Badass Peacebuilding: It’s Time to Step Up and Step In!

Do you feel the call?

Activate your Fiery Heart Now!

Our country and our world are crying out for Peace, lifting our Unity, and asking us to choose Love over fear!

It is not the time to be faint-hearted.

Let us be Bold, Audacious, and Unapologetic – to stand in our Power and Speak our Truth.

The painting of the Fiery Heart stands as a symbol for our approach to Badass Peacebuilding. But it is more than that – it is an activation!

The Fiery Heart was gifted to Pathways To Peace by the artist,

Irene Kai*

It is our wish for you that this powerful image will give you strength, passion, and perseverance.

It is the pure light of Love, Peace, and Unity.

Igniting our Fiery Hearts

• Put your hand on your chest and bring your focus to this image of this Fiery Heart.
• Your fiery heart is right there!
• Badass Peacebuilding calls us to embrace and ignite the fiery heart within each of us. In our hearts, we know it’s true that it is time to step up and step in! Do you feel the call?
• We are being called to be bold, to be audacious, to be confident in the message we are charged to bring, to know that WE and our work are worthy of being heard and activated.

What does it take to ignite that Fiery heart within you?

• Perhaps there are old wounds that need to come out into the light to be healed.
• Perhaps there are messages about appearances, how you should look, be, and act – that now need to be shifted.
• Perhaps there is fear that you will not have approval from others, even loved ones, or that you will experience rejection.
• Embracing your fiery heart means coming into your true authentic self!
• You deserve to be seen AND heard!
• Your presence and voice are needed to bring Peace to our world!
• It’s time to stand in your power and speak your own truth! The time is now!

*An internationally known artist, author, and speaker, Irene Kai was born and raised in Hong Kong and traveled extensively. She received her BFA from the School of Visual Arts in NYC and MFA from the Royal College of Art in London and currently teaches Painting and Design at the Rogue Community College. Her work has been shown in galleries in London, New York, Los Angeles, and southern Oregon. She posed for George Segal in 1976 and the sculptures of her image were in the Whitney Museum permanent collection. Irene designed the logo for the Culture of Peace Initiative, a United Nations Peace Messenger Organization, and her inspiring image hangs in the United Nations building in New York City. She Co-founded the Ashland Culture of Peace Commission and brought the World Peace Flame to Ashland from Wales.

lrene's award-winning books – What Do You See? – an experiential book and The Golden Mountain: Beyond the American Dream which has been chosen for course studies in major universities, an autobiography of four generations of women in her family, a journey spanning over a hundred years of how their influences shaped her life. The healing process of writing this book sets the women free. By having the courage to speak out about family secrets, Irene expresses her process of finding the light within through her paintings and her devotion to truth. To live in peace is to reconnect with our souls, speaking from our hearts, finding the courage to transcend culture, and to live authentically, but most of all, to love deeply.