Co-creating just cultures of peace in organizations, schools, businesses and within communities.
Collaboratively customized programs for adult learners that align with Peace Actions, your needs and goals.
Program styles & durations vary from ~60min gatherings, workshops or programs to multi-week programming.
Featured Peacelearning Programs & Workshops
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Trauma Aware Peacelearning
This foundational ‘Seek Peace Within Yourself & Others’ session explores the brain and neuroscience of how stress, toxic stress and various forms of trauma impact our ability to cope, relate, problem solve and learn. Session includes research-based recommendations and best practices for self/co-regulation and generally being trauma aware and sensitive in our interactions with others.
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Language as a Portal to Understanding
In this ‘Respect Diversity’ session, we explore our cultural frames of reference (and epistemology), considering how this impacts our perspective, interpretations, interactions and language. Participants will also deepen understanding of inclusive language that fosters a sense of belonging.
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Communicating With Care
Unlock the power of effective verbal and non-verbal communication that is sensitive to the needs of the community members your serve. This dynamic workshop will equip you with awareness, skills and best practices to navigate mental health, trauma, and cultural differences and needs with sensitivity. This workshop offers essential tools to foster trust, understanding, and care in every interaction.
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Co-Creating Brave Spaces: Peace Circles
Creating a just and peaceful world for all beings requires spaces for exploring injustices, concerns, conflicts, solutions, ideas, hopes and dreams. Democratically co-created brave spaces honor all identities and allow for developmentally sensitive conversations about harm, structural violence, systematic oppression and the exploration of peaceful alternatives and solutions. Drawing on the peacemaking wisdom of First Nations and Indigenous peoples of North America, experience the power and adaptability of peace circles processes.
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Seeking Peace
Offering a variety of ‘Seek Peace Within’ sessions (or series) that begin with neurobiological foundations of inner peace and dive into topics such as:
Deepening Self Awareness
Self-Regulation & Presence
Exploring Emotions & Emotional Intelligence
Self Love, Supportive & Unsupportive Inner Voices
Meditative Mandalas
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Creating Oneness Through Storytelling
Stories nurture the very essence of who we are as human beings. When we co-create brave spaces to listen to and share stories, we provide opportunities for healing and connection. Connectedness with others who are present, regulated, nurturing, supportive and caring are keys for fostering resilience. Experience the power of storytelling and explore different modalities and purposes for storytelling. Understand the basics of our neurosequential brain and how this connects with our capacity to relate, connect, problem solve and reason. Explore how our personal stories, beliefs and perspectives (our epistemology, cultural frame of reference and funds of knowledge) shape our interpretation and interactions with others and our environment. Through storytelling, we create a sense of oneness and connection with all life.
What People Are Saying
“Trauma Aware Peacelearning lays a strong foundation for liberating our classrooms and community spaces from behavioral patterns that disrupt our strong efforts. Through Julie's insights about the neuroscience of the brain, we discover effective strategies to dislodge and transform energy that impedes our growth, relationships and health. As we develop the crucial skill of regulation, we learn to free ourselves from the grip of fear and to foster responses that are conducive to optimal wellness and leadership.”
~ Kate Towle, Educator, Author & Community Weaver
“We asked Julie to speak to our PhxArt Docent organization about ‘Language as a Portal to Understanding’. At the time it seemed like an easy enough topic to tackle, but the more we got into the implications and how individual perspectives come into play in every situation and conversation we realized we had asked Julie to explore with us a very complex topic. Julie undertook this request with a collaborative spirit, emailing back and forth and meeting with our organizational group to ensure she had a good understanding of what we were looking for. She took great effort to incorporate our platform art as center of her discussion. She followed up with slides of her basic concepts, as well as helpful hints that we can incorporate as we interact with visitors at the Museum. I can honestly say that Julie successfully informed our Docents of the importance of understanding the concept of ‘Language as a Portal to Understanding.”
~Jane Pettibone, Director of PhxArt Docent Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility program.
Cities4Peace Programs
Address urban challenges due to violence.
Enhance mental and social well-being of change-makers within the city.
Strengthen social connectedness
In partnership with Cities4Peace, we offer ‘Seek Peace Within Yourself’ leadership programs online, virtually and in-person.
All members of society, from actionable community members, to leaders in education, businesses, non-profits, governmental and non-governmental organizations are being challenged to take action for peace and justice.
The unprecedented hurdles in front of us can be transformed into opportunities and solutions that will create systemic change. These complex challenges, however, cannot be solved unless there is a transformation ‘within’. That ‘inner work’ is an imperative to address in our communities, jobs and within our educational settings.
Cities4Peace is an initiative of the International Association of Human Values and the Art of Living Foundation.
We manage these programs and provide special pricing.
Be The Change: Inspiring documentary film, framework for healing, breath work and guided meditation - ~1.5 hours, guided video module for in-person or virtual gatherings
Sky Mindful Leadership: Customized leadership development program to improve mental wellbeing, social connectedness and overall quality of life - virtually or in-person
Week 1: Core Experience and Training, 4 sessions, 2-3 hours each
Weeks 2-4: Reunion to refresh, reinforce and deepen, weekly, 1.5-2 hours
Ambassadors of Peace: Unique and powerful leadership development that builds the capacity of leaders to promote improved mental health, healing and resilience within themselves, their communities, organizations and schools - virtually or in-person, 8 weeks, 40 hours + 10 hour ‘homework’
Free & Low-Cost Peacelearning Programs, Workshops and Gatherings
When we seek peace within ourselves, we then have the foundation and capacity to create and foster just, nonviolent and peaceful relationships with others, our communities and our natural world. Julie reaches out in service to guide, empower and hold space for folks in their journey of seeking peace through personal and collective peace action.
