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Aiki Peace Week AIKI EXTENSIONS Aiki: Not a set of techniques to conquer an enemy, but a way to reconcile the world and make all of human kind one family - Morihei Ueshiba A Quarterly Newsletter Content Highlights Issue N° 32 Aiki Peace Week Program Updates Seminars Individual Initiatives Online Resources Read about our progress A flurry of activity Details about recent One AE member is Aiki Extensions (87 dojos from 19 surrounding the and upcoming seminars launching a “Bike for connects our members countries) and the Awassa Peace Dojo, our featuring AE members Peace” effort this with Facebook pages, recent endorsement new Aiki Business and topics - Teaching summer. Another is Google Groups, and from Yamada Shihan Group, and a Teen Aikido to Kids, planning a “Peace online tutorials. Get Summit at Brooklyn Training Across Train” itinerary from connected, get involved! In the News Page 1-2 College. Borders, Cultures of dojo to dojo across the Several AE programs Peace, & Body, Heart, US. Where will Aikido and personalities on and Mind take you? TV, radio, and the web Page 3-6 Page 7 - 8 Page 9 Page 9-13 Page 15 Aiki-Peace Lesson Plans It might surprise people outside Aikido that a martial art can teach someone to live peacefully. Aiki Peace Aikido is uniquely equipped for practicing peace because attack/defense drills serve to rouse the twin demons of fear and anger at the same time one Week practices receiving an opponent with kindness, in a harmonious and grounded way. Aikido training gradually makes this reaction into our default International Aiki Peace Week is gathering momentum - The map of participating dojos - Peace Week response in times of stress, conflict, or attack. The website offers invitation letters in 12 languages, the events in 85+ cities from 19 countries and whole website is available in French, and more than 85 counting - Hiroshima, Mumbai, Warsaw, Aikido sensei all over the world have developed dojos have signed up from 19 countries. Not a bad start - Cambridge, Zurich, Quito, Berkeley, & Munich. methods of teaching the peace-forging wisdom and can you help us do better? Can you help us prove that Is your dojo on the map yet? concepts of Aiki without a reliance on traditional OSensei was right when he claimed Aiki was a tool to Aikido techniques. In addition to regular Aikido reconcile the world? harmony and peacemaking. Press kit materials will classes, many Aiki Peace Week dojos will be Dojos around the world are joining AE to celebrate be offered on the website to help participating dojos conducting special classes open to the general International Aiki Peace Week. With this annual leverage the opportunity to get greater recognition public focusing on these easier, more rapid ways of event, Aiki Extensions is leading the way toward a by being the “local angle” for their area paper and teaching aiki conflict resolution principles. For those broader vision of Aikido. From September 20-26, a TV news show coverage of the UN Peace Day. By who are interested, the IAPW website will offer week chosen to include the UN International Day organizing worldwide participation, this collective sample lesson plans incorporating these ways of of Peace (always Sept. 21), participating dojos will action will make the Aiki approach to peace more teaching Aiki peacemaking. teach classes focusing on Aikido as a practice of newsworthy than if this effort was unique to an conflict resolution, compassion, and nonviolence. isolated dojo. This increased press coverage should Find out more about Aiki Peace Week, see help spread OSensei’s message of embodied peace the map of participating dojos, submit poster Boosting Aikido “Mindshare” training, and should also serve to draw new people ideas, and join in the celebration - The IAPW presents an opportunity to increase to each participating dojo. www.aikipeaceweek.org public awareness of Aikido as a joyful practice of (more Aiki Peace Week updates on next page) Aiki Extensions is a 501(c)3 nonprofit created for public benefit. www.aiki-extensions.org 1 AIKI PEACE WEEK “The Aiki Peace Week is an excellent idea” M. Tani, International Department Hombu Dojo Aikido World Headquarters USAF Support Peace Week in Hiroshima Peace Week in Europe Shihan support Multi-lingual presence In addition to invitations Yamada Shihan, of the US We are honored to report Aiki Peace Week is now Besides Yamada Shihan of in more than a dozen Aikido Federation, one of the participating featured on the Polish NYC, International Aiki languages , AE member promotes International dojos in IAPW is Aikido Federation home Peace Week has also th Christian Vanhenten has Aiki Peace Week in his Hiroshima Kokusai Aikido page, with links to both garnered the support of 8 recreated the entire IAPW opening message in the Dojo, led by Peter Aiki Extensions and Dan Michael Sheridan in th th website in French to better most recent USAF Goldsbury Sensei, 6 Dan. AikiPeaceWeek.org. the UK, and 7 Dans Dany serve the