The Foundation for A Healing Among Nations, a not for profit organization, is a spiritually based peace fellowship working collaboratively with organizations, leaders and citizens of the world to develop creative solutions which shape and enhance a higher quality of life at the local, national and international level. Our vision is to support multidisciplinary methods which foster the power of love, evoking the highest potential of individuals which may develop socially responsible and compassionate human beings.

Peace manifests one by one. Combining spiritual practice and social action creates a deep inner conversion which can best stimulate conscious acts of service on behalf of humanity and our earth.

" Sooner or later all the peoples of the world will have to discover a way to live together in peace, and thereby transform this pending cosmic elegy into a creative psalm of brotherhood. If this is to be achieved, man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation.
The foundation of such a method is love."
Reverend Martin Luther King

The Foundation for A Healing Among Nations supports the belief that all generations of people have the right to choose a life of wholeness implementing the use of singular responsiblity towards positive thought and action to end the cycles of suffering and violence, promoting the inalieanable rights of all human beings.

Each individual has a role during this crossroads in history, that role is to first and foremost realize that we are interconnected and ultimately universally responsible to assist our fellow man and woman in manifesting a world of greater dignity, respect and compassion for all life in its diversity .

Our prior collaboration with projects such as: A Season for NonViolence, Survivors of the Shoah, Kids to the Country, Families First and the We Are One community information initiative all exemplify a deep commitment to bringing forward spiritual values into everyday community living.

For more information contact:
The Foundation for A Healing Among Nations
2683 Via De La Valle, Suite G117, Del Mar, CA 92014
310-382-4799
E-mail: bmansdorf@healingamongnations.org

Witnessing the suffering of diverse peoples and nations, Ms. Mansdorf witnessed the healing transformation that the videotaped interview process afforded survivors. While recounting the horrors, many survivors were able to express forgiveness and compassion at the closure of their story journey; portraying courage, endurance and an inclusive expression of love as a stated vision to distribute for the welfare of all human beings.

From this experience FAHAN decided it was necessary to develop a spiritually based peace fellowship that would join collaboratively on missions of peace and document the voices of truth and goodness in other nations of great unrest. Partners with over fifty member organizations such as: The Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute, The BrahmaKumaris, Unity and Diversity World Council and more offer expertise in a specific field. When a peace mission is necessary these members are identified for their expertise and a comprehensive program is developed within weeks that can efficiently bring the peace team to it’s destination and be of service. Art, music, theater is used as often as possible in all programs.

The programs of Education as Healing Intervention were then developed as an educational outreach to communities across America in order to ignite the heart and soul of our own people and our Spiritual American Destiny. FAHAN continues to create forums and community circles with leaders and lay persons, children and elders to empower leadership, develop citizen diplomats and promote a vital democratic process.

Martin Luther King said that violence is the language of the unheard. While practitioners of 'Compassionate Listening" share that 'compassionate listening' is healing to the listeners and to those who tell their stories.

These stories rise up from the depths of our history, carrying with it the voices of our collective ancestors. These stories begin with one person and a conscious witness, then to another and to another. The stories must come together in all diverse communities of the world to complete the tapestry of the Greater Story. The Greater Story is where unfailing wisdom, understanding and truth synthesize all the little voices of the lands in consciousness which is Love. Can it be that peace begins so quietly?

"Here I am- this is me in my nakedness, with my wounds, my secret grief, my despair, my betrayal, my pain, which I can't express, my terror, my abandonment. Oh, listen to me for a day, an hour, a moment, lest I expire in my terrible wilderness, my lonely silence. Oh, God, is there no one to listen." Seneca, Kosovo survivor

The power of the human spirit instructs the highest potential of human nature to rise and persevere under adversity, adjusting the idea of "victim".

Maslow said that our most basic needs are for food, clothing and shelter. We have found that the need to tell one's story, to be heard, to be respected during a time of great shame at the hands of war, trauma and inequities is equal, if not a greater need.

We have witnessed Tibetans who would rather die than live without spiritual freedom. Food was the least of their want, shelter was the least of their want, clothing was the least of their want. The voice of freedom, the heart of liberation to practice their spiritual truth was the most essential need.

Primo Levi, the award winning author of 'Survival in Auschwitz states," The need to tell our story to 'the rest', to make 'the rest' participate in it, had taken on for us, before our liberation and after, the character of an immediate and violent impulse, to the point of competing with our other elementary needs. This is first and foremost an interior liberation."

Some of the participating cultural communities are:

Aborigine
African American
American Indians
Hiroshima survivors
Hispanic
Japanese encampment survivors
Tibetan
Vietnamese

"This is the right time for peace to reign in the heart of every man and woman as they learn
to accept and forgive each other in love." Sr. Nirmala