Scholarship Description
Applications are open for the Peace Revolution Central America & the Caribbean Peace Fellowship in Guatemala – 13-17 May
Peace Revolution will gather 30 participants from Central America and the Caribbean to participate in its Peace for Youth Fellowship. Peace building and multicultural dialogue will be explored by meditation and self-development tools.
Participants will learn how meditation can help them achieve inner peace in a 5 days retreat. They will be able to develop positive thinking, gain emotional resilience, and increase human capacities such as empathy and kindness.
The first CAC Peace Fellowship for Central America and the Caribbean will take place between the 13th-17th May at Villa Sumalla Retreat Center in Lake Atitlán Santa Cruz La Laguna, Guatemala.
Objectives:
• To explore a new concept of peace related to harmony.
• To create peace building capacities by developing positive thinking, gaining emotional resilience and increasing important human capacities of empathy and kindness.
• To promote tools of non-violent communication that can be applied to all cultures, religions and professions.
• To understand meditation as a tool that helps us return to our natural understanding of peace related to love, compassion and empathy.
• To learn practical methods of stress management and ways to increase emotional intelligence.
• To practice mindfulness during yoga and other group activities.
• To build up participants’ progress after having finished the online self-development program.
• To empower youth workers and to offer a sustainable space for them to coordinate activities and events in their own communities.
