Million Ideas for Peace Presents:
Cultivating the Art of Active Peace
Saturday, April 12, 2008, 9am - 4pm
Seattle Art Museum (SAM), Simons Board Room

Special Guest
Dr. Riane Eisler, renowned scholar and international bestselling author of The Chalice and the Blade

Peace in our lives and the world will be achieved through the integration of diverse movements that take us beyond the cessation of violence and war and toward a culture of peace.

Million Ideas for Peace: Nurturing the Art of Active Peace will be a full-day creative and interactive workshop designed to help participants connect their strengths and passions to the creation of just such a culture.

Our day begins with our host, Lucy Garrick MA, facilitating conversations focused on “active peace.” We will use the creative process as a metaphor for considering what it takes to nurture a practice of "active peace". We will contemplate original masterpieces created by artists across cultures from the collections of the Seattle Art Museum to inspire our conversations. And together we will explore. . .

• How we begin to unravel the complexities of peace.
• The unrecognized acts of peace in which we already engage, which may remain hidden to us.
• How we can tap into what matters to us most in service to a culture of active peace.
• How we can connect to the resources needed to support the cornerstones of peace in the 21st century

In the afternoon participants will have an opportunity to hear and interact with one of the great thinkers of a generation, Dr. Riane Eisler. Riane will share her views on the cornerstones of peace from her latest work, The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating Caring Economics.