Dear Folks -
As you may know I am talking in my Ordinary Life Talks about how
we cause ourselves suffering by trying to be "one up" on life. There
are many ways this "one-upmanship" shows up in our lives. One of them
is in a failure to recognize our own pain and take responsibility for
it. Exclusionist thinking (this is the thinking of the dualistic
mind) always creates violent people. That is to say, if we don't
transform our pain, which is most often unrecognized by us, we will
always transmit it. Our world is full of such violence. This violence
may come in a velvet glove. It may be absolutely unrecognized but it
is and will be present.
This week in Ordinary Life we are going to be privileged to have
Jori and Jim Manske from Albuquerque, New Mexico, speak to us. They
will be focusing on the spiritual basis of nonviolent communication
and the role that this type of communication can play in supporting
personal self-awareness and transformation as well as life-enriching
social change. You will have an opportunity to learn through a
dynamic and fun learning process to designed to help us transform the
way we hear criticism and blame.
Much love,
Bill Kerley