Creating A New Culture of Peace

The first weekend retreat on The World Peace Diet with Dr. Will Tuttle

July 18-20, 2008, in Columbiaville, MI (central Michigan)

Retreat Participants
The faces of a new world of peace, justice, sustainability, and compassion for all!

The retreat was held on the sacred, healing, and beautiful grounds of the Tibbits Nature Sanctuary.
(About 30 minutes north of Flint, an hour north of Detroit airport. )

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Some participant comments after the retreat:

"A great experience. Very energizing and inspiring."

"Informational, enlightening, and delightful."

"Brilliant! I have realized a deeper sense of inner peace as part of this retreat."

"This life-changing weekend will live on. I felt a rare and wonderful kinship with a variety of people who were 'called' to attend this retreat, and look forward to sharing the ideals of The World Peace Diet."

"I experienced deeper insights and awakening throughout the weekend. It's such a pleaseure to experience sharing in an enlightened space."

This is what one participant wrote following the retreat:

"I just spent a wonderful weekend with our friend and recipient of the Peace Abbey’s Courage of Conscious Award, Dr. Will Tuttle. We attended Will’s very first retreat to train facilitators to teach his book, The World Peace Diet. The retreat was held at Clark Tibbet’s Nature Sanctuary and Land Stewardship Center in Columbiaville, MI. Judy Carman, another Animal Rights author, and good friend of Will's came all the way from Lawrence, Kansas, to attend the event. Mark Stroud, a well-known vegan chef from Cincinnati, Ohio, who has been teaching from Will’s book, also presented his material at the retreat. Attendees came from as far away as Montreal, Baltimore, and Chicago. There were three Christian ministers and a Seventh-Day Adventist family of four that also attended. Some people were newbies to the movement, one having only read Will’s book three months ago and another who only had been vegetarian for four months and now excited about moving on to vegan. Ages ranged from the teens to the white-hairs. In all, I think the official attendance was around 40 people.

It was an emotional, informative, and inspiring weekend. There was lots of sharing of ideas and feelings. All left with the optimistic feeling that 40 more people would be out there actively sharing the message through the vehicle of Will’s book. For those who missed this opportunity, Will may have another retreat next year although he has not committed to one and has had requests to hold one on the West coast for the people who could not travel to this venue."

We live at a powerful time in history, as one world is dying and a new world is yearning to be born. Let's work together to help heal our world.

We can join together to deepen our understanding of the roots of our culture’s dilemmas, and reflect on how we can most joyfully and effectively contribute to the positive transformation of our communities. Through discussion, reflection, contemplation, exercises, guided meditations, and talks by Will, we can engage at depth with the transformative ideas in The World Peace Diet, and deepen our capacity to be the change we want to see in the world.

Sonya, a neighbor-turned-vegan who attended parts of the retreat, is also a celebrated artistic baker, and created this vegan cake in the shape of The World Peace Diet, which was enjoyed by all:

The lake at Tibbits Nature Sanctuary:

World Peace Diet Retreat Lake2

Participants receive tools they can use to more effectively live, share, and teach the ideas in The World Peace Diet, and will receive a certificate upon completion of the weekend.

See photos of the retreat