A National Peace Academy Partnership with Metta Center

meditation for peacemakers
Date: March 17, 2012
Location:  Petaluma, CA
Conducted by:   Metta Center for Nonviolence
Course Instructors: Michael Nagler, Metta Center President and Professor emeritus and founder of Peace and Conflict Studies Program, UC Berkeley; Stephanie Van Hook, Metta Center Executive Director
Course fees: $125 general (We do not want to turn anyone away for lack of funds.  We invite those who can [...]

Mike, nonviolence education and Metta

Mike is teaching nonviolence and getting some help from Metta Center. Listen in . . .

 
Christopher Hedges’s selection from “War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning” puts war into a human context, rather than a romanticized one, and asks us to face the forces of war in the realms of culture, myth and crusade within our [...]

Timo, nonviolence and the Metta Center

Timo with Stephanie and Michael in Petaluma
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Timo wrote explaining his work and life in Finland:
 
Since 1999, I have been working at Lapinjärvi Educational Center (LEC) (until 2008 as a full-timer, after that as a guest lecturer) and teaching Civil Service Men, i.e. conscientious objectors who refuse to do the military service. Finland is one of [...]

How to sustain a revolution

By Stephanie Van Hook (distributed by Peace Voice 1.1.12)
 

 
 
Starting a revolution is like lighting a match; it risks becoming extinguished as quickly as it was lit. Sustaining a revolution, however, is like starting a fire, and ensuring that it has the fuel to burn as long as necessary. As an agent of change, I need [...]

Passage Meditation Retreat: Petaluma

We can’t control what life sends us, but we can choose how we respond. If we calm the mind, we can access the deep strength, love and wisdom within us all. Learn to meditate on inspirational passages from the world’s great wisdom traditions to: deepen concentration, develop richer relationships, live more fully in the present, [...]