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The Practical Idealist: Metta’s Newsletter
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The Practical Idealist May 18
“Nonviolence is not an easy thing to understand, still less to practice.”-–Gandhi (Young India, February 7, 1929) Dear friends, Please find our latest issue of the Practical Idealist at this link with resources, courses, a podcast, and concrete inspiration for your practice of nonviolence! We send a new email every two weeks so make sure… read more
The Practical Idealist: May 4
Check out Metta's awesome newsletter. Be Practical. Be an Idealist. We're here to support you!… read more
Practical Idealist April 6 2019
The Metta Center’s bi-weekly newsletter is a wonderful way to deepen your “person power” and inspire you to go to the next level in your nonviolence work. Check it out.… 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
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
Youth Leadership: Newsletter
Our mission is to “help people practice nonviolence more safely and more effectively,” and there could not be a more propitious or critical time to do that. For our latest newsletter, we discuss how youth are leading the way in waking up the US to action around challenging gun violence. You’ll also find links to… read more
