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Love in a Time of Violence/Nonviolence
The show where we talk about nonviolence and love. Is it enough to say you are for LOVE if you hate others? Doesn’t LOVE motivate acts of violence? How do we understand this? Plus NV in the News!! https://archives.mettacenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/nonviolence-radio_2019-02-15_09-00B.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS… read more
Meditation and Nonviolence: Why and How
A Frequently Asked Question about nonviolence is about meditation: why do we promote it as practitioners of nonviolence and how do you do it? Part II of the show is our Nonviolence in the News round-up for the first week of February 2019, covering resources, events, and stories. https://archives.mettacenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/nonviolence-radio_2019-02-01.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS… read more
Nonviolence Radio Jan 18 2019
We’re joined by Diana Curtin, CEO of Community Matters, an incredible organization with a lot of heart and wide reach, answering the question: how do we build a culture of nonviolence within schools? Curtin highlights their expanding program: Safe School Ambassadors; and draws on a positive understanding of human nature. On the second half of… read more
NV Radio: Shashi Tyagi and NV News
We’re joined by Shashi Tyagi, internationally recognized rural development leader in Rajastan, India and founder of GRAVIS International. She shares stories of life as a student of Gandhi’s disciple, Vinoba Bhave, with an emphasis on her nonviolent practice in communities where she works. Plus our important segment: Nonviolence in the News with Michael Nagler, reviewing key nonviolent… read more
Setbacks Into Victories: Newsletter
Last Friday was the 125th anniversary of the fateful night, June 8, 1893, when Mohandas K. Gandhi, a then-fledgling lawyer, was thrown off a train to Pretoria at Pietermaritzburg for traveling in a first-class carriage reserved for “whites.” How did Gandhi perceive this humiliating setback? And how did it change the course of his life… read more
It’s About Liberation: Newsletter
The very foundation of yoga is nonviolence, as we note in our latest newsletter. And yet, where is the nonviolence in all the yoga-ish ads and selfies we see out there? Largely missing. We’re folding yoga-based practices into our Certificate in Nonviolence Studies course, which is currently under way. Kimberlyn David, who’s creating these practices,… read more
Moms Are Vital to Peacemaking: Newsletter
Taylor Anderson-Stevenson, our Partnership Catalyst and a mother, writes in her introduction to our latest newsletter: This past Sunday, many of us celebrated Mother’s Day. It’s the one day of the year that women are recognized for giving birth, raising children, and taking care of others. Too often, the contributions of mothers are erased or… read more
Media for Nonviolence
Here are just a few powerful resources we recommend as you tune into more nonviolence in our media. Podcasts/Radio: Nonviolence Radio *Nonviolence Radio includes an interview on a topic about nonviolence and the Nonviolence Report (news and analysis) every two weeks. Clearing the Fog Radio Love and Revolution Radio News Analysis- Written Metta’s Opinion- The… read more
Interconnectedness Is Our Safety: Newsletter
It has been an incredible couple of weeks in nonviolence, most notably with the reconciliation of North and South Korea, and the promise of transforming the demilitarized zone (DMZ) into a peace park, sealed with the planting of a peace pine. Doesn’t that feel good, as if through their own reconciliation we are participating in… read more
Embodying Peace: Newsletter
At the Metta Center, we place person power at the center of nonviolent change: If we lack inner peace, we can’t bring bring peace to our families and communities. Person power involves cultivating our personal well-being so that we can create the healthy and sane world we all want to live in. So our latest… read more
