Create a Program with Us: Metta Mentors, 2010!

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Dear Metta Community,
May this find you grounded in peace and gratitude as we prepare together for the transition to a new decade, one full of promise and potentiality for the continued movement toward an ever-more-nonviolent future!
We are writing today to update you on the status [...]

Nonviolence Inspires Art Again

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I am so psyched to hear that the nonviolent protest of students at Cal (University of California at Berkeley) is being celebrated in song! Though not all of the protests have been nonviolent, it is the nonviolent response that is getting people’s attention. Why? My guess is because it is do damn brave! Anyone can don [...]

Vote for Nonviolence with Free Range Studios

A vote for nonviolent communication is a vote for nonviolence!
Have you seen The Story of Stuff? If not, consider stopping to watch it now. Then by all means, continue…
Did you think it captured the attention of the world in a way that no other medium had done before? Many people did. Did you learn something from that [...]

Nonviolence inspires art. Can art inspire nonviolence?

The Metta Center’s neighbor, Bill Denham,
is an exceptional poet.
He expresses himself sincerely in art, in poetry,
in wood, and in concert with the Earth.
When Bill read Gandhi the Man 
he was inspired to write these beautiful haiku,
and to share them with us.
(The book was a gift to Bill from Metta,
and was written by [...]

Metta and Young Spirit Foundation to reignite EFNV

How many of you know about Educators for Nonviolence? If you didn’t before, well, you do now.
Educators for Nonviolence (EFNV) is a sister project of the Metta Center, first started as a joint project between Metta and the Dalai Lama Foundation. The mission of EFNV is “to make the teaching and living of nonviolence part of mainstream education.” How [...]