PEACE COMMUNITY ALTONA
Peace needs strong communities, locally and internationally
PEACE COMMUNITY
To give the local project ‘Altona’ a home, I founded the FRIEDENSRAUM ALTONA (Peace Community Altona) in 2021.
It came to me as a personal impulse, a wish that arouse through many changes in my environment that created a clarity within me: I want to align myself, even more intensely - towards peace.
Peace is a promise to oneself, a deep desire and so much more than the absence of war.
It is a process in which we examine how we want our life to unfold and how to begin creating something new.
This process needs a strong vision, a clear idea and an inner orientation and tools to build a vital contact with ourselves and with others.
The Peace Community ALTONA offers and holds spaces to guide you through these processes.
The Peace Community ALTONA grows through cooperation that creates synergies and communities: to create and live peace together, right here in Altona, in Hamburg and in the world.
projects:
‘Friedensboten’ / Peace Explorer
We all need them: exactly those people, who set out in the direction of peace, who have the courage to start the process within themselves: seeking for peace and allowing peace to grow within yourself - that is the path of the PEACE EXPLORERS.
To shape this path and enable you to embrace it with enthusiasm and inspiration – I have designed a five-step curriculum.
The steps guide you through the core elements of peace and conflict-transformation work and are informed by ‘The Work that Reconnects’ as well as indigenous healing practices.
You are invited to reflect on your path and your experiences. Through exercises and in exchange with others, you find ways to discover peace and conflicts within yourself and are guided to finding solutions and develop strategies to embrace peace – your own one and therefor also the one within the world community.
The aim is to connect with your inner peace explorer.
MY OFFER:
- Trainings, one-day seminars and lectures – for organizations, as well as private groups.
- The Project ‘Peace Explorer’ can be booked as a long-term program, as a weekend training courses, or as one-day training.
- Please feel free to get in touch with me – I am looking forward hearing from you.
- We will explore together what is needed and I am sure together we'll find the right setting for you.
Friedensboten / PEACE EXPLORER©
Kufunda Zimbabwe
Die FRIEDENSBOTEN© / PEACE EXPLORER© GO WORLDWIDE
Since January 2024 I have been working with students (grade 6 and 7) and teachers at the Kufunda Village School in Zimbabwe. Together we have been exploring: the Art of living Peace.
The first three months of the project I have been in Kufunda in person, as my family and I had had the privilege to live there for a period of some months and ever since, while being back in Hamburg, I have been working with the school online.
We follow the curriculum of the ‘Friedensboten’ and at the same time we find completely new forms and topics of our path to peace.
And: my work and the Peace Explorer go on, as: I have a dream...
... and I invite you to dream with me and let our dreams interweave ...
My dream is to take the Peace Explorers further out into the world, to new places, new schools, news students and teachers. To bring children from different cultures together, to create space, where they can exchange ideas: that is the dream and with your help it, joint together, it will come true.
The Peace Explorers offer a platform, a place for exploration and community, where children and adults, do dream, do speak about their hopes and visions, where they create and do learn about and discuss what living together on this earth could look like.
- How and what do we truly need, what do we not?
- What could and must be possibly shared?
- Who has more money and could give something of their wealth away?
- Who has a specific knowledge, gift, or expertise, which could be needed elsewhere?
- Who holds a dream, which is important for and to us as well as others?
I would like to invite you - let’s dive into the field of being connected, of connectedness with us, with each other and with the world - because here lies the essential energy, which supports us in living in peace, joy and love.
I am very much looking forward to meeting new members of the program and to introduce the Peace Curriculum to other schools.
FRIEDENSBOTEN© IN SCHOOLS
I am offering the program for schools, looking specifically at the needs for children, teens and teaching staff.
Since 2023 I have been working in Germany with the Graf Ludwig Gemeinschaftsschule in Völklingen Ludweiler and together with teachers and student we are exploring peace. The program is financed by ‘SchuMaS’ - Schule macht stark– Programm (School brings power-program).
Teachers and students experience and participate in the peace curriculum, a training which enables each student to become a ‘Friedensbote’ (Peace Explorer). During the time of the training, we develop our very own hand made peace path specifically for this school and their students.
We study, explore and experience new ways of being part of a ‘living community’, wanting to be open to inspiration from each other.
How will it be when there is peace? How will we be like and what does it need? These are some of the questions that inspire us.
Each program of the ‘Friedensboten’ is unique – as each school has a unique community of students and teacher. However, we are joint by the path to peace and the curriculum of the ‘Friedensboten’.
Please feel free to get in touch with me – I am looking forward meeting you and for you to become part of the “FRIEDENSBOTEN - the Peace Curriculum for Schools”.
TV report 22.01.2024 | SR Fernsehen - (c) SR | "Gemeinschaftsschule in Ludweiler bildet Friedensboten aus" (click picture)
