lappé is author of Diet for a Small Planet, founder of the Small Planet Institute, and co-founder of Food First: Institute for Food and Development Policy. She has written 17 books, is the recipient of the Right Livelihood Award, and was named the 2008 James Beard Foundation’s Humanitarian of the Year. Her most recent book is Getting A Grip 2: Clarity, Creativity and Courage for the World We Really Want. This bonus helps you:
Understand the predominant mental map that begins with lack (from energy to food to goodness) and how that spreads conditions of violence
Shift beyond this mental map and connect with the deep sources of empathy that humans are “soft-wired” with.
See the promise of living democracies for creating peace
Cultivate courage to create conditions that bring out the best in us
Bonus Session #2 with Sequoyah Trueblood.
Sequoyah is a remarkable, pipe-carrying Choctaw elder who has contributed selflessly for many years around the world as a role model for healthy leadership, bringing peace and joy to the hearts of many. In this bonus workshop, you’ll receive genuine guidance from a profoundly inspired and diversely experienced Elder. You’ll:
Learn how the earth was made for peace
Understand how the path of peace is easy for those who have no preference / no judgments / expectations
Receive the teachings of Great Thanks, Great Peace, Great Love
Gain awareness of the natural law of impermanence
Learn how to honor children and the feminine

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