Dehumanizing Always Starts With Language
Adapted from Braving the Wilderness (2017) Chapter Four: People Are Hard to Hate Close Up. Move In. THERE ARE ALWAYS BOUNDARIES. EVEN IN THE WILDERNESS. When we commit to getting closer, we’re committing ...
Establishing Healthy Conscious Moral Norms
Establishing Healthy Conscious Moral Norms Violence often begins by making the “other” less-than, dehumanized, demoralized, or demonized in some way. The violence occurring in the United States, from the capital insurrection, ...
Sacred Activism
Sacred activism is a call for each of us to dedicate our full selves — mind, body, and heart — to the liberation of every creature on this planet. Not only ...
Pace e Bene Nonviolence Conference Aug 2020
Video 1 Online Zoom Webinar Conference (7 hrs) Video 2 Nonviolence Training Soul Force: From Spirit To Street (3 hrs) Click here to see other available training Video 3 Third Harmony ...
The Philosophy of Nonviolence
excerpted from “Stride Toward Freedom”, 1958 by Martin Luther King, Jr. The philosophy of nonviolence Since the philosophy of nonviolence played such a positive role in the Montgomery movement, it may ...
Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Principles of Nonviolence
1) Nonviolence is a way of life for courageous people. It is active nonviolent resistance to evil. It is assertive spiritually, mentally and emotionally. 2) Nonviolence seeks to win friendship ...
Nonviolent Climate Crisis Change
Avi Kaplan sings “Change On The Rise” as Greta Thunberg organizes nonviolent change to the climate crisis “We don’t want you to be hope, we want you to panic!” ~Greta Thunberg ...
Nonviolence
Non-violence doesn’t just mean not doing violence; it’s also a way of taking positive action to resist oppression or bring about change. The essence of non-violent technique is that it seeks ...
Contemplative Interbeing for Nonviolent Activists
Interbeing is a state of deep connectedness, a recognition that we are connected to all other beings, connected to the depths of our Beingness, and the ground of Being. When our ...
NonViolence
CHAPTER 13 THICH NHAT HANH Thich Nhat Hanh (1926 – ) was born and raised in Vietnam. As a young man, he became a Buddhist monk. When Vietnam was gripped by ...