SEVEN BILLION PATHS TO PEACE, WHAT IS (Y)OURS?

CARMEN CLAY JOAN KORENBLIT

405-749-3103, clayc@casady.org 405-359-0369, rdfrdf@cox.net http://www.casady.org/podium/default.aspx?t=28916 http://www.respectdiversity.org/home_tmp.html

29th ANNUAL MULTICULTURAL INSTITUTE

UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL OKLAHOMA

March 10, 2012, 8:45-10:00 a.m Nigh University Center

CONNECTING

BE THE PEACE CARDS

How do you feel?

EIGHT BREATHS

How do you feel NOW?

• The Shinnyo-en Foundation helps build more caring communities by supporting educational programs that engage and inspire young people in meaningful acts of service.

“We believe in teaching our children the value of helping others in the spirit of goodwill and without regard to differences of faith or background.”

Transformation through service http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPQiPIfRtLU

CONNECTING

SERVICE External actions and the internal

motivations that drive them.

Alignment of an individual’s Heart, Mind and Actions.

Thoughtful Reflection 

INTERCONNECTING WHO WE ARE, WHERE WE SERVE

Name

Organization or School

Position (grade level & subjects)

What I enjoy most about teaching…

A Transforming Service Experience…

Sign-in sheet Full name

Organization or SchoolE-mail

CONNECTING

RESPECT DIVERSITY FOUNDATION

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piQrcVR9gV4&feature=youtu.be

Who are we?What do we do?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U90INlqbMUA

ELEVENTH ANNUAL RESPECT DIVERSITY

SYMBOL EXHIBIT GALA

Where?: Science Museum Oklahoma, 2100 N.E. 52nd Street, Oklahoma City, OK

When: Tuesday, March 27, 2012, Program: 5:00 p.m. Eleanor Maurer Theatre. R.S.V.P. 359-0369 or rdfrdf@cox.net

Why: Enjoy Oklahoma students colorful collaborations exploring diversity through the arts.

Symbol Exhibit OPEN March 9 - May 9, 2012

Class Guidelines of Interaction INTERCONNECTED WORDS & ACTIONS

Sandpaper & Velvet Words and Actions

Add Respect, Resilience & Responsibility to your study of the 3Rshttp://www.oklahomacitynationalmemorial.org/secondary.php?section=6&catid=192

Haiku PoetryMandalas for the Peace Tree

http://www.turtlelightpress.com/products/peace-and-war-a-collection-of-haiku-from-israel/

Hearts Activity

• VELVET: Terciopelo

• SAND PAPER: Lija

A STORY OFBUILDING COMPASSIONATE

COMMUNITIES

CLASSROOM CALLED2CHANGE

SIX BILLION PATHS TO PEACE CARDS

SCHOOL & CITYWIDE 9/11-9/21 : www.wetheworld.org/home

SERVICE SATURDAYS @ FOOD BANKINTERNATIONAL DAY OF PEACE CELEBRATION

PINWHEELS FOR PEACE FESTIVALSHINNYO-EN FOUNDATION - PEACE ONE DAY

YOUTH THRIVE-PEACE JAM

YAC (YOU-nite A Community)OKLAHOMA NATIONAL MEMORIAL AND MUSEUM

RESPECT DIVERSITY FOUNDATIONCHARTER OF COMPASSION

OCU’S PINWHEELS-4- PEACE FESTIVALInternational Day of Peace Celebration

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

http://serviceapathtopeace.blogspot.com/2011/09/carmens-reflection-on-international-day.html http://pinwheels-4-peaceinlanguageclasses.blogspot.com/

http://www.pinwheelsforpeace.com/pinwheelsforpeace/home.html

9/21: International Day of Peacehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-msqnLqBLyk&feature=relmfu

• A VIDEO CAMERA– PEACE TOOL

• Responsibility to make things better

• Documented lives saved

• Film – Educates – Empowers youth

» Peaceful conflict resolution

– http://peaceoneday.org/welcome/ ; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04SEzifEsGg

Inspiration of Peace One Day

•His Grandfather, His Hero

–Favorite number 21

•“700 men left, 23 hit the ground, 2 died in the boat and 21 came back.”

