Peace Class

Peace Class is a free weekly gathering in which participants from around the globe come together to build inner peace and world peace in community.

Presented by the Philosophical Research Society in Los Angeles, Peace Class is now in its fifth year.

At each class meeting, participants are presented with a short talk that elucidates one aspect of the nature of peace. That talk is 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.

Each meeting of Peace Class presents a stand-alone lesson; participants are invited to drop in for any single meeting or to attend the full class series.

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., with a three-month hiatus each summer and a month-long hiatus over the winter holidays.

*Each meeting of class presents a stand-alone lesson; anyone is welcome to drop in for a single class, or to attend the full class series.
*Attendees are welcome to participate in the interactive aspects of class or to simply 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, the most recent of which is 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 the newspaper column American Life in Poetry.

Kahn has been a featured speaker at many peace events, including at Peace Week, World Unity Week and One Planet Peace Forum.

Kahn's concert of peace-building immersive poems at the Getty Museum is the subject of the documentary Peace Piece: The Immersive Poems of Mandy Kahn, which was released by IndiePix and is widely available on streaming platforms.

In 2021, Kahn presented a two-day peace concert at Meditation Mount in Ojai in conjunction with Dot Maver, director of the National Peace Academy, Fumi Johns Stewart, executive director of May Peace Prevail On Earth International, and Michael Lindfield, Meditation Mount’s board president.

Kahn has been a featured speaker at many peace events, including at Peace Week, World Unity Week and One Planet Peace Forum.