A Peace of My Mind

08/25/2026

We’ve got a full schedule of programming lined up for the fall (8 states in the next 4 months) and our website is updated with upcoming engagements.

Visit the EVENTS page on our website to see if we will be in your neighborhood.

https://apeaceofmymind.org/events/

08/24/2026

“Never before has our conference felt like a museum.”

We spent a couple days with to learn about and gather stories about their work at their annual gathering in Phoenix.

Some of the best work we do at A Peace of My Mind is to partner with groups making positive change in the world and use our storytelling and art to celebrate and amplify that work.

Preaching to the choir, you say? Nah…encouraging the choir, so they keep singing.

Change work is hard work. Is good work.

08/23/2026

“Seek peace and pursue it.” Grateful to partner with our friends at San Pablo church in Minneapolis as we lean into a new storytelling project, supported by McKnight Foundation. Over the next year we will gather stories in five communities across the state to see how Minnesotans reflect on 250 years of this American experiment. How are we doing? What can we celebrate and where do we have work to do?

08/22/2026

Starting on Monday, our SOBR exhibit will be on display at Northeast Wisconsin Technical College in Green Bay, WI. The exhibit will be in the Eagle Gallery through Sept 18 and open from 8a - 430p each day.

08/16/2026

“Havre is not alone.

Located in the flatlands of north central Montana, it’s a rural community of about 10,000 people. That’s about the size of the town I grew up in.

Life there can be beautiful. It sits just north of the Bears Paw Mountains. Big skies. Ranching country.

But life there can be hard, too...”

There’s a new series of stories posted on our website.

When have you found unexpected courage?

https://apeaceofmymind.org/2026/08/15/havre/

08/15/2026

Exploring what’s possible.

As we start work on a series of community projects supported by the first step is

Over the years A Peace of My Mind has developed and practiced a set of tools that can use art and storytelling to open conversations, build connections, and imagine new possibilities together.

That doesn’t mean it looks the same everywhere we go. Imposing structures and systems in a sort of “one size fits all” methodology is a part of what creates tension.

Instead, we and learn about the needs and aspirations of a community. Then we shape programming together to try to meet those needs and aspirations.

So yesterday, we started the process in Willmar, one of our partner communities. We met with civic leaders and stakeholders to see if there was a way to use what we do to help amplify what they are already doing.

The question: “Do you want to try this?”

The answer: “Yes!”

We walk through the doors that open. We do this together. And I can’t wait to get going.

This is the start of a two year project. Stay tuned for updates.

08/15/2026

I’m grateful to have an article in the summer issue of Lilipoh: the spirit in life.

Listening as an Act of Courage.

“In a time when conversations often feel like collisions-sharp, reactive, and fleeting-there is something quietly radical about listening. Not waiting to speak. Not looking for an argument. But a deeper, slower, more human kind of listening-one that asks us to soften, to stay, to be changed.”

Find their publications at Lilipoh.com

08/11/2026

TEDx Black Mountain
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How To Listen For What Else Is True

by John Noltner
APeaceOfMyMind.org

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=79M5M2V2UX4&ra=m

08/11/2026

08/07/2026

My TEDx talk is live!

Last month I had the pleasure to share the stage with other speakers at in and talk about how can .

Many thanks to for inviting me and for coordinating an amazing event.

I hope you’ll take 12 minutes to listen.

And if you would, help us build some early traction for the talk. Click like on the video. Drop a comment. Share it on your social networks.

One story at a time…one voice at a time…we can shift the world toward hope, healing, and human connection…if we choose to listen.

In this TEDx talk, photographer and storyteller John Noltner explor...