The Importance of Creativity

I carry about 500 colored pencils, 400 markers (a.k.a: sketch pens, outside the U.S.) and a few hundred crayons along with assorted sharpeners, rubbers (i.e. erasers) and pens to share with the students during our 2012 Peace Exchange experience here in Nepal.  Some of...

Arrival Nepal : February 1st, 2012

So, here we are.  Wow!  Nepal. It took almost a week to fully arrive, but now I am definitely here.   The first few days in Kathmandu were shocking and a bit disorienting.   All of a sudden I am in the 6th poorest country on the planet and walking around dirty streets...

Let’s Create Peace

Have you seen our new arts-for-peace teachers resource?  It’s fresh off the press and can be yours for $25.   This 70-page full color booklet includes 8 Daily Peace Practices, 12 Arts-for-Peace Projects and a Peace Studies module to compliment existing English,...

Create Peace Project Organizational Map

Here is a mind-map of Create Peace Project.  At the center you will see our Organization (Org. Development) and surrounding the organization the many projects and components of our reach into the world.

On to Amritsar ~ Let Go of Control

Leaving Dharamsala was hard.  The workshops at TCV were very special.  The situation in Tibet coupled with the beauty and warmth of these kids was indeed a magical and blessed experience.   But it was time to go, and so we packed up and hit the road.  It was me and...

The Joys of This Work

It isn’t really work, exactly.  There is work involved, but all of that so-called work: planning, preparations, fundraising, travel, organizing, budgeting, etc etc, all comes with such high reward when at the end of a 2hr workshop with 175 students, you are left with...