The Peace Ambassador Training with James O’Dea – The Shift Network

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The Peace Ambassador Training with James O’Dea – The Shift Network

Discover The Leading-Edge Practices and Tools You Need to
Cultivate Peace In Your Heart, Family, Community and Our World

Includes Training Sessions with 23 of the World’s Leading Visionary Peacebuilders

Learn from the world’s top peace visionaries, and become an impassioned ambassador for inner and outer peace.

This is our seventh Peace Ambassador Training and it has been refined to an all new level of excellence.

In joining, you can become part of a community of over 800 Peace Ambassadors around the world!

We are clearly at an important crossroads in our personal and collective evolution.

The skills of diffusing and transforming conflict and healing social wounds are at the core of whether we’ll create a healthy, vibrant, peaceful and sustainable world, or go the way of the dinosaurs.

With the right training and tools you CAN make a profound difference on this planet and truly contribute to the change that our world so urgently needs.

Under the guidance of world-renowned social healer and visionary James O’Dea as well as 23 of our planet’s most respected peacebuilders, you’ll learn the cutting-edge insights, resources and strategies to become an authentic ambassador of peace and healing in our world.

When we talk about becoming a “Peacebuilder,” we don’t mean becoming some kind of soft-spoken daydreamer.

We are talking about how you can empower yourself to become an embodiment of the awakened Presence of Peace, a protector of the innocent and a heart-based “warrior” of genuine love, truth and justice for one and all.

As the wise Native American leader Sitting Bull once said:

“Warriors are not what you think of as warriors. The warrior is not someone who fights….The warrior is one who sacrifices himself for the good of others. His task is to take care of the elderly, the defenseless, those who cannot provide for themselves, and above all, the children, the future of humanity.”

If you are ready to take a stand for peace – both personally and collectively – and become an emissary for a deeper kind of healing in our world, James and his brilliant faculty will show you how.

In this 16-session advanced training, you’ll be guided step-by-step along the evolutionary continuum, from cultivating genuine inner peace to working with others to create lasting peace internationally.

This transformational program for creating peace on all levels is the vision and passion of the lead facilitator James O’Dea, the former President of the Institute of Noetic Sciences and the former Director of Amnesty International in Washington, DC.

James’ unique perspective combines a deep understanding of the emerging “science of peace” with a depth and breadth of practical field experience in addressing human challenges and suffering of all kinds.

A profound journey into your deepest self, in which you can heal old wounds, remove barriers to trust, and cultivate powerful friendships with other change agents.

The transformation that comes from peacebuilding can also liberate your heart, mind and soul from negative patterns, resistance and fear, allowing you to become a more radiant and healing light in the world.

This Training is for you if…

• You long to be a true peacebuilder during this pivotal time in history – but know you could be more effective if you had the right skills, practices and community support.
• You want to help heal personal and collective wounds – and are open to learning new ways to do it.
• You strive to communicate in a healthy way that brings people, families and organizations together to work and collaborate on solutions more effectively.
• You hunger for a comprehensive peacebuilding blueprint that gives you the essential skillset and tools of a social leader and healer.
• You want to learn and develop techniques for cultivating inner peace and spaciousness, removing the walls around your own heart, so you can come to a genuine
• forgiveness and healing around past wounds and teach others to do the same.
• You see that there is an amazing opportunity for positive change in the world – and you want to learn from the most inspiring leaders and visionaries about how to play your highest role.

An Important Message from James O’Dea

Dear friend in peacemaking,

I have lived both on the frontlines of brutal inhumanity and the leading edge of conscious evolution. I’ve seen firsthand the horrors of genocide and was even in one tense situation where I received multiple stab wounds.

I’ve also seen the flowering of deep love and respect between people with long histories of animosity towards each other.

After decades of work, I can assure you that the world is now ready, in a way that it has never been, to make a profound shift – to shed its addiction to violence, to cleanse its old wounds and open to a global healing the likes of which we have barely imagined.

I invite you to be part of this great work, this birthing of a new and more harmonious era of human existence.

It begins in the deep recesses of your heart. It grows in the love you weave in your family. It buds in the healing of old grudges in your community. And it blossoms in the ending of war.

The walls can come down between us such that we experience the magnificence of the design that connects us. We can learn to think peace, be peace and celebrate peace, leading to a harvest of love, joy, connection and intimacy that comes from no longer warring with each other or ourselves.

I want to share with you all that I’ve been given in decades of traveling the world, working with some of the most remarkable men, women and children who are lighting the way forward.

