Tools for Peace

Tools for Peace

The Nakashima Foundation for Peace is continuing with the Tools for Peace series.

The curriculum shares skills for coping, self-care, communication, and exploring your own inner peace. 

Please note that previous participation is not required to attend these workshops.

Stay tuned for future workshop offerings in 2025.

Past Tools for Peace Worskshops

Tools for Peace was initiated in 2024 to be of service to the community. The Nakashima Board of Advisors felt a need to respond to turbulent times on a grassroots level to help folks find a grounding sense of peace, power, and rest amidst the beauty and nature of the Nakashima campus.

Miriam Belov, a member of the Foundation Advisory Board, hosted two workshops, You Being Peace, in 2024. Belov is a #1 best-selling author, certified Reiki Master Teacher, a healing intuitive, and has a private practice at www.wellnessagenda.com. A pioneering expert with a dual Masters from Brown University, Miriam has taught notably at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the United Nations, Auroville, and the US Department of Labor.

Belov’s first workshop focused on “tools” to experience inner peace. Belov taught intentional meditation, body awareness and mindfulness, plus the importance of gratitude, affirmation and “glimmers.” Belov’s workshop in the Fall focused on Reiki, an ancient and revered healing process from Japan. Guests also learned how to consult the chakra system to access their own inner peace.

A concurrent series was led by Barbara Simmons in Compassionate Listening in April and June, helping participants with a deeper type of listening than normally used. After a brief description of these tools, small break-out listening groups gathered outside, taking in the trees, the ponds, and the birds to center them.  

Barbara Simmons is on our Foundation Board of Directors and served as Executive Director for 30 years at The Peace Center, a peace and justice organization. Simmons was a founding producer of PeaceTalks radio. She currently serves as Ambassador to L.O.V.E. is the Answer, is on the Board of the Alpha Community Education Foundation, and serves on the Diversity, Equity & Inclusion committee of Bucks County Women’s Advocacy Coalition. Simmons is an adjunct instructor at Arcadia University’s International Peace and Conflict Resolution master’s program.

View a recording of Miriam Belov’s You Being Peace workshop below. 

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