2020 Osher Fall/Virtual "From Emergency to Emergence" #12

From Emergency to Emergence 

Music: Beyonce and Kendrick Lamar, "Freedom" Link to site

Essential Questions:

• What is the Relevance of Nonviolence/Civilian Resistance today?

• What unanswered questions still exist about Nonviolence/Civilian Resistance?

• Where can I continue to learn more about Nonviolence/Civilian Resistance?

• What are some strategies to maintain resilience during a time of crisis?

Rick's Rap 

• Reading: Stevenson & Zinn quote

• Overton Window 

• "Yes! Magazine: A Journal of Positive Futures,"  Link to site

 • Nonviolent Wilmington Link to site

• Optimist Daily Link to Site

Unanswered Questions:

Exercise: Tools for Resilience 

Closing: "Something that I liked about this course was..."

Readings:

• David Korten, "From Emergency to Emergence,"Yes!Magazine, 4/23/20 Link to article

• Andrew Marantz, The Anti-Coup: Strategic Nonviolent conflict has led to democratic reforms around the world. Can it work here?"The New Yorker,  Link to site

• Pope Francis, "A Crisis Reveals What is in Our Hearts," New York Times, 11/26/20 Link to article

Resources:

Finding Steady Ground - Creating Resilience

• Daniel Hunter, "Finding Steady Ground", Link to site

• Staci K. Haines, "How to Nourish Your Resilience in a Time of Trauma," YES!Magazine, 9/30/20 Link to site

• Joanna Macy and Sam Mowe, "The Work That Reconnects,"  The Buddhist Review:Tricycle,  Spring 2015, Link to article

• George Lakey,  "What Role Were You Born to Play in Social Justice?' Waging Nonviolence, 2/3/16 Link to article

"Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break with the past and imagine their world anew. This one is no different. It is a portal, a gateway between one world and the next. We can choose to walk through it, dragging the carcasses of our prejudice and hatred, our avarice, our data banks and dead ideas, our dead rivers and smoky skies behind us. Or we can walk through lightly, with little luggage, ready to imagine another world. And ready to fight for it." 

Arundahti Roy 

' I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples."

Mother Teresa