Co-creating Peace

The journey from goals to reality is not always clear. Wouldn't it be wonderful to have a map? Fear not, because - in fact - there is a way to map your goals and turn your goals into your reality! 

Welcome to “How to Make Your Goals Your Reality” – Episode #65 of Co-creating Peace, a series about conscious communication and conflict transformation.  

Joining me today from Lagos Nigeria is my dear friend Felix Iziomoh to tell us about Goal Mapping, a dynamic tool that can help us to create our own reality and to co-create peace. Felix elaborates on the 7 steps of Goal Mapping:
1.    Dream
2.    Order
3.    Draw
4.    Why
5.    When
6.    How
7.    Who

Felix is a Certified Goal Mapping Practitioner. To him, Goal Mapping is not just about mapping well-being, career, finance, relationships, educational or personal goals and achieving them. It is about lifting lives, empowering and inspiring people to become a better person and achieve their life goals.

Felix and I have been friends for many years, working together in support of the International Institute for Global Leadership, of which Felix was one of the earliest graduates. 

Felix Iziomoh is the Principal Consultant at BeeFlex Consultancy Ltd, and the founder and Executive Director of International Centre for Leadership Development Nigeria. He is the Nigerian Coordinator for the International Institute for Global Leadership (IIGL) U.S.A, where he has formerly served as President, a Board member and as Executive Secretary. A core team member of NELIS – Next Leaders Initiative for Sustainability – Japan, Felix is the African Program Manager of the flagship initiative 4Revolutions (4Revs) , a co-creative ecosystem.

Felix is also the co-founder of One Million Leaders Africa (OMLA). He is the author of:

• African Leadership 101: 7 Secrets for African Renaissance, 
• The Way Forward: 5 Effective Steps to Achieving Your Life Goals 
• Goal Mapping: 7 Simple Steps to Fulfilling Your Dreams, 

and a co-author of Creating Your Path through Leadership. Click here to find Felix’s books on Amazon. 

To contact Felix directly and to utilize his goal-mapping coaching services, email him at: [email protected]. For more information on Felix and his work with BeeFlex Consultancy LTD., go to their Facebook page.  To learn more about Felix’s work with the International Centre for Leadership Development Nigeria, go to ICLDNG.org. Find Felix on Instagram at: ICLD.nig.com. Click here to learn more about Felix on LinkedIn.

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Welcome to "Holding the Space for Peace", Episode #64 of Co-creating Peace, a series about conscious communication and conflict transformation.  

Andrea Petrut joins me today from Toronto Canada for a conversation about the many ways that we can hold the space for peace – within ourselves, between ourselves and others, and in the world. We discuss the relationship between inner peace, outer peace and world peace, and Andrea shares some easy but very powerful tools for how we can find and maintain our inner peace, which is where all peace has its roots.

After losing her mother to cancer when she was 11 years old, Andrea took an empowering vision, made it her reality and became her own pillar in life, lifting herself and others on her path. 

As an Intuitive Life & Relationships Catalyst, Andrea combines a unique form of insight to help multi-passionate, heart-centered women center on the present moment. With laser focused energy she helps her clients expand their hearts for themselves and their family while anchoring and living their vision for the world.

Andrea is a Heart Imagery Teacher at The School of The Heart, entrepreneur, trauma-informed writer, speaker, storyteller, leader, home educator, host of Healing Through Oneness podcast and advocate for love. Originally from Romania, she currently lives with her husband and three children in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She loves to create, invent, inspire, build, and see the world with all its beauty.

To learn more about Andrea and her work, go to andreapetrut.ca.

Andrea has generously offered a wonderful Gift for you, dear listeners: Her 7 Keys to Clarity – A quick guide to move you forward to the aligned love and relationships you envision. To receive this gift, go to:   https://andreapetrut.ca/7keystoclarity/

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Welcome to “The Sequel to ‘Timing & Delivery are Everything’: Letters from Listeners”, Episode #63 of Co-creating Peace, a  series about conscious communication and conflict transformation.  

