 During the Forum, McCollum addressed the Kazakhstan Parliament on the subject of "World Peace and Creating a New Narrative for Humanity.McCollum was invited by the Board of Directors for the Association for Global New Thought (AGENT) to join the Dalai Lama’s International Peace Council and the Association for Global New Thought as a core group leader to help facilitate a world event in Rome, Italy, called Awakened World 2012.The event was attended by many political, religious and human rights leaders in the world.