Can we imagine a learning environment where everyone is encouraged to freely recognize, appreciate and act upon their unique strengths, abilities and stories?  Furthermore, can we envision ourselves and each other as spiritualized beings, allowing for the opportunity to not only reconnect with the deep source of power within, but to also share a common transcendent identity that inspires love and cooperation?  By reflecting on these questions and our common experiences, in the form of personal frustrations, concerns, but also successes and transformations, we will be able to better understand and thus, better support each other.  With these foundations, we can model healthy and respectful ways of being, and together, we can create new systems that accommodate emerging generations in their quest for a peaceful future.

In addition to the main conference, participants are welcomed to attend pre-conference events that include indigenous, LGBTQ and youth peace education conferences, as well as smaller workshops and activities engaging with the diverse aspects of peace work.  These will take place between Monday November 9th and Thursday the 12th in various venues around Hamilton.

Join us as we celebrate each other and our common successes within the peace education movement, while devoting careful attention to outstanding possibilities for greater inclusivity, and deeper personal and social development in each of our greater school communities.