Nonviolent communication

Dear WeStrive Community,

This morning, at 12:00A exactly, a community-wide research opportunity came to a close: it was an effort in co-creating the materials for this weekend’s Meet-up around the theme of social media’s effects in and on our lives. We invited our network to share their answers to three questions in any way that they wanted—email, text, Tweet, a message, a videoblog—and we received some wonderful answers! Tomorrow we will release the co-created video that Meet-ups around the world will be able work with during their gatherings. The three questions we posed were meant to inspire us all to begin to really understand just how effective social media is:

• What is social media?
• How does social media impact my life?
• How can I use it to benefit and do good in the world?

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“And from a cliff-top is proclaimed

The gathering of souls for birth,

The trial by existence named,

The obscuration upon earth

And the slant spirits trooping by

In streams and cross and counter-streams

Can but give ear to that sweet cry

For its suggestion of what dreams!”

(Robert Frost, “The Trial by Existence”)

With these words, Robert Frost offers us an idea of what it is to be a “spiritual being having an earthly experience.” Read more »

Written by Luigi Morelli   

There are some compelling ways in which groups who were sworn enemies have learned to bury the past, get in touch with their feelings now, and learn to get theirs and others’ needs met.  Listed below are some resources for this transformative work, happening across the globe.
 
As a method NVC is the gateway to practical spirituality.  After using it purely as a tool many will awaken to experience a clearer relationship to the self. The greatest joy comes from feeling connected to the life around us and contributing to the enrichment of our own and other people’s lives. It is more of an experience than a feeling. Two important questions to ask ourselves are, “What is alive in us at the moment?” and “What can we do to contribute to life, our own or that of others?” Even though these questions are simple, we often don’t know how to answer them because we may be disconnected from our feelings and needs. Through NVC we can discern what supports life in us and others and what does not. But we need to do this in a way that does not introduce evaluation/judgment of the other person. Read more »