Global Peace Week
Thursday's Schedule of Events - September 30th, 2021
Time | Session |
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8:30 a.m. – 8:45 a.m. | Meditation |
9:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. | Exiting the Matrix |
10:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. | Better Connection = Conflict Transformation |
1:00 p.m. – 2:15 p.m. | Code-meshing as Interconnected Communication |
2:30 p.m. – 3:45 p.m. | Let the Rivers Run: The Movement for the Rights of Nature |
4:00 p.m. – 5:15 p.m. | Religion and Worldview Fair |
6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. | Global Peace Film Festival |
Global Peace Week 2021 is a virtual event
Global Peace Week
Thursday's Schedule
Virtual
Meditation
Lianna McGowan
Begin your day by centering your heart and mind in a short mindfulness practice to
cultivate receptivity and openness. From this stance we can listen to ourselves and
others to develop a language that centers on restoration and healing.
Time: 8:30 a.m. – 8:45 a.m.
Venue: Virtual
Exiting the Matrix
Jim Belcher
We have been caught and conditioned via cultural story of isolation, competition,
fear, and control. There is a new cultural story trying to emerge; it teaches us that
we are all connected and interdependent. A story of kindness, generosity, and unconditional
love. We will discuss how to get there from here.
Time: 9:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.
Venue: Virtual
Better Connection = Conflict Transformation
Marcus Alexander
We often face confrontation and conflict in our work and lives. But did you know that
conflict and confrontation, if framed and supported properly, can enhance our experiences
and environments in the classroom, at home, at work and more? Learn how in this interactive
and fun session.
Time: 10:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.
Venue: Virtual
Code-meshing as Interconnected Communication
Douglas S. Kern and Ella Raynor
Inspired by antiracist activist Asao Inoue’s reference of peace activist Thich Nhat
Hanh’s concept that writing interconnects us all, this workshop explores the links
between writing and identity and the concrete ways authentic code-meshing can peacefully
confront and combat racist linguistic policy and practice in our interdependent work
and lives.
Time: 1:00 p.m. – 2:15 p.m.
Venue: Virtual
Let the Rivers Run: The Movement for the Rights of Nature
Thomas Alan Linzey
Last November, Orange County became the most populous jurisdiction in the United States
to recognize legal rights for the Econlockhatchee and Wekiva Rivers, by a vote of
89% of the voters. The U.S. and global movement for the rights of nature has now begun
to change the nature of environmental law around the world. This workshop will cover
the basics of the rights of nature, why they are needed, and how Florida communities
and communities in other states can create and enforce them.
Time: 2:30 p.m. – 3:45 p.m.
Venue: Virtual
Religion and Worldview Fair
Julie Montione and Melissa Johnson
All are invited to learn the rich diversity of traditions of faith and worldview leaders
here in Central Florida. A variety of community leaders will share their practices
of peace from their faith traditions in a panel style presentation.
Time: 4:00 p.m. – 5:15 p.m.
Venue: Virtual
Global Peace Film Festival - Making the Impossible Possible
MAKING THE IMPOSSIBLE POSSIBLE tells the story of the student led struggle to win
Puerto Rican Studies at Brooklyn College, CUNY, in the late 1960’s. The documentary
is a mosaic of voices, film footage, photographs taken by student activists and music
of Grammy award-winning musicians Arturo O’Farrill and Oscar Hernández. This important
story highlights the powerful alliance Puerto Rican, African American and other progressive
students and faculty forged that changed the face of higher education with the founding
of one of the first Puerto Rican Studies departments in the nation.
Time: 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Venue: Virtual