Children Singing Peace Around the World (CSPAW) Composed, Created and Directed by Dawn L. Ferguson Children Singing Peace Around the World is a living prayer to heal the Earth sung with heartfelt commitment by youth and elders around the globe.  Originally composed on Mt. Haleakala, Maui, Hawaii, its message of Peace and Aloha radiates worldwide through CSPAW programs, recordings and sharing heart to heart.

Dawn L. Ferguson, A.P.R.N., M.S.N., C.M.T. (NCBTMB) is a nurse psychotherapist and healing arts professional with over thirty years of professional experience working with adults and children in a variety of settings.  She earned her Masters degree at Yale University in l979 where she subsequently taught in the graduate nursing program.  She has provided stress management, crisis intervention, individual, family and group psychotherapy services as well as employee assistance and wellness services to private and public and organizations.  In l996 she established the Dolphin Sunrise Network which is dedicated to exploring human consciousness and creativity, to promoting optimal human and planetary wellness and to facilitating human interbeing with the natural world.  She holds many post-graduate certificates in group psychotherapy, gestalt therapy, family systems therapy, hypnosis, imagery, CISD and substance abuse. Her healing arts credentials also include national certification as a massage therapist and many certifications in various bodywork modalities.  She has been a student of chant in the eastern traditions and has learned from many around the world integrating sound/music in healing.  She is an international teacher in the use of vibroacoustics and sound in the healing arts and integrates the same in individual and group sessions to facilitate relaxation, creativity, and optimal health. Her experience with the vibroacoustic geometric sound environment called the DreamWeaver, is included in a film series called Healing Quest produced by Lightbridge productions which began airing globally in 2002 and in the US in 2003. 

Dawn's personal development led her to explore relationships between humans and dolphins and whales in the wild, in the late eighties.  This passion moved her to her current home in Hawaii in l997.  She has logged thousands of hours swimming with cetaceans in the wild, observing their family systems and interactions, as well as observing and experiencing human responses to being present with cetacean families.  She integrates what she has learned from these experiences into her work with people.  Dawn recognizes that for us to achieve optimum health we must not only be aware of our interconnection with nature, but honor nature in the way we live our lives.  As we heal ourselves, we heal the earth and vice versa.  She has offered experiential education programs for adults and children in nature to expand awareness and deepen one s connection with Self, one another and with the Earth and her inhabitants.  This experience is now integrated in her CSPAW programs with youth around the world.

Dawn is also a singer/songwriter whose first CD, Heartsongs of the Universe, expresses her original songs and music that have been beacons along her spiritual path since l988. Several of the songs teach of the role of colors, tones, music and form in communications and human evolution. The purity and simplicity of her songs speak to the child and light in all of us.  Her CD is available for purchase at her workshops and retreats and is otherwise available through her website. In  l999, Dawn became a videographer and a producer at Akaku Community Television in Hawaii where she produced a series entitled, "Explorations into Healing Sounds".

Dawn is the Composer, Creator and Director of Children Singing Peace Around the World (CSPAW), a song and international educational experience for children promoting an awareness of unity and peace and providing a medium for earth's children to connect with one another heart to heart.  She is recording and filming children globally singing "Children Singing Peace Around the World", creating dances for the song and sharing their views on peace for production of a CD and video documentaries designed as resource tools for teachers and others wanting to integrate peace curricula in children's education worldwide.  CSPAW Volume 1 CD/DVD featuring Youth and Elders from Around the Earth with Dawn L. Ferguson was published July 1, 2005.  Her song has been translated in twenty six languages with more coming in.  She received a Ghandi/King Season for Peace and Nonviolence Peace Hero Award in February, 2002 in recognition of her work.