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Ben Bowler is a unity-activist and spiritual entrepreneur. In 2006 Ben and his wife Jildou moved from Australia to Thailand in response to an opportunity to volunteer along the Thai-Burma border. Together in 2008 they founded Blood Foundation, a micro NGO focusing on Burma issues, interfaith projects and education programs for migrant workers.
In 2009 he founded Monk for a Month, a cultural and spiritual immersion program in Thailand. This then grew into World Weavers, a social enterprise specializing in authentic spiritual adventures into some of the world’s great faith traditions, including in Tibetan India, Nepal, Cambodia and Ethiopia.
In 2010 Ben launched Muslim for a Month in Turkey, offering guests a first-hand experience of Turkish Islam and Sufism, under the spiritually inclusive banner of Mevlana Rumi.
In 2012 Ben convened the first U DAY Festival in Chiang Mai, Thailand as part of the Birth 2012 global events. This event combined spiritual leaders from a variety of traditions with popular music artists. U DAY is scheduled for Ethiopia in 2018, India in 2019 and Jerusalem in 2020.
Dubbed “The Faith Dealer” by Readers Digest in 2013, Ben is a “Social Entrepreneur in Residence” at the prestigious INSEAD Business School and is a blogger for the Huffington Post.
Ben and his team launched 1GOD.com in October 2015 at the Parliament of the World’s Religions. The purpose and mission of this growing online platform is to “Unite the Tribes”: to cultivate global spiritual unity while maintaining and celebrating rich diversity.
Together with Dr. Kurt Johnson and Doug King, Ben founded The Convergence Radio Series on Voice America. The series features a host of Evolutionary Leaders and other prominent voices looking ahead to the many exciting developments on the Road to 2020
In 2016 Ben partnered with United Religions Initiative and Cultural Infusion to found Sacred Australia, a network committed to a deepening of the Australian spiritual identity and connected with the historic repatriation of Mungo Man.
Ben Bowler is a unity-activist and spiritual entrepreneur. In 2006 Ben and his wife Jildou moved from Australia to Thailand in response to an opportunity to volunteer along the Thai-Burma border. Together in 2008 they founded Blood Foundation, a micro NGO focusing on Burma issues, interfaith projects and education programs for migrant workers.
In 2009 he founded Monk for a Month, a cultural and spiritual immersion program in Thailand. This then grew into World Weavers, a social enterprise specializing in authentic spiritual adventures into some of the world’s great faith traditions, including in Tibetan India, Nepal, Cambodia and Ethiopia.
In 2010 Ben launched Muslim for a Month in Turkey, offering guests a first-hand experience of Turkish Islam and Sufism, under the spiritually inclusive banner of Mevlana Rumi.
In 2012 Ben convened the first U DAY Festival in Chiang Mai, Thailand as part of the Birth 2012 global events. This event combined spiritual leaders from a variety of traditions with popular music artists. U DAY is scheduled for Ethiopia in 2018, India in 2019 and Jerusalem in 2020.
Dubbed “The Faith Dealer” by Readers Digest in 2013, Ben is a “Social Entrepreneur in Residence” at the prestigious INSEAD Business School and is a blogger for the Huffington Post.
Ben and his team launched 1GOD.com in October 2015 at the Parliament of the World’s Religions. The purpose and mission of this growing online platform is to “Unite the Tribes”: to cultivate global spiritual unity while maintaining and celebrating rich diversity.
Together with Dr. Kurt Johnson and Doug King, Ben founded The Convergence Radio Series on Voice America. The series features a host of Evolutionary Leaders and other prominent voices looking ahead to the many exciting developments on the Road to 2020
In 2016 Ben partnered with United Religions Initiative and Cultural Infusion to found Sacred Australia, a network committed to a deepening of the Australian spiritual identity and connected with the historic repatriation of Mungo Man.
