Welcome to Virginia Swain!
Virginia Swain is FMC’s newest member. She so grateful to FMC for providing clearness and support for her leading in the 90s to offer Reconciliation Leadership and a Global Mediation and Reconciliation Service to the United Nations.
Faithfully following her 30-year leading in the UN, Virginia now offers her knowledge and experience to restore faith in American leadership. She trains Reconciliation Leaders, has a private practice in spiritual care, finding your personal life mission, career and life direction and counseling at virginiaswain.com. Read her blog https://virginiaswain.com/blog/.
She offers first Monday monthly America’s Soul Community, being an ambassador for the Trust Network both to offer early warning and social cohesion. Virginia was mentored by Friend Elise Boulding, peace scholar. Elise trained Virginia to facilitate Imaging, believing no challenge can be resolved at the level it was created. Virginia plans to offer an intergenerational imaging session for First Day School/Adult Education in April 2023. Virginia will speak about “Living with the world’s soul” at the New Story group on October 24.
Get to know Virginia through her writing and websites. Her books, A Mantle of Roses: A Woman’s Journey Home to Peace (Xlibris 2004) and My Soul’s Journey to Redefine Leadership: A New Phoenix Rises from the Ashes of 9/11 (Xlibris 2016 and Audible 2022) are both available at virginiaswain.com/new-book.
Some of the articles she co-authored with New York City Reconciliation Leader and Public Servant Dr. Sarah Sayeed:
- A Leadership and Practice to Reconcile Challenges in a Post–September 11th World
- Reconciliation as Policy: A Capacity–Building Proposal for Renewing Leadership and Development
- Moving Beyond the Victim-Perpetrator Model at the United Nations
Virginia contributed to the Quaker anthology, Immersed in Prayer; Stories from Lives of Prayer with her contribution “Turning to the Light of God to Restore Faith in Humanity” in What Dost Thou Say? (Edited by Friend Michael Resman) and a 2015 presentation at the Quaker Institute for the Future.
Virginia is on the Massachusetts Advocacy Team for Friends Committee for National Legislation and works for the enactment of the House and Senate “Building Civic Bridges Act” supported by FCNL and Interfaith America. She wrote an oped piece about the bill published in the Worcester Telegram July 3 and Interfaith America Journal. She was named Trust Ambassador by the Trust Network and featured in a Worcester Living article,” Virginia Swain has made global conflict her life mission” here. Explore her websites www.global-leader.org, VirginiaSwain.com and www.centerglobalcommunitylaw.org
