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2008, Living Mandala
creative services by: 360 Degrees

In Association With

The Shift Action Network


Facilitators

James O’dea

Frances Moore Lappé

Sequoyah Trueblood

Stephen Dinan



Course Description

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-week course, which will:


  1. •Provide profound tools for cultivating peace in your life, your family, and your community.

  2. •Help you navigate conflict in more skilled and effective ways

  3. •Empower you to release old wounds, navigate stress and clear barriers to intimate friendship

  4. •Offer information, skills, and tools for you to be a better peacemaker in the world

  5. •Teach you the state-of-the-art in planetary peacemaking, as well as the leading edge science.

  6. •Help you develop essential skills of the social healer

  7. •Develop your skills to stand in the fire of hostility and aggression as an agent of transformation

  8. •Connect you with an inspiring community of peacebuilders, friends, and allies from around the world




Course Details

We believe that each and every one of us must learn to become a skillful peacemaker at this critical time on planet earth. It’s a foundational set of skills to not only help our world shift but also to improve our personal lives, families, and communities.


The peacemaker works at the inner core of his/her own being, engages in healing wounds in family, community and in the larger social body, learns new maps and models from theory and practice so that she/he can find their own unique contribution to global transformation.


The transformation that comes from peacemaking also liberates our hearts, minds and souls from negative patterns, resistance, and fear, allowing us to become more radiant lights in the world. Our journey into peacemaking is thus also a journey into our deepest selves, helping us to heal old wounds, remove barriers to intimacy and trust, and make powerful friendships in the world.


This state-of-the-art virtual course features one of the world’s most respected peacebuilders and social healers - James O’Dea. James combines a career in which he was Director of the Washington Office of Amnesty International and President of The Institute of Noetic Sciences: frontline activism and deep knowledge of consciousness and conscious evolution. He has been engaged in groundbreaking international social healing dialogues for over a decade and is currently engaged with practitioners and projects in Rwanda, Israel/ Palestine and Northern Ireland.


In short, James is the perfect person to initiate you into the next level of your peacemaking, helping you ignite your deepest gifts.


Join us for a transformational personal journey in service to the most important shifts in our world!


Curriculum Details

Week One (Oct. 13): Peace and Security: From the Inner Core Out into the World


  1. •Illuminating the emergence of mature human beings capable of holding their center in conflict and crisis.

  2. •Learning how we transmute corrosive negative stress, and hostility.

  3. •Confronting false positives, distraction and denial and remaining centered in positive and visionary truth

  4. •Cultivating the stance of the authentic peacemaker


Week Two (Oct. 20): The Inner Capacities of the Peacemaker


  1. •Integrating spiritual vision, spiritual practice with engagement in social justice, social healing and political realities.

  2. •Experiencing the wounded healer in action

  3. •Learning the art and science of forgiveness

  4. •Studying the role of empathy, compassion, emotional spaciousness

  5. •Developing ongoing clarity and conviction around intentions


Week Three (Oct. 27): The Communication Skills of the Peacemaker


  1. •Building dialogic skills, types of dialogue and when/where to practice dialogue

  2. •Practicing non-violent communication

  3. •Mastering the use of different modalities of communication in specific contexts

  4. •Cultivating the science and practice of deep listening

  5. •Using media and messaging: the range of tools at your disposal

  6. •Activating track two diplomacy


Week Four (Nov. 3): Translating the Science of Health and Healing into Social and Global Contexts


  1. •Review of key concepts in mind body health and how they relate to the social body

  2. •Learning approaches to healing collective wounds of the past; specific case studies

  3. •Understanding victim perpetrator entanglement in ongoing conflicts


Week Five (Nov. 10): Developing a Systems Perspective on War, Violent Conflict and Oppression


  1. •Using systems theory to illuminate the interrelatedness of issues leading to violence

  2. •Analyzing specific contexts from a systems perspective

  3. •Engaging “simple rules” as a peacemaker from a systems perspective


Week Six (Nov. 17): Reframing Beliefs and Worldviews for a Peaceful World


  1. •Understanding core international treaties and documents with regard to human rights and peace; special attention to the Earth Charter.

