Truth, Healing, and Repair as a Pathway to Peace

Wednesday, Feb. 12th, 12:00pm Eastern Time, Zoom

Author Hilary Giovale will share stories of learning that her ancestors were early settlers, colonizers, and enslavers in the United States. Through relationships with Indigenous Peoples and Lands, she began developing an awareness about the harms of colonialism that are still unfolding. She will detail a nine-year process of introspection that has helped her begin the process of building right relations, nine generations after her ancestors first immigrated from the Scottish Highlands. During this talk, Hilary will refer to a guide to making a personal reparations plan, the resources available on her website, and her recently published book Becoming a Good Relative.

Hilary Giovale is a mother, writer, and community organizer who lives on Hopi, Diné, Apache, and Havasupai land in Flagstaff, Arizona. She is a ninth-generation American settler, descended from Celtic, Germanic, Nordic, and Indigenous peoples of Ancient Europe. Hilary seeks to follow Indigenous and Black leadership in support of human rights, environmental justice, and equitable futures. As an active reparationist, her work is guided by intuition, love, and relationships. She divests from whiteness and bridges divides with truth, healing, apology, and forgiveness. She is the author of .

With gratitude,

The Zen Peacemakers Team

Activity and Stillness: Practice to Avoid Becoming the Problem We’d Like to Solve

Thursday, Feb. 6th, 12pm Eastern Time, Zoom

Join a presentation by Peter Coyote: “Suzuki Roshi once said that for those of us who live outside the monastery, ‘You must be very patient.’ I’d add not only with others, but with yourself as well and the difficulties of understanding that we are often the unwitting collaborators in participating in the problems we’d like to end. Politics is the study and practice of relationships between people and that seems to me a good working definition of Buddhism (if we include the old illusory, mischief-inducing ‘self’) and we don’t lose sight of the precepts as we try to support positive change.”

PETER COYOTE has performed as an actor in over 160 films for theaters and TV. His work includes some of the world’s most distinguished filmmakers, including: Barry Levinson, Roman Polanski, Pedro Almodovar, Steven Spielberg, Martin Ritt, Steven Soderberg, Sidney Pollack and Jean Paul Rappeneau. He is a double Emmy-Award winning narrator of over 150 documentary films, including Ken Burns, National Parks, Prohibition, The West, the Dust Bowl, The Roosevelts , for which he received his second Emmy in 2015. Recently he has done Vietnam, The History of Country Music, a six hour series on Ernest Hemingway and most recently The American Buffalo for Mr. Burns.

Mr. Coyote’s memoir of the 1960’s counter-culture Sleeping Where I Fall which received universally excellent reviews, and a chapter of which won a Pushcart Prize for excellence, has been in continuous print since 1999. His second book, The Rainman’s Third Cure: An Irregular Education, about mentors and the search for wisdom, was nominated as one of the top five non-fiction books published in California in 2015. Last year he published The Tongue of a Crow, his first book of poems, and The Lone Ranger and Tonto Meet the Buddha, about his workshops with masks and improv exercise to induce altered states. His newest book, Zen in the Vernacular will be released in early 2020 by Inner Traditions Press.

Mr. Coyote is also an ordained Zen Buddhist priest and “transmitted” teacher, working with his students in Wild Dog Sangha.

With gratitude,

The Zen Peacemakers Team