Last week, I talked about how important it is to give careful thought to the timing and delivery of important conversations and offered some suggestions about what to consider when planning those conversations. Boy, did that topic strike a chord with many of you listeners! In this episode, I share with you some of the letters I received from listeners about their experiences with timing and delivery of communication, and the answers I offered in response to one listener’s request for advice about that.

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Welcome to "Timing & Delivery Are Everything”, Episode #62 of Co-creating Peace, a podcast series about conscious communication and conflict transformation.  

All too often, we neglect to give careful thought to the timing and delivery of important conversations. Sometimes we put them off, when it would be more constructive to have them earlier. Other times, we have important conversations when we’re emotionally escalated, when waiting until we were more calm and clear, and able to be more in our wisdom would have created a better result. In this episode, I will share with you some thoughts on choosing the best timing and delivery for those important conversations you need to have.

Concepts, tools and applications I discuss relate directly to Episode #2 about the structure of conscious communication and Episode #4 about needs-based negotiation. 

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Welcome to "The Leader's Inward Journey”, Episode #61 of Co-creating Peace, a podcast series about conscious communication and conflict transformation.  

In today’s world, wise, ethical and empathetic leadership is needed more than ever. Where do those traits come from? How are they developed? In my conversation today with Terry Wildemann, we’ll explore these questions, as we discuss intuitive leadership and the Law of Attraction.

An Intuitive Success Navigator, Terry Wildemann helps spiritual entrepreneurial leaders connect deeply with their inner guidance system to control overwhelm, awaken the possibilities, and attract prosperity. She is an experienced entrepreneur, the founder of Intuitive Leadership® U, a speaker, and author of 2 solo and 7 co-authored books. 

To learn more about Terry and her work, go to intuitiveleadership.com.

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Welcome to "Nourishing Wisdom in Children", Episode #60 of Co-creating Peace, a podcast series about conscious communication and conflict transformation. 

I’m joined today by Gramps Jeffrey, to talk about his children’s book, “I Don’t Want to Turn 3”, a book that explores what goes through a toddler’s mind as he faces turning 3. Age 3, as this toddler sees it, is the age when he’ll have to take responsibility for his actions, which he is not looking forward to. This story also involves conflict resolution with children, and the roles that parents and grandparents can have in nourishing wisdom in children. It is based on the true experiences Gramps Jeffrey has had with his 6 grandchildren.

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Welcome to "Using Conscious Communication to Attract What You Want in Life” – Episode #59 of Co-creating Peace, a podcast series about conscious communication and conflict transformation.  

With me today is Marta Greca to share what she has learned about the power of conscious communication and how that has impacted her family and her life.

As you listen to my conversation with Marta, if you recognize yourself in some of those communication patterns she describes that didn’t work well for her in the past, I am happy to support you in your communication transformation with communication coaching. You can go to the Communication Coaching page at www.bridgesofpeace.com to learn more, and feel free to reach out to me for a free 30-minute initial consultation to help you determine if communication coaching is right for you.

Marta is lovingly nicknamed by her colleagues as the Millionaire Minimalist. As the CEO of MEDIA - The Creative Agency, Marta and her team help women business leaders attract their ideal clients so they can focus on serving their own clients as they expand their brands internationally. As an established business leader herself, Marta coaches countless emerging entrepreneurs on how to set their businesses up to thrive long-term. But Marta's most important role is as the homeschooling mom to her six kids, and as a daughter, a sister, and wife. Marta is also the proud host of her podcast Marta the Minimalist, and TV show Thriving Women Talk. 

To learn more about Marta’s work go to mediacreativeagency.com or email her at: [email protected] 

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Welcome to “Here Comes the Judge”, Episode #58 of Co-creating Peace, a podcast series about conscious communication and conflict transformation.  

Have you ever noticed yourself writing a story in your head about something that has happened in the world or in your life? For example, think about the events of January 6th. What stories did you write in your head about the people involved or their motivations for doing what they did. What judgements came up for you? Even if you know someone who was there and they told you what their motivations were, that is only one person of the thousands who were there, and the truth for each of them might be different and there is no way for any of us to possibly know their truth unless we’ve asked them. But yet, it’s so easy and – in a way – perfectly natural for us to fill in the blanks in our information with our assumptions and our judgements. Our brain wants to know the whole story, and when it doesn’t have that information, it will fill in the gaps with assumptions based on the way that we see the world – our frame of reference.

