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Peace Class is a weekly gathering in which participants come together to build inner peace and world peace in community. Each meeting of Peace Class presents a stand-alone lesson; participants are invited to drop in for any meeting of the class or to join us for the class series. At each class, participants will be presented with a short talk that elucidates one aspect of the nature of peace and how to engage it. That talk will be followed by a journaling-based practice that gives each participant the opportunity to develop a set of peace-building tools they can use at any time. Each hour-long class also includes a collective peace meditation, teachings about pioneer peacebuilders like Peace Pilgrim, and the opportunity to share one’s personal peace-building discoveries with the group. Some of Peace Class’s past topics have included: how to engage the healing perspective of the Peace Mind, how self-love seeds world peace, how stepping from the guilt cycle allows inner peace to occur naturally, how inner peace evolves our physical bodies, and how to use the mantra “I honor all beings” to build collective peace. We’re grateful to be joined by peace advocates from around the world in this supportive online space. We hope you’ll join us. Details: *Peace Class is a free, weekly Zoom-based gathering presented by the Philosophical Research Society and led by Mandy Kahn. It takes place every Wednesday night at 6 p.m. Pacific Time. *Each meeting of the class presents a stand-alone lesson; anyone is welcome to drop in for one class or to come for the series. *Attendees are welcome to participate in the interactive aspects of the class or to keep their cameras off and just observe. About Mandy Kahn: Mandy Kahn is a poet and peace teacher based in Los Angeles. She’s the author of three collections of poetry, Glenn Gould’s Chair (2017), Math, Heaven, Time (2014) and the forthcoming Holy Doors (2023). Her poems have been included in the Best American Poetry anthology series, have been read on BBC Radio, and have been featured in former Poet Laureate Ted Kooser’s newspaper column American Life in Poetry. She has given readings at Cambridge University, the Getty Museum, the New School, and the Barrick Museum, has been profiled in the magazines Flaunt, Issue and Malibu, and has been interviewed by The Los Angeles Review of Books. She’s also the subject of Courtney Sell’s feature-length documentary Peace Piece: The Immersive Poems of Mandy Kahn. Kahn holds a degree in English from UC Berkeley. She serves as the Philosophical Research Society’s Contributing Writer, and prior, served two years as its Artist-in-Residence. She’s currently in the process of turning her past peace talks into a book.