December 5th and 12th – both cohorts In rare moments of self-awareness and consciousness – we begin to see that more and more of our life, as each year passes, is operating on an internal automatic pilot. Quick to react
STS project diary 11 – Forgiveness – Pillar 4 – Warmth
October 31 and November 5, 2021 – both Cohorts There are times when living is neither convenient nor simple. We start our journey gathering knowledge and skills, and often, more often than we may wish – we are wrong-footed, we
STS project diary 10 – Forgiveness – Pillar 3 – Remedy
October 10 & October 17, 2021 – both cohorts Every pillar of Forgiveness starts with the proposal that forgiveness is not a reaction, it starts in the knowledge that in this imperfect world, we may need to take steps, ourselves,
STS project diary 9 – Forgiveness – Pillar 2 – Freedom
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STS project diary 7 – Introduction to Forgiveness
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Managing Mental Trauma – #STS project diary 6 – The Place of Value – a mind state
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Managing Mental Trauma – #STS project diary 5 – Value & Resilience
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Forgiveness – It’s About Humanity: A meeting with Archbishop Elias Chacour – Part 2
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In the fall of 2019, during a Feminenza discovery mission to the Middle East, we had the privilege to be hosted by the Mar Elias School, and an opportunity to meet Archbishop Elias Chacour, endearingly called “Abuna”– our father, by
“To build peace on desktops” – Interview by Vera de Wit and Eileen McGowan with Emil Haloun, Veronica Tabrani Abu Rahmon and Izar Taha
“To build peace on desktops”… Is the motto of the Mar Elias High School in Ibillin, a small Arab Village in the Galilee, where Christians and Muslims have lived together peacefully for hundreds of years. Founded by Father Abuna Elias