The sessions in Pillar 1 will help you cultivate mindfulness, an inner awareness that supports emotional, psychological and spiritual wellbeing — the foundation for inner peace that is essential for all Peace Ambassadors.

Session 1: The Science of Mindfulness & Inner Peace (Recorded November 30, 2016)

Guest Faculty: Richard Miller, PhD

In this session, you’ll discover:

The latest neuroscience that’s informing our understanding of mindfulness and meditation — how these ancient practices change our biochemistry and very DNA Mindfulness practices to help you:Release negative emotions and thought patterns

Calm your nervous system

Build resiliency to reduce stress and increase wellbeing

Develop your capacity to respond effectively to the challenging circumstances you encounter in life

Research-proven tools and resources to assist you, your peers, family and community How meditation can help you with the often negative “talking voice in your heads” so you can discover and embody deep, immense and unchanging inner harmony and peace of mind

Guest Faculty: Richard Miller, PhD is the founder and president of the nonprofit educational Integrative Restoration Institute.

The Integrative Restoration Institute (IRI) provides programs and trainings on how to live a contented life, free of conflict and fear, through their offering of teachings that help open your mind and body to its inherent ground of health, wholeness and wellbeing. iRest Meditation, IRI’s special offering, is being utilized in VA hospitals, military bases, hospitals and clinics, hospice, homeless shelters, community programs and schools worldwide.

Session 2: The Heart’s Intuitive Intelligence
A Path to Personal, Social & Global Coherence (Recorded December 3)

Guest Faculty: Deborah Rozman, PhD

In this session, you’ll discover how to:

• Increase resilience by improving your ability to “bounce back” and cultivate the powerful inner energy reserve that can make life easier during times of dynamic change
• Trust the heart by learning the research revealing your heart’s role in sending and receiving essential information for living a healthy, fulfilling life
• Cultivate heart intelligence by enhancing and accessing the powerful intelligence of your heart to rise above problems, even in the midst of chaos and confusion
• Engage the global heart by learning about research that suggests we are all connected by and live in the reflected energy of our hearts, with our emotions affecting the earth itself

Guest Faculty: Deborah Rozman, PhD is a business executive, serial entrepreneur, psychologist, author and educator. Since 1990, she has been founding Executive Director of the nonprofit Institute of HeartMath and Executive Vice President of HeartMath LLC.

HeartMath is the world’s most influential scientific organization focused on the powers of the heart. Deborah will share how you can harness your heart’s power for intuition, joy and less stressful living.

Session 3: Inner Peace & Consciousness
The Foundation for All Peace (Recorded December 7)

Guest Faculty: Sister Jenna

In this session, you’ll:

Experience your true Essence — a state of being beyond any name, title, gender or role Understand consciousness and how it creates the world we envision Explore the essence of soul, higher consciousness and how our actions take us to where we are Discover how our past actions can shed light on why we find ourselves in situations, either on a personal or collective level Examine how we can change our story and become masters of who we believe we were born to be This provocative conversation will challenge the way you see yourself and the world around you!

Guest Faculty: Sister Jenna is a spiritual leader, author, radio talk show host, renowned speaker and founder and director of the Meditation Museum I & II in metropolitan Washington, DC and director of the Washington, DC branch of the Brahma Kumaris, a worldwide organization with over 8,500 branches in 120 countries. She was selected as one of the EBW 100 Most Influential Global Leaders and served as a principal partner with the Oprah Winfrey Network and Values Partnerships on the Belief Team, a community of individuals from diverse spiritual, cultural and faith backgrounds.

The sessions in Pillar 2 will focus on giving you the skills to transform personal wounds and collective trauma in order to create personal and social transformation and significant evolutionary change.

