Today we meet Ulf Sandstrum, the founder of the Peaceful Heart Network, an international non-profit focussed on resolving conflicts while helping our world bring hope, happiness, and peace to our children! Joy Gilfilen speaks with him about how looking at our challenges through fresh eyes helps us take faster action. When we see things differently, new solutions have room to emerge!

Ulf has worked all over the world from Africa, to Australia, the United States and Canada helping to launch projects that help people recover from trauma, shock and violence. His focus is about helping people heal from family, civic and social conflict, and most importantly to heal the emotional, social, civil, economic as well as physical wounds caused by war, ecological disasters, earth events.

Working with the complex nature of compound disasters takes a courageous heart, and a way of seeing that is farsighted and seeks solutions! Ulf's boots on the ground realism, and background as an educator working in complex eco-systems brings great insights and gifts to us all. He has ways of seeing our future through a whole different lens!

Join us for an insightful conversation with Irene Morgan, Founder of the Restorative Community Coalition (RCC)! This episode explores community service and the impact of injustice on our community. From farmer to jail system researcher, Irene shares her journey and the important questions she explored: Why delve into non-profit social services and civic systems? What are the real effects of poverty, arrests, and the courts/financial systems?

This episode offers a human perspective on the Whatcom County punishment and incarceration system. Irene highlights the disconnect between the narratives and the realities of misfortune. She sheds light on how the system works (and where it falls short!) from a citizen's perspective. Irene's experience has led to the development of valuable tools, trainings, and manuals for navigating the system, including expungements, reconciling legal/financial obligations, and handling complex cases.

In this episode of the iChange Justice Podcast, Joy Gilfilen interviews Roslyn Scheuerman, a lifelong visionary and cognitive social therapist dedicated to ending world hunger, war, and environmental degradation. Roslyn's extensive experience includes fundraising and grant writing across the globe, most recently assisting those impacted by the California wildfires. A champion for homelessness projects, public safety, prison industry reform, human rights, and those affected by violence, poverty, or illness, Roslyn's work has touched numerous lives. Her experience spans diverse organizations, from the World Hunger Project, Goodwill Games, children's charities to hospitals and even home renovation.

Roslyn discusses fundraising not as a learned skill from the outside, but as a gift of insight gained through immersion. She emphasizes that "It takes stepping inside the world of asking people to join you in doing good things for others that attitudes and feelings change." A global "lived experience" worker, Roslyn brings clarity to complex issues.

She shares how a childhood school project with the elderly sparked her passion for helping others, which was further ignited by her work with the World Hunger Project. This experience solidified her belief in her ability to make a real difference. Roslyn highlights several fundraising programs addressing homelessness and health, including one that would directly support the podcast's work with incarcerated individuals.

Listeners are encouraged to learn more about Roslyn's current projects and an upcoming class with the Restorative Community Coalition, which will also benefit the Restorative Community Coalition's work with incarcerated individuals.