2007 Peace Programs
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August 6 – Saturday, August 11, 2007 |
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Spiritual
practices provide peacemakers respite, insight and
time for introspection. Whether you wish to foster
peace on a global, local or personal basis, and
whether your daily routines include spiritual practices
or rituals, this program will offer time for gaining
new perspectives.
The Mountain provides a delightful environment –
a safe and nurturing space where people of diverse
faiths can gather to share stories, experiences
and new visioins toward fostering peace. This opportunity
to create a beloved community together through music,
worship and heartfelt conversations is both fun
and uplifting.
 For
 the
third year in a row, Dr.
Kenneth Nafziger and Rev.
Rosemary Bray McNatt have graciously
(and enthusiastically!) agreed to return as guest
facilitators for Spiritual Practices for Peacemaking.
Ken and Rosemary’s vast knowledge, deep spiritual
centers, collaborative and celebrative styles all
combine to create a magical experience for participants.
They will bring us all to laughter through their
unexpected bursts of humor; and they will bring
us to new awareness with their depth, compassion
- and of course, with the music that Ken draws out
of us all.
This year for the first time there is a special
incentive for participants to bring others from
their local community – folks who are of the
same faith or from other religious backgrounds.
If three participants come at your invitation, you
may attend for no fee – or offer your friends
a reduced rate by registering together – four
for the price of three. This is The Mountain’s
way of supporting people working together from a
common experience. Please be sure to note your companions
on your registration form.
| “I
cannot find the words to express how meaningful
this experience has been for me. I feel both
uplifted and motivated to truly try to 'be
the peace I wish to see.' Ken and Rosemary
are remarkable – their depth of spiritual
awareness combined with their bursts of humor
and fun create a safe and welcoming space
for people of all faiths and backgrounds.”
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Friday, October 5 – Sunday, October 7, 2007
The Mountain welcomes back Mary Mackenzie
who will facilitate a seminar on Compassionate Communication.
Mary’s gentle leadership and peaceful presence
were such inspiration to our 2006 participants,
that many immediately asked us to have her return
this year! This program is designed to help us understand
how to obtain more peace in our lives and relationships,
and to communicate with compassion and understanding.
Mary is the author of Peaceful Living: Daily Meditations
for Living with Love, Healing and Compassion. She
is a certified trainer for the Center for Nonviolent
Communication and the Executive Director of the
Flagstaff Center for Compassionate Communication,
a nonprofit peacemaking organization. She teaches
transformational thinking, speaking, and listening
skills to individuals, couples, families and children
to empower them in their relationships. Mary also
assists corporations and organizations with the
restructuring or enhancment of their current programs
for optimal success. She holds a Masters degree
in Human Relations from Northern Arizona University
and is a member of the Arizona Dispute Resolution
Association.
“Peace is an attitude of acceptance and trust
that all is fundamentally okay in the world even
if it doesn’t look like what we wanted,”
says Mackenzie. “In any moment we can choose
to wage war against what is. Our state of being
and behaviors stem from the choice we make moment
to moment. The best way to maintain peace is to
maintain your connection to yourself.” This
exciting Mountain program helps participants focus
on their own needs first, in order to help all of
their relationships transform and thrive.
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 As
part of our Peace Works Programs, The Mountain
is honored to welcome Claude AnShin
Thomas, renowned Mendicant Monk,
for a powerfully moving program. Claude AnShin
is the author of the book At Hell's Gate:
A Soldier's Journey from War to Peace,
and founder of the Zaltho
Foundation. As a former soldier who has
committed his life to the teaching and practice
of nonviolence, he says, "What is startling
in these days of the 'war on terrorism' is
that we rarely hear from the soldiers themselves."
Claude AnShin speaks personally and powerfully
from his own transformation, which can serve
as a roadmap for others seeking viable alternatives
to war and violence. "Everyone has their
Vietnam; everyone has experienced trauma and
everyone, if they want, can find healing and
peace through looking deeply at the nature
of their suffering." More than ever,
his voice is one that Americans need and want
to hear, a voice that can bring us the insight
we need for healing and transformation.
Joining Claude AnShin in facilitating the
program will be Wiebke KenShin Andersen.
To learn more about Claude AnShin Thomas and
the Zaltho
Foundation, visit their website.
"Written
with relentless courage and utter compassion,
this account of violence and transformation
is one of the most amazing and wonderful
stories I've ever read."
~ Michael Herr, author of Dispatches,
coauthor of the screenplays for "Apocalypse
Now" and "Full Metal Jacket"
"Claude AnShin Thomas
has been an inspiration to me. Our world
urgently needs to listen to him tell
of his life in war and then in peace."
~ Maxine Hong Kingston, author of Woman
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