UP Family

Dani Glass continues her describing her beautiful UP story, this time talking about the simple power of simple truth. Today during staff training, four second year CITs sat in front of a group of 100 of their peers and mentors and answered questions about their...

Traveling After Camp

For the past several months, I have been living in Israel. The majority of my time I spent studying abroad with Alexander Muss High School in Israel (AMHSI), along with 29 American and Canadian teenagers. While we spent Sunday through Friday morning in school,...

Through the eyes of a CIT

With the first full day of Camp UP preparation in the books, the entire staff is eagerly awaiting the arrival of campers on Monday. But UP staff new and returning can’t wait for Camp UP to start throughout the year, no matter what their roles might be....

Hat Tournament Creates Space

I embarked on my first Ultimate Peace experience last weekend. This has been an organization with which I’ve been infatuated with since I heard about its launch in 2009. Middle Eastern conflict resolution was a smattering of oversimplified, idealistic theories...