The 30 Peace Pathways

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1.     Hope: Establishing will, commitment and hope

2.     Clarity: Contracting, boundaries and bottom lines

3.     Communication: Shared communication styles

4.     Values: Finding commonality and shared values

5.     Mapping: The Unseen landscape

6.     Reality: Naming the Unmeetable Need

7.     Grace: The Benefit of the Doubt

8.     Faith and Listening to Guidance

9.     Wholeness: Collaborating with the More-Than-Human

10.  Deep Listening: Taking time to really, really Listen

11.  Equity: Elevating the Quiet Voices

12.  Acknowledgement: The healing power of being seen and heard

13.  Inner authority: Speaking from a position of authentic presence

14.  Complexity: The anatomy of misunderstanding

15.  Acceptance: The anatomy of shame

16.  Nuance: The subtle impacts of trauma

17.  Consent:  Consensual practice

18.  Mutability: Yielding, flexing and letting go

19.  Mutuality: The art of mutuality and meeting in the middle

20.  Innocence: Children in Peace Building

21.  Ritual: Ceremony and Ritual as Peace Building Pathways

22.  Ancestral Stories: Trauma, patterns, resilience and survival

23.  Context: Societal and Cultural undercurrents

24.  Inner Peace: Somatic neutrality

25.  Atonement: De-colonising Peace

26.  Endings: Acceptance of breakdown, collapse or failure

27.  Boundaries: Time to say No, no more and enough

28.  Endurance: Establishing and maintaining ongoing good communication

29.  Fortitude: Building resilience to difference and conflict

30.  Unity: Meeting oneself in the “Other”