It took quite a bit of effort to get into a school on a half-day Friday. The front gate was locked. The side entrances appeared locked, but once around back, we found our way inside where we found the principal of the SOS Hermann Gmeiner Tibetan Elementary School. This lovely little school was recommended to us [...]
Category Archives: India 2011 Peace Exchange
Arrival Nepal : February 1st, 2012
February 14, 2012 – 12:12 am
So, here we are. Wow! Nepal. It took almost a week to fully arrive, but now I am definitely here. The first few days in Kathmandu were shocking and a bit disorienting. All of a sudden I am in the 6th poorest country on the planet and walking around dirty streets of struggle. It certainly [...]
Let’s Create Peace
November 28, 2011 – 5:28 pm
Have you seen our new arts-for-peace teachers resource? It’s fresh off the press and can be yours for $30. This 75-page full color booklet includes 8 daily peace practices, 14 arts for peace project and a peace studies module to compliment existing english, social studies or history classroom work. Peek Inside: Cover Page & [...]
Join our 3rd Annual Peace Exchange
October 7, 2011 – 2:08 pm
You can sign up on our web site here: http://www.createpeaceproject.org/current-projects/
On to Amritsar ~ Let Go of Control
May 21, 2011 – 12:15 pm
Leaving Dharamsala was hard. The workshops at TCV were very special. The situation in Tibet coupled with the beauty and warmth of these kids was indeed a magical and blessed experience. But it was time to go, and so we packed up and hit the road. It was me and Heather, plus our newest compadre [...]
A Week with the Tibetan Children’s Village in Dharamasala
April 27, 2011 – 5:09 am
On Monday April 11th we arrived with excitement and joy in preparation for our first Peace Exchange workshop with the Class 6 students at the Tibetan Children’s Village upper campus, Dharamsala (Upper TCV). The group was awaiting us in the upper hall where we were warmly greeted. Prayer flags for Peace, previously created, hanging above the [...]
The Joys of This Work
April 27, 2011 – 5:04 am
It isn’t really work, exactly. There is work involved, but all of that so-called work: planning, preparations, fundraising, travel, organizing, budgeting, etc etc, all comes with such high reward when at the end of a 2hr workshop with 175 students, you are left with a feeling of such joy and contentment that none of all [...]
Be (not do)
April 27, 2011 – 4:54 am
We’ve all heard the importance of being present; being in the moment, aware of your self and your surroundings, present and attentive to this now, this place, without thought of the past, nor need to predict the future. But no matter how many times we here this simple philosophy, the practice takes focus, discipline, and [...]
Arrival in Leh
April 22, 2011 – 2:17 am
There were many ideas on the table for the last week of March. We had invitations to Tami Nadu in the south where we were considering visiting schools in Chennai and Auroville. Connections were warm, but confirmations were posing a challenge. I also knew it was going to be hotter than hot. An recent email [...]
To Jodhpur, with Detours.
April 22, 2011 – 2:12 am
On the following day, Thursday, Heather and I packed it up and boarded a car. We grabbed Rama, our filmmaker pal and, to our surprise, her brother, who would take us to their father’s village, to lead a workshop at Rama’s childhood school, on our way to Jodhpur. About an hour out of Udaipur town, [...]