Rick Ulfik is the Founder of We, The World and the WE Campaign at WE.net. a global coalition-building organization to unite and amplify the efforts of people, organizations and movements working for the common good. Rick is the Co-Creator of the annual 11 Days of Global Unity - 11 Ways to Change the World which starts on September 11th and culminates on September 21st the U.N. International Day of Peace. 11 Days of Global Unity is a worldwide platform for the promotion of peace, justice, sustainability and transformation that annually includes as many as 700 associated events in over 60 countries. Participants have included Desmond Tutu, Jane Goodall, Deepak Chopra, Eve Ensler, Daniel Ellsberg, Bill McKibben, Amy Goodman, Tavis Smiley, Marianne Williamson, Robert Thurman and many others.
Rick is also a Nonviolent Communication Workshop Facilitator and leader.
And Rick is an award-winning composer and keyboard player who has written music for ABC TV, NBC, CBS, radio, the Olympics, feature films, commercials, records, other media, and has performed with Queen Latifah, Phoebe Snow, Carlos Santana and Judy Collins.
Rick serves every year as an Emmy Awards Judge for News, Documentaries, and Music.
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Rick is also a Nonviolent Communication Workshop Facilitator and leader.
And Rick is an award-winning composer and keyboard player who has written music for ABC TV, NBC, CBS, radio, the Olympics, feature films, commercials, records, other media, and has performed with Queen Latifah, Phoebe Snow, Carlos Santana and Judy Collins.
Rick serves every year as an Emmy Awards Judge for News, Documentaries, and Music.
Subscribe to our WE Campaign Global Action Newsletter: WE.net/subscribe
Extended Interview with Eve Ensler at http://WE.net/EveEnsler
Resources for Collaboration & Action
11 Days of Global Unity - 11 Ways to Transform Your World
11 Days of Global Unity Tele-Summit 2017 - Listen to the recent interviews with Deepak Chopra, Marianne Williamson, Ralph Nader, Robert Thurman and many others!
Trends in Global Grassroots Organizing, Trends Newsfeed
An Urgent Message From Your Children at WeYourChildren.org
GlobalUnityCalendar.org - See and post social change and cultural events worldwide!
Renewable Energy Media Campaign and Movement
Volunteer Sign-up: http://WE.net/takeaction/volunteer
Organization Sign-up: http://WE.net/11days/participate
Donation Page: WE.net/donate
Facebook - Twitter
TRENDS in Global Grassroots Organizing Magazine https://Trends.WE.net
Grandmother Shirley Barclay, Lakota Tribe. White Buffalo Calf Clan and Black Pipe Clan. Native name: Wambli Sake Wia, also known as Eagle Claw Woman. She is a Holy Channunpa (Pipe) carrier, , Vision Quester and SunDancer.. She is also a Cherokee Wolf Clan Mother Nativeand her native name was given to her in a Vision by the Moon herself. Moonstone Dove. She carries a designation of Aagasuyada . That is a designation of being “touched by Spirit. And, she is on the tribal Roles of the Western Band of the Cherokee Nation in Oklahoma.
Shirley has taught in 40 different countries over the years interfacing the Indigenous Ways and the everyday world ways bring about many major changes to take place with the people of the world and different countries. She works to bring the power of connection for us all in all that she does. She is clear that Love is the most powerful force in Creation and is dedicated to bringing about connection among us all and supports the changes that need to take place that will lead to peace. Her entire family walks in these ways. She is well trained in Western Mental Health methods as well as Cultural and Medical Anthropology on the PhD level from the New School Graduate Faculty in New York and also has a background in Alternative Medical Practices, and Cross Religious Studies. She is also an Advanced Nurse Practitioner, A retired Marriage and Family Therapist, and a servant to Spirit in all she does. She will be speaking about empowerment and ways we can serve each other in our everyday world. We are all one.
Shirley has taught in 40 different countries over the years interfacing the Indigenous Ways and the everyday world ways bring about many major changes to take place with the people of the world and different countries. She works to bring the power of connection for us all in all that she does. She is clear that Love is the most powerful force in Creation and is dedicated to bringing about connection among us all and supports the changes that need to take place that will lead to peace. Her entire family walks in these ways. She is well trained in Western Mental Health methods as well as Cultural and Medical Anthropology on the PhD level from the New School Graduate Faculty in New York and also has a background in Alternative Medical Practices, and Cross Religious Studies. She is also an Advanced Nurse Practitioner, A retired Marriage and Family Therapist, and a servant to Spirit in all she does. She will be speaking about empowerment and ways we can serve each other in our everyday world. We are all one.
