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I have grown into Buddhist peace work through the bridging of two worlds: my academic studies in mediation and conflict resolution and two decades of delving ever deeper into the heart and mind of Buddhism. Born from the insight that conflict and confrontation are existential and unavoidable human realities it is at its core the application of Buddhism's highly developed experiential understanding of the human mind to the experience of those realities.

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As such it is based on the realization that humans are relational beings that find themselves embedded into the ebb and flow of a stream of communication that faces them with a movement between self-containment and connectedness. Let's put it into a nutshell: it is Buddhism with a strong tilt towards the often neglected realities of communication.

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From the perspective of Buddhist peace work attempting to avoid conflict and confrontation can be a very bad idea. It can breed deep human suffering lock down almost all the potential for human flourishing that us inherent to most relationships. It further suggests that conflict and confrontation need to be consciously embraced, fully experienced, and transformed through the cultivation of the roots of peace and cooperation.

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To that end Buddhist peace work provides you with a new way of perceiving, interpreting and speaking about conflict and confrontation, as well as their complementary opposites: peace and cooperation. To get you there you only need to learn five Buddhist words: presence, space, contact, energy, clarity. Words that you will find are deeply rooted in and suprisingly close to your non-conceptual experience.

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There's more: there's the insight into the three marks of the stream of communication. The cultivation of those inborn human qualities that support you in staying present and free in the face of the unsetteling experience of conflict and confrontation. The dynamics of self-image, human perception and world view. And much more. If you are interested I have written two books on this: klick here.

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But obviously all of that means nothing if you cannot perceive the experiences behind those words in your direct experience. That's where I come in. I offer you the transmission of knowledge, support you in the learning of a new language, and aprovide you with a reflective space for the schooling of your awareness until you can solidly embody a new state of communication conciousness.

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​So how does that tie into Urdcraft? That's suprisingly simple. If you don't know how to work with conflict and confrontation and transmute them into peace and cooperation it's going be terribly hard for you to individuate. More often than not that will keep you from breaking free from your karmic cage and embrace your destiny.

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