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Global Leader for Peace speaks in Santa Cruz

The Conflict Resolution Center of Santa Cruz and friends of the Academy For Peace are  proud to host a talk by Rita Marie Johnson on May 21st at 7:30pm at the First Congregational Church. In this talk, Ms, Johnson will share an extraordinary practice which she has termed BePeace®. She is the founder of the Rasur Foundation and the Academy for Peace of Costa Rica. She initiated a bill to create a Ministry for Peace in Costa Rica which has now become law.

Ms. Johnson developed the practice of BePeace to help individuals to “Feel peace, speak peace and teach peace.” Feeling peace is the ability to remain coherent under stress. Speaking peace is the ability to connect with others empathically and honestly through compassionate communication. When you feel peace and speak peace, you can BePeace and teach others this practice as well.

In the last 3 years, BePeace has been taught with remarkable results in schools in Costa Rica, to graduate students from 16 countries at the United Nations University for Peace, and to participants from 10 countries at the 2009 Summit of the Global Alliance of Ministries and Departments for Peace.  BePeace has been initiated in 8 states in the USA, as well as Canada, Europe and Central America.

Ms. Johnson says, “I yearned all my life to be a peacemaker, but I was missing a solid ‘how-to’.  With the practice of BePeace, I improve every day in my ability to actually model peace.  I am a different person than I was five years ago because of this skill.  People are amazed at how quickly they can begin to have transformative experiences using BePeace.”

Ms. Johnson will talk about BePeace on Friday, May 21, 2010, at 7:30PM at First Congregational Church in Fellowship Hall, 900 High Street, Santa Cruz.  Admission:  free; donations accepted.  For further information, call Louise or Joel Wallock at (831) 685-2685.

For more information about Rita Marie Johnson, the Academy for Peace of Costa Rica and the Rasur Foundation, visit www.rasurinternational.org, and www.academyforpeacecr.org, or write to:  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

 

News and Magazine Articles

Small claims disputes routed into mediation at local courts
Watsonville Register-Pajaronian, June 28, 2008
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Court mediation services expanded in Watsonville
Santa Cruz Sentinel, June 28, 2008
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More mediation services added to Santa Cruz County court docket
Santa Cruz Sentinel, October 9, 2007
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Mediation helps heal emotional wounds of Brook Knoll vandalism
Santa Cruz Sentinel, October 23, 2006
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Conflict Resolution Center helps businesses resolve workplace strife
Santa Cruz Sentinel, October 23, 2005
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Watsonville Neighbors Work Together to Resolve Conflicts
California Healthy Cities and Communities Center for Civic Partnerships "Connections", Fall 2005
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Radio Interview

Santa Cruz County Courts Encourage Mediation Instead of Small Claims Litigation
KUSP FM Talk of the Bay, October 23, 2007
http://www.centralcoastpublicradio.org/ondemand/get/totb-2007-10-23.m3u

Press Releases

October 2, 2007
Superior Court of Santa Cruz County, in Partnership with Conflict Resolution Center, Expands Mediation Services to Promote Better Community Dispute Resolution and Reduce Small Claims Caseload.
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March 7, 2006
Disputing Neighbors Find Satisfying Solutions Through Community Mediation Program
Read the complete article DisputingNeigh.pdf >


Conflict Resolution Center of Santa Cruz County Offers Worskhops and On-Site Training for Effective Conflict Management.
Read the complete article LocalNon.pdf >

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