voices of humanity
Re: Nonviolence and Global Transformation
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Rev Leland Stewart asks us to "inaugurate ... a dynamic conversation about the use of nonviolence for personal and global transformation starting now."
Personal transformation seems a slow cooking alchemy that I don't have that much of a handle on, so I'll not go into that, but there is something on global transformation that I'd like to share.
The 2006 video "Encounter Point" has become a focal point for global organizing around nonviolence and our Global Assembly software may play a part. Here is a YouTube link for excerpts from the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiZ7vlRf8aI. The main site for the video is at http://encounterpoint.com and on this site the community and classroom guides are key. These are detailed write ups of how to use the video in small groups to best effect.
Here in Los Angeles, the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Ethics in Malibu is gearing up to show the video around the city in many small venues. At each showing, the audience will be asked to sign up for an "Encounter Point" interfaith dialog that will use our GA software. The intent is to get the Encounter Point Dialog going and then to arrange with Ronit Avni, the producer of the video, to include the EP Dialog in the screening guides. In this way we can build a global interfaith network around nonviolence using the video as a catalyst.
We are planning to run the video at the February Unity-and-Diversity Global Assembly meeting in Los Angeles. A notice will go out with details to GA Los Angeles members when the venue is definite.
Of interest in this regard, the dialog software is being upgraded to include a forum capability where we can individually respond to the dialog messages. The design of the new forums will allow members of one dialog to participate in the forums for all the concurrent dialogs. Therefore the EP Dialog will interact at the forum level with the GA dialog. In this way we can build our total participation.
Personal transformation seems a slow cooking alchemy that I don't have that much of a handle on, so I'll not go into that, but there is something on global transformation that I'd like to share.
The 2006 video "Encounter Point" has become a focal point for global organizing around nonviolence and our Global Assembly software may play a part. Here is a YouTube link for excerpts from the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiZ7vlRf8aI. The main site for the video is at http://encounterpoint.com and on this site the community and classroom guides are key. These are detailed write ups of how to use the video in small groups to best effect.
Here in Los Angeles, the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Ethics in Malibu is gearing up to show the video around the city in many small venues. At each showing, the audience will be asked to sign up for an "Encounter Point" interfaith dialog that will use our GA software. The intent is to get the Encounter Point Dialog going and then to arrange with Ronit Avni, the producer of the video, to include the EP Dialog in the screening guides. In this way we can build a global interfaith network around nonviolence using the video as a catalyst.
We are planning to run the video at the February Unity-and-Diversity Global Assembly meeting in Los Angeles. A notice will go out with details to GA Los Angeles members when the venue is definite.
Of interest in this regard, the dialog software is being upgraded to include a forum capability where we can individually respond to the dialog messages. The design of the new forums will allow members of one dialog to participate in the forums for all the concurrent dialogs. Therefore the EP Dialog will interact at the forum level with the GA dialog. In this way we can build our total participation.