  2. •Learning about key concepts that are changing international law and practice and continuing impediments to ending massive levels of violence

  3. •Understanding how worldview and belief are affecting the transformation of societies across the planet and giving birth to a more peaceful future.


Week Seven (Dec. 1) You are the Peacemaker We Have Been Waiting For: How to Identify and Engage in Your Work as a Peacemaker


  1. •Synthesizing course work and the development of specific individual and group projects

  2. •Sharing information and key resources

  3. •Making a sacred commitment, supported by our community




To Register for  the Path of the Peacemaker Course

Click  Here.

 

The Path of the Peacemaker

The Art, Science and Practice of Personal and Planetary Peacemaking

A 7-week Course with Renowned Peacemaker James O'Dea

Oct 13 - Dec 1, 2010 - Wednesday Evenings, 5-7 pm PST





Tuition & Registration

The tuition for this course and amazing mentoring opportunity is only $287 (payment plans are available). Satisfaction is 100% guaranteed.


Participants can join the series at any point, and will receive unlimited access to recordings of all class sessions (listen online or download the mp3 file to your iPod or audio player), PDF transcripts for each class session. Participants will also be invited into a private online community with other course members.


Refund Policy - 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed!

Your satisfaction is 100% guaranteed! If for any reason you feel that the Course does not meet your expectations, you may request that your payment be refunded in full. This would need to happen before the final class on Dec. 1st. Send refund requests to support@theshiftnetwork.com.


This Course Is for You If...

  1. •You long to be a true peacemaker during this confusing time but know you could be more effective if had the right skills and practices to manifest your work.

  2. •You hunger for a map for peacemaking that draws upon the spiritual, scientific and socio-political knowledge - the best knowledge in the world.

  3. •You want to dissolve personal and collective wounds - and are open to learning exactly how to heal such wounds.

  4. •You strive to communicate in a healthy way that brings people, families and organizations together to work and collaborate more effectively.

  5. •You want to develop techniques for cultivating inner peace and spaciousness, lowering the walls in your own heart so you can come to forgiveness and healing around past wounds.

  6. •You know there is great good happening around the world - and you want to learn from the most hopeful programs and people.


Bonus Peacemaker Training #1 - Thursday Oct. 28th 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.


    * Understand the predominant mental map that begins with lack (from energy to food to goodness) and how that spreads conditions of violence

    * How to shift beyond this mental map and connect with the deep sources of empathy that humans are "soft-wired" with.

    * Seeing the promise of living democracies for creating peace

    * How to cultivate our courage to create conditions that bring out the best in us


Bonus Peacemaker Training #2 - Monday, Nov. 1st 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 will


  1. •Learn how the earth was made for peace

  2. •Understand how the path of peace is easy for those who have no preference / no judgments / expectations

  3. •Receive the teachings of Great Thanks, Great Peace, Great Love

  4. •Gain awareness of the natural law of impermanence

  5. •Learn how to honor children and the feminine


What People Say About Working With James

"I've participated in a number of James' workshops. He has a unique and brilliant way of blending core wisdoms and tools with a mythical-size ability to weave a story that opens you up to your own inner core, and preps you for the a-ha's necessary in taking the next grateful step in learning and growth."


"I am so grateful for the introduction to the lyrical James O'Dea! Just the Rx I needed!"


"James O'Dea has experienced both war and peace first-hand, and has devoted his life to mending our individual and collective hearts. He knows how to melt the most viscous barriers in hate's heart, and provides us, both directly and indirectly, the tools we need for our own transformation."


What you'll receive from this course

  1. •Seven 90-minute class sessions with James O’Dea, including live, interactive calls and exercises plus question and answer time. Classes on Wednesday nights.

