<p>Chandra is the Executive Director for the Center for Peace and Spiritual Renewal at Spalding University where she provides institutional vision and strategies for personal spiritual renewal, inward liberation, and social transformation within and beyond the Spalding community.</p> <p>In 1994 she established Irvin, Goforth &amp; Irvin, LLC, a consulting firm which has helped individuals and Fortune 100 organizations throughout the U.S. and internationally to: clarify ambiguities in relationships; overcome chronic difficulties; resolve conflicts; and build meaningful relations across diverse groups. Following the shooting of 9 worshipers in Emanuel A.M.E Church in Charleston, SC, she served as consultant, designer and facilitator to the city’s acclaimed “Illumination Project,” a year-long city-wide process to strengthen community/police relations; and she is presently engaged in a similar endeavor in Louisville called, “The Synergy Project.”</p> <p>Chandra has authored and contributed to several books and articles on peace, human relations, and polarity thinking including, “Finding Peace in Life, Work, and Love, Listening to the Voice Within.” She describes her “sacred innate identity” as Peace. Employing her experience as a licensed minister, certified strengths and life coach (ICF), facilitator, and master consultant in polarity thinking, she journeys with individuals and organizations through uncertainties and disruptions to establish greater peace, purpose and wholeness in their lives.</p> <p>Chandra and her husband Nat have three adult children: Nate, Jovian (George), and Roman; and they look forward to their first grandchild in January.</p> <p><br></p> <p>📚 References:</p> <p><u>Jesus and the Disinherited </u>by Howard Thurman (1949)</p> <p><a href="https://www.leanintolouisville.org/synergyproject/"><u>Louisville Synergy Project</u></a></p> <p><a href="http://theilluminationproject.org/who-we-are/"><u>The Illumination Project - Charleston</u></a></p> <p><u>Polarity Management: Identifying and Managing Unsolvable Problems</u> by Barry Johnson (1992)</p> <p><u>More Beautiful Than Before: How Suffering Transforms Us </u>by Steve Leder (2017)</p> <p><br></p> <p><em>Actors Theatre of Louisville: </em><a href="https://actorstheatre.org/"><u><em>https://actorstheatre.org</em></u></a></p> <p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/ActorsTheatreofLouisville"><u><em>https://www.facebook.com/ActorsTheatreofLouisville</em></u></a></p> <p><em>📷 Instagram: @actorstheatre, @robertbarryfleming</em></p> <p><em>🐦 Twitter: @atlouisville, @flemingrobertb3</em></p> <p><em>Produced by Elizabeth Greenfield</em></p> <p><em>Edited by Paul Doyle</em></p> <p><em>Original music by Omega Latham III</em></p> <p><em>Opening song written &amp; performed by Erica Denise</em></p>