James O’Dea – Peace Ambassador Training(Advanced)

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Pillar 1: Developing a Deep Personal Peace
These sessions will be geared on assisting you in cultivating the psychological, emotional, and spiritual elements of peace as a great basis for genuine engagement in the world.

Session 1: Peace and Freedom from Within (November 6)
James O’Dea, Professor (full bio)

James will kick off the program with a motivational talk about what it means to be a Peace Ambassador in today’s society. He challenges us to take responsibility for building inner serenity while acting in the world with genuine integrity. “The peacebuilder must develop an astounding skillfulness in proposing answers, avoiding the blame game, and mediating between viewpoints that are imprisoned inside self-limiting categories,” James writes.

Simultaneously, the Peace Ambassador does not take himself/herself too seriously. “A world without laughter is neither secure nor serene,” James adds. For example, “the fundamentalists are not having a good time!”

You will learn the following throughout this session:

Examine how your inner moral maps, belief systems, and psychological views shape your interaction with the outside and vice versa.
Identify the impediments to unleashing your own inherent characteristics, abilities, and capacities.
Learn personal peace techniques that can help you delve into your innermost nature and provide the groundwork for genuine inner serenity.

Session 2: Coming to Terms with Oneself (November 13)
Aqeela Sherrills, a famed peacemaker who struck a ceasefire between the Crips and the Bloods in Los Angeles, is now the Executive Director of YES! and a peacebuilding consultant across the world. (complete bio)

Aqeela will offer a dramatic and candid peek into his own personal change, which necessitated accepting responsibility for underlying anxieties and shames that were driving his conduct. He will next describe how his own personal development enabled him to address the sources of violence that stole his son’s life. Aqeela helped create peace amongst warring gangs by delving deeper into his inner peace practice.

You will learn the following throughout this session:

Learn how to turn within for inspiration and real tools for addressing your own shadows and developing a daily personal peace practice.

Session 3: Intuitive Intelligence of the Heart: A Path to Personal, Social, and Global Coherence: (20 November)
Deborah Rozman, Ph.D., business executive, serial entrepreneur, psychologist, author, and educator, is a guest faculty member. Since 1990, he has served as the founding executive director of the non-profit Institute of HeartMath and as the executive vice president of HeartMath LLC. (complete bio)

HeartMath is the world’s most significant scientific organization devoted to the study of the heart’s abilities. Deborah will show you how to use your heart’s power for intuition, joy, and a less stressful life.

This session will teach you how to:

Improve your capacity to “bounce back” and create a robust inner energy reserve that may make life simpler during times of rapid upheaval.
Trust Your Heart – Discover the latest research on your heart’s function in transmitting and receiving vital information for living a healthy, full life.
Cultivate Heart Wisdom – Develop and access your heart’s strong intelligence to rise above issues even in the middle of turmoil and uncertainty.
Engage the Global Heart – Discover study that reveals we are all connected by and live in the reflected energy of our hearts, with our emotions having an impact on the world itself.

Pillar 2: Healing Individual and Group Wounds
These classes will teach you how to repair personal wounds and communal trauma in order to bring about personal and societal transformation as well as substantial evolutionary change.

Session 4: Stopping Wound Transmission (December 4)
James O’Dea, Professor (full bio)

The second pillar is introduced by James O’Dea, who urges us to “stop the transmission of wounds from generation to generation precisely because their persistence is so destructive to whole-system health and the problem of passing on intergenerational trauma is so ignored.”

You will learn the following throughout this session:

Examine your relationship to personal pain and its complex subtleties.
Examine how your unconscious behaviors contribute to broader societal trauma.
Examine what is preventing you from living your finest thoughts and ambitions.
Learn concrete strategies for deepening your own personal recovery and assisting others in their healing.

Session 5: Nonviolence: A Path to Peace – Mahatma Gandhi Stories (December 11)
Arun Gandhi, the grandson of India’s iconic leader, Mohandas K. “Mahatma” Gandhi, is a guest faculty member (full bio)

Who better to urge you to “be the change you want to see in the world” than Mahatma Gandhi’s grandson? Arun Gandhi will tell personal tales about how his grandpa taught him to analyze his inner impulses and understand their connection to passive violence in the world in this session.