  2. •Seven 30-minute small group practice sessions (Wednesdays after class with James)

  3. •Bonus training with Frances Moore Lappe on Oct. 28th (4-5:30 pm Pacific)

  4. •Bonus training with Sequoyah Trueblood on Nov. 1st (5-6:30 pm Pacific)

  5. •Unlimited access to recordings of all class sessions (listen online or download the mp3 file to your iPod or audio player)

  6. •PDF transcripts for each class session

  7. •Participation in a private online community with other course members


What is a virtual course?

It’s a great way to engage live teachings and each other from the comfort of your home. All the classes are available by dialing a phone conference line. We use MaestroConference to make it just like an in-person event where you can ask questions, participate in groups, and deepen your exploration of the course themes. We also have transcripts and recordings that you can download and keep.


Can I get benefit from the course if I miss the live classes?

Absolutely! They are all tape recorded and archived, as well as transcribed, so you don't need to worry about missing live calls. You can get all the teachings and engage the full community and James O'Dea via our private community webstie.


Can you tell me about the Community Site?

We will have a private community for all the participants in this Course, which will support you in making connections between each other, sharing insights, engaging discussions, and exchanging information about events and other activities. You'll have the ability to blog about your experiences, projects, and growth throughout the Course.


What are the benefits of telling my friends to join the program?

You can sign up as an Affiliate of The Shift Network and receive 20% for anyone that you introduce who registers for the Course. If you bring five friends into the Course, you can cover your own! To register as an affiliate click here and you'll receive a promotional link to use.

 
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Facilitators & Instructors

James O'dea

James is currently Co- Director of The Social Healing Project funded by the Kalliopeia Foundation.  This work has led him to Rwanda, Israel/Palestine, N.Ireland and elsewhereHe is a member of the extended faculty of The Institute of Noetic Sciences and its immediate past President. He was Executive Director of The Seva Foundation, an international health and development organization and, for ten years, was the Washington Office Director of Amnesty International. The Social Healing Project, assessing the convergence of societal healing initiatives around the world, is also collaborating with Intersections International in New York to convene frontier multidisciplinary dialogues on this theme. He is a member of the Evolutionary Leaders group founded by Deepak Chopra and Diane Williams and lectures widely on emerging worldviews, and integral approaches to social transformation. In 2010 he will be the keynote speaker at several conferences exploring the interface of science, consciousness, and societal healing. He is committed to dialogue as a practice and is engaged in dialogues at SEED Graduate Institute between native elders, physicists, and thought leaders; between Israeli and Palestinian psychologists and social workers, and contributes to dialogue on systems thinking and government policy making with the DC based Global Systems Initiatives.


  2. James has been a part of dialogue initiated with the Obama Administration on systems work and policy making. He and Dr Judith Thompson co-led a series of international dialogues called Compassion and Social Healing.


  4. His book Creative Stress: A Path For Evolving Souls Living Through Personal and Planetary Upheaval ( April 2010) is highly praised and featured in Kosmos Journal, Spirituality and Health magazine, The Well Being Journal and dozens of other media outlets. James is also a member of the Board of Directors of The Temple of the Universe in Florida. He has numerous published essays. His latest essay, Creative Atonement in a Time of Peril will be published with other leading authors and practitioners by Josey-Bass later this year.


Frances Moore Lappé

Frances Moore Lappé is the author of 18 books including the three-million copy Diet for a Small Planet. She is the cofounder of three national organizations that explore the roots of hunger, poverty and environmental crises, as well as solutions now emerging worldwide through what she calls Living Democracy. With her daughter Anna Lappé, she co-directs the Small Planet Institute based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her most recent book is Getting a Grip 2: Clarity, Creativity and Courage for the World We Really Want (2010), which Barbara Kingsolver describes as a “new pair of glasses” through which “the world is more comprehensible, more manageable, even more beautiful.” Lappé is a frequent contributor to the Huffington Post and has appeared on MSNBC’s Hardball and Fox News’ Fox and Friends, the Today Show, PBS NOW, the Diane Rehm Show, BBC, CBC, NPR and other media. Her articles and opinion pieces have also appeared in publications as diverse as The New York Times, O Magazine, and Christian Century.