Hereditary Chief Phil Lane Jr. is an enrolled member of the Ihanktonwan Dakota and Chickasaw Nations and is an internationally recognized leader in human, community, and economic development. He was born at the Haskell Indian School in Lawrence, Kansas in 1944, where his mother and father met and attended school.
During the past 50 years, Chief Lane has worked with Indigenous Peoples from North, Central and South America, Micronesia, South East Asia, India, Hawaii, and Africa. He served 16 years as an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Education at the University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada (1980-1996).
With Chief Lane's guidance and applied experience, Four Worlds International Institute (FWII) , founded in 1982, has become an internationally recognized leader in human, community, and economic development because of the Institute’s unique focus on the importance of culture and spirituality in all elements of development. Both Four Directions International and First Nations Solar serve FWII's economic development arm. Both, dedicated to the development of sustainable commercial enterprises that support holistic, political, social, cultural, environmental, and educational development.
Hereditary Chief Phil Lane Jr. is an enrolled member of the Ihanktonwan Dakota and Chickasaw Nations and is an internationally recognized leader in human, community, and economic development. He was born at the Haskell Indian School in Lawrence, Kansas in 1944, where his mother and father met and attended school.
During the past 50 years, Chief Lane has worked with Indigenous Peoples from North, Central and South America, Micronesia, South East Asia, India, Hawaii, and Africa. He served 16 years as an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Education at the University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada (1980-1996).
With Chief Lane's guidance and applied experience, Four Worlds International Institute (FWII) , founded in 1982, has become an internationally recognized leader in human, community, and economic development because of the Institute’s unique focus on the importance of culture and spirituality in all elements of development. Both Four Directions International and First Nations Solar serve FWII's economic development arm. Both, dedicated to the development of sustainable commercial enterprises that support holistic, political, social, cultural, environmental, and educational development.
Mitchell J. Rabin, M.A., L.AC., is an international speaker and teacher, holistic psychotherapist, licensed acupuncturist, coach, mediator, entrepreneur, business consultant, environmentalist and writer. He has also been hosting and producing a NYC-based cable TV show since 1993 called A Better World. He has been on TV and radio numerous times and with a weekly radio show on Progressive Radio Network since 2006.
Mitchell holds a B.A. from Bard College in ancient literature and theater, and a Master of Arts from Antioch Graduate School in Counseling Psychology. He is a Diplomate of Traditional Chinese Acupuncture from the Tri-State Institute of traditional Chinese Acupuncture, Certified by the Eastern NLP Institute in Ericksonian Hypnotherapy and has been in private practice in NYC specializing in couples counseling as well as his integrative Mind-Body approach to transpersonal psychotherapy and bio-feedback using the LIFE System.
Mitchell began The Center for Creative Well-Being in 1989 a Stress Management-Healing Center in NYC using floatation tanks and a Sound Womb. This became wildly popular and attracted the attention of health activist-radio celebrity Gary Null, which began their now 20+ year relationship. Mitchell was known for his work with Floatation Tanks and its value in relaxation, stress management and re-programming.
Mitchell founded The Ecology Institute in 1990 as a means of marketing magnetic technologies which have the effect of reducing our carbon footprint through increasing energy efficiency and reducing the use of chemicals in water treatment. He developed a distribution network in the larger New York area as well as with distribution in Europe, Russia and South America.
Mitchell founded A Better World in 1993 an organization to raise awareness through media about bringing attention and consciousness into the corporation and into our personal daily lives. Teaching the principles of sustainability, inner and outer balance, health & holism, with Sacred Stewardship, service and the joy of life are the fundamentals of A Better World. This became the name of the weekly radio and TV shows Mitchell produces & hosts weekly.
