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General Information: Overview: Who We Are: Barbara Salaam Wegmüller

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Barbara Salaam Wegmüller, Was born in Bern, Switzerland in 1952. Since her early years she loved to listen to life stories of ordinary people and to read and listen to the life stories of mystics. In her practice as a medical chiropodist she listened fifteen years to the life stories of her patients.

As a mother of five children she studied the concept of human beings from Rudolf Steiner and the archetype in fairytales, both used to influence the way to educate her children. With small children she used to practice useful practice of mindful daily work taught by Thich Nhat Hanh.

From 1990 she practiced ten years of contemplative studies and yoga meditation practice with the Sufi teacher Annette Kaiser. In the year 1999 she met her teacher Roshi Bernie Glassman at the bearing witness retreat in Auschwitz.

Since 2003 she is the President of the Peacemaker Gemeinschaft Schweiz. She is a Buddha Seat Holder and Dharma Holder of the Circles in the Zen Peacemakers Sangha.

She led small council groups, for eight years in the retreat in Auschwitz. As a founder member she joined the study and the development of the Zen Peacemaker Orden in Europe and later the development of the Zen Peacemaker Circles.

She is a Fundraiser and supporter of the Palestinian Center for the Study of Non-Violence in Bethlehem Palestine.

She is a member of the organization committee of the yearly Buddhist-Christian days of Dialogue in Lassalle - House in Bad Schönbrunn and the monthly Peace-table in Zürich.

She offers weekly Zazen practice, Days of Reflection, and Zen Circle Practice.


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