There is a beautiful new synthesis emerging – from the high mountain Kogis of Colombia to spiral dynamics in the West Bank, from the devotional heart of India to the rigorous mind of Western science.

This synthesis offers a clear, sober and inspiring picture of what we must do to shift beyond violence as an acceptable response to conflict and to transform the roots of that dis-ease at all levels of our world.

For our Peace Ambassador Training, we have brought together the leading pioneers of that synthesis for a state-of-the-art certification program.

All around us are the festering wounds of conflict, misunderstanding, violence and fear. We have the opportunity to be healers, bridgebuilders and peacemakers, bringing great benefit not only to the world, but to you, personally.

I invite you to be one of the pioneers of this path, together with hundreds from around the world who hear the call to become Ambassadors for a new and joyous era in human evolution.

We will laugh together, heal together, vision together, awaken together and learn from inspired masters of peace. We will create a new template for what is possible, with profound impacts in every area of your life and our world.

Remember, peacemaking is not just the domain of international heroes. It’s one of the most practical skills for transforming the quality of our lives, our families and our society. It’s the foundation for turning conflict into friendship, stress into creativity and discord into collaboration. There are few skills that can more dramatically improve the quality of your relationships. And our world.

And the peacemaker does not just touch others – we touch our own innermost Self through the raw, naked power of the human heart. We shed layers of illusion and defense to live in a way that is lit by a powerful love.

If you hear the call, do join us. The world is calling forth our best NOW to help in the great turning of our day. It is time for each of us to play our unique, sacred role.

Are you ready to learn how to transform tension into peace, discord into love, violence into understanding?

I hope so. We were truly born for this day.

In peace,

How the Peace Ambassador Training Works

You’ll gather with other aspiring Peace Ambassadors from around the world in interactive conference calls or online for your training. If for some reason you can’t make the live class, the recordings will be available the following day and the transcripts within a week.

The 90-minute classes will be taught by a different faculty member each week focusing on specific skills and strategies for creating peace individually and collectively.

Outside of your weekly live training you’ll stay connected with James O’Dea and other participants through a custom online community forum, which offers a rich and safe environment for you to explore how to integrate the course content into your daily life and your own peacebuilding endeavors.

The Peace Ambassador Training is also The Shift Network’s certification process for leaders in the Summer of Peace, a global network of events and activities promoting the shift to a culture of peace. During the training, you will develop and hone a vision for how you can play a peacebuilding leadership role in this significant global event. We’ll also offer many ways for you to apply your skills through our broader network.

Through the Peace Ambassador Training Certification Program, you will learn to:

• Connect the inner and the outer – tap into your essence and act from a place of personal alignment to affect real outer change
• Become an “energy master” – the key to peacebuilding – and recognize your energy processing style
• Identify and deal with all forms of bullying
• Stand in the fire of opposing views and feel whole as well as hold space for others to do the same
• Transform fear and anger in yourself and among others into mutual trust and compassion
• Cultivate listening and dialogue to co-create a culture of peace in your family, workplace, organization or community
• Identify and heal old wounds in yourself and with loved ones, colleagues and community members
• Develop a strong foundation in community-building and organizing skills
• Manifest your greatest qualities in service to humanity’s emergence
• Connect with an inspiring network of peacebuilders, friend and allies around the world
• Play a significant role in global peace initiatives and celebrations

What You Will Learn: Course Overview

The Training will offer you an immersive experience in building skills with today’s top peace leaders and is divided into five pillars:

1. Deep Personal Peace
2. Healing Personal and Collective Wounds
3. Communicating Peace
4. Mastering Systems Change
5. Activating and Organizing for Peace

For each Pillar of Peacebuilding, James O’Dea will teach the first session drawing upon insights and practical tools from his bestselling book, Cultivating Peace.

The following two sessions of each pillar will feature two core faculty on the methodologies and peace practices they use in their work. These sessions are a combination of live teaching and the very best core faculty interviews from previous Peace Ambassador Trainings. James will bring them all to life by weaving and integrating these teachings into a cohesive map for peacebuilding, from the personal to the planetary, throughout the training.

You’ll also have weekly practices, readings, and assignments that deepen your experience of the material and put you into close collaboration with other training members from around the world.

Pillar 1: Cultivating Deep Personal Peace

These sessions will focus on helping you cultivate the psychological, emotional and spiritual dimensions of peace as the great foundation for deep engagement in the world.

