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DESCRIPTION:Monday, February 23rd from 6 - 8 pm at Global Exchange\n\n2017 Mission 
 Street near 16th Street BART\n\n\n\nInformation, discussion & community! 
 Monday Night Forum!!\n\n\nOccupy Forum Presents. . .\n\n\nResilience 
 Resources\n\nin the face of "Slow Violence"\n\nand "Enduring 
 Emergencies"\n\n\n\nA Dialogue with Dennis Rivers\n​ --\nWriter, 
 Activist\n\n​and\nCommunication Skills Trainer\n\n\n\nMany of the 
 problems that we face are going to unfold over decades or even centuries, 
 for example, climate change and radioactive contamination. But our models 
 of political mobilization and participation are often models more of the 
 hundred-yard dash than of the marathon. In this dialogue and discussion, 
 writer and activist Dennis Rivers will explore ideas about resilience drawn 
 from the work of eco-philosopher Joanna Macy, Stanford psychologist Carol 
 Dweck, communication skills trainer Marshall Rosenberg, and the 
 Appreciative Inquiry school of organizational development consulting\n\n(as 
 much as time allows).\n\n\n\nAccording to Rivers, we need to be concerned 
 about resilience because the crises of the world gradually become the 
 crisis of the self. As we work on social problems that embody blatant 
 insanities, such as nuclear weapons that are actually global suicide 
 devices, we necessarily build mental models of those blatant insanities 
 inside of our own minds, which can induce a disabling sort of mental and 
 emotional indigestion.\n\nResilience studies focus on how people mobilize 
 new inner resources\n\nto overcome seemingly impossible 
 obstacles.\n\n\n\nDennis Rivers is a long time antinuclear activist, 
 nonviolence trainer, communication skills coach/author, and Internet 
 publisher. In 1978 he was arrested for the felonious planting of 
 wildflowers on a nuclear reactor site, and has been continuously involved 
 in political protest and social change movements ever since. In the 
 mid-1970s Dennis trained for the Unitarian ministry, but found it 
 impossible to fit into the social role of a parish minister, and instead 
 became a nonviolence trainer and informal chaplain for antinuclear and 
 antiwar groups in the 1970s and 1980s. Dennis studied with Marshall 
 Rosenberg in the 1980s, and with Joanna Macy from the 1990s to the present 
 time.\n\n\n\nDennis received his MA in interpersonal communication and 
 human development from the Vermont College Graduate Program, and has 
 written several books. His workbook on communication skills, combining NVC 
 with Appreciative Inquiry, is available free of charge as a PDF file at 
 www.newconversations.net. The inspirations for his activist and scholarly 
 work include Gandhi, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Joanna Macy, Rachel 
 Carson, Albert Schweitzer, Marshall Rosenberg, Carl Rogers, Archbishop 
 Oscar Romero, and the Austrian Catholic conscientious objector and martyr 
 Franz Jägerstätter.\n\n\n\nAnnouncements follow. Donations welcome, no 
 one turned away! \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/02/22/18768929.php
SUMMARY:OccupyForum // Resilience Resources in the face of "Slow Violence"
LOCATION:Global Exhange (near 16th Street BART station).\n2017 Mission Street, San 
 Francisco, CA - 94110 \n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/02/22/18768929.php
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