Global Citizen Journey Information

Global Citizen Journey is a visionary and action oriented project that brings vital energy, connection and resources to communities in need --and provides a rich transformative experience for volunteers. The project has multiple purposes: citizen diplomacy, peacemaking, leadership building, education, environmental stewardship and service. We are building the global neighborhood, through grassroots connections and bridges of peace. Typically a group of U.S. delegates joins with delegates from the host country for a 2.5 week residential experience, with half the time spent on the serviceproject (such as hosting Town Hall meetings, building houses or planting trees) and the other half in circles and workshops to build relationships and develop skills of communication, compassionate listening and conflict resolution as well as cross-cultural and gender relations. We travel to places that may be suffering conflicts and are typically unknown by the international community – or even by other regions in their own country – to extend the hand of friendship, the empowering exchange of citizen diplomacy, and the gift of hope, inspiration, and mutual learning.