You will learn the following throughout this session:

Be encouraged to increase your inner peace practice and reach new heights of integrity and power.
Learn what Mahatma Gandhi meant when he said, “I can no more teach nonviolence to a coward than I can entice a blind man to enjoy healthy scenery.” “Nonviolence is the pinnacle of bravery.”

Session 6: Forgiveness and the Transformation of Personal Tragedy into Life Purpose (December 18)
Azim Khamisa, an internationally famous specialist on forgiveness, has been praised by the Dalai Lama and Thich Nhat Hanh (full bio)

This may be the most touching session of the Peace Ambassador Training. Azim Khamisa is a world-renowned forgiveness master instructor. He will truthfully describe his journey into the depths of pain and despair after losing his only kid to senseless gang violence.

You will learn the following throughout this session:

Learn how to use the power of forgiveness to effect change.
Learn how to participate in forgiveness even when it appears impossible.

Third Pillar: Peace Communication
You will learn and practice the art of skillful communication for yourself, family, community, and the globe via these workshops and activities. You’ll learn about the most recent developments in peacebuilding, conflict transformation, social discourse, and conversation. Among the core professors are:

Session 7: Energy Mastery and Peaceful Communication (January 8)
James O’Dea, Professor (full bio)

One aspect of effective communication as a Peace Ambassador is energy mastery. Dialogue and listening are also important components. “Against all difficulties, we must learn to talk, or perish,” James adds. We would listen till there was peace on Earth if we realized that listening to each other was the key to opening each other’s hearts.”

You will learn the following throughout this session:

Learn how the capacity to listen carefully and intentionally has helped to convert challenging conflict situations into peaceful outcomes.
Learn how to use the power of attentive listening to resolve your own issues.
Learn how to process and change energy for harmonious interactions.
Learn how to cope with physical bullies, emotional bullies, and intellectual bullies.
Determine if you are an energy bouncer, an energy sponge, an energy zapper, or a tranquil energy transformer by understanding your unique approach to energy processing.
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Session 8: Energy Mastery and Peaceful Communication (January 15)
Rita Marie Johnson, the Founding Director of Rasur Foundation International and the developer of the BePeace Practice (full bio); and Emily Hine, President of HineSight Consulting and inspiring writer @ Holy Sit, will be on the faculty as guests (full bio).

BePeace is taught at Costa Rica’s United Nations University for Peace. It has won praise from pupils all around the world for its universal appeal in a variety of cultural situations.

You will learn the following throughout this session:

Learn how to connect with people in a genuine, compassionate way by adopting the BePeace practice, which combines HeartMath principles with a clear route for “saying peace” (nonviolent communication). You have the ability to “teach peace” as you study this technique.
Learn how to use concrete tools to help you tap into a sense of serenity and communicate more effectively even when you are triggered.
Your inner discourse is just as crucial as your outer dialogue as peace builders. You will also discover radical self-compassion as a tool for communicating peace both inwardly and externally in this class.
Learn how to communicate effectively and “walk the walk” with small or large-scale teams.
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9th Session: Getting to Yes! (January 18, 2019)
Dr. William Ury, co-author of the global bestseller Getting to YES, author of The Power of a Positive No, and co-founder of the Harvard Negotiation Project, is a guest lecturer (full bio)

Dr. Ury is one of the world’s most well-known writers and practitioners of effective negotiation.

You will learn the following throughout this session:

Learn the science of speaking successfully in challenging circumstances, which will help you recognize and solve personal and common needs.
Learn how to negotiate in your daily life as well as in broader societal concerns.

Mastering System Change is the fourth pillar.
You will polish your grasp of how to achieve systemic change through models and techniques for extraordinary whole-system transitions in these workshops.

Session 10: Peace Work and Systemic Change (January 22)
Don Beck, Spiral Dynamics theorist and magician who has mapped and used a complete strategy to working with diverse memes and reshaping cultures from South Africa to the Middle East, will be a guest faculty member (full bio)

To begin Pillar 4, James is quite clear: “You cannot be a partisan of the part; you are expected to be a spokesperson of holistic thinking and emotional and social intelligence.” Creating a culture of peace is a multi-faceted task.”
You will learn the following throughout this session:

Learn about systemic transformation and peace work in the context of complex adaptive systems
Gain insight into “Spiral Dynamics,” the comprehensive system Don Beck uses to assist people in different cultures and contexts to identify and implement peacebuilding initiatives appropriate for them
Session 11: Financial Systems – Breakdown and Breakthrough (January 29)
Guest Faculty: David Korten, visionary, engaged citizen, author of Agenda for a New Economy: From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth and The Great Turning (full bio)

James is quick to point out: “We are now witnessing the planet-wide devastation that results from thinking of the economy and ecology as separate systems. Sustainability is, therefore, a peace issue….”

