We are very happy to bring to you this Conversation Outside the Box with Stephanie Knox. She is a peace educator who dedicates her life to spread the wisdom and strategies of Peace Building. Her journey to find her call is full of insights and inspiration from teachers and activists such as Thich Nhat Hanh, Cora Weis and many others.
She has worked as a volunteer on the Peace Boat project and in countries like Japan, Canada, Africa and as teacher at Peace University in Costa Rica. She tells us about her dedication to the field of Peace Studies and the importance of having communities such as the International Institute on Peace Education (IIPE) to support our path when we are exposed to abrupt changes and challenging situations. We can learn a lot about the invisible power that a net of friends, colleagues and even online communities have when they use nonviolent strategies to deal with unfair and critical situations.
Watch the interview and get inspired by her story and work to benefit all around the world.
Thank you Stephanie for sharing your journey with us!
Regina Proença
Conversations Outside the Box is project developed by the cultural collective Fora da Caixa (Outside the Box) and for this series of interviews we will have the support and partnership of HOPE – Humans of Peace Education, a platform where you can find the profiles of peace educators across the globe and also have access to their projects and achievements.
This partnership also has the support of the community of International Institute on Peace Education (IIPE) and Global Campaign for Peace Education. Our common goal is to make Peace Education and the professionals who dedicate their lives in spreading Peace more accessible and known in the community, schools, universities and public in general. We intend to inspire and show how much we have done and plan to do in the future.
Join us for this transformative and revolutionary journey!
Stephanie Knox Steiner, PhD (she/her), is a peace educator, writer, and community weaver whose work dwells at the edge of enchantment and disturbance, exploring how we might unlearn separation and remember our interbeing with all of life. Her teaching, research, and writing focus on regenerative peace pedagogies, re-enchanting and reimagining education in precarious times, and transrational ways of knowing, including community dreamwork as a practice of relational learning and collective imagination. An alumna and former professor at the University for Peace, she is an ordained member of the Order of Interbeing in the tradition of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh and co-founded the Jill Knox Peace through Humor Fellowship, a professional development program for peacebuilders offered through the Humor Academy of the Association for Applied and Therapeutic Humor. She lives in Costa Rica with her daughter and writes Enchantable, a Substack exploring interbeing, dreams, creativity, and the art of living an enchantable life.
Here is a link to the reading list I suggested in the conversation: https://enchantable.substack.com/p/a-reading-guide-for-other-worlds
My Linktree has links to a lot of articles and talks: https://linktr.ee/stephanieknox