Or what about when someone doesn’t respond to an email? Our first assumption is that they received our email. Our second assumption is that just because we didn’t receive an email reply, they must not have sent one. Then we start thinking, “I guess I’m not important enough to bother responding to”. Or, “They must not want to collaborate with me.” Or something else along those lines. Then, based on our assumptions, we think, “What a jerk!” or “How arrogant!” 

Here comes the judge!

We become the judge, the jury, or both, and from there, we render the verdict and impose the sentence. In the case of those who participated in the events of January 6th, depending on whose actions we judge to be right or wrong, we determine in our own minds what should happen next. All this based on what we may have heard on the news or by word of mouth, without having actually heard the “testimony” – as it were – of those we are judging.

In the case of the person we’ve determined to be guilty of not replying to our email, our verdict may be something like “That’s it then! I’m done with them!” Then we become the executioner and sever our relationship with them.

We judge and condemn them, and even execute the sentence, all without even knowing whether or not they received our email, or – if they did – whether or not they responded. 

Joining me again is Michael Lightweaver, to share his observations and remedies for this all-too-common phenomenon.

 You may recall that Michael Lightweaver was with us for Episode 9, when we talked about the power of deeply hearing others. Our conversation today is related in many ways.

Michael has led a long and interesting life of service to humanity. Among his many accomplishments, in 2002 he founded the International Institute for Global Leadership, an internet-based study program, whose primary mission is to provide a tuition-free education to individuals who wish to become high-integrity, heart-centered and conscious leaders in their communities and the world.

Michael now serves as the steward of the Mountain Light Sanctuary a spiritual retreat center in a remote mountain cove near Asheville, North Carolina where he offers guidance sessions to those who seek him out.

Michael has also published 3 books: The World According to Michael, A Day of Grace, and Conscious Creation 101.

You can learn more about the International Institute for Global Leadership by going to www.global-leadership.com. You can learn more about the Mountain Light Sanctuary by going to www.mountainlightsanctuary.com . You can contact Michael through that website as well. You’ll find all of Michael’s books available on Amazon.

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Welcome to “A 5-step Framework to Approach a Difficult Conversation”, Episode #57 of Co-creating Peace, a series about conscious communication and conflict transformation.  

Today, I am joined by Jerry Fu a conflict resolution coach who helps Asian-American leaders advance in their career and life journeys. Jerry will share with us his 5-step Framework for Approaching a Difficult Conversation and examples of how he has used it in situations he’s faced, and in his leadership coaching.

Prior to starting his coaching business, Jerry Fu served as a pharmacist and began facilitating leadership workshops in 2012.  Jerry started coaching in 2017 to help other Asian-American professionals deal with the conflict they encounter at work, with their culture, and within themselves.  

Jerry offers a range of coaching services, which includes individual coaching, group workshops, and keynote presentations. He has appeared on over seventy podcasts and plans to appear in plenty more.
To learn more about Jerry Fu and his work, visit  www.adaptingleaders.com 

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Welcome to “What Results is Peace”, Episode #56 of Co-creating Peace, a podcast series about conscious communication and conflict transformation.  

You may recall that in Episode #53 Indra Rinzler joined me to talk about The Enneagram of Personality and the Four Doorways to Conscious Living. In our conversation after the interview, Indra shared with me some of his thoughts about conflict and peace. I was intrigued by what he said and invited him back to share those thoughts with you. 

Indra Rinzler has been a life-long spiritual seeker, and is a healer and teacher who offers life readings for clients. Astrology and the Enneagram of Personality are the main modalities that he shares. His focus is to help clients to awaken to who they really are. He works to help people to live beyond their conditioned stories and to live more in the moment. Indra’s understandings about the way energies work informs much of his thinking about conflict and peace. 

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