Mitchell has also been a partner in several start-up green companies. One focused on solutions to sick building syndrome, another was one of the first green construction supply houses in the U.S., another on permanent magnet motor, and high-level water filtration and desalination technologies. Most recently, he is part of an LED System company that will take lighting off-grid and another company that is developing prototypes for super-conductive materials that could lead to permanently-recharging batteries and generators. Website: https://abetterworld.net/
Mitchell holds a B.A. from Bard College in ancient literature and theater, and a Master of Arts from Antioch Graduate School in Counseling Psychology. He is a Diplomate of Traditional Chinese Acupuncture from the Tri-State Institute of traditional Chinese Acupuncture, Certified by the Eastern NLP Institute in Ericksonian Hypnotherapy and has been in private practice in NYC specializing in couples counseling as well as his integrative Mind-Body approach to transpersonal psychotherapy and bio-feedback using the LIFE System.
Mitchell began The Center for Creative Well-Being in 1989 a Stress Management-Healing Center in NYC using floatation tanks and a Sound Womb. This became wildly popular and attracted the attention of health activist-radio celebrity Gary Null, which began their now 20+ year relationship. Mitchell was known for his work with Floatation Tanks and its value in relaxation, stress management and re-programming.
Mitchell founded The Ecology Institute in 1990 as a means of marketing magnetic technologies which have the effect of reducing our carbon footprint through increasing energy efficiency and reducing the use of chemicals in water treatment. He developed a distribution network in the larger New York area as well as with distribution in Europe, Russia and South America.
Mitchell founded A Better World in 1993 an organization to raise awareness through media about bringing attention and consciousness into the corporation and into our personal daily lives. Teaching the principles of sustainability, inner and outer balance, health & holism, with Sacred Stewardship, service and the joy of life are the fundamentals of A Better World. This became the name of the weekly radio and TV shows Mitchell produces & hosts weekly.
Mitchell has also been a partner in several start-up green companies. One focused on solutions to sick building syndrome, another was one of the first green construction supply houses in the U.S., another on permanent magnet motor, and high-level water filtration and desalination technologies. Most recently, he is part of an LED System company that will take lighting off-grid and another company that is developing prototypes for super-conductive materials that could lead to permanently-recharging batteries and generators. Website: https://abetterworld.net/
Mr. Jonathan Granoff is President of Global Security Institute and an attorney, author and international advocate emphasizing the legal and ethical dimensions of human development and security, with a specific focus on advancing the rule of law to address international security and the threats posed by nuclear weapons. He serves on numerous governing and advisory boards including: Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy, Fortune Forum, Jane Goodall Institute, the NGO Committee on Disarmament, Peace and Security, Parliamentarians for Nuclear Nonproliferation and Disarmament, and Middle Powers Initiative. He is a recipient of the Rutgers University School of Law’s Arthur E. Armitage Distinguished Alumni Award and a 2014 nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize.
He is the Senior Advisor and United Nations Representative of the Permanent Secretariat of the World Summits of Nobel Peace Laureates, Ambassador for Peace, Security and Nuclear Disarmament of the Parliament of the Worlds Religions, former Adjunct Professor of International Law at Widener University School of Law, and Chair of the Task Force on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Advisor to the Committee on National Security of the International Law Section of the American Bar Association.
Mr. Granoff is the award-winning screenwriter of The Constitution: The Document that Created a Nation and a prolific author. He has been a featured guest and expert commentator on numerous radio and television programs, and has presented expert testimony in the Parliaments of Canada and the United Kingdom as well as the US Congress and the United Nations.
Mr. Granoff earned his BA (cum laude) from Vassar College and his Juris Doctorate from Rutgers University School of Law.
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He is the Senior Advisor and United Nations Representative of the Permanent Secretariat of the World Summits of Nobel Peace Laureates, Ambassador for Peace, Security and Nuclear Disarmament of the Parliament of the Worlds Religions, former Adjunct Professor of International Law at Widener University School of Law, and Chair of the Task Force on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Advisor to the Committee on National Security of the International Law Section of the American Bar Association.
Mr. Granoff is the award-winning screenwriter of The Constitution: The Document that Created a Nation and a prolific author. He has been a featured guest and expert commentator on numerous radio and television programs, and has presented expert testimony in the Parliaments of Canada and the United Kingdom as well as the US Congress and the United Nations.
