Musing on living a life uses difficulty and conflict as signals for what I care about most… Maria Nemeth, PhD nails it;
Life is hard when you don’t do what you truly value because you are putting all your energy into trying to get rid of your fears rather than materializing your dreams…
You become early before your time when you trade your dreams for illusions of security.
Give moving towards the difficulty a chance. You might be surprised by what you find.
November 16th (tonight) in Port Townsend.
Come explore alternatives to the Punitive Justice model.
Check out JCRJ.Org for more info.
Just finished my last 8 days assisting in the production of this years BayNVC Leadership Program in Nonviolent Communication.
Honored to have worked with Arnina Kashtan founder of Meitarim, the Center for Nonviolent Communication (NVC)in Israel.
Her heart connection deepened my own. Especially liked her thoughts on Guilt, Shame and Anger. Below are photo summaries of her speaking to these topics.
In the spirit of having more options to available to us in the face of difficult emotions, she outlines what these feelings sometimes point to in us and what kind of strategies we can use to work with them.
Part 2
part 3
part 4
More Arnina stuff can be found here
Helping put this on.
Totally believe in the content.
Bienvenidos a Guatemala.
On the southern coast righ tnow in a small village supplementing the exisiting Guatemalan Education System with an Arts, Emotional Awareness and English Curriculum that doesn’t exist in their normal day to day school system.
We Gamized nearly everything, creating activities to Identify animals, greeting, and numbers. Using images of faces to identify feelings, playing infinite field games with no clear winners, and using Agusto Boal’s bible of theater games and adopting them for our needs.
The impact is out of this world. It’s a rare thing for youth to be supported in being who they are in their schooling system, Especially in Rural Guatemala.
The stay here is under the umbrella of a french nonprofit, these guys. Please support them how you can.
Do you know this face?
Why, that’s Marshall Rosenberg, founder of NVC! (Non Violent Communication)
With concepts like Empathy vs. Advice and Power With vs Power Over this guy has changed the way I think about life.
I’m excited to announce I’ll be an Assistant Trainer in the 2011 Bay Area Leadership Program, a year long teacher training program put together by a solid source of NVC yum in the world, BAYNVC.
[I]t is important to understand, not intellectually but actually in your daily life, how you have built images about your wife, your husband, your neighbor, your child, your country, your leaders, your politicians, your gods; you have nothing but images. The images create the space between you and what you observe and in that space there is conflict, so what we are going to find out now together is whether it is possible to be free of the space we create, not only outside ourselves but in ourselves, the space which divides people in all their relationships… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Story Box – An experiment in Connection.
“By creating a venue for people to interactively share their stories, in which participants play the role of both speaker and listener, Story Box will help create a greater sense of connectedness – with ourselves, each other, and our communities.”
To me, it’s about realizing we’re not Alone. You can step into an intimate space, pull the red curtain shut behind you, and read the tender stories of others not so unlike yourself.
Project developed at the MIT media lab in 2010 and Currently being played with at MIT. We’re taking it to Firefly Arts Festival, FIGMENT Boston and Common Boston next summer if time allows.
“In the early 1970s, the US rate of imprisonment was around 100 per 100,000 people. Today, the imprisonment rate is five times higher, the prison and jail population totals 2.25 million, and over 7 million people are now under some kind of criminal justice supervision once parole and probation populations are counted. The US incarceration rate is the highest in the world, far exceeding incarceration rates of the longstanding democracies of Western Europe and the historically repressive societies of South Africa and the former Soviet republics.”
Saturday, December 04, 2010, 2:00 PM
Harvard University Science Center, Hall B
One Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
We’ll be talking about consequences, incarceration, and policy alternatives.
Shame -Nobody wants to talk about it, and the less you talk about it the more you have it.
