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European Peace Summit

April 4 - 7, 2016

European Youth Center, Budapest, Hungary

The European Peace Summit was a forum aimed at providing a unique opportunity for youth and peacebuilding organizations from all over Europe to connect with each other, to learn how to be mindful at professional and personal levels, to discover their inner potential, talents and capabilities from a different perspective, and to progress and act together for a better and more peaceful future.

Over a hundred individuals from 30 different countries came together to attended this very first platform not only to discuss problems and initiatives but also to develop themselves to acquire the inner peace in order to spread outer peace more sustainably.

The theme of this very first European Peace Summit is “Connecting minds, unleashing potential” reflecting the importance of the mind on individual as well as collective development. The program of the summit focuses on both individual and organizational development and other crucial topics such as Health Benefits of Meditation, the Art of Conversation, Conscious Leadership and Supportive Work Environment. The Individual Development part of the program involves exploring ways which can boost productivity at work, connecting with oneself and discovering one’s inner potential, deepening the knowledge on mindfulness meditation, and ways to acquire true leadership. The part on Organizational Development includes introduction to mindful approaches in human resource development, building and sustaining a healthy community, and conflict transformation.

Speakers

Venerable John Paramai Dhanissaro

Meditation Instructor

Connecting Minds – Unleashing Potentials Panel

Venerable John Paramai Dhanissaro

Monk John, who once a pianist, a photographer, and a computer programmer, has become a Theravada Buddhist Monk for 20 years after finished his PhD in Telematics. With the knowledge from his tech background, he has pioneered in developing the biggest free online self-development and meditation platform that has users from over 200 countries and territories. He travels the world and gives his insights on mindfulness, meditation and Buddhist philosophy for detoxing, balancing and enriching life of the modern world to individuals, NGOs, government agencies, universities, and companies (such as Google, Orange, Ogilvy, Teamwork, etc.) in 70 countries.

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Anca Stefania Iourgulescu

Digital Strategist, Mindfulness & Meditation Trainer and Life Coach

Compassion, Empathy and Consciousness at Work Panel Speaker; "Digital Media & Peace Journalism: You are the message workshop"

Anca Stefania Iourgulescu

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Dulce Ruby

Artist, Manifestation/Motivation Meditation Coach & Guide

Health Benefits of Meditation Panel

Dulce Ruby

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Eva Ježovičová

Chief editor at local paper Zvolen’s news, yoga teacher

Health Benefits of Meditation Panel

Eva Ježovičová

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Aya Chebbi

Founder and Chair - African Youth Movement

Compassion, Empathy and Consciousness at Work Panel

Aya Chebbi

Aya Chebbi is an award winning Pan-African feminist and renowned blogger. Her blogs were published at Al-Jazeera, OpenDemocracy and Foresight-Africa among other international medias. Beside her prominent online presence, Aya is the co-founder of the Voice of Women Initiative (feminist collective) and founding Chair of the African Youth Movement, one of Africa’s largest movements fighting for peace and social justice. Aya is an international speaker,keynote at BONDconference, the UN Commission on the Status of Women celebrity event, US Congress hearings, TEDx and DW among others. In recognition to her achievements, Aya was named one of Africa’s most Outstanding Young Women leaders in 2013 (Ghana) and won the Young Achiever of the year 2015 recognized by the Forbes (South Africa) and she appeared on top lists of people to watch; at the Huffington Post and Youth Hub Africa as well as 100 under 40 Most Influential Arabs byArabianBusiness. She currently sits on the Board of Directors of CIVICUSWorld Alliance for Citizen Participation.

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