Session 1: Peace and Freedom from the Inside Out

Faculty: James O’Dea 

James will open the training with an inspiring session about what it means to be a Peace Ambassador in today’s world. He invites us to take responsibility for cultivating inner peace while working in the world from a place of deep integrity. As James says, “The peacebuilder must develop an impressive skillfulness in offering solutions, avoiding the blame game, and playing a mediating role between perspectives that are locked inside self-limiting definitions.”

At the same time, the Peace Ambassador does not take him/herself too seriously. “A world without laughter would not be a safe or peaceful world,” James says. For instance, “the fundamentalists are not having fun!”

In this session, you will:

• Take careful inventory of your inner moral maps, belief systems and psychological perspectives and examine how they influence your relationship with the outer and vice versa.
• Identify the obstacles that prevent you from releasing your own essential qualities, talents and capacities
• Learn personal peace practices that help you tap into your deepest essence and create a solid foundation for authentic inner peace

Session 2: Making Peace with Oneself)

Guest Faculty: Aqeela Sherrills, celebrated peacemaker who brokered truce between the Crips and the Bloods in Los Angeles, now the Executive Director of YES! and advisor to peacebuilding projects worldwide.

Aqeela will provide a powerful and transparent glimpse into his own personal transformation, one that required taking responsibility for hidden fears and shames that were influencing his behaviors. He then will tell how his own personal transformation allowed him to address the causes of violence that took the life of his son. By going deeper into his inner peace practice, Aqeela helped bring peace between warring gangs.

In this session, you will:

• Gain both inspiration and tangible tools for how to look inward to address your own shadows and to develop a daily personal peace practice

Session 3: The Heart’s Intuitive Intelligence – a path to personal, social and global coherence: 

Guest Faculty: Deborah Rozman, Ph.D., business executive, serial entrepreneur, psychologist, author and educator. Since 1990, founding executive director of the non-profit Institute of HeartMath, executive vice president of HeartMath LLC.

HeartMath is the world’s most influential scientific organization focused on the powers of the heart. Deborah will share how you can harness your heart’s power for intuition, joy and less stressful living.

In this session, you will learn to:

• Increase Resilience – Improve your ability to “bounce back” and cultivate the powerful inner energy reserve that can make life easier during times of dynamic change.
• Trust the Heart – Learn the research revealing your heart’s role in sending and receiving essential information for living a healthy, fulfilling life.
• Cultivate Heart Intelligence – Enhance and access the powerful intelligence of your heart to rise above problems, even in the midst of chaos and confusion.
• Engage the Global Heart – Learn research that suggests we are all connected by and live in the reflected energy of our hearts, with our emotions affecting the earth itself.

Pillar 2: Healing Personal and Collective Wounds

These sessions will focus on giving you the skills to transform personal wounds and collective trauma in order to create personal and social transformation and significant evolutionary change.

Session 4: Ending the Transmissions of Wounds

Faculty: James O’Dea 

James O’Dea introduces the second pillar by calling us to “interrupt the transmission of wounds from generation to generation precisely because their persistence is so disruptive to whole-system health and because the problem of passing on intergenerational trauma is so overlooked.”

In this session, you will:

• Begin to examine your relationship to personal wounding and its various subtle nuances
• Look at how your unconscious behaviours contribute to larger social wounding
• Examine what keeps you from truly living your highest ideas and dreams
• Learn tangible tools that you can use to deepen your own personal healing and help facilitate healing in others

Session 5: Non-Violence: A Path to Peace – Stories about Mahatma Gandhi

Guest Faculty: Arun Gandhi, the grandson of India’s legendary leader, Mohandas K. “Mahatma” Gandhi

Who better than Mahatma Gandhi’s grandson to challenge you to “be the change you wish to see in the world.” In this session, Arun Gandhi will share intimate stories about how his grandfather taught him to examine his unconscious desires and to see their relationship to passive violence in the world.

In this session, you will:

• Be inspired to step up your inner peace practice and tap into new levels of integrity and strength
• Learn the meaning of Mahatma Gandhi’s saying, “I can no more preach nonviolence to a coward than I can tempt a blind man to enjoy healthy scenes. Nonviolence is the summit of bravery.”

Session 6: The Power of Forgiveness – Transforming Personal Tragedy into Life Purpose 

Guest Faculty: Azim Khamisa, internationally renowned expert on forgiveness, hailed by the Dalai Lama and Thich Nhat Hanh

This is possibly the most powerfully moving session of the Peace Ambassador Training. Azim Khamisa is a world-renowned master teacher on forgiveness. He will tell the story of how he lost his only son to senseless gang violence and authentically share his journey into the depths of trauma and despair.

