Peace and Justice Week 2023

Part of the transformational experience of a Jesuit education is to start students on a path to awareness of social issues and to teach them how to become advocates for social justice and positive change in the world. At Prep, our annual Peace and Justice Week (brought to you by the Global Justice Coalition and the Christian Service department) highlights an important social justice issue that is particularly relevant and informs students on its social and political implications.

LEARN ABOUT PEACE AND JUSTICE WEEK 2023

What's happening during Peace and Justice Week 2023?

Community Day Workshops

Teacher-led workshops

Low Intensity Workout with Bayern and Behrman
- 50 students
- ½ McHugh
- 2 sessions
Yoga with Señor Martin
- 50 students
- Merlino / McHugh
- 2 sessions
Textile Upcycling with Tordillos
- 25 students
- A108
- 2 sessions
Zentangling with the Art Teachers
- 25 students
- Art Room
- 2 sessions
Reading in Quiet Room
- 25 students
- Library Quiet Room
- 2 sessions
Crotchet in Library
- 25 students
- Library
- 2 sessions

Taize in Chapel
- 25 students
- Chapel
- 2 sessions
Community Walk
- 25 students
- Outside
- 2 sessions
Chess in McDonnell
- 30 students
- Science lab
- 2 sessions
Poetry with Dotsey
- 25 students
- AMH
- 2 sessions
Campus Landscaping (Wood)
- 2 sessions
- Merlino walkway
- 25 student

Eco-Examen Hike with Ben Chu

Meet Ben Chu

As a Specialist for Ecological Spirituality at Gonzaga University and a former Federal Wildland Fire Captain , Ben Chu has a strong understanding of the intersection between faith, social justice, and environmental justice. In this role, Ben animates Pope Francis's Laudato Si by facilitating programs that bring students into deeper communion with creation so that we may experience greater intimacy with God and be inspired to work together in care of our common home.

The Eco-Examen Hike is an embodied adaptation of the Examen in which students will go on a peaceful walk in nature while prayerfully reflecting on our connection to creation. In examining the intersection of spirituality, environmental justice, and social justice, the hope of this activity is for students to deepen their relationship to God, to the Earth, and to others so that we may go forth to help transform our world's ego-systems to eco-systems.