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b'a talk with Margaret Joy Weaver, who is a 20 year resident of Sedona, Arizona. \\xa0She is Co-Founder of Sedona International City of Peace, the 35th City of now 172 Cities of Peace around the world that are fostering cultures of peace within their communities through events, publications, education and public policy.\\xa0

As a leader of international transformational training programs for more than 25 years, she is passionate about interactive transformational programs that dramatically shift our inner spirit and collective consciousness for bringing peace of mind, peace of heart and peace within our world. She joins us today to speak about a Human Library event on Thursday, September 21, 2017 organized in partnership with the Rotary Club of Sedona and the Sedona Public Library.\\xa0
On Thursday, Sept. 21, 2017, the International Day of Peace, from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m., the public is invited to attend a free community event to take place at the Sedona Public library, titled the Human Library Event (www.humanlibrary.org). Instead of taking out a book you are invited to (take out and) sit with a \\u201chuman book\\u201d in different stations throughout the library. This event is part of a global movement that has the potential to alter our hearts and minds as to how we regard those in our community who struggle with all kinds of societal judgments and stigmas.
What if you could change a prejudice, bias, or an entrenched point of view you have about someone like a homeless person, an illegal alien, a felon, a cop or an LGBT person? And what if you could gain greater understanding and appreciation for that person in a few minutes by sitting with them and dialoguing in a safe and open environment?
\\xa0In four, 30-minute sessions participants are invited to become \\u201creaders,\\u201d selecting up to four \\u201chuman books,\\u201d listening to their short presentations, and engaging in dialogue with them to gain understanding. These live human books will courageously share their stories of being marginalized, categorized, or stigmatized for their differences. In the process, stigmas or judgments around such things as religion, sexuality, mental or physical challenges, immigration, police, lifestyle conditions from poverty, war, trauma, end-of-life choices are explored.
Organized by the Sedona International City of Peace, the Rotary Club of Sedona and Sedona Public Library, the event affords a special opportunity for everyone to make a difference in a heartwarming peaceful manner! As a community, we can illuminate and perhaps dissolve these prejudices, gain new understanding, and even come to new ways of relating to people that we may avoid, dismiss, resent, or generally judge unfairly.MargaretJoy Weaver
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