Session 4: How Mindfulness Can Transform Racial & Other Forms of Bias (Recorded December 14)

Guest Faculty: Rhonda Magee, JD, MA

In this session, you’ll discover:

Research on how mindfulness practices can help you focus, give you greater control over your emotions, and increase your capacity to think clearly and act with purpose — specifically when working with racial or socioeconomic differences. Compassion practices which can serve as powerful aids in the work of decreasing bias. Mindfulness-based “ColorInsight” techniques that can increase your actual capacities — not only for acting in less biased ways — but also for making more authentic, positive and effective cross-race relationships in these resegregated times.

Guest Faculty: Rhonda Magee, JD, MA is Professor of Law at the University of San Francisco. She is the former Chair of the Board of the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society, a current member of the Board of the Center for Mindfulness and of the Project for the Integration of Spirituality, Law and Politics, and a contributor to Mindful.org and to the Greater Good Science Center.

Session 5: Radical Forgiveness (Recorded December 21)

Guest Faculty: Colin Tipping

In this session, you’ll discover:

Radical Forgiveness technology — its theory and applications Practical tools to forgive yourself and people who have caused you pain and harm Techniques to shift your consciousness about what is happening in the world — to help you see the divine purpose in it and come to peace with it Methods to raise planetary consciousnessand hasten the emergence of world peace by using the Radical Forgiveness technology

Guest Faculty: Colin Tipping, is Founder and Director of the Institute for Radical Forgiveness Therapy and Coaching, Inc., andauthor of Radical Forgiveness: A Revolutionary Five Stage Process for Finding Peace in Any Situation. He is the creator of what has come to be recognized as one of the most powerful leading-edge technologies for personal and spiritual growth today — Radical Forgiveness.

Session 6: Compassion, Inner Peace & Common Humanity (Recorded December 28)

Faculty: Emily Hine

In this session, you’ll discover:

How recognizing suffering in yourself and others is the first step in healing your inner and interpersonal wounds The ways which the science of compassion illustrates we can nurture compassion for ourselves, loved ones, strangers — and even perceived enemies Turning towards suffering is the key to releasing our wounds Why embracing common humanity is essential in healing collective global wounds

Faculty: Emily Hine is the co-lead faculty of The Peace Ambassador Training 2.0, CEO of HineSight Consulting, and a Mindfulness, Peace and Compassion Teacher. She is a Certified Compassion Cultivation Training Teacher from CCARE, Stanford University. Emily is also an inspirational writer and speaker.

In the sessions and practices in Pillar 3, you’ll advance in the art of skilled communication for yourself, family, community and world. You’ll learn the latest in peacebuilding, conflict transformation, social discourse and dialogue.

Session 7: Nonviolent Communication An Interpersonal & International Approach to Peace (Recorded January 4, 2017)

Guest Faculty: Roxy Manning

In this session, you’ll discover:

An authentic, compassionate connection with others using Nonviolent Communication (NVC) techniques How to identify and communicate your feelings and needs so you can interact more effectively even when triggered Ways to use your inner dialogue and self-compassion as strategies to help you communicate peace internally and externally

Guest Faculty: Roxy Manning, PhD, Executive Director of BayNVC and Lead Trainer of BayNVC Leadership Program, is a licensed clinical psychologist and Center for Nonviolent Communication Certified Trainer. In addition to supporting clinicians and others seeking to improve their ability to serve clients from diverse backgrounds, Roxy has worked directly with programs and people working towards social change in international settings — including supporting former rebel soldiers working for grassroots peace organizations in Sri Lanka and artists seeking to contribute to greater acceptance of homosexuality in Japan.

Session 8: Completely Connected (Recorded January 11)

Guest Faculty: Rita Marie Johnson

In this session, you’ll discover:

A method of connecting to yourself and others that accelerates your personal, spiritual and professional growth which taps the synergy between your empathy and insight to efficiently process the challenges and celebrations of your life How empathy is attained through a conscious connection to feelings and needs, and insight is accessed through heart-brain coherence How the powerful partnership of empathy and insight extinguishes your triggers and takes advantage of your best intelligence A practice to feed your hope that we can create a connected world in every arena of life

Guest Faculty: Rita Marie Johnson ’s book, Completely Connected: Uniting Our Empathy and Insight for Extraordinary Results, is a Nautilus award winner in Psychology and an Amazon bestseller. Her method is taught in spiritual communities as the BePeace Practice and to secular audiences as the Connection Practice. It’s being taught at the United Nations University for Peace in Costa Rica and is receiving accolades from students from around the world for its universal appeal across multiple cultural contexts.

