Peacemaker Circles UK

Lockdown meant that the Zen Peacemaker, Leeds Mindfulness, Wellbeing & Spirituality, and Leeds Nur Ashki Jerrahi sufi communities faced many challenges when it came to meeting. I'm grateful to Zoom but there are still challenges with understanding and sensing the space of the "other".  However, new opportunities for new communication and contact came about in this time. Steve Hart (dharma and vision holder, ZP) designed some peer support workshops for on-line groups for people with mental health difficulties under the Live Well Leeds third sector banner. These workshops looked at self care, self esteem, self compassion, confidence building and looking at heartfelt communication - Non Violent Communication, Assertiveness exploration and ethical  speech.  The LGBTQ community in Live Well Leeds also got in touch with Steve to receive on-line workshops on mindfulness, meditation, self nurturing, self compassion and loving kindness meditation. Also we couldn't have a ...

We're starting a new circle in Stockport - the Humble Earth Zen Circle - to rebirth the original Manchester Zen Peacemaker Circle which ran from 2007-2011, until Steve Hart moved it across to Leeds. The new circle will train in the core tools of the Zen Peacemaker Circles - zazen, council circle, study, the five Buddha families, consensus decision making - and will be open and inclusive of people from any spiritual background or none. We are honoured to have as our first Elder for the Humble Earth Circle the venerable Jeana Teiju Moore - a student originally of Taizan Maezumi Roshi, then personal attendant to Bernie Glassman in the early days of the New York zen community, and then invited by Bernie to be one of the founders and visionholders for the Zen Peacemaker Circles, sharing socially engaged zen on street retreats, in Auschwitz, and in community action. Jeana will offer regular contributions and friendship to the circle here.