In this session, you will:

• Learn how to leverage the power of forgiveness to create transformation
• Discover how you can engage in forgiveness even when it seems impossible

Pillar 3: Communicating Peace

In these sessions and practices, you’ll advance in the art of skilled communication for yourself, family, community and world. You’ll learn the latest in peacebuilding, conflict transformation, social discourse and dialogue. Core faculty includes:

Session 7: Peaceful Communication and Energy Mastery

Faculty: James O’Dea 

Energy mastery is one component to effective communication as a Peace Ambassador. Other components are dialogue and listening. As James says, “Against all odds we must learn to dialogue, or die….If we were to learn that listening to each other was the key to opening each other’s hearts, we would listen until there was peace on earth.”

In this session, you will:

• Understand how the ability to listen deeply and consciously has transformed difficult conflict situations into peaceful resolutions
• Discover how to bring the power of conscious listening to your own conflicts
• Learn how you can process and transform energy for peaceful encounters
• Gain effective strategies for dealing with physical bullies, emotional bullies and intellectual bullies
• Understand your unique approach to processing energy – determine whether you are an energy bouncer, an energy sponge, an energy zapper or a peaceful energy transformer

Session 8: How to Be Peace 

Guest Faculty: Rita Marie Johnson, the Founding Director of Rasur Foundation International and the creator of the BePeace Practice; and, Emily Hine, President of HineSight Consulting and inspirational writer at Holy Sit.

BePeace is being taught at the United Nations University for Peace in Costa Rica. It’s received accolades from students from around the world for its universal appeal across multiple cultural contexts.

In this session, you will:

• Discover a method of connecting to yourself and others that accelerates your personal and professional growth. The BePeace Practice unites your empathy and
• insight, which brings you peace and keeps you moving forward. Empathy is attained through a conscious connection to feelings and needs, and insight is accessed through heart-brain coherence. The powerful partnership of empathy and insight extinguishes your triggers and takes advantage of your best intelligence.
• As peacebuilders, your inner dialogue is as important as your external dialogue. In this session, you also will learn radical self-compassion as a strategy that helps you communicate peace internally and externally.
• Learn tactics for communicating effectively and “walking the peace talk” with small or large-scale teams.

Session 9: Getting to YES! 

Guest Faculty: Dr. William Ury, co-author of the global bestseller Getting to YES, author of The Power of a Positive No and co-founder of the Harvard Negotiation Project

Dr. Ury is one of the most well-respected authors and practitioners of effective negotiations in the world.

In this session, you will:

• Gain detailed insights into the science of communicating effectively in contentious situations, helping you to identify and address personal and shared needs
• Learn the art of negotiation you can apply to your life as well as to larger social issues

Pillar 4: Mastering Systems Change

In these sessions, you’ll hone your understanding for how to create systemic change via models and strategies for unprecedented whole system shifts.

Session 10: Peace Work and Whole-Systems Shift 

Guest Faculty: Don Beck, Spiral Dynamics theorist and wizard who has mapped and applied a comprehensive approach to working with different memes and transforming cultures from South Africa to the Middle East

To begin Pillar 4, James is very clear: “To be an ambassador of peace, you cannot be a partisan of the part; you are called to be a representative of holistic thinking and emotional and social intelligence. Creating a culture of peace is a whole-systems challenge.”

In this session, you will:

• Learn about systemic transformation and peace work in the context of complex adaptive systems
• Gain insight into “Spiral Dynamics,” the comprehensive system Don Beck uses to assist people in different cultures and contexts to identify and implement peacebuilding initiatives appropriate for them

Session 11: Financial Systems – Breakdown and Breakthrough 

Guest Faculty: David Korten, visionary, engaged citizen, author of Agenda for a New Economy: From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth and The Great Turning

James is quick to point out: “We are now witnessing the planet-wide devastation that results from thinking of the economy and ecology as separate systems. Sustainability is, therefore, a peace issue….”

While the global economic situation can seem overwhelming, David Korten provides common sense strategies and a sense of real hope to you – that you can do your part to evolve our economic model, starting in your own community.