–Prisoner of war, Nagasaki’s bomb poisoned his grandfather’s blood.

Peace Through Filmshttp://peaceoneday.org/

• 1st Film-Peace One Day– Why, how, 9/21

– http://peaceoneday.org/film/

• 2nd Film-Lives saved– Afghanistan ceased fire

– 17% violence down in Afghanistan

– Children vaccinated & fed

– Life PREVAILED

• 3rd Film-Reduction of violence – Started 9/21/2011-9/21/2012

– Social networking: • Largest reduction in global violence;

BULLYING, DOMESTIC VIOLENCE in recorded history.

• YOUTH around the world leading it.http://action.peaceoneday.org/peace-day-pledge

What is your sentence?

• http://vimeo.com/8480171

CONNECTING

ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES TO EXPLORE ON YOUR OWN

JOIN EDMODO: http://www.edmodo.com

Seven Billion Paths to Peace Grouphepybc

Keep the arts-4- a cause moving! 

Exploration of SelfHarmony within yourself

Roots and Fruits Activityhttp://www.sef.org/who-we-are/our-paradigm-of-service/?event=1293

DiscoveringInterconnections

• Name

• Organization & Position

• Four words that describe me

• Ways I nourish my spirit

• A memorable place I visited is

• My hero is/are

• I value

• One hope I have for today is

I like ……………………because….

Books:

Movies:

TV Shows:

Songs:

Video Games:

• Name: Carmen Clay

• Organization and position: Casady School; Service-Learning Director, Spanish Teacher

• Four words that describe me: woman, learner, adaptable, resilient

• Ways I nourish my spirit walking, dancing, listening to music, traveling

• A memorable place I visited is Macchu Picchu, memories of my dad

• My hero is…are my father & my husband

• I value: Respect for humanity, people empowered by peace one day in our world

• One hope I have today: To connect to trust peace through kindness and service

Books: 13 Reasons Why… I have to be a better listener, The Power of ONE…Inspiration in every page.

Movies: The Notebook and Up: Timeless love, Smoke Signals: Our backgrounds and how they shape who we are.

TV Shows: The ones my family enjoys together.

Songs: Where is the love, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpYeekQkAdc&ob=av3e We weren’t born to follow http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qF3D2oiy6YA Words inspire me to action. Puerto Mont http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TePzHvg_3g Memories by sea

Video Games: Wii Fit, Dance Dance Revolution. Exercise

JFMF TripYanagawa, Japan

I like time with family & friends. Memories are made.

WDYDWYD

SIX BILLION PATHS TO PEACE CARDS

Reflection through Art http://www.wdydwyd.com

Why Do You Do What You Do?

No two flowers are the same

• We are also unique.

• Our tiny acts of peace, like a ripple in the water,

• reverberate out into the world expanding the experience of peace for all of us.

ROOTS & FRUITS

• Use the image of a tree to help you reflect upon the values that ground you (roots) and your outward actions of service (fruit).

• The Roots: List values that are important to you and the institutions/family you have been part of or were the inspiration for those values.

• The Trunk: What connects your values to small or large random acts of kindness and service?

• The Fruits: List ways you served others in large of small ways

Shinnyo-en Foundation Cards-BE THE PEACE- Service: De-stressor

-SIX BILLION PATHS TO PEACE: How are we are interconnected!

• Be the Peace– Eight Breaths

• Shinnyo-en Workshops– Discovering

Interconnections

• Six Billion Paths to Peace– Roots and Shoots

– WDYDWYD “Lasting peace and mutual understanding begins with small acts of compassion

and the smiles that those acts generate.” HH Shinso Ito

The Charter of Compassion

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wktlwCPDd94

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPQiPIfRtLU

THOUGHTFUL REFLECTION

a. What is the task that I have been trying to contemplate in the world? Why? (What do I want to do to make a difference, to be the

change I want to see? Why?)

b. How would the world be different if I succeeded?

c. What motivates me to keep trying when it would be easier to quit?