Mr. Granoff earned his BA (cum laude) from Vassar College and his Juris Doctorate from Rutgers University School of Law.
https://gsinstitute.org/
Patricia Anne Davis, MA My English name is Patricia Anne Davis, MA and my ceremonial name is used only for personal ceremony. It translates to “peacemaker” or “one who greets others with peace”. I have spent a life time learning and practicing healing knowledge and processes, beginning with my own father, who was a medicine person who made his lifetime priority healing three generations of people in ceremonies. He was my teacher from birth in the home and in ceremonies until his transition in 1983.
I am a diagnostician and practitioner by tribal lineage, training and initiation. I translated Dineh blessingwayceremonial principles into an affirmative healing process to facilitate Wellness Restoration. I design Presentations, Training, Ceremony and Workshops within the context of the natural order and Indigenous science a concept from the literature to define a distinction between an Affirmative thinking system and a Eurocentric Dualistic thinking system. I designed a contemporary cognitive ceremonial change process I call “Indigenous Ceremonial Change Process
Currently, I am in private practice as a Practitioner and Diagnostician and also an International Teacher and Consultant of Navajo/Dineh blessingway ceremonial healing principles that are cross-cultural, inter-generational, inclusive and universal in practical application.
I have traveled to ten countries as an International Teacher and Healer.
Website: https://nativeamericanconcepts.wordpress.com
I am a diagnostician and practitioner by tribal lineage, training and initiation. I translated Dineh blessingwayceremonial principles into an affirmative healing process to facilitate Wellness Restoration. I design Presentations, Training, Ceremony and Workshops within the context of the natural order and Indigenous science a concept from the literature to define a distinction between an Affirmative thinking system and a Eurocentric Dualistic thinking system. I designed a contemporary cognitive ceremonial change process I call “Indigenous Ceremonial Change Process
Currently, I am in private practice as a Practitioner and Diagnostician and also an International Teacher and Consultant of Navajo/Dineh blessingway ceremonial healing principles that are cross-cultural, inter-generational, inclusive and universal in practical application.
I have traveled to ten countries as an International Teacher and Healer.
Website: https://nativeamericanconcepts.wordpress.com
Dorothy J. Maver, Ph.D. is an educator and peacebuilder whose keynote is inspiring cooperation on behalf of the common good. Her background as an educator and peacebuilder includes teaching and coaching at the high school and university levels, developing and facilitating courses and workshops with a focus on the application of spiritual principles in life, creating a culture of peace, community organizing, and designing experiences for community members to plan and implement their ideas for change. She also served as the Executive Director for River Phoenix Center for Peacebuilding.
Dot has served with Polaris Center, Denmark as International Faculty and USA/Australia Teacher Trainer. She assisted with the development of curriculum and the program for Transformational Kinesiology Teacher Certification, and taught in the USA, Germany, Denmark, and Australia. She was adjunct faculty at Norwich University, Vermont, the oldest private military college in USA where she developed and taught two courses in the Peace Corps and Service Leadership Department: Third World Perspectives, designed to provide undergraduate students with an understanding and appreciation of the issues of intercultural interaction, and World Community, raising awareness of diverse perspectives in the world community and cultures.
At the Graduate Institute, CT, USA she developed an intensive titled: Shifting from a Culture of Violence to a Culture of Peace: a shared responsibility, shared leadership model, for master degree students who were strategizing their intentions and developing projects to transform their groups, organizations and communities.
Dot has designed and co-facilitated seminars and courses in the USA, UK, Australia, Denmark, USSR, New Zealand, Germany and Canada with a focus on philosophy and group work based on spiritual education, and she co-developed and co-taught a course on Inclusive Coalition Building at Woodbury College in Vermont, USA.
Dot’s early education experience was in New Jersey at the High School level teaching Health, Physical Education and Driver Education, and Coaching varsity softball, volleyball, bowling and field hockey. She also served as Adjunct Faculty at Kean College of New Jersey where she was a supervisor of student teachers and junior field experiences and taught education classes for physical education majors.
Professional Experiences in Peacebuilding / Community Building
In her work as a community organizer and peacebuilder, Dot’s keynote is inspiring cooperation on behalf of the common good. Utilizing a shared responsibility and shared leadership model (SR/SL) developed over thirty years, she brings together individuals and groups around a common purpose while creating a work environment that demonstrates right relationship in a culture of peace.
