Heart of Mind Radio - 09/05/14

Heart Of Mind Radio – PRN.FM – Friday, Sept. 5th, 10:00 – 10:58 AM

Program Description

On today’s program we feature 11 Days of Global Unity with a panel of guests that are participating in the events.

Guests:

Rick Ulfik is the Founder of We, The World and the WE Campaign at WE.net. We, The World develops global networks of collaboration and action to build mass involvement in the work of creating a peaceful, caring, sustainable world. Rick is Co-Founder and Principal Organizer of 11 Days of Global Unity - 11 Ways To Change The World September 11-21 a platform for change agents worldwide to raise awareness and take action annually with as many as 700 associated events in over 60 countries. The 11 Days Tele-Summit this year will feature visionary leaders speakiing on the 11 Global Unity Themes including Deepak Chopra, Daniel Ellsberg, Amy Goodman, Desmond Tutu, Bill McKibben, Jonathan Granoff, Hazel Henderson, Riane Eisler, Eckhart Tolle, Barbara Marx Hubbard and many others! Rick is also a Nonviolent Communication workshop facilitator and leader. And he is an award-winning composer and keyboard player who has performed with Queen Latifah, Phoebe Snow, Carlos Santana and Judy Collins. Rick serves every year as an Emmy Awards Judge for News, Documentaries, and Music.

Philip Hellmich is Director of Peace at The Shift Network and director of The Summer of Peace. The Summer of Peace, which is in its third year, offers a free online telesummit featuring interviews with peacebuilders from around the world and a special celebration of the 10th anniversary of the 11 Days of Global Unity.  The Summer of Peace is recognized for helping create a New Narrative of Peace: From Inner Peace to International Peacebuilding. In 2012, Philip presented on the Summer of Peace at the first United Nations High Level Forum on the Culture of Peace which was opened by UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon. Recordings from The Summer of Peace will be placed in a virtual World Peacebuilding Library later in 2014 with interviews of over 350 peacebuilders. Philip has dedicated most of his life to global and local peacebuilding initiatives, including 14 years with Search for Common Ground. He also served for four years as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Sierra Leone where he lived and worked in small remote bush villages. Philip is author of God and Conflict: A Search for Peace in a Time of Crisis.

Monica Willard is the main UN Representative for the United Religions Initiative (URI), a grassroots interfaith organization with over 600,000 members in 85 countries.  Since 1997, she has helped organize the annual International Day of Peace Student of Observance at United Nations Headquarters with the Department of Public Information, and serves as Co-Chair of the International Day of Peace NGO Committee at the UN. While President of the Committee of Religious NGOs at the United Nations, she helped organize World Interfaith Harmony Week events at the UN since it began in 2011.  This included two major events with the 66th and 67th Presidents of the General Assembly in 2012 and 2013.  Monica represented the United Religions Initiative as a founding member of the Tripartite Forum, a groundbreaking, informal group of Member States, UN System Agencies and NGOs who worked together from 2005-2010 to bring the voice of faith-based organizations into peace and development issues.  She received the 2009 Spirit of the United Nations Award from the NGO Committee on Spirituality, Values and Global Concerns, and was Chair of the 49th Annual DPI NGO Conference at UN Headquarters in 1996.

James Maskell is Host and Founder of the Functional Forum, New York City’s biggest meetup and live show for doctors and broadcast to the world via the web. He is also CEO and Founder of Revive Primary Care, a model for a new health care system, combining a nationwide network of functional and integrative physicians with a digital education program. Next week he hosts a huge, free online event called the Evolution of Medicine Summit, educating both patients and doctors, and connecting them locally for sustainable change. www.reviveprimarycare.com