Peace Partners' collaboration with Celebrate Life

Wallee McDonnell from our partner Celebrate Life has sent us this exciting update: 

​Celebrate Life CIC continues where we left off in 2023 with renewed vigour in bringing attention to the possibility of personal peace and well being to London in 2024, in a world desperately seeking exactly this, but not knowing where to look.

Following on from many successful screenings of Power to Change film around the UK and Ireland over the past two years, we're putting energy and resources with a focus on facilitating the Peace Education workshops in London. More opportunities for showing Power to Change are in the pipeline. At the same we want to move on to the next phase, connecting with communities who've seen the film and want to experience the Peace Education workshops. The film was mainly set in the borough of Lambeth in London, now it's time to take the next steps and engage with those who've expressed their readiness to attend the course. Examples of this are: Circle of Life Ignite organisation - a bereaved mothers group seeking help dealing with the trauma they've experienced after losing a child in such a brutal way; Working with a Police Superintendent with connections to youth organisations for a special Peace Education series tailored specifically for them; A Peace Education Series for the police officers 

We are also working on a separate series of film-based on interviews with Londoners on topics like; love, choice, self-awareness, appreciation and other themes. And with animators we are creating a number of animations based on stories that Prem Rawat has shared in his talks, conveying gems of wisdom and lessons for life. Here is the film we did on 'Hope - what does hope mean to you?':

​The Netherlands is hosting the 6th World Congress on Probation and Parole, from 16- 18th April 2024, in the city of The Hague. The central theme of the congress is ‘The Future of Probation and Parole’. We've been invited to show 'Power To Change' on the final day of the conference, and we're delighted to get this opportunity. A huge thank you to Peace Partners for funding support for our travel there and back, and for accommodation in The Hague.