Season for Peace

16th Annual Gandhi – King Seasons for Peace & Nonviolence – 64 Ways in 64 Days

Welcome to the announcement launching the 16th focused Season for Nonviolence that begins January 30th on the anniversary of  Gandhi’s  passing and ends on April 4, the anniversary of   Martin Luther King’s passing.   I am hoping that you are visiting this page as you are interested in ways you can personally participate or create events for your community!

64 Ways in 64 Days is a program that is being offered by an International group that has spent years collaborating resulting in a beautiful system for bring personal awareness to self-responsibility.

  • receive a daily reflection quote for yourself, organization, teen or child
  • take part in a learning programs during the season
  • create a program for your organization with ease through following guides

Some example programs:

  • Daily Affirmations • Quotations • Practices • Reflections 

The Season for Nonviolence’s foundational program, 64 Ways in 64 Days offers many ways for individuals to practice nonviolence throughout the Season. Here you can find materials for teens, children, group activities, public service announcements, formatted booklets, and a maṇḍala meditation tool.

  • Book Study • Key Concepts • Discussion Questions • Practice Exercises 

• 9 Weeks or Sessions
Based on the revolutionary book by His Holiness, the Dalai Lama, this self-organizing group course adapted, from a study guide created by the Dalai Lama Foundation, is perfect for church or community groups of any size. In each session, participants will review two chapters from, Ethics for the New Millennium as the starting point for an in-depth exploration of ethics in our own lives and how these can be applied to transformation in our communities.

YOUR PARTICIPATION:

If you are in the Greater Victoria area and would like to gather for bringing this awareness to our community contact using the form below or email her at renee(at)insideawareness(dot)com.

2013 ~ Vancouver Island’s year of the Labyrinth

In September, 2013 Northern Vancouver Island will be hosting the First World Labyrinth Conference in Canada.

Labyrinths for Global Healing, Landscapes for the Soul”

The greater Victoria area will have participant from around the world arriving a few days before, September 17, 2013, who will pilgrimage up-island to experiences 50 assorted Labyrinths on the Island.

I look forward to supporting Greater Victoria in being a living presence in this meaningful event.  If you are wishing to be apart of creating something to our community bringing awareness to the qualities of wellness physically, emotionally and mentally I would welcome your connection.

This picture is a sand labyrinth drawn at Gonzales Beach in the summer of 2012.   Sand Labyrinth 008

 

For more information on how to draw a sand labyrinth.

“Gift of Movement for your favorite people”

Monterey Activity Centre

Or print:

Monterey Winter Program – Balance and Fear of Falling pdf

Choice

A strong human value/need is to have choice and the power to make a decision between two or more possibilities.  A value-based empathetic language of compassion is one that acknowledges choice in dialogue.  It translates the mundane “have to” consciousness into one of recognition that this too is a choice and translates it into using different phrases that create open-ended choices.

The value of choice is one of human’s greatest needs

Life Area:  Autonomy

It is this need that could be the source of all moralistic judgments and passive and aggressive violence.  If there is no choice, the options are to fight or give in.  Imagine a moment what feelings arise for you when you consider not having a choice.  Do you sense a fight, flight or fright moment? Learning self-empathy steps and those for empathetic listening of others will shift those in the conversation into an experience of choice.

Practice your empathy skills this week. 

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Coming this week! Stay tuned on how you can benefit!

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The value of courage:

Life Area: Interdependence
Learning a new language is a new culture. You even think differently! It doesn’t take courage to learn a new language it takes time, effort and patience. It can be stimulating and inspiring. Now, here’s the thing, take your birth language and consider creating a new one while noticing your thought/speaking patterns. With a new language you are developing new brain pathways. Changing your language you are retraining old pathways in your brain and creating new. Now add to it that you are stepping free of the herd and being the change. This is courage!