Metro-Atlanta Public Schools, Charter Schools, and other Private
Schools
TFP met with local educators in January 2008 to learn about how Peace Education has been implemented
into schools in Australia! We met Montessori Principal Mashid Jones, and heard about her success in co-creating, promoting
and teaching these character development, virtues-based curricula, called the Peace Pack. It is "Spiritual Education for
a Peaceful World" that promotes unity of peoples - creating knowledge of "the other" and acceptance of diverse religious views
and cultures. We are looking to begin to use this and other peace curricula with Atlanta area children. Now TFP is working
with educators, parents, and interested persons to create Peace programs in Charter Schools, and International Schools. If
your school is interested in implementing a Peace Education Program, please let us know!
Lectures on Peace
Dr. Gail Lash offers lectures on Peace principles and concepts, for Teacher Training days, and
other special group gatherings at your primary or secondary school, or public venue. Her talks include multi-media PPT presentations,
participatory exercises, and group discussion. Contact her for a customized lecture on Peace for your educational group! Fees
range from $350 to $1500, depending on group size and length of lecture.
"OPENING THE DOOR OF UNITY: TOURISM FOR PEACE" This 60 to 90-minute PPT presentation, with activities
and questions, is focused on looking at tourism as a vehicle for Peace. Examine the continuum of types of tourism and the
interaction gradient between hosts and guests. Look at the effects of sustainable development and ecotourism on communities,
and posit a new paradigm of peace through service and host/guest connections. Please contact Dr. Lash if you think that this
lecture would complement your departmental programs.
Workshops & Classes on Peace
TFP offers workshops on Living The Peace Path - on definitions of Peace, concepts of Unity, Non-violence,
Cooperation, and Being Peace Inside. Dr. Lash is talking with Atlanta Public Schools and with Gwinett County Schools about
teaching these peace concepts to various audiences: adminstrative staff, teachers, parents, children (in school and in after-school
programs), and community members.
Additional class topics available include: Understanding & Honoring Diversity; Knowing Oneself; Finding Your Essence
& Power; Consultation: Justice in Action; Healing Racism; Community-Based Ecotourism; Imagining a World at Peace; Empowerment
Workshop for Girls; World Café Discussions; and Open Space Technology.
University Courses
Dr. Lash is excited about teaching these peace principles and concepts to a broad range of university
and college students. She has created several academic courses and filled them with not only cutting edge information, but
also with ample opportunity for individual and group thought and reflection. In her classes, Dr. Lash embraces the Arts,
facilitation techniques such as Open Space Technology, and field trips with service opportunities. Please contact Dr. Lash
if you think that any of these courses would complement your departmental programs.
Available Courses:
1. Peace in the Classroom: Teacher
training; 12 to 45 hour course, PLU/Bachelor/Graduate
2. Peace and Police: Police Excellence And Citizen Enrollment (PEACE) - Bringing mindfulness and unity to public
service personnel; 40-hr. course, Community
3. Peace and Society: Imagining and creating a world at
peace; 45-hour course, Bachelor/Graduate
4. Living the Peace Path: Putting peace principles into practice in everyday life; 90-hour (2 semester) course, Bachelor
level
5. The Peace Builders: Learning from the leaders; 45-hour course, Bachelor/Graduate
6. Peace and Health: Aligning and healing mind/body/spirit; 45-hour course, Community/Bachelor/Medical
7. Ecotourism: Harmonizing People, Nature, and Economics; 30 to 45-hour class, Graduate level
8. Dancing Through the Spiral Gate - A course on connecting historical and modern metaphysical teachings and how to
use them today; 54-hr. course, Community/Bachelor
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