While the global economic situation can seem overwhelming, David Korten provides common sense strategies and a sense of real hope to you – that you can do your part to evolve our economic model, starting in your own community.

In this session, you will:

Understand the realities of the economic and environmental challenges facing the planet and examine the underlying paradigms that have created this crisis
Learn about the efforts emerging around the world to create new economic systems based on an understanding of interdependence and interconnectedness
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Session 12: Living Systems: A New Systems Perspective on Whole Bodies and Whole Changes (February 5)
Guest Faculty: Riane Eisler President of the Center for Partnership Studies and internationally known for her ground-breaking contributions as a systems scientist, attorney working for the human rights of women and children, and author of The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future, and The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics . Hailed by Archbishop Desmond Tutu as “a template for the better world we have been so urgently seeking” by Gloria Steinem as “revolutionary,” and by Jane Goodall as “a call for action.” (full bio)

In this session, you learn:

New perspectives on the past, present and future that will shed light on emerging paradigms on whole living systems
Approaches to partnership that can transform individuals, families and communities.
Principles of a “caring economy” that values humanity and the Earth

Pillar 5: Activating and Organizing for Peace
These classes and practices will help you develop community-building and collaboration skills that expand your leadership capacity and help you offer your deepest gifts.

Session 13: The 21st Century Peace Ambassador as Evolutionary Leader and The Summer of Peace (February 12)
Faculty: James O’Dea and Philip Hellmich, The Shift Network’s Director of Peace, author of recently released God and Conflict (full bio)

Throughout the Peace Ambassador Training, James will highlight the strengths and capacities of an evolved peace leader. In this session, James will review these leadership skills and then invite you to step up in your own way. In addition, Philip Hellmich will outline the accomplishments from the Summer of Peace 2012, a collaborative initiative that reached tens of thousands of people in 133 countries.

As James writes, “In a time of upheaval such as we are now witnessing on planet Earth, unprecedented opportunities arise for creativity and new leadership…. The emerging leader is you! Without you, there is no collective audacity to create the tipping point in human evolution.”

In this session, you will:

Understand the leadership skills needed to be an evolved peace leader
Activate your part in the larger global shift to a culture of peace
Determine what role you may play in the Summer of Peace
Session 14: The Principles and Processes of Activating and Coordinating for Peace from Local to Global (February 19)
Guest Faculty: Dot Maver, educator, peacebuilder, President of the National Peace Academy that supports, advances and nurtures cultures of peace (full bio)

Dot Maver is a pioneer in peace education and community organizing who is a master at inspiring cooperation on behalf of the common good.

In this session, you will:

Discover the practical principles and processes you can apply in organizing your own peace work whether in your school and/or community
Learn about successes from the River Phoenix Center for Peacebuilding in Gainesville, Florida, including activities you can join and/or replicate in your own community
Session 15: Revolution of the Heart (February 26)
Guest Faculty: Velcrow Ripper, award-winning philosopher filmmaker, director of Scared Sacred, Fierce Light, Occupy Love, speaker and writer (full bio)

In this session, Genie award-winning filmmaker Velcrow Ripper will share insights into peacebuilding actions taking place on a global scale witnessed while filming his trilogy: Scared Sacred, Fierce Light: When Spirit Meets Action and Occupy Love. Velcrow will talk about the process of moving from personal despair to collaborative action inspired by deep spiritual wisdom and shared human values. For more info visit VelcrowRipper.com and OccupyLove.com.

Session 16: Final Session – What is Your Peace of the Puzzle? (March 5)
Faculty: James O’Dea (full bio)

This final class is an opportunity for you and your fellow Peace Ambassadors to interact and share what you have learned and how you have been transformed during this training. You will also have the opportunity to share your personal peace projects and initiatives for creating peace in yourself, family, schools, community and our world.

