The 8th World Peace Telesummit was held on September 21, 2025 to celebrate the International Day of Peace and to strengthen the ideals of peace among people. Co-host Dr. Sameera Iqbal welcomed participants who met in a video conference. Host Dr. Elaine Christine facilitated folks making a difference through education and awareness of the 6-Step Peace Process. Participants shared what they learned from their experience. Click this link to watch the World Peace Telesummit 2025 Video.

Peace Process Story. The 6-Step Peace Process was inspired in 1998 after Elaine attended a spiritual conference in Miami. Everyone seemed to want world peace, but nobody had a plan. She had the idea to run the thought of World Peace on the Six-Discipline Model published in her textbook, Managing Risk. She explained, “The Six-Discipline Model is a simple process model of the mind that can run any thought. I wrote ‘World Peace’ at the top and changed the generic process to a specific thought of peace and love. Later, I realized the process for world peace was the same as inner peace. The model scales perfectly from universal to personal!”

Step 1: Discover the Problem. Why don’t we have world peace? Attendee Julie Santamaria shared, “Well, an observation of what’s been going on the last year, it seems to be greed and money and power of the so-called elites.” Mike Shenk offered, “There’s too much division created through labeling one another and the differences people see, rather than seeing that we’re all human beings basically the same. We just have different perceptions, different views, and different ways of seeing the world.”

Step 2: Envision the Solution. What does a vision of world peace look like? Participant Merrilee Zielke imagined, “Everyone is on board leaving the world better than we found it. That means environmentally, with our health, with education, with all things. Everything is designed to give back, to be in a positive flow, fueling the future with positivity. It’s more than just sustainability, it’s leaving everything better.”

Jill Rogers added, “We can see through the eyes of love and that will help to ripple the effect of getting things going.” Sameera chimed in, “Start with inner peace first, and unity within communities having peace, health, and gratitude. Then build it and ripple it out to homes, and then community, and then country, town, village, and then expand it across the world. It really starts with self-love.”

Mike contributed from the chat, “Global empathetic understanding, compassion, gratitude, love, and joy.” Beth Cook said, “More acceptance of each other. One reason I quit watching the news, just because it was too much negativity for me. I try to keep up with what’s going on once in a while, but I always end up regretting looking.”

Tom Gorsuch offered his viewpoint, “You’re paying attention to things that are joining people together instead of dividing people apart. It’s a constant choice.” Elaine envisioned, “Everybody is a peacemaker. My 6-week course is based on one line of Scripture that Jesus taught in the Sermon on the Mount, the seventh Beatitude, ‘Blessed are the peacemakers.’ Peacemakers are blessed to be a blessing!”

Step 3: Plan for Peace. What is one action step that you could do? To bring about the vision, Jill planned a simple step. “I say, just be kind. It doesn’t cost anything to be kind. People feel your kindness then give them love. It just flows all together. Every day, be kind.”

Mike shared his plan. “My personal action step comes down to finding inner peace, and meditation helps to find it on a daily basis. When I am at peace within myself, it would be much easier to spread it to the world. To let everyone see it in action and feel the energy, rather than trying to push views on anyone. It’s better to be an example, and that starts with inner peace, meditation, clearing thoughts to make clear choices around how I want to show up.”

Tom agreed, “Yeah, making good choices. If you are at peace with yourself, then you recognize when someone or something comes to you that isn’t congruent. You recognize it better and remove yourself from that situation, so it’s not taking you out of your own peace. If we’re all making better choices for peace, then it accumulates.” Elaine spoke up, “Really, you have one choice. It’s either to curse or bless. If you’re a peacemaker, you will bless, and you will not curse. Peacemakers bless, and that’s the choice.”

David Marchand noted, “Being a healer-type person, the one thing I do on a regular basis is hold space. Being a light worker and working with grids and sending love to Mother Earth and everyone. Just holding space seems natural to me. And I think that’s a good example. Just holding space.” Bonnie Dubrow offered another way. “Not to give advice, correct people, or challenge them unless they ask for it. Because otherwise, I’m attacking.”

Step 4: Work in Harmony. Can you let go of your conflict? Elaine guided the group through a meditation, starting with a breathing exercise. She invited everyone to visualize their love and light dis-solving problems and returning the planet to peace.

Step 5: Measure with Honesty. How much love did you send? Guests weighed in on a scale from 1 to 5, evaluating the quality of love they felt in the meditation. Options on the poll were 1 for no love at all and 5 for all the love in your heart.

Step 6: Value the Progress. What was your takeaway from the call? Merrilee said, “I’m realizing many people need to develop and cultivate inner peace. And the focus right now is inner peace. Igniting that light within themselves, that unconditional love for themselves, and that’s where we’re at in the collective. What we need to help people do is learn how to love themselves and cultivate inner peace.”

David reflected, “Yeah, it’s literally like opening up those light codes and shining more. And just being more receptive of one Earth frequency. Shining and getting more inner peace through nature or whatever. And connecting, getting brighter inside, it will definitely prevail.” When asked what she learned on the World Peace Telesummit, Jill noted, “For me to stand in my own power and not let somebody dim my light. I’m working on giving them their space to feel the way they feel, but not letting them try to take my light.”

Mike offered his takeaway. “It’s just great to find another group of folks who also avoid the news the way that I do, so that was great. The other big takeaway is to continue to try my best to live at a higher vibration, embracing love, joy, peace, happiness, those higher vibrating emotions. And then to set that intention and try to live up to that intention every day, to have it radiate into the world and touch others without forcing or pushing my views, or coming from a place where I feel as though I’m attacking or trying to change the way that somebody sees their reality, rather than just influencing it.”

Tom acknowledged, “It’s a continual practice, or daily practice. The forces out there that want to take your peace, they’re constant, so be constantly diligent about it, and take the time to meditate when you need it. So, that’s my takeaway.”

Julie also weighed in on the value. “Well, it’s a good reminder not to be angry at a family member. I pray for her all the time for peace, but she has so much anger, and it just sucks the energy out. So this is just a reminder to keep me strong, not to be angry.” Elaine responded, “Negative emotions are really a call for love. Anger, fear, and worry are a call for love. Once you’re aware and know what you don’t want, we have to bring what we do want. Keep the choice simple. Do I want to curse or bless? And you always want to bless your family.”

Sameera added, “Elaine, thank you so much for doing this, it’s a reminder that peace can be initiated, right? Just as you did here. It doesn’t have to wait for a big stage of nations to come together to initiate. We can do it. And it begins with one person, or just a small community, like right now, what we have here, in this moment, together, from so many different places. To come together, and then to weave our voices in this collective consciousness, and that intention alone is strong enough to create this ripple effect, and that can go far beyond what we can imagine.”

Bonnie summed up her favorite part, “Well, I’m just glad to see initiatives that are focusing on what we as individuals can do, other than picketing. Because if you’re doing that, you’re actually adding fuel. Sometimes it’s tough to sit back and think that my meditating, that my being kind contribute to what I want. That’s where I have to focus.”

Links to Resources. Sameera shared, “Just a reminder for everyone, that as a heartfelt bonus that Elaine’s giving out, you’ll be able to access the replay of this call, or share it with your loved ones, your neighbors, anyone else, in the link that is posted here. And may it continue to open your mind, your heart, to the world peace whenever you return to this replay. You can download Elaine’s Peace Process Worksheet at https://bit.ly/peace-worksheet and her website is https://DrElaineChristine.com.”

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