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Think Tank 2022

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Inspirez profondément puis expirez. Etes-vous conscients qu’un même air nous est commun ? Est-ce que nous partageons le même air ? A chaque inspiration, vous absorbez 1022 atomes, soit 10 suivi de vingt-deux zéros. A chaque expiration, vous expulsez le même nombre d’atomes et ces atomes viennent des moindres cellules de votre corps.

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Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso - La Fédération pour la paix universelle du Burkina Faso a organisé un Festival mondial pour la paix dans le cadre de la célébration de la journée internationale des familles et de la Tournée mondiale pour la paix. C'est cinq de jours de célébration de la paix dans les deux principales villes du Burkina Faso : Ouagadougou et Bobo-Dioulasso.

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Hagamos un compromiso para hacer siquiera una pequeña diferencia en nuestras familias, comenzando con nuestra pequeña familia, que es nuestro marido, esposa, madre, padre, hijos. Pero entonces extendámosla, porque el mundo entero es nuestra familia.

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З 14 по 17 травня у мальовничому куточку  Кримського півострова в Міжнародному Дитячому Центрі «Артек» проходив фінал Всеукраїнського фестивалю «Мама, тато, я – спортивна сім’я». Захід було проведено Всеукраїнським центром фізичного здоров’я населення «Спорт для всіх» та Федерації Всесвітнього миру за ініціативи «Фонду Мрія про мир».

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Cuatrocientos sesenta personas asistieron a la celebración del Día Internacional de las Familias el 16 de mayo en la Intendencia de la ciudad de Quito. Un funcionario de la UNICEF, el Dr. Juan Vásconez, dio una explicación acerca de este día especial de la ONU en honor de la familia.

 

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Lyon, France - Une centaine de participants se sont retrouvés joyeusement pour célébrer cette journée internationale des familles. Un rassemblement multicolore, pour lequel beaucoup de mamans avaient revêtu leurs costumes traditionnels.

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Buenos Aires, Argentina - En Argentina el Día Internacional de las Familias, fecha establecida por la ONU, se celebró el 15 de mayo con un acto intercultural en Buenos Aires organizado por la Federación para la Paz Universal (UPF), que este ao adhirió al festejo con distintas actividades alrededor del mundo: educativas, culturales, sociales, deportivas, etc. bajo el lema Creando un mundo de paz: Una familia a la vez.

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Caracas, Venezuela - El Día Internacional de las Familias, proclamado por la ONU, lo celebramos en Caracas el 15 de mayo con un grupo de 40 participantes en una conferencia sobre el tema de la “Familia como la Escuela de la Paz”. También presentamos un video con las actividades en el nivel mundial de la Federación para la Paz Universal.

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Niamey, Niger - The president of the Niger chapter of the Universal Peace Federation, El Hadj Abdou Daouda, died in an accident on May 15, 2009. He was Minister of National Competitiveness and the Fight Against the High Cost of Living.

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El día sábado 9 de Mayo de 2009, se realizó en el Radisson Montevideo Victoria Plaza Hotel, la celebración del “Día Internacional de las Familias” con el Lema: “Creando un Mundo de Paz, Una Familia a la Vez”.

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Welcome to the UPF resource page for the Marriage and Family Initiative and the UN International Day of Families observances. Here you will find a variety of materials to help you create a successful program, including flyers, banners, program guides, and other resources.

How to use this resource (.docx)

Click on the tabs below to see the resources for each section.

 

{upftabs}UN International Day of Families |

UN International Day of Families 2015
Link to United Nations
Sustainable Development Goals
https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/sdgsproposal

Flyer/Cover PINK

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Podium Sign PINK
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Presentation
Russian (4MB)
 

Fliers, signs, and banners

 

 

 

Flyer (A4)

English Version (pdf, jpg)

No-Text Version (pdf, jpg)

Podium Sign
21in x 12in / 53cm x 30cm

 

English Version (4.5MB)

No-Text Version (3.8MB)

 

 

Banner
(144in x 40in / 365cm x 100cm)

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|| Sample
Seminar |

Suggested Schedule

We offer two options for each session. You can decide which option works best for you; and it is fine to take Option A for one session and Option B for another session, just as you like. You don't have to follow the entire schedule, or have all the sessions, or have them in the sequence shown here. You can also substitute in your own content, and if you do, please let us know what you did and how it worked out. For more information or to discuss a proposed program, you can email UPF's Director of Marriage and Family Education, Mrs. Lynn Walsh.

Session 1: Introduction

Option A

Moderator Statement

Handout: UPF Marriage and Family Statement

Option B

Moderator Statement

Presentation: UPF Recent Highlights

Handout: UPF Marriage and Family Statement

Session 2: Benefits of Marriage

Option A

Presentation: Benefits of Marriage (Russian)

Why get married? Why stay married? This interactive session invites people to contribute their responses and promotes a vision of the family as the school of love. Research findings on the benefits of marriage to both the couple and their children are introduced and discussed.