Over the past two years, as part of the core team creating a National Peace Academy, Dot played a leadership role in identifying the shared purpose, bringing together a multi-stakeholder group for a visioning summit and, one year later, a design summit. Presently, Dot serves as Director of the National Peace Academy as the team strives to embody and reflect the principles and processes of peace, always working from purpose, in the spirit of cooperation, making decisions with an eye to the greater good, with a focus on right relationship. Dot is also a founder of and member of the Leadership Council for the Global Alliance for Ministries and Departments of Peace, a movement striving to create infrastructures of peace, including a call for National Peace Academies.
Dot is a cofounder of the Global Silent Minute and served as Executive Director of The Peace Alliance, building a grassroots lobbying effort in fifty states for the US Department of Peace Campaign while building a culture of peace within the organization and movement, utilizing her SR/SL model. Prior to that she served as National Campaign Manager gathering diverse constituents from all over the country to work together around their individual and common interests.
Dot has served with Polaris Center, Denmark as International Faculty and USA/Australia Teacher Trainer. She assisted with the development of curriculum and the program for Transformational Kinesiology Teacher Certification, and taught in the USA, Germany, Denmark, and Australia. She was adjunct faculty at Norwich University, Vermont, the oldest private military college in USA where she developed and taught two courses in the Peace Corps and Service Leadership Department: Third World Perspectives, designed to provide undergraduate students with an understanding and appreciation of the issues of intercultural interaction, and World Community, raising awareness of diverse perspectives in the world community and cultures.
At the Graduate Institute, CT, USA she developed an intensive titled: Shifting from a Culture of Violence to a Culture of Peace: a shared responsibility, shared leadership model, for master degree students who were strategizing their intentions and developing projects to transform their groups, organizations and communities.
Dot has designed and co-facilitated seminars and courses in the USA, UK, Australia, Denmark, USSR, New Zealand, Germany and Canada with a focus on philosophy and group work based on spiritual education, and she co-developed and co-taught a course on Inclusive Coalition Building at Woodbury College in Vermont, USA.
Dot’s early education experience was in New Jersey at the High School level teaching Health, Physical Education and Driver Education, and Coaching varsity softball, volleyball, bowling and field hockey. She also served as Adjunct Faculty at Kean College of New Jersey where she was a supervisor of student teachers and junior field experiences and taught education classes for physical education majors.
Professional Experiences in Peacebuilding / Community Building
In her work as a community organizer and peacebuilder, Dot’s keynote is inspiring cooperation on behalf of the common good. Utilizing a shared responsibility and shared leadership model (SR/SL) developed over thirty years, she brings together individuals and groups around a common purpose while creating a work environment that demonstrates right relationship in a culture of peace.
Over the past two years, as part of the core team creating a National Peace Academy, Dot played a leadership role in identifying the shared purpose, bringing together a multi-stakeholder group for a visioning summit and, one year later, a design summit. Presently, Dot serves as Director of the National Peace Academy as the team strives to embody and reflect the principles and processes of peace, always working from purpose, in the spirit of cooperation, making decisions with an eye to the greater good, with a focus on right relationship. Dot is also a founder of and member of the Leadership Council for the Global Alliance for Ministries and Departments of Peace, a movement striving to create infrastructures of peace, including a call for National Peace Academies.
Dot is a cofounder of the Global Silent Minute and served as Executive Director of The Peace Alliance, building a grassroots lobbying effort in fifty states for the US Department of Peace Campaign while building a culture of peace within the organization and movement, utilizing her SR/SL model. Prior to that she served as National Campaign Manager gathering diverse constituents from all over the country to work together around their individual and common interests.
Fumi Johns Stewart is Executive Director of May Peace Prevail On Earth International.
She was born in Tokyo and grew up with a sincere wish to bridge the two culture of her American and Japanese parentage. Fumi was instrumental in introducing the Japanese based May Peace Prevail On Earth movement to the international community in the early 1980’s. She brought The Peace Pole Project out of Japan and assisted in opening the International Headquarters of May Peace Prevail On Earth International in the state of New York in 1988.
