Peacemakers presents

BePeace
A Peace Studies Workshop

by

Rita Marie Johnson

Saturday, June 7, 2008
10:00 AM to 3:00 PM
The Women's Museum: An Institute for the Future
3800 Parry Avenue
Dallas, TX 75226

Enter at Gate 2 (on Haskell at the corner of Parry)
Parking is free.

Tickets: $50 if purchased by 5/30/2008
$60 after 5/30

Register Here

click here to download a flyer in pdf format

The BePeace Workshop presented by  Rita Marie Johnson, founding director of the Academy for Peace of Costa Rica.  The methodology of this Academy is being fully integrated into the Ministry of Education with the support of AED (similar to the United Way in the USA).

This workshop will introduce the practice of BePeace, the synergistic combination of HeartMath for “feeling peace” and Nonviolent Communication for “speaking peace”.  It will include exercises so that the transformational power of this method can be experienced.    

BePeace is highly effective in preventing and resolving conflicts.  As Rita Marie explains, “In achieving my goal to be a true peacemaker, I was missing a solid how-to in resolving day to day conflicts.  I researched social and emotional learning methods for 10 years, looking for the way to “be peace” in every moment.  Now I can progress each day rather than being stuck for years in the same reactive patterns.”  BePeace is also being used in counseling, team building, mediation, small group work and creative problem solving. 

The workshop will include a short summary of Costa Rica’s model of peace and its new endeavor to establish a Ministry for Peace that will work with the Academy for Peace.  In addition, Rita Marie will share how BePeace is being applied in the school system and the plans to upscale it to the national level.  If you are committed to being a true peacemaker and creating new systems based on peace, this is the workshop for you.