“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” – Buckminster Fuller
LOVE NATURE
Nature is in your blood, your bones, your Spirit. We must acknowledge our connection to the natural world, and celebrate its healing power over our souls and society. Immerse yourself in the sanctity of nature to be uplifted into peace. Learn to hear messages from nature through inter-species communication, opening your heart and mind to nature’s practical and spiritual wisdom.
Science shows that getting outdoors and stepping into sunlight, taking a walk in the woods, pausing to unplug from daily duties helps to boost your immune system, lower stress hormone levels, bring you into the present moment, and make you feel more generous. Thank nature for being there for your wellbeing!
We invite you to create an outdoor Peace Park, a safe, sacred space where you can feel the beauty and tranquility of its natural elements. Even a small plot of land at your business, school, community venue, or home is important and beneficial to all who visit. Humans are part of nature – learn to love that part of you.
LOVE PEOPLE
People are the co-actors in your theater of life. Your circle of friends, family and colleagues can be small or large. Beyond that, most people are foreign, mysterious, unknown. The more we interact, the more understanding emerges.
Tourism For Peace is about bringing people together, to dialogue, find solutions, and embrace unity through diversity. We bring both “hosts” and “guests” — those in residence of a particular country, culture, business or community, and those visiting it — together to learn about each other. When you know your neighbor, a visitor, a new colleague, you learn how to be at peace.
We use this traveling/tourism theme as a way to see our differences in a new light – as “brothers and sisters” from another land or area. You may come to our programs as either a host or guest, or both! Peacemaking principles are taught and expressed in fun & enlightening activities, meditations, workshops, classes, performances and community service projects. All people are citizens of earth – learn to love others.
LOVE YOURSELF
You are noble and important. You are a divine being, with unique gifts and talents. You have the power to orchestrate your life. Love yourself! Joy is the key to experiencing the full potential of life. Be in the joy of you. Even though life may present significant challenges, know that you are always capable of finding and acting on solutions.
Peace is all around us, if we would just choose it. Peace is present when we honor our interconnectedness with nature and people – our oneness, not our separateness. Peace is expressed through the principles of unity, justice, presence, cooperation, partnership, creativity and trust. We can learn to embody these virtues each day.
We invite you to experience these energies of peace and get to know the amazing person you really are! Turn on your Peace Brain and open to your inner guidance. Ask questions of your Akashic Records Keepers to find answers from your soul. You are part of The Most Great Peace – love yourself and be happy!
1. #OptForPeace
Choose to be a Peace Explorer, and help manifest a peace-filled world. As Margaret Mead said, “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.”
2. Design Your Peace Master Plan
Redefine your organization as a peaceful oasis in an over-scheduled and uncertain world by designing your unique Peace Master Plan. We use interactive, on-site workshops to identify key areas to support your peace upgrades.
3. Build Your Peace Park
Implement your Peace Master Plan by building a Peace Park in nature, with markers such as a Peace Pole or labyrinth to proclaim your new peace mission, and connect your Peace Park to our World Peace Trails map.
4. Create Your Peace Program
Activate your Peace Park by inviting community members to participate in your new peace programs – meditations, World Cafés to dialogue about community issues, art workshops, inter-species communication, and more for peace.
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TOURISM FOR PEACE
Gail Y. Lash, Ph.D.
Since 1991, Dr. Lash has worked with rural communities, assessing social and economic development issues related to community-based ecotourism in and around parks and protected areas. Her work in Ecuador, Belize, Indonesia and the United States has covered such topics as local perceptions of benefits from protected areas and/or endangered species, landowner rights, women’s craft groups, guide training, conservation education, and building equitable partnerships.
Tourism For Peace, LLC is a woman-owned business licensed in the State of Georgia, USA. We promote Peace principles, concepts, actions, words and lifestyles. We are here to assist bringing this planet into peaceful harmony, with cooperation and unity from all humankind.
Connecting Peace Parks Around The World
Into Peace Trails
A “Peace Trail” is built both as a way of life in the minds of participants (activating your Peace Brain) and as a physical trail within the community – a permanent reminder of the diverse and interwoven roads to peace. Get recognized on our World Peace Trails map by participating in our Peace Master Plans and by building your outdoor Peace Park. Grow a Peace Garden, experience our Peace Brain Training, join our Community Service Projects, and travel to see other Peace Parks around the world. Bring Tourism For Peace workshops, activities, academic programs and peace ceremonies to your neighborhood, school, group or organization today!