This comes to us today, in alignment here; to honor all ways of actively creating peace.
Peace Class is a free, interactive online gathering to build world peace and inner peace led by Mandy Kahn.
Join us for Peace Class, where participants gather to learn how to use the substance of peace to build a peaceful mind, a peaceful life and a peaceful humanity.
The building of world peace is the building of inner peace, and so your global contribution, as a participant in this peace circle, is profound.
Inner peace is not inaction—it is preparation for the perfect action. It is necessary preparation for the action that will build a humanity that honors all beings, that honors the land, that recognizes all bodies of water as holy—one in which all are perfectly free, and by way of that freedom, are themselves, and by way of that selfhood, glow with peace.
At each class meeting, you’ll hear a short talk that focuses on one aspect of the nature of peace, and then you’ll work with a journaling-based peace-building practice that gives each participant the opportunity to develop a set of peace-building tools they can use at any time.
Each hour-long class also includes a brief peace meditation, teachings about pioneer peacebuilders like Peace Pilgrim, and the opportunity to share one’s personal peace-building discoveries with the group.
We’re grateful to be joined by peace advocates from around the world in this love-filled, supportive space. We hope you’ll join us.
Each class meeting offers a stand-alone lesson; feel free to drop in for a single class or to stay for the series. Participants always have the option to keep their cameras off and just observe, if that helps them to feel more comfortable.
Some class topics include: how to engage the healing perspective of the peace mind, how self-love builds world peace, how stepping from the guilt cycle allows inner peace to occur naturally, how to build healing ceasefires, how inner peace evolves our physical bodies, how peace enters the collective consciousness and heals ancient wounds, and how to use the mantra “I honor all beings” to build world peace.
Details:
Each meeting of the class presents a stand-alone lesson; anyone is welcome to drop in for one class or come for the series.
Attendees should bring something to write with and something to write on.
Attendees are welcome to participate in the interactive aspects of the class or to keep their cameras off and just observe.
Mandy Kahn is a poet and peace advocate. She’s the writer-in-residence at the Philosophical Research Society, a center for spiritual and philosophical discourse based in Los Angeles.
Kahn is the author of two collections of poems—Glenn Gould’s Chair and Math, Heaven, Time—both from London-based poetry press Eyewear. Her work has been included in the Best American Poetry anthology series, and in former Poet Laureate Ted Kooser’s syndicated column American Life in Poetry.
In addition to writing books, Kahn regularly presents immersive poems: live works of literature that incorporate performance, audience participation and musical technique. In 2019, Kahn presented a program of immersive and interactive poems at the Getty Museum; her Getty presentation was called “Gateways to Peace,” and was performed by a cast of seven actors and three opera singers.
She teaches a free, weekly online class on the nature of peace for the Philosophical Research Society called Peace Class, and regularly presents peace-building concerts on the grounds that features poetry, classical music and immersive performance.
She is the subject of Courtney Sell’s feature-length documentary “Peace Piece: The Immersive Poems of Mandy Kahn,” which was released by Indie Pix, and is available for streaming on Amazon Prime Video, Google Play, and elsewhere, and is also available as a DVD.
Kahn often collaborates to make new works that combine poetry and classical music. She’s made several works with Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Ellen Reid, including the opera Modern Odysseus. She was also a librettist for MacArthur grantee Yuval Sharon’s mobile opera Hopscotch.
She has given readings at Cambridge University, the London Review Bookshop and Shoreditch House in the UK, at Motto in Berlin, at Colette in Paris, at Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco, at the New School in New York, at the Barrick Museum in Las Vegas, and at many venues in Southern California.
Kahn has been interviewed by BBC Radio, the Los Angeles Review of Books and Flaunt magazine, among others, and she is the recipient of the 2018 Shakespeare Prize in Poetry. The Shakespeare Prize is awarded annually to a poet or playwright based in the county of Los Angeles; other recipients include Tom Stoppard, Ray Bradbury and Dana Gioia.
Mandy Kahn lives in Los Angeles, where she was also born and raised. She holds a B.A. in English from UC Berkeley.
