Peace- Season for NonViolence

[wil]

There is time to plan for next year... Jan30-Apr4/2006

I'll post more resources later, please post what you find in the way of events or events you will take part in...

64 ways for 64 days coming up...


United Nations Appeal for Non-Violence

The United Nations has recognized the Association of Unity Churches for the impact its youth groups have had working toward world peace. Through a special U.N. event, the youth of the world joined to make their vision for global peace a reality. The International Youth of Unity (Y.O.U.) recently presented the program "A New Generation for Peace" among dignitaries such as Arun Ghandi (Grandson of Mohandas Ghandi), Rev. Jesse Jackson, Gillian Martin Sorensen (U.N. Assistant Secretary General) and numerous others.

Entitled "Ghandi & King: A Season for NonViolence", this United Nations session convened on January 30, 1998 with a mandate to positively affect this community as well as the entire world. For those not familiar with "Ghandi & King: A Season for Nonviolence"...it is the 64-day period declared by the Ghandi Institute for Nonviolence and the Association for Global New Thought, as the "season" which occurs each year between the anniversaries of the assassinations of Mohandas Ghandi on January 30 and Martin Luther King, Jr. on April 4. The International Y.O.U. has compiled for these 64 days, 64 ways to practice nonviolence in everyday life. The visit to the United Nations was a superb start for the Season for Nonviolence global peace program.

Presenting to the United Nations were International Youth of Unity Co-Presidents Nathan Miller from Overland Park, KS; Stacy Moscow from Mesa, AZ; Mariah Landers from Merced, CA; and Andrew Griffin from Cork, Ireland, as well as International Y.O.U. Director, Cherie Larkin from the Association of Unity Churches in Lee's Summit, MO. Their presentation convincingly illustrated the need to consciously reduce violence, abuse and feelings of aggression globally, as well as increase the need for the acceptance and understanding of different cultures, religions, customs and beliefs. Through this season, one is encouraged to truly understand the beauty of diversity and honor the inherent worth in every human being. Cherie Larkin adds, "It is with Christ in heart and mind that these young sentinels of peace carry the mantel of Unity's message of nonviolence throughout the world."

[path_of_one]

Neat post- if you have the links for nonviolence in everyday action, I'd love to have them. It'd be great to pass on to my students during that time.

As a modern druid, I do peace ceremonies once a month on the full moon. Essentially, it involves prayer and meditation and sending peace out to the earth. I think it goes along with some ideas in New Thought- that you change the world first through your own thoughts, attitudes, and actions.

For me, it helps in everyday action to remember my belief that all living beings have within them the light of God, and my actions "toward the least of these" is as to Christ.

[wil]

http://www.seasonfornonviolence-cs.o...es/P606-6.html

http://agnt.org/

A Season for Nonviolence - 64 Ways in 64 Days
Daily Commitments to Live By

These principles for nonviolence were adapted by the Denver Area Task
Force for: A Season for Nonviolence - January 30-April 4, 1998

Inspired by the 50th & 30th memorial anniversaries of Mahatma Gandhi
and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

