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Deep joy and peace to you in this season.
As my Christmas gift to you, I thought I would give you the 5 online top peace resources I have been using this year
Almost exactly a year and a half I was diagnosed with a fatal disease called Huntington Disease and had to end my work as a university professor, author, and researcher in peace and conflict studies. To tell you truth, I have enjoyed the last year and a half. This list below shows you where I have been putting my attention and my curiosity, but also what has been feeding me. Perhaps these top peace resources will nourish your own spirits as well.
6 Keys To Enjoying Losing Your Mind. I have been having lots of fun developing my blog, Dancing with Elephants: A Beginners Guide to Losing Your Mind. If you have time for just one post, you might like this one. It has had over 1500 views and 275 shares on Facebook (just in November).
Many of John Paul Lederarch’s works and teachings (a Mennonite Peacebuilder) have had a huge influence on my own. John Paul (along with others) started a new website this year called The Art and Soul of Compassion. It brings together an annotated bibliography on creativity, compassion and spirituality and a dozen or so digital stories of people who participated from very different fields, including neuroscientists, poets, songwriters and artists, therapists, peacebuilders and contemplatives.
Halfway through this year, a book I helped to co-edit was launched: Voices of Harmony and Dissent: How Peacebuilders are Transforming Their Worlds. These stories of those who passionately pursue peace dare us to envision what kind of peace action may be possible for each one of us. Each chapter is by a different peacebuilder, all people I happily call my teachers. Could be a great Christmas gift.
A friend of mine and fellow peacebuilder, Michael Bischoff, learned on Sept 24 that he has a brain tumour. He started a website with his reflections which are so full of courage and honesty. His reflections inspire me. You can find Michael’s stories at: CaringBridge.
Early this year I co-authored Peacebuilders’ Toolbox: 52 Online Resources For Peace Work with the current Co-Directors of the Canadian School of Peacebuilding: Wendy Kroeker and Valerie Smith. These are the online tools and guides we wish we had when we started our peace work. Over 1700 copies have been shared this year. You can get a free copy at the link above.
Blessings on your journey ahead. Feel free to share top peace resources as you see fit.
Take Care,
Jarem Sawatsky
Hello Jarem,
I am sorry to hear you are living with Huntington’s Disease, but delighted and inspired you are showing how to LIVE with it with HOPE, as well as you possible can and I signed up to your blog yesterday. Thank you for your insights.
My own life, has been for the last more than 7 years, one of learning to live with younger onset dementia, and I advocate globally for many things, including our basic human rights and disAbility rights amongst many things. Perhaps most loudly, for inclusion, and finally about language, which is why I am writing to you today.
The word ‘demented’, for many of us living with a dementia, is as offensive to us as being referred to as retarded, and I wonder if you would consider referring to the most recently updated Language Guidelines, found here – https://fightdementia.org.au/sites/default/files/full-language-guidelines.pdf
You do not have to post this comment, unless you wish to. I simply wanted to congratulate you on your work, and refer you to the language guidelines.
Take care, and thanks again for writing this blog.
Kate
Cher Jarem
Merci infiniment pour tout ce que vous partagez du plus profond de vous-même.
Je vous souhaite la paix du cœur !
Amitiés
Sylvie