What if peace is not something we create, but something we remember?In this expansive conversation, Eva Dalak sits down with renowned and legendary astrologer, psychologist, and author Debra Silverman to explore the intersection of astrology, psychology, leadership, and inner transformation.Drawing on nearly five decades of astrological practice and a background in clinical psychology, Debra shares how astrology can become a tool not for prediction, but for self-awareness, emotional maturity, and conscious evolution. Together, Eva and Debra explore the unconscious forces that drive human behavior, the role of the four elements in personal and collective healing, and how leaders can better understand themselves and their teams through an awareness of natural cycles and archetypes.The conversation also weaves in Eva's own journey through blindness and the emergence of Peace Activation as a methodology rooted in deep listening, heart-centered witnessing, and embodied transformation.At a time when the world is navigating profound uncertainty and change, this dialogue offers a powerful invitation to return inward, cultivate self-awareness, and become a more conscious participant in our collective future.

In this episode of the Peace Activation Podcast, recorded in the lead-up to the Calling Men to Peace initiative, Eva sits down with longtime Israeli peace activist Yael Patir for a deeply personal conversation about conflict, conditioning, protection, and the role men must play in building a more peaceful future.Drawing from decades of peace activism and lived experience within Israeli society, Yael reflects on the stories many Israeli men inherit about military service, heroism, duty, and protection. Together, she and Eva explore how violence is often normalized through culture and identity, and what it might take to create new models of masculinity rooted in awareness, regulation, and connection rather than fear and reactivity.The conversation becomes a powerful exploration of Peace Activation's core premise: peace is not something we achieve in the future. It is a capacity we can practice now.As Eva prepares to launch Calling Men to Peace, she asks a provocative question:Are we investing enough in helping men develop the capacities required for peace?

“I can’t bring peace in the world if I don’t have it.”  - Reggie HubbardIn this episode Eva lands with a kindred spirit and parallel partner in Peace. His name is Reggie Hubbard, founder of Active Peace Yoga. Stepping up to offer calm and radical presence in the crises of Covid in 2020, Reggie has been sending out lifeboats of love through the language of gongs and bowls, to all the madness of the last 6 years, which there has plenty of.. From the moment we come in contact with Reggie’s radical presence and attunement, his  compassion shines.  It’s a multi-lane intersection of activism, spirituality, embodiment, social transformation, and nervous system regulation. Reggie talks about his burnout and his heartbreaks, his political identity and his move to speaking out about surviving his stroke.Produced by Full Body YES Creative.

What becomes possible when boys and men are offered safe, compassionate spaces to fully express their humanity? That's what we are setting out to discover in this series, Calling Men to Peace. In Part 2 of the Calling Men to Peace series, Eva sits down with global humanitarian, author, non-profit founder and community organizer Hawah Kasat, who is also creator and host of the stunningly powerful Everlutionary Podcast. Drawing from two decades of experience working with boys and young men, Hawah speaks about the range of challenges he has observed that boys and men are facing. Starting with his earliest work supporting boys in Southeast Washington DC over 20 years ago, he began articulating and responding to a broader framework of cultural, social and emotional developmental that education systems were failing to meet. This is fascinating conversation goes on to trace Hawah's journey co-founding the non-profit organization One Common Unity, where he began initiating rites of passage into unchartered local landscapes as well as creating community plaforms for cultural and artistic expression. This conversation moves beyond looking at what's wrong and instead asks, What happens when men no longer have to perform their strength at the expense of vulnerability and connection?Together, Eva and Hawah reflect on their life expereinces - growing up navigating between different worlds - that helped inform their callings toward justice and serving peace.

Hosted by Eva DalakProduced and Co-hosted with J'aime RothbardWhat's the worst thing that can happen when recording a conversation with somebody who you hold in high esteem and admire greatly? Here's the answer: Listen to the entire conversation blossom, unfurl and come to close before you realize that you forgot to press record. That's precisely what happened in our first run sitting down with speaker and writer Charles Eisenstein, and that's where we kick off this second conversation. We open with podcast producer J'aime retelling the story of the first conversation between Eva and Charles - key points including:presencing the power of magic and miracles into spaces where all hope feels lost, where sheer reality would suggest faliure is inevitable. Why we would be wise to become curious in spaces that at first glance may summon our defenses and judgement. How the power of welcoming our triggered responses into the light with loving grace is the key to becoming wholly who we are.All of that sat well and wondrous until J'aime realized the conversation had gone on without ever having pressed the record button. Can you feel your stomach dropping out of your body with this realization? Stick around to find out what actually happened - how this mistake which J'aime expected would lead to her being casted into a state of exhile was met with something else: Peace. This is the first in a series we are exploring, Calling Men to Peace. Here, Charles reflects with us as we inquire into what men need to feel and believe about themselves to enter into arenas of service, peace and healing. Sponsor a man to become trained in Peace Activation We still have a few spaces open to join our 7-Day Peace Activation May 22-28 2026 at Zen Rocks in Greece. ⁠Click here for details!

