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Dr. Judith Thompson

Dr. Judith Thompson has spent decades of her life in service to social healing and peace in our world. She has an exquisite soul-eloquence and a brilliant mind. She is one of the pioneers leading scholarly research and conducting Social Healing circles internationally and is the Co-Director of the International Social Healing Project with James O'Dea. DOWNLOAD PDF of their report “The Social Healing Project”: http://jamesodea.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/The-Social-Healing-Project-Report.pdf

Judith has spent countless hours disseminating the essentials of how wounding and healing correspond. I am truly and deeply honored that she will be my guest tomorrow night for the continuing series on Restorative Justice and Social Healing in the U.S. and beyond. You won't want to miss this time with Judith--she'll be sharing insights from the field and what she and James discovered in their work in Rwanda, Israel/Palestine, and right here in the U.S.

Matthew Albracht is a colleague, friend and an incredibly skilled leader in cultivating a culture of peace. As the Executive Vice President of The Peace Alliance he has mobilized some incredibly powerful statements of action in the Youth Promise Act (youthpromiseaction.org) and in mobilizing a country around all the powerful acts of peacebuilding already in motion. He is a mover and shaker, a powerful mobilizer and a leader showing how Peace is an unstoppable force that we create with our vision coupled with action.

I am excited to invite you to join Matthew and I tonight for an hour of his sharing how The Peace Alliance is building momentum in particular pressing areas and his perspective on the rise of Restorative Justice in America.

I am thrilled to announce my next featured guest, Katy Gilbert of Stories of Our City, during Mali Rowan Presents Fall/Winter Virtual Series on Restorative Justice and Social Healing. Katy is based out of Beirut and co-founded Stories of Our City as a way of building peace in our world through sharing the stories of people from the Middle East and beyond. We know the power of story, and the power of listening, to create bridges. Katy and her co-founders have created a platform for peace through podcasts and providing a place where peoples voices can be truly heard.

Tomorrow night Katy will share with us some insights into why our stories and sharing them might be the key to global peace and healing. She'll be sharing some of her own experiences and the inspiration that helped her spark this extraordinary organization and project.

www.storiesofourcity.org

Robin Casarjian, M.A. is the Founder and Director of the Lionheart Foundation and its National Emotional Literacy Projects. She is an educator, public speaker, writer, and consultant. In developing and implementing programming for prisoners and youth-at-risk, she draws from her experience as director of a school for at-risk adolescents, as well as extensive experience in education, stress management training, psychotherapy and administration. She is author of Forgiveness: A Bold Choice for a Peaceful Heart (Bantam, 1992) and Houses of Healing: A Prisoner’s Guide to Inner Power and Freedom (Lionheart Press, 1995), and co-author, with Bethany Casarjian, Ph.D., of Power Source: Taking Charge of Your Life (Lionheart Press, 2003).

Lionheart provides:

Lionheart also conducts public education on the need for transforming our nation’s prisons and juvenile institutions into places where nurturing emotional (re)habilitation, inspiring positive values, and imparting behavior patterns necessary for healthy functioning in our communities are primary goals.

Lionheart Values:

Justice
(Restorative) Supporting the emotional health of people who have been marginalized so that they can unmask their potential and live productive lives.

Excellence
Creating and producing exceptional quality resources and delivering outstanding programs and trainings to serve our target populations.

Competence
Identifying a vast array of programs and institutions and effectively getting our resources to those they are intended to serve.

Generosity
Assuring exposure to Lionheart’s resources through free nationwide distribution, knowing that without it only a tiny fraction of those who could benefit would be given the opportunity.

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