Ben Bowler
BEN BOWLER is Executive Director of UNITY EARTH (Unity.earth), a co-founder of PEACE WEEK (PeaceWeek.org), WORLD UNITY WEEK (WorldUnityWeek.org) and a key part of its many associated activities like the Convergence event series, New Earth Rising, the 99 Days of Radical Collaboration, Mungo Man, Sacred Australia, Purpose Earth, and many more. While earlier pioneering 1God.com and being part of founding THE CONVERGENCE at VoiceAmerca, he founded Blood Foundation, a micro NGO focusing on Burma issues, interfaith projects and education programs for migrant workers. In 2009 he founded Monk for a Month, a cultural and spiritual immersion program in Thailand. This then grew into World Weavers, a social enterprise specializing in authentic spiritual adventures into some of the world’s great faith traditions, including in Tibetan India, Nepal, Cambodia and Ethiopia. In 2010 Ben launched? Muslim for a Month ?in Turkey, offering guests a first-hand experience of Turkish Islam and Sufism, under the spiritually inclusive banner of Mevlana Rumi. In 2012 Ben convened the first U DAY Festival in Chiang Mai, Thailand as part of the Birth 2012 global events. This event combined spiritual leaders from a variety of traditions with popular music artists. U DAY is scheduled for Ethiopia in 2018, India in 2019 and Jerusalem in 2020. Dubbed ?“The Faith Dealer” ?by Readers Digest in 2013, Ben is a “Social Entrepreneur in Residence” at the prestigious INSEAD Business School.
