The Center for Peace is a non-profit church organization located on 17 acres in the foothills of the Smoky Mountains. The Center provides personal growth opportunities through Ceremonies of Awakening such as vision quests, transformational dances, and sweat lodges. Workshops are offered through the year on Huna, Shamanic Healing. Regular activities include drumming, sweat lodges, chanting ... We have a very active children's program. Ministers and counselors provide spiritual counseling, soul retrieval, and past life work. Members of our group travel internationally supporting peace initiatives.

Perry Robinson, co-founder, is a graduate of Maryville College and Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary, he was an active Presbyterian minister for eight years. He brings messages and practices aimed at restoring the richness and power of personal identity, unity of thought, self-sufficiency, Spiritual experience, and healed life.

Jeanne Robinson, co-founder, through a childhood experience with a South American shaman in the early 1950's began preparation for the serious study of shamanism which she would take up in 1988.

In 1989 she helped organize a group of practicing shamans in the East Tennessee area. In her Shamanic practice she does "Spirit Mending" (traditionally called "Soul Retrieval")as well as teaching.

The Center for Peace, a holistic spiritual teaching and healing center, is founded on a vision of inner peace available to all people. In our experience inner peace is found in our awareness of the presence of the Creator [the Spirit Of Life In All Things].

Very aware of the power of personal belief systems, the Center for Peace encourages people to evaluate their beliefs as to whether they limit them or free them in their very personal spiritual journey.