10 Life-Changing Perspectives On Anger
We all have had our moments of impatience, rage and frustration...but how do these moments affect our lives? Get curious about anger, and you just might discover an untapped well of vital energy that...
View ArticleWriting a Better Story
"When I wrote the song Writing A Better Story I was in the process of doing some very deep inner work, which included stories of personal trauma but also legacy burdens that had been carried for...
View ArticlePaul Farmer: A Life Dedicated to Healing the World
Paul Farmer the renowned Harvard physician, and medical anthropologist who famously said, "The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world," and who dedicated his...
View ArticleDesigning & Supporting Peer-Driven Change
"In a novel approach to addressing poverty, Mauricio Lim Miller shifts ownership and priority-setting to low-income working families through an approach that enables families to self-organize, support...
View ArticleAn Unusual Gift From My Grandfather
"Often, when he came to visit, my grandfather would bring me a present. These were never the sorts of things that other people brought, dolls and books and stuffed animals... Once he brought me a...
View ArticleUkraine's Kseniya Simonova: Weaving Stories with Light & Sand
In 2009, 24-year-old Kseniya Simonova stunned judges and audience alike on "Ukraine's Got Talent", by creating mesmerizing pictures on an illuminated sand table. The series of haunting images that...
View ArticleBending the Arc
"The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world." Paul Farmer, the renowned Harvard physician and medical anthropologist, died this week at age 62. While the world...
View ArticleYou Are Not Alone Across Time
"Remember, Bryan Doerries likes to say in both physical and virtual gatherings, you are not alone in this room and you are not alone across time. With his public health project, Theater of War, he is...
View ArticleThe Revolutionary Power of Diverse Thought
Elif Shafak is a Turkish author, columnist and speaker who writes stories of women, minorities, immigrants, subcultures, and youth in both Turkish and English. In this Ted Talk, she exposes the...
View ArticleA World Held Sacred...
"'Peace is Every Step,' Thich Nhat Hanh reminded us throughout his life and work. In this spirit, in the face of the concerted violence currently being waged against the Ukrainian people, we share the...
View ArticleWhen the Earth Started to Sing
"This sonic journey written and narrated by David G. Haskell brings us to the beginning of sound and song on planet Earth. The experience is made entirely of tiny trembling waves in air, the fugitive,...
View ArticleRediscovering the Earth Emotions
"Glenn Albrecht is a philosopher and environmentalist who for many years was Professor of Sustainability at Murdoch University in Western Australia, and is now an Honorary Associate at the School of...
View ArticleI Want to Be a Ukrainian
In 2005 Meg Wheatley penned a poem to honor the Orange Revolution in Ukraine that began November 22, 2004. It begins with these stirring lines: When I come of age When I get over being a teen-ager When...
View ArticleResilience
This beautiful video was developed by a group of National Park Service staff and interns to explore the trauma, resilience, and beauty of the African American experience in our country. The story of...
View ArticleAn Abolitionist's Handbook
"In her new book, An Abolitionist's Handbook: 12 Steps to Changing Yourself and the World, Patrisse Cullors starts with courageous conversations. She says, "We have courageous conversations because our...
View ArticleDavid Whyte on Courage
"Courage is a word that tempts us to think outwardly, to run bravely against opposing fire, to do something under besieging circumstance, and perhaps, above all, to be seen to do it in public, to show...
View ArticleGreater Good Resources for Peace & Conflict
"As an educational nonprofit, the best we can do, perhaps, is to remind ourselves and our readers that peace is always possible, the vast majority of people resist killing, even the most violent...
View ArticleSpiritual Listening
"Spiritual listening is at the heart of all relationships. It is what we experience when we become a quiet, safe container into which the speaker is able to express his or her most genuine voice. There...
View ArticleThe Island of Missing Trees
"Author Elif Shafak struggled at first with how to write her new book, The Island of Missing Trees. The story she wanted to tell is about a family from Cyprus, a Mediterranean island that was the...
View ArticleFalse Alarm: A Plea for the Earth Music Video
Wake up to the ways the Earth cries out for our care. Ryan Amador and Alixa Garcia team up to show us both the hope and the destruction happening all around. Watch it all the way through without...
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