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.

"Where Does the History of Cultural Crisis Start?

Mel Hoover joins Joy Gilfilen to discuss the crisis of mutually assured destruction if our leaders don't change course. What is the ancient origin of human-created conflict over money, power, and politics? We sing, dance, and are all extensions of nature at work...so why do we divide ourselves by race, religion, land, and culture?In 2025, we have accelerated the pace towards a species tipping point where our habits of perpetuating historical domination and wars threaten life on this planet. What is the pattern? What will it take to change the course of history?Mel comes to the table with his lived experience of growing up in a truly multicultural family with African, Cherokee, Seminole, Scottish, Irish, French, Jamaican, and English heritage, as well as wealth. How does that affect how he sees history, where we are today, and what it might take to help the next generations live into a happier future? It's up to us to bring the changes.

Krueger's near 80-year journey has taken him into conflict zones 💥 where he brought peace talks 🤝 together, to communities healing from disasters 🆘, and the athletic arena . He reveals how the skills that helped him through his career in athletics also empowered him to face trauma in his life and in the lives of others.

Inspired by peacemaking 🕊️, Krueger founded PeaceMakers Circle/Network, using ancient wisdom and modern tools to build a global community of peacemakers around the world.

Learn more about Kurt Krueger and PeaceMakers: https://www.successsystemsinternational.net/founderinspirit.html

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Join Joy Gilfilen in a conversation with Marc Santos, the Founder of NobleGoldman.com as we face the speed of change in a world facing high speed, high volume, and big money change in the midst of chaos, upheaval, war, conflicts and ecological challenges.

How do we turn fear into opportunity, liabilities into assets that can be turned around so our children have a healthier world to inherit from our time on earth?

Developing the aptitude to notice new ways to see things, and learning how to allow different perspectives to exist while finding new pieces of puzzles into a discussion is a learned skill that is necessary in an increasingly complex environment.

In 2025: How do we bridge the gaps that divide and conquer? Joy Gilfilen brings together Eveimai Lotori, Founder of Beyond Your Impossible with guest Eric Thompson of Universal Foundation for Living Design about the complexities of communicating around the world during a time of great transitions.

Our world is facing extreme weather conditions, climate change challenges, human made conflicts, cultural, social, political, emotional and language divides all linked together through a globalized economy. How does this work? How can we separate things into bite-sized pieces so we can focus on small parts, even as we must unite our ideas together to communicate successfully for the benefit of future generations?

Joy asked Eveimai to speak about her questions and deep humanitarian work she has been doing as an indigenous voice and dual citizen of Mexico and the United States. Her environment is the whole west coast of the Cascadian Mountain Range, and the Rocky Mountains through Central America. Eric, as a member of the Universal Foundation of Holistic Design was asked to speak from his perspective as an engineer growing up around the US Capitol and Virginia, who travelled to the Alps to study global issues, sustainable and regenerative living from a whole different point of view.

Together they talk about real-life by illustrating complexity. Specifically starting the conversation about the variety of educational, experiential and philosophical diversities Our goal is to open the gates to healing our hearts using the BodyMindSpirit metaphor that unites us with our divine intelligence and grounds us to the earth. We begin with the question: how we can build bridges to help each other heal physically, mentally, and spiritually across histories, continents, oceans and wars? This is a complex topic that is tough to unravel in a world that is in turn spinning through an also spinning universe. Go to: UnitingCreatives.com and to BeyondYourImpossible.com and to TheRestorativeCommunity.com for more.

The iChange Justice Podcast features Paul Levy, author of "Wetiko: Healing the Mind-Virus that Plagues Our World." Levy explores how this contagious psycho-spiritual disease of the soul acts like a parasite on the mind. Host Joy Gilfilen, Executive Director of the Restorative CommUnity Coalition, delves deeper, examining how the behavior of leaders in the incarceration industry may intersect with the psychosis Levy describes as "Malignant Egophrenia" (ME), or more colloquially, "Mad Emperor Disease."

The discussion highlights how the perceived divisions in our world often mask the presence of wetiko. Levy argues that this mind-virus underlies many of humanity's destructive behaviors, both individual and collective. Drawing on 40 years of experience and study of quantum physics, he explains how wetiko deeply infiltrates our psyches, often undetected. This "blindness" to wetiko empowers it to thrive.

In his earlier book, "Dispelling Wetiko: Breaking the Curse of Evil," Levy emphasizes the contagious nature of this emotionally charged virus. He contends that a collective psychosis of immense proportions is currently unfolding on the world stage, driven by wetiko. This ancient concept, known to Native Americans as "wetiko," subtly operates within the unconscious blind spots of the human psyche, blinding individuals to their own madness and driving them to act against their own self-interest.

This podcast is a valuable resource for anyone involved in justice, healing, or recovery.