By Heidi Majano On September 21st, the welcoming and inviting space at the Anubhuti Retreat Center in Novato offered a family like setting for our annual Peace Festival. In collaboration with the Bramah Kumaris, Creative Canopy and the Peaceful World Foundation, the Peace Festival brought music, prayer, meditation, conversations, art and food to the wider…
By Marcus Lorenzo Penn and Heidi Majano The current season of our Peaceful World Foundation (PWF) conversations came to a beautiful close in early May with a timely discussion relating to the personal and organizational seasonal changes we encounter. The weather was bright and sunny and so was the future outlook for many who attended. …
By Marcus Lorenzo Penn, M.D On April 4th the skies were gray but the energy before our Breakfast Conversation was budding with creative energy. With this month’s conversation topic: “Have the ongoing public school budget cuts in the Visual Arts posed a direct or indirect relationship to increases in bullying?” We used art to guide…
By Marcus Lorenzo Penn After having our largest ever Lunch Conversation earlier in the month of February, we at the Peaceful World Foundation were glad to have had another full table discussion for our follow-up Breakfast Conversation on February 28, 2019 at the Cafe RX in San Francisco’s Presidio. We were gifted the presence of…
By Marcus Lorenzo Penn, On February 6th, 2019 we at the Peaceful World Foundation (PWF) held our largest gathering yet at the Tides Foundation Pacific Room. We also had our largest representation of diversity around the table in the largest room that we have ever held for one of our conversations. There was an air…
By Marcus Lorenzo Penn Our Peaceful World Foundation 2018 calendar of events came to a wonderful close on December 6, 2018 as we hosted our final Breakfast Conversation of the year. Naturally, at the end of the year many of us are reflective of what took place in our lives in the months before. Hence…
By Marcus Lorenzo Penn On November 7, 2018 at the San Francisco Tides Converge Atlantic Room, we held our most recent PWF Lunch Conversation. This conversation was under the facilitation of one of our 2018 grantees from “Friends of the Urban Forest”, Education Manager Alex Javier. Also in supportive attendance were representatives from No Bully,…
By Marcus Lorenzo Penn The 2018 Bioneers Conference ‘Revolution from the Heart of Nature’ was held from October 19-21, 2018 for the 20th year at the Marin Center and 29th year overall since its inception. For nearly three decades, the conference has been ‘a fertile hub of social and scientific innovators with practical and visionary…
By Marcus Lorenzo Penn After our Summer/Fall hiatus, the PWF Breakfast Conversations started back with a fresh dose of insight and reflection. The morning began with overcast skies covering the sun as if a prelude to the process of uncovering and revealing to take place through our topic of conversation. Perspectives were shared from representatives…
By Marcus Lorenzo Penn “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” -Margaret Mead On September 8th, the peaceful, natural, connected surroundings of the Anubhuti Retreat Center in Novato supported…
By Heidi Majano Listening begins with a wish. My earliest memory on active listening was when my family members told stories of their upbringing during times of poverty and war in El Salvador. Being raised in a household full of animated story tellers, I developed a knack towards listening. At bedtime, my aunt played the…
By Helene Szabados We want to be part of something that gives us purpose, guidance and faith but what measures do we take to achieve universal connection? Peaceful World Foundation hosted a conversation with the objective to explore what role religion and spirituality have in our lives. We welcomed guests from around Tides’ Converge including,…
