Dancing for Peace: Big Vision Podcast with Sara Potler

"We had a blast!  These kids over the course of the next 18 months did not really fully comprehend that they were learning basic social, emotional, and civic competencies because they were moving and dancing the entire time." -- Sara Potler

Sara Potler is the Founder and CEO of Dance 4 Peace.  Dance 4 Peace is a conflict resolution, and civic education program that promotes empathy, understanding, mediation skills, anger management, and emotional and civic engagement through dance in youth around the world.  

Dance 4 Peace began in Bogotá, Colombia as part of Sara's Fulbright Scholarship project in 2007. In conjunction with Aulas en Paz (Peaceable Classrooms), a multi-component pedagogical project designed to promote social and civic competencies and conflict resolution among primary-school students, Dance 4 Peace was designed, implemented, and evaluted in public schools in the outskirts of Bogotá.  Today, the program works in Washington, D.C., New York City, Colombia, the Philippines, and Nepal.

You can listen and subscribe to the Big Vision Podcast via iTunes, or on the player above.  If you have suggestions for people I should interview, please email me at britt AT brittbravo DOT com.  

*Show Notes*

Learn more about Sara and Dance 4 Peace:

• Dance 4 Peace website
• Dance 4 Peace on Facebook
• Dance 4 Peace on Twitter

Connect with me:

• Big Vision Consulting
• Speaking and workshop calendar
• Facebook
• Twitter

Music: "Mango Delight," by Kenya Masala.  Connect with Kenya through CD Baby and Source Consulting Group.

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