“Dreaming Your Dream of Peace” is a unique interactive group participation program. The participants will consider questions about how each of them perceives “peace” from their own lives and the wider world. Then those responses will build into an “inventory” of peace building to refer to in their future peace making. The participants also will each form an “article” of peace, using artwork materials that will be provided (pipe cleaners, play dough, stickers, construction paper, etc.). Then the program will conclude with a list of items that form a peace building/ peace making outlook/ approach. The program is conducted in small groups and involves much conversation. Guided by Chuck Michaels and Jaymie Litsey.
Chuck Michaels, Esq. has been the volunteer coordinator for Pax Christi Baltimore since its founding more than 40 years ago. The group sponsors programs, vigils, prayer services, workshops, protests, and other peace and justice activities in the Baltimore area. He has also been on the National Council for Pax Christi USA for six years and is a member of the regional council for Pax Christi Metro DC-Baltimore. He was Coordinator for Peace and Justice for the Archdiocese of Baltimore for four years (1982-1986), a member of the planning committee of the Annual Archdiocese Social Ministry Convocation (1983-2024), and former program manager for Beyond the Boundaries, an Archdiocesan program advocating for affordable housing in the Baltimore region. He was also a member of the Institute of Islamic, Christian and Jewish Studies (ICJS) Justice Leaders Fellowship program from 2023-2024. He is the Vice President of the St. Peter’s Cemetery Restoration Fund Board, connected to Jonah House (a community founded by the late Phil Berrigan and Elizabeth McAlister). He is the author of No Greater Threat: America After September 11 and the Rise of a National Security State (Algora Publishing, 2002). He is a member of the Catholic Community at Relay.
Jaymie Litsey has over 25 years of training, facilitation, and change management experience. Her journey as a peace advocate began 20 years ago. Jaymie is currently a US federal government employee and lives in Columbia, Maryland with her husband (Chuck Michaels) and two cats, Frida and Louis. All three are sweet, lovable, and sassy. She is a member of the Catholic Community at Relay.