The Global Circle of Peace

Launch of Peace PAX – a peace offering for our times

LizzieD — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 05:00:40 +0000

Happy International Day of Peace everyone! We are proud to announce the launch of Peace PAX on this special day when people are linking around the world in the spirit of unity and peace.

We are celebrating our online launch with two small impromptu Peace Ceremonies – one in Bath and the other in Liverpool where Magz has rallied her friends. It is our way of sending this innovative work out into the world and of giving people an uplifting experience of peace. May these intimate, simple gatherings inspire people to create their own Peace Practice and Peace Ceremonies and help spread the word about Peace PAX to their family, friends and community.

Performance of The Vincy Vibe Benefit at The Minerva Centre, Bath

LizzieD — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 21:30:01 +0000

As an informal run-through for the Benefit I am helping to organise in St. Vincent & The Grenadines next January, Shirlie and I last night put on an evening to raise funds for CARE-SVG a not-for-profit organisation working with people living with Aids. Time for Peace on Earth and Peacemaker were a part of the progamme which was very well received. We raised £170 which will pay for school meals for children of parents who have Aids and are unable to work. Our fund-raising efforts will feed 34 children school meals for a month – a sobering thought! Our warm thanks to Elizabeth Griffin for free use of The Minerva Centre and to all those who contributed, especially Marusja for creating the beautiful poster.

David Keith endorses Peace PAX

LizzieD — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 13:04:33 +0000

“Within the inspirational energy of Peace PAX, is a personal and collective invitation to engage in some serious fun as we work towards a global community of peace – one that is more truly reflective of our one world family. All manner of ‘being and doing’ is suggested – there is something for everyone here – to both lighten and nourish heart and mind and to spread unbounded to every part of our world”.

David Keith, Global Circle of Peace Leading Light & founding member of The Peace Foundation Network

Margaret Gibney endorses Peace PAX

LizzieD — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 12:04:51 +0000

“Peace PAX inspires us to be activists for peace in our world every day. We can search for peace personally and globally feeling powerless and overwhelmed by what seems an unachievable and unrealistic task, yet Peace PAX demonstrates that making peace can be possible, meaningful and fun. My hope is that you come to realise your creativity and ability to be at peace. I whole heartedly endorse Peace PAX. Let it support you to get creative, express yourself, unite with others and be a peacemaker in your world”.

Margaret Gibney, Global Circle of Peace Leading Light & former UNICEF Young Ambassador for Peace

Read what Tim Smit of The Eden Project says about Martin Powell

LizzieD — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 21:00:16 +0000

“It is not often you come across someone with a voice all their own. I wouldn’t have believed it but I have seen with my own eyes a poet that has brought 350 people to a roaring crescendo of applause and a standing ovation. Ladies and gentlemen. I commend to you Mr. Martin Powell, catch him before he beomes really famous”.

Welcome to Martin Powell – a new Leading Light

LizzieD — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 21:14:27 +0000

We are thrilled to have such a gifted, cutting-edge young poet as part of our growing community. Martin is clearly a young man of incisive vision who has the sensitivity, courage and power to inspire and ignite people of all ages. His love for humanity and compassion for his fellow brothers and sisters is rare and we will do whatever we can to ensure that his voice is heard by as many people as possible.

Having spent the whole day with Martin today sharing our vision for peace, exchanging stories, poetry and information, we decided that his endorsement for Peace PAX would be written in rhyme and that this could wait until after the Peace Ceremony in Bath next week where I have invited him to perform. It is important to make time and space for inspiration to flow and I think it is fitting that Martin has a direct experience of our work to enable his poetic endorsement to come from a deeper understanding of what Peace PAX is all about.

Read Satish Kumar’s endorsement of Martin Powell

LizzieD — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 09:30:09 +0000

“Martin Powell is a rising star. He is a socially engaged poet who challenges us profoundly and blows away all our cobwebs. His words are exhilarating and his performance dynamic. If you have the chance to hear him recite his poetry, you will be awakened and surprised”.

Is Small Still Beautiful? – an inspirational lecture by Satish Kumar

LizzieD — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 08:00:40 +0000

Last night I went to the EF Schumacher Centeneary Lecture by Satish Kumar held at The Temenos Academy in London. What a treat to hear about Schumacher’s ethos of integrating economy, ecology and spirituality and the importance of a big mind and heart whilst authentically living out our values in our own locale.

Satish ended the evening by inviting a young poet, Martin Powell, to perform his poem ‘The Power of Young People’. Such was Martin’s depth of vision, passion and charismatic wordsmithery, I invited him to become a Global Circle of Peace Leading Light ion the spot! Martin has an original voice and an important message to share with the world.

Lizze & Margaret make a new video of the mime-poem

LizzieD — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 21:44:28 +0000

Off at crack of dawn to London for a remake of Time for Peace on Earth. It was lovely to perform some of the mime-poem in Nature with the birds and falling leaves joining in and it was especially moving doing the last part with Magz, since I first took this work to her school, Mount Gilbert Community College in Belfast in 1998, as part of a tree-planting ceremony and series of workshops – all part of Time for Peace, the project which sowed seeds for The Global Circle of Peace. It was a great joy to pass on this work to Magz and to know that she embodies its message and will inspire young people – something that is very dear to my heart.

Big trees from little acorns grow…

Creating the Teaching Materials for Peace PAX

LizzieD — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 21:53:02 +0000

Glynis Hull, our Educational Adviser and I finalised the teaching materials today, deciding that simpicity was key. It is exciting to see how our fusion of knowledge will be received by schools, youth groups and community endeavours. Thank you so much Glynis for your time, focus and patience. It was a real marriage of minds.

Having left school at 16 with barely any qualifications and no direction in life, it is a particularly moving experience for me to be able to share the essence of my life’s work and to have Glynis ‘ experience and specialist knowedge to shape and inform. Some things in life are worth waiting for…

Please do let us know what you think about the work. Constructive feedback is most welcome.