Fumi also serves as US liaison to sister organizations, the Goi Peace Foundation and The Byakko Shinko Kai at Fuji Sanctuary.
www.worldpeace.org
She was born in Tokyo and grew up with a sincere wish to bridge the two culture of her American and Japanese parentage. Fumi was instrumental in introducing the Japanese based May Peace Prevail On Earth movement to the international community in the early 1980’s. She brought The Peace Pole Project out of Japan and assisted in opening the International Headquarters of May Peace Prevail On Earth International in the state of New York in 1988.
Fumi also serves as US liaison to sister organizations, the Goi Peace Foundation and The Byakko Shinko Kai at Fuji Sanctuary.
www.worldpeace.org
Kristin Hoffmann is a Juilliard trained singer-songwriter-composer and vocalist for the internationally acclaimed show, BELLA GAIA. As a strong advocate for peace and Earth/Ocean conservation, Kristin opens sonic-emotional heart spaces in which powerful new awareness, connection and healing can flourish. She works regularly with other thought leaders and change-makers to amplify important wisdom for our times through the powerful vehicle of music.
After spending multiple years in her early career on major labels, Capitol Records and Interscope Records, Kristin concluded that in order to be in highest alignment with her life’s mission, she would need to think outside of the traditional music industry box and embark on a road less travelled. Since that critical turning point, she has had the honor of performing throughout the world, appearing internationally at countless environmental concerts and peace symposiums including; TEDx San Francisco, The Emoto Peace Project concert in Tokyo, the signing of The Fuji Declaration at Mt. Fuji, and with The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London. The symphonic version of her "Song for the Ocean" was performed at Sydney Opera House by a choir of 800 Australian children. She is currently on the board of FIONS (Friends of Institute of Noetic Sciences), an active member of the esteemed group Evolutionary Leaders, an UPLIFT Connect "Heartist," and a musical ambassador for the organization UNITY EARTH.
After spending multiple years in her early career on major labels, Capitol Records and Interscope Records, Kristin concluded that in order to be in highest alignment with her life’s mission, she would need to think outside of the traditional music industry box and embark on a road less travelled. Since that critical turning point, she has had the honor of performing throughout the world, appearing internationally at countless environmental concerts and peace symposiums including; TEDx San Francisco, The Emoto Peace Project concert in Tokyo, the signing of The Fuji Declaration at Mt. Fuji, and with The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London. The symphonic version of her "Song for the Ocean" was performed at Sydney Opera House by a choir of 800 Australian children. She is currently on the board of FIONS (Friends of Institute of Noetic Sciences), an active member of the esteemed group Evolutionary Leaders, an UPLIFT Connect "Heartist," and a musical ambassador for the organization UNITY EARTH.
David Young is an award-winning artist, author and musician well known for playing two Renaissance flutes (recorders) in harmony. He has recorded 70 albums over an illustrious career with the greatest musicians in the world and sold over one million copies.
David's music, revered for its soothing sounds and healing properties, is a staple in hospitals like John Hopkins Medical Centers and the Mayo Clinic, and hundreds of healing centers and spas throughout the country.
David travels hosting his signature workshop, A Portal Between Heaven and Earth, which blends his healing music with his enlightening guided meditations, and where countless attendees report remarkable experiences.
These experiences are the inspiration for many of David's songs, books and paintings.
In addition to David’s many talents, he is also a gifted channeler. Through his music and art, David channels messages from the heavenly realms bringing healing messages and hope. David’s abstract art reflects stories of ancient wisdom and actual events through brilliant colors and impressions.
His music and personal readings have brought healing and revelations to people for decades, serving as a bridge to the ethereal realms of goodness and light.
Through his many talents and gifts, David Young offers the world hope, vision and self-empowerment.
https://davidyoungmusicandart.com/
David's music, revered for its soothing sounds and healing properties, is a staple in hospitals like John Hopkins Medical Centers and the Mayo Clinic, and hundreds of healing centers and spas throughout the country.
David travels hosting his signature workshop, A Portal Between Heaven and Earth, which blends his healing music with his enlightening guided meditations, and where countless attendees report remarkable experiences.
