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Uri Noy Meir is in conversation with Combatants for Peace Co-Founder Sulaiman Khatib and School of Ancestral Medicine founder Dr. Daniel Foor about the current situation and the potential future for the Middle East and beyond. Speakers Bios

Sulaiman Khatib is co-director and co-founder of Combatants for Peace, a bi-national, grassroots nonviolence movement in Israel and Palestine. Combatants for Peace is dedicated to three main pillars: nonviolent direct action, a joint partnership between Israelis and Palestinians, and ending the Israeli military occupation. Khatib was nominated, along with Israeli co-founder of Combatants for Peace, Chen Alon, for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2017 and 2018. He has been compared in the press to a modern-day Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., or Nelson Mandela. He cites these three nonviolent leaders as his inspiration and the key to transforming from violence to nonviolence. His latest book is "In This Place Together: A Palestinian's Journey to Collective Liberation": https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54815902-in-this-place-together.

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Dan Friedman has been active in progressive political and community-based theatre for half a century. He is the Artistic Director Emeritus of the Castillo Theatre in New York City, a lead organizer of Performing the World and on the faculty of the East Side Institute.  

Uri and Nico had a lovely conversation with Rebecca Paradiso de Sayu about collective wellbeing, social arts and much more! 

Dr. Daniel Foor is a ritualist and educator focused on helping others to reclaim their innate capacity to relate with their ancestors and with the greater web of other-than-human kin. 

Iwan Brioc is Artistic Director of Theatr Cynefin and a consultant in applied theatre.  He is best known for pioneering Sensory Labyrinth Theatre, an applied form of Enrique Vargas' Sensory Poetics and has been directing productions and training companies and artists internationally for 20 years.  He has also been an independent Theatre of the Oppressed practitioner and trainer for 30 years, specializing in Legislative Theatre and Rainbow of Desires and regularly contributes to publications in the field.    His academic qualifications are in Social Psychology, Dramatherapy and Mindfulness and in collaboration with Bangor University Department of Cognitive Neuroscience and the Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice developed Context Oriented Arts (CoArts).  This theory posits that different modes of theatre -classical, participatory and immersive, represent and support different kinds of consciousness – Cartesian, Inter-subjective and Non-dual respectively.  Currently, Iwan is teaching schoolteachers mindfulness online; piloting the fourth iteration of a creative learning mindfulness curriculum for young people and developing the concept of Rheocracy – the politics of flow.  

Arawana’s pioneering work as a choreographer, performer and educator is deeply sourced in collaborative improvisation. She currently heads the creation of Social Presencing Theater (SPT) for the Presencing Institute. Working with Otto Scharmer and colleagues at the Presencing Institute, she brings her background in the arts, meditation and social justice to creating “social presencing” that makes visible both current reality and emerging future possibilities.  

Teya Sepinuck is a visionary artist who has worked at the intersections of art/social change/spirituality/education and peacemaking in creating and producing Theatre of Witness for the past 30 years. Drawing on her dance and counseling backgrounds, she founded this unique form of performance that has tapped the deepest stories from people whose stories had never been heard before, transforming them into powerful and raw theater productions.  

The conversation is in Italian and is accompanied by an English blog post on Imaginaction.org 

In this conversation, Uri Noy Meir is interviewing Tony Cealy about his life journey and work with Social arts and Theatre of the Oppressed.

Tony Cealy is a highly skilled drama and theatre practitioner, trainer, TO producer, and workshop facilitator specialising in developing and delivering a range of innovative arts-based programmes and projects to educate and empower socially excluded people and groups throughout Europe and increasingly internationally.  

In this episode, I am speaking with Charlie Kesem on her journey with Social Arts, enjoy and leave a comment on what moved and caught your attention in this episode!   

In this episode, I am speaking with Charlie Kesem on her journey with Social Arts; enjoy and leave a comment on what moved and caught your attention in this episode!