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Hi, I’m Jarem Sawatsky.
In a world afraid of dying, not achieving and not succeeding, I reflect on the gift of losing my mind (my friends have always thought I had holes in my head but now my doctors have also confirmed their accusations).
Since being diagnosed with a terminal disease, I’ve been stumbling my way (literally) into finding more healing and joyful ways to live. I am the author/ co-author of 6 books, including the award-winning and national bestselling, Dancing with Elephants.
Even though I have holes in my brain (yes, literally), I’ve been deeply honoured to have my work has been endorsed by authors who have sold over a million copies such as Lucy Kalanithi and Peter V. Rabins, Nobel Peace Prize Laureates like Jody Williams and Mairead Maguire, New York Times Bestsellers like Sharon Salzberg and Thomas Moore, National Bestselling authors like Jon Kabat-Zinn, Margaret Wheatley and Jean Vanier, and even a well-known clown, Patch Adams.
I was a university professor, author, and researcher in peace and conflict studies until I was diagnosed with a fatal disease called Huntington’s Disease (HD). Now I am stumbling (literally) my way into learning about loving, letting go and living in the now. You can learn more about that journey on my blog Dancing with Elephants: A Beginners Guide to Losing Your Mind.
While my blog posts use my experience with Huntington’s Disease as a springboard, they raise issues which may be of interest to anyone for whom dementia or disability has touched their life. In some ways, this is a blog about being human – a fragile way of being for all us. To that end, I write stories and reflections about learning to laugh and let go. I do not hold out myself as a model of success. Models of success are part of the problem, not the solution.
My goal is to create insightful, disturbing and perhaps inspiring content that you can put to work in your learning to dance with the elephants in your life. I typically post twice a month. To make sure you don’t miss my newest posts, you can subscribe via e-mail. It’s quick, easy, and you can unsubscribe at any time.
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I just released my latest book, Healing Justice: Stories of Wisdom and Love. I have travelled the world looking for communities that have some practice of healing justice. This book tells the stories of three of the most fascinating communities I’ve visited.
I live in Vancouver Island, and a great dog named Luna. I enjoy daily taking refuge in the mountains and oceans. They have been great healers and teachers for me.
I spent most of my professional career as a professor, researcher and author based at Canadian Mennonite University. During my time there I was the founding Co-Director of the Canadian School of Peacebuilding.
At heart, I am a peacebuilder. I think justice is very important but I don’t think justice is as ugly as injustice. If injustice is about excluding, taking away, breaking and being shamed, then shouldn’t justice be more about embracing, giving back, connecting and becoming radiant? I wrote a guide for peace and justice workers so that they could root their imagination in this kind of a justpeace approach to life. I wrote a book on exploring this topic: Justpeace Ethics: A Guide for Restorative Justice and Peacebuilding.
You can see a listing of all my books on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Indie Bound, or CommonWord.
The Canadian School of Peacebuilding, under the kind leadership of my friend Jarem Sawatsky, is a place where the peacebuilding of all traditions is nurtured, Indigenous traditions are respected, and Elders and youth of all traditions can learn from each other.
I have so enjoyed Jarem's spirit, energy, and understanding of the importance of spirit in conflict transformation work.
Jarem... a wonderful grace-filled soul of a person, of a quality that made everything and everyone around you better.
Jarem's contribution, the insightfulness, and wisdom of his work on restorative justice and peacebuilding, has been profound indeed.
Jarem is passionate for, not only the field of peacebuilding, but peaceful existence as a way of life.
He is a wonderful friend whom we love so much. In Sri Lanka and in Canada he displayed to us his great global vision.
You can easily follow me on twitter here, or like my page on Facebook here. You can email me at sawatsky (at) outlook.com. I am not always able to respond to emails.
Dancing with Elephants: Spanish World rights and Korean World rights have been sold
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