These experiences are the inspiration for many of David's songs, books and paintings.
In addition to David’s many talents, he is also a gifted channeler. Through his music and art, David channels messages from the heavenly realms bringing healing messages and hope. David’s abstract art reflects stories of ancient wisdom and actual events through brilliant colors and impressions.
His music and personal readings have brought healing and revelations to people for decades, serving as a bridge to the ethereal realms of goodness and light.
Through his many talents and gifts, David Young offers the world hope, vision and self-empowerment.
https://davidyoungmusicandart.com/
Dana Tomasino is a Sacred Sound musician and healing practitioner working in the field of consciousness evolution. In her multidimensional Sacred Sound Infusions, she uses her voice as a conduit to anchor encoded frequencies of Light, invoking a deep remembrance of our prime connection with Source and with our own Divine Essence. Connect with Dana on Instagram and YouTube: @DivineVibrations22.
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Andrew Kaen is Executive Producer/Event Manager and Founder of the Annual World Peace Earth Day Celebration which began in 2007. His passion for bringing people together in community for world peace and oneness is at the heart of his events. He is also the Founder of Planet Heart, an umbrella organization and project under his fiscal sponsor of We, The World, a non profit 501 (c) (3) organization. He was diagnosed with a deadly 3.5 centimeter acoustic neuroma tumor in 2005 that was in his head on top of his brain sharing a blood vessel with his left ear canal, which left him deaf in his left ear post surgery, in addition to damage to the left side of his face, and gave him a very powerful wake-up call to being alive. Being on a spiritual journey since his becoming “Awakened” in 1996 and then after his operation, he found solace in spirituality, oneness and healing and decided to share that with he world, having a burning desire and calling to do annual earth day events merged with the vision of world peace. During a period of time he was channeling powerful Vibrational Healing Poems and music with the theme of peace & the realization of our true potential and is intending on finally publishing his complete poetry book of awakening. Since being Awakened, he is also a Sound Channel Healer with light language, music and chants. Going by the name ReAwakennd, his name is an acronym of his real name Andrew Kaen and defines who and what his life purpose, mission and passion is all about and why he does these events - reawakening to our own truth as human beings helping us all remember and realize "we are all One” and that we need to work together collectively to co-create for a better humanity and world. Website: soundcloud.com/reawakennd
Andrew also graduated from LaGuardia HS of Music and the Performing Arts (the school that inspired FAME), and graduated with the likes of many actors and performers including Jennifer Aniston, Changing Faces, Eagle Eye Cherry and Chaz (formerly Chastity, Cher's kid) and Carl Payne was in his homeroom and history class (Cockroach, Cosby Show). He has had a versatile singing background, and was in many choirs since childhood. In High school, he met Whitney Houston with the Gospel Chorus, Michael Jackson appeared in the audience of the acclaimed IS44 choir which started his background in singing, where they were one of 20 choirs around the world for a Simon Bolivar anniversary in Venezuela, made the NY Times and met with Mayor Ed Koch. He was also in a featured prime time tv show, "How To Be A Man" hosted by the late Captain Kangaroo, performing with the late John Denver with the Harlem boys of Choir. He is also an accomplished photographer. Website: andrewkaen.com/
Andrew also graduated from LaGuardia HS of Music and the Performing Arts (the school that inspired FAME), and graduated with the likes of many actors and performers including Jennifer Aniston, Changing Faces, Eagle Eye Cherry and Chaz (formerly Chastity, Cher's kid) and Carl Payne was in his homeroom and history class (Cockroach, Cosby Show). He has had a versatile singing background, and was in many choirs since childhood. In High school, he met Whitney Houston with the Gospel Chorus, Michael Jackson appeared in the audience of the acclaimed IS44 choir which started his background in singing, where they were one of 20 choirs around the world for a Simon Bolivar anniversary in Venezuela, made the NY Times and met with Mayor Ed Koch. He was also in a featured prime time tv show, "How To Be A Man" hosted by the late Captain Kangaroo, performing with the late John Denver with the Harlem boys of Choir. He is also an accomplished photographer. Website: andrewkaen.com/