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Projects of the Foundation
for A Healing Among Nations
2003-2005 Women's Tour for Peace and Global Understanding. 2002-December 15. Unity and Diversity Peace Sunday, Los Angeles. 2002-The Tibetan Tashi Lhunpo Monastery Monks on Tour for Peace in
Sarasota, Florida and Los Angeles. 2002- May. Japan Peace Tour. Heart of Humanity Awards Mt. Fuji, Hiroshima
peace prayers. 2002- Day of Prayer for Peace with Pope John Paul II in Assisi,
Italy.
Our five woman interfaith delegation particpated with hundreds of religious
leaders from around the world in prayer and witness to the covenants
for peace on January 24, 2002.
http://www.vatican.va/special/assisi_20020124_en.html 2001- July. International Youth Leaders Peace Forum:
Focus Middle East-Switzerland.
In collaboration with Christina-Werk Community, over 70 international
youth leaders participated in a seven day peace summit. 2001-June.
International Forgiveness week. With over 500 participants from all
over the world, Ms. Mansdorf was a keynote speaker powerfully revealing
the transformational value of forgiveness against a tapestry of pain
and suffering in our war torn world. Choices for peace are made within
us moment to moment and day by day. We are the ones to make peace a
living reality in our time.
2001-January 1-13. Mid-East Interfaith Peace building Delegation.
Eight interfaith peace leaders of FAHAN and FOR were invited to meet
with the Ngo leaders in the occupied territories of Israel. These meetings
with both Palestinian leaders and Israeli ngo leaders created the pathway
for the development of The World Peace Parliament. Dialogues were continued
in Los Angeles with Families Forum lead by Mansdorf and Yitzhak Frankenthal of
Tel Aviv, Israel on forgiveness and the issues underlying the Mid-
East conflict. 2000-Awakening the Heart of Humanity in Forgiveness
and Reconciliation
An international panel presented and
facilitated by Bonnie Mansdorf in New York, September 8, 2000 at
The State of the World Forum linking
the World Peace Summit in which over 2,000 people attended including
various worldwide Presidents and Peace Makers. 2000-World Peace Ceremony with the World Peace
Prayer Society
Southeastern Nepal Association Summit in Atlanta, July 1-4. We are
pleased to have had this opportunity to build and teach the Nepal Congress
about pro active measures to creating a culture of peace and moving
our nations from that of suffering to one of awakening. An active campaign
with Global Youth Connect and the Nepalese government will create a
charter and petition for the 1,000 plus participants to address the
thousands of young women sold into sexual servitude in S.E. Asia. 2000-Sacred Meetings.
FAHAN facilitated a private meeting between
His Holiness, The Dalai Lama and the Hopi Prophecy holders at the end
of June 2000. The prophecies state that when the red hat (Tibetan)
will come to the West and the stories will be told at the house of
Micah (U.N.) then A Healing Among Nations will begin. This historic
event paved a new bridge of understanding between the East and the
West. 2000-Circle of Nations, Indigenous elders
of the Americas.
To further
facilitate the bridge of East and West, following on the successful
footsteps of the Tibetan Folk life Festival, FAHAN presented a dialogue
on forgiveness and reconciliation in Ottawa, Canada. This indeed, was
an experience of how education as healing intervention is implemented
to heal the wounds of the land and its people. 2000-Case Western Reserve School of Business
Two
day training on compassionate listening, forgiveness and the
process of peacemaking for graduate professors. 1999-A Healing Among Nations Prayer Retreat
and Summit
Over forty
of the world's spiritual leaders met November 21-24, 1999 to create
a unified vision for healing and reconciliation of their cultures.
This unprecedented opportunity for World Leaders of Nations to come
together and pray for World Peace restored wholeness through evoking
the highest potential of the human spirit to promote healing for inter-cultural
and inter-religious needs. In addition, a publication documenting the
inter-disciplinary approaches to forgiveness and reconciliation at
the cultural and historical level will be made available to the community
at large. 1998- Collaboration with The Tibetan National
Commemoration and Documentation Center
In Dharamsala, India FAHAN prepared a program
to train and facilitate the documenting of up to 500 Tibetan witnesses
to the Chinese insurgence. Forgiveness training and education outreach
will be integrated with the other cultural learning aids for peacebuilding
teaching. Ms. Mansdorf met with the Dalai Lama and governmental officials
during this outreach to develop the programs. Funding is still necessary
to fulfill this goal and train Tibetan youth in US to be witness and
interviewers that can continue a broad based educational distribution
to others in this country. Previous Projects
1995-1998- The Survivors of the Shoah Foundation
and BMansdorf & Associates.
Ms. Mansdorf has served as an interviewer for Steven Spielberg's holocaust
historical oral history program since 1995. Through a program devised
by BMansdorf and The Shoah, other diverse cultures will now be able
to participate in the oral history testimony process. Mansdorf established
a relationship with the Shoah Foundation and the African American oral
history Holdings Project at Fisk University's Race Relations Institute
that continues to reveal the history testimony and its inter-racial
learning opportunities for both the individual and communities at large.
These program applications inspired the creation of The Foundation
for A Healing Among Nations. 1998-Families First.
Ms. Mansdorf served on a research team for Tipper
Gore's committee. Sharing her expertise at the conference on intergenerational
healing and the effects of cultural mental illness. 1997-A Season for NonViolence
In collaboration with
the M.K. Ghandi Institute for Nonviolence, Association for Global
New Thought, Lafayette & Associates
Kingian Nonviolence, The New Detroit Coalition's Youth Nonviolence
Training Program. This event was coordinated in Nashville, Los Angeles,
New York and more. Through the office of Bmansdorf & Associates,
Ms. Mansdorf wrote and delivered the necessary speeches for the
Office of the Vice President and Tipper Gore, convened over a hundred
young people from various local schools to perform their songs and
prayers for world peace in collaboration with Unesco office at the
United Nations. 1995-1996-The We Are One, Contact Point
An interactive initiative with Bmansdorf & Associates
and acclaimed by the Office of the Vice President (Gore) is a project
which brought web based resources through artistic kiosks forward to
disseminate information on volunteer and social services to the communities
of our nation. This unifying agent for social change, encourages citizen
participation, disseminates volunteer opportunities and raises the
quality of life at all levels of daily living. 1996-Living Legacy.
A program to videotape the oral histories of our
community elders and their lives of service. The first target is for
women honorees of the YWCA Woman of the Year Award and to initiate
a program that highlights and draws forth the significant work of young
women of Nashville. 1993-1994-The Nashville Agenda.
Ms. Mansdorf & several
of her associates served on the leadership committee of this six
month community
wide consensus building plan and developed the innovative and cutting
edge original active prototype of social service information kiosks
for the leadership technology group and to promote civic participation. |