Peace Leadership in Practice: Find Your North Star, Ground It in Action

Rebecca Irby leads this interactive workshop, which invites students to practice peace leadership as a daily discipline. We’ll explore interconnection, wonder, and “revolutionary love,” then craft a personal North Star and anchor it with a keepsake that participants will take home with them. The session closes with one concrete 30-day commitment to strengthen connections between communities and steward peace with dignity and care.

This event is free and open to the UM community.

Rebecca Irby is the Founder & Board President of the PEAC Institute (Peace | Education | Art | Culture), an NGO in Special Consultative Status with the UN. A strategist, educator, and storyteller, she helps people locate their North Star and turn it into practice that strengthens community and advances peace. Her work blends trauma-informed facilitation, systems thinking, and somatic grounding with creative tools like the “Reminder Stone” ritual, used from Detroit classrooms to UN convenings. Rebecca was part of the coalition awarded the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize (ICAN) and has collaborated with partners across government, education, and civil society worldwide. A former Director of Transformational Change at New Detroit, she now focuses on building youth leadership pipelines and producing the global Pause for Peace initiative.