The Peace Ambassador Bonus Collection
In addition to these transformative 16 course sessions, you’ll also receive these powerful bonus sessions with the world’s leading visionaries and teachers. These bonus sessions are being offered to further complement what you’ll learn in the course and take your understanding and practice to an even deeper level. This first group of bonus sessions are all audio trainings that can be streamed online or downloaded and experienced on the go.

Bonus #1: “Spiritual Solutions”
Audio Training with Deepak Chopra

In this audio session, Deepak Chopra shares insights from his recent book, Spiritual Solutions, bridging ancient spiritual wisdom and emerging scientific research with practical peace building actions in daily life.

As a global leader and pioneer in the field of mind-body medicine, Deepak Chopra transforms the way the world views physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, and social wellness. Known as a prolific author of over sixty-four books with eighteen New York Times best sellers in both the fiction and non-fiction categories, his books have been published in more than eighty-five languages. His New York Times bestsellers, “Peace Is the Way “ received the Religion and Spirituality Quill Award in 2005, and “The Book of Secrets: Unlocking the Hidden Dimensions of Your Life” was awarded the 2005 Nautilus Grand Prize. Time Magazine heralds Deepak Chopra as one of the top 100 heroes and icons of the century.

Bonus #2: “The Power of Sacred Activism”
Audio Training with Andrew Harvey

In this hour-long training, renowned scholar, author and Mystic Andrew Harvey joins James O’Dea to explore the art and discipline of Sacred Activism – awakened love and service in action.

Andrew Harvey is an author, speaker and founder/director of the Institute of Sacred Activism, an international organization focused on inviting concerned people to take up the challenge of our contemporary global crises by becoming inspired, effective and practical agents of institutional and systemic change, in order to create peace and sustainability.

Andrew Harvey has taught at Oxford University, Cornell University, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, The California Institute of Integral Studies, and the University of Creation Spirituality as well as at various spiritual centers throughout the U.S.

Bonus #3: “Taking Action to Prevent Bombings”
Audio Training with Marianne Williamson

In this 30-minute training, internationally acclaimed spiritual teacher Marianne Williamson talks about taking practical and fierce action to prevent more bombings in the world.

Marianne Williamson is a world renown spiritual teacher who has had four books on the New York Times bestseller list, including A Return to Love which is considered a must-read of The New Spirituality. A paragraph from that book, beginning “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure” – often misattributed to Nelson Mandela’s Inaugural address – is considered an anthem for a contemporary generation of seekers.

Marianne also co-founded The Peace Alliance, a grass roots campaign supporting legislation to establish a U. S. Department of Peace. In December 2006, a Newsweek magazine poll named Marianne Williamson one of the fifty most influential baby boomers. According to Time magazine, “Yoga, the Cabala and Marianne Williamson have been taken up by those seeking a relationship with God that is not strictly tethered to Christianity.”

Bonus #4: “The Common Ground Approach”
Audio Training with Susan Collin Marks

Search for Common Ground is one of the leading conflict transformation organizations in the world, with projects in over 30 countries. Susan Collin Marks is the embodiment of the “Common Ground Approach” to transforming conflict from adversarial approaches to cooperative problem solving.

In this audio session, you will:

Gain personal insights into how to help facilitate dialogues between perceived enemies
Understand how to bridge inner work with effective outer communication tools.to apply to your daily life and with loved ones, as well as people in your community
Susan Collin Marks is senior vice president of Search for Common Ground. She is a South African who served as a peacemaker and peacebuilder during South Africa’s transition from apartheid to democracy. She serves on numerous boards, including the Advisory Council of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Project on Leadership, and as Vice Chair of the Board of the Abraham Path Initiative. She is the founding editor of Track Two, a quarterly publication on community and political conflict resolution. Susan was portrayed in the PBS documentary Women on the Frontlines. Honors include a 1994/5 Jennings Randolph Peace Fellowship at the United States Institute for Peace, the Institute for Noetic Science’s Creative Altruism award in 2005,

and a prestigious Skoll Fellowship for Social Entrepreneurship in 2006. She mentors and coaches, speaks, teaches, writes, facilitates dialogue, and supports peace processes and conflict resolution programs internationally.

