Interesting Websites

World Peace Game Foundation

World Peace Game

“John stands as a shining example of what a dedicated teacher can accomplish. Focused on equipping his students with the skills they’ll need in order to face the problems and uncertainties of the real world, he has developed a unique learning program he calls The World Peace Game.”     The World Peace Game is a hands-on political simulation that gives players the opportunity to explore the connectedness of the global community through the lens of the economic, social, and environmental crises and the imminent threat of war. The goal of the game is to extricate each country from dangerous [...]

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How To Get Happy Now!

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Three Steps To Transform Your Mood by: Hailey Eisen (First published in YummyMummyClub.ca — Our Happy Place blog) If you’re like me, then it’s not unusual to wake up in a bad mood or to suddenly feel sad, angry, or frustrated for seemingly no reason. While I try to stay upbeat and positive, especially when my daughter is around, I’m hormonal and moody and totally unpredictable…most of the time. But, I’m lucky enough to have a dad who is a life coach. (While I was growing up, he was a Type A workaholic who ran a family business, but for [...]

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Susan Cain: The power of introverts

Susan Caine TED talk

In a culture where being social and outgoing are prized above all else, it can be difficult, even shameful, to be an introvert. But, as Susan Cain argues in this passionate talk, introverts bring extraordinary talents and abilities to the world, and should be encouraged and celebrated. Our world prizes extroverts — but Susan Cain makes a case for the quiet and contemplative.   Hi, I’m Susan Cain My book, “QUIET: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking,” is now available in bookstores and from your favorite online bookseller. Before I became a writer, I practiced [...]

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Three Ways to Inspire Others

Three Ways to Inspire Others   If you have an artistic side, but you’re not sure how to hone it, or if you want to make art your career, consider an online degree from an art college. From graphic design to creative writing, there’s something at an art college for everyone. With a degree, you can more easily translate your artistic gift into your livelihood. Imagine getting up every day and doing something you love for money. Making it your mission on Earth to inspire others is easier than you think. If you can write, draw or design, you have [...]

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Bunker Roy – Barefoot College

Bunker Roy

    Sanjit “Bunker” Roy is the founder of Barefoot College, which helps rural communities becomes self-sufficient. Development projects the world over run into one crucial point: For a project to live on, it needs to be organic, owned and sustained by those it serves. In 1972,  Sanjit “Bunker” Roy founded the Barefoot College, in the village of Tilonia in Rajasthan, India, with just this mission: to provide basic services and solutions in rural communities with the objective of making them self-sufficient. These “barefoot solutions” can be broadly categorized into solar energy, water, education, health care, rural handicrafts, people’s action, [...]

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365 Grateful Project

365 Project

  The Original 365 Project Hailey Bartholomew It all began back In 2008. I was feeling really down. It seems strange now to say that because I can’t think of a good reason why I should have been, but I know I felt incredibly out of sorts with life. It was like I knew in my head I had it good but I really wasn’t enjoying myself! I started seeing a Nun who did life coaching and counselling. She was brilliant and told me the secret to happiness. According to her it was all about reflection and gratitude. She asked [...]

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Values.com – The Foundation for Better Living

The values we live by are worth more when we The Foundation for a Better Life began as a simple idea to promote positive values. We believe that people are basically good and just need a reminder. And that the values we live by are worth more when we pass them on. What is The Foundation for a Better Life? The Foundation is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization, started in 2000. Our sole objective is to promote positive values, using print and broadcast media. Why are you doing this? We want the stories we share about the positive actions and values [...]

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Shawn Gallaway – Healing through the Arts, Healing through the Heart

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  Shawn Gallaway is a visual artist, singer songwriter, author, ceremonial healer, workshop facilitator, energy worker and Certified Lifeline Practitioner. He has traveled through out the world sharing his message of healing through the arts and has recently shared the stage with the Dalai Lama, authors Gregg Braden, Bruce Lipton, Robert Holden, Darren Weissman, T. Harv Ecker, and with rock and pop masters Orleans, Jimi Jamison of Survivor, Dave Jenkins from Pablo Cruise, Allan Parsons and Robbie Dupree. He is also a screenwriter who is currently producing the film, The Choice, which chronicles the healing journey of eight brave men [...]

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Playing For Change

Ever since he heard some street musicians outside a Subway station move some 200-odd passerbys to tears, Mark Johnson has been thinking up a way to shine more light on the transformative power of music. After ten years, this Grammy winning filmmaker has got something. Something remarkable, actually: bringing together musicians from around the world — blues singers in a waterlogged New Orleans, chamber groups in Moscow, a South African choir — to collaborate on songs familiar and new, in the effort to foster a new, greater understanding of our commonality. As part of ‘Playing for Change’, this is moving [...]

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Jeremy Gilley – Peace One Day

Peace One Dat

From Jeremy   Jeremy Gilley is the founder and chairman of Peace One Day. Dear Friends In September 1999 I founded the film project Peace One Day to document my efforts to create an annual day of global ceasefire and non-violence with a fixed calendar date. In 2001, Peace One Day achieved its primary objective. United Nations General Assembly resolution was unanimously adopted by UN member states, formally establishing an annual day of global ceasefire and non-violence on the UN International Day of Peace, fixed in the global calendar on 21st September. With the day in place, Peace One Day’s [...]

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