The Children's Global Peace Project empowers children to find peace within, harmony with others, and beauty in diversity. We help to foster a world of peace, one child at a time.

Empathy to the 8th Power: WE ENHANCE the EVOLUTIONARY EMERGENCE of EMPATHY by ENGAGING children in an ENERGETIC EMBRACE of synergistic ELEMENTS of EMPOWERMENT! : )

Our approach is developmental, multi-sensory, holistic. We weave an inclusive sphere of contribution and belonging -- through self-awareness, compassionate communication, multi-cultural expressive arts, and service projects that empower children to create peace within, with others, and in their community. We engage children on all levels. -- linguistic, kinesthetic, musical, logical, visual, naturalist, interpersonal, interpersonal, and philosophical/existentialist.

As we become a global society, the importance of empathy in our relations, and sensitivity in embracing a diverse world, increases. Children are, more than ever, called to be self-aware, deeply listening, creatively responsive in the moment, divergent thinkers who can see past old paradigm solutions to generate new, inclusive solutions that benefit all. Only in this way will we meet the unparalleled challenges and opportunities of the 21st century. Empathy must extend first to oneself, then to those closest to us, to our communities, and to the interdependent systems that support our existence. In order to survive and thrive, we need programs that foster the awareness, inclusiveness, vision, creativity, compassion, and empowerment of our youth.

We create customized peace education programs to fit the needs of each community, classroom, and enrichment program. We offer a comprehensive year-long curriculum as well as short-term programs that target specific transformational skills and goals. Our curriculums teach to the multiple intelligences, engaging children on all levels -- multi-sensory, auditory, linguistic, kinesthetic, musical, logical, visual, naturalist, interpersonal, interpersonal, and philosophical/existentialist. We weave core components into an inclusive sphere of contribution and belonging -- through self-awareness, compassionate communication, multi-cultural expressive arts, and service projects that empower children to create peace within, with others, and in their community. Our facilitators train teachers, guidance counselors, and others to use core components on a daily basis to deepen and extend the impact on classroom culture and student's individual and shared processes.

A typical weekly session of 45-60 minutes duration would include gathering children in a circle with two or more peace facilitators. Teachers and a classroom parent are invited to join in. We begin with a welcoming ritual which includes an honoring of each child with a peace-badge/nametag as they 'step up' for peace, a brief heart-centered awareness/gratitude process, then an expressive arts group activity that would enliven and connect, such as a peace dance, or thematically-related ice-breaker game. We would then introduce the day's thematic topic/activity with a brief explanation and often a go-round to each participant by passing a talking stick or heart-object, to foster connection and communication. We would then dive further into the topic or skill of the day. In different stages of our curriculum, we focus on different peace skills. In our 'Peace Within' unit, we focus on self-awareness and self-calming activities, with the aim of giving children mastery of one core centering activity (akin to HeartMath), and a spectrum of other activities. In our 'Peace With Others' unit, we focus on such things as the rainbow path, which teaches the stages of conflict resolution, or offer a compassionate communication activity, such as an empathy circle or reconciliation circle. In our unit on embracing our world with empathy (peace in our world), we explore diversity, ecology and service-oriented projects that empower children to make a difference. At the end of our time together, we share a closing ritual which includes a brief centering activity, goodbyes and some 'peace homework'.

We feel that other peace organizations are synergistic with our own, and that we benefit by collaborating with one another. We share resources and support one another. All in all, it's a big world that needs awareness, peace and empathy and we're glad to co-create and share!