Best Ever You Peace Summit 2027

January 7–10, 2027

Peace Is a Practice.

What if we stopped thinking of peace as something we hope will happen and started practicing it in the places where we actually live?

At home. At work. In our relationships. In our communities. In difficult conversations. During grief and change. When we're overwhelmed. When we disagree. When the world feels anything but peaceful.
 

From January 7–10, 2027, Best Ever You will bring together authors, educators, leaders, experts, advocates, and everyday peacebuilders for four days devoted to one powerful idea:

Peace is a practice.
 

The Best Ever You Peace Summit 2027 is an invitation to explore what peace looks like in real life and what can happen when each of us takes responsibility for the peace we bring into the world.
 

Pause. Breathe. Choose.
 

Peace begins with us. And it grows through what we do next.
 

Our Mission

Our mission is to inspire people around the world to practice peace through meaningful conversations, practical tools, compassionate action, and everyday choices.
 

The Peace Summit is part of a larger goal to reach one million people with the practice of peace and create ripples that extend into families, relationships, workplaces, schools, organizations, communities, and beyond.

Because peace that stays only within us isn't finished.

Peace begins with me and grows through us.
 

Hosted by Best Ever You

The Peace Summit 2027 is presented by The Best Ever You Network, founded by bestselling author, speaker, coach, and podcast host Elizabeth Hamilton-Guarino.

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The summit builds upon the ideas explored in The Peace Guidebook: How to Cultivate Hope, Healing, and Harmony for the Good of Humankind, co-authored by Elizabeth Hamilton-Guarino and Dr. Katie Eastman, and the growing work of the Percolate Peace Project™.

Together, these efforts share one central belief: we don't have to wait for the world around us to become peaceful before we begin practicing peace ourselves.

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What Makes the Peace Summit Different?

This isn't four days of simply talking about how wonderful peace would be.

We're going to practice it.

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Throughout the summit, conversations and sessions will explore how peace becomes something we actually do: how we pause before reacting, communicate through disagreement, protect our peace without closing our hearts, make room for compassion, navigate grief and change, lead with humanity, strengthen relationships, and create positive ripples in the places where we live and work.

You don't need to be an expert on peace. You don't need a perfectly peaceful life. And you certainly don't need to agree with everyone.

You just need to be willing to practice.

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Four Days of Practicing Peace

Day One: Peace Within

January 7, 2027

Before we can bring peace into our relationships, workplaces, or communities, we need ways to return to ourselves.

Day One explores presence, stress, emotional awareness, resilience, mindfulness, hope, and the power of creating space between what happens and how we respond.

Pause. Breathe. Choose.

This is where the practice begins.

Day Two: Peace Between Us

January 8, 2027

Peace gets more complicated when other people enter the room.

Day Two is about relationships, communication, forgiveness, compassion, listening, conflict, family, friendship, grief, boundaries, and learning to see the humanity in one another even when we disagree.

We aren't walking around wearing T-shirts that explain what we're going through. Sometimes peace begins by remembering that there is always more to another person's story than we can see.

Day Three: Peace Where We Live and Work

January 9, 2027

What happens when peace leaves the meditation cushion and enters the meeting room, classroom, kitchen table, hospital, playing field, organization, or neighborhood?

Day Three explores peaceful leadership, workplace culture, parenting, education, caregiving, community, service, purpose, and the everyday environments we help create.

Peace isn't only personal. The way we show up changes the room.

Day Four: Peace in the World

January 10, 2027

How does one person's practice become something larger?

Our final day looks outward toward humanity, belonging, service, compassion, collaboration, and the ways individual choices can create collective change.

We will close the summit not by asking, “Why isn't the world more peaceful?” but with a more personal question:

What can I do to create more peace from where I am?

One person. One conversation. One choice. One ripple at a time.

Who Is the Peace Summit For?

The Peace Summit is for anyone who wants to create more peace in their own life and contribute to more peace in the lives of others. Parents, educators, students, coaches, healthcare and wellness professionals, business and community leaders, authors, caregivers, teams, organizations, and people simply trying to navigate life with greater compassion are all welcome.

You don't need special training or experience.

You just need to show up.

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Speakers and Peace Leaders

Our 2027 speakers will include voices from a variety of backgrounds, professions, experiences, and perspectives, all exploring what it means to practice peace in real life.

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Speakers will be announced as they are confirmed.

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Interested in speaking at the Best Ever You Peace Summit 2027? Speaker information and opportunities will be announced soon.

 

What You'll Experience

Across four days, you'll hear meaningful conversations, interviews, panels, teaching sessions, and practical ideas you can bring into your life immediately. You'll have opportunities to reflect, participate, connect, and consider what practicing peace looks like for you.

This isn't about achieving perfect peace.

It's about practicing it.

 

Join Us January 7–10, 2027

We believe peace can be practiced.

We believe compassion can be strengthened.

We believe one person's choices can influence a family, a workplace, a classroom, a community, and eventually people they may never meet.

And we believe the work begins much closer to home than we sometimes imagine.

It begins with the next conversation.

The next reaction.

The next choice.

Pause. Breathe. Choose.

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Be Peace. Practice Peace. Pass Peace Forward.

January 7–10, 2027

Best Ever You® Peace Summit 2027

Peace begins with me and grows through us.