 

Handout: 30 Reasons Why Marriage Is Important

Handout: National Divorce League Table

Option B

Presentation: Promoting a Marriage-Friendly Culture

Building on “The Benefits of Marriage” presentation, this interactive session introduces strategies to promote strong and stable marriages. Group discussions stimulate people to make plans for additional ways their community and nation can support thriving, lasting marriages.

 

Handout: Checklist for a Marriage-Friendly Culture

Session 3: Family as a School of Love and Peace

Option A

Presentation: Family as a School of Love and Peace

The family is the primary human institution and is considered sacred by religions throughout the world. This presentation explores how people grow in love through family relations and learn to related with others as members of the broader human family. The World Peace Blessing is introduced as a public commitment to honoring the oneness of the human family.

 

Handout: Religious Insights on Marriage and Family

Group Discussion/Questions

Option B

Presentation: Solving Moral Confusion

Universal values, expressed in the world’s religions, guide our personal behavior and relations with others. Created in the divine image as male and female, we are called to exercise both freedom and responsibility as we grow in love. This presentation describes human sexuality, consummated in marriage, as sacred and the origin of love, life, and lineage.

Handout: Religious Insights on Marriage and Family

Group Discussion/Questions

Session 4: Building Better Family Relationships

Option A

Presentation: Really Listening

Somehow we forget how different our spouse is from us and yet we want them to understand us or do things the way we would. If we want to bridge some of the gaps, the key is effective listening. But research has shown that most of us do not listen well (and many spouses would say the same). In this session we introduce some tried and true listening structures that promote empathy, deeper understanding, and emotional safety. These skills are practiced in this session so the participant can get a sense of how to bring these skills home to spark better connections.

Handout: The Speaker-Listener Technique

Handout: Tools to Improve Communication

Group Discussion/Questions

Option B

Presentation: Parenting Teens

What to do when your teen’s behavior is scaring you out of your wits? If the family is the school of love, parents are the teachers. How we respond when we are upset with our adolescent offers a challenging but important opportunity to teach about relationships and values. This interactive program gives parents opportunities to learn skills that build positive relationships with their children while modeling good communication.

 

Handout: Parenting Teens Handout

Group Discussion/Questions

Session 5: Marriage and Family as Instruments of Peace

Option A

Presentation: World Peace Blessing

This presentation introduces God’s original ideal of the family and how it was broken by the human fall that corrupted love and divided people from one another and their creator. The World Peace Blessings, instituted by Rev. and Mrs. Sun Myung Moon, are central to their vision of bringing together the human family under God, transcending boundaries of religion, race, culture, and nationality.

Handout: Sun Myung Moon on Marriage

Group Discussion/Questions

Option B

Presentation: Marriage, My Spiritual Path

Marriage provides us with the most fulfilling and personal challenge: how does one imperfect person learn to truly love another imperfect person? Most of us tend to think, “If he or she would only do this or be that, then I would be happy.” However, when we see marriage as a spiritual path for our growth, the change in our perspective can be the change we are actually looking for.

Handout: Marriage and Spiritual Growth

Group Discussion/Questions

Option C

Presentation: Family Values and Peace

In order to have citizens capable of creating peace in the world, we need stable families that instill values and capacities for peacebuilding. Marriage and the family serve a unique and essential purpose for optimum human development. Research is showing that straying from that purpose weakens the family, increasing disadvantages for the next generation and the future. Clarifying the value of the family will help us strengthen this essential building block of peace.

 

Conclusion

Moderator's Remarks

Feedback

Additional Resources

 

Spanish PowerPoint Presentations

Una preparación exitosa para el matrimonio

Matrimonio y familia

Construyendo matrimonios sanos, firmes y felices

La ética del verdadero amor y la sexualidad

¿Cuál debería ser la relación sexual ideal entre marido y esposa?

 

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Welcome to the UPF resource page for the Marriage and Family Initiative and the UN International Day of Families observances. [Archive Page]

Previous Years

2013 Theme: Advancing Social Integration and Intergenerational Solidarity

Banner

Download files that can be customized (31MB)

 

Podium Sign

Download files that can be customized (42MB)

 
2012 Theme: Ensuring Work Family Balance

IDF 2012 Powerpoint Report

 

Banner 240in x 60in (609cm x 152cm)

Blank, jpg 7.4MB

Blank with English titles, jpg 10.7MB

Editable Vector, pdf 6.9MB

 

Flyer (A4)

Blank, jpg 1.9MB

Blank with English titles, jpg 2.8MB

Editable Vector, pdf 6.2MB

 

Podium 24in x 24in (61cm x 61cm)

Blank, jpg 2.9MB

Blank with English titles, jpg 3.8MB

Editable Vector, pdf 13.9MB

2011 Theme: Addressing Poverty by Strengthening Families

Powerpoint Presentation

UPF Perspective: IDF 2011 pptx 9MB




Banner for 2011


Program Template


Podium Sign


Flyer for 2011

2010 Theme: The Impact of Migration on Families Around the World


PROGRAM BOOKLET LAYOUT 2:



2009 Theme: Mothers and Families
https://youtu.be/0S_F_nfV-Cc

2009 video report of the International Day of Families

2009 PowerPoint report

High Res. (25MB)