For this second issue of the OWL Newsletter, I’ve worked on fixing some of the formatting problems that showed up last week. Hopefully this one is much more readable on your computer! Feedback? Lay it on me. 🙂

I plan to send these on a more or less weekly basis, with news and updates of interest to the OWL community about members, resources, and upcoming events. (Guidelines for events are at the Wisdom Circle Calendar.) Please get back to me with any news and updates that you’d like to share with the community.

Top headline for this week — two new members who’ve been working for decades to offer former enemies the opportunity to become friends.

Questions, feedback and/or suggestions? Let me know.

In gratitude.

Aryae

New Members: Len and Libby Traubman

As co-founders and co-facilitators of the Jewish-Palestinian Dialogue Group, Len and Libby for decades have been tireless promoters around the world of dialogue which offers former enemies the opportunity to become friends. They have been pioneers in bringing people together to co-create a more peaceful world.

Find out more.

The following video excerpt, where they were honored in 2011 at the Foundation for Global Community Closing Ceremony, gives us a glimpse of their lives and work.

A Path Appears

New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof and his wife Sheryl WuDunn offer us a clear eyed, compassionate look — filled with both inspirational stories and well researched data — at how ordinary people everywhere, in the face of human suffering that can appear overwhelming, are acting to save lives and make a difference.

A great handbook for anyone in the OWL community committed to supporting a course change for humanity by supporting each other. Highly recommended.

Find out more.

Oct. 29: Silicon Valley Awakin Circle

Awakin Circles are a project of ServiceSpace, a sister community of One World Lights, with thousands of members in countries around the world. The ServiceSpace vision:

Change Yourself, Change the World
We believe in the inherent generosity of others and aim to ignite that spirit of service. Through our small, collective acts, we aim to transform ourselves and the world.

Held every Wednesday in Santa Clara, 7 – 10 PM.

Find out more.

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Nov. 10: OWL Wisdom Circle 1

The founding wisdom circle of the OWL community, and an incubator for wisdom circles around the world. Our purpose: to support a course change for humanity by supporting each other.

This is a monthly global video conference. Our first speaker in November is Min Lee, Co-Founder & “Princess of Possibility” at PlayMoolah, a software and education company headquartered in Singapore that designs educational, digital and community experiences that inspire transformation — in changing the narrative about money.

Find out more.

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Nov. 13: Coastside Community Circle

Neighbors and friends in the Half Moon Bay area sharing time for silence and reflection, connecting with ourselves, each other, our community, and the world. The inspiration comes from Awakin Circles. We share the vision of changing ourselves / changing the world.

Held in El Granada on the 2nd Thursday most months at 6:30 PM, at the home of Aryae and Wendy.

Find out more.

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Nov.23: Silence with the Condor

Wildlife Associates offers an amazing and rare opportunity to sit in silence with an Andean Condor who has an impressive eight-foot wingspan.

Afterwards you will have time to share and ask questions with Wildlife Associates Founder Steve Karlin. This is a technology-free experience.

Find out more.