large Aikido newsletter. One of very few “Gaijin” Leclerre Shihan of Belgium teaching Aikido in Japan, Thanks to AE Board (pictured above) and practitioner populations in The newsletter also Goldsbury Sensei is a Members Quentin Cooke Winfried Wagner of France, Belgium, and features an article by AE Philosophy professor at (UK) and Bertram Wohack Germany. We have five 6th Quebec See the French- Board Member Paul the U. of Hiroshima, (Germany), we now have Dans from California, two language website here: Linden, who came up with chaired the International participating dojos from from Ohio, and one from Current intro letter the concept of Aiki Peace Aikido Federation, and (reading east to west) Connecticut, as well as one languages are: French, Week earlier this year. has written extensively at Ireland, Britain, Belgium, each from New Zealand, Aikido Journal. Netherlands, France, Germany, England, and Spanish, English, Japanese, Following Yamada Switzerland, Germany, Japan. 5th Dans join us German, Russian, Catalan, Shihan’s endorsement, a We are hoping to arrange Austria, Poland, and from Bombay, Cambridge, Italian, Dutch, Polish, steady flow of USAF dojos an Aikido demonstration Romania. Portugal, Spain, Austin, Munich, Sydney, Portuguese, Swedish, and have begun signing up. at the Hiroshima Peace Italy, Greece, Sweden, Brussels, Warsaw, Tucson, Romanian. If you can Museum, the symbolic Finland, Norway, Russia, Lontzen, Fredericksburg, translate into Mandarin, power of which will be Monaco, etc. we’d love Paris, Mons, Bormes, and Cantonese, Hindi, or clear to everyone. to hear from you! Denver. anything else, let us know. We believe that Aikido practitioners around the world, inspired by the unique embodied peacemaking legacy of O’Sensei Morihei Ueshiba, will want to be part of the global Aiki Peace Week celebrations. This represents an opportunity to increase public awareness of Aikido as a joyful practice of reconciliation, compassion, and nonviolence. 2 www.aiki-extensions.org Aiki Extensions Newsletter N°32 AIKI EXTENSIONS - SUMMER 2010 Program Updates The PeaceCamp Initiative Awassa Peace Dojo administrator, and Tesfaye speaks daily with his two senior students who provide consistent aikido instruction. Plans are emerging to recruit volunteer instructors to teach in the Awassa dojo, and also in Addis Ababa where Tesfaye plans to establish a dojo later. A yudansha from Italy, now working in Addis, has already begun the process, with occasional visits to Awassa. The PeaceCamp Initiative enters its third AE recently donated more than $6,500 to Don Levine, AE Founder, University of season this summer, and Robert Kent and the project, and expects to generate a good Chicago former Dean, and Ethiopianist Jamie Zimron were able to raise slightly deal more in 2010 from grants and fund- scholar, has returned to chair the Aiki more than $16,000 of scholarship aid - raisers. A support team of Ethiopians at Extensions team that supports the Awassa which will enable the program to bring home and in the Diaspora is in formation, Youth Campus and Peace Dojo. After a several PeaceCamp delegates for three which includes Fasika Alem, chair of the protracted bureaucratic randori, AE/AYC weeks to Camp Susquehannock in upstate Board of the Ethiopian Community energies can once again focus on the PA where they will forge the bonds of Association of Chicago. The world- mission of building and growing this friendship and trust that tomorrow’s renowned Blue Man Group supports AYC's unique program in Ethiopia's fastest leaders so desperately need for peace to be One Love Theater, which provides circus growing provincial capital. possible. Last year’s crop of delegates, training and AIDS education programs. pictured above, continue to engage with One Love Theater and the Aikido Dojo split The Steering Committee of the AE/AYC each other and participate in the sempai rental expenses at The Awassa Youth team includes Don Levine (chair), Tesfaye program in Israel of Budo for Peace, which Campus. We are happy to report that these Tekelu, Charles Colten, and Tseday coordinated their applications. wonderful programs are continuing to Alehegn, David Weinstock, and Alexander reach youth in Ethiopia. The four Peace Camp candidates for 2010 Otto. Working with Tesfaye, in New York include Sawsan Darawsha from Iksal, age for a year of training and fundraising, the A recent issue of Ze-Mind, a popular 16, Shayan Frankel from Ra'anana, age 13, team is at work on plans to tighten the national magazine in Ethiopia, featured a and returning candidates from 2009 Noam organization and forge a fresh development cover article on Tesfaye. The cover photo David and Luna Mouallem. The program plan. Tesfaye and Charles took part in Aviv also included AE members Neil Mick, seeks about another $1,000 to cover travel Goldsmith's June instructor workshop at Phillip Emminger, Jamie Zimron, Richard expenses for visiting instructors - so any Aikido of Fredericksburg.
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