Rotary Conifer Peacebuilding Committee
Empowering Compassionate Peacebuilding
Workshop to Learn the Art of Non-Violent Communications
February 24-26 at Mountain Resource Center, Conifer
Registration Now Open
“Communication skills are not a luxury. They are essential for the health of our society and planet as well as for our personal wellbeing. Deepening your own communication skill is something you can do to change the world that does not involve convincing, arguing, blaming, or becoming a political activist,” - David Steele, Non-Violent Communications trainer in Denver.
Saturday, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.
Sunday, 1:30-6 p.m.
“Our survival as a species depends on our ability to recognize that our well-being and the well-beingof others are in fact one and the same." - Marshal Rosenberg
Jean: https://rmccn.org/jean-bell-phd
Ken: https://rmccn.org/content/ken-rosevear-0
David: https://rmccn.org/content/david-steele-0
Tom: https://www.cnvc.org/profile/14307
At the personal level, the course will provide us deep skills in: Making clear observations, honestly expressing feelings, deeply meeting needs, making doable requests, the power of empathy and self-empathy, working with anger, mourning, and gratitude.
We will learn to:
- Find deep wisdom in authenticity.
- Trust in what matters most to us.
- Acknowledge our aspirations.
- Draw strength from conviction.
- Listen deeply to ourselves and others.
An integral part of the course is practicing what we learn with other students. This training is experiential and provides an opportunity to work with issues from our own lives and incorporate the insights into our heads, hearts, nervous systems, and consciousness. It is about walking the talk and supporting one another in transformation. The class begins by anchoring in what is important to us. By the end, we will practice using the skills we have learned to respond to and maintain calm in difficult situations.
This, in turn, will enable us to implement peace skills and engage with others to foster peace initiatives in the community.
Rotary of Conifer Celebrates Blessing of Peace Park Installation at the Aspen Park Community Center
Amidst aspens in full glory, a blessing ceremony to celebrate the inaugural stage of the Conifer Rotary Peace Park took place on Sunday, September 25 at the Aspen Park Community Center.
The Conifer Peace Park is a place to reflect on peace and to hold events dedicated to peacebuilding.
The park’s central Conifer location, in a lovely grove of aspen trees behind the Aspen Park Community Center (APCC), was made possible by the APCC Home Improvement Association. The park also received generous support from Rotary Club International District 5450, Rotary Club of Conifer, Peacebuilding Club members, and the Conifer community, which contributed funding, skill and sweat for the park.
“Although the installation has only begun with the placement of benches and boulders, persons who have visited the park say it already gives off a peaceful aura,” said Stanley Harsha, co-chair of Conifer Rotary Peacebuilder Committee. “The project will be completed by May 2023 with native landscaping and peace poles with messages of peace.”
Rotary Club of Conifer President Diana Phelps cut the ribbon marking the beginning of the Peace Park. She noted that the 285 Corridor’s first peace park is being realized in only four months from conception to installation.
The park will hold events in the future to commemorate peace and to educate about peace, with an emphasis on reaching children.
Dennis Swiftdeer Paige, Peacebuilding Club member and the park’s landscape designer, offered a Native American Coal Bundle blessing, carefully collected and containing a piece of coal from The Sacred Fire at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago. Bobby Siles, trained by Lakotas as a certified medicine man, blew sacred smoke to bless the park as a place of peace.
This park takes its place among over a hundred peace parks worldwide. Rotary International established its first peace park in 1932 at the U.S.-Canadian border.
One feature of the park is a boulder with an inscription of the Rotary Four-Way test, which embodies principles of peacebuilding. "Of the things we think, say or do:
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Is it the TRUTH?
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Is it FAIR to all concerned?
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Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?
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Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?”
For more information, e-mail stanleyharsha@outlook.com
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Conifer and Bailey residents worked together to install boulders and benches in August |
Rotary of Conifer Peace Park blessed amidst Aspens in full autumn glory
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Dennis Swiftdeer Paige offers Native American blessing
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Trained in Lakota ways, Bobby Siles blows smoke to bless the park as a place of Peace
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Rotary of Conifer Diana Phelps cuts ribbon for Peace Park installation
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Peace Park embodies principles of 4-Way Test
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Rotary of Conifer Peacebuilder Co-Chair Stanley Harsha remarks how visitors find the Peace Park to have an aura of peace.
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"Imagine all the people living life in peace"
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