Consider these 4 ways to become less judgemental in your own life, and imagine if we collectively built a culture in which judginess diminished, and kindness, perspective-taking, and understanding grew.
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Zoe Weil
Zoe is the co-founder and president of the Institute for Humane Education. She's the author of several books, including Most Good, Least Harm; Above All, Be Kind; and The Power and Promise of Humane Education.
See her TEDx talk, "The World Becomes What You Teach": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5HEV96dIuY
5 Ways to Break Through Manufactured Desires to Find What Matters
Identify all that is mediating your experience so that you can reclaim your life through conscious, deliberate, and fully-aware choices.
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What a Short Film on Balding Teaches Us About the MOGO Principle
How much harm would you inflict on someone for a luscious head of hair?
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Rethinking the Purpose of School
The most important question is not yet being adequately asked and addressed: What should the purpose of education be?
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5 Approaches to Teaching About Structural Racism
Five approaches for teaching about structural racism in polarized times.
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How to Live with Less Anxiety and Despair
Four steps to reduce anxiety and despair when it feels like there’s bad news all around.
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What Should You Do When You Feel Prejudice Against Others?
Feeling prejudice against someone because of their race is pretty foreign to me, but this past weekend I was blindsided by a tsunami of my own prejudice. My husband and I had finished a walk in Acadia National Park near where we live, and I heard a group of people speaking Russian – a language I’ve studied,…
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Paul K. Chappell: Solutionary Spotlight
Introduction: Paul K. Chappell is an international peace educator, author, and founder of Peace Literacy. He graduated from West Point, was deployed to Iraq, and left active duty as a Captain. Realizing that humanity is facing new challenges that require us to become as well-trained in waging peace as soldiers are in waging war, Chappell…
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Be a Force for Good for Ukraine
I am a humane educator, someone who teaches about the cruelties, destruction, and injustices we perpetrate on other humans, animals, and the environment and who helps people cultivate compassion and integrity and become solutionaries able and motivated to build humane, healthy, and just societal systems. It is in this capacity – rather than as an expert in geopolitics or…
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Don’t Pit People Against Animals
On January 5, 2022, Pope Francis spoke in Rome and described people who have pets instead of children as selfish. He went on to say that pet keeping was “a denial of fatherhood and motherhood and diminishes us, takes away our humanity.” There’s so much that is wrong about his statement. 1. Spoken by someone who himself chose not…
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