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The Peace Ambassador Training

Calling –
all Healers, Educators, Spiritual Leaders, Visionary & Sacred Activists, Community Builders, Social Justice Advocates, Human Rights Practitioners, Global Democracy Activists, Social Workers, Therapists, Creative Social Artists, Change Agents, Youth Leaders and Social Entrepreneurs who are READY to learn exactly what it takes to activate deep peace in your life, transform conflict in your community and be a powerful agent for positive change in the larger world.
For the first time you can access the world’s top peacebuilders and their step-by-step approaches to navigating conflict and building peace, so you can heal yourself, your family and the world – now – when the world needs us most.
We are clearly in a time of the most accelerated changes in history. The skills of defusing and transforming conflict and healing social wounds are at the core of whether we can create a healthy, vibrant, peaceful and sustainable world.
You CAN make a profound difference and truly be part of the change our planet needs – and you can learn to do so effectively with tools and strategies from 16 of the world’s most respected peacebuilders and renowned social healer James O’Dea.
We’ll show you how with this 20-week comprehensive training curriculum, which will address Five Pillars of Peacebuilding:

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Deep Personal Peace: Cultivating the psychological, emotional and spiritual dimensions of peace as the great foundation for deep engagement in the world.
Healing Personal & Collective Wounds: transforming personal wounds and collective trauma to create personal and social transformation and significant evolutionary change.
Communicating Peace: The art of skilled communication for yourself, family, community and world. You’ll learn the latest in peacemaking, conflict resolution, social discourse and dialogue.
Mastering Systems Change: understanding how to create systemic change via models and strategies for unprecedented whole system shifts.
Organizing for a New World: community-building and collaboration skills that expand your leadership capacity and help you offer your deepest gifts.
Through this five-month journey, we will:
Give you profound skills and tools for cultivating peace in your life, your family, and your community, providing the training for you to be a more effective peacemaker in the world.
Help you navigate conflict in powerfully effective ways, giving you the essential skillset of a social healer.
Empower you to release old wounds, navigate stress and clear barriers to intimate friendship, as well as understand how to accelerate that process in others.

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Help you understand exactly how to practice and teach principles of peaceful communication that alleviate aggression and antagonism and facilitate others in creating a culture of peace during this momentous period of planetary change.
Teach you the state-of-the-art in peacemaking, as well as leading-edge science and a deep experience of the latest theory and praxis of peacework (including a fully integrated vision of the inner and outer dimensions of peace).
Give you a comprehensive map for “spiral wizardry” and working with different value systems.
Provide a strong foundation in community-building and organizing skills.
Develop your skills to stand in the fire of hostility and aggression and transform them.
Inspire and guide you to manifest your greatest qualities in service to humanity’s emergence and your deepest identity as a Peace Ambassador.
Connect you with an inspiring network of peacebuilders, friends and allies from around the world, including direct exposure to the planet’s leading peacemakers.
Give you an opportunity to play a significant role in a massive Summer of Peace 2012 series of world-changing events.
The Peace Ambassador training is The Shift Network’s certification process for leaders in the Summer of Peace 2012, a global network of events and activities promoting the shift to a culture of peace. During the program, you will develop and hone a vision for how you can play a peacebuilder leadership role in this significant global event. We’ll also offer many ways for you to apply your skills through our broader network, which may include paid opportunities as well.
This training is for you if:
You long to be a true peacebuilder during this pivotal time – but know you could be more effective if you had the right skills and practices.
You hunger for a comprehensive map that draws upon spiritual, scientific and socio-political knowledge – the best knowledge in the world.
You want to help heal personal and collective wounds – and are open to learning exactly how to do it.
You strive to communicate in a healthy way that brings people, families and organizations together to work and collaborate more effectively.
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 and teach others to do the same.
You see that thereis something quite beautiful underway in the world – and you want to learn from the most hopeful programs and people about how to play your highest role.
You understand that a committed process of practice and learning over five months is the best way for you evolve your skills and yourself to the next level.

Special Bonus Workshop #1 with Kimmie Weeks (full bio). Kimmie is a children’s rights activist and globally-respected peacebuilder from Liberia who has helped to rehabilitate child soldiers and will teach a workshop on “Peacebuilding with Children.” Saturday, March 26th 10 am Pacific
Special Bonus Workshop #2: Philosopher Ervin Laszlo (full bio) and celebrated evolutionary Barbara Marx Hubbard (full bio) will have a visionary dialogue on “The Path to Planetary Peace” Saturday, June 4th 10 am Pacific

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