Joyce Beck and Felora Derakhshani are board members of a non-profit organisation called Peace Through Commerce. In this video they tell us how they used Insights Discovery to help the board work more effectively together and how it was used as part of their first project in Israel that tries to unite women through entrepreneurial spirit.
Videos on Peace Building
The Matrix of Peace Show: ISRAELI AND PALESTINIAN PEACE.
The host for this show is Phyllis Blees. The guests are Nitsan Joy Gordon and Ann Bradney. Gordon is founder of Together Beyond Words, an Israeli non-profit seeking a just and peaceful society using verbal and non-verbal interventions. She speaks about her 30 years of work bringing peace to men and women from both sides of the conflict in Israel and the West Bank. We hear stories of those affected by the current raging war in Gaza and how the Together Beyond Words model brings understanding, empathy, and healing to those who do the work. Bradney is founder of the Radical Aliveness Institute and model, which has, for 30 years, been working with and training passionate, curious, somatic healers and leaders at all levels of the human experience: the body, emotions, expression, movement, sensations, thoughts, beliefs, spirit, culture, and systems. She shares her story of working with the men and women of Together Beyond Words to manage the feelings and emotions that arise as they attempt the work of living peacefully together and across the divide of the conflict.
The Matrix of Peace Show: TERROR, VIOLENCE & IMPLUSE TO DESTROY-PART 1.
The host for this show is Phyllis Blees. The guest is Nilima Bhat. Author and integral yogini Nilima Bhat gives us an Integral Yoga and depth psychology perspective to understand our inner nature and the origin of the psychology of violence and terror. We enquire into the separation and synthesis of psychic opposites in alchemy through which our nature transforms into something higher, purer, and more fully divine. We learn about Integral Yoga, the work of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother, Shakti and Shiva as entities and Shakti Leadership as a path and practice to psychological wholeness and inner peace. In Part 2 we connect this learning to how the Matrix of Peace serves as the soil for the seed of inner peace and psychological wholeness in each of us.
The Matrix of Peace Show: TERROR, VIOLENCE & IMPLUSE TO DESTROY-PART 2.
The host for this show is Phyllis Blees. The guest is Nilima Bhat. In part 1 we learned that the long term solution to the psychology of violence is to transform our four drives into our four power bases. In this part 2, we learn how to find peace in the moments we navigate the four drives—eros, thanatos, logos, mythos—by learning from Nilima how to leverage our four power bases of the ‘wise, fool, [of] tough, love.’ We do this by using the polarity thinking work created by Barry Johnson. We also learn how the ‘wise fool of tough love’ steps into the role of the seeds of peace nurtured by the Matrix of Peace Whole Systems Model of Society’s role serving as the soil of peace. We learn specific practices to cultivate presence and gain a basic understanding of the principles of the Matrix of Peace model. We leave with an understanding of the root causes and solutions to addressing Terror, Violence & the Impulse to Destroy. We foster Global Peace Through Inner Peace.
The Matrix of Peace Show: AVERTING ANOTHER JANUARY 6 CATASTROPHE.
The host for this show is Phyllis Blees. The guest is Joan Blades. We learn about the ‘Trust in Elections Initiative’ from Joan Blades—successful political activist and co-founder and past leader of moveon.org, a public policy group and political action committee. Predicting that the results of the 2024 US election are going to be questioned, Blades and her team at LivingRoomConversations.org offer a scalable structured conversation tool that can begin to achieve some key outcomes: (1) Acquiring skills and confidence in each other and our election practices ahead of November and walk away with increased trust for tackling other critical issues; (2) countering the false narrative of division that ‘conflict profiteers’ are spreading, Phyllis Blees shows us how these activities form core consciousness practices are necessary to move people from conflict into the intersections of justice, prosperity, sustainability, and societal peace in a Matrix of Peace Whole Systems Model of Society view of America.
The Matrix of Peace Show: APPLIED CONSCIOUS LEADERSHIP PRACTICES.
The host for this show is Phyllis Blees. The guest is Iris Sadeh Rosler. Organizational consultant Iris Sadeh Rosler introduces practical, hands-on practices of conscious leadership. We learn how she works with corporate, government, and civil society leaders to develop a ‘resilience toolkit’ – a set of practices drawn from our own life experiences to re-establish equilibrium under the most stressful, even violent, conditions. We focus in particular on the practices of resilience, deep listening, and empathy with the senses: touch, smell, hearing, taste, sight, and empathy. Rosler takes us into the field working with Israeli leaders bombarded by conflict as a daily life reality. She draws upon multiple methods such as the BASIC Ph model, True Purpose, Shakti Leadership, Tiara Coaching, and yoga. She includes her proprietary methods of working with nature and animals to transcend our past and emerge into a life of flourishing.
The Matrix of Peace Show: ANSWERING THE CALL OF THE CREATIVE QUEST.
The host for this show is Phyllis Blees. The guest is Shaku Selvakumar. Shaku Selvakumar, poet, author, and communications leader with multinational and start-up experience (IBM, Shell Oil, and AI tech companies), teaches us how to summon our creativity. She guides us in a process to transform our ʻscaredʻ hearts into ʻsacred heartsʻ—a process she calls ʻthe alchemy of the heart.ʻ We learn this is the primary work of creativity and serving the world. She says ʻAll quests ultimately are about healing the heart and the spirit by trusting our intuition, knowledge and experience’.
The Matrix of Peace Show: DECISION MAKING WITH RADICAL ALIVENESS.