In 2008 Diet for a Small Planet was selected as one of 75 Books by Women Whose Words Have Changed the World by members of the Women’s National Book Association in observance of its 75th anniversary and was named by Gourmet Magazine as one of 25 people (including Thomas Jefferson, Upton Sinclair, and Julia Child), whose work has changed the way America eats. In 1987 Frances Moore Lappé became the 4th American to receive the Right Livelihood Award, also known as the “Alternative Nobel.” In 2008, she was presented with the James Beard Foundation Humanitarian of the Year Award for her lifelong impact on the way people all over the world think about food, nutrition, and agriculture.

She is a founding councilor of the 50-member World Future Council based in Hamburg, Germany. In 1975 with Joseph Collins, Lappé launched the California-based Institute for Food and Development Policy (Food First), described by The New York Times as one of the nation’s “most respected food think tanks.” In 1990, Lappé co-founded the Center for Living Democracy, a ten-year initiative to help accelerate the spread of democratic innovations. Lappé served as founding editor of the Center’s American News Service, which placed solutions-oriented news stories in almost three hundred newspapers nationwide. She also co-founded the Small Planet Fund, a subsidiary of Small Planet Institute, which gathers and channels resources to democratic social movements, especially those featured in Hope’s Edge.

Other recent books include Hope’s Edge, which Jane Goodall called “Absolutely one of the most important books as we move further into the twenty-first century,” Democracy’s Edge, and You Have the Power: Choosing Courage in a Culture of Fear.

Lappé’s books have been translated into 20 languages and are used widely in university courses.


Sequoyah Trueblood

Sequoyah Trueblood was born in Stroud, Oklahoma. His father is Choctaw/Cherokee/Chickasaw, his mother German/English. Sequoyah grew up on a self-sustaining farm, learning to work the land to survive. He spent many years in residential boarding school, which let him into the army at the age of seventeen. As a Green Beret he was part of the Special Forces Operational Detachment "A Team," and eventually became a major. He fluently speaks Thai, Korean, and Japanese. In the service he was a code breaker for military intelligence. In Southeast Asia he was involved with "Master," the development of intelligence technology.

Sequoyah is the father of five, grandfather of four, and great-grandfather of one. He lives on the Kahnawake reservation in Canada with Marilyn Kane, one of the originators of the Native Women's Association of Canada. Sequoyah has worked extensively with Indian youth wilderness programs, the unity regional youth program for substance abuse, and Cherokee Challenge in North Carolina. He is currently creating permaculture programs in Kahnawake, Akewasasne, and Cherokee. Sequoyah shares his teaching of global unity and compassion. His is truly a remarkable being who emanates light. Sequoyah Trueblood visits Southwestern College annually to offer pipe ceremony to the students in the Consciousness class, and joins with the community in prayer and ritual. He is also on the Board of Advisors.


Stephen Dinan

Stephen Dinan is an author, marketing strategist, speaker, entrepreneur, and founder and CEO of The Shift Network. The Shift in Action media membership program serves more than 10,000 globally. He is the co-founder of the  Summer of Peace , as well as a major contributor behind the launch of more than a dozen for-profit, non-profit and political groups. Stephen is also the author of Radical Spirit: Spiritual Writings from the Voices of Tomorrow. He graduated from Stanford University with a degree in human biology and holds a master's in East-West Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies. He has studied many systems of personal growth and facilitated workshops for over twelve years. Stephen directed and helped to create the Esalen Institute's Center for Theory & Research, a think tank for leading scholars, researchers, and teachers to explore human potential frontiers. Stephen recently completed a new book bridging spirituality and politics entitled Sacred America: The Next Evolution of Our Country. His published articles can be viewed at www.stephendinan.com. He is available for speaking engagements and marketing consulting.






 

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