Emily was all about outer peace, until she got cancer. Now she’s also focused on inner peace. Tell me how you got started. I’ve felt the calling toward peace work since age 7, but it really came to a head in 2005 when various peacemakers such as Mahatma Gandhi, Jesus and The Dalai Lama started […]
Emily Hine – Peace Officer in Training, Holy Sit! Read More »
Tell me how you got started. Peace work started for me many years ago when I created the first travel agency in Canada specifically for people with disabilities. (My background at the time was a social worker – mostly with people with disabilities.) Through naivety as much as anything I learned how to advocate and
Tell me how you got started. Really, I got started by being the fifth of ten children. Being in the middle meant that I was always seeking harmony in the family. In terms of peacebuilding, from 1985 to 1989, I served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Sierra Leone and that was big initiation for
Tell me how you got started. When I really think about it, I got started at a very early age by establishing the peace in my high conflict family dynamics. I didn’t know it then, but I was destined to be a peace builder, a mediator, and a conflict management coach. I knew when I
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Tell me how you got started. Growing up in a military family I was fascinated by the Cold War as a child and, following a circuitous route, eventually ended up as a Naval Officer in the British Royal Navy which is where I developed an understanding of defense politics and international relations. As a boy, I used
Clive Jachnik – From the Navy to Peacebuilding… and Painting Read More »
Tell me how you got started. Conversation Peace came out of a dream to bring people from all walks of life together by sharing their wishes and intentions about peace. Peace on a personal, local and global scale. What interests you most about what you’re doing now? Conversation Peace is a passion project that gives
In a special edition of Peace Is Sexy, Stephanie Knox Cubon and Hannah Renglich jointly tell us about how they make peace through food. Tell me how you got started. When we met at the United Nations-mandated University for Peace in Costa Rica three years ago, we already knew we had much in common – a desire
Tell me how you got started. I got started with A Little Peruvian in January 2012. At first, I was considering organizing culinary travel tours to Peru and I was trying to figure out a way to fund that business; I came up with the idea of having a stand at the Burlington Farmers’ Market.
Hugo Lara – Cooking Up a Little Sumthin’ Sumthin’ Read More »
Tell me how you got started. YogiBreak was an idea that came to me as my own yoga practice evolved over the past 3 years. I was trying to figure out how to integrate my professional life (read: office work) and with my yoga life. Working in an office is often a grind; I saw an
When I was in middle school, I was bullied a lot, for being scrawny. That was what the bullies led me to believe, anyway. Now, years later, I realize that it was my lack of self-esteem and awareness that really caused the bullying. I didn’t embrace the way I was different, and I didn’t know