The host for this show is Phyllis Blees. The guests are Ann Bradney and Sylvia Marjeyeh. Host Phyllis Blees, CEO of Peace Through Commerce, discusses how to make decisions in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict using the ‘Radical Aliveness’ Way. With Ann Bradney, founder of the Radical Aliveness Institute and program director Sylvia Marjeyeh, an Arab Israeli Palestinian from Jafa of Nazareth, Israel we focus on a group in Israel and Palestine that formed prior to the Hamas invasion of Israel. They use the 5 principles of Radical Aliveness to gain true awareness of what ‘the other’ is feeling to access ‘heart justice.’ This leads to emergent wisdom from the group to inform group-centered decision-making. Phyllis Blees anchors this process within the Matrix of Peace Whole Systems Model of Society. We learn how the Matrix consciousness sphere work drives people into the intersections of justice, prosperity, sustainability, and ecosystem justice using the Radical Aliveness process.
The Matrix of Peace Show: BUSINESS CO-CREATING PEACE IN AFRICA.
The host for this show is Phyllis Blees. The guest is Don Larson. Don Larson, award-winning leader of Hershey Foods describes his unique multi-sector, whole-systems approach to sourcing and selling cashews from Mozambique the ‘Sunshine Approach’ way. We see through the lens of the Matrix of Peace Whole Systems Model of Society the ‘Sunshine Approach’ to conscious leadership in the private sector, private, and civil society sectors. He demonstrates how right action and right intention move people in a developing country into the sector-intersections of justice, prosperity, and sustainability to co-support a long-term ecosystem of societal peace in his area of influence. We learn how to influence healthy rulemaking in the public sector, support grass-roots activism by his employees in the community to release their talent, creativity and innovation, and operate a cashew business using sustainable business practices.
The Matrix of Peace Show: BUSINESS CO-CREATING PEACE IN AFRICA- PART 2.
The host for this show is Phyllis Blees. The guest is Don Larson. In part 2, Don Larson, award-winning leader of Hershey Foods describes his unique multi-sector, whole-systems approach to sourcing and selling cashews from Mozambique the ‘Sunshine Approach’ way. We see through the lens of the Matrix of Peace Whole Systems Model of Society ‘Sunshine Approach’ to conscious leadership in the private and civil society sectors. He demonstrates how right action and right intention move people in a developing country into the sector-intersections of justice, prosperity, and sustainability to co-support a long-term ecosystem of societal peace in his area of influence. We learn how to influence healthy rulemaking in the public sector; support grass-roots activism by his employees in the community to release their talent, creativity and innovation; and operate a cashew business using sustainable business practices.
The Matrix of Peace Show: REOPENING THE 9/11 ATTACK “COLD CASE” – USING MATRIX METHODOLOGY TO SOLVE A CRIME.
The host for this show is Phyllis Blees. The guest is Haley Simons. The US Congressional Joint Inquiry into the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001 found “prior to 9/11, the Intelligence Community’s analytic components failed to understand the collective significance of the information in their possession. This failure is attributable to . . . a basic lack of creativity and imagination in evaluating the intelligence that was at hand.”
Haley Simon, founder of CreativeAlberta, and host Phyllis Blees, co-creator of the Matrix of Peace Whole Systems Model of Society, “exhume” this report (a kind of autopsy) using the new technology of the Matrix of Peace framework called the Matrix Methodology and Facilitation Tool. They identify gaps in the analytic components of the Intelligence Community, and gaps between it and the private and civil society sectors of the US society.
JOURNEY TO CHANGE – WORKING TOGETHER TOWARDS PEACE.
Trailer for the “AWESOME Beyond Words” 12 min. video of Peace Through Commerce’s work with Together Beyond Words in Israel and the West Bank (below).
THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE FORUM AND PEACE THROUGH COMMERCE.
think Tech hawaii Producer Jay Fidel interviewing Philomena Blees.
Peace Through Commerce created a breakthrough systems model for designing peaceful societies called the Matrix of Peace Whole systems model of society. Peace Through Commerce is title event partner with the Norwegian Nobel Institute to produce the 2017 and 2018 Nobel Peace Prize Forum – Oslo. The 2017 Forum featured Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Rigoberta Menchu who received her prize for her work in indigenous people’s rights 25 years ago. Peace Through Commerce and Phyllis Blees provided the analysis of the issues using the Matrix of Peace Whole Systems model of society – a tri-sector model which engages consciousness development theory and work.
#IAmAPeaceBuilder – Are you a peace builder?
While your first instinct might be to say, “no, not me”, we challenge you to think about how much of a peace builder you already are in your everyday life. We invite you to go viral with our #IAmAPeaceBuilder video and our hashtags: #PeaceThroughCommerce, #IAmAFriendofPTC, and #IAmAPeaceBuilder.
Peace Through Commerce in the World
PTC is a global, nonprofit, strategic organization committed to creating a world in which all people enjoy peace and prosperity. PTC fosters peace and prosperity through teaching about the Matrix of Peace. PTC gives special attention to women and girls in its Accelerating Women Entrepreneurs (“AWE”) program.
AWEsome Beyond Words
Jewish and Palestinian women of Beyond Words experiencing the Matrix of Peace in the AWE Program of Peace Through Commerce, Inc.
Accelerating Women Entrepreneurs Workshop Trailer
Israeli and Palestinian women in Israel and from the West Bank talk about healing the conflict and prepare for a workshop by AWE to learn how laws, commerce and consciousness foster sustainable peace.
AWE March 2013 Israeli-Palestinian Class Highlights
Highlights of class teaching Israeli and Palestinian women entrepreneurs in Israel and the West Bank the principles of the Matrix of Peace Whole Systems Model.
Peace Through Commerce brings women together in Israel, supported by the gift of Insights Discovery
Insights Learning and Development -Published on Oct 28, 2013