+OUR MISSION
We seek to educate and inspire the public, supporting peace through sharing stories
and experiences that illustrate fresh thinking, respect for traditional culture,
restoration of nature, innovative media, and the
importance of community storytelling.
OUR MANDATE
To bring home the dead and restore the natural world. This encompasses traditional mourning, healing and community reconciliation; reforestation and sustainable agriculture for the restoration and protection of the land, the people, the animals, the water, and the dead.
OUR ROLE
The peacebuilder, as we understand it, is the inside-outsider who, by tending to that role, catalyzes the wisdom of an individual or community to restore its intrinsically sustainable authentic nature.
OUR PRACTICE
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To recognize ourselves as the ancestors of the future
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To entrust ourselves with the task of ensuring a habitable future for all beings
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To dance with joy and gratitude between periphery and center; community and solitude; context and specifics; deep time and the present moment; motion and stillness
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To be rigorous in meeting challenges and possibilities
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To hold ourselves and each other accountable for being in alignment with these principles
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To remember that healing and peacemaking are one and the same
OUR TOOLS
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Recognizing, tracking and cultivating constant awareness of the fields of interlocking stories
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Being in dialogue with the natural world
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Appreciating the wisdom of the breakdown
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Seeking and trusting guidance from dreams, divinations and synchronicities
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Practicing the ways of council
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Experiencing unexpected encounters as signposts and sources of nourishment
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Living in reciprocity with Earth’s intelligence such that our way of being is the offering we make in response
OUR PRAYER
With deep gratitude, everyday gandhis® offers stories of peacebuilding in the words of those who have known war and violence. Through dreams and indigenous traditions, we honor the living, the ancestors and all of Creation. May the experience of receiving these stories be as healing as the process of telling them and being heard. May they awaken and sustain the peacemaker within us all. May words and images of peace become the new reality of our time and times to come.
With deep gratitude, everyday gandhis offers stories of peacebuilding in the words of those who have known war and violence. Through dreams and indigenous traditions, we honor the living, the ancestors and all of Creation. May the experience of receiving these stories be as healing as the process of telling them and being heard. May they awaken and sustain the peacemaker within us all. May words and images of peace become the new reality of our time and times to come.
everyday gandhis is a non-profit organization registered in Liberia and the United States, with offices in Monrovia and Voinjama, Liberia and in Santa Barbara, California.
We seek to educate and inspire the public, supporting peace through sharing stories and experiences that illustrate fresh thinking, respect for traditional culture, restoration of nature, innovative media, and the importance of community storytelling.
1. We hold councils in US and West Africa to share stories, dreams, divinations, projects and challenges.
2. We create documentary films, still photographs, written media, web media, and cultural performances.
3. We offer training institutes in West Africa in peace building, reconciliation, dreaming, traditional healing, video and still photography.
4. We participate in workshops, presentations, and community events in the US and West Africa.
5. We meet in regular consultations with Liberian government officials, West African and global colleagues in peace building, environmental restoration, Permaculture, indigenous technology, theater, media and humanitarian aid.
