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.
UPCOMING Tools for Peace Worskshops
Managing Grief, Self-Care, and Conflict in Divided Times
Sunday, February 16th, 2 – 4pm and Sunday, March 9th, 2 – 4pm
$50 per workshop, or $75 for both
Conflict is a normal part of life, yet when it happens, our body responds with fight, flight or freeze mode. Many of us can feel overwhelmed with grief, anger or frustration, especially when people we love no longer share our values. If we can understand each other’s values, it can help us navigate the conversation and our feelings. This two-part workshop will focus on how to manage emotions and triggers when faced with family, work, or community conflict.
Barbara Simmons is on the Nakashima 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.
Standing in Your Power
Sunday, March 23rd, 2 – 4 pm
$50 per person
As we move forward into a timeline that seems to be accelerating, there are signs everywhere of rapid change. You have a major choice to evolve or stay stagnant. Explore the various aspects of your being through Reiki, intentional meditation, and breakthrough breathing. Using the concepts of peace, concentration, beauty, rejuvenation, and spirit, you will access your patterns of feeling, thought, action.
As legs uphold a wonderful Nakashima table, so these uphold your reality. It is time for each of us to be authentic, sovereign and clear. True to your passion and purpose, stand tall in your power.
Miriam Belov, MAT/RMT, met George Nakashima in 1975 and is on the advisory board of the Nakashima Foundation for Peace. 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.
Forest Bathing
Sunday, May 18th, 2 – 4pm
$50 per person
Forest Therapy, also known as “Shinrin-Yoku,” refers to the practice of spending time in forested areas for the purpose of enhancing health, happiness, and a sense of awe. The Japanese words translate into English as “Forest Bathing” and refer to bathing in the beneficial compounds which trees emit, such as oxygen and phytoncides. Join certified Nature and Forest Therapy guide Anisa George for a guided forest bathing session, followed by a foraged tea ceremony at the end.
Anisa George is a writer, performer, food forest designer, and certified member of the Association of Nature and Forest Therapy Guides. Her work focuses on tuning attention to the more-than-human-world. She has been leading walks in the Philadelphia region since 2019 and currently is the resident forest therapy guide at Morris Arboretum, Mt. Cuba, and Winterthur.
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.
