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Imago Peace Project
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This is a project of members of the Imago Community, extending and elaborating Imago theory to groups and communities.  This website is a place to post Peace Project items.

**!PowerPoint Report of our Project 27-Mar-06:** <a href="PPReport.pps"> Click Here</a>

**Chairpersons: Jim and Libba Wells**   mailto:jim@creativebalance.com  or mailto:libba@creativebalance.com ---- Please contact them if you would like to be on our emailing list or would like to become members of the Peace Project.

**Regular Meetings:** -- Weekly, Mondays, 2PM Eastern U.S. Time, by phone.  (Email Jim or Libba for the phone number.)  Meetings may be tape recorded and made available on an audiopodium.

**Menu**

* **SponsoredEvents** -- Trainings, Classes, and Facilitations (both upcoming and recent)

* **CommunologueNormsGuidelines** -- Our latest set of concepts

* ArtPictures -- Pictures posted by members

* EssaysStories -- Stories posted by members

* PeaceLinksofInterest - Bibliography and other websites that may be of interest

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**Committee Purpose** 
 This committee is responsible for promoting community dialogue in the Imago community (http://www.imagotherapy.com/) and preparing guidelines for all of the various means of communication in a wide variety of settings.
From the R2 Proposal (Fall 2001): The Peace Project Committee will work with Imago Relationships International staff to explore, study, and investigate the dynamics of world peace and the implementation of the principles and practice of Imago philosophy toward that goal. It will promote safety, security, and conscious dialogue as modalities for creating peaceful relationships among nations and diverse cultures.

**Starting Statement:(Fall 2001)** 
 The R-2 Committee has begun to develop interim task forces, which may become the bases for committees in Imago International. I would like to invite anyone within and somehow connected to the Imago community to join The Peace Project task force. Among the first steps will be an attempt to define ourselves and our mission. Here is how this idea, for me started: The idea was born during Jimmy Carter's presidency. During his administration Carter spoke about a Peace Academy, an equivalent to the country's military academies. I tried to find what he referred to, couldn't, and life just kept going. During the 80's I was fortunate enough to be in the audience when The Dalai Lama came to the Northeast. Someone asked him how they could work for peace and he responded, "you should first find peace within yourself". And then in the early 90's during my training with Harville, he discussed the source of evil as being the loss of empathy. I guess all three of these incidents resonated with some part of me, because when 9/11 occurred, and I wanted to do something, they all came back to me and I knew I had to do be involved with something like The Peace Project.
Essentially, this is an open ended idea with no fixed parameters i.e. is a think tank, with limitless boundaries. The only agenda item is learning how the philosophy and practice of Imago Therapy can make a contribution to world peace.

**The Peace Project can be:**

0. A resource where the dynamics of peace can be studied and taught,

0. A source for research and scholarly papers for our journal and others,

0. An open forum (phone bridge?) for presentation and discussion of ideas,

0. A laboratory to explore the application of Imago principles towards the process of peace
tapping into the experiences of the entire community (international...of course) and their personal and professional use of Imago in this cause, and its application in the world.

*Allan Schiffer, 11/12/01, Founding Member*

**Members** January 2005 
Gideon Avni, Reut, Israel 
Sara Boxnboim, Haifa, Israel 
Dorsey Cartwright, Austin, Texas, USA 
Janet Hostetler, Palm Beach Gardens, FL 
Donald Gibbon, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA 
Sam Lison, Jerusalem, Israel 
Laura Marshall, Erdenheim, PA, USA 
Neil Meili, Calgary, Canada/Austin, Texas, USA 
David & Janice !McCann, Ojai, California, USA 
Al Turtle, Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, USA 
Orli Wahrman, Reut, Israel 
Jim Wells, Hillsborough, North Carolina, USA 
Libba Wells, Hillsborough, North Carolina, USA 
Maryrita Wieners, Washington, DC, USA

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