Trainings + Events

7-9 am Pacific Time

This will be recorded.

Join the Metta Center for Nonviolence on October 21 for a two-hour gathering with Ela Gandhi exploring the power of satyagraha—holding firmly to truth through nonviolence.

How can we resist injustice while maintaining respect for the humanity of those we oppose? What gives us the courage to act, and how do we sustain that courage through difficult times? Drawing on a lifetime of service, Ela Gandhi will offer reflections on satyagraha as a practice for our daily lives and a force for social change, followed by an open conversation with the audience. Bring your questions, experiences, and hopes for putting nonviolence into practice.

October 25, 10 am -11:30 am Pacific

"Things of fundamental importance to the people are not secured by reason alone but have to be purchased with their suffering . . . if you want something really important to be done you must not merely satisfy the reason, you must move the heart also." –Gandhi, CWMG, vol. 54, 48. Also in All Men Are Brothers, 118.

At a time when protests are rising across the country and around the world, many of us are asking deeper questions about what real change requires. What does it mean not only to resist injustice, but to build something more whole in its place? And where does nonviolence fit—not just as a strategy, but as a guiding force? Join us for a screening of The Third Harmony, followed by a facilitated dialogue exploring what comes next. The film invites us into a powerful rethinking of human nature and the role nonviolence has played—and can continue to play—in shaping our shared future. From there, we’ll take time together to reflect on the moment we’re in: What are today’s movements calling for, and what are they revealing? Is nonviolence simply a tool within movements—or is it the movement itself? What would it take for our actions, our relationships, and our vision to come into greater alignment?