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July 24, 2020

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Random Acts of Kindness Education Workshops 48 3 4

We often think of kindness as something a person has, or doesn’t. But kindness, like all actions and skills, can be taught and has to be practiced. The Random acts of Kindness Foundation has a workshop for doing just that! { read more }

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Wander among the inspiring ideas and learn more about the resources from Random Acts of Kindness Foundation. { more }

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July 23, 2020

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Reduced or Realigned?

Right now life is reduced to the essentials: to caring for loved ones, finding food, getting exercise without being with other people, staying well, celebrating those who help and mourning those who have succumbed to illness. But letâs think of this as a realignment rather than a reduction. Lucky for us, being reduced to the essentials gives us the opportunity reconnect with who I am beyond the everyday self. Today I am looking for the poise that connects my day-to-day self with my Deeper Being in order to find a place of rest within. Because, in fact, She is always there, waiting for me to turn in her direction. { read more }

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We often tell friends in trouble how there are other people in much worse situations, but it is sometimes hard to do it for ourselves. Take a moment to recognize the scale of suffering of people all over the world, and see how you might be able to lighten someone else’s burden.

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July 22, 2020

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The Courage Way: Leading and Living with Integrity

“Leadership demands courage. You have to make good decisions while balancing inevitable tensions and knowing when to take risks. You need to keep your values in sight regardless of the pressures around you. At its core, leadership is a daily ongoing practice, a journey toward becoming your best self and inviting others to do the same. And that’s where The Courage Way comes in. It’s a guide to leadership that shows how to access and draw upon courage in all that you do. It has its roots in the work of Parker J. Palmer– who, in fifty years of teaching, speaking, and writing, has explored the human spirit and its role in life and leadership –and in the Center for Courage & Renewal’s Circle of Trust approach. Its exploration of the inner life of leadership will equip and inspire leaders in any setting so that they can orient themselves, their lives, and their work toward greater courage, wholeness, and integrity.” Here is an excerpt. { read more }

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Join this Saturday’s Awakin Call with Shelly Francis! More details and RSVP info here. { more }

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July 21, 2020

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John Lewis on Love & the Seedbed of Personal Strength

“Once in a generation, if we are lucky, someone comes about who in every aspect of their being models for us how to do that, how to be that how to place love at the center, the center that holds solid as all around it breaks, the solid place that becomes the fort of what is unbreakable in us and the fulcrum of change. Among those rare, miraculous few was John Lewis (February 21, 1940July 17, 2020)…” { read more }

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For more inspiration, read “Preaching to the Chickens:How John Lewis’ Humble Childhood Incubated His Life.” { more }

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July 20, 2020

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Talking White Fragility with Robin DiAngelo

“I grew up poor and white. While my class oppression has been relatively visible to me, my race privilege has not. In my efforts to uncover how race has shaped my life, I have gained deeper insight by placing race in the center of my analysis and asking how each of my other group locations have socialized me to collude with racism. In so doing, I have been able to address in greater depth my multiple locations and how they function together to hold racism in place. I now make the distinction that I grew up poor and white, for my experience of poverty would have been different had I not been white.” This transcript of a Zeit Campus interview with Robin DiAngelo, the author of “White Fragility:Why It’s So Hard For White People to Talk About Racism” shares more. { read more }

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Check out the Reading Guide for White Fragility here. { more }

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July 19, 2020

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Kate Raworth: Renegade Economist

“Kate Raworth is an economist. A renegade, maverick, rockstar economist. After graduating from Oxford University, she worked in the villages of Zanzibar with micro entrepreneurs, co-authored the Human Development Report for the UNDP and worked for a decade as a Senior Researcher at Oxfam. In 2017 she published her seminal work, Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist. In it she highlights how traditional economics has not only failed to predict or prevent recurring financial crises, it has allowed for worsening environmental degradation and increased social inequality. Old economic models created tools, language, norms, diagrams and mythologies that continue to grip our societies, preventing meaningful social and environmental progress.” More in this Dumbo Feather interview. { read more }

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For more inspiration, check out this article on, ‘The Economics of Happiness.’ { more }

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July 18, 2020

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john powell on Othering & Belonging

john a. powell is one of the foremost public intellectuals in the areas of civil rights, racism, ethnicity, housing and poverty. Despite a distinguished career, powell spells his name in lowercase on the simple and humble idea that we are part of the universe, not over it. He has introduced into the public lexicon the concepts of “othering and belonging.” For powell, “othering” hurts not only people of color, but whites, women, animals and the planet itself, because certain people are not seen in their full humanity. Belonging is much more profound than access; “it’s about co-creating the thing you are joining” rather than having to conform to rules already set. More in this powerful interview. { read more }

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Check out this On Being conversation with john powell for more inspiration. { more }

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