Pillar 1: Deep Personal Peace (March 9-30): These sessions will focus on helping you cultivate the psychological, emotional and spiritual dimensions of peace as the great foundation for engagement in the world. Core faculty include:

Pillar 2: Healing personal & collective wounds (April 6-30) These sessions 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. Core faculty:

Pillar 3: Communicating Peace (May 4 – 25) In these sessions and practices, you’ll advance in the art of skilled communication for your self, family, community and world. You’ll learn the latest in peacemaking, conflict resolution, social discourse and dialogue. Core faculty:

Pillar 4: Mastering Systems Change (June 1-22). In these sessions, you’ll hone your understanding for how to create systemic change via models and strategies for unprecedented whole system shifts. Core faculty:

Pillar 5: Organizing for a New World (June 29 – July 20). 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.

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

Practices & Homework: Every week we’ll have practices that allow you to embody the core teachings and apply them in your daily life, in conflicted situations in your community, or in larger societal healing work. You’ll engage in a powerful journey with supportive groups and a private online community in which you can discuss and apply the homework. Additional readings and homework will be recommended each week to deepen your learnings.

Certification: For everyone who participates fully in the course, completes assignments, and demonstrates skills in key concepts, you’ll receive a Peace Ambassador Certificate from The Shift Network, which will enable you to play a leadership role in work we are planning for the Summer of Peace 2012 – a global array of activities to create a planetary shift towards a culture of peace.