Session 9: Bridging the Cultural Divide (Recorded January 18)

Guest Faculty: Waidehi Gokhale

In this session, you’ll discover:

The emerging field of Virtual ExchangeCommon perceptions that Islamic and Western youth have about each other Insights on how to become aware of your biases towards people of other cultures Techniques to help shift your perspective of people of other cultures Basic tools for facilitating dialogues and ways you and your community can participate in Virtual Exchange programs

Guest Faculty: Waidehi Gokhale, Executive Director of Soliya.

Soliya is a pioneer in Virtual Exchange, working with 100 universities in 28 countries across the Middle East, North Africa, South Asia, Europe and North America. Soliya’s programs are helping bridge Islamic and Western youth through facilitated online dialogues. Soliya’s programs have inspired new legislation in the United States to encourage more Virtual Exchange in universities and colleges across the country.

In the Pillar 4 sessions, you’ll hone your understanding for how to create systemic change. You’ll also discover models of community-building and collaboration so you can choose how you want to apply your training as a Peace Ambassador in the world.

Session 10: Change the Story, Change the Future (Recorded January 25)

Guest Faculty: David Korten, PhD

While we are witnessing global environmental devastation, social and economic injustice, and violence, we are also experiencing an emergence of movements focused on creating a new system of institutions, policies, and initiatives guided by new stories of hope and possibility.

David Korten writes, “We are in the midst of a deep shift in human consciousness. The work of our time is to learn to live in alignment with the structures and processes of Living Earth. If we step back, we can discern the outlines of an emerging interracial, intercultural global-scale social movement — an inclusive intersectoral movement of movements — converging on a trajectory toward a Living Earth future.”

While the issues we face can seem overwhelming, David Korten invites us to help shift the prevailing cultural story by exploring the stories that live in our hearts, inform our politics and media choices, and guide the missions of the institutions/organizations we depend upon and care about.

In this session, you’ll discover:

• The realities of the economic and environmental challenges facing the planet and examine the underlying paradigms that have created these crises
• Insights on the emerging movements that are raising up a new living Earth narrative and actively displacing the old, destructive economic system with community-based solutions

Guest Faculty: David Korten, PhD Visionary, Systems Thinker and Author of Change the Story, Change the Future: A Living Economy for Living Earth, Agenda for a New Economy: From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth, When Corporations Rule the World, and The Great Turning.

Session 11: The 21st Century Peace Ambassador as Evolutionary Leader & The Summer of Peace (Recorded February 1)

Faculty: Philip Hellmich With Special Guests

As the course draws to a close, we will bring in several special guests who model the leadership characteristics of an evolved peace leader — qualities we’ve learned about throughout The Peace Ambassador Training 2.0. These special guests will share how they’ve applied their skills in their own peacebuilding organizations including: PeaceJam, Humanity’s Team, the International Cities of Peace, the International Day of Peace, The Peace Alliance, Gaiafield and the Summer of Peace.

Eleanor Roosevelt said it best: “It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.”

In this session, you’ll:

Anchor your understanding of the leadership skills needed to be an evolved peace leader Learn about several successful global peace initiatives and how you can get involved Become inspired to create your own peace project to apply your training immediately

Session 12: Final Session What is Your Peace of the Puzzle? (Recorded February 8)

Faculty: Emily Hine and Philip Hellmich

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

In this session, you’ll:

Activate your part in the larger global shift to a culture of peace Determine what role you may play in The Summer of Peace Share your intended project and seek support from your fellow Peace Ambassadors