In this session, you will:

• Understand the realities of the economic and environmental challenges facing the planet and examine the underlying paradigms that have created this crisis
• Learn about the efforts emerging around the world to create new economic systems based on an understanding of interdependence and interconnectedness

Session 12: Living Systems: A New Systems Perspective on Whole Bodies and Whole Changes

Guest Faculty: Riane Eisler President of the Center for Partnership Studies and internationally known for her ground-breaking contributions as a systems scientist, attorney working for the human rights of women and children, and author of The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future, and The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics . Hailed by Archbishop Desmond Tutu as “a template for the better world we have been so urgently seeking” by Gloria Steinem as “revolutionary,” and by Jane Goodall as “a call for action.”

In this session, you learn:

• New perspectives on the past, present and future that will shed light on emerging paradigms on whole living systems
• Approaches to partnership that can transform individuals, families and communities.
• Principles of a “caring economy” that values humanity and the Earth

Pillar 5: Activating and Organizing for Peace

These classes and practices will help you develop community-building and collaboration skills that expand your leadership capacity and help you offer your deepest gifts.

Session 13: The 21st Century Peace Ambassador as Evolutionary Leader and The Summer of Peace 

Faculty: James O’Dea and Philip Hellmich, The Shift Network’s Director of Peace, author of recently released God and Conflict

Throughout the Peace Ambassador Training, James will highlight the strengths and capacities of an evolved peace leader. In this session, James will review these leadership skills and then invite you to step up in your own way. In addition, Philip Hellmich will outline the accomplishments from the Summer of Peace 2012, a collaborative initiative that reached tens of thousands of people in 133 countries.

As James writes, “In a time of upheaval such as we are now witnessing on planet Earth, unprecedented opportunities arise for creativity and new leadership…. The emerging leader is you! Without you, there is no collective audacity to create the tipping point in human evolution.”

In this session, you will:

• Understand the leadership skills needed to be an evolved peace leader
• Activate your part in the larger global shift to a culture of peace
• Determine what role you may play in the Summer of Peace

Session 14: The Principles and Processes of Activating and Coordinating for Peace from Local to Global

Guest Faculty: Dot Maver, educator, peacebuilder, President of the National Peace Academy that supports, advances and nurtures cultures of peace

Dot Maver is a pioneer in peace education and community organizing who is a master at inspiring cooperation on behalf of the common good.

In this session, you will:

• Discover the practical principles and processes you can apply in organizing your own peace work whether in your school and/or community
• Learn about successes from the River Phoenix Center for Peacebuilding in Gainesville, Florida, including activities you can join and/or replicate in your own community

Session 15: Revolution of the Heart 

Guest Faculty: Velcrow Ripper, award-winning philosopher filmmaker, director of Scared Sacred, Fierce Light, Occupy Love, speaker and writer

In this session, Genie award-winning filmmaker Velcrow Ripper will share insights into peacebuilding actions taking place on a global scale witnessed while filming his trilogy: Scared Sacred, Fierce Light: When Spirit Meets Action and Occupy Love. Velcrow will talk about the process of moving from personal despair to collaborative action inspired by deep spiritual wisdom and shared human values. For more info visit VelcrowRipper.com and OccupyLove.com.

Session 16: Final Session – What is Your Peace of the Puzzle? 
Faculty: James O’Dea 

This final class is an opportunity for you and your fellow Peace Ambassadors to interact and share what you have learned and how you have been transformed during this training. You will also have the opportunity to share your personal peace projects and initiatives for creating peace in yourself, family, schools, community and our world.

The Peace Ambassador Bonus Collection

In addition to these transformative 16 course sessions, you’ll also receive these powerful bonus sessions with the world’s leading visionaries and teachers. These bonus sessions are being offered to further complement what you’ll learn in the course and take your understanding and practice to an even deeper level. This first group of bonus sessions are all audio trainings that can be streamed online or downloaded and experienced on the go.

Bonus #1: “Spiritual Solutions”
Audio Training with Deepak Chopra
In this audio session, Deepak Chopra shares insights from his recent book, Spiritual Solutions, bridging ancient spiritual wisdom and emerging scientific research with practical peace building actions in daily life.

As a global leader and pioneer in the field of mind-body medicine, Deepak Chopra transforms the way the world views physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, and social wellness. Known as a prolific author of over sixty-four books with eighteen New York Times best sellers in both the fiction and non-fiction categories, his books have been published in more than eighty-five languages. His New York Times bestsellers, “Peace Is the Way “ received the Religion and Spirituality Quill Award in 2005, and “The Book of Secrets: Unlocking the Hidden Dimensions of Your Life” was awarded the 2005 Nautilus Grand Prize. Time Magazine heralds Deepak Chopra as one of the top 100 heroes and icons of the century.

