By Janice Lewis

For the past 10 years, I have had the privilege of organizing a team of adult meditators who offer Peace Club each year to more than 200 children, teens, and adults who have the added stressor of financial strain in the lives in Chicago. Peace Club is an 8-week series of mindfulness, meditation, peace circles, mandalas, labyrinths, other contemplative practices, and great fun!

Peace Club is offered during the school year and at a summer day camp, and at a social service center for the interns and the staff and their guests. The guests of the non-profit often report that mindfulness and meditation helps to relieve their stress. Labyrinths are simply walking meditations and the labyrinth is incorporated in all that is offered in all the Peace Club meditation groups: Peace Club, Peace Club for Teens and Peace Club for Adults.