Welcome to the Peace Education Program. The purpose of this educational program is to
help you discover your own inner resources, and the possibility of personal peace.
The program consists of ten videos, each focusing on a different theme. Peace. Appreciation.
Inner strength. Self-awareness. Clarity. Understanding. Dignity. Choice.
Hope. Contentment.
The content of this educational program, is based on excerpts from Prem Rawat's international talks.
Prem teaches us people live in two minutes - the minute that just happened and the
minute that's on its way, you know, the past and the future. He teaches us to live
in the 'third minute', which is the here and the now. If you can just stop and appreciate,
just being alive it puts everything else in perspective.
What is so exciting, from an educator's point of view, about the Peace Education Program
is that it focuses an individual, through listening and reflecting, on innate tools
already available to them.
Peace also has been placed inside of you.
And not only is it precious, but there is abundance of it.
True education is about providing tools that set students up for life. My experience with
facilitating the Peace Education Program, is that the program presents a different kind
of learning. The program is designed to promote self-awareness and self-discovery. The measures
of learning are gauged individually by one's own self.
Prem Rawat's videos and the concepts that he uses are innately human concepts. You don't
need any special education to have an understanding of those concepts. They are articulated in
a way that is accessible to anybody. He says, "Explore this, because it might be good for you."
Think about you - your life, your existence.
This is the final presentation of our conference, the Peace Education Program, which is being
sponsored by the Prem Rawat Foundation.
These men have all been students of the Peace Program.
I can enjoy - just because I'm alive. And we need to look at that more often. And you
learn that from watching the DVDs.
These videos here, they helped me....
So many ways, in so many situations, that you can use these tools of peace and apply
it to your life. I wish I would have had it sooner.
I could have probably mended a lot of things.
My name is Birgitte Nielsen. I am a retired teacher. We thought of offering the Peace
Education Program in the AOF - a nationwide educational system for adults. In this region,
in the AOF, we called it 'The Art of Knowing Yourself.' The students' response to the workshop
was very positive.
What the program taught me was that I am responsible for my own happiness. Peace is inside me, it's
not something that's going to come around the corner, but something that I have
within, at all times.
And now I know that I am the miracle. I'm alive, and I'm very thankful.
Around the world, the Peace Education Program is being presented to a diverse range of people,
in a diverse range of environments. Colleges, universities, adult education programs,
correctional facilities, veterans' organizations, hospitals,
retirement communities. This is really exciting.
One thing I'd like to share with other people who are considering hosting a PEP, is that
you can just feel confident in this material. It is such a powerful presentation.
People love it.
I go to Cambridge University. I thought a very poignant thing that Prem Rawat said was
that, education, it's not just about heads full of equations, but of what it is to find
peace within ourselves. I think that's very relevant to students.
I'm also at Cambridge University. And we're always really busy, like, running from lectures
to lab. What Prem Rawat spoke about, that it's not about creating something new, but
it's about discovering something that you already have.
Real peace is a feeling inside ... every single human being. The peace I am talking about
is a peace that is not taught. But a peace that people have a thirst for, innately, that
transcends borders, countries, lifestyles.