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BREAKING NEWS!
The next Compassionate Communication Workshop will take place in the Hartford area on May 10 and 17. Be the change you want to see in the world! Wonderful Pan Vera will be the facilitator. Click here for details.
The last COMPASSIONATE COMMUNICATION WORKSHOP was meaningful, even transformative, the Weekend of Feb 8-10. Warm hugs to every person who participated and to our facilitator supreme, Pan Vera.
To help us practice what we learned at the Workshop, Practice Groups in Compassionate Communication (based on Marshall Rosenberg's book Nonviolent Communication and the accompanying work book) will be meeting in 4 locations. Click here for dates and locations.
Mystic Spirit
Group invites you to sit down with a small group of
people and talk about things that really matter.
When: Wed
Apr 9th at 10 am.SAVE THE DATE!
Where:
Union Baptist Church in Mystic
What:David Arnold will give us insight into Al Pesso and Diane Boyden's Psychomotor Work. See
Calendar for more information.
SONG OF PEACE CONCERT
MARCH 30TH AT FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF OLD LYME was so wonderful! Thanks to Julia Hikory, the wonderful organizer! The event was participatory and inspiring as we sang for peace and justice throughout the world. This was part of a worldwide project during the month of March, in which people around the globe dedicated music to world peace (see songofpeace.org)
Now is the time to sing
our hearts out for peace, justice and the Earth.
All are welcome to join the
Joyful Noise Chorus.
Contact Julia at 860-442-0306 and see
Calendar for rehearsal and performance schedule.
Part of our New
Bottom Line is appreciating the sacred in every creature on
the planet. See
Poem by Maggie.
There are no
membership fees for our local chapters. We present book
discussions, meetings of the minds, workshops, and community
projects designed to make a difference. We invite all people
to join us, religious and nonreligious alike. Our aim is to
explore and resusitate the depth of meaning in today's
society.
Call
860.388.0483 for more details.
Members of the Connecticut chapters of
the NSP believe that the political, moral and spiritual
climate of America has to change for the better.
It is
time to replace a value system based on money, power and
success with an ethic based on generosity and compassion.
Uniting to work with people to bring this change about
is the purpose of our group. Based on teachings from the
book The Left Hand of God: Taking Back Our Country from the
Religious Right, by Rabbi Michael Lerner, we hope to
contribute to the formation of a
Spiritual Coventant with America (PDF) with America.
Find where Connecticut
chapters meet.
If you can't join us in fact,
join us in spirit!
Left Hand of God: Taking Our Country back from the
Religious Right by Michael Lerner. Since Michael's visit to
Old Lyme in March 2006, we've had at least 6 groups that
have met 4 or 5 times to discuss this book. Please
contact us if you're interested in a book group in your
area. The book is available in many libraries and bookstores
and we have some loaners too.
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UPCOMING HIGHLIGHT
NEW SERIES! "WOMEN AS PEACEMAKERS" with Julia Hikory. Will take place in the fall. All welcome (men too!)! For info, contact Julia at 860-442-0306. Suggested reading: Urgent Message from Mother by Jean Shinoda Bolen -- a small and wonderful gem of a book
Time to Decide
Of all the qualities that
define the health of a democratic society, which are most
important?
- Our capacity for
violence, or our capacity for love?
- The urge for power, or
the need for friendship and compatibility?
- Obsession for wealth, or
compassion for other people?
It is unfortunate that we
have to ask these questions. The lust for power and wealth,
and the use of violence have become all too prevalent and
are unfitting for a nation as powerful and morally inclined
as the United States. We have long accepted a leadership
role in propagating freedom and morality in the world. This
position demands consideration in everything we do.
Careless, self-promoting action not only ruins our image
abroad, it ruins the soul of America here as well.
Gradually we have watched the vices of yesteryear
transform themselves into the virtues of today. People who
consider themselves moral feel no compunction embracing
greed and power over others (despite sharp religious and
philosophical warnings), and politicians take advantage of
this! Our national focus has shifted away from the good of
all our citizens, to the benefit of those who least need it.
Where is our national conscience? What has changed it?
When did we decide that social progress just isn't
worth it anymore. How is it that we cater to the welfare of
corporations instead, who make shipping jobs overseas while
hiring illegal immigrants a national priority?
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