In this deeply moving episode, Eva sits with Haneen who is a writer, mother, and activist originally from Gaza, to explore what it means to activate peace in the midst of unimaginable loss, displacement, and ongoing violence.This is not a conversation about abstract peace.It is a lived, embodied exploration of how we continue, how we grieve, resist, create, and remain humanwhen everything around us is asking us to shut down.Haneen shares her personal journey of loss, including the death of her father, while holding the collective grief of her people. Through poetry, culture, and presence, she reveals how peace is not the absence of pain, but the capacity to stay connected to life within it.Eva expands on how Peace Activation offers tools for self-regulation, inner connection, and conscious action, now being made accessible globally in five languages, including a new Arabic offering co-created with Haneen.The episode closes with a powerful call forward:For all of us to become integrated in our masculine and feminine qualities, and to step into peace, responsibility, and wholeness.May 22-28 2026: We invite you to come and join us for a very special Peace Activation Immersion with us at Zen Rocks in Greece. ⁠Click here for details!Haneen's websiteHaneen's SubstackEva's SubstackPeace Activation

Eva sits down with Mark Eckhardt, Co-Founder and CEO of Common a worldwide buisness company committed to social innovation, and also Founder of One Million Truths, which collects personal stories to inform conflict-transformation strategies. Mark is an ordained Zen Buddhist priest who also serves on the Presidential Board at Search For Common Ground. He joins Eva to explore what Peace Activation truly means in his work: beyond theory, beyond systems, and into lived, embodied experience.Together, they unpack how peace is not something we create externally first, but something we cultivate internally through awareness, responsibility, and presence.This conversation bridges the personal and the collective, revealing how our inner state directly shapes how we relate, lead, and respond to the world around us. Mark shares his daily embodiment practices that infuse his leadership with relational integrity.At the heart of it is a simple but confronting invitation:Can we take responsibility for what we carry within us?Note: This episode was recorded in December, 2025. May 22-28 2026: We invite you to come and join us for a very special Peace Activation Immersion with us at Zen Rocks in Greece. Click here for details!

In this episode, J’aime is joined by Fabrice Renaudin to explore how somatic integration becomes a living tool within the methodology of Peace Activation. But first, the Love Story of how he and Eva danced into one another on the Playa at Burning Man in 2008. Together, Eva and Fabrice never stopped dancing. With their labor of love, Peace Activation, they are moving beyond theory and into the body: where healing, truth, and transformation actually and naturally occur.Fabrice shares how movement is not performance, but a language of the body. A way to meet what lives inside us : emotion, memory, tension, joy, without needing to explain or fix it.Through this lens, peace is no longer an abstract idea. It becomes something we practice, moment by moment, through presence, sensation, and movement.This conversation invites listeners to shift from thinking and analyzing into to feeling and allowing.We are coming back to our bodies as our authorities.  When we center on moving from seeking to control the body to instead attuning to and listening to it, we are starting a quiet and powerful revolution.May 22-28 2026: We invite you to come and join us for a very special Peace Activation Immersion with us at Zen Rocks in Greece. Click here for details!

In this deeply reflective episode, Eva explores the fourth pillar of Peace Activation: embodied feminine wisdom.Drawing from her lived experience, from UN conflict zones to giving birth in the Costa Rican jungle, Eva challenges dominant narratives around productivity, gender, and power, inviting listeners into a radically different way of being rooted in silence, nature, and inner knowing.This conversation moves from personal awakening to collective healing, bridging motherhood, societal conditioning, and global conflict. Eva shares how reconnecting to the body, surrendering control, and trusting intuition can transform how we live, serve, and relate to the world.Listeners are guided to reclaim their sovereignty. Through presence, courage, and deep listening, this is a practice to self attunement. If you feel called to deepen this work, Eva invites you to join the 7-week Peace Activation training, where participants will learn the foundational tools of this methodology: including trauma awareness, nervous system regulation, relational listening, and embodied peace practices.This training is designed for anyone seeking practical tools to navigate conflict, cultivate resilience, and contribute to a more peaceful world.⁠Registration is now open for the Peace Activation 7-week Foundation Online Training ⁠ Next Cohort: April 9th - May 21st, 2026Resources⁠⁠Learn more about Peace Activation ⁠⁠⁠⁠Eva Dalak⁠⁠⁠⁠Eva's book, Dancing in the Dark⁠⁠Events⁠7-Day Peace Activation Immersion Retreat in Greece at Zen Rocks, May 22-28 2026 ⁠Subscribe to the Peace Activation Newsletter to receive event updates

Host Eva Dak welcomes returning guest Nada Elrhalami to discuss how Eva’s 25+ years working with the UN, EU, and NGOs across 22+ conflict zones shaped Peace Activation. Eva shares an example from Iraq in 2015, facilitating 60 women from different tribes and religions to move from hatred and tension toward heart-centered connection and community action to reduce violence against women, noting similar work in India and parts of Africa. She critiques peacebuilding as a paid “business” that often misses attitude shift, and argues conflict is both danger and opportunity, including how institutions and governments can fuel fear and how aid can function as neo-colonialism. Eva describes her 2010 UN burnout, studying spiritual psychology, and integrating a trauma-responsive approach, nervous system regulation, somatics, yoga, and embodied practice into Peace Activation offerings.If you feel called to deepen this work, Eva and Nada invite you to join their 7-week Peace Activation training, where participants will learn the foundational tools of this methodology—including trauma awareness, nervous system regulation, relational listening, and embodied peace practices.This training is designed for anyone seeking practical tools to navigate conflict, cultivate resilience, and contribute to a more peaceful world.⁠Registration is now open for the Peace Activation 7-week Foundation Online Training ⁠ Next Cohort: April 9th - May 21st, 2026Resources⁠⁠Learn more about Peace Activation ⁠⁠⁠⁠Eva Dalak⁠⁠⁠⁠Eva's book, Dancing in the Dark⁠⁠Events⁠7-Day Peace Activation Immersion Retreat in Greece at Zen Rocks, May 22-28 2026 ⁠Subscribe to the Peace Activation Newsletter to receive event updates