CKCPJ PEACE Leaders

Thought you might want to take a look at this training:

http://peaceambassadortraining.com/training

Take care,
Rebecca

Rebecca Claire Glasscock, PhD
Professor, Geography
Faculty Advisor, Students for Peace & Earth Justice
Garden Manager, Peace Meal Gardens
BCTC, 221 Moloney Bldg, 470 Cooper Drive
Lexington, Kentucky 40506
859.246.6319

www.peace2day.org

"We’ve learned to fly the air as birds, we’ve learned to swim the seas as fish, yet we haven’t learned to walk the Earth as brothers and sisters." Martin Luther King, Jr.

Kingian Nonviolence Orientation, February 23

Please support University of KY Gaines Fellow, Dorneshia Thomas, in her juried project: "The University Application of Kingian Nonviolence" (for more information on this philosophy and strategy, see http://www.kingiannonviolence.info/publicationslinks.html ). Dorneshia asks that you plan to attend the orientation session she has organized for the morning of February 23rd - and a free lunch courtesy of the Provost!

Mr. Charles L. Alphin, Sr. of Atlanta is a trainer in Kingian Nonviolence and he will be speaking with us (UK administrators, faculty and students as well as members of the local community) from 9 am-noon. Please RSVP to dorneshia.thomas@uky.edu by noon on Wednesday, February 8th.

Teaching peace? don't forget to include women's roles and voices. Check out the Boston Consortium on Gender, Security and Human Rights website: http://www.genderandsecurity.umb.edu/syllabus.html

Why Are We Violent, But Not Illiterate?

Q: “Why are we violent, but not illiterate?”

(a question originally posed by writer Colman McCarthy)

A: The answer is agonizingly obvious: “We’re taught to read!”

Robert C. Koehler begins his powerful column "The Learning Curve of Peace" with the above quotation, which is a thought that bears repeating regularly.  We do need to be taught peace. 

During this time of year when extending wishes for Peace On Earth is entirely expected even by the most cynical, the line I find particularly inspiring in Koehler's column is the insight that  "working for peace is a process of connecting and bonding with others in deep and joyous ways."

May your holidays be restful and rejuvenating.  Look for updates on our next training in the new year!

--by: Gail M. Koehler (no relation to Robert, more's the pity!)  email: peaceandjusticeky@gmail.com

 

 

 

PEACE Leaders Education & Training: Nurturing Inner Peace and Healing Conflicts Using Mindfulness

Our next PEACE Leaders event is November 13th (1-5 pm) at the Mind and Body Studio (517A Southland Drive, Lexington, KY 40503) featuring Susmita Barua on cultivating inner peace and mindfulness as the first step to becoming a peace leader.  Please RSVP to Tanya.Torp@gmail.com.  Mita describes her workshop as follows:

The speediness of our high-tech society promotes stress, anxiety and passive aggression. We are continually starved for time and exposed to many sources of conflict within self, society and community. Some of us may feel high level of frustration and burnout from activism and peace work. Mindfulness helps us to sustain our inner capacity for sanity, self-care and compassion.

Mindful-awareness is more than simple meditation. It promotes deep healing, authentic presence and awakens natural wisdom and intelligence from within by synchronizing heart-mind and body. We will use some simple guided meditation to develop nondual awareness of breath, feeling and sensations. We will explore mindful communication, fear and fearlessness in dyads and small group exercises in a safe contained environment. We will share reflections and Q&A in open circle and collect feedbacks at the end. "We must be the change we want to see." - Gandhi.

If anyone would like to make a snack to bring, that would be appreciated. The suggested price is $15 but we won't turn anyone away if they do not have payment.  We have also extended an invitation to the Occupy Lexington folks to attend for free.  Janice Sevre-Duszynska will lead our next event.

We would like to share an opportunity with you.

From November 4th through the 6th, the Centre College Bonner Scholars Forum has invited dozens of passionate community servants to comecome together at Centre College to explore some of the issues that face Kentucky, both today and in the near future. If you are interested in participating, please contact Ethan Epping, Senior Intern at the Centre Bonner Program at ethan.epping@centre.edu or Patrick Noltemeyer, Associate Dean and Director of Community Service at patrick.noltemeyer@centre.edu.

I would also like to remind you of our upcoming Peace Leaders Training Workshop. Please RSVP by November 7, 2011.


