Everyday Peacemaker envisions peace as a set of practices that can be learned and practiced by even the youngest in our communities. 

Everyday Peacemaker™ is a peace education initiative that engages people of all ages to actualize peace in their relationships, families, schools, communities, and countries. Everyday Peacemaker™ places particular importance on working with children in order to sow the seeds of peace.

The curriculum teaches five personal and interpersonal peace practices, emphasizing personal peace and interpersonal peace. Personal peace is the foundation for interpersonal peace. Rather than thinking of peace as a spiritual or mystical experience, peace is conceived of as a state of being that is experienced in the human body through the nervous system.  We cannot interact in peace if we don’t know how to embody peace, meaning that we can experience a felt sense of peace and calm in our bodies. Interpersonal peace refers to our capacity to communicate - both speaking and listening - and to transform conflicts with compassion and empathy and without violent language or actions.

Everyday Peacemaker™ Peace Practices:

  1. Understanding & Tending to our Nervous System

  2. Emotional Fluency & Self-Care

  3. Empathic Listening

  4. Compassionate Communication

  5. Conflict Transformation

Everyday Peacemaker™ uses storytelling, art, music, literature, drama, and somatic/body-based exercises to facilitate experiential learning for the young and the old. A range of programs has been developed including Everyday Peacemaker for Toddlers (ages 2-3), Everyday Peacemaker for Children (ages 4-8), Everyday Peacemaker for Preteens (ages 9-11), Everyday Peacemaker for Teenagers (ages 13-18), and Everyday Peacemaker (adults).

Everyday Peacemaker™ integrates the fields of peace-building, conflict transformation, neuroscience (the science of the brain), neurobiology (the science of the nervous system), traumatology (the study of trauma), social psychology (the branch of psychology that studies social interaction) and developmental psychology (the branch of psychology that studies how humans grow, adapt and change during the course across the course of their lives).