Watch the Recording of GWPN's 'Inner Crisis & Resolution' Webinar

Written by Kiyomi Schmidt

To empower women and families during this time of crisis and racial unrest, Global Women’s Peace Network USA initiated a three-part Facebook live speaker series, under the theme Reflect, Reset, Rebuild. Yesterday the third and concluding forum was held on the topic “Inner Crisis & Resolution.”  

Through years of personal experience and coaching clients, speaker Kim Evans shares practices and activities to incorporate while in isolation when we feel ourselves begin to pull away and shut down. In addition to a breathing exercise, she includes four positive steps to peacefulness, that work to lift us up from the inside and reengage us with others.

Our second speaker, Dr. Cornelia Santos, presents an additional support system we can rely on during these troubling times. Sharing the Indigenous phrase Mitákuye Oyás’iŋ, meaning “All our Relations,” she describes the expansive world view of relatives that includes both humanity and nature. She encourages us to pause and to look towards nature as a source of connection and centering at this time.