Bonus #5: “Crossing the Lines: Creating a World That Works for All” Audio Training With Sharif Abdullah

Sharif Abdullah shares his philosophy that “none of the challenges of the 21st Century can be solved in isolation…. What we need is a search for solutions based on inclusivity, solutions that extend across relationships.” With this in mind, Sharif provides practical ways of working in communities to help people shape a world that works for all.

Bonus #6: “Achieving True Inner Peace”
Audio Training with Michael A. Singer

There is a common belief that global peace first starts with inner peace. This theme has been described by saints and sages throughout the centuries. In this session, Michael Singer shares practical and profound insights on how each of us can achieve true inner peace, thereby preparing us to become Peace Ambassadors.

Michael A. Singer is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself. In 1971, while pursuing his doctoral work in economics, he experienced a deep inner awakening and went into seclusion to focus on yoga and meditation. In 1975, he founded Temple of the Universe, a yoga and meditation center where people of any religion or set of beliefs can come together to experience inner peace. Through the years, Singer has made major contributions in the areas of business, the arts, education, healthcare, and environmental protection. For more information about The Untethered Soul®, please visit untetheredsoul.com.

The following bonuses will all be LIVE intimate sessions with the Guest Faculty and the community of Peace Ambassadors:
Bonus #7: The Science of Compassion (Saturday, November 9)
LIVE Training With Emma Seppala, Ph.D

In this session, we will learn about the leading scientific research that proves humans are hard-wired for compassion. We also will learn tools that we can apply in our daily life. This sessions sets a foundation for the Peace Ambassador Training that peace and collaboration are possible, in fact, the potential is in our very DNA.

Emma Seppala, Ph.D is Associate Director of the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education at Stanford University. She obtained her BA from Yale, her MA from Columbia University and her PhD in Psychology from Stanford University.Emma’s areas of expertise are health psychology, well-being, and resilience. She has examined the impact of meditation on happiness, social connection, and compassion. She has also investigated the effects of yoga-based interventions for combat veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan with post-traumatic stress disorder. She is the recipient of a number of grants and awards including the James W. Lyons Award awarded by Stanford University for service to the Stanford campus: she helped found Stanford’s first class on the Psychology of Happiness and taught a large number of well-being programs for students. Emma’s research has been cited in numerous television and news outlets including ABC News and The New York Times as well as books such as Congressman Tim Ryan’s Mindful Nation and documentary films such as Free the Mind. Emma often gives talks on the psychology of health and well-being to academic, corporate, and governmental institutions including places such as Google, the National Science Foundation, and a US Congressional Hearing. In addition to her work at Stanford, she is also a popular Psychology Today blogger and contributor to Scientific American Mind, the Huffington Post, Mindful and Spirituality & Health magazines.

Bonus #8: Social Healing: Lessons from South Africa
(Saturday, December 14) LIVE Training With Nomfundo Walaza

South Africa has been a model on how a country can go through a difficult transformation. While people in South Africa still face many challenges, there are numerous lessons learned that can benefit the world at large. In this session, Nomfundo will share insights into South Africa’s efforts of social healing after decades of apartheid.

Nomfundo Walaza is a visionary and compassionate clinical psychologist and human rights activist with 20+ years of experience developing impactful conflict mediation programmes on a global scale. She is currently CEO of the Desmond Tutu Peace Centre in Cape Town, South Africa.

Bonus #9: Grassroots Organizing for Peace (Saturday, March 1)
Live Training With Matthew Albracht from The Peace Alliance
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In this session you will learn how you can use your voice to affect positive and pro-active change in policies and law to help build a more more peaceful world. We will discuss a few key peacebuilding platforms and laws and how to work with educating the public and media, elected officials, building strong coalitions, and how you could engage in a Peace Alliance action team in your community, working with others to make change.

“This organization is on the leading edge… Through your organization the word spreads out among the people, so it becomes a more popular thing to be counted as one of the pilgrims, trying to lead us to this promised land of peace.”
~Walter Cronkite

The Peace Alliance empowers civic engagement toward a culture of peace.
It is an alliance of organizers and advocates throughout the United States taking the work of peacebuilding from the margins of society into the centers of national discourse and policy priorities. Our network includes volunteer grassroots teams in hundreds of cities, towns, colleges and high school campuses.

Matthew Albracht is the Executive Vice President of The Peace Alliance. He is a long-time ecological and social justice activist working on various campaigns over the years to help create a more just and sustainable world.

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