In preparation of the Build Peace Conference 2025 in Barcelona, with this post we start a series of contributions around the topic of mindfulness and peace.
Build Peace Conference 2025
The Flourishing Circle is participating at the Build Peace Conference 2025 in Barcelona, a global event focused on peacebuilding and technology. This 3 day event is organized by Build Peace and co-organized by the International Catalan Institute for Peace (ICIP).
Every year, the Build Peace Conference explores emergent challenges to peace in a digital era, and peacebuilding innovations to address these challenges. It holds an inter-disciplinary space to address the most pressing topics and transformative practices in peace, conflict, and innovation. This year, the conference theme is “Towards a Pluriverse of Peace“.
Beyond Right and Wrong: Cultivating Inner Ground for Dialogue Workshop
Together with Marco Pfister, trainer for empathy and conflict resolution at the Empathy Initiative Switzerland we are offering a workshop on the topic: Beyond Right and Wrong: Cultivating Inner Ground for Dialogue.
This experiential workshop offers a space to cultivate the inner conditions that make meaningful dialogue possible—even in an increasingly polarized world. Through grounding, breath-based practices, and guided reflection, participants will explore how slowing down and connecting with their inner experience and strengths can generate clarity, empathy, and relational presence. We will practice listening for the human needs beneath blame, judgment and opinions. This session invites a shift from reactive habits to mindful compassionate awareness—where peace begins not with the right words, but with the quality of presence we bring.
Strengths to Flourish for Sustainable Peace
This workshop will be the launching pad for the Strengths to Flourish for Sustainable Positive Peace Workshop that The Flourishing Circle will propose to peace activists in 2026.
The Flourishing Circle
The Flourishing Circle is a partnership of mindfulness and character strengths expert practitioners who help people, teams, organizations, and communities to flourish and generate positive transformational change.