About Goltune
We distribute the message of peace to ourselves, and the people around us, through words at Goltune.com
While living in Iran under threat, fear, and exhaustion, Sara Jamshidi endured unspeakable hardship and injustice, including surviving government-planned kidnappings, prison time, assaults, attempted rape, and much more.
Sara arrived at journalism by reading books like Madame Bovary, the Second Sex, Divine Comedy, Story of Civilization by Will Durant, Rumi’s Mathnavi and others. Reading and contemplating words led Sara to imagine a life beyond that which the Islamic Republic of Iran offered.
Through words and reading, Sara learned that the best response to atrocity, injustice, and war, is to master nonviolent communication, or NVC. And the best way to practice NVC is to communicate her message with peace, kindness, and compassion.
The pinnacle of Sara’s approach to peace, and NVC was to start the Peacemindedly podcast during the pandemic.
“I compared the pandemic to the war I lived through during the 1980s as a schoolgirl,” Sara recalls. “During those years I constantly lived in a state of fear and terror. During those years, my mom encouraged me to keep calm and be kind. And of course, I read.”
Goltune reflects Sara’s growth and advancement in NVC, peace, and the message of peace for herself and the people around her. She wants to show that there is a solution to war and atrocity. The solution is to listen compassionately, to act kindly, and to be open to other viewpoints.
In Goltune, you can read and listen to the conversations with peaceful bridgemakers on the Peacemindedly podcast. You can read book reviews. You can get to know writers with minority backgrounds. You can also read about Iran and Iranian women.
Goltune is a peace and solution-based storytelling website. Sara and the writers she works with, use words to tell stories of peace, resilience, enduring, and triumph. Celebrate peace, kindness, love, compassion, and Nonviolent Communication with Sara and her group.