Dancing for Peace: Interview with Sara Potler

Dancing for Peace: Interview with Sara Potler

Sara Potler is the Founder and CEO of Dance 4 Peace. Dance 4 Peace is a conflict resolution, civic education program that promotes empathy, understanding, mediation skills, anger management, and emotional and civic engagement through dance in youth around the world. Dance 4 Peace began in Bogota, Colombia as part of Sara's Fulbright Scholarship project in 2007. In conjunction with Aulas en Paz (Peaceable Classrooms), a multi-component pedagogical project designed to promote social and civic competencies and conflict resolution among primary-school students, Dance 4 Peace was designed, implemented, and evaluted in public schools in the outskirts of Bogota. Today, the program works in Washington, D.C., New York City, Colombia, the Philippines, and Nepal.

Listen and subscribe to the Big Vision Podcast on iTunes.

Learn more about Sara and Dance 4 Peace:

Connect with me:

Music: "Mango Delight," by Kenya Masala. Connect with Kenya through CD Baby and Source Consulting Group.

    Det här avsnittet är hämtat från ett öppet RSS-flöde och publiceras inte av Podme. Det kan innehålla reklam.

    Avsnitt(78)

    Connecting Homeless Youth and Shelter Animals: 20-Year-Old Rachel Cohen, Hand2Paw

    Connecting Homeless Youth and Shelter Animals: 20-Year-Old Rachel Cohen, Hand2Paw

    Twenty-year-old Rachel Cohen is the Founder and Executive Director of Hand2Paw. Hand2Paw's mission is to connect homeless teens and shelter animals in a mutually beneficial way. Hand2Paw provides home...

    15 Mars 201118min

    Next Generation Big Visionary: 18-Year-Old Aneesha Raghunathan, Hope Line Fashions

    Next Generation Big Visionary: 18-Year-Old Aneesha Raghunathan, Hope Line Fashions

    Eighteen year old Aneesha Raghunathan is the founder of Hope Line Fashions.  Hope Line's mission is to empower women around the world through the sale of unique T-shirts made by women. Listen and subs...

    25 Feb 201120min

    Funny and Fun Fundraising with Crowdrise: Conversation with Co-Founder, Robert Wolfe

    Funny and Fun Fundraising with Crowdrise: Conversation with Co-Founder, Robert Wolfe

    Robert Wolfe is the co-founder of Crowdrise, an online fundraising website with the tagline, "If you don't give back, no one will like you."  They're all about, "raising money for charity and having t...

    1 Feb 201119min

    Gabriela Masala: How to Organize Have Fun Do Good Flash Mobs

    Gabriela Masala: How to Organize Have Fun Do Good Flash Mobs

    Gabriela Masala is the Founder of the One Love Alliance.  The One Love Alliance creates visionary arts community flash mob events that are both transformative and entertaining, and are fueled by the v...

    19 Jan 201118min

    Secret Agent L: Covering the Globe with Random Acts of Kindess

    Secret Agent L: Covering the Globe with Random Acts of Kindess

    Secret Agent L (Laura Miller), and her affiliated agents perform anonymous acts of kindess missions across the globe, and share them on Laura's blog, www.secretagentl.com.  Laura was anonymous for a y...

    30 Nov 201022min

    Bringing Women a Global Voice: Jensine Larsen, World Pulse

    Bringing Women a Global Voice: Jensine Larsen, World Pulse

    Jensine Larsen is the Founder and CEO of World Pulse. World Pulse is a global media and communcation network devoted to bringing women a global voice. They broadcast and unite women's voices from arou...

    1 Nov 201027min

    Dinner Giving Circles: Marsha Wallace, Dining for Women

    Dinner Giving Circles: Marsha Wallace, Dining for Women

    Marsha Wallace is the founder of Dining for Women.  Dining for Women is a network of dinner giving circles.  The donations collected from the circles goes towards a different program each month that s...

    1 Okt 201016min

    Temra Costa, Author of Farmer Jane: Women Changing the Way We Eat

    Temra Costa, Author of Farmer Jane: Women Changing the Way We Eat

    Temra Costa is a nationally recognized sustainable food and farming advocate.  Her recent book, Farmer Jane: Women Changing the Way We Eat is the product of the past seven years she has spent working ...

    17 Aug 201027min

    Populärt inom Samhälle & Kultur

    podme-dokumentar
    en-mork-historia
    p3-dokumentar
    gynning-berg
    svenska-fall
    aftonbladet-krim
    skaringer-nessvold
    hor-har
    creepypodden-med-jack-werner
    killradet
    kod-katastrof
    aftonbladet-daily
    flashback-forever
    p3-historia
    rss-nemo-moter-en-van
    vad-blir-det-for-mord
    dialogiskt
    historiska-brott
    rss-sanning-konsekvens
    mardromsgasten