Bonus #2: “Crossing the Lines: Creating a World That Works for All” Audio Training With Sharif Abdullah
Sharif Abdullah shares his philosophy that “none of the challenges of the 21st Century can be solved in isolation…. What we need is a search for solutions based on inclusivity, solutions that extend across relationships.” With this in mind, Sharif provides practical ways of working in communities to help people shape a world that works for all.

Practices & Homework: Every week we’ll also have practices that allow you to embody the core teachings and apply them in your daily life, in conflicted situations in your community, or in larger societal healing work.

What Students Say About the Peace Ambassador Training:

“The Peace Ambassador training is the most transformational training I’ve ever taken. Not only did I learn great wisdom from amazing peacemakers, but it also changed the way I see the world and my role in it. I was anointed to step into my greatness.”
– Eric Kasum, Yorba Linda, California, USA
Founder, The LIVE PEACE Institute and IMAGINE ~ Peace Conference 2011

“I had put my legal practice on the back burner for years but the Peace Ambassador Program showed me a way to do my legal work in an evolutionary way, a legal practice that heals and makes whole. The Program gives more than just food for the mind and soul; it provides you with real and practical tools to bring out your work into the world.”
– Paula A., Aberasturi, Makati, Philippines

“The Ambassador Program is holistic and empowering! I had no idea there were so many other people looking for a blueprint with tools, processes, resources, and support to help us build new systems for a peaceful world, in however we can, within our individual and collective communities.”
– PJ Hirabayashi, San Jose, CA, USA

What You’ll Receive

1. Sixteen 90-minute class sessions with James O’Dea and core faculty, including live, interactive calls and exercises plus question and answer time.
2. Sixteen 30-minute small group practice sessions
3. Special Bonus Recording Sessions with Deepak Chopra, Andrew Harvey, Marianne Williamson, Susan Collin Marks, Sharif Abdullah, Nomfundo Walaza, Emma Seppala, Matthew Albracht.
4. Unlimited access to recordings of all class sessions (listen online or download the mp3 file to your iPod or audio player)
5. PDF transcripts for each class session
6. Clear and concise homework exercises and practices to deepen your experience and application of the material

What More Students Say…

“The Peace Ambassador program gave me the specific tools I needed to make a real shift in my inner growth and mediating skills. The caliber of speakers was phenomenal. I consider this to be one of the best things I’ve ever done for myself, and look forward to participating with this group on an ongoing basis.”
– Suzanne McQueen, Ashland, Oregon, USA

“I found the depth and content of James O’Dea’s teaching, deeply enriching, fortifying, edifying and profound. He asks the big questions that make my mouth go dry and make me gulp. He also gave me the courage and hope to commit to both my own and world peace. Stand up and be counted. Thank you James for your generosity and clarity.”
– Kate Bell

“This transformational course exponentially surpassed my expectations. James O’Dea continually impressed me with his background, brilliant intellect and yet gentle manner. I highly recommend this course as a cornucopia of information and blessings for anyone called to work promoting peace. It is life-changing and world-changing.”
– Laurie Ellis Young

About James O’Dea

James O’Dea is a well-known figure in international social healing who has conducted healing and reconciliation dialogues for 15 years. He is currently the co-director of The Social Healing Project, whose work has led him to Rwanda, Israel/Palestine and Northern Ireland. In addition to teaching the Path of the Peacemaker and Peace Ambassador Training programs at The Shift Network, he is also on the extended faculty of the Institute of Noetic Sciences and is its immediate past president.

The former Washington office director of Amnesty International and CEO of the Seva Foundation, O’Dea is a member of The Evolutionary Leaders Group founded by Deepak Chopra. James O’Dea is also award winning author of Cultivating Peace, Creative Stress and other works.

James is committed to dialogue as a practice and is engaged in dialogues at SEED Graduate Institute between native elders, physicists, and thought leaders; between Israeli and Palestinian psychologists and social workers; and contributes to dialogue on systems thinking and government policy making with the Washington, D.C.-based Global Systems Initiatives.

In August 2010, O’Dea was recognized with the honor of “Champion of Peace, Reconciliation and Forgiveness” by the Worldwide Forgiveness Alliance. James lectures and gives workshops all over the world and was a keynote speaker at the Berlin Peace Festival in August 2011. He is also an advisory board member of the Peace Alliance. James also offers consulting and leadership intensives at his mountain home in Crestone Colorado.

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