Spiritual Activism: One Step At a Time
December 04, 2005
Women's Center Sponsors Two Events You Can't Afford to Miss!
This fall, the Women's Center at Simon's Rock College in Great Barrington, Massachusetts is hosting two events on campus aimed at showcasing extraordinary women who have taken action in different ways to counteract the negative trends in our global society, and point us towards a more positive future.
December 4: Spiritual Activism
On Sunday, December 4, from 3-5 p.m. in Blodgett Living Room, social entrepreneur Amber Chand and psychologist and journalist Nancy Roof will speak on spiritual activism: how we can tap into a broader consciousness of spiritual unity and overcome the divisiveness and polarization that is currently making it so hard for human society to move forward productively.
Amber Chand, was formerly co-founder of Eziba, the first online retailer featuring crafts from around the world. She has just launched her own collection (the Amber Chand Collection) of very special crafts items sourced from regions of conflict and post-conflict , each one produced by groups of women working together—not only for profit, but for peace.
Her latest offering is the Jerusalem Candle of Hope, made jointly by Israeli and Palestinian women in a rare collaboration; five percent of the proceeds from sale of the candles goes to support the Parents' Circle, an organization of bereaved Israeli and Palestinian families working together for peace and reconciliation in the Middle East. Candles will be available for sale at the talk, and make beautiful holiday gifts—with a larger purpose as well. Amber will talk about her own personal journey: how she has grown from an international merchandiser to a spiritual activist whose sphere of action is women's crafts and the international marketplace.
Joining Amber will be Dr. Nancy Roof, founding editor of Kosmos, the leading international journal for global citizens committed to the emergence of a new planetary culture and civilization.
Dr. Roof, a practicing psychologist, has been in consultative status with the United Nations for over 15 years where she co-founded the Values Caucus and co-founded the Spiritual Caucus. Her form of spiritual activism asks us to find those practices that free us from the limitations of cultural conditioning, that address the management of anger, aggression and fear, that lead us towards the solidarity of all humanity, and that tap into the universal field where the experience of the web of life becomes a reality. She believes that mobilized public opinion and collective global activism are the most powerful forces for global transformation, and encourages all people to be empowered and engaged in shaping a global future for the common good.
The focus at the December 4 event will be on how each of us can use the principles of individual spiritual activism to reach out and effect positive change in our local and global societies, one step at a time.
December 04, 2005
Women's Center Sponsors Two Events You Can't Afford to Miss!
This fall, the Women's Center at Simon's Rock College in Great Barrington, Massachusetts is hosting two events on campus aimed at showcasing extraordinary women who have taken action in different ways to counteract the negative trends in our global society, and point us towards a more positive future.
December 4: Spiritual Activism
On Sunday, December 4, from 3-5 p.m. in Blodgett Living Room, social entrepreneur Amber Chand and psychologist and journalist Nancy Roof will speak on spiritual activism: how we can tap into a broader consciousness of spiritual unity and overcome the divisiveness and polarization that is currently making it so hard for human society to move forward productively.
Amber Chand, was formerly co-founder of Eziba, the first online retailer featuring crafts from around the world. She has just launched her own collection (the Amber Chand Collection) of very special crafts items sourced from regions of conflict and post-conflict , each one produced by groups of women working together—not only for profit, but for peace.
Her latest offering is the Jerusalem Candle of Hope, made jointly by Israeli and Palestinian women in a rare collaboration; five percent of the proceeds from sale of the candles goes to support the Parents' Circle, an organization of bereaved Israeli and Palestinian families working together for peace and reconciliation in the Middle East. Candles will be available for sale at the talk, and make beautiful holiday gifts—with a larger purpose as well. Amber will talk about her own personal journey: how she has grown from an international merchandiser to a spiritual activist whose sphere of action is women's crafts and the international marketplace.
Joining Amber will be Dr. Nancy Roof, founding editor of Kosmos, the leading international journal for global citizens committed to the emergence of a new planetary culture and civilization.
Dr. Roof, a practicing psychologist, has been in consultative status with the United Nations for over 15 years where she co-founded the Values Caucus and co-founded the Spiritual Caucus. Her form of spiritual activism asks us to find those practices that free us from the limitations of cultural conditioning, that address the management of anger, aggression and fear, that lead us towards the solidarity of all humanity, and that tap into the universal field where the experience of the web of life becomes a reality. She believes that mobilized public opinion and collective global activism are the most powerful forces for global transformation, and encourages all people to be empowered and engaged in shaping a global future for the common good.
The focus at the December 4 event will be on how each of us can use the principles of individual spiritual activism to reach out and effect positive change in our local and global societies, one step at a time.