Teaching Peace Series

Enjoy our robust and inspirational conversations with peace-movement leaders from around the world. These conversations are in partnership with the Brooklyn Peace Center and the NYC Council of Mennonite Churches, education committee.

CREATING HEALTHY CULTURES

The Creating Healthy Cultures program takes participants through a journey of healing, health and wellness. The program is based on the belief that for healing to be complete, all dimensions of who we are as human beings—physical, emotional, psychological and spiritual—must be addressed in a meaningful and effective way. The body, mind, heart, and spirit are understood to be inseparably interwoven and unified. The Creating Healthy Cultures program also guides participants and their families through the important dimension of the mind, heart, and spirit connection that can profoundly impact all aspects of the healing journey.

WEPA (WE ENGAGE IN PREVENTION AWARENESS)

WEPA is a substance misuse prevention coalition engaged in creating healthy culture. We serve youth and families in the Northwest Bronx, focusing on youth between the ages of 10 to 21. WEPA seeks to collaborate with all community stakeholders by developing and implementing environmental strategies, which include education, information, community and civic engagement in order to increase awareness of substance misuse and prevent addiction.

WEPA is a diverse community of stakeholders working together in the shelter of each other to prevent addiction and substance misuse, and create and sustain healthy communities where youth and families thrive.

THE BELOVED COMMUNITY EXPERIENCE

The mission of the Beloved Community is to build a national faith-based movement that brings work across congregations and trains and equips lay leaders to organize, facilitate, and grow our programs in their congregations and communities. Believing in the sacred nature of community, the focus is maintaining a movement for change and transformation in an era of despair.

SAFE CONVERSATIONS

The Safe Conversations® program provides a guided process changing relationships around the world. It empowers participants to talk about their relationships without criticism, listen without judgment, and connect beyond differences. The program teaches skills to slow down and understand each other in order to experience a sense of belonging like never before. Based on the discoveries of top relationship experts, the program provides simple processes of turn taking and listening in structured ways that create safety in relationships.

HERB & SPICE YOUR LIFE

Herb and Spice your life is an intergenerational gardening project designed to enhance participant's awareness of the gift of the planet and its plant life for healing, health and wellness. Developed with a focus on youth and families, the workshops are designed to surface and share participant's knowledge base about herbs and spices, as well as introduce new uses for herbs and spices. These range from enhancing our appetites to healing and preventing bug bites!

In addition participants are encouraged to consider the environment, echo systems and ways in which we contribute to healing ourselves and our planet. Since herbs are akin to many houseplants they can be grown on your window sills, in containers or in the garden. Participants are encouraged to share cuttings with at least two friends or family members for further propagation. The workshop concludes with a bountiful table of herbed and spiced dishes to delight the palate and celebrate our community creativity for "creating healthy culture"