1 -- Today, I will reflect on what peace means to me.
2 -- Today, I will look at opportunities to be a peacemaker.
3 -- Today, I will practice nonviolence and respect for Mother Earth by making good use of her resources.
4 -- Today, I will take time to admire and appreciate nature.
5 -- Today, I will plant seeds--plants or constructive ideas.
6 -- Today, I will hold a vision of plenty for all the world's hungry and be open to guidance as to how I can help alleviate some of that hunger.
7 -- Today, I will acknowledge every human being's fundamental right to justice, equity, and equality.
8 -- Today, I will appreciate the earth's bounty and all of those who work to make my food available (i.e., grower, trucker, grocery clerk, cook, waitress, etc.)
9 -- Today, I will work to understand and respect another culture.
10 -- Today, I will oppose injustice, not people.
11 -- Today, I will look beyond stereotypes and prejudices.
12 -- Today, I will choose to be aware of what I talk about and I will refuse to gossip.
13 -- Today, I will live in the present moment and release the past.
14 -- Today, I will silently acknowledge all the leaders throughout the world.
15 -- Today, I will speak with kindness, respect, and patience to every person that I talk with on the telephone.
16 -- Today, I will affirm my value and worth with positive "self talk" and refuse to put myself down.
17 -- Today, I will tell the truth and speak honestly from the heart.
18 -- Today, I will cause a ripple effect of good by an act of kindness toward another.
19 -- Today, I will choose to use my talents to serve others by volunteering a portion of my time.
20 -- Today, I will say a blessing for greater understanding whenever I see evidence of crime, vandalism, or graffiti.
21 -- Today, I will say "No" to ideas or actions that violate me or others.
22 -- Today, I will turn off anything that portrays or supports violence whether on television, in the movies, or on the Internet.
23 -- Today, I will greet this day--everyone and everything--with openness and acceptance as if I were encountering them for the first time.
24 -- Today, I will drive with tolerance and patience.
25 -- Today, I will constructively channel my anger, frustration, or jealousy into healthy physical activities (i.e., doing sit-ups, picking up trash, taking a walk, etc).
26 -- Today, I will take time to appreciate the people who provide me with challenges in my life, especially those who make me angry or frustrated.
27 -- Today, I will talk less and listen more.
28 -- Today, I will notice the peacefulness in the world around me.
29 -- Today, I will recognize that my actions directly affect others.
30 -- Today, I will take time to tell a family member or friend how much they mean to me.
31 -- Today, I will acknowledge and thank someone for acting kindly.
32 -- Today, I will send a kind, anonymous message to someone.
33 -- Today, I will identify something special in everyone I meet.
34 -- Today, I will discuss ideas about nonviolence with a friend to gain new perspectives.
35 -- Today, I will practice praise rather than criticism.
36 -- Today, I will strive to learn from my mistakes.
37 -- Today, I will tell at least one person they are special and important.
38 -- Today, I will hold children tenderly in thought and/or action.
39 -- Today, I will listen without defending and speak without judgment.
40 -- Today, I will help someone in trouble.
41 -- Today, I will listen with an open heart to at least one person.
42 -- Today, I will treat the elderly I encounter with respect and dignity.
43 -- Today, I will treat the children I encounter with respect and care, knowing that I serve as a model to them.
44 -- Today, I will see my co-workers in a new light--with understanding and compassion.
45 -- Today, I will be open to other ways of thinking and acting that are different from my own.
46 -- Today, I will think of at least three alternate ways I can handle a situation when confronted with conflict.
47 -- Today, I will work to help others resolve differences.
48 -- Today, I will express my feeling honestly and nonviolently with respect for myself and others.
49 -- Today, I will sit down with my family for one meal.
50 -- Today, I will set an example of a peacemaker by promoting nonviolent responses.
51 -- Today, I will use no violent language.
52 -- Today, I will pause for reflection.
53 -- Today, I will hold no one hostage to the past, seeing each-as I see myself-as a work in process.
54 -- Today, I will make a conscious effort to smile at someone whom I have held a grudge against in the past.
55 -- Today, I will practice compassion and forgiveness by apologizing to someone whom I have hurt in the past.
56 -- Today, I will reflect on whom I need to forgive and take at least one step in that direction.
57 -- Today, I will forgive myself.
58 -- Today, I will embrace the spiritual belief of my heart in my own personal and reflective way.
59 -- Today, I will enlarge my capacity to embrace differences and appreciate the value of every human being.
60 -- Today, I will be compassionate in my thoughts, words, and actions.
61 -- Today, I will cultivate my moral strength and courage through education and creative nonviolent action.
62 -- Today, I will practice compassion and forgiveness for myself and others.
63 -- Today, I will use my talents to serve others as well as myself.
64 -- Today, I will serve humanity by dedicating myself to a vision greater than myself.

[wil]

How about this for promoting unity and nonviolence between relgions?

Walk the 'Path of Abraham'

and

An Elementary School Curriculum which can be used by public schools, private schools, mosques, churches, synagogues...

[wil]

The Season for NonViolence starts today, with the anniversary of Gandhi's death...take a moment

Day 1, Jan 30: Today, I contemplate Mahatma Gandhi’s statement:
“Be the Change You Wish to See in the World.”

Check out the curriculum for daily meditations, or the entire Season For Nonviolence site to see what you'd like to do.

[wil]

Twas a year ago....time to start anew.

Namaste all, tis the season! What do you want to do this year to support it?


My goals:

-Letters to to cities and two counties, and my state to encourage them to recognize it and support it.

-Elementary school curriculum delivered to more than 100 elemenatary school teachers.

-Curriculum delivered to schools Jr and Sr. High Schools by my sunday students.

-Provide further awarness at church and for the local YMCA, and my community.

Someone last year indicated it should be all year, but like path indicates with her monthly ceremonies having a time dedicated, dedicates a time to it.

So if you celebrate, accentuate and focus on peace and nonviolence daily, bless you.

But for the restuvus, find a system, monthly with the moon, or in this season, or someway...

peace and blessings.

[wil]

tis the season to begin planting seeds for the next season

I'm a bumping, we made inroads last year, to a few more teachers in a few more schools, this year I wish to expand the program where it is started and plant some seeds where it isn't.

I was talking Saturday evening with some friends. My kids were spending a couple hours downtown ringing the bells for the salvation army donation can. We contemplated, when we grew up in school in the 60's integration and bussing were the issue, the US was undergoing a civil rights movement, racial violence and separation were stirring. In the past 50 years great strides have been made, my kids grow up being completely unaware of the amount of prejudice in the past. (they see some, and hear some, and we talk about it, but they really can't fathom it). Today if we can make the same start on inroads with religious understandings....what a world we could bring.

If we work with children a few generations later and the change happens.

Who can you contact to get the season started in a local school?

peace on earth and goodwill to all.

tis the season.

[Muslimwoman]

Wil - all I can say is ........



Big hugs

I shall post my list when I have more time to really think about it.