Peacemakers Needed becoming Waymakers!

A new rebrand of our newsletter and work is coming soon!

Dear Peacemakers Needed subscribers,

We are so grateful to each of you for subscribing to our newsletter. We hope you have enjoyed the Where Peace Begins video series as well as other articles we’ve produced over the last six months.

We are now ready to transition to a new brand and a lot of exciting events and content as we begin the next phase of our work with Faith Matters and the One America Movement.

Starting on August 8th, Peacemakers Needed will become Waymakers.

Waymakers is dedicated to bringing hope to those struggling to make a way out of no way and helping those in conflict find their way back home.

Waymakers will sponsor a number of trainings, workshops, events, and a weekly newsletter.

REPAIR WORKSHOPS - Do you feel frustrated or hopeless about a conflict in your life? With yourself, a spouse, a child, a community or congregation member, or in the larger political divide? Waymakers is here to help. At REPAIR, world-class peacemakers will deliver skills-based intensive workshops to help you navigate the most difficult conflicts in your life. Our first event will be on October 23-25 in Provo, Utah and will feature talks and workshops from incredible peacemakers including Jim Ferrell, Jennifer Finlayson-Fife, Thomas McConkie, Jennifer Walker Thomas, Emma Addams, Patrick Mason, Chad Ford, Desmond Lomax, LaShawn Williams and more! More details will be coming soon!

WAYMAKER TRAININGS - Are you a mediator, social worker, teacher, organizational or faith leader in search of more tools to help the people you are helping navigate conflict better? Waymakers offers conflict coaching, mediation and conflict facilitation training to help you skill up your tools to be a more effective peacemaker.

WAYMAKERS NEWSLETTER - Subscribe to the Waymakers Newsletter for weekly columns, videos, tools and tips from conflict experts and find out more information about our latest events. By subscribing, every new edition of the newsletter goes directly to your inbox. You’ll also get updates on events, podcasts and more.

The newsletter, as well as the overall project, will be run by Chad Ford, Patrick Mason and Katie Searle.

Chad and Patrick are both professors at Utah State University, work with the Heravi Peace Institute at USU and co-produced the Where Peace Begins video series. Chad is the author of two books about peacemaking, Dangerous Love and 70x7 and is an experienced mediator who works on transforming conflict in relationships, organizations, communities and in international conflicts. Patrick is the author of Restoration, Proclaim Peace, and Planted and an experienced LDS peace educator and advocate. Katie has a long career in peacebuilding, publishing, grant writing and non-profit managements.

Together, we hope to create a community of skilled peacemakers dedicated to repairing broken relationships at home and in our communities and in the world.

Don’t worry, you won’t need to do anything. Your subscription to Peacemakers Needed will automatically transition to Waymakers!

Please let us know if you have any questions. We are so excited for this next stage in our peacemaking project!