Date: November 13, 2011
Time: 1PM to 5PM
Workshop: Developing Inner Peace in Times of Chaos
Cost: Sliding Scale Based on Ability to pay. No one will be turned away for not being able to contribute. Suggested Price: $15
Refreshments included however,please eat lunch before you arrive.
Location: The Mind and Body Studio
517 A Southland Drive
Lexington, KY 40503

Peace and Justice contacts in Fayette County Schools

Does anyone know teachers or other employees of the Fayette County Public Schools sympathetic to the peace and justice cause?  If so, please contact Michael Fogler with the information.   We're wanting to have speakers and presenters in the schools on peace and justice topics.   It would help to work with some "insiders."

PEACE Leaders Serve

We have some diverse and impactful ways for Peace Leaders to get involved and engage with our community.

Thursday, Oct 20 "Stand Down—Homeless Resource Fair" at the Central Christian Church (corner of MLK Blvd and Short St.) from 9 am - 2 pm.  Dozens of service providers serve hundreds of clients under one roof -- a unique event for Lexington.  The Veterans Administration is an anchor sponsor (http://www.lexington.va.gov/news/Oct2011StandDown.asp) -- CKCPJ provides morning hospitality and assists in service providers' lunch.  Our contact is Central Kentucky Council for Peace and Justice Board Member Billie Mallory at 859.285.5211.  Her recent essay connecting Human Rights and the issue of Homelessness can be found at   http://bit.ly/11Oct2011Homeless. 

Thursday the 27 Oct Kentucky Council of Churches 2011 Annual Assembly.  We will be tabling this event -- set up at 11:30 prior to lunch and then 1:30 workshops, on variety of topics:  addressing racism; improving outreach services to migrants; improving migrants’ access to legal services; connecting climate, food systems and migration; exploring immigration through documentaries.  Anyone tabling this event also has the opportunity to attend the workshops.

Dr. Kerby Neill is our contact for this event.  His email is above: tkneill@earthlink.net and his phone number is 859.293.2265.

Voices 2011 Series - http://www.peaceandjusticeky.org/Voices11.htm

We could use your enthusiasm to table at any of these events.  Training takes just a few moments and it is always fun getting to meet the people who support CKCPJ and the work that we do as well as serve our community.  Please contact me if you are interested in serving.

Tanya Torp Email: tanya.torp@gmail.com  Phone 859-684-8729

Saturday, October 22, 2011  10AM to Noon -  Juvenile Restorative Justice Forum.  Location: 163 West Short Street, 4th Floor  Two volunteers are needed for this opportunity.  One volunteers will write a short article for our PeaceWays Publication.  The second volunteer will prepare a 5 minute presentation to share with the CKCPJ Board on what was presented.  Please contact me if you are interested in serving.

Tanya Torp Email: tanya.torp@gmail.com  Phone 859-684-8729

EXCITING MOMENTUM

Finally, I would like to thank Michael Fogler and SusMita Barua for attending our last Peace Leaders Meeting on October 2, 2011.  They both expressed passion and zeal about some areas of the Peace Leaders Group we are about to launch.  SusMita will chair the Inner Peace Committee.  Before we can teach others about peace, we need to understand it within ourselves and how we interact with others.  

Michael Fogler will chair the Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution Committee.  This committee will focus on creating curriculum and facilitating opportunities to share peace and conflict resolution with children and students in schools.  We will train Peace Leaders to lead activities and teach children and young adults about peace and peaceful conflict resolution.  

There has also been an expressed interest in the economic issues surrounding war and the effect it has on poverty the world over.

If any or these areas is of interest to you, please contact me immediately to join the committee.

Our next Meeting:  

Date: November 13, 2011 
Time:  1PM to 5PM

Workshop: Developing Inner Peace in Times of Chaos

Cost: Sliding Scale Based on Ability to pay. No one will be turned away for not being able to contribute. Suggested Price: $15
Refreshments included however,please eat lunch before you arrive.
Location: To be determined.

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CKCPJ PEACE Leaders Meeting

Led by board member Tanya Torp, the CKCPJ PEACE Leaders work-session on August 28th included round-table discussion, goal setting and brainstorming. A terrific turn out and fun time had by all.

The next meeting is on Sunday, Sept. 25 at noon at the Lexington Public Library, Central Branch (140 E. Main St.). Join us!

Perennial Peace Garden event

Join us on September 6th at noon Eastern Time in the Perennial Peace Garden at the UKy Island in Second Life. This virtual world event will be taking place at the same time as the real life ceremony at the UK campus with food and good cheer for all.

So, if you're not a member of Second Life, come on down in person to the W.T. Young Library on the UK campus. Along with many other community organizations interested in peace and justice, the CKCPJ has been invited to attend the celebration for the implementation of the new UK general education called UK Core. The event will include music and other presentations by UK students and will end with a challenge from JJ Jackson, the UK V-P for Institutional Diversity, to react to the beautiful installation of Marjorie Guyon's Nation of Nations paintings.